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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.

The same swellfare-
fund paid down the deficit
and reduced employment
insurance eligibility from 8
oul of 10 in 1984 lo 4 out
of 10 currently.

Does job creation sound
credible to you as you wit-
ness mass lay-offs due to
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God forbid one of your children should end up having
a drug problem. Where will you be then? Are you going
to exile them to the far end of the city because of your
pride and greed?

‘I’know a lot of people with problems, drugs and
others. We all need a little help sometimes. So don't
look at it as hurting your neighbourhood, but helping a
community and maybe even saving a few lives.

Jennifer England,
Terrace, B.C.

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to further refine techno-
logy, thereby creating a
job deficit? Ironicaily,
they come out of the insur-
ance fund set up to protect

you against such things
Please, Mr. Doane, re-
consider your position in a
mare humane and compas-

sionate light.
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Skeena Advocacy for
Everyone,
Terrace, B.C.

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