A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 20, 1994 ‘TERRACE STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 ADDRESS: 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C. * V8G 188 TELEPHONE: (604) 638-7283 * FAX: (604) 638-8432 MODEM: 638-7247 Northern guy IT’S NOT a rule you'll find written. down, but it seems to be an entrenched requirement for those from the north elected to the provincial legisla- ture. The rule is that those chosen to head south to the legislature in Victoria better be just a little bit independent and, on occasion, downright snarky. The latest example is Helmut Giesbrecht who beat Socred Dave Parker in 1991 and returned Skeena to the NDP camp. As a backbencher, some might think Mr. Giesbrecht would keep quiet and subservient in hopes of gaining the favour of the NDP leadership. Not so. Mr. Giesbrecht is savvy enough to realize his © chances of a cabinet post are nil. He’s got ad- vanced education minister Dan Miller from Prince Rupert on one side of his riding and high- ways minister Jackie Pement on the other side. One has strong labour support and the other is a woman, That about fills the government’s cabi- net quota for up here. So Mr. Giesbrecht has little to lose by kicking up a little dust every now and then. Witness his strong opposition to the original decision by health minister Paul Ramsey to move Kitimat’s orthopedic surgeon to Prince Rupert. Mr. Gies- brecht even issued his own press release on that decision, thus distancing himself from any gob- bledygook put out by the provincial government. ‘As events transpired, the surgeon is staying in Kitimat and Prince Rupert is getting one all to it- self. The MLA then broke away from the govern- ment and the party caucus by opposing plans for province-wide teacher bargaining. That may not. be surprising because Mr. Giesbrecht is a teacher, but it made for a potentially embarrass- ing time at a recent NDP convention. The situa- -- tion was- defused: by-the setting up of a private meeting between Giesbrecht and others and senior cabinet ministers. More cynical observers might point out that paying for an orthopedic surgeon in Prince Rupert is a relatively cheap way to lock up a tiding for the next election. They might also say Mr. Giesbrecht had no choice but to oppose his government on teacher bargaining if he wanted their physical and financial support in the next election. Then again, others might feel just a little bit comforted to know that at least one politician is displaying the stubborn streak they think exists within all those who live up here. Get creative THE NEWS that the Terrace Churches Food Bank has just concluded the busiest season in recent memory is disturbing. It demonstrates that the best efforts of govern- ments still can’t address the underlying problem of there being a significant number of people who simply don’t have enough resources of their own to provide the basics of proper food. That’s why more creative measures are needed — ones that don’t require a lot of up front money or big bureaucracies. Community kitchens might be looked at. With proper storage and freezer space, individuals and families can prepare and stow away healthy, nutritious and low cost meals, GNA PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link aaa, : ADVERTISING MANAGER: Mike L. Hamm ““onarcuy PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur NEWS COMMUNITY: Jeff Nagel * NEWS SPORTS: Malcolin Baxter a . OE | LET'S GET TOGETHER ON THIS. .DOWE WANT CORE... OR DON'T WE ®.... It was rotten to the CORE VICTORIA — The recent “seminar”? organized by the Save Our Jobs Committee in Williams Lake, and = the | wWitriolic garbage that wafted from it into the public domain is an effrontery to decency and intelligence. For years, ] have supported the people working in the forests in their attempts to save their jobs. I have condemned strident environmentalists who seemed to be more interested in shutting down the forest in- dustry than reaching a com- promise. I hope I can continue to do so, but I have to tell you that it’s going to be difficult, con- sidering what went on in Wil- liams Lake recently. The so-called seminar was basically a training session in how to destroy the process in- itiated by the Commission on Resources and Environment (CORE), the aim of which is to forge a consensus on land use in British Columbia. The Cariboo Table was one of CORE’s initiatives, but after 15 months of meetings, the participants failed to reach a consensus. It now is clear why, Tape recordings of the seminar tell an ugly story. of how some Table members, specifically FR OM THE CAPITAL: HUBERT BEYER members of the Save Our Jobs Comunittee, never intended the process to work, Instead, they did their best to wreck iL We are, by the way, not talk- ing about clandestine record- ings made by conservationists... The tapes were icaked by people who attended the semi- nar, people who would normal- ly support the efforts of Share groups and Save Our Jobs committees, They were so disgusted and disturbed by what they heard, by the level of hate that domi- nated the mecting, that they couldn’t be part of it. I take my hat off to them. For the record, let me elabo- rale on the content of the tapes, How about IWA vice-president Harvey Arecand comparing zealous environmentalists with Hitler and Idi Amin? How about Arcand’s description of CORE Commissioner Stephen Owen as being environmental- ly so green that his shorts are **s_.