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Ada Solowonluk

1 feel that educa-
tion Is important.
Young people repre-
sent the future
generation and they
have to keep up with
the rest of the world
by being employable.
Someone has to pay
for it and the recent
increase won't kill us.
I think education is a
good place to put our
money. It’s a good in-
vestment. We have to
look ahead a little bit
and be loyal to our
young people and in
turn our country. |
belleve the schools
are well run and the
college is a blessing
for local people.

Peter Blyschuk

An increase of 13
percent seems high
unless the school
district is intending to
bulld a new education
facility. | work in the
Terrace area but have
a home in Prince
George and 13 per-
cent seems high com-
pared to our school
taxes which are
around six percent.
However, we have
more people paying
in Prince George.

Kasimir Kopec

Being a home
owner I’m not in favor
of the increase. !
believe teachers get a
fair dollar for the work
they do. | am not in

- agreement with the

rate hike as ! feel
taxes are high
enough. Considering
the whole province is
in a period of re-
straint, which is being
exercised by local
and provincial govern-
ments, how do those
in the education
system justify more
money? | also ques-
tion where our tax
dollars really go. lf
taxes were golng up
to fund necessary
municipal Improve-
ments such as street
conditions, | would
agree with the in-
crease. The educa-
tion system, in my
estimation, Is ade-
quately funded at
present.

von

Norma Stephens

It's unfortunate
that taxes have to go
up but somebody has
to pay for education.
Taxes have increas-
ed, of course, due to
government
backs.

cut: ©

The Terrace Review asked:

Property tax rates for the 1986-87
school year have increased by
13 percent. What is your reaction?

Betty Ogden
im not too happy
with the decision. |
feal the local school
board should fight

-harder to get funds

from the provincial
government rather
than taking more
money from district
property owners.
feel there are im-

‘provements needed

in the school system
but securing govern-
ment funding is the
direction leaders In
the education field
should be taking.

John Harker
| believe we have to
come to grips with
the teaching problem.
If education costs
money, it costs
money. If we want a
good education sys-
tem we have to pay
for it. And it’s either
local or provincial
taxes which will be
used to foot the bill.
We've got to pay for
education one way or
the other and it
doesn't appear that
provincial funds will
be forwarded.

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I am a Habitat Protec-
tion Technician and I
confess to being a
romantic.

On environmental
matters, I seldom
become emotional, hav-
ing learned that the
secret to survival in this

game is to treat it as a
| game. If we win, great, if
not — well, we can fight
again tomorrow. Recent-
ly, however I shed a tear
for the environment.

things in western Russia
where a reactor had a
meltdown and fire.

This is due to the fact I
know the consequences
_of this devastating event
because of my work with
the environment, and
because of my years as
an environmentalist. We
predicted this and worse
yet to come and it’s un-
folding like some replay
of an old nightmare, ex-
actly as it was way back
when we first made those
predictions.

I] have seen DDT,
DDE, PCB’s, Mercuri-
als, Asbestos, Bromi-
nated Bi-phenyls,

2,3,7,8-1CDD, DCDD,
TICDD, 1,3,6,8/1,3,7,9
TCDD find their way in-
to the food chain and
now many of the people

Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 7, 1986 §

Specifically, for all living:

Letter

in the developed coun-
tries of the world have
some of these con-
taminants in their
bodies. There are others
that we don’t know
about that are doing
things that we don’t yet
understand.

1 have seen cancerous
fish, raptor declines, cor-
morants with crossed
bills, grouse with
deformed legs, raptors
without feet, children
with the same deformi-
ties, and  belugas
beaching with bodies
loaded with con-
taminants — all giving us
a message. Ironically,
just before the news
story on the meltdown
broke, I was discussing
herbicide pollution with
a colleague and noting
how little we had learned
about food chains and
bio-concentration and
the prediction I made
was that the next major

environmental contami-_

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threaten all life on earth,
in fact one that might
make us extinct if we

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