_ The provincial government

_ - will introduce its budget for
_ for the coming year tomorrow.
| . What areas would you like ~
--"- t0 see emphasized? —

Ben Fabor

(contractor)
There’s a lot more
could be done’ in
reforestation
upgrading the roads. We
. Should get a better tax

_teturn from the provincial

. government. lt seams to

me we only get five cents :
on the dollar... they don’t

Spend very much money
| Up here. They should also.
‘rethink thelr scheduling
of construction projects
up here. They have their
budget In March and then
plan their projects and by
the time we get a chance
to bid on them it’s fall and
we have to build them in
the winter. That's’ okay
down south but not here.

. Something with the ap-
and

_ to see the government put

Mike Brady
_ (plumbing contractor)
I'd like to see them do

prenticeship program.
They haven’t- done
anything with that for
years. The big. companies
aren’t training” appren: °
tlees and small com-:
panies can’t afford ‘to.
There’s not one appren-
tice that | know of In-the
Terrace construction in-
dustry today. | would Ike

some money Into the ap-
prenticeship program so .
contractors can afford to
hire apprentices,

Lou Gair
(retired Columbia
Cellulose supervisor)

‘They haven't done
anything for the Senior
Citizens up here yet so
that should be one of their
priorities. We were trying
to get a grant for the
Seniors project. and we
haven't heard anything at
_ all.so we've had to go

ahead on our own.

much to start with.

Stefan Maroszok
(retired)

| don't really think
about It.'l’'m retired so |
don’t get any benefit
anyway. You work for so
many years for your pen-
Slon and then they cut you
down as If you didn’t exist
anymore. You still have to
pay taxes and the govern-
ment pension isn’t very

, Mining the

‘To the Editor;

Terrace Review — Wednesday, Marcli 29, 1989 5S

forests
To the Editor; _

~ T recently received a ‘Forests

. Forever’ paper in the mail which
“gives the impression that all is

well — if we let the industry do

‘| its job the way it wants to,:

Iam one of those who believe

- they are mining our-forests.

. The research into ‘old-growth

.. forests in B.C. is. virtually. non-
. existent. My information comes
~. from research done in Oregon

where already, due to the

_ pressure of people, the grizzly,

wolf and fish are gone; the
mouittain lion and the wolverine
are rare and believed to be on

‘their way to being eliminated.

The research results show that
mature and old-growth forests
provide optimum habitat for 118
vertebrate species from mice, to
birds, to- wolverines and
grizzlies. Of these 118 species,
one-third probably cannot sur-

vive without it. The biggest im-

pact is on resident birds species:
woodpeckers, owls, hawks, nut-

- hatches, creepers.

How much quality old-growth
do we have left? Very little, and

. it’s going fast. What are the

plans to preserve old-growth?

None. What research is going in-

to old-growth? Hardly any.
The extinction of old-growth
forests (decadent forests, to the
forester) is one half the equa-
tion. The monopoly: movement
of giving the responsibility to
multinationals to grow factory
forests is the other side of the
coin which, I believe, will have
an even greater impact on the

future of forest animal species

than the- elimination of old-
growth. mo
_ William Hayes,

Terrace, B.C. .

_ New law.

required

On the crucial issue of abor-
tion, the Supreme Court has
refused to rule on the humanity
of the unborn child

Those who have been follow-
ing the abortion issue in the last
20 years know that the debate is
no longer about whether or not
the unborn child is a human be-
ing. Today, no one dare argue
that the fetus is like a ‘“‘fish’’, an
“acorn’’, or a “blob of un-
differentiated cells’’.

Scientists, doctors, expectant
parents, honest feminists, pro-
lifers, pro-abortionists accept
the irrefutable scientific
evidence that the fetus is a
unique, biological human being
from its very beginning at con-
ception,

The debate today has shifted
to what has always been the real
question in this issue. That is,
“what is the value of the unborn
child’s life and what reasons, if
any, are compelling enough to

justify the death of one human .

being to resolve the problems of
another?’

