‘Everyone boogles in the Arctic, as we see
above. Etooyatook, 83, dances out the story
of a hunt she was on during her younger
days (top). All types of Inuit dancing will be
seen Saturday, Jan. 17 in the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre at 7:30 p.m. when Tess Brousseau
presents her slide show on her trip to the

Arctic, There Is no admission. Below, an
Inuit youth competes in the body endurance
games. A belt Is tied below his knees and
around his neck and he must skillfully raise
his feet up to touch the sealskin hanging
fram the ceiling while he is balanced on his
fingers. ; '

ITSNOGO

Ski hill still okay —

The number of users of the Kitsumkalum Ski Hill
have increased greatly since it opened six years
ago; but the opportunities for the users have not
been as good, says Jos Konst; who manages the ski
facility for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine.

‘During its first year the hill was in operation 89°
days; in 1976-77 it was open 66 days; in 1977-78 it was

* open for 65 days; in 1978-79 it was open for“101 days _
and in 1979-90 it was open for 45 days. This year it
has not been open at all. ;

Despite last year’s problems with poor weather

- conditions the 45 days of operation proved to be the
best year for the ski hill per wer. There were 11,776
skier visits to the hill which brought in $99,053 in

- Bross revenues last year compared with 21,000 skier
visits in 1975-76 which brought in only $82,159 in
Bross Tevenues. : ;

Konst attributes the success of the ski hill to the
School District 68 student ski instruction program.
“We are really going to feel the effects of this year
in two years, because this year's ski instruction
program ' has not happened,” he says,

“I have found that there {s no such thing as an
average ski season ... when the hill was first
planned it was estimated that the hill would have a .
marginal season every 10 years. Those figures. were
revised to a marginal season every five years. So
far we have had two marginal seasons and one
wipe-out season,” says Konst.

“Thave learned to cut back on every corner of the
ski hill operation because of the poor run of weather
over the years. I feel like the farmers who are faced
with a seven year drought; but [ can't apologize for
the weather,” says Konst. __ . :

' ‘There has been no waste over the years and Konst
says that this is why the deficit after this season is
only going to be $200,000. “That's only 10 per cent .

- @wing on a $2 million operation. When you think of

y that in terms of paying a mortgage on 2 house we

are in good shape. We also have experience in
running a smooth operation, which will be an asset
_ in better times,” he says. Last'year the ski hill only

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are going to have to see it in operation for 20 years

before we can make any kind of assessment as to lis

’ success oor failure, . .

“Other ski hills are having the same problem we

are. Whistler is so bad you can read a newspaper six

inches under the ice. This is a bad year for the in-
dustry everywhere,” says Konst,

lost $1,100.

“T think to get a clear picture on how this hill
could best be run under local weather conditions we

' TERRACE

COUNCIL BRIEFS}

February 9-14 has been

declared by council as-

Variety Club Week. The
Variety Club of British

Columbia is asking all

municipalities in the

"province to. declare. the

week in a show. of support
for their telethon February

14 and 15. In 1980 the -

felethon raised $2.3 million
and is hoping to expand its
fund raising ability: this

_ year. The major target of

the 1981 telethon funds is a
body scanner for the new
Children's Hospital in
Vancouver, '

The district has saved
$20,000-$40,000 this year In
snow removal costs. Mayor
Dave Maroney says that
usually by this time
Terrace has undergone two
heavy snowfalls, However,
there has been only two
short snowfalls with rain
following, clearing the
streets.

Council approved a
recommendation at the
meeting Manday to accept
the “‘kind offer" from the
Rotary Club to provide a
bus shelter. The’ shelter
will be four feet by 12 feet
and made of plexiglass.
The Planning Conimittee
decided against a display
ease in the shelter as they
thought it would be subject
to vandalism.

It was further recom:
mended by the committee
that the matter of placing
the shelter in front of the
Skeena Mall, with the least
amount of interference to
pedestrian movement and
sidewalk snow removal, be
referred to the Public
Works Committee for
study.

A decision on the
rezoning of the 4700 Block
of Lazelle Avenue has betn
postponed until the
Planning Committee has
had input from the new
. planning director and from
the consultants hired to

prepare’ the Terrace |

Downtown Plan.

A request from the
* Terrace Art Association for

funds to provide structural...

improvements to the
‘Library basement was

turned down by Council

Monday. The. Association
says another fire exit anda
tramp for ‘handicapped
persons is needed in the
basement before it can be
used a8 a public art
gallery, The Committee on
Recreation, Parks and
Library reported to council
that they feel the two fire
exits in the basement now
are satisfactory but will
pursue the matter with the
local Assistant ~ Fire
Marshall.

.The committee also
suggests that - the
association find other
funding sources suchas the:
International Year of the
Disabled Persons
Organization to provide the
extra exit and wheel-ramp.

( WEATHER |

It will be overcast with
periods of rain Wednesday
but temperatures will
remain mild. A high of 4
degrees is expected, with
an overnight low of 2
degrees. The outlook for
Thursday calls for con-
finuing clowliness but not
as wet.

