_More than §0 Terrace women gathered at a recent luncheon as part of focal celebrations for International Women’s Day.

Over 60 turn out to”
hear pro-life speaker

by Pam Whitaker,

Terrace contributor
TERRACE — Sanctity of
life versus quality of life

‘was an issue addressed in

Terrace March 9 by the
vice president of the Pro

Life. Society of British

Columbia.
About 70 people came

_to hear June Lenihan, an

RN from Vancouver, in
the library mecting room
at 7:30 p.m.

A drawing card for

many was the fact that

Lenihan at one time had
worked vigirously in favor
of abortion on demand.
She was the co-founder of
the original abortion
coalition.

She also founded the
original Status of ‘Women
Action Council, the NDP

7 Women’s Rights Commit-
‘tee and Vancouver’s first

Transition House.
Lenihan claimed that a
personal conversion to the
Lord Jesus Christ is what
changed her mind on

abortion and other issues.

~ “T saw that historically,

democracy is based on the

Tule that the “law of God
is above the King’’, and
out of that came the

Magna Carta, the Ameri-
can Constitution and’ the
Declaration of Human
Rights.

She said, “Every west-
ern democratic constitu-
tion has a preamble which
recognizes God as
Guarantor of individual
freedom and human rights
in a corporate society.
That’ meant there was
always a balance, a har-
‘mony between the - in-
dividual right and cor-

porate need and did not

allow for individual or
corporate anarchy.”*

She explained that is
what gave a solid base for
ethics in government.
Sanctity of life was part of

it,

**What we have today is
a society pulling away
from God’s laws and the
result is an enormous
schizophrenia and catch
22,”’ she said.

“For example, babies
are being killed at 30 per

day at Vancouver General —
- Hospital while there is a
. three year waiting list for

couples wishing to adopt,
in B.C, Some people are
even buying babies from
certan. individuals in
Brazil for $10,000 each.

Quality urged ©

TERRACE — ‘Made in
Terrace’ is going to ac-
quire connotations of
quality and class if a pro-
ject conceived by Ald.
‘George Clark is realized.

Clark proposed at a re-

cent’ Tourism and Econ-

omic Development Com-

_ mittee meeting that an’
‘Organization be formed

with the aim of promoting

locally produced hand-
icrafts and marketing

them through existing Ter-

race retail outlets. He sug-
gested the label ‘'Made in
Terrace” affixed to top-
notch craft items could
give visitors something: to
take home that would
leave a favorable impres-
sion on them for years to

come,
“I'd certainly prefer to

- dangerous,’’
“We fought -

_poles with

**T used to think that a

woman has a right to’

choice,’’ she said. ‘‘To im-
prove her ‘quality of life’.
To murder? No one in
society has that right.

“J thought a woman
had the right to control
her own body through
abortion, whereas in reali-
ty, if she was in control

she would: not get preg-

nant,’’ - .

Lenihan is concerned
that in Canada, . the
Federal Law Reform
‘Commission, in December
1986, recommended to the
Federal government that
the mercy killing law for

doctors be extended. She.

is also concerned that the
Civil Liberties. Union in

December called for the

formation of an
euthanasia committee in
every hospital in B.C.
similar to a therapeutic
abortion committee.
“Situational ethics to

‘improve the quality of.

life’ can be very
Lenihan
reiterated.
the Second World War to
put an end to that sort of

_thing.’’ .

She feels, however, that
there i is a turn around oc-

see tourists going away

‘with items like fine pottery
or works of art labelled
“Made In Terrace’, rather

than miniature’ totem -
the legend ,

‘Made in Taiwan’, ”
Clark said.

Clark told the commit-

tee he will investigate the
possibility of establishing
an organization to put the
plan into action, and he
indicated he will report

~ back to the next ‘commit- —

tee meeting.

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curring in the province

and in the world. ‘*When
we met Premier Vander
Zalm Jan. 9 and presented
our brief to him, we were
impressed with his sincere
desire to rule in a way that
would méet the needs of a
secular society yet would
implement a morality that
needed to be im-
plemented.

“He is determined to
make the therapeutic
abortion committees do
the job they were designed

‘to do. If, in fact, the laws
“were. enforced,. 90 percent
of the abortions would

stop,’’ Lenihan said.

_ Brad, Carolyn and staff at

‘Terrace Builders, T

be shut

TERRACE — An organi-
zation that has provided
advice and assistance for
more than 2,000 people in
Terrace over the past five
years is being closed due
to lack of funding.

The Terrace Unemploy-
ed Action Centre opened
in 1982 with an office and
full-time coordinator. to
help jobless local residents
cope with the sometimes
confusing bureaucratic
avenues of government in-
come assistance programs.
On April 1 the Terrace
center along with half of
the other eighteen Unem-
ployed Action Centers in
B.C. will cease to exist
unless an alternate fund-.
ing source is discovered.

The centers were spon-
sored by the B.C, Federa-
tion of Labour at a cost of
several million - dollars
over the past five years,
Although no substantial
decline has occurred in the
B.C. unemployment rate ©
since 1982, the union or-
ganization announced last

‘month it can no longer af-

ford to operate the cen-
ters.

Bill Goodacre, coor-
dinator for the Terrace

‘center, said recently no
“alternate funding ‘source. -
. has been -found to ‘con-

‘tinue the operation here.

a Benson Optical
_ Le boratories Ltd.

would like to thank all our customers: and friends for dropping —_
in and making our open house a success.

We also thank the following businesses for their help. in
opening our new offices:

| Royal Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia
. Central Flowers, A & W Terrace Co-op
errace Interiors, C.F.T.K.
Terrace Review, Terrace Carpet Centre
Nate's Electric, Wilkinson Business Machines
Rich MeDaniels - Oid Dutch Foods
Tom Brash Enterprises & Toad's Contracting

of draw for. one > pair ot serenget sunglasses: Ba

Cathy Loutitt

ee ; - Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 25, 1987 15 :

Advocacy
center to

“‘We haven’t had any ry of:

fers,’ he said, ‘‘but’ we'll
know better-in about three
weeks how serious: people

are about keeping this ser-

vice in the area.’’ Good-

_acre added that the center

costs about $2,500 mon-
thiy to operate.

Goodacre said the: pri-
mary effect of the Terrace
center’s closure will be dif-
ficulty in obtaining advice
and information for peo-
ple forced to live on unem-
ployment and welfare. He
stated his experience in

dealing with the govern- -

ment and his contacts
within local government
agencies have enabled him
to solve problems that
might otherwise prevent
people from receiving in-

_ comes for long periods of

time. |

Goodacre also express-
ed concern about recent
reports that the federal
government may under-
take a major overhaul of
the unemployment in-
surance system, forcing
people dependent on bene-
fits to come to grips with
new rules and regulations.

He dismissed the possi-
bility of drastic cost-cut-
ting measures from the
controversial Forget Re-

_port being implemented.
. “The public is no longer
‘down on the unemploy
ed,” he said. ‘‘Too many
of them have been there

themselves.’”

Benson Optical Laboratories Ltd.

4608 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace, B.C.
Wrinch Memorial Hospital, Hazelton, B.C.

638-0341
842-6112