6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 22, 1988 . Zoned out | ‘We've seen several meetings of the North. Coast Economic Development Zone committee. over the past few months — well, not really “‘seen’’ because they’re all held behind closed doors — with the unremarkable results being the presentation of a few lottery cheques . and a lot of information collected that was already on file with local sources. The function of this body is mysterious in that it ap- pears to-réquire a committee which initially consisted of nearly 40 members to hand out (through the Minister of State) a ‘lottery cheque, which normally requites only ‘one hand, or to compile the same information on regional economics that. the Economic Development Commission of the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District and the Skeena Labour Market Development Commit- tee have already obtained through years of effort. What we have seen so far is a head bureaucrat, Bob Thompson, who lives in Victoria and doesn’t return phone calls from the press, a Mayor, Jack Talstra, who supports the organization but doesn’t really seem to know why, and a Minister of State, Dave Parker, who is supposed to be working on behalf of the North Coast Region but can’t — even with the Ministry of Forests portfolio — prevent a major timber license within his — own riding from being handed to companies in Prince George. | Are these people actually working, . and if so who.are they working for? A work day for children The Terrace Co-operative Association was one of the larger retail businesses in Terrace that strongly opposed Sunday shopping. The Co-op philosophy on this subject was that Sunday was a special day, a day for families to ‘spend time together and a day for worship. A recent shopper delivered on Sunday promoting a Co-op sales event seems to demonstrate that the Co-op has changed its policy on these ideals. . Children as young as nine are asked to deliver adver- tising material to homes in the Terrace area on Sundays. The Co-op’s philosophy of preserving Sundays as a special family day must be for employees only. The fact that children are asked to perform this work on Sundays should be a concern to the Co-op administration. — The shopper printed in Prince Rupert is delivered later in the week in other Northwest communities and not on Sunday. The Terrace Co-op should consider changing its Sunday delivery day in view of the store’s recent stand on the Sunday work issue. MST. Terrace Review Ge» Established May 1, 1985 The Terrace Review is published All material appearing In the Tarrace Review is protected under Canadiari copytight Registra- gach Wednesday by tion No. 362775 and cannot legally be repro- Close-Up Business Services Ltd. duced for any reason withaut permission of the _ Publisher: publisher. . Errors and omissions. 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We could see a repeat of -vanishing-target strategy | : Bis Ks by Victoria correspondent Mark Collins Premier Bill Vander Zalm may do some soul-searching in the wake of the Boundary- Similkameen byelection loss, but what he has done is not under review. -. The only question on his agenda is how he’s done it. He says some of his programs have not been understood and he plans to be more aggressive in presenting government pro- grams like privatization. The problems he faces may be more serious than he’s prepared to admit, because what happened in Penticton and the other communities of the traditional Social Credit riding is quite different from what happened in the 1984 Okanagan North byelection. The NDP victory won by Lyle _ MacWilliam featured a low tur- nout as Socreds expressed their displeasure by not voting. This time many Socred sup- porters went one step further. Some voted for Liberal can- didate Judy Tyabji but others actually voted NDP for the first time since 1972 if not the first time ever. The NDP can- didates in the 1986 general elec- tion polled 11,000 votes each, but Bill Barlee has passed the — 15,000 mark. That must worry the hard- core Social Crediters, but the premier’s reaction to it should worry them more. They can ac- cept him as he is or find so- meone else to lead the party. «7 don’t intend to make any changes at all. I can’t change my moral views on certain issues. I can’t compromise my moral convictions on particular issues,’” he told reporters short- ly after getting the bad news from the interior, ‘‘I am not a fence sitter. If I have to sit on the fence ] would sooner get out of the business.”’ “T am not going to run away from my convictions or com- promise them because it is politically popular. If that’s what I am asked to do I will just run my term and somebody else can take it because I don’t intend to do that.” ; That’s a refreshing concept in politics where holding on to office at all costs has been the | rule. Vander Zalm would rather stick to his principles and lose an election than change them in order. to win. He'll get a chance to defend those principles at the Social Credit convention in October. Ironically, it is being held in Penticton. Life could be difficult for the premier between now and the .convention. His planned ‘changes to the cabinet structure will effectively demote those ministers who are not regional ministers of state. The left-outs could include Grace McCarthy and Brian Smith. .Also on the schedule is the byelection in the Alberni riding on Vancouver island where voters will be replacing Bob Skelly sometime this year. Vander Zalm says the NDP - stronghold wil] be much tougher to win than Boundary- Similkameen and he admits ‘“‘maybe we can’t win.”’ NDP Leader Mike Harcourt was in a very good mood on byelection night, and the premier’s reaction to the situa- tion made that mood even bet- ter. The NDP campaign focuss- ing on the Social Credit leader is now a proven strategy ready to be used in the next provin- - cial election. . The idea has been in the °. works at NDP headquarters for some time. Prior to the 1986 . election, the NDP put together a scathing attack on Bill Ben- nett. It didn’t work because he neatly dropped out of politics . just before the election, I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Vander Zalm did the same - thing before the next election. activities: Mclisack at 638-1974. - The Happy Gang Centre for Seniors offers the fallowing Tuesdays: 10 a.m., sewing and quilting; 7:30 p.m., cribbage. Wednesdays: 1 p.m., carpet bowling; Fridays: 2 p.m., bingo; 7:30 p.m., bridge. First Saturday of every month: 8 a.m. to 11 Monday through Friday every week: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., lunch. Second Thursday of every month: 2 p.m., general meeting. For further info., contact the Happy Gang Cen- tre, 3226 Kalum St. at 635-9090. The Kinsmen Club of Terrace meets the first and third Thursday of every month. For further info., cal! Steve The Contract Bridge Club plays bridge every 2nd Thurs- day evening from 7:30 to 10 p.m. All interested players, please ‘contact Elaine Johnson at 635-2965. a.m., pancake breakfast.