’ Page AB — lerrace standard, wednesday, february ¢, 1990 (LETTERS, TO THE TERRACE STANDARD Has trouble believing video store charges Dear Sir: Regarding the article ‘Video Stop charged’, Jan, 31, [can’t believe it! I really can’t believe the RCMP have nothing better to do than to harass this man over five video tapes. Why don’t they stay busy with the vandalism and thefts in Terrace or all the drinking and driving that goes on. Fd like to find out who the customer was who complain- ed. I'd give them a piece of my mind. I bet they’ve been benefitting from Video Stop’s services for years! Mr. Wold and his staff are the friendliest, most helpful people running a video place here, not like some other video rental places in Ter- Tace. His store provides an essential source of entertain- ment, at affordable prices, especially when there's not much to do in Terrace! Stay with it Video Stop. All your customers are behind you! Christine Inkster Terrace, B.C. HEAVY SNOWS of late showed ri no. favours, ‘That was fine for Calgary businessman’ Glenn Wright who is used to lots of the white stuff and to the colder ‘temperatures: It’s better here In the summer, Glenn, honestly, B.C. Hydro rates an insult Dear Sir: 1 recently received my rate increase notice from B.C. Hydro. Needless to say I wasn’t pleased, but con- sidered it a part of the trend of things happening. I was prepared to shoulder this in- . crease and carry on. It wasn't until I happened across an article in the **Heavy Construction’’ magazine and also in a mon- thly publication of the Sup- ply Post” that my attitude toward these increases changed drastically. In these articles I find out that B.C. Hydro and Howe Sound Pulp & Paper have formed an alliance of sorts. Howe Sound Pulp & Paper has undertaken a project to build an electrical generating plant, and the source of energy would be old sawdust and hogfuel, When the plant is completed, B.C. Hydro would buy any excess elec- tricity generated. They try to pass this off as being good for the environ- ment, B.C. Hydro, and Howe Sound Pulp & Paper. Everybody benefits, or do they? For Howe Sound P & P to finance this little business venture, B.C. Hydro in part’ has loaned Howe Sound P & P an interest free loan of $108 million, I am not aware of the pay back scheme. Since: when has. B.C. Hydro become a financial in- stitution? It is through our tate increases that we are "paying for that interest free They aren't anarchists Dear Sir: The people that you see around .the Co-op on weekends handing out infor- - mation are not anarchists do- ing their dirty deed. They are dedicated, ordinary workers carrying out decisions that are unanimously decided by all delegates to the Kitimat- Terrace & District Labour Council in the hope that the Co-op board of directors will see the light. This appears to be unlikely considering that represen- tatives from the labour coun- cil met with the board of directors in mid-December in | an effort to reach a solution: the labour council was turn- ed down. . We asked for the follow- ing: 1. That the Co-op board and management would not interfere in efforts by council - affiliates to organize Ker- modei’s workers. ~ 2. That the Co-op board would not interfere with council's efforts should an attempt to organize Co-op workers and staff be under- taken, We were simply asking the board on these two issues to abide by the law. 3. That the board would,’ as they have prior to this job, use building trades members on future renovations. We acknowledged to them that this board could not commit future boards and consider- ing that major renovations would not take place for * many years to come, we did not consider this an outrageous suggestion. The board turned down all three. _ Tequests, - leaving us with | ‘no: alternative . ‘other than to continue with our campaign, That the board would not accept a proposal, which for all intents and purposes was a face-saving device for all concerned, boggles the mind. We hope that it is a ques- tion of the board disliking unions so much that they would not agree to anything, rather than them not caring for the future of an organiza- tion that has put trust in their judgement and common sense, Sincerely yours, John Jensen, 1st Vice President, ' Kitimat-Terrace District Labour Council Student doubts worth of northern university TERRACE — Students here would be better off without a & northern university, according to a representative of Northwest Community College's (NWCC) student association. NWCC student Allan Bail- inger said Thursday the newly announced university to be bas- ed in Prince George is too far away, and there would be little reason for northwest students to go there. “There’s no reputation or alumni built up,” he said. “I just don’t see any incentive for us to go’ to Prince George in- stead of down south.” Besides not providing a reasonable alternative, he said the proposed northern universi- ty would penalize northwestern students. . Ballinger . predicted the university would mean NWCC campuses would drop their second-year university-transfer courses, Which would instead be Allan Ballinger centralized in Prince George. “Otherwise those courses would be in competition with the university,"' he said. | And barring massive in- creases in the advanced educa- © tion ministry’s budget, he sald, COLD BEER =n rar STORE ' Monday to Friday 10 am. tof4 p.m... the northern university will pro- bably draw money away from existing community colleges and B.C.’s three established univer- sities, “Tf they’re not going to in- crease the size of the pie, there’s no sense splitting it up four ways,” he said. Apart from lower rent, he said the only thing a university based in Prince George might be able to do to attract northwest students is offer lower tuition © fees. “And I don't know if that’s possible,”* “The university of the north was a good idea,” he said, “but it's- flawed, because the com- munity . colleges will suffer. Right now, it looks like a white elephant in the bush,’’ “He said the money earmarked - for the university should instead -f --be spent creating outreach pro- -#. grams at northern college: cam- puses directed by the province’s existing universities. Saturday Pam. to 11 pm. loan among other things as I see it, In my way of thinking, Howe Sound P & P should have sought regular financ- ing at a bank at regular in- , terest rates for its business ventures like the general public would have. to.: Or, B.C, Hydro should make available to the general public those same type of in- . -terest free loans for building electrical generating plants. This flagarant abuse of the general public and the depth of their pockets has got to stop! The fact that the rates were increased to force us to use less and at the same time electricity is being sold to the heavy an insult! Enough is enough! 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