“Soe mH 4s Cw wT I Ee , FFM O FEMA YE eee Pd ee ee ee ee eee ee ee el Tad a Frere Ay _ Page A4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 18, 1991, oo lustration ripro services and advertising apencles. Sereng the Terrace area Pubished on Wednesday of auch week.ty Carteo Press (1080) Lic.'at 4647 Larete Ave. Terrace, British Colurrbla. . Storie, phoxzgraphe, iustraone, designs and typestyies inthe Terrace Stand 4 the property of the copyright heder,cidag Caron Press [1268] wai epeoduction in whole or in part. without written permission, fa specifically proublisd.” ” Aviterized 45 sacondclass mall pending the Post Offica Department. for payment of pottaga in cash, - Production Manager: Edouard Credgeur ._. slisheriEdltor; 2”. Ped Link a fae Fab. fret Front Office : Peglstration | No. 7020 04047 Lazelle Ave. Terrace, B. C., “VEG 188 Advertising 9 Phone (604) 638-7283 Fax (604) 638-8432 Marlee Paterson 4 “Jat gel ~ itt = Wi, Att ts — “a ne Son UNS Se canputpbuneen Vvelros — dvatg Coun, Sar Collet — Adri consutant, a Charieen Matthews, — Caoulalion ial Special thank to al cur contributors and correspondents for * thelr time and: ore ‘DITORIAL The Orenda Forest Products proposal to build a $365 million pulp and paper: mill south of Lakelse Lake is the best ex- ample to date in the northwest of the new Industrial: Revolution. Unlike the first Industrial Revolution when com- panies willy nilly imposed themsleves upon the environment, they now seek to fit in with their surroundings. No company in its right mind would propose anything nowadays that does not:have the most up to date equipment - to protect the environment. No govern- ment in its right mind would give a com- pany approval to construct without the highest ‘kind of ‘environmental safeguards. Better yet is that the public. wouldn’t allow it to happen. But while this may be the start of the new Industrial Revolution, we're still a long ways from the other revolution that’s needed — the one that pays atten- tion to people and the communities in which they live. The Orenda Forest Products proposal is a good example of this. Its prospectus goes into great detail about the the idea that people should feel ‘grateful a company wants to develop a project. Let’s start with Orenda agreeing to put two people from the northwest on its board of directors. One could be from the Stewart area in which Orenda has its wood licence. The other would come from the Terrace-Kitimat area because that’s where the Orenda mill would have resources, the most’ impact. These appointments would provide a direct connection. bet- ween the company and the areas in which it draws its wood and people Let’s have Orenda agree to assign a - certain percentage of its stock to a com- munity development corporation. Pro- fits from that stock would go to local community projects. Efforts to promote literacy might be an example of this. _ Orenda will be training local people to work in its mill. Spreading that concept out to for the greater good of the com- ~ munity is not out of line. mil. Hf Silks" lot SbGwT adding Value'ts"* : tid of thése & the’ wood resource it wants to use. But while the prospectus also talks about employment and employment in- come and associated spin-offs, it does so in a traditional manner. Orenda is satisfied to simply lay out figures outlin- ing how many people will work, what they might make and what they might spend. That’s fine as far as it goes. The prospectus after all is a document a com- pany uses to sell its project. Yet there is so much more that could be done. It would take away the old ways of large companies being Sugar Daddies. It would erase some of that master- servant relationship which has as its base Let's have the local government that'll be thé beneficiary of mill taxation and the provincial government which will i. be OU a ofthese calso ‘benefit fi mr taxation assign a por-*'* pen the commun) AY ae ahah of venues.td, TUNES Yous: "” development corporation. That’il show a better connection between the company’s:activities and the northwest than to simply. have those revenues disappear into the morass of general - government revenues. Let’s have Orenda promote the sale of its stock in the northwest. Again, that'll establish a connection between the com- pany and the region in which it operates. All of this would in no way harm the can be done company’s ability to produce its product and make profits. If the company can add value to wood resources, the same for the people and com- munities of the northwest, "Uplifting verse Poetry should have a pattern, and rhyme. To me, anything that reads like the disjointed — notes of a Gulf reporter dodg- ing Scuds isn’t poetry. Loose poetry should be gathered in a garbage bag. And as for free verse,..you get what you pay for.. Recently CBC Radio (Prince Rupert) held a month long limerick contest, with only two rules. Each entry had to con- form to the limerick pattern, and contain a B.C. place name. About $00 limericks vied for first place in three categories. Four won, (Two tied). While some entries didn't conform as limericks, they did have a funny punchline. Seeing the quality of poetry submitted by, ordinary citizens, day greetings so often. are limited to Nifty, Nifty, Look | Who's. 50, or Lordy, Lordy Lock Who's 40. With a little . thought, that birthday greeting - could be something memorable i sion: . , There once was a ‘pinkish “ dissenter’ |. Who found hs true home In. Argenta, ora Loong When -: asked, . I'm: mystified why newspaper birth-- These ‘two limericks tied: for 2 first place in the General divi- : Through Bifocals by Claudette Sandecki Are you Red?” He blushingly said, “Nol Red, but mea, whe magen- ta, oF and The young high-school students of Surrey Cause their mothers. a great deal of worry. With that course in Phys. Ea. And the