TERRACE =~ In earlier times it |
might; have stood at. the en-
trance. to a: longhouse.

for Expo 92.

Carved | by cousins: Stan ~

Bevan and Ken McNeil, ‘the
13-foot pole will. stand in ‘the
B.C.” section of the Canadian
pavillon.~.. ee

my iyi
the pavillon. It should present a

pretty powerful image,’’ said .:

Bill McLennan of the UBC
Museum of Anthropology who
picked, up the pole last week.

:The pole was one for four ex-
amples. of. coastal native art
commissioned. by the provincial
government for Expo 92. -

One of the other three pieces -

is a grizzly bear - dancing
" costume produced’ by a Haisla
artist in Kitimaat. ;

: Bevan arid MeNeil spent three
months working on the pole.

| Although the pair have work-

ed independently on joint com- .
missions before, this is the, first

time they have worked together
ona single piece.. —

“Tt went pretty well, It took
time to bring out the features,’
said Bevan of the work.

_ “There was no problem. It
was a learning experience,’ ad-

By KARLA HENNIG
Co-crdinator

Terrace Women’s Resource
Centre

On -December. 6
women were killed i in Montreal

because they were women.

Mare Lepine entered a
classroom. in the Ecole
Polytechnique, an engineering
’ school in Montreal. He accused
the women students there of be-
ing. ‘‘feminists”’, separated
them from the men and opened
fire with a semi-automatic rifle.
In “minutes: 14: ‘women were

dead.:

“The: ‘illing shocked Canada,
and the media was immediately
filled’ with ‘experts © discussing
our violent society.

‘Somehow, in the confusion

-. ‘and: grief, in the Furor about

whether or not men were allow-
ed into memorial services or
whether this was the action of a
crazed man or the logical exten-
. sion -of a society which hates

‘women, the horror of the cons-
tant violence against -women

‘across Canada was Placed in the
_ background, on

‘Carver cousins
work together —

‘finest in B.C.:

be. right at the exit to
"up that well in the hot climate o of

1989, 14 ff

we accidents. : er

‘ded McNeil,

Both learned their craft from,
uncle Dempsey. Bob, a Prince:

- But'a newly-completed gtizz-. “¢

ly bear ‘house: pole carved at”
Kitselas is. ‘off to Seville, Spain.

Rupert-based.: nis
acknowledged.

. Bob warks-Ti lily in in : the Ti-.
ingit tradition: dnd -Bevan and

McNeil” are: developing « their

own based on- ‘a combination of

Nisga’a and Tsimshian styles.
The pair were: worried that

the’ cedar’ pole might not'stand

Seville.

But no ill-effects are
predicted because the Canadian
pavillon, will have temperature

and humidity controls. .

“~, Smaller. pieces -by. Bevan and
McNeil ‘are already in Europe
~ but the pole is to’ be one of the

largest examples of B.C. native

art to appear on that continent,

“UBC’s McLennan said

'.there’s a good chance the pole
- will remain in Europe after Ex-

po 92-closes.

“It certainly will attract a lot
of interest,”? he said. ||

The pole will be shipped by
boat to Seville early in the new
year. Expo 92 opens in May.

Bevan and McNeil are now
working on a way to visit Expo
to see their piece,

Their next project is a pole to
stand at a soon-to-be-built
native studies centre at UBC.

Karla Hennig.

Canada was shocked, but was
this action really. surprising?
One in eight women in Canada
are victims of sexual assault; 60
per cent of all female homicides

- are women murdered by ‘their —
Partners: More women’ ‘dieveach~.

year through murder, than in car

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THREE MONTHS of effort ended last week when carvers Stan Bevan and Ken McNeil bid good-bye to
a 13-foot grizzly bear house pole. It's to become part of the 8.C. exhibit of the Canadian pavilion next

year at Expo 92 in Seville, Spain. In the photo on the left, acrew moves the pole from the Kitselas carv-
ing shed to a waiting truck for the journey, to Vancouver. It'll then be put on board a ship.

Death stalks Canadian women.

Advertising objectifies

' women with captions such as

“knock her dead" and iess than
-'50 per cent of women feel safe
to walk alone on streets at
night, '

All these statistics show that
violence against women is per-
vasive and permitted in our
society. Through: Gur. indif-.
ference to the. “suffering of
women in our culture, through
our inaction to the ‘violence
which surrounds us; we accept
. that women. will be hurt.’

