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This week:

’ Sawyer’s in : trouble.

He was in trouble, and he knew
it. His mill foreman had been
right. Push the system, and instead
of more export quality lumber, you
get far less. The only thing you get
more of is hog fuel and defective
material.

Buzz Sawyer wonders how he
might break the news to Jovial’s
sales manager. It was noon Wed-
nesday; he had produced less than
60 percent of his 20,000 board foot
quota in 75 percent of the allotted
time. It was impossible to fill the
overseas order in time. Syd Silver

two mills helping them to fill the
310,000 board foot order to pro-
duce a little more.

Sawyer watched out the window:
as Silver, umbrella overhead, zig-
zagged across the yard; trying to
avoid puddles. The weather. prob-

ably hadn’t enhanced Silver’s

mood. A witty saying, perhaps. A
famous quote... It would demon-
Strate a philosophical intelligence,
A man with the wit and wisdom to
conquer adversity. Sawyer tried to
think. He could only recall a
couple of famous quotes. Work is
the curse of the drinking class...

Insights

Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 31,1991 7

Forestry

by Tod Strachan, in consultation with Rod Amold and Doug Davies

No, that wouldn’t do it.
"You wanted to see me?" Silver

would have to get one of the other

Letters to the Editor

In bad taste.

To the Editor;

I’m writing on behalf of the
Terrace Women’s Resource Centre
regarding the photograph on the
front page of Wednesday’s (July
. 24) Review. We feel that the pic-

_ ture in question was not used in

the best of taste, due to the subject
it involved and its large size, This
picture does not reflect well on the
image of ‘contestants in the pag-
eant, of the Miss Terrace Pageant,
or of the Terrace Review.

We feel that this picture
objectifies this young woman; she
is only portrayed as "a woman
with a nice body".

We feel she is a representative of
this community; she should have

been shown doing something for
our community, as other con-
testants in the pageant have been
portrayed in past issues of the
' Terrace Review.

Your newspaper is supposed to
be representative of the concerns
of all people of this community.

Therefore the opinions of the

community should "play a part" in
what the content of the newspaper
may or should involve. The Ter-
race Review should be concerned
with its image in the face of all
groups in the community.

We sincerely hope that the Ter-
race Review will think twice
before printing pictures of similar,
questionable subject matter.

Wendy Rossiter,
Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre.

Poise, talent, personality

To the Editor;

We are writing to you with
regard to the front page picture of
one of the Miss Terrace Pageant
contestants of 1991 in your Wed-
nesday, July 24, 1991 issue.

We and the members of the
committee feel that it was an
inappropriate picture.

The Miss Terrace Pageant is not
based on beauty but charm, poise,
talent and personality.

Each year, an award is given for
Miss Talent, Miss Effective
Speaker and Miss Personality, plus
a judges’ award for the most
improved contestant.

You received four rolls of film to
choose from and we feel that you

could have made a better choice.
For the amount of space used for
this one picture, several, if not all
the girls’ pictures, could have been
published.

We feel that an apology is in
order to the young contestant as it
made her fee] very uncomfortable
and it also put the commitice in an
awkward position. .

We hope that this letter will
clarify any misconceptions of the
Miss Terrace Pageant that this
picture has caused the public.

Crispina Cote, chairperson
Alfreda Price,
Advertising/secretary-treasurer
Miss Terrace Pageant
Committee ’91

A message from Gracie

An Open Letter
to Mel Couvelier;
Dear Mel,

In your attempt to answer your
actions on the last ballot at our
recent Social Credit Convention
you have tried to cast aspersions
on my spending in government.

I will not sit idly by while my
government record is besmirched
by a Leadership Candidate flailing
around looking for legitimacy. My
record in handling the people’s tax
dollars are the peaple’s tax dollars.
Mel, [’Il match my record in fiscal
responsibility against yours any
time. I've had a 19-day campaign
in this past Leadership Race, and
have tolerated every slanderous
rumour. I’m proud to say ihat my

workers ran the cleanest campaign
and with 31 more votes we could
have won. Not bad for a 19-day
campaign!

Last Saturday evening we all left
the magnificent Trade and Conven-
tion Centre promising unity and
togetherness. My pledge is real,
and my pledge is strong. Mel, find
another reason for your decision to
go io Rita.

If you thought she was the best
candidate, then say so, don’t look
for other reasons at the expense of
my reputation. You should look to
your own reputation, it nceds a lot
of help.

Grace M. McCarthy, MLA,
Vancouver-Little Mountain.

CONCERN

To the Editor;

Tam compelled to write to you
to voice a concern. This week’s
(July 24) issue has bothered me for
three days now and I am referring
to the photograph of one of the
Miss Terrace contestants. This
Photo of an attractive young
woman in a bikini seems to be
inappropriate — it reinforces the
notion of a "beauty contest". The
pageant has always stressed that
more importantly, the contestants
are judged for poise, talent and
their communication skills.

I write not only as a sponsor of a
contestant and mother of another
contestant, but as a concerned
citizen of Terrace.-We, as women,
have been fighting the uphill battle
of sexism in. the media, and I feel
this is a step back in that battle.

