ae a ‘Mathew Powers, one of Canada’s top 10 amateur figure skaters, will be the special guest performer in the Terrace Arena March 27 and 28 for the Terrace Figure Skating Club's annual camival. This year's theme is "Over the Rainbow — The Wizard of Oz". The show, starting at 7 p.m. both evenings, will feature local club members along with Powers. Club organizers describe Powers as “one of the most exciting figure skaters in Canada today”. by Michael Kelly The house without an address is holding an open house, for invited guests only, tomorrow. The place is the Terrace Transition House, a shelter for emotionally and physi- cally battered women and their children, a place whose location has to remain a secret. It was the 10th anniversary of the Transition House March 12, It came into being as a service as Ksan House in 1981 after a study showed an unexpected and, to the general public, shocking need fora place where women and children could hide from violence and have the chance to make decisions about their futures or recover enough to face their continuing present lives in a peaceful, secure and suppor- tive setting. The original Family Violence Committee, formed in 1978, was told by the Ministry of Human Resources that there was no reason to believe that family violence existed in any significant level of occurance in Terrace. The commit- tee surveyed the community under a Canada Works Project grant for Fo resiry | n S [ g hts = Continued from page A7 expected that the three-pass log- ging system pianned for these areas will enhance the population by providing additional feed and perimeter shelter." This was followed by a few standard comments regarding the Development Plan: "Under the terms of the Forest Licence, a Five Year Development Plan will be submitted under separate cover and updated as required. "Public involvement will be sought at the development planning process by advertising for public review and comments of draft development plans. Any conflict will be addressed in writ- ing at this stage, copies to be forwarded with the Development Plan." And, before an array of support- ing documents and tables, there was one final section. "This one," Herby told Squirrel flatly, "Is going to cause Jovial to have another seizure." Section 7.00, Revision, began by stating: "This plan will be revised every five years, or more frequent- ly if required by the Ministry of Forests." But to Squirrel, Herby explained, "Sounds innocent enough... But Jovial’s going to over-exaggerate, again, and get in a big flap over the ‘ifs’ that might require the revision of a plan. "Listen to this. Damage by fire, wind, insects, disease or other natural forces. Or, damage to a timber processing facility of the Licensee. Or, if there is labour conflict, war, civil insurrection, adverse weather conditions, depressed markets or other circum- stances beyond the Licensee’s control. Or, serious and unforeseen damage is caused to soils, fisheries or wildlife resources...” Herby leaned back in his chair and sighed. Miiton Jovial wouldn’t miss one of those words. Herby could hardly wait, In the mean- time, though, he had more work to do and it was best to get it done while Jovial was out of town. After telling Squirrel to print the final copy of Jovial’s coastal licence, Herby picked up the next file and began to read: "Manage- ment and Working Plan. Forest Licence 12346..." Next week, we'll follow Herby as he looks at the differences between Milton Jovial’s coastal and interior harvesting strategies. And, if he’s around, we might take a look at Milton Jovial too. ried .* a chicha rds @leaners } EVERY day is | Wednesday for our Drive-Thru customers; Bring your shirts in to us the easy way. | Use our handy Drive-Thru window during March and pay only $1 for each *shirt. *Catton/polyester dress shirte 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. — Monday to Friday. 8:30 a.m, to 5:30 p.m. — Saturday ~~ KIDOIE CORNER FROM THE POST OFFICE Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 20, 1991 Ad six months, and found 575 respon- dents who voluntarily admitted that they had been assaulted by another family member during the previous year. Of those, 71 percent were women abused by husbands, nine percent were children abused by parents, 11 percent were children hurt while their parents were fight- ing, five percent were husbands injured by their wives, and one percent were parents abused by children. . The Ksan House Society, as the | Terrace Transition House marks decade of service responded to 286 requests for help that did not involve people staying at the house. The non-resident requesis were nearly double the number for 1989, Not all the women and children who seek shelter at the Transition House are physically harmed. McCauley said she doesn’t have statistics for Terrace, but at the Smithers house about 50 percent of the occupants have been injured. Public education and awareness of the issues surrounding family "Public education and awareness... have made women less tolerant of abusive husbands." group was called, got off to a rocky start. As a condition of renting one of the Skeenaview Lodge buildings for use as a shel- ter, the Ministry of Health required them to take over operation of and © responsibility for an adjacent building that housed mentally handicapped adults and people suffering from mental illnesses. The society’s decision resulted in a body that ran both the Ksan House and Osborne Guest Home programs, and in 1982 they took over operation of the Sexual Assault Centre (at that time called the Sexual Assault Crisis Service). The society still runs all three programs today. Since that 1979 study the num- bers have only changed for the worse, Leslie McCauley, the pres- ent Transition House director, said in 1990 the facility sheltered 157 women and 191 children and violence and wife beating have made women less tolerant of abus- ive husbands, but McCauley believes the jump in non-resident calls for help ai the Transition House represents a real increase in the amount of violence. "Battered women get hit an average of 31 times before they call the police; they leave their husbands an average of 13 times before they go for good,” she adds. McCauley is currently active on a local committee to coordinate the efforts of the Ministry of Social Services and Housing, the justice system and other agencies that deal with wife assault in the Terrace area. Another committee involving Ksan House, the Kermode Friend- ship Society and the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre is applying for a grant of $10,000 to study the needs of women in the area. McCauley said the project will draw on several previous studies but it will be broader in scope than any of them. A high court judge in England recently made the national news in Canada by finding a man guilty of raping his wife, the first such verdict in the history of English law. McCauley notes, "In the courts spousal assaults are still treated differently from other assaults even though they come umder the same law. It’s the ’sanc- tity of marriage’ concept. 4 societal attitude."