: Aa The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 28, 2002 STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G SR2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 WEB: www.terracestandard.com EMAIL: newsroom@terracestandard.com Slow down ASK PRETTY much any northerner who has ’ ever driven the Sea to Sky highway to Whistler and they’ll tell you one thing ~ there’s nothing wrong with the road. Nothing wrong, that is, if only drivers would do one simple thing and that . Is to slow down. Sure, there may be windy sections and stret- . ches that are a bit of a challenge, but this is B.C. and B.C. is a mountainous province. So it is hard to fathom and equally hard to understand why, in the provincial government’s _ full speed ahead attitude toward the 2010 Olym- . pics, it wants to spend upwards of $1 billion to * four-lane the highway. Lower Mainland backers of the bid will tell _ you there is no way the Olympics effort will ‘survive unless there is that commitment to - spend precious taxpayers dollars on the Sea to Sky highway. Highways are built — and improved — only _ after exhaustive studies as to what is needed and ~ why. We haven’t heard much about any kind of Studies along this line from the province. Any that are have probably been drowned out in the “four-lane” chant coming out of the Lower -, Mainland. Last winter, after a multitude of road deaths . in the north, authorities more or less told us the * reason why rested with the drivers themselves. They said drivers weren’t driving according to Toad conditions in that they didn’t slow down to “compensate. Hf it is then a matter of driver responsibility Up north, why. haven’ t-we heard. the same from ‘the province when it comes'to the'Sea‘to Sky “Flighway?Why are we’ left with‘the impression that we have to spend upwards of $1 billion just “so people can power their pretty little cars up a .mountain road in the middle of winter at 120kph? * What makes all of this so odd is that those who live in the upper stratosphere of what is charmingly called “the Olympic family” won’t be using the road should the games come to Vancouver and Whistler. No sir. Instead, they’ll :be whisked up and down via helicopter. So we ‘have a curious situation in which those who de- mand a four-lane highway won’t even use the “darn thing for the two-week, $4 billion (U.S.) extravaganza. _ If the province is so bound and determined to ‘make us pay for the Olympics, let’s at least put -the Sea to Sky Highway under the core services “review microscope demanded of every other ‘public sector service or institution and see if it “makes sense. - Place a police officer every 10 miles along ‘the Sea to Sky Highway. Do the same with a sanding truck. 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Published on Wadnesday of each weak at 3210 Clinton Sireat, a ae cope auattene, signs. and lypestyies in tha Tetace Standard ara tha proparty of th “Stories, phot 8, Hlustratians, designs and lypestyles in the Terrace 8 cog Na lung Garboo Press (1969) Ltd, Its illustration repro sarvices and adverlising » Agencias. ae docton {In whols or In part, without written permisston, Is specifically prohibited, Authorized aa sacond-clags mail pending the Post Offica Department, for payment of postage in cash. te Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents scottish EDINBURGH - “There are armed men and cannon in the citadel overhead; yot may see the troops marshalled on the high parade; and al night after the early winter evenfall, and in the morning before the lag- gard winter dawn, the wind carries abroad over Edinburgh the sound of drums and bugles.” Robert Louis Stevenson in Pic- turesque Old Edinburgh (1878, “Any chance to get a ticket for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo?” [ asked the young woman at the ticket office. “For next year or the year after?” she replied. Just then a man who had overheard the conversation said, “I’ve got two tickets for tonight, | can’t make it and 1’d be happy to fet you have one.” So, for about $35, [ had a tick- et for a performance others book a year in advance. Since [ still had about seven hours to kill, ] visited Edinburgh Castle, at the foot of which tonight’s Tattoo would unfald. Just looking up at the broo- ding silhouette of the castle looming over Edinburgh transports you back in time, and it takes only a bit of ima- gination to know what the sixth Earl of Douglas and his - younger brother must have felt when, after what was to be- come known as the Black Dinner of 1440, they. were pre- sented with a bull’s head, a sign of condemnation to death. King James II had just suc- Picture FRIDGE DOORS and magnet- pinned photos po together like casinos and gamblers. The crunch comes when kids grow up, leave home and start their own families. Just when Mom and Dad could downsize to a smaller fridge for food, they need a larger unit to display prand- children’s photos. Displaying photas on a fridge door with magnets is so flexible. You can crowd in an- other photo, overlap them when they become too numer- ous. and shift a few front and centre to highlight the day’s visitors, without marring either the fridge or the photographs. Hanging a picture perman- ently on a wall requires deadly accuracy with a nail and ham- mer unless you are content with a living room wall as punctured as a Palestinian’s. If you're lucky you'll hit a solid, lumber stud on the first try. Otherwise your nail will be in gyproc limbo. Which makes me wonder why no manufacturer has pro- duced gyproc or wall panelling for gripping photos or paintings igscor poly] ———— my al Wey s FROM THE CAPITAL HUBERT BEYER ceeded his murdered father, King James J, in 1437. Just a young lad, he was in the care of Sir William Crichton, Kee- per of Edinburgh Castle and arch-rival of the Douglases. The