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Guiding year ends»
with presentations

Contributed by Tall Totem
- Guide Division
Tall Totem Division Girl
Guides wound up their year with
a dinner meeting at Don Diego’s

- Restaurant in Terrace. This oc-
-casion was attended by Area

Commissioner Linda Harrison
from Kitimat and our Division
Commissioner Marg Cooper, as

‘well as our guest from Scouting,
Sandra Wilson and Unit Leaders

and Pathfinders.

- Thank you presentations were —
made to departing leaders with

particular thanks extended to
Marg Cooper as our out-going
Commissioner after five years of
service, during which time she
“wore many hats”.

CA sift was presented to Kathie

=. The epast 10 years of religious
in Iran has brought the Baha’
Faith to the attention of the

media.

by Sylvia Golke

Sunday, July 2, two women

from Iran spoke at the Terrace

Baha’i meeting in the basement
of the public library.

_ Ruhiyyih Azizi and her sister-
in-law Manijeh Azizi were tour-
ing the Baha'i communities of
the Northwest, telling their
powerful story of religious .
persecution in Iran.

Mrs. Azizi and her family had
been living in England at the
time the Ayatollah Khomeini
began his reign of religious
fanaticism. Mr. Azizi had gone
back to Iran to bring his elderly

Morgan, who is leaving for
Prince George and vacating the
position of Pathfinder Leader,
Music Trainer and Camp Ad-

visor,

Two. very special presenta-

‘tions took place. Girl Guide

Yvonne Schmidt was presented
with her All Round Cord and

Pathfinder Karen Erstling was

presented with her Canada
Cord. This is the highest

achievement in Pathfinders and

requires much work. |

A Provincial Certificate of

recognition signed by Premier -

Vander Zalm was presented, and
one is coming from the Prime
-Minister. Congratulations are
certainly in order for Karen.

mother to the safety of England.
While in Iran, he was accused of
political interference, in-
carcerated for 14 months, and
eventually executed. Mrs. Azizi
lost two of her brothers as well,
one of whom. was Manijeh’s
husband. Another man. present
at the Terrace meeting lost his
uncle. The meeting was also told
of a group of seven young girls
(16 or 17 years old), all well-
educated and of high standing in

‘their communities, who..were

martyred as enemies of Islam.

Many other people through-
out. Iran were tortured, im-
prisoned or executed for refus-
ing to deny their faith. Baha’i
graveyards and sacred buildings
were desecrated. All of this was
instigated against the Baha’is in

Bull cook grads
~ already in field

The best measure of the suc-
cess of the Camp Attendant
Course that recently concluded
at Northwest Community Col-.
lege was the number of grad-
uates who turned out to a special

luncheon recently. Of the 11.

students who graduated only
four. showed — the other seven
already have jobs.

The idea for this program
began with the Terrace Anti-
Poverty. Group Society, and
they were able to put it together
with the help of the college, the
Ministry of Social Services and
Housing, .and the Canada Em-
ployment Centre.
' .The'Camp Attendant Course

_is a 20-week program for long--

term recipients of income assis-
tance who have demonstrated
they ‘are responsible and com-
mitted to completing the .pro-
gram. “They must make a total
commitment,’? says Gerry King
of the Anti-Poverty Group. On
completion of the course,
graduates are qualified camp at-
tendants — commonly known as
‘bull cooks’? — and.can work in
logging, mining or construction ©
camps doing janitorial, domestic
and klichen work, King likes to

‘.

stress the kitchen work aspect of
the job because that is one place
he says graduates.can work their
way up to a better job.

During the program, King
says, the students learned basic
life skills and employability,

how to write a resume and

covering letter, effective job
search techniques, survival first
aid, and went through a period
of on-the-job orientation and

training. He says students also .

had one week of kitchen orienta-
tion and the week long Food
Safe Program under the direc-
tion of NWCC instructor Brian
Parkes. On-the-job training was
provided by Bill Young’s Nass
Camp operation, Westmin
Mines, Bear Creek Contracting
and Cedarvale Lodge.

King says he would like to
begin another Camp Attendant

Course as soon as possible but a.

start date would depend on

funding. As well, he says he -

would like to “begin a Camp
Cook training program in order
to provide better opportunity
for interested students. But he
adds there are no firm plans for
Camp Cook course at the mo-
ment.

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Karen Erstling recelved the.

Canada Cord, Guiding’s
highest honor, at the recent

year-end Tall Totem Guide:

ceremonies.

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Terrace Review —

Outgoing Guide Commissioner Marg Cooper (right) le
ceived a gift presentation from Pathfinder Leader Kathie
Morgan, who is also leaving her position to move to Prince

_ George, at the Tall Totem Guide division year-end | dinner.

an attempt to eradicate them
from Iran, the women said.
Now, however, since the death
of the Ayatollah Khomeini,
persecution has come to a stand-
“still.

. A question from the audience
arose:, “Why did these people
not deny their faith to save their
lives?”

The answer: To be Baha’i is
impossible to deny. They died
believing their deaths would
result in the betterment of
humankind.

Baha’is believe in the univer-
sality of mankind and in the law —

of universal justice. ~

Their founder, Baha’u’llah,
claimed that the discovery. of
God’s revelation is a matter of
recognizing what is already
sensed in one’s own inner being.

. Baha’i faith was founded in ~
Persia in the mid-19th century.

It stemmed from the Babi faith
founded in 1844 by Mirza Ali
Muhammad of Shiraz, known as
the Bab. In turn, the Babi faith
had sprung from Shi’ah Islam,
which believed in the return of
the 12th imam or-successor of
Muhammad who would renew
religion and guide the faithful,

“Women relate tale of lranian persecution

Similarly, Baha’is feel that
their founder, Baha’u’llah, was
another prophet leading the way
to further enlightenment.

Through a series of religious
persecutions and exiling, the
Baha’u’llah ended his days in
Acre, Palestine. Today the
center for his religion is located
in Haifa, Israel.

Baha’v’llah appointed his son
*Abdu’'l-Baha to succeed him. In
turn, he was succeeded by his

grandson Shoghi Effendi Rab-

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bani who died i in 1957.

Today,
religion has over 106,000
organized communities in 360
countries and territories. Their
tenets include the universality of
races and religions, the equality
of men and women, the need for
education and the search after
truth, the harmony of science
and religion, international law
and justice, world peace, and in-
dependent thinking.

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