The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - AS”
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The Mail Bag

Her memory lives on

‘Dear Sir:. os
‘AS a participant in the music festival for the past eight.

: years, I would like to thank Vesta Douglas for her tremen-
_dous amount of time, dedication and donations, that have
gone into the music festival.

_ This year I received the Vesta Douglas Award for the
highest mark i in Prose for Speech: Arts i in the music festi-
val.

Sadly, I never had the opportunity to meet Mrs. + Doug-

| Thank you, Vesta. 9. 4
" Jeffrey Straw, Terrace, B.C. -

__ Next time, SCOOp

"Dear Sir: —_
* | live in an older property on Pine Ave. in Thornhill. 1.
try to keep a pleasant image for my neighbours, however .
on May 29th at approximately 6.30 p.m. two young ladies.
‘were walking a very pretty medium size reddish/brown
‘dog past my property and let the dog leave a deposit on '
‘my frontage. No attempt was made to use any’ Poopa .
’ scoop utensil. ;
‘Tam sure they know who they were but if they are not —
:} sure, the dog had a red lead with a blue collar and the girl -

“was wearing. black pants and a black top. Her friend was.
- wearing a light blue vest..Need any more clues? 7s

I would like others to respect my Property, the same ae

way I do. theirs. .
“4 "Lesley Thomsen, Thornhill, B. c.

Go to the police —
- Dear Sir? ae

SKEENA Junior Secondary principal Dave Bartley stands by vending machines in the school as.a: student makes his choice for a noon- -hour

“ snack. Neither candies nor chocolate bars: have’ been available i in the machines there since the 2004- 05 year. - DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO ‘In response to the. recent thou ights of Donria Wiles on.
. oo ws co cael : who might be behind the murdered and missing women |.
7 ss a on Hwy 16, I am left to Ponder what i is she basing her hy- fo
" . iP pothesis ons

oO rey . ‘ Welcome ; From her descriptions of a white male who lives alone. ‘

° to th e , and owns or rents his house, I wonder how many people in:

4 soe eo Terrace alone that fit that profile. Her idea is that he needs.

om achine _ privacy —.well who doesn’t? The rest of her description

| seems. like it was ‘Tead directly from a. | cheap detective
‘novel.
I agree e with Donna that there needs to be: some sort ‘of

Thornhill elementary:
two machines with -

Healthy food makes for better rlearning, s say educators, gov't

‘By DUSTIN QUEZADA .

~.. THE CHAIR of a committee charged .

'- with making: students healthier says

that mandate won’t be jeopardized for
‘any kind of profit.

'_ As the.school year comes to an end,

~~ school trustee Hal ‘Stedham said the

healthy lifestyles committee is looking

at ways other districts have success-
fully curtailed junk food in schools.

. But he .cautions little will likely ~~
_ change by September 2006 and that the -

upcoming school year will be one of
transition.

“We shave to take a. realistic ap-:
proach,” said Stedham, adding, junk... ,
~ food would have to” be phased out al

little at a time. -

“During the course of the year, we "i
make serious headway.”

But individual’ schools within the
' district are already making the options
for food in schools healthier. |

Secondary principals throughout

the school district, along with repre-
’ sentatives school parent councils’ and
the company that stocks vending ma-

- chines, participated in a video confer- -
ence presented by the local health unit -

and thé ministries of health and educa-
tion earlier this year.’ .

The conference presented voluntary
guidelines introduced by the govern-
- ment in November 2005 that catego-

rized foods into. four groups: choose
most, choose sometimes, choose least
_and not recommended.

By 2009, the not recommended
products are ‘to be eliminated from

schools, while the “choose most” foods '

must make up 50 per cent of available
foods. ,

. Cam. MacKay, principal at Caledo- -
nia Senior Secondary, says the push for °
healthier food isn’t new.

‘The government and the media have

pushed the issue in the last few years,”
said MacKay, :adding students and
‘- families are more conscious about eat-

ing healthy.

MacKay ‘says: childhood “obesity is

something that has to be recognized

and that his school is acting on it.

The school has a new contract with

. Skeena Distribution Services, the vend-
-ing machine supplier, and a two-student

committee is looking at how the snack-
yielding machines will be stocked.

_,. The school’: Ss ,seven, ‘machines’ will
have only 10-per cent of choices'i in the ‘'

not recommended ‘category, and’ none
within three years, said the principal.

The school has made in the range
of $9,000 a year from its machines and
MacKay says he expects those num-
bers to dip a bit.

One of the school districts that Sted-
ham and his group have been studying,
in the Okanagan, has seen no drop in
sales, in fact revenues: have increased
as students have been weaned from the
unhealthy snacks and beverages.

Parents are more willing to give

_ spending money if they know it will.
“not be spent on junk. food, speculated

MacKay... .
' For MacKay and Dave Bartley, his
peer at Skeena Junior Secondary, the

monies generated by the machines are °
- indispensable.

Bartley says the sales add up to ‘ ‘sev-
eral thousand dollars” per. year at the
school. Revenues pay for such things as
capital expenses, scholarships, school

culture, staff wellness, equipment, uni-

"forms, athletics travel, etc.
Both schools are replacing one of

their drink machines for 2006-07 with
- milk machines. _ D -
Students at both schools also have

the option of hot food served at a can-
teen. The facilities are limited but stu-

. dents do have varying choices'of popu-_
lar fast foods, such as pizzas, subs, -
burgers and sausage rolls at Skeena. At .

Cal, MacKay said since spring break .
this year.the school has moved away |

‘from hot dogs and pizza pops to popu- —

lar but more healthy options, such as
nachos, wraps and chow mein.
MacKay says fo. matter what

_ changes are made, there’s a core of stu- .
‘dents who. bring lunch, buy it or head.

off school grounds for fast food.

