Alec Wesley
isn’t every winter hard?

Tyee - Do you think we're in -

‘for a. hard winter |
| _ this $ year?

“dim Allen -

So far it's ‘not bad. About 20 years ago a 4 battleship .
was touring the north and happened to be tied up at
Kitimat on Remembrance Day. Some of the Navy of-
ficers and crew volunteered to go in the parade. One of

them said he had never been
been in the world.
| have been in the parade

so cold. anywhere he had

30 years and have been

some pretty cold Remembrance Days. One time the
snow flakes were so think you could hardly see the per-
son marching ahead of you!
| think this year will be mild. We will get two or three .
weeks of cold, then it will mild up again — that’s my
prediction.

Leonle Duplessis
We have had such nice
weather | think we are due
to have a colder winter.

Antonio DeSilva
Maybe we will have a
hard winter because we
had such a good. summer.

' Bert Adams

(from Alyansh)
_ | think we will get a lot
of snow. It will probably

Buzz Tkachanko
I think we might. We've
had such a good spring,
summer and fall, if we ‘get

be colder than the last ) it’, we shouldn't com-
few years. plain.

:
Pifer ™- continued from page 4

neophyte Terry Huberts who he
replaced, And from his
elevated post, Messmer will be
out to woo back southern
Okanagan voters after the
Socred political disaster in the
_ June 1988 Boundary-Similka-
meen by-election.

Parting Thought: Ominous
portent? department: The latest
edition of the government's
self-serving “‘news’’ paper, Pro-
vincial Report is another
chronicle of the successes of

_ the government and its policies
and programs, as seen by the

government. What I find fas-
cinating about the latest
16-page tabloid (with about 80
stories and a dozen photos) is
that nowhere in it is there a
picture, a story... or even a
reference to the premier, Mr.
Vander Zalm. How low-profile
cati you geét!?

| Letters to the Editor —

Dr. Kuntz’ S skills missed

To the Editor; |
I am a member of the ‘‘David

Kuntz Support Group” and“on’

Nov..8-we mailed. notices to. all

addresses in the Terrace area.

Ironically. enough, the first

1 letter that came in.Box 104, so-

meone had written these words,

**You people got to be riuts”’. To

me, those were blood boilers.
First of all, we believe that the

‘doctors who have nice: cushy

‘jobs with the Workers’ Compen-

- sation Board banded together to
have David .Kuntz’s license re-

moved -because David was

' operating on people and sending

them back to work when the
WCB doctors said they did not
need an operation.

Talk to some of these people
who David took off of the
disabled list, made them well
enough to go back to work and
live normal lives. David Kuntz
was challenging the integrity of
the WCB doctors, and we think
they did David in for that reason
alone,

Take a look at the cases cited
to remove the man’s license.
Each one was a person who had
been on the disabled list and
David Kuntz operated, taking
them off the list and putting
them back in the work force,

WCB doctors said these peo-
ple did not require these opera-
tions and that the pain was in
their heads and not their backs,
The patients.themselves were not
in court and were not asked if
they thought their surgery was
necessary.

My wife and I have both been
affected very much by the loss of
David Kuntz from the operating
rooms of the North, as many
other people have.

My wife has made three trips
to Vancouver this year, first for
an examination, second for an

. Operation to replace her left hip

joint, and now for her three-

‘three’ times this ‘year, first 10 =

have my: tight. knee examined,
next to -have ‘steel and plastic

parts installed in that same knee, —

anda third time to try:to have an
automatic transmission installed

"into my vehicle so I could drive

with only one leg, and have the
vehicle and tranny refinanced 50
I would not lose it. .

I have not been able to. do
much this year and it is not easy
to make payments ona no-

‘income basis.

I had my right leg amputated
on-Oct, 10 and am on my way to
Vancouver to have a false leg fit-

ted: this will require three or

four trips to Vancouver. Not
bad for one family. .

Dr. David Kuntz could have
done these operations and we
would not have had to travel toa
**foreign country’’ to have them
done. Dr. Kuntz also told my
friend that he felt he could have
fixed my knee good enough that
I would not have had to have it
removed. Now we will never
know.

My leg was lost because I was
willing to put my life on the line
so people in Canada would be
free to call me ‘‘nuts”’ and not
go to jail for doing so.

At the time I] was wounded in
that leg I had no idea that I was
fighting to have a country where

good honest people can be tor- -

tured and mistreated. as. Dayid
Kuntz has been.

Then on the other hand, I had
not planned that people like
Clifford Olson would be pro-
tected and made a national hero
for the kind deeds he did.

Perhaps [ am. ‘nuts’? as you
say for wanting to help someone
who has been railroaded and
given a rotten deal. Really, I
want David Kuntz to have a fair
unbiased hearing in our courts;
so far he has been denied that.

month, post-operation check up

and special therapy.
[have also been to Vancouver

Randy C. Haigh,
- Terrace, B.C.

Terrace Centennial Lions

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10:00 a.m.
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effective December 4th, 1989 to:

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