iia lites teen

Page A4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 15, 1993

QS TERRACE STANDARD)

Registration No, 7820

Phone (604) 638-7283

(1969) Utd, it’s illustration repro services and advartising agencies,

Serving the Terrace area, Published on Wednesday of each week by Cariboo Presa (1969) Ltd. al 4647 Lazelle Ave,, Tarrace, British Columbia,

Reprodudtion In whole or in part, wihoul written permission, Is specifically prohibited.
Auihorized as second. “class mail pending tha Post Olfica Department, far payment of postage in cash,

Jef Nagel - Naws/Community, Malcolm Baxter - News/Sports,
Publisher/Editor: Rose Fisher - Front Office Manager, Pam Odell - Compositor,
SHED WR ese Rad Link Tricla Walker - Typesetter, Susan Credgeur - Composing/Darkroom, Special thanks to
ESTABLISHED APA 27. 1 Janet Vivelros - ~ Advertising Consultant, Sam Calliar - Advertising Consultant, all our
Charlana Matthews - Circulation Manager .
4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, BC, v8G ‘es wanenert contributors and
; , espondents
Mike L. Hamm corr ; -
Fax (604) 638-8432 | Hamm ‘or their time and
Slories, photographs,’ Illustrations, designs and typastyles in tha Terrace Standard are the property af the copyright holders, Gi Caritoo Press Production Manager: talents.
* Gna Edouard Credgeur CONTHOLLED

_ EDITORIAL,

Difficult selection

Voters face a bigger challenge this feder-
al election than in recent ones, That’s be-
cause there are more political parties from
which to choose. The traditional Progres-
sive Conservatives, Liberals and New

Democrats are now joined by the Reform.

party in the west and Ontario and the Bloc
Quebecois in Quebec. There is also ‘a

healthy smattering of Christian Heritage .

Party and National Party candidates spread
throughout the country.

We're going to hear a lot between now
and Oct. 25 from each: party as it and its
candidates maneuver for the hearts and
souls of the voters. The central thenie is
and will remain the state of the economy,
Each. party has its theories about how 1 it
will “‘fix’’ the economy.

So far about the most reasonable states

ment on the economy appears to- have

come from Prime Minister Kim Campbell.

She said last week that the high level of
unemployment could stretch into the next
century. ‘That’ 's because of massive. federal

One. of, the biggest economic shocks out
there nowadays is the bank interest rate
‘paid on savings accounts. It’s 1 per cent.
That’s right, 1 per cent on all those hard-
veanle after-tax and sorely prized dollars
ople have: mana

an (inal Pay’

Ay

‘compared to those awful days of the 1980s.
The cost of borrowing all sorts of money
has dropped. And so it would seem to
‘make sense that the: ‘return, on investment
-would also be cut. .

the financial institutions. nowadays. Geéner-
ally speaking’: the. spread: is. the difference

‘between what a financial i institution Pays te to.

| Tk fo ke an

< to squirrel away for...

_ that'satisfactory high rolling clients.
Yet it’s the spread t tha shows: the state of

government deficits and the ever climbing
national debt. The more money required to

keep the kind of services now going the
less there7ll be to, as politicians 1 love to

say, create jobs.

That kind of thinking. makes sense if
voters accept the idea that it is the role of a
government to hand: out tax dollars in the
expectation of creating employment. or to
provide a variety. of stimulants. It is indeed

_.a weird world in which people and
-. businesses who complain about higher

taxes.jostle at the door of the government
vault when it’s time for hand outs. ;
Voters should remember two things when
evaluating a political platform. First is that
more and more government dollars are

_being borrowed. That means something no

longer costs a dollar, It costs the dollar
plus whatever interest rate there is, Second

‘is that governments are experts at bribing

taxpayers with their own money,
In the end, voters get the kind of Povern-
ment they deserve.

interest

keep your money and what it charges for
borrowing. With mortgage rates in the 8-9
per.cent range and consumer loans hover-

ing in the 10 per cent area, that pitiful 1 per
cent savings return indicates somebody —

and it ain ‘t you ~ — is making a handsome .

TUWANIO al tOatilcieedl (palit.
TaNGRO Wye hi ‘Bhoiild -be expected: -
The rate’ of inflation ‘is ‘drastically reduced’ °

rule a) iol. eleaorot VY Cy

To be sure, Banks ‘ie aven't pe thiaps dad’bn !

