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the lerrace Skindard. Wednesday, December 29, 1999 - A?

es. They'll be on site

O'Brien and Jason Macie

dragged in one piece into articulated concrete blanket.

i One long pipe WORKERS are assembling a giant pipe that will be dragged into the -Skeena River to replace the sewage treatment plant's failed outfall pipe, which has been malfunctioning since flooding in the summer. That's Bill

jewski of Kelowna-based Can-Pro Diving Servic-

through February. The 300-metre long pipe will be place and anchored to the riverbed with a giant

an unfair election tax

Subsidies, party says

"come with. a.-hugpe--advantage-~-

IT’S TIME to end federal election practices that are .S0 Unfair they border on corruption, says Christian

~ Heritage Party Ieader Ron.

Gray... :

‘Gray, who toured the Skeena’ riding Jast’ month to’ meet, sore of the’ par- ty’s 230 members ‘inthe region, is trying to’ gener- ate a. groundswell of public pressure to force the Liber-

vals to change the. amend-

ments to the Election Act the. government has’ pro- posed, - So

Most objectionable,

says Gray, is the 25-year-.

old policy. — which the Liberals: plan to leave. un-

~ changed — that refunds 50 per cent of election ex- .

penses :to ‘candidates «that

_ get more. than 15 per. cent

of the vote.

It means established ©

parties and candidates to cach election

sere

$64,000 inthe ® previous.

election’ — and got at least 13 per cent of the votes —

; gets $32,000 of that back

Surplus Y2K food? Think

IF Y2K comes and goes without. power outages or food riots, mast well-pre- pared folks will have kitchens full of more than the usual. amount of canned and non-perishable goods. ;

If January arrives, dis- aster hasn't. struck, and you need more room in the pantry, consider donating

“some: of your Y2K food

stash ta. the Terrace

Churches Food Bank. “We'd .be more than

Vancouver ~ Island

circulation of 223,350,

16 newspapers wilh a combined

(o spend next time.

“They start with their war chests already half full of taxpayers” dollars,” Gray said... - -

The Christian Heritage |

Party wants a mechanism as. part :of income: tax re- turns that would allow tax- payers. to designate which

party -or parties they want -

supporled in that way with their tax dollars. ~~ ;

The: Reform Party. has not supported .the CHP on that. idea, Gray ‘said, ad- ding that since many: Re- formers, are. now well es-

lablished, it’s difficult for

them to turn. their backs on the: advantage the. law. pre- sently gives them.

Gray ‘said: the party is. also supporting. a Liberal backbencher’s efforts ‘to ban taxpayer funded insti- tutions from making: dona- tions tu political parties.

Other electoral reforms

en

frdm the present first-past- the-post system that elects whichever candidate gets

delighted to accept the do- tations,” said food bank coordinator Kathy Miller. Some food banks in the province have noticed a drop in contributions at- tributed to people stucking up on. their own canned

goods in case of an emer- -

pency, mo

That hasn’t happened ‘here.

“People have been very generous,” Miller said. “V's been outstanding.”

That’s good as the food

Pocatie reese ese ramet 33 erect ‘tepresentation, and - away

the most votes. Proportional representa- tion ~ which gives a party ihe same number of MPs as the percentage of the popular vate il receives — would dramatically im- prove the chances of the smaller. parties like’ the Green Party and Christia

‘Heritage Party.» oO

“It's- clearly an idea whose time has come,” Gray ‘said, adding all major industrialized na- tions except Canada and

the U.S. have begun to try

some variant of it.

Also high on the party's agenda is emphasizing the importance of retaining reference to the supremacy of God in the constitution.

Gray met party mem- bers in Terrace Thursday night at the Happy Gang Centre.

He’s urging members to get ready for a federal

the party “is‘tovking-fords-a* election ‘probably ‘in: spring sinuvetoward spropprtiomate2001» but: poseib lysaseear

2001s butpossiblysaseearly- as“next fall —'which'w be the three-and-a-half year mark of the present

term. ‘

food | bank

bank gave oul a record 681 bags of groceries in No- vember and expects even more in the next distribu- tion, Jan. 17-21.

“We're anticipating that the people needing food will not be lower in January,” she said. “We're

looking at -quantities of ©

700 when we order.”

The food bank doesn’t operate in December, so as not to conflict with the Salvation Army’s Christ- mas hamper program.

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