Gas price forcing
writer out of house

Dear Sir:

Thanks to PNG F’m
going to be homeless at
the end of April. I am find-
ing it impossible to cope
with the escalating gas in-
creases, and find it even
more difficult to compre-
hend that this insanity has
been allowed to continue
for as long as it has.

And they are still going
for another increase at the
end of April.

Mahatma Gandhi
(18969-1948) was once
quoted as saying, “There

is enough for everyone’s’

need, there isn’t enough

for everyone's greed.”

Clearly this is nothing
more than a blatant cash
grab and should most defi-
nitely be nipped in the
bud.

When people are liter-
ally being forced out of
their dwellings because
they can no longer afford
exorbitant, escalating gas
hikes, there is something
drastically wrong with the
program.

When I first moved into
this house 15 months ago,
I went on the budget bil-
ling plan. The amount was
$95. In February 200i, I
received a bill for $128.36.
The other day I received
another bill for $190.86
payable by today. And
they want to increase it
again at the end of April.

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My rent is $650 a
month, my income is $510
a month. Obviously I am
constantly faced with the
challenge of finding
responsible people to help
with the rent and sharing -
of the utilities.

I have managed ta do
this for the past 15 months,
but due to gas increases
this will no longer be pos-
sible because other people .
on assistance can’t afford
to pay the increases either. |

‘In the past year, the meter °

has been read once, and '
that was in November
2000.

The chap said he would
be back around January
15, 2001 to read it again.
That never happened. So
now they don’t even take
an accurate reading from
the meter, They just gues-
stimate and I’m being
charged for something I'm
not using.

I was listening to a
caller on the radio the
other morning and they
said they had turned the
heat down to practically
nothing, choosing to wear
layers of clothing instead,
and the bill was still $200.

Why can’t we vote?

Dear Sir:

In light of the up and coming provincial election I'd
like to pose a question, why is it that teenagers do not
get to vote?

The decisions made in government affect us just as
much as they do any adult. Politicians run ovr schools
and make decisions that affect us but we don't get a say.

The way J] see it, that is discrimination. Canada is
supposed to be a democratic nation but youths are dis-
criminated against and told we can’t vote because of
our age, [ suppose one reason might be because some of
us just aren’t mature enough, the problem i is so many of
US are,

Youths face s 80 iniich: discrimination because some of
us are itresponsible‘and immature but not all of us.

J am insulted at the way we are portrayed in the
media, just last week I was reading a letter in this paper
about the drug free zones and I got the feeling that the
author felt all young people are a bunch of chain-smok-
ing drug dealers.

When Nellie McClung fought for the woman’s right to
vote she noticed that according to the BNA Act that
“No woman, idiot, lunatic or criminal shall vote” but I
guess since minors can’t vote we get stuck in that group.

I would tike to conclude with the definition of demo-
cracy according to Funk and Wagnalls. “Democracy - A
form of government in which political power resides in
all the people and is exercised by them directly or is
given to elected representatives.”

Political power resides in all the people. I guess that
means Canada isn’t ali that democratic after all.

Megan Glover, ‘Terrace B.C.

Unbearable column

Dear Sir:

With more than 10,000 people in Terrace, can we not
find more talented writers than Charlynn Toews? Her
column on Feb, 28, was really pathetic. With all the in-
teresting things going on around Terrace and the beauti-
ful scenery in this area, do we need to use up space on
The Terrace Standard with bears defecating in the.
woods? .
John A Saunders, Terrace, B,C.

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picture, people and when
is rational thinking going
lo prevail? At any rate |
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who is in the same situa-
tion and can be reached at
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