AiO - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 28, 1996

To see is to believe

Dear Sir:

A few years ago when my husband and I moved into our dream home we knew that it needed lots of repairs and tender loving care.

Having owned my own retail business, I understand the necessity of having com- petitive bids for work to be done so I called two local glass companies to get quotes on replacing a small window, that had lost its seal,

One of the quotes was a significant amount less than the other, and that made per- fect sense to me, as the lower bid was from a small business person.

1am very supportive of lo- cal business, as I realize that large corporations do not spend their corporate profits in Terrace, but smal] busi- ness people, if they are

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lucky enough te have a profit, do,

IT was at first thrilled with the service from the small business person,

But he measured wrong, and the window did not fit. He would come out the fol- lowing week with a corect- ly fitting window. I was not in a panic, in the past things bad gone a lot worse with some other jobs I had tried to do.

The replacement window is installed, and I can finally see outside through the window, My new window is guaranteed for a full five years. As I am cleaaing the

rest of the window and put- ting it back together I notice what looks like about 30 scratches across the botlom of the window, but I am very busy and don’t have time to go outside and see if maybe it is something that may wash off.

When I finally bad the lime to take out my very best window cleaner and wash the oulside, the scratches are still there,

I phoned my efficient, friendly, reasonable supplier and told him my problem.

Imagine my horror, when he starts to yell at me over the phone. Most of the com- ments were unprintable.

New law has bad effect

Dear Sir:

Unless our government rectifics the terrible blunder that “‘we the people” have made into law, a law that gives all the ‘‘rights’’ to women, leaving the good men, husbands and fathers with no recourse but to see their homes and children in the hands of alcoholic and drug addicted wives and mothers, the resulting ef- fects can only be terrible.

What do we do for good men, men who have worked hard to give their families a nice home and a Dad that plays with them after work, makes sure they have all the necessities of life and as many of the luxuries as he can afford?

Our law not only takes his children from him when the wife and mother becomes tired of her roll and tums to alcohol and drugs. The same law gives her the house and most of his hard earned paycheque.

The children are dumped ‘here and there so she can enjoy life, left with 12 and 13° year old baby-sitters while she heads for Van- couver or other points un- known with the friends who are so important to her life style.

The law that was made to catch up with wayward hus- bands of a like lifestyle are covered by this law, not only are the men chased, the wives and/or girl friends are immediately being looked after by our government — We the People — high- priced lawyers are hired to look after her rights.

Is it right that a woman of this character, or lack same be treated the same as a good woman, or man who would do anything, and has for the children of the union? These are the men I refer to, these are the men that are suffering and need help.

According to our law, as it slands now, no woman can do wrong and no man can do right! This is what I want to see changed, give men equal rights, let them be able to go to a court of law and prove that they are a better parent, if they are,

Regarding the recent letter “Frustrating? You bet’’, signed by the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre, in response to an earlier let- ter signed by me, I am total- ly mystified and curious as to how on earth you could possibly read that letter and could so totally misconstrue the contents!

I am really curious to know whether this letter is, in fact, the consensus of the members of the centre, or merely the opinion of one or two women who skimmed through the letter without digesting the facts, then de- cided to use the weight of the name of the centre,

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the word frustrating any- where in the letter in ques- tion. I do not condone violence of any kind. I never have, so please do make that another of your iiberal and

very wrong interpretations —

or assumptions of what you think is hiding in the written word!

When the centre was just beginning in Terrace, ic was a place you could go to talk to other women with similar

problems, discuss possible answers to problems etc, J wonder if it has changed as drastically as you seem to make it appear, writer? Elleen Bruce, Terrace, B.C,

Not once did this person suggest or agree to replace the scratched window, he did however bring out my cheque and rip it up and throw it on my table. My husband insisted that I re- place the torn up cheque.

The supplicr took the che- que and stormed off of my property, after delivering another diatribe on how

lucky be was to not have

any olher customers, so petty as to complain about a bunch of scratches on a brand new window.

So I suppose, that if this window loses its seal some- time in the next five years I will have to listen ta more abuse, or just bite the toss.

I called the company thal had given me the larger quote. They said it was not common practice to sell and install scratched windows and just leave them there.

They offered to meet any of my future glass needs, and you know, I may finally have learned my lesson. | guess my only comment is that in Terrace as in every other place, you get exactly what you pay for. Buyer be-

ware. Mary Bond,

Terrace, B.C.

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