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for the better are made down
-in - Victoria in the next six
d “months. a

'< years to:-bring about the

> humane. treatment™ ‘of the.
’ handicap
* ple in: ‘the f province and so far

a haven't ‘done. much ‘except ”
give: excuses and: ‘make up: °
“propangada:

achieved , isa | kind of New —
Age: Nirvana. ‘where | han-
-‘dicapped, people: get to live | .
-nowhere ‘for nothing while .-
, the OST. (Government Slave.

Tax): ‘urifolds éround, them.~

While ~
escalated in the past . few

‘has changed little.

average ©

~ Terrace area it only amounts

Given the fact that the en-
tire province of ‘B.C. pays
taxes, including handicapped
people themselves, it isn't

that:much of a leap of faith

to -realize. that it takes on
avarage. over 25 years for
_ every taxpayer in B.C. to pay
$i towards each handicapped

“T hope that: some: changes

‘The Socreds have had 16

ped/disabled peo-:

‘pagantla that B.C." is:ahead*” ’
-of other provinces.
_o Given the number of han-
; dicapped/disabled people in
. the’ province, the ‘avarage
. taxpayer presently pays
about $1 a_year toward all
the people who are handicap-

., What" the. “Socreds have

- B, C. “handicapped people
are fond of looking at. the
Conservative government's
model i in Alberta: where; they
receive substantially :* “more ’
money per month than they

-expenses have.
years”: “handicapped - iricome

I: was’ :recently - surprised :

“when T realized that if'only fet here,
. the: people of the District of - . Added to that is the. bonus
. Terrace ‘were paying the that handicapped people can

handicapped: ‘earn, money in addition to
. their benefits and not worry

person's welfare cheque in’
this community it would cost’. about MHR_ expropriating
. their income, Here in B.C.

each taxpayer: less than a:
handicapped people are

nickel per. handicapped _per-
son per month. For the entire. reel for showing any in-
itiative.

to ‘about 35 cents a year, If it. wasn’t for. Jerry

“person's monthly income in | .
spite * of: ‘government prov.

King’s Anti-Poverty Group ”
no one in Terrace would
know. what MSSH’s right
hand was: doing behind our:
backs. One can hardly blame
the people who work - for
MSSH who are required by:
legislation and ploicy to give

. mpooner tc neon & as little

ings pi Fare rah

“be* piven:a “separate category

. entirely. They -should be

removed from MSSH’s
welfare programs and ‘should
be given an entirely separate
guaranteed annual income at
a substantially increased rate”
with the added benefit of ear-
ning at least 100 percent of
their income before they are

penalized.
This means that handicap-.
ped people, as consumers

and taxpayers, would be put-

_ ting a lot-more money back
into. the economy (not to

mention the people who are

‘on welfare) and the synergy

for taxpayers would only be
about $2 per year for
everyone on handicapped
pensions. ;

Brian Gregg
Terrace, B.C. a

“| linéd “Rape victim wit
y. Fension”’ ;

“tober 30, 1991. ‘paper: héad

: Dear Sirs:

- the issue of Oct. 23 concern-
- ing the ‘Seven Sisters Ven-

: "fecouinted in--your articles.
“suggests ‘the : : possiblity. that.

- Sisters: may. be trying to ap.

Native trails claims.
tagged as “nonsense”

or. in part and dump Seven ~
Sisters. .-
"Tf this turn out to be the
"case, il is time to update that —

I read with interest and
amusement your ‘stories in

_ tures proposed trail develop- =" tongues.
ment and | the Gitwangak : . Having prospected in, the
folee z : tareatfram Berreen | to Ritctiie

for somgcyears, T hive & fair
» endulednn of the: trails in
_ that area and on across the
-.tange to the Kalum Lake
“prea. All the trails | know of

; The:s Sequence. ‘of events as.

two: of. the : ‘Gitksan chiefs, : *
having: ‘been™ ‘made privy to. °
the’ concept,'.and detailed. .
development. plans of Seven:

_spectors, trappers, mining

“companies and Mines
-Department. relief. projects
during the Depression,

- propriate the plans in whole Mr, Ryan is talking

“Yold saying about . ‘forked ;

-!were put in by settlers, pro-

nonsense when he claims the
Gitksan people built.-.these
trails. He: is. talking .more
nonsense when he says Seven
Sisters Ventures has claimed:
these trails as their own,

. certainly +e
Wns state aréd
nadie), part ef Git
q

land?“claim;
weaken the claim. He’ ‘thus
seems, more ‘likely: ‘to

sabotage his clients, the
than to-
sabotage the Seven Sisters.

Gitksan Eagles,

proposal.

Youre dineetaly -
HLY, Smith’

“so, hey

- Dear Sir: |

. have'a comment to make.

: geraited, First of all-the'price .
. ‘per-pound speaks: for itself. .

_ Aiyansh, It was the only day
18.8 so -called™-*"price war’?

_ All those mushrooms
‘don't mean big dollars

‘materialized. All other days
during a two month period,
the average price was $14/lb.
_ Taking the figures from
your article of 103,000 Ibs.
» Shipped by the local air car-
‘riers for:a 2 month period
multiplied by the average of
. $14/lb., you come up with
‘$2,884,000, up slightly ‘from
the 1990 statistic of $2.3
million.

Upon reading your Oct. 30
story about the riches made
from. pine. mushrooms, |

This: $20 million dollar:
estimate is ‘greatly “OXEB-

. For‘one day in September the.
price per pound: hit: $48 —

The so-called. profesional ;

: “BER THE CLOCK”

The TD Bank in Terrace
fa open Saturdays for
yar convenience.

" Our "Beat the Clock’ Bonus i gives you atound financial reason, to -
' make your 1991 TD RSP contribution sooner rather than | ater _"
_ from October. Lith through December 3st, 199). ie

ere’s haw i it works:

‘ 6 per 8,200 conta aor
transferred fram

‘When you make your 1991 TORS?” :
_ tp) -coriartbution ‘mansler your? October ithta =
Se RASP(o) from othér Anancial insted - October 3, 94.”
* dons toa TD Daily Interest Savings") * Sper 3.000 casa aor
to,
‘¢-RSP* or « TD Fixed Term Investment , eninitan ela mer lott
"> RSP foe any term of your choice from, $6 cer $1,000 bled
4 ane five ears 7D willed an. 86 per $1,000 contributed ondta
il oft December Sat PL,
: we Lael hig etrabtertd oot reed
bald asd '

who were out beating the
bushes every day.for two
months made $3°- 5,000
each, not the exaggerated
figure of $50 - 60,000. The
broker could ‘very well have
earned $16.5 million.

It makes me sick reading
such exaggerations,

Sincerely,
M. Bader, '
_ Terrace, B,C.

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