Liberal leader finds true north IT’S GOING to be hard to say that Liberal leader Gordon Campbell hasn’t been in touch with the north. Campbell and two aides mushed their way from Prince George to Stewart and back again two weckends ago in the middle of the first serious snowstonn of the season. “We didn’t see a piece of pavement the entire time, It would have been even better to see some scenery but we couldn’t be- cause of the whiteouts,’’ said Liberal media relations manager Jamie Lamb last week, The trio made stops in Vanderhoof, Burns Lake and Smithers during their snowy odyssey. Travelling in a four wheel drive, they even stopped a number of times to help push people aut of the ditch, Some of the stranded drivers recognized Campbell and some didn’ t, nated Lamb.: One couple wha didn’t were Dean and Jackie Herring of Skagway, Alaska. Campbell and the others encountered them and their stuck vehicle off of the road neat the Salmon Glacier on the road into Stewart. “I think they and us were the only vehicles on the road by that time,’’ said Lamb. At first it seemed the Herring vehicle came ta rest near the base of some trees near the edge of a drop off. “But when we got up close it tumed out those were the tops of the trees. Another foot and they would have gone down a long, long way,” said Lamb. The Liberal trio took the Herrings — and their cat Tuffy — into Stewart to arrange for a tow truck. The one benefit of the tour was a healthy crowd turn out for a night meeting in Stewart. Nearly 60 people came oul to hear Campbell, One of the people the trio helped push out of the ditch near Smithers was a lady from Terrace, Activist wants to help region's poor children MORE THAN 10 per cent of the regional population is on welfare and the numbers are growing, says a worker at Terrace Anti-Poverty Group Society. The situation is particularly bad for the children of poorer families as they suf- fer from malnutrition and that affects their school grades, says Gerry King. King says the numbers of poor children in Canada have increased by 55 per Gerry King get together here, they could brainstorm ideas on ways to help poor children. He syggests such a group could help put together bur- saries and schoo! programs. For example people could look at innovative ways to expand the school lunch program, says King. Lack of daycare is also an issue here, says King, an access centre for families, say restrictive YOUR COLLEGE IN YOUR COMMUNITY: 635-6511 Staff at The Family Pface, - cent since 1989, despite a commitment by the federal and provincial government to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. Since -that commitment was made in 1989, a part- nership of concerned groups called Campaign 2000 has released a report card on the government’s progress towards that goal. This. year’s report. card will be released this week, and il’s expected to show that one in five BC children live in poverly —- nearly 170,000 BC kids. King wants Terrace resi- dents to get active in eliminating . child poverty here, Welfare isn’t enough to provide a healthy lifestyle for a child, he says, and there are 1,295 children on welfare in this area, as of five months ago. That num- ber doesn’t take into ac- ‘count the working poor, he “adds. And at Terrace Anti- Poverty, which hands out food and necessities on an emergency basis, King’s noticed an increase lately in the nuittber of families look- ing for help. There are always a few people trying to scam the system, but King won't tolerate that. “If I see someone who’s hustling the system, Pll tell ‘em slraight — take it out of here.” King is hoping that if cnough concemed people zoning bylaws and building code requirements make it very difficult to open a daycare, or even upgrade a licence, *‘We just don’t have alternate places that are Suitable,’’ says Family Place coordinator Darlene Westerman, She thinks government should be doing more to en- courage. daycares, King hopes a wide variety of people, from churches, the medical commutity, schools, government and more will come together to form 2 local chapter for Campaign 2000. **Here would be a perfect spot to make a model for all of BC.” rp! | AE Credit! Remember to ask about ovr... To: Reno, los Cabos, Puerto Vallarte and many more destinations! 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