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Announcing a contest
forlocal students |

To promote excellence in communications and to -
encourage critical thought among the voters and
leaders of tomorrow, the Terrace Review is proud to
sponsor an editorial art and essay contest for Terrace
Grade 11 and 12 students. . :

First prize will be $100 for the best editorial essay
and $100 for the best editorial art submission. Two
essays and two cartoons will also be awarded .
honorable mentions, receiving certificates atid one-year
subscriptions to the Review. All three top winners in
each category will have their submissions featured in
upcoming issues of the Terrace Review. —

Deadline for entries is October 8, 1988 at 5:00 p.m.
The submissions will be judged by a panel consisting
of Review editorial staff and a School Board represen-
tative (essay) or Terrace Art Association {art). Deci- -
sion of the judges will be final. No immediate family
members of the Terrace Review staff are eligible.

Submissions should be on a current events topic
(politics, ecology, human rights, tourism, trade, etc.)
with a focus on its relevance to Terrace. The editorial
essay should include a critical analysis of the problem
or situation and suggest possible solutions or options
for action. Essays must be a maximum length of 500
words; typed (double-spaced) and free of errors; con-
tain accurate references to research sources (interviews
and/or literature); and be the original work of the stu-
dent.

The editorial art submissions should be on white
paper, with a maximum size of six and a half by nine
inches, and should be the original work of the student.
Regular classroom assignments are acceptable for both
categories, as are team submissions, with a writer and

artist collaborating on one topic for both categories.

For more information, contact Char at 635-7840.

Back to classes

About 5,200 students in School District 88 returned
to classes yesterday, and at some point in the near .
future the Terrace District Teachers Association and
School District 88 board members return to the
negotiating table. No meetings are scheduled yet, but
we wish both parties productive bargaining and an
early solution. Whatever happens, it promises to be
yet another interesting school year in the Terrace area.

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_ Bert Hi cks. takes the | fa I Se

run by Socred supporter
Charlie Giordano, could be ap
proved to conduct
neighborhood pub referen-
dums. ‘“There won’t be any
problem with DMS going on
the list, will there?’’ are the
words Poole used. Poole says
- the call was in the nature of-an
inquiry and was not a direc-
tion. Hick felt it was an order.
Former attorney-general
Brian Smith agrees with Hick.
*‘} think it’s pretty apparent
that a phone cail like that
: would be threatening to some-
one in Bert Hick’s position,
for sure.’’. The Ombudsman —
concluded ‘‘that such a call —
does constitute inappropriate
political interference’.

by Victoria correspondent
Mark Collins

B.C. Ombudsman Stephen
Owen’s recommendations to
prevent a repeat of the Knight
Street Pub licensing fiasco

would create more of the red

tape that Bill Vander Zalm has
been fighting against.
David Poole, until August 22

when he cleaned out his desk,

was Vander Zalm’s model of
the ideal civil servant. When a
job needed to be done, he
leaped bureaucratic roadblocks
with a single bound. His title
was principal secretary and his
responsibilities included those
of a full deputy minister in the
Office of the Premier, with all
the other deputy ministers
reporting to him. He was also
the Premier’s chief political ad-
yisor responsible for dealing,
with Socred supporters.

Early in 1987 when Poole -
called Bert Hick, general
manager of the liquor control

and licensing branch, it was not

clear to Hick which hat Poole
was wearing. Hick had been in
the job less than two months

and Poole, also new in his job,

was still consolidating his
power as he presided over
weekly meetings of deputy
ministers. _
- Poole’s call was to see

- whether Delta Media Services,

Smith’s feelings about the
call are very strong. He
described it as one of the
straws which caused him to
resign from the Vander Zalm
cabinet. He took the informa-
tion to Vancouver regional
crown counsel Robert Wright -
and asked him to turn it over

‘to the RCMP. Smith won't say

what laws were broken by the
call, NDP justice critic Moe.
Sihota, however, said “‘the

-Poole-Hick conversation should

clearly be investigated and may
violate a number of sections of.
the criminal code, depending ~

_on what was said, and those

sections relate to influence ped-.
dling and breach of trust.”’
The Ombudsman’s solution

Over one thousand CASAW
members have cast their votes
regarding last week’s agreement
with Alcan. Ross Slezak of the

‘Canadian Alliance of Smelter

and Allied Workers said 75.7
percent of the 1,130 people who
turned out voted in favor of the
settlement. A two-year contract

. sees workers getting a $1,300

lump sum payment, 5.5 percent
increase in the first year and

another 95 cents an hour in the

guidelines, “Publicad-
ministrators must be protected . .
from undue influence or irrele-
vant influence on them. Public
administrators have very dif-
ficult jobs to do. They are

given policy to carry out and

they are often given a con-

siderable amount of discretion
in carrying that out. The public

‘ must know that when that

discretion is exercised, it is be-
ing done pursuant to clear
criteria which are open and
fairly applied,’’ Owen said.
That’s a nice concept but it

_ does not fit the free-wheeling

Vander Zalm style of govern-—
ment, The Premier’s decision

to split Poole’s old job into

two distinct halves is probably
as far as he'll go.

The big loser in this affair is
Hick, whose | 1-year career
with the B.C. government has
abruptly ended. He has not had
a high public profile, but many
people had a chance to meet -
the tall, 36-year-old bureaucrat.
when he travelled around the
province last year with the
Jansen public hearings on li-
quor policy. = .

Of the hundreds of wild let-
ters the liquor branch receives
each year, he is taking the rap

for failing to follow up on one

which complained about ir-
regularities several months after
the Knight Street Pub referen-
dum was completed. - oo

CASAW ratifies agreement |

second year. .
Slezak told the .Terrac
Review,““We’re a democratic
union and members had the op-
portunity to express their views.
Some thought there had not

‘been enough on the table, but

the membership was generally
satisfied.” .

The ratification concludes a