two brothers were roy- ally entertained and after the courses were taken away, Crichton shows up with the bull’s head. Not even the young king's , protest, at..this ‘outrage: could save the’ bro- thers. They were taken to an adjacent chamber, tried on a trumped-up charge of treason and beheaded in the courtyard. Gordon Campbell: Don’t try this with Joy McPhail! It won't fly. People are funny that way nowadays. As early as 7 p.m., thou- sands of people began lining up at the upper part of the Royal Mile, which leads from the Queen’s residence, when in Scotland, to Edinburgh Cas- tle. At about 8:15 p.m., they perfect THROUGH: BIFOCALS| CLAUDETTE SANDECKI by means of embedded metal strip or filings. I realize there could be pro- blems with rusting of the metal or leakage through the paint. But surely in this day of plastics and other improve- ments a workable gyproc could be made to serve such a universal need. Even if such gyproc were more expensive than usual, you would need it only along the top four feet of living room walls, one or two walls in each bedroom, or along a hall- iT MUST BE AN STD LIKE THEY LEARN ABOUT Ar scHoot! ; 1 SEAL MINE | ONLY (TSA 1 Gor ye THEY LOOT, LOOT, 4. wh MY POCKET XY PAID ME TOO WHo's To BLAME? 1's ONE MORE 20 Res 'M OUT OF OoT Much, STR F Tt te oOLV BALL read \ . calli O/RICEOD reigns supreme filed into the Esplanade, just below the drawbridge that leads into the castle. At 9 p.m., the Tattoo began with the deafening sound of guns from the ramparts of the castle, and a re-enactment of the Royal Proclamation of 1952. And then, against the awe- some backdrop of the castle, bathed in ever-changing colours, ta the stirring sounds of the world-famous Massed Pipes and Drums, entered The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabeniers and Greys); Ist Battalion the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment); 1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Royal Regi- ment. Ist Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers; 1st Batta- lion The Black Watch (Royal Hightand Regiment; 1st Batta- lion The Royal Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Ca- .,merons; Ist battalion The Ar- gyll and Sutherland High- landers (Princess Louise's); 1st Battalion The Royal Gurk- ha Rifles. The Commonwealth was re- presented by our own 2nd Bat- talion The Royal Canadian Regiment; Tasmania Police; The Cape Town Highlanders and the City of Wellington Pipe Band. There is no sound more stir- ting than that of hundreds of pipes and drums, especially in 4 place like Edinburgh Castle, drenched in history and blood. Several people, who had been to numerous Tattoos in Edinburgh, told me later that this year’s was particularly out- standing, as was dedicated to the Queen’s Golden Jubilee of her ascension to the throne. - Noteworthy was a modern- | day re-enactment by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who served in Kosovo, of an inci- dent in which they came under fire. Equally impressive was the parade of the Scottish State Coach, escorted by the House- hald Cavalry Mounted Regi- ment, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the President’s Body- guard, India, Lord Strathcona's Horse and our own Royal Ca- nadian Mounted Police in their traditional red-coat uniform. The finale featured the en- tire 1,200-strong cast, with the bands totalling 600 musicians, playing the haunting strains of Hector the Hero, God Save The Queen. and Auld Lang, Syneoz A Scottish friend once,told me there are only two kinds of people — Scots and those who wish they were. And for a moment, when the Massed Pipes and Drums mar- ched out playing Scotland The Brave, to the sounds and sights of fireworks rising into the sky from the castle above, | be- lieved he was right. Beyer can be reached at: E-mail: hubert@cooleam.com; Tel (250) 381-6900; Web hitp://www.hubertbeyer.com solution found way, areas most often turned into galleries. Rectangles cut out for windows could be framed and mounted elsewhere for smaller displays. Think how versatile such a metal-supplied wall would be, particularly if powerful magne- tic strips were made part of photo frames and picture mattes. You could walk up to an empty wall space carrying a framed photo, reach out, and have your photo slurped tight to the wall by magnetic pull. If you weren’t satisfied with the picture’s position, you could strip it fram the wall, gauge a new site, and plunk the picture against another tar- get area like David Letterman wearing a fuzzy velcro suit flinging himself spread-eapled against a hook-covered wall, That would be handier than Martha Stewart's tip of first making a brown paper “map” of your proposed picture arran- gement, transferring the brown paper's measurements to the wall with chalk to guide you. If you did pound the nails in the exact place, haw long would it take to adjust the length of the strings or wires? I could see myself goofing, sinking the nails where I didn’t want them, and after many tries, Ijke the fellow in my school ! literature, hanging a gigantic picture to hide the missing plaster. I grew up in a house built with walls of lath and plaster. Driving any brad or nail into the wall was serious undertak- ing, entered into only after fa- mily consultations and parental permission. And once a nail had been driven into the wall, that's where it stayed. We were not allowed to change our mind. And we were restricted to one nail per wall. That’s why our walls are bare while our piano, tables and shelves overflow with pla- ques leaning against a support and photos with their own tri- pods, I’m waiting for special gy- proc to do for pictures what velcro and pegboard have done for jackets and tools. opps vie . ¢Be viRus THEY NORTHERNERS ARENT<0< S READY FOR THE alist CENTURY?! SLED See a rE Rahm bee SOT