i i Le adership changes eters she ee ty SH yh trey ete Henge Mog Mg ae 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. WL La QO eB ron de cipatagh tet AE agent Karen Erstling recelved the. Canada Cord, Guiding’s highest honor, at the recent year-end Tall Totem Guide: ceremonies. aatdigine: ela tig e+e ec Sc ae, Oi iii i aiiitind 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- WG a wi, Summer Heat got You Beat? a Give your Feet a Treat! Dhird Avenue Shoes Great Selection of Men’s and Ladies’ Summer Fashion Shoes * Leather Handbags * Shoe Accessories bani who died i in 1957. Today, religion has over 106,000 organized communities in 360 countries and territories. 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