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Fage AYA - Terrace Standard, Wesstay, SNE 12 1991.

End to poverty po
by community activity,

TERRACE — A person who
works full time at the minimum
wage of $5 an hour can still live
$3,000 below the poverty line.

‘That’s one of the messages
Pam Fleming of the Vancouver-
based group End Legislated
Poverly (ELP) had for par-
ticipants in two workshops here
recently.

uWe're: trying - to get low-
income people and people who
work with low-income people to
get involved in the fight against
poverty,’’ she said.

Local issues the group
discussed included the forced
employment of single parents,
welfare and minimum wage
rates and school food pro-
grams,

The workshops also enabled
representatives. from several
local groups to form a loose
organization for introducing
new programs.

“Right now at the local level
it is a gesture with a design to
community awareness,’’ Ter-
race Anti-Poverty Group Socie-

said.

Pam Fieming
ty eo-ordinalor Gerald King

One of Fleming’s workshops
examined our society's system,
which she calls ‘“‘unpacking the
corporate agenda.” She said the
myth that blames the poor for

Poverty topic
this Saturday

“TERRACE — The first meeting

of what organizers hope will be ©

the start of an anti-poverty sup-
port group takes place this
Saturday,

It’s a two-hour workshop
beginning at 7 p.m. at the Ter-
Tace Women’ 5 Resource Centre

on Park Ave.
The meeting follows a visit

here recently by Pam Fleming -

from the Vancouver-based End
Legislated Poverty group.
She said community-based

groups are need to combat low

incomes and poverty.

a Council shorts

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‘TERRACE — The city wants a
little longer to decide what to do
with the tourism information
sign at the corner of Lakelse
‘and Kalum.

Having recently set up offices
in the one-time provincial police
building located at the intersec-
tion, the Ksan House Society
has asked the city to remove the
sign because it “detracts from
the character of the building.”

Before making a decision on
the request, council wants its
tourism committee to look into
the matter and come up with
possible alternatives.
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Council has granted a River-
boat Days society request to
close the 4700 black of Lazelle
to traffic from 9 a.m, to noon

on Saturday, Aug. 3 to marshal
floats for the annual event’s
parade.

Traffic will be banned from
Lakelse Ave. between Eby znd

their own condition is distup-
tive, and that it is corporations
with tax breaks who are. to
blame.

“The corporate ‘agenda is.
what. keeps. people poor: in |
. there's s enough native peopl in-”
-yolved, How are we going to get.
‘out ‘of a rut if, there’ 5 nobody
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Canada. We looked at theit and

saw who's the. real welfare -
bums. We saw’ that” it’s--the.

citizen who's being chiselled.’”

Fleming shows her workshop :

groups that they can find infor-
mation in newspapers, and that
thay don’t need degrees ” in
economics to get it.

“We've hopfully overcome

the apathy felt by many. of the |
{welfare recipients),’’ King said.

Aaron GreyCloud of. the Ker-
mode Friendship Centre attend-
ed the workshops and thinks
there is potential.to overcome
poverty in Terrace. He said he

realized that more |

‘native: “input”

’ The local group will receive -
guidance - from: ELP,: “which
wants the government toraise .
the: minimum. wage | to’ the.
equivalent Of the poverty line; :

- $7.50 an: hour this: year, end

forced employment of: single
parents (to receive welfare they
must seek work if their children
are older than: six-months), and
provide money for school funch
programs in low. income, com-
munities. :

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Akdermen -also agreed ‘to
close the 4600 block of Lakelse
the following day from noon to
4 p.m, for the sixth annual Sl-
ingers’ Race.

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The Terrace Inn’s men’s slow
pitch ball team has again been
given permission lo hold a beer
garden at Riverside park to
coincide with its annual Larry
Swanson Memorial ball tourna-
ment. The event takes place
Aug. 30 - Sept. 2.

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