During the first.10 months of
1991, the Terrace Transition

House has had 15 women.and
145. children: Fleeing from

violent situations. ~~ oh
- In: addition, the staf as
worked with 343 women. Over
‘the phone or in non-residential
visits. The Sexual Assault:Cen-
tre. and. Victim's Assistance in
Terrace both report an increase
‘in clients, ; 8

-'In! October of this ‘year,
Members. of Parliament 4

unanimously ‘approved a private

member's bill declaring =
oe Pecenber 6. 10 be a ‘National |

Day of Remembrance and Ac-

tion on Violence Against |

Women: .

It is, in effect, a Remem-
brance Day for all women who
have died ‘through violence. In-
stead of 'a poppy, white ribbons
will be ‘worn ‘throughout the
week; rn

To commemoraie this: date,

. the women’s céntre has organiz-

ed a gathering’ for. Friday,
December’6.' We are extending
an invitation: to. women,
children and'men of all cultures
and backgrounds-to attend.

We have: Blgnned ‘a’ short
presentation. ‘include
speakers, songs and performers.
Everyone will be: ‘given: the op- |

_ portunity to. conttibute,’ share:

Brief and renew ‘hope.

But we, as citizens, must do
more than, this: We must speak ;
out against. violence: in every:
form, We must fight gender ine:

quality. in the law, in courts, the
school “system, on”: “television,
‘and every. ‘other place | it touches
our lives.:

‘On Ga Daebes let us ‘mourn,

fi inane
Terrace’s recycling society...
A viable recycling system
would be saving us money
now if calculations. were
made to determine the’ true
cost of storing our waste pro-

years it. may-take.to decom-
pose them in a landfill. - ~
Terrace, B.C.

Bilge
Dear Sir;
editorial, ‘‘Enough, Mr.
race Standard"’." -

First off, my demand for
employment, dollars for
shoreworkers and fisherman
stands, We havé more than
15 per cent unemployment
and pay heavy taxes from the

resource ‘séector“of nor-
thwestern B.C. Montreal this

rate of 13 per cent got $300
million for job creation. .

You say that just because
east coast fish-industry
workers received $25 million
for job creation, two wrongs
don’t make a right.

industry workers here in the
Northwest are just a week or
two short of eligibility for
unemployment ‘benefits.

dustry that is determined as

as biological ones,

For example, the changes
brought in by Bill C-21
targeted the fishing industry,

| requittitg: ‘more weeks * of

“work for eligibility than are
directly available from the
industry. |

Our fishermen pay to tie
up their boats. Comparable
commercial vessels in Central
and Atlantic Canada tie up
for free. ,

Mr. Editor,
enough, I'll fight until the
Last tide falls for fairness for

‘cont'd AG .

© In 1989,

"| assault involving forced sex-

Some
facts

Some facts about violence
against women in Canada:
*At least one in eight

women is physically, emo- |

tionally, psychologically: or
sexually abused each year by
a husband, ex-husband or
other male partner,

119 women were
murdered in Canada by cur-
rent or former husbands or
partners. Spousal murder ac-
counts for 62 per cent of
murders of women: in
Canada.
© Every 17 minutes, ‘sexual

ual intercourse is committed
in Canada; 90 per cent of vic- ;
tims are. female,

* One in four women will be

sexually assaulted at some J
| time. in her ne half before

the age of 17,

© At least 40° per cent ‘of
women are afraid t to walk on
their own city streets at night

“About
letters.

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welcomes letters to the editor
on all topics, All letters must
_be signed and carry ‘an. ad-
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te council | ;
Assisting

-@ucts. for the’ hundreds ‘of

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‘On Nov. 27/91 you ran an |.
Fulton", ‘Tsay “Wrong, Ter- -

week, with an unemployment |.

Weil, most of the fish- |

They work hard in an in-
much by political decisions

enough is [

granted in extraordinary cir- .

.@ space available basis, with.|'

unaccompanied,

» This” ‘isa. Christmas
plant, It. ig called a
Poinsettia, _

This’ one: is: held by:
‘Glenn. Goodwill.::

‘tree ‘nursery in Thor-:
ombhill::

‘he’. nursery ‘grows
ots' of ‘poinsettias."

Flower |

_ He is in charge of the: Q

They are sold in local. :

The minimum wage is

going up. _
It is now $5 an hour

for people 18 years and:
older. It will increase to.

$5.50 an hour. .

The minimum wage. .
for people under the age.” -
of 18 is also. going up. It

will be $5 an hour, =
These. ‘changes take

ir ng up = |

placé ext Februaty:
The government says

__this will help people who
do: not make ‘a. lot of.
money. cots .

And it says it wal help ;

women. and... , families 7

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