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CITY , COUNCIL’S - spending cuts campaign. -
continues with an evil eye being turned to the _
touchy issue of property tax exemptions and
grants to non-profit organizations. Terrace Little -
Theatre seemed to escape this year after council -

put a scare ‘into its long standing tax exemption.
status.) ~ : 7

But councillors have put community groups on -
notice’ that exemptions and grants are going to be

harder to get from now on. 7

It’s not that:council wants a penny by penny ac-
counting. but. it does want to know how each
group benefits the community and the state of
each group’s financial condition. .

These ‘are not unreasonable requests. Grants to
non-profit . organizations total ' approximately

$190,000 this year — about what 95 homes pay

in property tax. Even the most generous-minded
taxpayer deserves to know how that money is
being spent. a .
The tricky part.for council will come when it
has to decide: who gets what and why, particular-
ly when it comes to groups who have been get-
ting benefits for.a long period of time. Once
something is granted, it becomes tougher to cut
back or to takeaway. et
Council might. be wise in working now to estab-
lish a formula that’!] be fair for all concerned.
Not everybody might like what might happen but
spreading the financial pain equally will remove
council from any hint of favourtism or bias.

two of the city’s newest murals. ©

That the damage took place to'‘murals contain-
ing native art is just as disturbing as the act itself.
In some quarters it might be called racist. Indeed,
there may been more than a few comments
around town that perhaps the native art is just —
well, you know, a bit too much. Despite these
comments being plain silly as opposed to being
racist, consider that native art makes up three of
the eight-or so murals in the city. Now consider
that natives make up at least one-third of the
city’s population, Seems about even to us.

Since the reports of the vandalism to the two
murals, we've received a short note: about the
recent spray-painted offerings on the back of the
liquor store. One phrase — ‘‘First Nations Rise
Up”? — caught the attention of the note’s author.
*‘Let’s get: real and fair,’ says the note. ‘‘Full
coverage for all. Freedom for all.’? ‘You bet. No-.
body said:vandalism is confined to any particular

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VICTORIA — Having left
some of my hard-earned dol-
lars in Mexico not too long
ago, I decided it was time to be
a tourist in my own province.
The other reason for embark-
ing on an extensive tour of
British Columbia was to show

off God’s own country to a.
dear friend who had come to.

visit us from Germany, Gerd

and I have been close friends |
since we were in our late teens. °

Every winter we used to go-
on skiing trips to Bavaria,

Austria or Switzerland. We
would go on weekend jaunis to
Amsterdam, the Black Forest
or whatever destination we'd
come up with on the spur of
the momeut.

“os. » On-weekends, we'd paint our

‘home town, Duesseldorf, red,
go on pub crawls that would
surely kill me today, and gen-
erally did what one does when
_ one is. young. OF all the friend-
ships of long ago, his is the

- only one I’ve kept in my
adulthood. . oe
7" -Gerd and his wife, Gisela, ar-
a re ene oh gived on a Wednesday, and the
Y: circumstances vandalism is’ dis-":’
2m more so when damage occurs ~

' following Sunday, my wife,
our friends and 1 took the 7
am, ferry. for Vancouver. An
hour-and-a-half out: of Van-
couver, we reached Hope and
pushed on to Princeton. -

HUBERT BEYER

FROM. THE-CAPITAL -

T have driven both the Co-
quiballa and the Trans-Canada
numerous times, but I prefer
the Hope-Princeton Highway,
not just for its scenic beauty
and the more relaxed driving it
affords, but for the simple rea-
son that you get the best ham-
burger this side of anywhere in
Princeton. ;

Try it, next time you get to
Princeton. The place is a little
joint called Frosty’s, and’ the
double burger with cheese,
mushrooms, lettuce, tomato,

mustard and relish beats any »

other burger creation six ways
‘to breakfast. It’s right by the
highway as you enter Prin-
ceton. You can’t miss it..

By four in the afternoon, we
drove into Osoyoos, Finding a

room was next to impossible.
After trying about a ‘dozen
motels, we finally got a room.
It wasn’t the Hilton, but what
the hell, After we bought a can
of Raid and got rid of the zil-
lions of flies in the room, it
was O.K,

Nexi, 1 phoned tourism min-
ister Bill Barlee, who lives in

| Osayoos. I thought I’¢ con-

gratulate him on a job so well
done that.I ended up getting
the only room Ieft in bis home
town. I also thought he’d be a
good touch to buy me a beer
that night, but he was out.

