Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 2, 1997 TERRACE STANDARD 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C, V8G 188 (604) 639-7283 Fax (604) 698-8432 ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 A Division of Cariboo Press (1969) Ltd. ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G 5R2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 EMAIL: standard@kermode.net intensive care THE APPOINTED keepers of Mills Memorial Hospital have been accused of basically being lapdogs of the provincial government. City councillors last week said the Community Health Council, because it’s appointed by Vic- toria and includes local New Democrats, can’t be trusted to vigorously defend the hospital. Calm down, the group says, suggesting they7ll accomplish more by quiet backroom lobbying than by going to war against Victoria. But the issue of democracy in health care is a legitimate one, And the suggestion that an ap- pointed council might water down its criticism of the government is surely a good argument for restoring democracy and holding elections to give the group legitimacy. The province’s aborted New Directions health - reforms had briefly created a northwest regional health board, whose elected representatives were to find efficiencies through the northwest so more would be done with health care dollars here. Many services could be delivered in the northwest, saving tremendous amounts of money now used to fly patients south aboard Lear jets. With that regional planning abandoned, there’s no clear indication of a new plan. Will Victoria . bureaucrats once again make all the decisions about regional health delivery? Or will the health - ministry simply continue to consider Vancouver to be the northwest’s regional health centre? Name game JUST CALL IT it the Great Bear Scam. Yes, we're talking about Greenpeace’s campaign to preserve as much of the coast as it possibly can from logging. «: wei Nien Before the summer. silly season: cranked the is- sue to a full boil, campaigners referred to the area as the ‘‘mid-coast’’. The same moniker was used in government land-use planning groups. Unfortunately, ‘‘mid-coast’’ wasn’t a particu- larly sexy term, evoking a logger’s waistline bet- ter than pristine rainforests. It clearly was not ex- citing enough to mobilize mass protests. So Greenpeace veterans concocted a dramatic new label: ‘*The Great Bear Rainforest’. There’s no particular reason to cal] it that. Bears are found all over B.C, including downtown Terrace. But it was reminiscent of other big environmental battles, like the Great Whale hydroelectric project in northern Quebec. Aside from the name game, it must be noted that this group does not respect due process. Otherwise it would participate in and respect government-run processes that decide what areas should be logged or preserved. Greenpeace has not once lodged a complaint about logging to the Forest Practices Board, a body in charge of investigating alleged violations of the Forest Practices Code. By refusing to respect the institutions of the province, and by violating court injunctions, the organization shows no interest in the rule of law. 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Authorized a5 s¢cond-tlass matt pending tha Post Offica Department, for payment of postage In cash. Special | thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents - PRIG FISH EAT SMALL FISH... “TLIKE TAT! Thumbs up to timber accord VICTORIA. — What, my more than comfortable businessman friend asked me, did [ think of Premier Glen Clark’s Jobs and Timber Ac- cord? I said I liked it. Wouldn’t it be far better if government stopped meddling in the economy, got out of the way and let business look after things? I said no, explaining as gent- ly as I could, without hurting his sensitive capitalist Feelings, that he had better get one thing straight: close to 95 per cent of the trees in this province belong not to the multinational forest companies, but to me, him and every other British Columbian. I also explained, again very gently, that the forest industry ~, had-done:a, bloody lousy job in the past of making sure (hat fu- ture generations would have enough trees left to cut. In fair- ness, ] added that 100 or even 20 years ago, we didn’t know . what we know today, and that the industry, by and large, has been willing to change its ways. The Jobs and Timber Accord is a remarkable achievement, It is Clark’s first successful at- tempt to make his mark. If suc- , cessful, and [ believe it will be, the accord will make up for his administration’s budget bun- gling. FROM THE CAPITAL HUBERT BEYER The accord is to create al- most 40,000 forest industry jobs over the next four years, The $1.5 billion seed money for the program will come from Forest Renewal B.C, funds which,..in tum, come from the industry itself. - The nearly 40,000 jobs- _ 22,400 direct aud 17,400 in- direct — are to be created by intensified tree culting, where possible, more forest restora- tion, stepped-up silviculture, aud requiring existing employ- ees to work shorter weeks, without overtime. To make sure nobody loses out, the government will provide $20 million a year to top up workers’ paycheques, The accord also involves a boost to secondary industry. Manufacturers of things such as furniture, doors and :+ Climate; but y thon: EE: passib ; own devices, the forest indus- windows will get