6: Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 17, 1988

Commentary

A vanishing breed

by Stephanie Wiebe

I’m worried — my species is
becoming extinct. I’m a stay-at-
home mom (S,A.H.M.). Some-
times 1 give myself a title, like
“Domestic Slave’, but when
someone asks if 1 work, I
automatically say ‘‘no’’. This
brings up comments like, ‘‘Well,
of course you work...” And I
‘sometimes feel that I should be
capable of handling motherhood
and an outside career at the
same time, and any less than
that is wimpy, But who would
make all those pom-poms?

The Brownie pack needed
pom-pom animals for the fish
pond prizes for Thinking Day. A
friend, also a S.A.H.M., was in
charge of these creatures, and
somehow a few of us ended up
sitting at my dining table with
bits of yarn flying and a three-
year-old leaping through the
scraps. It occurred to me that if
anyone asked me ‘“‘Just what do
you do with your time?” I
wouldn’t know how to explain.

Fifty pom-poms later, there's:

another project to be attacked.
Did you know that you can
make cute bunnies from cream
containers?

I’ve washed hundreds of milk”
cartons, colored carton pictures,
knitted little - people, baked
cookies, and cut out cardboard
mittens. How would I put that in
a job description?

| heard one comment, second-

_ hand, that runs through my

mind continuously. My husband
asked how my sweater knitting
was coming along, and when he
replied ‘‘slowly’’, he was told,
“Well she’s got al/ day.” Ob-
viously, that person didn’t
realize that the milk cartons
should be rinsed with a baking

soda solution, or they smell
sour, and that the Red Cross
bazaar needed Barbie clothes,

and that the Girl Guides wanted |

cookies for their bake sale. But
that’ was, just one busy day.
Usually, I just. recline on a
chaise-lounge, eating chocolate
bon-bons and watching soap
operas.

What I really miss about hav-
ing a “‘real’? job, is MONEY.
Not that we’re poor, but when I
see a two-income family going to

Disneyland for the weekend, I

wonder if I shouldn’t do
something more profitable than
making pom-poms with a three-
year-old.

Being a S.A.H.M. does have
advantages. If you drop over for
tea one afternoon, we can take
time out for a visit, but you
won’t mind if I work on this
project — pipe cleaner but-
terflies for the bazaar. Hand me
that glue gun, will you?

Party supports Mi

Letter

Hon. Peter Dueck
Minister of Health
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, B.C. —
Dear Mr. Dueck;

The Skeena Riding Associa-
tion of the Christian Heritage
Party of Canada decided
unanimously during its member-
ship meeting on Jan, 29.to write
you in support of your position
of the financing of abortions in
the province of British Colum-
bia.

The members of the Christian

Radio transfer seen as.
blow to Northwest

Letter

‘To the Editor;

CBC wants to close radio sta-
tion CFPR in Prince Rupert.

CBC calls their proposal the
B.C. Radio Improvement Plan.
Nothing could be further from
the truth, especially for North-
‘western B.C. - .

The truth is, if the CRTC ap-
proves the plan without amend-
ment, it will lead to serious
deterioration of CBC radio ser-
vices in the Northwest and pro-
bably in most other parts of
British Columbia“ outside of
metropolitan Vancouver and
Victoria.
 CBC’s plan to downgrade.
CBC programming in the North-
west won’t save them a penny.
In fact, the start up in capital
-costs will exceed $640,000.
. Local newscasts have already

been cut back. Now they will be

totally eliminated and replaced
by. an expanded provincial
"newscast from Vancouver. CBC

gays this service will be. better

because its existing staff in
“Prince Rupert will be split up

and spread around the province

‘to feed in stories from many
Jocal areas. What it really means
4s that we will get almost no
‘Northwest news and we in the
Northwest will be forced to suf.
fer through interminable broad-

-ggsts of local: trivia from places

out northern and central

we have absolutely no interest.
The morning show format will

be changed to allow for a longer

broadcast of the. Vancouver

news to accommodate the items ~

we neither need nor want to
know. The time left over will be
divided among communities
spread out across more than half
of British Columbia. Do North-
west residents really need to
know what the weather and road
conditions are like in Dawson
Creek or Quesnel? No more
than the residents of those cities
need to know what the weather
or road conditions are on the
Queen Charlotte Islands.

The local afternoon program
will be discontinued and replac-
ed with Vancouver’s afternoon
program because, after the
relocation of local staff and
resources, there will be neither
sufficient money nor personnel
to provide a local program.

The only iocal programming
available outside of Vancouver
will be two morning program
shows.
Prince George to all of northern
British Columbia and one from
Kelowna to all of the southern.
interior of the province. CBC
says that Northwest residents
will still have local programming
as a sub-region of Prince
George.

Anyone who lives in the
Pacific Northwest, especially
those from Terrace and Kitimat

| Nort ral west know that there are few in-
British Columbia about. which —

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The school classroom provides an ideal situation for the spread of the fiu bug, but even though we're In the mid:

dle of the flu season we've been far luckler than many Lower Mai
hard hit. According to the Skeena Heaith
the Type B Ann Arbor strain. He sald that

land communities who have been especially
Unit's Chlef Medical Officer, Dr. David Bowerlng, this year's bug Is of
anyone who has had an influenza vaccination recently should be pro-

tectad — but added that a good nutritious diet and avolding stress were the best bet. “All those healthy sort of

things,” he advised, “keep your immune system humm

ing along and you stand a good chance of avoiding it.”

Heritage Party of Canada are
shocked by the Supreme Court’s
decision and foresee not only a
long struggle between the federal
and provincial governments as
well as with other interested par-
ties, but also believe that this
legalization of abortion will
open the door to legalizing
euthanasia in the future. The
members are appalled by the
large number of abortions per-
formed in B.C., most of. which
we believe are used ‘as a means of
birth control, and_ seriously

question the attitude of the

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nister of Health ©

women and girls demanding
abortion as well as the motiva-
tion and judgements of the
therapeutic abortion commit-
tees. To be required to subsidize
this legalized killing is an insult
to the population of Canada.
Developments in other coun-
tries show that the toleration of
abortion, followed by its
legalization, has led to the inclu-
sion of this “‘service’” in the
medical plans of those countries,
and that it conditions the
population to accept euthanasia
in the same way. It is the Chris-

LEAZE/LUPICK — Born to Kathy and Lorne, a daughter Suzanne Lin-
nea on February 10, 1988 weighing 7 Ibs. 4 ozs. |

CROSS — Dean and Shelley welcome with lov
-Feb. 5, 1988 at 0845 hours.

e Lindsay Dawn, born

24-hour Phone
(604)635-4080

Skeena Mall \

tian Heritage Party’s position
that no person, institution, or
government shall tolerate, en-
courage, or decree death by
abortion, euthanasia, or suicide.
May our God give you and
your government the wisdom
and the courage to rule this pro-
vince in a just manner. Be
assured that many people are
praying for you. .
. R. Moeliker, President
Skeena Riding Association
Christian Heritage-Party
of Canada —

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