Dear Sir: After seven heart attacks and Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Decernber 11, 2002 Let’s paint the hospital CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD three strokes, 1 can truly say I have spent long The hours in hospitals. To many of our senior citizens, myself and my husband included, Mills Memorial Hospital, means life itself. The bonus is a priceless gift of a very loved and much dedicated and a very over- worked staff. This includes everyone from caring and considerate doctors, to the ~ dear people, who. mop the floors, scrub the toilets and beds after patients have been discharged, But most of all the nurses need our love and humble admiration. They are de- voted to the care of us mostly creaking and cranky aging citizens, who really love our hospital and the staff. As for the floors being dirty, think of the women who daily scrub each floor, polish and clean the toilets, share love and laughter, and in general brighten our Mail Bag lives. I will have to agree the place needs a couple of coats of paint. | wonder what the place would look like, if you and all yours gol together, each bought a gallon of paint, "took them up to the hospital and went-to work. It would. certainly improve the place. 50 much you may even consid- er it lovely, and grow to lave it, like your seniorsdo. __ As for finding time for this, easy. The last. time | was there, three of the four days; were spent at night in the ER sim- ply because of staff shortage. Now there is an empty room, a nice place to start, and i am sure you would not hear a single senior citizen complain. Sonja Pledge, Terrace, B.C. Do you want absurd? Dear Sir: So, MLA Roger Harris feels Richard Eckert’s comments regarding some of the proposed ways of saving money in Coast Mountain School District are inapprepri- ate, in particular Mr. Eckert’s choice of the word absurd, 1 think Mr. Eckert should be applauded for his comments. Absurd is a kind and gentle choice compared to the words’ I would use to label some of the ideas our school district is considering to do to “save” money. As an employee of Coast Mountain School District | can not publicly pro- claim what I think of some of the ideas. I do not believe for one minute Mr. Eckert feels all of the ideas are absurd but some of the notions that have been forwarded to the reconfiguration committee are just plain scary. Mr. Harris should ask permis- sion of the school board to publish the en- tire list in our newspaper so the public can see what some of us consider absurd. What I think is absurd is the MLA’s, government making promises to protect education and health care. Freezing the education budget is in fact taking money out of the education coffers. Do you and your legislative cronies not realize that freezing a budget means less money? Even this arts major can do that math. How is that protection? Absurd is giving teachers a raise and only funding on qsshird 4 (o£. the money, leaving strugglingsmalles. and rural dis ricts such as ours with even less money. Absurd is Mr. Harris not demanding finan- cial aid for our school district as yet an- other part of our community suffers at the hand of our elected provincial officials. Absurd is taking money away from our seniors, who have paid taxes all] of their working lives and are rewarded by cuts to pensions and benefits to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy six per cent of this pro- vince. Absurd is Gordon Campbell sneaking in a back way at our golf course to a Lib- eral dinner because he’s afraid of about 50 taxpayers holding signs — scary, peaceful teachers and other union mem- bers being filmed by RCMP security ca- meras because we might yell something mean at him. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot ~ any gathering of more than a handful of people in B.C. these days is considered a special interest group and we all know what that means. Spend more of our tax dollars filming possible trouble makers and threats to our government. Absurd is Roger Harris afraid to leave the entrance of his constituency office unlocked because only trouble makers want to see him. Absurd is thinking we are all trouble makers. Absurd is our government becoming so power hungry and thoughtless that they seem to actually take joy in bullying the citizens of this province while -still pro- claiming prosperity is just around the cor- ner and think:t at: we-believe: them. - Now that? sa ‘al a . * Greér. Kaiser, “Terrace, B.C, Usk ferry fees put on hold for now USK FERRY users have been spared a user fee for now, The $18 a month fee for people using the ferry to cress the Skeena River was to start in January but it and all other plan- ned fees across the province are on hold pending the release of a transportation strategy. Transportation minister Judith Reid said ferry users told her they wanted to be treated in the same fashion as other people when it comes to user fees. “They wanted to see how they fit into the overall context of the plan and that was reasonable to me,” said Reid. That still means inland ferry users face user fees eventually. And it also could very well mean other motorists will face tolls on roads and bridges to compensate for reduced government budgets. Reid didn’t deny that a wide variety of user fees and tolis will be unveiled within her transportation strategy nex! year, but she did nol confirm them either. “There are needs out there that don’t fit within the existing budget,” said Reid. Boe Sain InN opr a aos Bassa GS _ THERE ARE SOLUTIONS | 182 AND WE CAN HELP Thank You for Your Support David D. Hull Af The Polls WORKING HARD WORKING FOR YOU (RES) 638-1327 (OFFICE) 638-7320 (FAX) 638-8662 email: ddhull@telus.net CITY OF TERRACE “SNOW REMOVAL . NO PARKING ON STREETS . 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