Stedham, identified four guidelines
he’d like to see instituted in the dis-- -
trict. One, he’d like to have new filtra- .

tion systems for the water fountains i in
schools.

Two, he’d-like to see a ‘move to
healthier versions of popular cafeteria
food; such as turkey hot dogs in place
of regular hot dogs and pizzas with
healthy toppings.

- Three, Stedham would like students
‘to have more to choose from in the fruit .
and vegetable category. Skeena Junior -
currently offers free fruit on ‘Mondays. -
'. Four, he’d like to see a move to |
healthier snacks in the schools’ vend-
' “ing machines.

Stedham would be pléased to see his

committee will not have,to urge educa-

~ tors here who. have already begun the

process.of phasing out t junk food.

’ “I like where. we’re going,”
MacKay. “It’s a societal thing and that
doesn’t change overnight.”

said |

- water and juices _
Uplands: none «=

Clarence Michiel: one .
vending. machine. with’

juices, water and iced
tea. , a
Thornhill = .Jr.:

“sport drinks, juices,
"iced tea, one with pop
; and . water.
‘none’ '
- Skeenia: four ‘drink
machines with’ pop,
sports.‘ drinks, — juice
and water. Two. snack
machines with Baked’
chips, -grangla {bars,*:
‘ nuts, fruit snacks.
Caledonia: four drink
‘machines, three snack
machines

Gov't
guidelines |
for food &
_ beverage .

‘sales -

Not recommended: ‘lowe

in nutrients and/or have. |
“| too | many. unhealthy .
_ components and tend

-to be highly processed.
Examples: candies and
drinks with. sugar as
first ingredient after
water.

_ this group. by 2009. .

“Choose. east:
nutrients or have too’

- one |
|| machine with ‘water,

Parkside: a

Schools _ must .
~ eliminate products from

low in -

_.( the Pens River Killer

wands

Dear Sir:

struction.:

hatred around the world? -

“earth.

dialogue on this matter, but how about pointing the dia--
logue toward finding ways to keep all people safe’ instead .
of offering what appears to be nothing more than a vague
description on who you think is doing these terrible acts,
". Better yet, if you feel you have a firm grasp on the killer .
Or killers, go the RCMP. I am sure they would love tohear
from you. In fact they would probably prefer to hear from.
‘you one ‘on one, rather than the possibility. of your ideas...
_ putting wrong ideas into. someone’s head about who it is.
“To the families of missing. loved ones, I have two. chil
- dren. and cannot imagine the feeling of what you are going
through... My heart goes out to. you ‘all, and I wish for you
to have faith that whoever is doing this will be caught and
: punished | both in this’ life as well as the next. . - ;
- For those of you. who disagree, I have two names for

4 you 4 Dennis Rader, (; es akan Killer ).and, Gary Ridgway —
feds 71 Robert Barwist; Eanpbel | River, B: ie

The biggest rogue state

So labeled “rogue states” are simply exercising their
justifiable right to experiment or develop any means of
defence. The US and Israel have these. means of. mass de-

i

Of the many countries: having. the capability the. only |
"[: one has ever delivered mass destruction on civilian pop-.
.| ‘ulation, the United. States. of America. Can this monster :

* rogue be. trusted? Sess :
| Are they so endowed with the ‘acquired blindness a as Sot 7
‘to see that they. themselves: are responsible for SO, much, yes

I wonder why the: US: military. constantly’ “remind: us

of their. so-called “smart bombs”. “Yet they are ‘not smart
‘enough to avoid civilians, women: vand children, or return
themselves to sender. This would be’a smart bomb: - ;

- The enormous dosages of propaganda aired. by the v var-—
ious: media for public digestion has become revolting to:
say the least. This transparent nonsense we are expected.
| to absorb in order that the mad militarists. wheedle ‘sup-
* port for their dictatorial and agitating postures around the

§

So you have the biggest, fastest, most luxurious mili- - .
‘| tary machines, what an asset’ to humanity, ripping the
limbs from little children while basics are ignored. :

One thing we as Canadians can be certain‘of i is. that» ‘
we will be constantly deluged by the US slant on every-
thing, having little access of views or comments of other
‘nations. .

. Generally we ‘seem to be : a ‘populace : so addicted. to. - :
fiction as to believe everything without question, brain.” -
washed that the west led by the US are the only. godly .

_ people on Earth, pumping us full of derogatory informa-
tion on-other nations they label as rogue States.

__ Perhaps thé Great Spirit has judged to sacrifice all those

~at New York as the prelude to adecline of this destructive

- cancer to our planet and all life.

Technology with. ‘increasing rapidity absorbed. by ‘the:

.|_ militarist seems bound inthe catapulting of, humanity | oy

ahead to the past. Cotrupt | US foreign policy will inevita. °°:
bly leave their own innocent exposed to eventual retalia-*..
‘than “choose most” tion by. those expiated a and destroyed indiscriminately by

" jtems and tend to be |.’ the US. a LF,
Slightly processed. Ex+\'
amples: sandwiches .}
with lean meats but.
few vegetables or fruits
canned in light syrup.

“many unhealthy com-—
ponents and tend to be
moderately processed.
Examples: deep-fried: |
vegetables and regular
- wieners and sausages.

_ By 2009, schools must
ensure ‘that food: and -
' beverages ~ from this
group make up no more
- than 10 per cent.

Students weigh in on eating

_Choose sometimes: a

_ little lower in nutrients .

| or a little higher in un-
. healthy | components.

D. i: Bulla, Terrace; B. C.

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