4 Terrace Review — Weinesiay, June 15, 1988 ning of an era and the end of an encouraging" demonstration thats shows what a large and ‘determin-_ tion of a common cause. The number of people and organizations involved in the realization of the bandshell are so:numerous and’. d complex that documentation — its history so lengthy-a count). The venture’s success runs, somehow contrary. rig “ but that is not justificati which was dumped from the original Ex ‘plans, now stands whole and: complete, whi atic. center, more tha pansion. of the aqx approval, barely exists on paper... . “"P.A.S.S. deserves more than pas: | effort — a gold star would be more in order; The Terrace Duplicate Sridge Club meets every Wednes- day at 7:15 p.m. at Caledonia Senior Secondary in the cafeteria. Anyone interested in playing please contact Ellen Smith at 635-4096 or May McFarland at 635-2875. Everyone welcome. One Parent Familles meet the second Wednesday of. every month at the Terrace Public Library. Skeena Valley Rebekah Lodge holds regular meetings every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 8 p.m. in the Oddfellow’s Hall, 3222 Munroe, Terrace. For more information call 635-2470. Star performance _ The opening this Sunday of the performing arts: shell in George Little Memorial Park marks the begin ed group of local citizenry can do under the mobiliza- of it could fill an archive (see.page 19 for a brief.ac-. jes an interesting reflection that the bandshell, - passing marks for this" ere Terrace Review @» ee All material appearing in the Terrace Review is Established May 1, 1985 The Terrace Review Is published protected under Canadian copyright Registra- jlon No, 362775 and cannot legally be repro- each Wednesday by Close-Up Business Services Ltd. duced iter any reason without permission of the publisher. Publisher: and omissions. 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Phone: 635-7840. boa Arlene Gaspar Office: Carrie Olson — ae Accounting One yer eubernuan Marj Twyford Out of Canada $50.00 ; Seniors in Terrace and District $12.00 = Second-clage ma _ Seniors out of Tarrace.and District $15.00 "registration No. . — eames _ Letters to the editor will be considered for publication only when signed. Please Include your telephone number. The editor reserves the right to condense and edit letters. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Terrace Review. Rn by Victoria correspondent Mark Collins Judge Thomas Fisher did a good job of meeting his terms of reference with the new electoral boundaries he drew for the pro- vince, but too much emphasis was placed on fixing non- existent problems. Elimination of dual-member ridings was his first order of business. Premier Vander Zalm doesn’t like them, so the Fisher Royal Commission on Electoral Boundaries was given the task of splitting them up. When that proved to be too restrictive, the terms of reference were changed to include all the electoral boun- daries. What emerged in the prelim- inary report released May 27 was a recommendation that we elect ~7§5:MLAs to the B.C. Legislature instead of 69. We are already " -spending $6.8 million each year to pay MLAs and their consti- tuency staff, so implementing that recommendation would add another half a million dollars to our taxes. Modifications to the Legis- lative Chamber itself would take more money. When 12 MLAs were added before the 1986 general election, the government spent $48,000 to move wiring and to move the elaborately carved, false wall behind the Speaker's chair back three feet. The beautifully carved wooden desks are now jammed tightly together so any further expan- sion would require major struc- tural changes to the building’or a whole new set of narrower desks. Those desks cost $2,150 each and the chairs $2,500 each. It makes no sense to spend this money when the current number of MLAs seem to be working well, Dual-member ridings are another situation that has been ~ incorrectly perceived as a prob- lem. Rather than adjusting boundaries on a regular basis, if the. population of an area gets too large for one MLA to hand- le, we simply elect two MLAs from that area. Voters have almost always elected two MLAs from the same party and: they seem to be able to cooperate to serve their constituents. The Kelowna split seems fairly sensible compared to some of the others but neither of the two Okanagan South MLAs like the idea. The Penticton split draws a line down Main Street and puts the west half of the city in the same riding as Westbank, the Kelowna suburb 60 kilometers to the north. Similarly on Van- couver Island, the northern part of Nanaimo has been split away from the rest of the city and placed in a riding with Parks- ville, Qualicum Beach, and other communities as far north as Fanny Bay. It is difficult to tell who would benefit from these boundaries but it is easy to pick the losers, northern British Columbians. The six additional seats have all mars Boundary Commission ideas in Ter raoranee, WOUId Create a few problems been added to the southern part of the province to reduce the dif- ferences in population between northern and southern ridings. Fisher has adopted the popula- tion standard of plus or minus 25 percent which is used by the Federal Government and the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New- foundland. . Dividing B.C.’s population by 69 MLAs, there should ideally be 41,873 people in each consti- tuency. In fact, there are §,511 in the Atlin constituency and 68,347 in Surrey-Newton. Fish- er’s plan would include Prince . Rupert with much of Atlin to create a riding called North Coast-Stikine with 29,606 peo- ple. Burnaby-Willingdon would have the largest population with 44,825. _ Fisher has given the popula- tion equality argument too much weight. Rural.area MLAs spend their time on agriculture, | forestry, wildlife and highways problems in addition to all the social questions handled by the urban MLAs. . Vancouver-Point Grey MLAs Kim Campbell and Darlene Marzari told the commission their duties are no less demand- ing than those. of northern MLAs. They said their consti- tuents expect them to be avail- able in Vancouver at any time because it is so. close to Victoria. That may be so but the high expectations of their big-city constituents is no reason to give them better service than people outside Greater Vancouver can receive, The existing boundaries are far from perfect but they are — better than this Royal Commis- sion has proposed. ; always on. The Terrace Women’s Resource Centre hours are Tues- day 1 to 4 p.m., Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9 a.mn. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays. The coffee is