” easy time of it. Like any ‘other business,
they’ve been taking hits because of the na-"
tional recession, But some of those hits

_ came: “fiom simply lousy business decisions

involving’ billions of dollars Jent to less.

losses. It’s: less . than a

Happy annie $ ary

Pity the: successful arsonist.
“A year. after lighting ‘Up: a

neighbour's life by torching
his home to the: ground, the
successful : ‘arsonist must -
celebrate © the anniversary: of
his | pyromanical ‘deed in his
head,

Now,. ‘though: there is: plenty
of space in his head. for a.
reunion-sized gathering com-
plete with. barbecued: burgers, oo ys
well wishers, ‘and brisker traf-
fic flow than the Coquihalla,
he must commemorate liis in- .
cendiary occasion. without so =
much as a Hallmark’ card, a -

“Through
Bifocals | |
by Claudette Sa deck'

ao ground sb siory. No ‘elevision

faction of loosening his belt,
He can quit looking over his
shoulder and ease the crick.
from his neck.

i. to bid

-_WEHAD AN EXCITING TIRST DAY |
~WEATTACKED THE OUTDATED PROGRAMS...

CHALLENGED THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM...
aA — QUESTIONED TEACHERS SALARIES

OBJECTED TO...

(on

wd ELE ,

telegram of good wishes, or a-
“‘Gee, Gee, Look Who’s Still
Free” ad jin the. announce- —

ments’ section ofthe newspa-

per, His buddies never get-to

sing Auld Lang Syne.

When’ he does. gather with .

buddies, he © dare’ not, tell

Stories .of his: ‘peculiar: “past:
time or. indulge in boastful. -
oneupmanship; | no matter how -

much he burns to disciose. -
‘He can’t notch a gun. like

Billy: the. Kid, keep'‘open score
like a Blue: ‘Tay, -or, display’ a.
telethon, total of property he's S.

scorched.”

So long as “he | te ains as.
anonymous: » aS
philanthropist, he, avoids, the...
notoriety: of arrest, tial, and

possible conviction.” He ‘also

has to do. without recogtiition. 7
stg

“yideo footage of the: Sight he
‘tumed a Thornhill home: into’ a

-black cloud of Terrace.

‘Everyday. he worrles ‘whether.

folks notice:he avoids passing

the site of his handiwork. Sup-.

pose a witness informs police?

~ Will “his family: always ‘cover
his tracks? What if someone -
punctures his alibi. How: long
before his heart quits bungec _

. jumping whenever a cop: care

“ "slows near his driveway?)

“Support: groups. don’t exis ;

for arsonists smoldering 10’ get ~

+ things off their chests, Neither
“are - there . firebug. fraternities”

with ‘secret ‘Signs, rings, and
lapel“ pins.” He” can’t” join ‘an
Amway, or Mary Kay. organi-
zation. to spotlight his achieve-
ment: and « receive’. accolades,
And there’s no national com-

petition where singe artists can
“win a statue, “a plaque, or a
“place in a Hall of Fame,’:

The unsuccessful arsonist, on

~ So what if his mug: appears
_on the nightly news. He gets to.
"spill his guts on Oprah or
_.Geraldo., Heck, he. can even
nap, and talk in his sleep, And -
-he no ‘longer has to-live up to
_ every. letter of the law ta make
~ gure’ police: have no reason to

take a.closer look. at him, That

-alone can be 4 big relief.

~ What, I'd like to know is this:
does. the ‘successful “arsonist
await the anniversary ‘with

anticipation or dread? .

T CAN? reer ENOUGH f
SPEVP ALL MY CASH.
ON if! CAN'T HOLD
A STEADY JOB! KEEP
GOING BACK To ir!

,

Journey to to Kootenays
a soothing experience

_ VICTORIA — It was time
to clear the cobwebs from my
mind and confirm, once again,
that there is another world out
there, a world apart from
politics, a British Columbia

‘ removed from deficits and

overtuns, ftom bureaucracy
and petty politics.

I took a week off and headed
east for a tour of the
Kootenays, surely one of Brit-
ish Columbia’s most beautiful
regions.

Having travelled the Co-

1 quihaila Highway thedasttime s+
I travelled-east,.] decided to go. .
: the Hope-Princeton route in-

stead. Not that the Coquihalla
isn’ta a scenic road,

It is, very much so, but I pre-
fer the narrower, winding,

_ . ‘Hope-Princeton Highway,
_, And that leaves the distinct impression of
smaller ‘customers absorbing the: banks’
~ self-inflicted
“ favourable si situation.

leading through dark and cool

_ forests, with beautiful vistas at

every turn,

"My first overnight stop was - -
‘Osoyoos, 8 summer paradise
‘perched at Osoyoos Lake,

which has the distinction of

‘being Canada’s warmest fresh-

water lake with summer

temperatures averaging 24 de- -

grees Celsius.
The lake stretches for 17
miles on both sides of the:

- Canada-US, border and offers

vacationers every type of.
tecreational activity from
swimming, to boating, to
water skiing, to fishing. A
number of parks have ex- ° -
cellent camping facilities, and

the town of Osoyoos has all

the amenities a traveller can
wish for, including good
hotels and motels, excellent
restaurants and chic shops.