LAST LAUGH FOR
WIVES

LINCOLN, Neb. (CP) —
Neighbors doubled up with
laughter when they saw two
scarecrows in a field near
their homes. One was tall
and skinny, the other short
and stout. They looked
exactly like the wives of
John and Robert Fooster,
two farmer brothers. The
men had spent weeks mak-
ing the scarecrows and in-
elided taped recordings of
their wives’ scolding volces.

Human resources bus passes now available

Human Resources bus passes are now
available in Terrace. for those who are
eligible. There are three groups of B.C.
residents who qualify for the pass.

Senior citizens in receipt of the Federal
Guaranteed Income Supplement and-or the

Provincial Guaranteed Available Income for
Need for seniors (GAIN) are eligible. The
second group are persons between 60-64 in
receipt of GAIN. Lastly those persons under

65 but in receipt of handicapped persons’

benefits can apply for the pass.

_ The $10 MHR pass is valid for 12 months.
A spokesman for the ministry's office in
Terrace says they have received numerous
Inquiries about the pass but that people must
‘apply to Victoria directly. Application forms
are available at the Terrace office on Kalum.

CORNER S$

' BRIAN O
GREGG =
Ee

During the 19606 people got over the idea of
a Red Menace. The Vietnarn War blocked out
everyone's view to the Soviet promise that the
communists were going to ‘bury the
capitalists of the western world.”

Today we tend to be a bit skeptical about a

’ possible Red Menace; or, if we hear someone
* else talk about it, we sometimes see them as
Don Quixote chasing windmills.

Canadians are a little ‘more glohal village
oriented ‘than Americans; and we tend to
worry more about the implications of Ronald
Reagan being elected president than.
missionary zealots from places like the Soviet
Union who are pushing into the new third
world frontiers. .

The facts remain, however, that in some
parts of Africa communist guerrillas are fond
of kidnapping young people from their
villages and taking them back to Soviet in-
doctrination camps where they are brain-
washed into Marxist-Leninist thinking for a

- ‘gouple of years; dnd then are released back
into their villages where they establish
communist’ cells: (This idea may: seem
bizarre ta some; but it ig not as bizarre as
some of the brainwashing that goes on among
North American cult groups like the
Moonies.) :

In parts of Africa, such as Zimbabwe
(Rhodesia), where voodoo is the religion the

- communist representatives use the | terror
that sort of cult is based on by telling natives

_ .. that if they.don’t-vote for a certain politician .

the spirits will come in the night and destroy = .

them — and like the Shadow of the old pulp
stories the spirits know what evil lurks in the
hearts of voters. This may sound funny here;
but it isn't in places like Zimbabwe where
' people believe in that kind of terror-religlon.
Last fall a voodoo celebration tock place in
Zimbabwe with officials from the new Prime
_ Minister Robert Mugabe's government
reaffirming the importance of the cult as ‘one
of the most important cornerstones of that
society. No wonder! What better method to
get elected while the niaive west looks on and
marvels at. the new “democratic’’ system in
the country that was once white-dominated
Rhodesia. . a
These trends have caused me to look with
interest at the shift to. the moral majority
right in the United States. Many of the fun-—
damentalist Christian churches are very
aware ofa Red Menace because the guerrillas
usually shoot down thei missionaries, even
(hough they are often medical experts who

are there simply to assist the people |

_ professionally.

America is also as mad as hell and isn't
going to take it anymore. What happened in
Tran was more thar a slap in the face; it was
the straw (hat broke the camel's back in the
world’s attitude towards the U.S. arid the -

_ rebirth of Christianity seems to be laced with
an upsurge in nationalism. America is telling
itself thatit is morally right (excuse the pun)
because compared with places like the Soviet
Union its moral wrongs are mild. .

The main difference 1 see between a
president like Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Reagan is that, using western movies as
analogies, Carter was like Gary Cooper in
High Noon: he knew the outlaws were coming
but he had to face them alone. Reasan on the
other hand ts like one of the Magnificent
Seven: hei ready to go out and have a shoot-
out witht he bad guys because he has his gang
(the American people) behind him.

There is no doubt that Carter was a dove
while Reagan is a hawk. But Carter did lot to
prepare for Reagan's hawkish ad-

‘ ministration. The month that [ran took the
Americans hostage Carter doubled the
defense department's budget and within three
months that total had been tripled. Carter
reintroduced the draft while he played for

time as a peacemaker to allow the American

war machinery to start up. The Carter ad-
ministration, under National Security Ad-
visor Zbigniew Brzezinski (whose Pollsh
background caused him to hate the Soviets
with a passion) always said that if it came to
a nuclear confrontation the White House was
prepared to také that action.

Carter did what he could to achieve his
goals through peaceful means. The world only
laughed. Now it is faced with the hawkish
Reagan and it may soon stop laughing. The
next four years aré going to be faselnating.

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