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TheReview Wednesday, November 21, 1990 — A19

“Native community forms circle
againsi drug and alcohol abuse
a

Problems with alcohol abuse
only damage the reputation of the
v@sim and of all native people,

“@y one speaker said.

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“As Indian people it makes us

sad in our hearts — to walk in the’

world and hold our heads down,”
one man said.

He had recovered from alcohol-
ism with help from the native
treatment program and urged all of
those present to work together
against alcoholism.

A highlight of the evening was a
special performance by the Thun-

derbird Pow-wow singers to honor
the Tsawout Elders.

The week-long campaign also
includes a presentation Monday
night at the Tsawout Day Care
centre with police and a native
Support worker _

On Tuesday night a nutrition
night and information meeting for
young mothers was planned at the
day care centre.

Tonight a teen night is planned

“at the Tsawout day care centre.

Speakers will be Danny Thome,
Victoria First Division Soccer
Player, university graduate David
Paul Jr. and life skills counselor
Gregg Sam.

An Elder and Tsawout teen rep-
resentative will also participate.

Alcoholics Anonymous displays
will be featured Thursday during

Don’t ask province’s taxpayers

by Hubert Beyer
Special to The Review

VICTORIA — Once again, the
merchants of downtown Victoria
are belly-aching about the loss of a
ferry link between the capital city

and Seattle.

Last Friday, B.C. Stena Line
scuttled its Victoria-Seattle run,

La and if you believe the merchants,

Victorians are all but cut off from
the outside world.

Never mind the 15 runs each
way B.C. Ferries does between
Victoria and Vancouver every day.
Never mind the Clipper, a daily
hydrofoil service between Victoria
and Seattle.

Never mind the helicopter ser-
vice from downtown Victoria to
downtown Vancouver. Never mind
the regular air service, connecting
the capital city on Vancouver
Island with the outside world.

And never mind the Coho,
which has been operated very
successfully by Blackball Ferries

_between Victoria and Port
ex Washington for decades.

As far as the merchants of
downtown Victoria are concemed,
it’s a disaster, and would the
government kindly do something
about it.

The fact that they are the major
beneficiaries of the tourist trade
and good free enterprisers one and
all doesn’t keep them from asking
the taxpayers to underwrite the
cost of bringing tourists to their
doorstep.

I'd like to hear of a good reason,
however, why the residents of Fort
Nelson or Golden or Prince

@eorge should be asked to help

| _ underwrite the profitability of Vic-

‘slO suppon Vieroliig merchants

toria downtown merchants.

When the government still oper-
ated the service — that is when
the B.C. Steamship Corporation
tan the Princess Marguerite
between Victoria and Seattle —
taxpayers lost more than a million
dollars a year on the venture.

In 1988, the government sold
the Maggie to B.C. Stena Line as
part of its privatization program.
The price tag was $6 million. And
even though a lot of people com-
plained about the sale, more for
sentimental reasons than anything
else, it got the taxpayers off the
hook.

Stena was going to set the world
on fire. Highly successful in

Continued on Page A20

an open house at the Tsawout day
care centre.

The week will end Friday even-
ing with a Friendship Dry Dance
at the Pauquachin Hall from 7 p.m.
to 10:30 pm.

A community circle of support
and the wisdom of Elders were
stressed during a gathering Sunday
night at the Tsawout Longhouse to
kick off the week-long 1990 Drug
and Alcohol Awareness campaign.

Sponsored by the Tsawout Drug
and Alcohol program, the evening
included a native craft fair, a
potluck supper for adults and chil-
dren followed by presentations in
the Longhouse.

Elders Mary Underwood and
Ethel. Underwood were honored
during the evening and spoke to
the families present, urging them
to bring their children up well, to
prevent problems as the children
grew older

“It’s been my prayer for the
people of the reserve — help your
children before it’s too late,”” Mary
Underwood said.

Others who had been through
the reserve’s treatment programs
spoke about the problems facing
the native community, the need to
overcome alcohol abuse and the
dangers of drug use.

“TI was slowly committing sui-
cide with the poison I was drink-
ing. I would drink anything I could
get my hands on,” one recovering
alcoholic said.

“T had to look deep in myself to
learn what I was doing to my
body.”

Other speakers stressed the need
to respect others, especially the
Elders, in order to gain discipline
and self-respect.

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