4 CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Mail Bag Detox centre is necessary for those who need the help ’ Dear Sir: This is to the neighbours of the new detox centre. ] am disappointed in you. There are so many teens and adults in this community who need this kind of help and you are willing to take that away from them because of your property value? These children need help. - You are so worried about community safety. Well, the - same kids who are out there doing B & Es for the money Welfare isn’t swell for drugs can be helped with this program. Then maybe the teen that broke into your car window last week won't need to do that anymore, Dear Sir: Ordinarily I would not react to such a judgmental and jaundiced opinion as the one put forth in a re- cent letter to the editor by Mr. Robert Doane Jr, “Some Deserve Assis-— tance, Others Simply do Nov,” If Mr. Doane is paing to “continue to feel and ex- press himself in the voice of a Klein/Harris disciple, “then maybe he should con- ‘sider a geographical arran- gement more suited to his beliefs. Obviously he has the misguided feeling he has the right. to judge people _ without knowing the facts governing their cireum- stances Current or past. Without referring further to his nonsensical diatribe I would like to point out the difference between “welfare” and “swellfare”. Welfare. consists (along with other social pro- ' creased by grants, prams) of a national cost of aboul 4 per cent of the ‘GNP. Each person gets $500 per month ~ $325 for shelter-and $175 for food, hydro, gas, clothing and all other basic necessities. Those on swellfare (49 of the top 100 most profit- able corporalions including the five big banks) had their -profits further in- nat loans, from Human Re- sources Development Ca- Bear facts Dear Sir: Pity the “Spirit” and other bears living in the Fake Bear Rain Forest when today’s clear-cuts’ become forests whose trees smother the under- brush. What will they eat? We moved to Terrace in 1947. I believe we had been here a year or so be- fore we even heard of a Kermode bear. Then we “heard of someone who knew “prass along the road, sal-' mon spawning in the creek - someone who thought they had sighted ‘one somewhere. As log- ‘ ‘ging increased, so did the bear population. By 1970 -- even Kermodes were scen ~ frequently, : - Many of us remember Gimpy. That Kermode had it.all in a small territory: that runs into the river just below the road, and prob- ably treats from the fisher- ; men who fished there. No wonder he was there every year. - The grasses that spring up in clear-cuts (and road sides) are choice feed for, the bears in spring and early summer. In mid-sum- mer the bears usually move on to older clear-- cuts. where the berry “bushes-and young trees have replaced the grass — berry heaven for the bears. In the fall the move to the salmon streams to fill up on salmon. © If there is no logging it will. be more difficult for .. the bears to find grass. Try ‘-to fill a pail with blueber- “tles or huckleberries in a »"mature forest. As climate “ change, fishing and pollu- - tion take their toll on the salmon, what will the bears eat? a Don and Louise Parmenter, Rosswoad, B.C. nada. This is the insurance we pay into against unem- ployment and night trekk- ing due to homelessness in some cases. 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