This time of year; the
Okanagan is at its most beauti-
ful. The days are long and hot,
even though I had’ apparently
picked the. first two days. of
rain in two thousarid years. Or-
‘chards liné eVery ‘road, atid the
trees are heavy with fruit. |

Fruit. stands, offering the
juiciest and sweetest peaches
and apricots you’ve ever eaten,
are everywhere. Se

The beaches along Okanagan
Lake are crowded with sun
worshippers, house boats
cruise the lake leisurely, camp
grounds are. full, and
restaurants do a roaring busi-
ness.

What impressed our friends
first off was the wide open

spaces, It is almost inconcéiv-_
able for Europeans to travel for '

miles and miles without seeing’

a human settlement, In a coun-
try where jams on’ - the
Autobahn can back up traffic
for a hundred kilometres, driv-
ing a major road without pass-
ing thousands of cars an hour
is hard to believe. ,
They also commented on the
friendly service in restaurants. _
Getting free coffee refills was
somewhat of a shack for them, |
Back homeé, a small pot of cof-
fee, containing about a cup and
a half, will. cost them any-
where from $4 ta $6. No
refills.

And while ‘Germany offers —

some. very beautiful scenery, it
has nothing that would pass for

wilderness. _No- matter. how | -

beautiful..a- valley,, there are

half a dozen towns in it 7

Solitude is hard to find.
You've got to have experi-
‘enced the crowded conditions

“o£ “Europe, where’ millions’ -

compete for what is left of na-
ture, to.appreciate the. wonder:

‘of.driving through Manning: —

Park withoui encountering. a:
single human abode.
From Kelowna, we'll bead
toward the Kootenays with
their’ awesome ‘beauty and
grandeur. Stay tuned

Enoug

“THE NICE thing about
egotists ts that they don’t tatk
about other people.’’ Lucille
S. Harper.

Recently Wancouver stock
promoter Murray Pezim reap-
peared. in the limelight,
recovered from a serious ill-

ness, As usual whenever his -

name comes up in a TV news
item, it was preceded by the
word ‘flamboyant,’

- Mamboyant Murtay Pezim.
‘Is. ‘flamboyant’ inked in on his
birth. certificate, inscribed cal-
ligraphically. on his’ baptism
record, printed in gold black
letters on his high school dip-
lotna?

Imagine the announcement
of his birth in a Toronto paper
74 years ago: ‘Izzy and
Rebecca Pezim proudly an-
nounce the birth of their son,
Flamboyant Murray’. Pezim,
December 29, 1921.”’

In fact, Murray Pezim has no
second mame,

_ His media initials read like a

h with the name stuff _

THROUGH BIFOCALS:

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI:

MARTEN 1S GUIDING

brand of fine-ground coffee
sold in vacuum-packed green
tins.

Which of his personal
achievements swayed the
media into- tagging him
‘flamboyant’? His financial
empire? His three marriages
including one with 400 guests,
a helicopter, and a yacht? His
oh-so-public marital breakups?
Or his in-your-face dalliances

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with women one-third his age?
Webster defines flamboyant

-as ‘‘marked by or given to

strikingly claborate, ornate, or
colourtul display. or — be-
haviour.” Which ‘is’ true in
Pezim’s case. To John Lea,
American journalist writing on
journalese, flamboyant: means
‘kinky’ or ‘a person who does
not have all of his or her
paddies in the water.’

When I hear flamboyant. I
picture Pezim decked out in
shirts batik-dyed in Day-Glo
ted and purple, shimmering
like -a gossamer butterfly in a
Caribbean parade,

‘ Pezim failed to impress pub-
lisher Mel Hurtig. Hurtig teft
Pezim out of his Canadian En-

cyclopedla,
Mickey Rooney wed seven
(eight?) times. in highly

publicized extravaganzus ycl
ho reporter referred to him: as.
Marriage-Mad ~ Mickey

Rooney,

As to amusing one’s self in

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the company of young women,
Hugh Hefner’s record is hard
to beat: Yet the media never
dubbed Hefner with a single
nickname as though it were
part of his registered driver’s
licence, Se
And Jimmy Pattison, who

_ Fivals’ or even. outstrips Pezim’

financially, nevér finds his’
name preceded by a subjective
adjective signifying little. He’s
called a millionaire or an entre-
preneur, terms quantifiable by —-
an accountant and a balance -.
sheet. . ;
With the instant celebrity of

Dick Assman as a result of a)

couple meations by David Let- -
terman, | think media need. to

curb their name-calling in case”

it proves to be a chicken-cr-
the-egg thing,

We already have Tough’

Talking Brian. Tobin, -Dis-

appointing Steve Fonyo, and.” -
‘Heartbreaking Leonard Cohen.

Enough already. :

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