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_ ‘This week:

Between a rock

and a hard

erby Squish felt a need
H to get out of the office.

He had contemplated his
options and found that they were
few. And most of those were not
really very practical.

In fact, other than a change of
profession, he really had no
options at all. He had to write a
new five-year management plan
for Jovial Logging that fit R.J.
Jovial’s criteria, or leave. It was
as simple as that.

Squish had no idea how many
times he had traversed the cir-
cumference of his desk. Lost in
thought, investigating various

back to the point were he
began... The reality that he had
little choice in designing his
own future. The reality that his
conscience might demand he
resign from Jovial Logging Inc.

"Then what?" he mumbled.
"Pump gas?"

Hands clasped behind his back,
Squish paused in front of his
office window. He noted that
darkness was beginning to
retreat before the dawn of a new
day. An event, he felt, that
should help lift his spirit a little.

But the residue of last night’s

storm was now clearly visible in
the growing light. There was
water everywhere. Dirty grey
clouds sped across the sky,
leaking their voluminous loads
as the crashed blindly into
unseen mountains.

It wasn’t as bad as it had been
earlier. The heavy rainfall of the
night before had now settled into
a drizzle that looked as though it
might never end, That did noth-
ing but depress Squish even
more. .

"There has to be a way," he
said in frustration. "There is a

way. And it’s my job to find it." .
possibilities. But always circling |

“And you will Herby.”

Squish spun on his heels.
"Squirrel. What are you doing
here? It’s six in the morning."

"] might ask you the same
thing," she said quietly.

Squirrel, the ever faithful sec-
retary who had seen him through
tough times before, wasn’t about
to abandon him now. He wasn’t
alone, he realized. He had sup-
port from several quarters. And
in that he should find the
strength to search out a solution
to a problem he knew was not
his alone.

"Couldn't sleep," he muttered.

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Insights

by Tod Strachan, in consultation with Rod Arnold and Doug Davies

"Me either," Squirrel returned.

Squish felt a tinge of guilt.
Perhaps he was taking this
whole thing a little too per-
sonally. He turned his back on
Squirrel and once again took up
his vigil on the weather. Was he
worthy of the faith placed in
him by people like Squirrel?

He couldn’t just walk away, he
realized, He couldn’t quit Jovial
Logging without a fight. There
were people out there who saw
Herby Squish and others like
him as the only possible source
of a solution.

"Why don’t you take the day
off Herby," Squirrel suggested.
"FIL tell RJ you’re out surveying

cut blocks for his new manage-.

ment plan."

There were many more people,
of course, who saw people like
Herby Squish as the cause of the
problems plaguing the forest

industry today. And that, per-
haps, was another reason he had
to stay. To prove to everyone he
was under the corporate gun...
He had to do things he believed
to be wrong. It was a-matter of
following the directions of the
board or leave. And if he left,
they would simply find someone
else who was more willing to
follow their direction.

That wasn’t to say that people
serving on the board of directors
were bad people. The were mis-
informed. Misguided. In most
cases they lived thousands of
miles from .the industry they
directed and had no concept of
reality at all. They looked at a
set of books, and if profits were
low, said, "Fix it." How, doesn’t

matter, just fix it. From that.

came the bottom line dictated to
RI.
"That’s an excellent sugges-

tion," Herby said with resolve.

"You mean you will take the
day off?"

Squirrel was surprised at the
ease with which Squish had
accepted her offer to lie.

"No," Squish said, turning to
face Squirrel. “No. I’m not
going to take the day off. I’m
going to head for the bush. Not
to survey cut blocks. But to
survey the big picture. To survey
my conscience and Mother
Nature.

"There has ‘to be an answer
Squirrel, or this whole industry
will die. And it’s my job to find
that answer. I have no idea how
long this will take so just tell RJ
I'll be back when I get back. He
won't like it, but there’s not
much he can do."

To the Editor;

As I am the person who gave the
seminar on the New Age Move-
ment that was commented on in
the Oct. 30 Terrace Review article,
“Branded For Being Different”,
and as I am a Christian, which
places me in the camp to which
the comments in the article and in
the editorial in the same issue

Heartfelt

To the Editor;

On behalf of the Terrace chapter
of the Heart and Stroke Founda-
tion of B.C. and Yukon, I would
like to thank the Terrace Parks and
Recreation department, the fitness
instructors, Donna Lindsay, the

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hospital waiting lists, and improv-

ing services overall may run
smack up against fiscal reality.

