Over recent weeks we have published a number of. stories that taken as a whole should indicate to’ anyone © that Terrace is in no way exempt. from the social problems erupting in urban centers. We have discovered, despite previous denials, that: there are an alarming number.of children here who are virtually homeless and have no support system other — than their own often considerable resources. We have. seen a young man reported to be an AIDS victim held temporarily i in jail here. And as recently as last week we heard the chief medical health officer for the region say during a radio interview that the single case of AIDS on record in the Northwest i is “‘the snowflake : 3 on top of the iceberg’. This week we are carrying : a story. (pase 10) in-- dicating that steroid use is not uncommon among local bodybuilders. and weightlifters. This is an unusual. — story in that the information presented is not at- ” tributed to any source. We decided to go with it because the information was confirmed through three. separate sources whose credentials are impeccable, but — all three declined to go on record for reasons that ¥ we | ‘found more than acceptable. — The point here isn’t to alarm, but to point out that these difficulties are still at a manageable level here. Project Reconnect is making an effort to address the problem of street ‘kids, there is a public awareness. campaign at a local level regarding AIDS (although it’s apparent more than public awareness will soon be. required), and illegal use of steroids fall under the purview of the RCMP. | Tomorrow, at the opening of the spring session of the B.C. Legislature, the Lieutenant Governor will | read the’speech from the throne outlining the. govern ~ : ment’s intended actions for the next few months. In addition to the many other issues that require deci- sions, let’s hope that one of the povernment’s priorities is the provision of funding and professional expertise for locally developed, community-based pro- . jects to allow us to address these problems in our own way ona continuing basis. We know what they are, all we need are the resources. Let’s also remember on the day the Minister of Finance reads the budget — March 30 — that we deserve areturn on the substantial revenues the ‘government realizes on the resources extracted from this region. oe eam Terrace Review Ga qAculaTion Sacond-class mail registration No. 6896. All material appearing In the Terrace Review la Established May 1, 1985 The Terrace Review Is published each Wednesday by protected under Canadian copyright Reglstra- Close-Up Business Services Ltd. tion No. 382775 and cannot legally be repro- Publisher: duced for any reason without permission of the Mark Twyford Foe eerd omissions. 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The editor reserves the right to condense and edit letters, _ Opinions: _ expressed are not ity thoes ot the Terrace Review. . "Message for the throne [j= AAA | WERE A NORM ‘who may have better explana- _ my thoughts as I accept their Remembering a special friend 2 _ Having been relatively un- touched by Death, I've seldom thought about. it. When my grandparents died I was very young, and they were very old. - Death was not unexpected, and when it came there was little ‘grief — maybe a sense of loss, a contraction of the family cir- cle — but Death expected, even welcomed, is not unacceptable. In the past week; I’ve - thought a bit more about | Death. There are others more intimate with God than I am tions — I hope they tolerate unquestioning faith Death. is ultimately fair, We all die, whether ‘we're pagan or - devout, rich or poor. Some of |. - was little doubt that Sarah. deserved the full-time position. — us believe we will go to Heaven, others that we will be reincarnated on Earth. Whether: there is a Hereafter or not, we will all face the transition, or the end, as you will, of the ex- _perience most-people call Life. ._ ~ "members. Kermode’s Tuesday ‘night bingos were in danger of. . What seems sometimes ulti- mately unfair is not Death, but. the.timing of It. 1 have fortun- - ately been spared, to this point, the loss of close family, and .for the most part, close friends. - Many have not. On March “Ath, ‘at about 2:30 in the afternoon, on the - highway near Vanderhoof, 1 lost a friend. A special friend, a winner. Sarah Bevan was, as -this newspaper reported last week, ‘a well-known and highly respected member of the Ter- race community’. She deserved to be. She earned it. 1 didn’t know Sarah for very <> Jong, [first remember her as. fot iat almost a iw et saath seit We: “She was a dynamo... Sarah had contacts - - 7 . everywhere, ad she had no qualms about. using rn them to help others.” — long white dress, at one of the native functions I was invited to as a member of Terrace City Council. She stood out.from the crowd. Later, when I was . -appointed as a rep to the - Muks-Kum-Ol Housing Socie- ty, I got to know her a little ’ better, and shortly after I join- -ed the Board, she was ap-. - pointed Acting Director of the. Kermode Friendship Society. It ~ was to be a six-month job, covering. a leave of absence. When the six months ran out, and the Director resigned, ‘there She was a dynamo. In April of ’88 the Society had fallen to -22 members — by September, . - - Sarah had almost. single- handedly brought in 350 new | being discontinued — she brought attendance up from 75 or so to a respectable (and - profitable) 125. Sarah had con-. tacts everywhere, and she had - “no qualms about: using, them to. help others. — - The Society offices, down- | stairs in the Friendship Centre on Kalum Street, were always - attractive. But there wasn’t enough Aappening. Sarah - wanted computers, and a Drug and Alcohol counsellor, and a “legal aid office and a staff. lawyer. So she went out and» got them. Then she had‘to . owe them, 80. the wentt out ‘just talk’ a couple of times a a - week. I'm going.to miss: her: ’ . The timing of Death isnot... and got the funds to build more offices. And Section 38. - fo & money from UIC to hire car- . 0 penters, anda relief recep- _ tionist so her reguiar ” geceptionist could take 0 - upgrading courses at the Col- lege. She wanted a day care center, but.she ran out of time.. Sarah Bevan knew what she was doing. She knew that, once. trained, her best people would ~ e move-on. She saw Kermode as» a whistle-stop, a place to give _Indian workers some con- — fidence, some experience and - some marketable skills. She _ aie was on her way to Vancouver. to ensure that the training pro-. . a gram she was setting up hada . life-skills component for people ers who were new to the urban ene... 9 vironment..She wanted them to ' succeed, as she had succeeded, .. in avoiding alcohol, in helping... _ : others, in achieving everything. they were capable of. If career achievement alone. © were the criterion, Sarah Bevan. | would have been aremarkable = woman, But she had more than. that ~- the matriarch of an - extended family that included brothers, children and grand- children, she did everything she: ee * contd to help her family and. friends — — every. hour of every. nokta + day. Sarah used to ‘drop by to “ear