Dear Sir: Tread your edilorial (The Terrace Standard, ‘‘No sense’’, March 18) with a great measure of surprise. Certainly, if we bad received a contract to study uaem- ployment, [ would agree wholeheartedly with your cx- pressed opinions. However, that is not the case. ~ What we are doing is conducting a capacities assessment of the community, which focuses on finding the skills and capacities identifiable in the community, then promoting opportunities ‘for those capacities to be mobilized. The point is to think about potential, and the ways existing polential can be directed to available opportunities or to the creation of new opportunities. _. Sone of the possible results of this project could be self- employment, barter exchange, teaching of skills exchange, tool or resource exchange, employment network, referrals, the encouragement, promotion and support of individuals’ personal goals or a host of other opportunities for our com- munity. This technique has been well documented and devel- oped. It is suggested that communities cannot be rebuilt by focusing on their needs, problems, and deficiencies. Rath- ér, community building starts with the process of locating assets, skills, and capacities of residents, citizens, citizens’ associations, and local institutions. A fully mobilized com- munity is one in which all local capacities are being used toward community well-being. One person's Dear Sir: My problems started on Dec, 28, 1995 when my two sisters and my niece came to my apartment in Victoria. ’ They informed me that my oldest of two sons, Ellery Dale Wilson, had been brutally beaten and stabbed 10 death in Kitwanga. Ever’since then my life has been more of a blurry, twisted, ior apart twilight zone of an existence, truly not an enviable situation, My life has been a life of constant moving and more moving. One of the accused murderers went te court January 1997 and he will be cligible for parole this fall. The young offender was acquitted of any wrong doing this January. To mie that was the end of two years of broken hearted, tor- mented depression. This lasted even while I was in Smithers after the acquit- tal but as soon as [headed out of town a tremendous sense of relief flooded my soul and this has lasted until recently. My band paid my bus fare to Terrace on the recom- mendation of my doctor from Smithers and here I have been living at the emergency shelter. I have found an Important Notice To All People of Ditidaht (Nitinant) and Pacheedaht (Port Renfrew) Ancestry (Port Renfrew) Nations are in treaty negotiations. All persons of Ditidaht and Pacheedaht Ancestry are entitled to participate in and benefit from the Treaty. Anyone who is not:a Registered Member of Ditidaht or Pacheedaht but who may be eligible should immediately contact Shelley Edgar, Ditidaht Membership Administrator at (250) 745-3333, or toll-free at 1-800-745-3366 or Dorothy Jones, Pacheedaht Membership Coordinator, at (250) 647-5521, or toll-free at 1-888-647-5538. ' It's just aboul the best combination of savings you could ask for. And it comes al the best time of year. Not only do you get a great financing deal, but now Ride Free means you get the best deal, period. Right now, you can buy any 1998 new and unused Ski-Doo snowmobile in stock at the best deal. No, no kidding. But hurry. It ends at the end of April. SCHOO, titan & TERRACE EQUIPMENT SALES 4441 Lakelse Ave. Terrace Ph: 635-6384 © 1998 Bonihatdier Ine, All rgits reseed. *® Trademarks of Bombardier Inc. and/or afftiales. * Retail tngtaflment Sales other than revolving credit card programs are offered and available through Blomnbarciier Capital. 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Studics show this type of assessment as- sists in breaking the cycle of dependency an social agen- cies and shows that all people can be contributors to their communilies. I hope this helps to clarify the project. ’m sure you can see (hat this study is a progressive approach to building a strong, healthy community. It is not about ‘‘studying un- employment.”? Helga Kenny, Executive Director, Terrace Anti Poverty Group Society plea for help apartment bul | don’t have a single item of furniture or cookware or bedroom furniture. As far as T know is that when a person is sent from (he reserve for off-reserve medical treatment, they are well . taken care of and are even provided with an escort. They are put up at the finest of accommodations, meals paid for plus any other expenses. 1 really dou’t sce the dif- ference in my situation, Mp good feelings have gone and now I am back to., squire one in my depression and it makes me wonder why I should continue to fight this battle to survive when all my efforts and please for help seem to fall on deaf ears. T have never felt so helpless in all my life, [ am so tired of the futility of my existence, I have to be out of the emergency shelter and all 1 will have is my empty apartment to go to and will sleep on the bare floor. As it is I have lost all my optimism, I have tried asking everyone for help but to no avail and sadly to say I have lost all hope. Vernon Iaul Wilson, Terrace B.C, The Ditidaht (Nitinabey BAe Pacneecante foe a SAVES YOU °2,312® vs. the banks! *Savings based on comparison of the average car loan bank rate of 8.83% as of March 4/98. 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