books they have read They grow up in too much of a Aurry! _ The second category winner came from Summerland: ' Penticton was placid and - quiet Until it was trashed.by a riot, The Civil Rights cranks . Called it juvenile pranks. But merchants on Main Street ; don’ t buy it. and brighten every reader's day. Kay Hepplewhite of Terrace took first. prize News/Current Affairs category “with this: . A tourist: who stopped in’ Quesnel Y, ‘complained of the pervailing “smell, ‘ive The townsfolk sald, “Honey, Pulp mill means money,- in the § We think the a aroma is swell, ” The limericks are to be printed into a book. With its mention of almost 500 authors, B.C. cities and towns, and the vagaries of our province, it should make ‘a welcome Christmas gift for any British Columbian, kaetke _A correction to my Aug, 28 column about peddlers’ licences: Kitimat collects $146 for the company licence, plus $73 for each peddler. Prince Rupert charges $60 per peddler. aGOT A BOWE. TO} . PaPICK WITH ‘You |. eyatt) MR. Ecole y! |) -VICTORIA — Shortly after Attorney General Russ Fraser announced ata press con-——- ference that Bill Vander Zalm had been charged with breach of trust, the former premier emerged from the Social Credit caucus room in the Parliament Buildings. | - And for the first time, ‘he ‘looked ‘like a beaten man. He “had served the public faithfully for 25 years, he said, and he had never breached the public’s trust. Breach of trust is a serius charge, Upon conviction, it carries a maximum jail term of five years. Not other premier in Canada’s history has been _ charged with this offence. The last B.C. politician - charged with breach of trust was former Surrey mayor Ed McKitka, He was sentenced to three years in jail. That’s bad ‘enough, but it’s a sad day when a former premier faces criminal charges, ~ What's even sadder is that'~ Vander Zalm has no idea, not* ‘even now, why he has been ‘charged. He has never ~ understood the necessity to: - Keep his private and business interests separate from his ‘duties.as an elected official. ‘One.of my readers who calls ; occasionally to take issue with what. I write, called me while I, was. Working on this column. “He ‘wanted to know whether I was: ‘satisfied’ now. No, sit, ] am not. I had no desire to see Vander Zalm dragged into court. I have “never spoken ill of the man. In fact, I liked him very much and still do. For me, the ‘Vander Zalm issue was done with the day he resigned as premier, His short- comings had made it essential that he be removed, from of- . fice.’ ~ Vander Zalm once said that’ he had his doubt about the = - justice system, and from his point. of view, I suppose, those doubts are quiet well founded. First, consider that he $ COULD | Sit BOLLS! “FIRTHERWORE WEWIANT LESS “IBS KA AN. | SIEET AND LESS SNOW From the Capital by Hubert Beyer o, we a ida ue ~ ‘doesn't “understand to this day What wal wrong With ‘actépdiig’ $20,000 from Tan Yu. The way he sees it, he was selling “the family home and the family business.”' ‘Then consider that the deci- sion whether or not to charge him has rested with one main — Peter Freeman, the special prosecutor, In making his deci- sion, Freeman had to take into account whether there is a « substantial likelihood of con- viction. =. How difficult-is it, I wonder, the keep personal bias - out of stich-a decision? Cana- _dians have, in the past few ' . months, suspected that even _judges cannot keep some of their personal bias | out of their” rulings. - | also have to wonder about the likelihood of conviction. Compared with other Criminal Code‘charges, the precedents ‘aren't that bountiful. So, .what's wrong with going ahead anyway, and if the charges. don't stick, why then the man’s naine is cleared, Is it really?. 3 The public doesn’t care ‘much for the finer points of © the law and, keeps with the ald saying, ‘where there’s smoke, . there's fire, assumes guilt. And no judge: or jury, finding the accused not guilty, is going to change their, minds. | I'm not saying. Vander Zalm _ shouldn't have been charged, - but that doesn’t mean I have to like. the fact that he was charged. “On the contrary, 1 don't like it one-bit, - - Fraser told reporters that he — won't intervene in this case, a right he has’ under the Crown. Counsel Act, which states that. the attorney general can in- - could convince him otherwise. iM bpoaye oii ni _tervéne where: it j is in: vite public - interest, ©" Of course, he won't in- tervene, although with due respect ‘tO the attorney general, sparing British Columbians the spectacle of having a former premier humiliated in court - and perhaps even convicted, might be considered in the — public interest. All in all, it’s a-very sad end to what was otherwise a brilliant political career. If:on-. a = ly he had been able to com- — prehend the strictures of high” office. Once during the great abor-. . tion controversy, Vander Zalm’ * said that, of course, he had the.” right as premier to impose his- moral standards on the public. * 7 If not, the office might as Well: #0 the the Mafia. That statement said it all, - He never understood that the. 1: premier could notrule by. dectee, that he must scrupulously: follow the stan- dards laid down by our system’. of parliamentary democracy. ' : And no amount of explaining He just-didn’t-know any bet-- © ter. But if it be true that ig- ° . horance is no excuse before the ‘ law, then at least let it ‘be Boos mitigating circumstance. Sure- © ly, a man who finds himself i in. trouble because he had no idea: © what he was doing wrong, can-': not be judged as severely as. - someone who deliberately runs, afoul-of the law. a -One of my colleagues wie gested jokingly that 1 might: ‘ make a'good character’ witness”: for Vander Zalm, and perhdps, -- that’s not as funny as it - sounds. If I can help him, itm me available, ;