- Next morning,'] was back on

_the road, stopping in Grand
. Forks to drop in on John

Smith, an old friend and pub-
lisher of the Grand Forks ©
Gazette. Then it was onto '
Nelson. |

Nelson has got to be one of
the jewels of British Colum-
bia. It’s large enough to give .
the feeling of being in a city,
but it hasn’t lost its com-
munity spirit.

- Nelson is said.to have the

largest concentration of PhDs
’ . with a few Bavarian-style

in British Columbia. For. .
whatever reason, Nelson has -
for a couple of decades been a

LEAVE My FAMILY FOR ir p
SKIP WORK FoR tr!
= el FIGHT POR IT! RISK MY

d. LIFE FOR py ft

From the
Capital

by Hubert Beyer

refuge for intellectuals who
want to escape the fast lane of
the province’s large urban
centres.

The other thing | that strikes
"Yduabout Nelson is the" re
‘presence of a vibrant arts com-
munity. I ran into more arts
exhibits in Nelson than you
can find in either Vancouver
or Victoria,

The arts even spill over into
the regular street scene.

Right on the main drag, a
chap with long hair and an
even longer beard was playing
the piano, which he had some-
how dragged to the centre of

_the street.

As he was playing classical
music that would have been

met with approval by the most —

sophisticated audience in any

concert hall, traffic was flow- .

ing past him on both sides of
the street. Ilovedit,

That evening, I had dinner
with Corky Evans at the

. Heritage Inn, a hotel built in.
_ the late 1890s. Corky is the

MLA for Nelson-Creston.
With us was David Lawson,

instructor at and booster ex-

traordinaire of the Kootenay
Schoo! of the Arts, an institu-
tion that owes its existence to
the untiring efforts of many
volunieers,

It’s a success story I will
deal with ina separate
column. :

My next overnight stop was
to have been Kimberley: I had

“never been to Kimberley, but

had heard.a lot about it.
Kimberley is a Bavarian-.
style town in the Kootenays. I
don’t want to be too unkind,.
but I prefer my Bavarian —

_ towns in Bavaria, where you

get the real thing, not just -
some clapboard shopping mal]

touches, -grandly referred to as.
the Platzl, the German word

ouwhich doesn’ t have to. depend ;
0n-@ phony theme:to’make:
visitors welcome. During. am

to Revelstoke, one of my —
| Cheek, I decided to.try outa .

Canyon, I drove west to Lil- .
-looet, then along the Duffy

‘Lake Road, which is oc-

rushing through yawning can: : |

A Pane BUSH! THe Busy /
—|HE BUSH//7)

WAR

——

=

=f

a

—

SS ESS aN

BES
aS EES ————

for small town square. .

It didn’t take me too long to
decide to push ontoln- ..
vermere, a lovely small town’

breakfast.next moming, I .
overheard someone behind me
talk with an unmistakable Ger- 7
man accent. me
I knew that voice and, sure”. -
enough, it was Hans Hartwig, |
formerly of Victoria, Before |
retiring to his ranch near In--
vermere, Hartwig lived in Vic-
toria, where he made a name
for himself as one of that rare :
species — a developer with a «
conscience. .
- Hartwig gave a lot to Vic- fas
toria, including Hartwig Court
on Wharf Street and Nootka °°
Court, a downtown shopping.
mall, Both projects are among. .
the most tastefully designed -
developments in’ Victoria;
celebrating our own heritage » ~
rather than catering to some
phony tourism theme... © ©
Thad to decline an invitation -
to see his ranch and pushed on.

favourite towns. Next day, it. ~
was time to be homeward -
bound. Arriving in Cache

route I had never driven be- -
fore, Rather than taking High-"
way Number 1 via the.Fraser: .

casionally subject to blockades
by First Nations, and on to.
Pemberton and Whistler.:
If you have a chance, tive ut
that stretch, It leads through
some of the most ewesomely
beautiful country you have =
ever seen, with white-water

yons and a mountain pass on . .
top of the world. .

Beautiful British Columbia? :
You bet it is, »

No ie on will.arm to the
waite, his, back-

the, other. thane, has the. Satis-