-green.”” Arcand describes to the seminar how the Save Our Jobs Committee took control of the CORE agenda, stacking meetings by establishing numerous groups that represented the same interests. The tapes also show how the people who were out to wreck the CORE process dealt with media. Terry Tale, chairman of the Save Our Jobs Committee, told the seminar how members of his group wrole letters for mill workers and sent them ,to newspapers. - When workers were reluctant to write letiers, Tate said, ‘‘we went back to the office and we spent four-and-a-half hours and wrote up 35 or 40 letters. Every single one of them was different.’’ Then they went back to the mill and told the workers to read the letters and if they liked them to ‘‘sign the G..- damned thing and take it down and drop it off at the (Williams Lake) Tribune office or send it to the Province newspanen”’ Here’s Arcand’s recipe for dealing with environ- mentalists: ‘‘Confront them. 1 call it getting in their face. This is one of my favourite parts of the whole deal, was running around get’n in the face of those lyin’ sleaze bags.” You get the message. It is the same rhetoric than prompted a speaker at the recent mass Tally of forest workers in Victoria to tefer to southern British Columbians as ‘‘cappuccino- sucking, concrete-kissing”’ enemics of the workers. In the end, these demagogues may have done more good than harm to the CORE process. In fact, ] believe their despicable behavior is probably the best - thing that could have happened to CORE, ™ Already, the revelations at the seminar prompted. some reasonable people in at- tendance to take their concerns lo the media, The publicity that has followed since cannot help but isolate the likes of Arcand and expose them as the real threat to a compromise that is clearly needed if we are ever to settle our land usc conflicts. Bit of fabric a good idea WHY AREN’T new vehicles sold with an extra yard of upholstery fabric for replacing damaged or worn seal covers when that becomes necessary in a year or two? The outer side of a driver’s seat always wears out first. And until Detroit and Oshawa manufacture bucket seats with dual controls so the seats are interchangeable from driver to passenger positions, the next best thing is refurbishing scals by replacing worn sections. Seat upholstery is sewn to- gether in sections, any one of which can bs replaced. All ihat’s required is a sufficlent quantity of fabric identical to or sufficiently similar 1o the original upholstery. Upholsterers who specialize in auto timming — have calalogues listing original fab- tics by color swatch and reference number for major automobile manufacturers’ an- CLAUDETTE SANDECKI nual models, For older modeis or when no calalogue number is available, a small sample of ihe existing seat cover fabric is mailed to one of more suppliers in hopes of a match Generally U.S. companies can provide cven out-dated material within three or four weeks. Original auto fabrics cost roughly twice as much, maybe more, than ordinary upholstery fabrics. For the less finicky owner, ordinary upholstery fabrics are acceptable and wear well, though they may be slightly shinier than auto fab- Tic. Once replacement material is on hand, repairing a seat can usually be-done in short order. Broken springs can be re- placed. Some owners deal with damaged upholstery by scrounging a complete. seat from a salvape yard. However, such seats may have survived an accident, They may be full of broken glass and have hid- den-cracks in the: fame. You can be cerlain of your own car’s history. Covering a worn scat by tying on a seat cover doesn’t halt the deterioration. of the . upholstery and foam padding; it only camouflages the pro- cess, Experts advise, ‘‘Cleaning and maintaining your vehicle will enhance its resale value”’, Then they tell you to change your motor oil, clean batlery terminals, inflate tires, flush the fuel line, and wash the ex- terior clean of acid rain and winter road salt. They make no mention of shovelling gravel off the car- pet, vacuuming the interior, or repaiting tattered seats. Seat upholstery in geod condition also docs a lot for - resale value...and gives a more com- fortabie ride them foam craters and jabbing springs. Strings of Christmas tree lights are packaged with spare bulb. Expensive coats come with replacement buttons. Quality sweaters have a skein of matching mending wool. Cars should be sold with more than a vial of touch-up paint. , “7 DOES THE. WORD 4CLAUSTROPHOBIA MEAN ANYTHING . TO YOU?!! | MARTEN BROKE HIS PROMISE SO HE DESERVES THIS, & OFFICE MANAGER: Rosc Fisher COMPOSING: Pam Odell DARKROOM: Susan Credgeur ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: Sam Collier, Janet Viveiros, Howie Oram CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR: Charlene Matthews Serving tha Terrace efea, Published an Wednesday of each week by Cariboo Press (1969) Lid. al 4847 Lazelle Ave., Tettace, British Columbia, ; : Stories, photographs, ifustrations, designs and typestyles in the Terrace Standard ara the property af the copyright holders, Including Cariboo Press (1969) Lic. it’s illustration repro services. and advertising agencies. ‘ ; : Reproduction in whole or In part, without #rittan parmission, is specifically prohibited. Aulharized as second-class mail pending the Post Olfice Department, for paymant of postage in cash, Speclal thanks to all our contributors and correspondents ae for thelr time and talents ALL PAY LONG WITHOUT -A BREAK! I CAN'T a