Love ’

and

burn ’em out

has found itself is symptomatic of volunteer

T he situation in which the Terrace Art Association

organizations in small communities. Non-profit
groups of this kind provide a valuable service to the
public at large, but it’s the sort of service that isn’t con-
sidered quite essential enough to be taken on by either

government or business.

The availability of arts in general in this area is more
often than not left in the hands of a few energetic and
dedicated people who more often than not bum them-

selves out in efforts to keep the cultural life of the com-
munity in a reasonable state of health. In combination
with a career and family and personal life to look after,
those efforts after a period of time can become more than
the community can reasonably expect of anyone. As a
-result the fate of volunteer organizations is tied to the
endurance of a small number of people dedicated to the

-group’s objectives.

Terrace without an art gallery would be a diminished
and poorer place to live. An inventory of the commun-
ity’s resources that had volunteer services struck off it

-would be a cultural and humanitarian skeleton of a settle-

ment. It’s simple to take things like art, music, beautifica-

tion of the downtown core and a myriad of other visible
and immediate contributions for granted, but behind each

of these improvements is an effort born out of the love of

doing things.

"The demands put on people who volunteer, particularly
for executive positions, are enough to scare off the best

and the brightest. In addition to expertise in a specific
- field like art or music, executives require skills in book-

keeping, publicity, promotion, and sometimes even law. If

these demands could be cut to a reasonable level, the

- community would inevitably

benefit by making volunteer

executive positions a reasonable undertaking for people
with talent who don’t want to commit their entire stock

of leisure-time to a cause. °°

Coe

Perhaps it’s time for local or regional government to
establish a resource centre for non-profit organizations -
that need help with the nuts and bolts aspects of operat-
ing a volunteer service. In the mean time, the Terrace
Art Association needs a transfusion. The meeting is this
coming Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in what is, for now,

the Terrace Art Gallery.

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VICTORIA — The New
Democratic Party moved.
another step closer on Thurs-
day to forming the next provin-
cial government in B.C.,
thanks to Ontario voters.

“The dramatic, stunning vic-

tory for the NDP there on that

day — winning 74 seats com- * —

pared with 19 less than three

_ years ago — staggered Social

Credit Party strategists here, - .
who already had more prob-

lems than they would ever wish —

on their enemies. -

Here are a few of the factors
to consider in our province in
the wake of the political suicide
of Ontario’s Premier David
Peterson.

1. Meech Lake: Peterson’s
slavering support of Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney dur-
ing the Meech crisis cost him
dearly on election night.

When he called the election
— nearly three years before it
was necessary — Peterson fail-
ed to recognize the anger
seething in the hearts of Cana-
dian voters at the arrogant,
manipulative, game-playing
prime minister and his hench-
persons.

People in every province are
mad as hell at Mr. Mulroney,
over everything from Meech to
the GST to his bumbling inac-
tion in-dealing with the native
Indian crisis.

And that anger extends to
any politician seen to be kissing
Brian’s, er, ring.

‘The Meech factor surely will,
affect B.C.’s Premier Bill. -

_ Vander Zaim, whose role in the

CNR

The view from
Victoria —

by John Pifer

future of Canada deliberations
was as a bit player, at best.

2. The ‘‘beware the socialist
hordes’’ rallying cry may not
fly in 1990. as it has for several
decades in this province.

In Ontario, Peterson became ~

positively shrill in the waning
days of the campaign with his

‘cries of doom and destruction -
if the evil socialists were to
triumph. .

Well, the sun still came up in
Ontario on Friday, and it
showed that about three-
quarters of the people had ig-
nored David’s warnings about
the NDP Goliath.

In B.C., staunch Socreds are
saying that the devastating
defeat of free-enterprise parties
in Ontario should alarm the
west coasters, and will rally
more people to Vander Zalm’s
army.

It is far more likely that the
NDP will be the party fired up
and bristling for an election
fight as soon as possible.

NDP leader Mike Harcourt
is generally seen as a far dif-
ferent ‘socialist’? than the
fiery, unpredictable Dave Bar-
rett was 18 years ago, and
Socred efforts to paint

‘Moderate Mike as a ‘‘radical

red’’ chameleon just won’t
wash.

3, Attracting high-calibre
candidates to the Socred fold
could prove to be far more dif-
ficult now, too.

After all, when the prospect
looms of sitting in opposition

for four years, some potential
-Cabinet-material Socreds may —

say “thanks, but no thanks”’,
just as Mayor Susan Brice did
in ‘Oak Bay in July. °
The Socreds has more than .
_20 nomination meetings lined
up for September alone. Given
the inner-party warfare between
one-issue wonders (such as the
anti-abortionists) and more
modern-thinking, realistic, all-
purpose candidates, you can
expect to see more dust-ups
such as the Burnaby fiasco of
high-profile candidate Nicole
Parton.

And that certainly won't gain
the Socreds any votes from the
undecided ones.

4, Bill Vander Zalm himself
remains one of the prime fac-
tors in how the Socreds will
fare.

If he is going to lead the par-
ty into an election, he may as

well go this fall and get it over
with, say prominent party and
government officials, even
though they privately admit
that would most likely mean an
NDP victory. —

However, they maintain that

_if he acts responsibly, and ac-
cepts that the anger built up
against him by the electorate
over the past four years is not
going to go away — especially
in the wake of the latest Fan-
tasy Gardens farce -- Vander
Zalm will step down, call a
leadership convention and give
the new leader some chance of
being a saviour of the free-
enterprise right.

But, in the aftermath of the
Ontario outcome, coupled with
all the other factors, even trot-
ting out a political Messiah

- may not be enough. *

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