up to 18 per cent of ‘the province’s sawed lumber. That alone is expected to create more than 6,500 new jobs. To ensure that the industry plays ball, there’s a built-in slick-and-carrot provision. Companies that live up to the spirit of the accord and create more jobs will get preferential access to timber, Those who don’t could see their cutting Tights curtailed. The idea to tie timber access ~ to job creation came out if a Simple statistic, according to which every other North American jurisdiction records more jobs than British Colum- bia per cubic-metre of timber cut The reasons are many-fold, including difficult terrain and try would gladly harvest our trees without having to pay a Single . employee. Machines don’t get sick, they don’t want paycheques, they don’t need pension plans. Now, my friend, the Fraser Institute apostle, may not like the accord, but here’s what some of the iudustry people had to say: *‘British Columbians as land- lords of the forest resource have good reason to expect a lot from the forest industry.” - Jake Kerr, Lignuim Lid. Ike Barber, president of Slocan Forest Products, said he had made a career out of ‘“‘unemploying people,’’ but would now try to save as many jobs as he can. Among the few who aren’t happy with the Jobs and Tim- ber Accord are the militant en- vironmentalists, who have Stepped up their demands for protected areas to more than 40 per cent of the province's land. - base. , Well, I suppose some people like the idea of shutting down the forest industry and turning chain saws into good-luck charms, Pol Pot thought it was a dandy idea to turn Cambodia - into au agricultural society, He failed, but uot before the coun- SS, try’s flourishing: economy..was"._- “devastated anda few millioti* people had starved to death. Mike Harcourt’s achieve-. ment was to bring relative. - peace to the woods. The next couple of years will show: whether Glen Clark’s plan- works, If it does, he will have brought securily to the people who work in the forest and stability to the ‘communities that depend on forestry. Not a bad legacy either. Beyer can be reached at Tel: : 920-9300; Fax: 385-6783; E-- Mail: inebert@coalcorn.com Parting brings back memories SATURDAY our granddaughter moved out. When her mother came to take her home after a two-hour visit, she packed not only four Orco’s to share with her sister — a routine step in leave- taking — but also the fast two of four jigsaw puzzles she and her sister had kept here since Christmas. 1 wasn’t expecting my stomach to lurch so. As I held the plastic bag open for her to fit in the puzzles, I felt as I did baby . ten years earlier watching a daughler pack for college, Ever since her older sister ar- rived with a rattle and a bottle of formula, we've kept a col- lection of toys and craft materials in a big cardboard box. Over the past five years ‘the toys have gradually rotated fram squishy noisemakers to blocks to dishes to puzzle books. A few special items stayed on my kitchen library shelves: a baking powder can stuffed AGHA! T HATE THIS] On CRUP! A HUSKY NEEDS RED MEAT LiKE A WOLF! THROUGH: BIFOCALS | CLAUDETTE SANDECKI ° with fell tip markers, a folded checkerboard and beside it the plastic checkers in a hair gel jar, and since Christmas, a stack of four jigsaw puzzles, From time to time she’d take home a toy she’d been playing with, a doll, of a mirror, or a miniature truck. The jigsaw puzzles always. ended back in their proper box, piled on one end of the bookshelf, A MOOSE DOWN 7 YEAH? How’ wu LiKE A Kicie IN THE HEAD OR GUT EVERY TIME You BROUGHT . The puzzles were more than a pastime. The 48-piece puzzes taught her to build a frame first, then fill in the centre, By writing one letter on the back of each border piece, in alphabetical order, she was able to do a puzzle by herself, from first piece to last. Accomplishing this task, eventually wilh case and:. speed, boosted her — self- confidence and ability to rea- son, desirable traits for a child facing school, ’ Then last Thursday, with her mother, my baby grand- daughter altended an intro- ductory session of morning kindergarten. Before noon she burst in waving a giant pink polka- dotied butterfly and a broad headband wilh her name in, bold ball-point flanked by an array Of stickers, She told of making a new friend, sharing a tea party with her, and playing together in the classroom playhouse. Moin 9 SYAGE FOUR “Ty m MANY WOLVES Have ¥ S HADA BROKEN} i JAW, BROKEN TEETH AND Broken &168!! ’ Re AY ew WELL, WELL , Suey OLIVER Twist! ITHOUGHT You HATED THIS stuce | reported the leacher declared her four-year-old baby. ready for kindergarten. Naturally. Hadn’l we all done our best to ready her? I'd sat for hours coaching her: in tower building, sung Christ- _ mas carols at the piano, beld her hand as she climbed the tot lot ramp. I’d read mountains of library books, baked trays of. ° her cookies, spelled wards for her to print, cut out shapes for” her to collage, recounted. “olden day’’ stories of -my childhood growing up. on a farm, \ She was weil prepared. I - wasn’t. I shall miss her bouquets of purple clover picked ‘on. het walk here with Mom for mid- morning coffce; looking” after’ her while Mom. volunteers: in her sister’s ‘classroom; having her crayon beside my sewing machine as I welt cushions. Those jigsaws might as well have been a diploma, they left such a gap in my life, (FIT SHOT UP AND ' GWE ME MORE.