The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 4, 1994 - A3

u . Have house, will travel
NOPE. THAT wasn’t your imagination paying tricks on you

early Sunday morning. That was indeed a house making its
way into town on Hwy16. The Frank heritage home was being

moved from its former location beside Skeena Sawmills to
Lakelse Ave where, after being fixed up, it'll become the new
home of Darlene’s Country Antiques.

Life chain ready again

EXPECT A row of people lining
the highway in the area of the
new Skeena bridge Mother’s Day
afternoon.

Holding signs, theyll be taking
part in the 4th annual Life Chain
sponsored by the Terrace Pro-
Life Educational Association.

This year’s life chain has partic-
ular significance because it falls
within days of the 25th anniver-
sary of abortion being removed
from the criminal code, chain
organizer Isobel Brophy said last
week.

“That opened the floodgates. In
1969: there was one abortion for
every 60 pregnancies. Now Stats

Canada says there’s one abortion
for every 50,’ said Brophy.

She estimated the number of
abortions at 1.5 million over the
pasl 25 years.

“Now there’s a demographic
problem. Right now we could
have used those people,”’ Brophy
continued,

As well, the medical effects of
abortion on women have sig-
hificantly increased the rate of
breast cancer, Brophy added.

“For a woman who carries a
pregnancy to term, the chances of
gelting breast cancer are cut in
half. If a woman has an abortion,
the chances of getting breast can-

cer are almost doubled,’’ she
Said.

“We know that one woman in
10 will naturally develop breast
cancer and of those, 25 per cent
will die.”

“So for a 15 year old Canadian
girl, there is a 10 per cent chance
of getting breast cancer. .If that
girl gets pregnant and carries to
term, the risk is cut to 7.5 per
cent. IF the girl has an abortion,
the risk rises to 15 per cent,’
Brophy said.

Those kinds of statistics put
pro-choice movements in a tough
position because they: call for in-
creased research into breast can-

cer on the one hand and un-
restricted access to abortion on
the other, Brophy said.

“Abortion is the cancer of the
woman’s movement,”’ she said.

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The Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre has come up
with its awn idea to raise money
from the pro-life Life Chain.

It’s looking for pledges based
on the number of people who take
part in the chain.

The mozey will be used for var-
ious women's centre activities re-
lated to abortion, said spokesman
Caral Sabo.

Last year’s Shrink-A-Link-A-
Thon raised about $350, she said.

News In Brief

Alcan cuts work force

FOR THE second time in a year, Alcan is offering early
retirement packages as a way to reduce its workforce and cut
costs at its Kitimat smelter.

The package is available io 48 hourly-paid workers, 31 of
whom are up for early retirement as of Sept. 1. The remaining
17 are eligible between Oct. 1 and May 1 of next year. Last
year, 60 Alcan workers took early retirement out of 80 that
were eligible,

Alcan took another step to cut costs earlier this year by clos-
ing down a potline and shifting 40 workers to other positions.

There are now 1,775 workers at Kemano and at Kitimat, a
drop from the 2,100 on the payroll three years ago and the
2,400 that were on the books in 1980.

Weather watch

FOR THOSE gelting ready for another gardening season, En-
vironment Canada has a couple of interesting statistics from
its Terrace-Kitimal weather office files.

The earliest last frost of the spring came on April 10, 1990.
And the latest last spring frost occurred May 31, 1964.

Things are a bit different in the Smithers area when the air-
port weather office there recorded a earliest last spring frost
date of May 11, 1983. The latest last spring frost occurred
July 11, 1970,

Name gathering cancelled

THE PROVINCIAL government says it'll save $8 million by
cancelling a planned enumeration of voters this month.

Enumeratars were to have gone door-to-door but provincial
elections officials say that melhod isn’t as sound as it once
was.

The province now has a computerized voters list that can be
updated continuously by people sending in change of address
cards.

Provincial officials. also noted that municipalities and
regional districts used the provincial voters list during their
elections last fall. In doing so, they were able to update the
voters list.

Riders face ticket, fine

HORSE RIDERS iake note: it’s illegal to bring the animals
across the Old Bridge and by-law enforcement officer Frank
Bowsher will be ticketing those who ignore the by-law.

“T’ve been receiving just too many complaints,’’ Bowsher
said last week, adding the Old Bridge ban was put in place for
safety reasons. He reminded horse owners the by-law
prohibits riders in the area from the Old Bridge west to Mun-
roe St. and from Davis Ave. south to Greig Ave.

He also noted that adults as well as young riders are at fault.

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