Social Services Minister Joan
Smallwood: As a caring social
worker, she saw firsthand some of
the problems out in the real world.
Now, as the one in charge of
another big budget, the minister of
misery will want to help, but may
be hamstrung by the same prob-
lem... available funds.

Ms. Smallwood — whose reputa-
tion as an MLA improved consid-
erably over ihe past two ycars
after an initial tendency to be dog-
matic and strident — will quickly

Letters to the Editor

Christians can oppose activities but must respect people

apply, and as I am a pastor of an
Evangelical Christian church here
in Terrace, I felt I should comment
on the issues these articles raised.
First of all I think the Christian
community at large who are repre-
sented by the Christian churches
of Terrace, canmot condone, and in
fact condemn, the harassment
described by Laurel Gregg and the

thanks

businesses that sponsored us, and

Thornhill Junior Secondary

School. Once again, these people

helped make our Dance For Heart
a resounding success.

Jennifer MacDonald

Terrace, B.C.

learn that it is not possible to do
all things for all people, because
all the money just is not there.

Parting Thought: There is one
common thread running through
all of the above references to the
tasks facing the new Cabinet
members — money.

Either the NDP will open the
door to the Treasury, and spend,
spend, spend, or they will strive to
fulfill Mr. Harcourt’s promise of
not doing anything they cannot
afford.

Once thing you can count on:
cither way, they’ll face criticism.

editor of the Terrace Review. Such
actions are not Biblical Christiani-
ty and do not portray the heart that
God has toward Laurel, her family
and her friends. .

True Christians, as defined by the
Bible, the book Christians believe,
are people who follow the God of
the Bible; they follow the Christ
of the Bible. The name “Christian”
literally means “a Christ one” or
“one who follows the Christ". The
instructions God gives us in the
Bible as to how we are to treat
people are very prolific, very
plain, and not negotiable for the

Christian; they are law.

These implicit commands are
summed up in the words of Jesus
in Mark 12:30, 31; “Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all
your mind and with all your
strength and love your neighbour
as yourself, there is no greater
commandment than these.” This is
Christianity.

Jesus said, “You have heard that
It has been said Love your neigh-
bour and hate your enemies. But I
say to you, Love your enemies,
bless those who curse you, do

good to them that hate you, and
pray for those who despitefully
use you, and persecute you; that
you may be children of your
Father which is in heaven.” (Matt
§:43-45) This is Christianity.

God says, “Do good unto all
men.” (Gal 6:10) This is Christian-
ity.
Anything else is a paltry carica-
ture, a gross misrepresentation of
Christ and Christianity. God says,
“Let everyone who names the
name of Christ depart from
wickedness.”

— Continued on page 8

Fishermen fear for livelihood

To the Editor;

Once again we find our liveli-
hoods under attack from the com-
mercial sports fishermen.

After many years of work by
fishermen and the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans to stabilize
and enhance salmon stocks in the
Skcena region, we are being told
in no uncertain terms that our
efforts are too little, too late, and
that we must drastically alter our
fishing or be forced out of exis-
tence.

We find it very strange that the
very groups and organizations that
have kept these stocks viable are

now being ridiculed for their lack ;

of forcthought by newly-come
users: the sports fishermen.
Over the past few years the sports

sector has increased 10-fold, with
few constraints on their growth.
They have out-stripped available
fish stocks and are now eyeing
with envy the commercial sector
allocation.

The reality of this conflict is
“Allocation”, who gets what for
their share of the fish resource,
and as such the only realistic
choice is enhancement. This is the
means by which strong fish stocks
are transplanted from healthy
streams, to streams that have weak
or non-exisicnt stocks and in so
doing increase the brood stocks
and in tum increase available fish
for all user groups.

Unfortunately the provincial Min-
istry of Environment and Skeena
Sports Fishermen’s Coalition are

dead set against enhancement,
even though they have very suc-
cessful enhancement programs in
the lower mainland and Vancou-
ver Island regions.

The sooner the sports lobbyists
realize that we the commercial
fishermen are not going to be
moved from our historical (114
year) and traditional native fishing
grounds, the sooner the Ministry
of Environment and Department

of Fisheries and Oceans can get on
with enhancing of steelhead and

other stocks in the Skeena region.

Northen Gillnetters Assoc.,
Des Nobels,
Secictary-Treasurer;

Paul Paulson, President.