” he has been’ getting strong TERRACE — "steve Ramzi says port about his frantic search to get information about his fami- ly in Iraq. The 37-year- old -Iraqi-born Terrace resident says several people have sent letters of sup- port to him at Mills. Memorial Hospital, where he works as an ultrasound. technician. Ramzi was born in Baghdad - and has three brothers and six sisters in Iraq. He’s heard no word from any of them since war broke out Jan, 16. “He. left ‘Iraq to study in Greece in 1978. and decided not to: ‘return’ when the Iran-Iraq war started two years later. He moved.to Canada in 1980 and became a Canadian citizen in 1983 '— the first day he became eligible to do so. ‘I’ve mever gone back, ” he says. ""] want to'so bad to see my family but every bloody time there’s a war, then another war, then another war. And [ say ‘Next year, next, year.””” He: says. he is sending letters and money to friends in Jordan in thehopes that they will be able to send some food or 2 SUp-_ ee Re Ee PP _ Steve Ramzi money on to his family. Ramzi says he’s not worried about reports of other Cana- dian Iraqis being interrogated by CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Terrorists, they don’t adver- tise themselves, They ‘don’t write things and give newspaper interviews, They.come, they hit baile" alc aie ato and they run,’*” He's ai: ‘he’ has. t from the’ Iraqis, adding . that despite being in Canada he must be careful ine what. he. “says” publicly. “If I, for example, say. ‘Sad. dam Hussein is. stupid and & things like that — that's no #@ good. Because my family could get hurt. [fF people knew there, fj it'd be on file and then. i}’s | 80 rough.” *“That’s the great thing about - this country — you can talk, & you can. say things, you cat write things. 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Balloon: “* | Want To Siow Dance’ Red Balloen:. ““’'m Hot To Trot” " ‘ AND MANY MORE! - prime minister is an idiot, I i. can," Ramzi says. “If say that ~1 in Traq Pm one year in jail’? > 9 ’ Ramzi says he is angry that . ‘his homeland has become what. | he calls’ a testing ground for! . : American high-tech weapons, - ‘ But -his greatest fear is that Israel will retaliate against Iraqi attacks with a nuclear strike, If something like that happened,... he said-he would go to Jordan. immediately to volunteer as a. : Red Cross first aid attendant i in. the war.zone, . . “Right now, you can just pray, —~ you. can do- ‘nothing else.” - Yes, there’s some logging TERRACE - _ “Bearing the sight: of fully-laden logging trucks rolling out of the Thunderbird area south of the city appears to contradict statements they made at a recent public meeting, Forest service officials have been quick to offer assurances that was not the case. At the Jan. 17 meeting to ’ discuss a management scheme for -the Thunderbird, forestry officials: said there were no ’ plans to log in the area before the end of March, the target date for drawing up the final plan. ~ However, Kalum forest district manager Brian Downie admitted last week that officials later realized there was “room for misinterpretation’’ of that ' & : promise. Noting much of the discus- sion at the meeting had focussed on the Lakelse River system, Downie said he had been referr- ing to that area when confirm- ing there would be no logging before March 31. He had also only been thinking in terms of harvesting under the ministry's small business program or by Skeena Sawmills — it has a timber licence in the area. “It’s ‘since occurred to us there is the rest of the Thunder- bird area where we've got active timber sales and active cash sales,’’ he explained in adding the forest service will honour existing agreements. While that means logging will take place, it would be limited and not occur in any en- vironmentally sensitive areas, said Downie. Planning . process chairman Norm Parry said the timber sale covered a 5.5ha stand of cedar and hemlock off the Beam Sta- tion Road and just north of Herman Mountain, The sale — to Jake Penner of Copper Mountain Cedar Products — was made in 1989. Describing the site as a ‘wet - area,” he said ‘last year’ 5 mild- winter. had ‘not. provided the frozen .. ground conditions necessary for harvesting to take place, This, year, however, con- ditions were different. and asa result Penner started logging the stand Jan. 7. Estimating: the volume of timber at 20,000 cu.m., Parry said that was equivalent to approximately 60 loads. - Pointing out the operation was not near the Lakelse Lake, he also emphasized the trucks were using an existing logging Toad. ‘The other activity in the Susan Doughty A.M.T. is now accepting new registra- tlons. for. 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