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EVENTS B2

HERE BY CHOICE
FAE COLLINS MOONEY

A little warmth -
goes a long way

HE SCENARIO goes some-

thing like this: About six

weeks ago I ordered some-

thing from a mail order com-
pany back east,

Last Wednesday I got the bill,

The first notice arrived Thursday; on Fri-
day, the second notice.

But where was my purchase???

Monday it showed up in my mailbox,
along with an agreement that I had ten days
in which to pay. Right.

Yesterday I got the fina] notice: pay up or
else, thief.

I don’t like being called a thief,

its not a nice feeling when you're in-
nocent.

But that is what the mail order company
insinuated, threatening all kinds of nasty
things.

How do you explain how long it takes
Canada Post to deliver something from back
east to the back woods of British Colum-
bia... We don’t live next door to Vancouver.
We don’t get next day delivery, But they
seem to think so back east. And sa I get
harassed for payments of goods not yet
received. Their demanding letters can be
downright rude.

..,...don’t like bullies. Maybe because I’ve al-

ways been a little guy.
The nasty letter for payment-now-or-else
was like someone knocking the chip off my

. Shoulder. I turn green when I get mad (I turn
“yinto the incredible four-foot-eleven Irish
hullabaloo).

And that’s what happened. In a vivid green

; rage I sat down at my word processor and

made an Irish hull-a-ba-loo! I told them.
what I thought of their bullying business tac-
tics. I told them I would never buy from
them again (not that they care, or can even
read). ] paid my bill in full, hoping their
computer knows how to process it.

T think I deserve better, don’! we deserve
better? At least the benefit of the doubt,

But I’m a stranger to them and I guess
those big city folk just don’t trust people.

“! still find the old-fashioned
baker’s dozen in this town too,
Generosity, it still exists.”

ft

Maybe I’m spoiled from shopping in Ter-
race. When I walk into a shop downtown
I’m greeted with smile and a neighbourly
hello.

I’m not some nameless number in a com-
puter that spits out payment due notices
three weeks after payment has already been
made.

Instead I’m called by my first name. How
am I doing, ]’m asked. Never am I accused
of willfully withholding a payment when
due or of refusing 19 pay for what I have
purchascd. In fact, what ] am more likely to
hear is, catch you next time. They trust me.

I still find the old-fashioned baker's dozen:
in this town too. Generosity, it still exists.

And sometimes I'll hear, “Fae; have I got
a deal for you.’’ [ love bargains, When it’s a
real bargain, And that still exists here too.

If I happen to be looking for something
special, if it isn’t in the store it soon will be,
just for me. No where else can I find service
like that?

Yes, I suppose I am spoiled. But isn’t it a
nice feeling, to be treated so kindly — much
better than being treated like a thief,

The bullies back east will no doubt con-
tinue to harass their customers and waste the ~
life of a tree sending out nasty notices,

As for me, I think I'll keep making my
purchases from my friends downtown.

Merchants of Terrace, thanks. This one's
for you,

. PNE Pageant

RRACE STANDARD |

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 19, 1994 - B1

SECTION B
JEFF NAGEL
638-7283

MISS TERRACE. - is
back.

The Terrace Youth-Ambassador
Society has decided to discard the
politically correct Youth Ambas-

coming

-sador. title and return to calling
_ the city’s youth representative

Miss Terrace,
"Tt was voted unanimously at

. ‘the last meeting that we had given

ita try as the Terrace Youth Am-
bassador contest but there hadn’t
been that much — interest,”
organizer Alfreda Price said last
week,

~TInterest was falling off be-

. cause of the lack of the glamour

and. the glitz of the event,’’ Price

added.

The change came after the Miss
in Vancouver
changed to a Youth Ambassador
event,

Miss Terrace pageant
organizers followed suit two
years ago because they thought

~~ Terrace “royally would be ex-
cluded from the PNE event unless

the Terrace pageant was opened
to males and the name was
changed.

Since then, however, some
other B.C. communities have
continued to conduct traditional
pageant events.

No males entered in the first .
year here, but in 1993-94 Jassie |

Osei-Tutu became the first male
contestant and was this spring
named 2nd Youth Ambassador
for Terrace.

“Except for Jassie, who I really

“Interest was falling off because
of the lack of the glamour and the
glitz of the event.”

PNE officials say participating
societies must adopt their set of
principles about open access to
both sexes and communily ser-
vice,

But there are no rules governing
the name of theevent. ~

pushed to get, there wasn’t much
interest. from males in participa-
ting.'”

Glenys George became the
city’s first-ever Youth Ambas-
sador at the 1993 contest This
‘spring she was replaced by 1994

ON HAND for the ribbon-culting ceremony of Terraca's new medical hostel last Saturday were

Mills Memorial chlef-executive officer Michael Lelsinger along with Lawrence Baker, head of the
Elks medical hostel projact and Nell Taylor, director of the Terrace Mental Health Centra, While
the hostel officially apened on Saturday, it had housed six guests since October 1. .

I Fond farewell

WITH HUGS AND TEARS, 25 Canada Worid Youth exchange:
students from Canada and India said their goodbyes to their
friands in Terrace before leaving last Tuesday for the secand leg

of their trip. Many locals signed the jeans of Janardhan Swahar
(above) as a goodbye momento. Concern about an outbreak of
plague in the region of india where they were to go prompted the...
group to change plans and travel to a different Indian province... °°

Miss Terrace glitz returns.

Pageant drops Youth Ambassador name.

night for a single room and. 8

Terrace Youth Ambassador Mog- .
gie Botelho.
They won't actually change: the ©
name of the Terrace Youth Ani-—
bassador Society, Price said, but:
this year it wil] be promoted.as. >. -—
the Miss Terrace Pageant.
Despite the name change, Price.
promises boys won’t be turned
away from the event.
Substantial scholarships “and:

public-speaking seminars are
among the perks of being a con- a
testant. ways

Osei-Tutu. this year was exe
cused from the beauly- and”
cosmetic-related workshops that.» <
have little relevance for males.

Price says prospective contes-
tants have until the'end of. No-' oo
vember to sign up for the 1995 Vo tab
Miss Terrace Pageant. Ee

Anyone interested can call At
freda Price at 635-7602. -

First hostel
guesis =.
welcomed |

TERRACE’S' NEW medical: -. 5:
hostel officially opened last Sat- oc.
urday moming. a

But six people have already...” .
found comfort in the newly)...
renovated 14-room hostel. .

The first guests, a woman and-
her son from Good Hope Lake, |. --
checked into the hostel October 1
for a two-day stay, according to
live-in caretakers Al and Belty, aoe
Bellamy, oa

*'We’ve had only positive. com:
ments from the guests so far,’".:..
said Betty Bellamy, ‘The first 23+).
guest said she slept like a baby.’”; ...

As a project of the Elks and ... -:
Royal Order of the Purple, ‘the...
30-year-old nurses residence bes.
ide Mills Memorlat Hospital was...
renovated for us¢ as a medi
ostel, —
It now houses one double room :
and 13 single rooms, two of) 3 *
which are adjoining, along with, hae
two communal bathrooms,’ a...
lounge aiea for guest and: a,
caretaker guile, :

Mills Memorial permanently
rents two of the rooms for. “hosp
tal rellef staff. ,

Guests are charged $15. ‘per

for a double,