When the abortion law was
amended 20 years ago, we were
told it was to allow for abortion
in the “hard cases”, situations

to the Editor

rape, incest, or those that

created an obvious threat to the
mother’s life. Today the reasons

given for wanting to destroy an
unborn child are much less com-
pelling, indeed, often downright
selfish,
Reasons such as: ‘‘my birth

control method failed’’; “a baby

would interfere with my educa-
tional plans”; ‘‘we didn’t plan
to have more than two
children’; ‘‘my boyfriend and I
aren't ready to raise a child’; “‘]
couldn’t give it up for adoption,
that would be too hard for me
and too cruel on the child’’,

It is not only “death on de-
mand’? for increasingly shallow
reasons that will continue
because of the Supreme Court
non-decision, The ramifications
of this decision to not give life-
protecting status to the preborn
child are frightening. It means
the continuance and sophistica-
tian of practices which can only
be described as evil. Consider
the following:

@ Scientists have the unre-
stricted right. to manufacture
new human beings in petri dishes
and test tubes, use them for any
purposes they wish -and then
destroy them. |

@ The preborn child can be
removed from its mother’s body
at any time in the pregnancy and
its parts used for experimenta-
tion. We have yet to legislate on
a woman’s right to sell her dead
fetus. — ,

@ Unborn babies are being
callously killed for reasons such
as being the wrong sex, usually a
girl, rather than the desired boy.
@ In multiple pregnancies, one
or several of the tiny new
humans can be killed by a lethal
injection into his or her heart,
This is éalled selective reduction,
@ Search and destroy missions
in the womb are beconiing more
cold-bloodedly sophisticated as
we select to kill the handicapped
and genetically imperfect un-
born child.
' Pro-abortionists are happy
with the ruling. They say, ‘‘We
don’t need an abortion law.
Leave the decision up to a
woman and her doctor,’’

This simplistic slogan totally
disregards the rights of the un-
born person, It is also blind to
these other chilling conse-
quences of treating human life
as valueless.

We need a new law. A law
that protects all life from con-
ception until natural death,

After all, what is more impor-
tant than “life” itself? Certainly
not “‘choice’’.

Isobel Brophy,
Terrace, B.C.

Festival
thanks

To the Editor;

On behalf of the Pacific
Northwest. Music Festival com-
mittee, I would like to express
our thanks to the individuals
and organizations who helped to
miake this year’s Festival a suc-
cess. Without the many hours of
assistance donated by willing
volunteers and the generous
financial support of our award

like ‘pregnancy resulting from.

donors’ and patrons, our task. :
would be impossible. We are. -

also very grateful to School.
District 88, the Pentecostal
Church and Veritas School for
their co-operation and
assistance. _
A special thank you goes to
the competitors, their parents:
and teachers for their efforts
which resulted in many enjoy-
able performances throughout
the past two weeks, and to the
members of the community who
showed their support for these
young performers by providing
an audience for the various
classes,
Finally, thanks to the Terrace
Review staff for your co-
Operation in helping us make the
community aware of the events
taking place at our Festival,
Diane Weismiller,
Terrace, B.C,.

Freedom
of choice |

To the Editor;

Is Sunday shopping a deter-
rent or a benefit to the com-
munity? Recently, Sunday shop-
ping has created problems in the
community of Terrace, especial-
ly in the Skeena Mall. If the
stores do not open on Sundays
or are late opening, they can be
penalized under the terms of
their lease. Out of all merchants
I polled, most of the small busi-
nesses were against opening on
Sunday. They feel they lose
money by having to employ per-
sonnel to work Sunday, when
they get very little business.
Most feel it should be their
choice to open on Sundays if
they want to or not,

The larger businesses feel it’s
a benefit to the community for
those who have to work or are
‘real busy over the weekdays.
They feel it is a benefit to their
business also.

I feel Sunday shopping is
good, but the merchants should
be able to make their own choice
on whether to open on Sunday
or not.

Troy Coburn,
Grade 10 student, Thornhill
Junior Secondary School.

Kokoro

To the Editor; ;
When I first heard that our
school, .Thornhill Junior Sec-
ondary, was going to the
“Kokoro Dance’, I was sure it
would be boring. After I saw it,
1 found out how wrong I was! It
‘turned out to be fascinating,
even though it was. educational.
The “Kokoro Dance” was
symbolic in the way it described
how Japanese-Canadians felt
about they were treated during
World War II,

The most exciting part to me

-were the drums. They were so

loud you could feel the vibra-
tions from the back seats. I ac-
tually enjoyed it so much I
wouldn't mind seeing it again,

I would like to take this op-
portunity to thank the School
Board for letting us go. It is real-
ly appreciated!

Mary Holland,
Grade 10 student, Thorihill
Junior Secondary School.’

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