Lynda Bretfeld,
Terrace,

Thanks
To the Editor;

I felt it was about time to ac-
knowledge your paper’s effort in
supporting the campaign to adopt
animals from the Terrace Shelter.
Thank you.

I think it is just great that your
paper is supportive of the shelter.

I think the shelter needs more
support from the citizens of Ter-

" race,

As I live in the regional district,
I] am not familiar with the work-
ings of the facility in Terrace...
BUT

I am aware that the facility is
crowded, and no doubt, the staff is
overworked. I have an understand-
ing that although the city has
grown over the years, the facility
is the same facility that has been
around for years.

I traditionally have supported the
S.P.C.A, in Vancouver and Kiti-
mat. I will now support the local
facilities both in Terrace and in the
tegional district as well. I encour-
age the citizens of the area to also
support their local animal sheliers.
They are a valuable resource and
until you lose a pet or have to get
"rid" of unwanted animals in the
legal way, very few people treas-
ure their local shelter.

Judy Chrysler,
Lakelse Lake,
Terrace.

shook his umbrella and leaned it in
a comer,

"Hi, Syd." Sawyer was straining
for an opening line. “Miserable
day." A brief pause, and then there
was light: "But... Into each life
some rain must fall. Eh? Some
days must be dark and dreary."

"Longfellow," said Silver.
"Always reminds me of Words-
worth: The worst is yet to come."

Sawyer was stunned. He knew
the words but not the author. Sil-
ver didn’t strike him as the cul-

tured sort, but here he had not

only fired back the author’s names
but used a second quote as a rebut-
tal.

"You're scary,” Sawyer said with
some admiration.

"This is no time for games Saw-
yer," Silver fired back. "You said
you wanted to see me. Couldn’t
talk about it on the phone, Only an
idiot would think the news was
good. C’mon man. Out with it.”

For a brief moment, Sawyer
almost wished for a coronary. No
such luck. He was going to have
to live with this one and he knew
it. Might as well get it over with.

"I can’t meet your 20,000 board
foot quota,” Syd. "It’s as simple as
that."

For a moment, Silver thought he
was going io have a coronary.
"Lord," he thought, "I’m not ready

-yet. I might be a little long on

pounds, but I’m still short in
years." He stared Sawyer in the
eye and demanded aloud: "Give
me a number."

"To date," Sawyer sighed, "we’ve
only been able to produce about
11,000 board feet of export quality
lumber. My best guess, if nothing
else goes wrong, is that we'll be
able to come up with another
5,000... That would make 16,000.

“If I put a double shift on Satur-
day, I might almost make it, but
I’m worried. This is a new mill,
Syd. It’s still got a few bugs in it
and all I can tell you with any
certainty right now is that you've
got 11,000 board feet of lumber
ready to go. Is there any chance at
all that one of those other mills
can come up with more than
they’ve already promised?"

"Buzz, tell the truth." Silver
ignored Sawyer’s plea. "You're
blaming your failure on this mill,
but there’s a lot of talk around the
mill, and if it ever reaches Jovial,
your future is about as secure as
the extent of your apparent abil-
ities,”

There was a long silence. Silver
felt some compassion for the man

' Sitting across the desk. He was

competent, but under pressure he
had made some serious errors. "Let
him suffer a little," thought Silver.

"I have to put him in his place. If
I'm going to accept customer’s
orders, I have to have confidence
in the mill’s ability to come
through. My credibility is on the
line here."

Silence. Sawyer continued fumbl-
ing with various accessories on his
desk. "A little longer," Silver con-
cluded in his mind. "Let him suffer

‘a little longer. Let him admit the
truth and this will never happen
again. Don’t tell him know yet that
I knew alt about the mess he was
in on Monday, and how lucky he
is that a couple of competent mill
operators have been able to pull
his miserable fat out of the fire.
The shipment will be on time and
complete.” .

Sawyer finally broke the silence,
"Okay. You're right." His voice
betrayed the emotional stress he
had been under for over a week.
"You're right. I messed up. I went
about this whole thing the wrong
way and I failed. Paul Planque
tried to warn me, but I wouldn’t
listen. I had a plan... and a closed
mind. I refused to accept that my
plan might be wrong.

"But, Syd. You can’t lay all the
blame on me. This whole operation
is new, and we shouldn’t have
accepted so many orders for export
quality lumber until we had all the
bugs worked out of the entire
system.” _

"This one, 310,000 board feet,
and we don’t even have enough of
the right kind of logs in the yard
to maintain our regular production
and cut an additional 20,000 board
feet as well. We just weren’t
ready. But Jovial was in a rush.
The bottom line... Cost recovery.
It’s always a mistake to rush into
things... To press your luck. That’s
what happened here, and we got
burned."

Again, there was silence. Sawyer
was right, Silver admitted to him-
self. Perhaps he should let him off
the hook... Tell him everything
was okay. Perhaps Sawyer had
suffered more than enough already.
But before he could speak, Sawyer
began offering more detail on the
real cost of his defective produc-
tion plan.

Next week: The conclusion to
Buzz Sawyer’s production saga.

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Stump to dump
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