ee, Different world north of Hope VICTORIA — There is southern British Columbia, and then there’s the rest of the province. The two have about as much in common as night and day. The chasm that separates the urban south and the rural north was illustrated very forcefully in the reaction I got to a recent column on the involvement of some young people in the contro- versy over the proposed logging of the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island (The Review, Aug. 7). In that column, I criticized environmental activists for encouraging teenagers to go on hunger strikes, throw themselves in front of logging trucks and do whatever else they can come up with to prevent crews from entering the — area to be logged. The reaction was swift and mixed. Generally speaking, I got a huge shellacking in the south, while in the north, people tended to agree with me. One reader wrote a letter to the Oak Bay Siar, accusing me of “great insensitivity to the envir- onmental damage affecting the planet.” Another reader said I ridiculed and patronized the young people who opposed the logging of the Walbran Valley. “Those who have gone on hunger strikes or carried their protests to up-Island logging sites are depicted as strident, emotional and ignorant victims of manipulative adults,” he said. “Those who choose to use their limited power to implore the rest of us to behave decently, should be admired,” he added. Not to be outdone by its readers, the Star’s editorial pointed out that the paper didn’t neces- sarily share the opinion of its columnist. In fact, it definitely disagreed in this instance. “Maybe it’s unusual, but in this case, we take exception to the statements made by our columnist,” the editorial Said. “As for the young people taking the brave stand against the forces that be, they are of the same ilk as youth around the world who have initiated social changes in fascist and socialist countries, and in our own nation in the 1960s. It takes nerve, conviction, stamina and intelligence to go to the lengths they have. To mock them as we have is wrong,” it concluded. The reaction from Northern communities was different. Most letters supported my statements, and so did nine out of ten phone calls I got. “Tm glad someone down there understands Northern B.C. The politicians don’t and the environmentalists certainly don’t,” one caller from Vanderhoof told me. Many others had similar comments. Let me be clear on one point. I never ridiculed the youngsters for what they do. I said they are misguided and ruled more by their emotions than by intellect, not to mention that they broke the law. Sometimes it is necessary to break the law to affect social change, but only when the state asks immoral things of its citizens. That is not the case here. To compare the recent actions of these highs- chool students to young people who risked and often lost their freedom and their lives opposing immoral and murderous regimes is ludicrous. And I know all about murderous regimes. I grew up in Nazi Germany. I was once beaten and kicked unconscious by a small-town mayor and local Nazi bigshot for having given food to some starving Russian prisoners of war. I was seven years old at the time. Fletcher Challenge has a legal right to log in the Walbran, a 10,000-hectare watershed on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. And to keep Matters in perspective, it’s important to point out that the company plans to log only 70 hectares. The teenagers protesting the logging did so despite a Supreme Court injunction which pro- hibited interference with the logging crews. They did anyway. That’s breaking the law, and not an immoral one. As for emotions versus intellect, I saw one young girl, no older than 13 or 14, yelling at one of the Sergeants at Arms in front of the Parliament Buildings. “You hate kids, you hate kids,” she chanted. That’s not very intelligent. But what I criticized most of all in my previous piece on the subject was the role environmental groups played in the confrontation, either actively encouraging the youngsters to break the law or, at the very least, not counselling them against doing SO. One final point. During a 20-day hunger strike by 16-year-old Sarah Turner and 14-year-old Katie Meglic, the Sierra Club had promised to document Fletcher Challenge’s checkered reputa- tion as stewart of the forest resource. They would release the damning documents after the girls stopped their hunger strike, the Sierra Club said. It turned out they had nothing on Fletcher Challenge. The documentation the group released related to environmental damage that resulted from logging in the 60s and 70s, 30 years ago. TheReview Wednesday, August 28,1991 — A7 HDYSSIA PIZZA & STEAK HCUSE GREEK CUISINE Ribs, Seafood & Italian Dishes Licensed ' Premises Finally, a Development that Showcases Atfordable Condominium Living One Bedroom Condominiums Now Available! 2227 James White Boulevard, Sidney, B.C. : eG OPEN DAILY WELCOME TO THE Lord and Lady James. = from 12 to 5pm Enjoy the privacy of i attractive and affordable Another quality condominium living and eee project by the the tranquility and leisure of a resort life style. 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Stems should be left intact, edibility is important and pods should be crisp, fresh and free from stringiness. The longest beans are pre- ferred.” If that’s not being “picky.” * * * AND THE WINNERS ARE: Bud Tiear, with the closest guess of 51 Ibs. 12 oz., Bea Anderson with 51 Ibs, 9 oz. and Tom Ambrose with 51 Ibs. 8 oz. The pumpkin at the Sidney and Saanich Peninsula Garden Club’s show and sale last weekend at Sanscha Hall was actually 51 Ibs. 11 oz., Show chairman and pumpkin grower Dick Keepence said. It cost show-goers 25 cents to enter, $32 was raised for the Sidney Lions Review Food Bank and $10 went to the winner. * OK * MARK THE DATE. Celebrate Sidney’s Cen- tennial by planning to attend the Seventh Annual Dixieland Jazz Festival, Sept. 20-22 at various Sidney venues. Tickets are now on sale and weekend passes are $25. Call the Sidney Centen- ir Ze enizies / SA nial Committee at 656-4365 for information. * Kk * VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED to help distribute materials in preparation for the annual Terry Fox Run at UVic’s Centennial Stadium. If you can help put up posters and counter cards to promote the run, organizer Laurie Acheson wants to hear from you. Call 477-5039 for information. Last year Greater Victoria raised $28,851 for the cancer-fighting cause, behind Port Coquitlam (Terry’s hometown) and Vancouver’s Stanley Park run site. To date over $90 million has been raised for cancer research. * Kx IT’S BEEN MOVED. The recycling bin that was at Laidlaw Waste System’s property on Mills Road has been relocated to the corner of the Sandown harness Raceway on Glamorgan, Hen- ty Westle of Laidlaw said last week. Problems encountered between Laidlaw trucks and residen- tial traffic created a bottleneck, requiring the change in location. 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While Joan Beech (of Victoria) was writing One Waaf’s War, her friends would ask, “Why have you waited forty years before putting it down on paper?” Beech says when she came out of the Waaf she simply wanted to get on with her own life. It wasn’t until June, 1984 that she decided she had something to write. One Waai’s War is the result - a moving account of a young girl and her initiation into the realities of a nation at war. As a Met Assistant at Bomber Command, in Bourn, and then Huntingdon, Beech’s meteorolo- gical forecasts meant life or death for the many crew's who flew on nightly missions over Germany. B Beech's good nature and sense of humour kept her going during the |}: war years, and she’s managed to tell her story in the same generous [| spirit. 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