A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 11, 1998

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Juggling act
THE FORCES for the next battle facing Terrace
are quietly gathering. It concerns future commer-
cial and shopping development and as has been
the case elsewhere, it will be hard fought.

At the core is the survival of the downtown
shopping area. A decade ago Lakelse Ave. and
crossing streets were the heart of the city’s shop-
ping. That began to change in the late 1980s with
more and more development along the highway.
This reached a pinnacle last year with the open-
ing of the Real Canadian Wholesale Club on the
eastern approach to the city and Canadian Tire
on the western approach. Both solidified Terrace
as the northwest’s regional shopping centre.

But now council is grappling with the concept
of a developer wanting to build a strip mall
somewhere near Canadian Tire. A strip mall
means smaller businesses, the kind which make a
downtown healthy. Yet the prospect of a high-
way development offering a home to small busi-
ness leads to the very serious issue of keeping
the downtown thriving.

Terrace has a reputation of welcoming
businesses. But as the city grows this will entail
a juggling act of conflicting interests. The ques~
tion for council is how many hands will be jug-
gling how many balls in the air while keeping an_
eye on the goal of providing adequate services |
for residents and continuing the development of ,
Terrace as a regional service centre.

True disaster

' CONSIDER THE impact of an illness in which
two per cent of the northwest’s population will
die each year for the foreseeable future. Within a
.decade, 10 of every 100 school desks would be
empty and 10 of every 100 employees at each
and every business would be gone.

That’s the grim statistic related in a newspaper
_ article last week by noted international com-
mentator Gwynne Dyer. The illness is AIDS and
it’s sweeping through black Africa, the continent

in which scientists suspect that it originated.

Using various United Nations reports, Dyer
points to Zimbabwe as an example. In one
region, a full two-thirds of women of child-
- bearing age have AIDS and will die, along with
their children, in the next 10 years.

Dyer says the result of the relentless march of
AIDS deaths will be a steep population decrease.
By the year 2010 the African population will be
71 million people fewer than would be the case
without AIDS.

_ The reality is that desperate Africa doesn’t reg-

ister on any international scale because it is not a
major political or economic player. There would
be a far higher hue and cry if this was happening
in North America or in Europe. And while devel-
oped countries can afford the tremendously ex-
pensive drugs which are cutting death rates from
AIDS, Africans are too poor to afford them and
so will die in tragically high numbers,

Now place this against the various economic,
social and political challenges facing B.C. and
North America. They pale in comparison.

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Lest we forget

VICTORIA — This column
is dedicated to the victims of the
Holocaust and the men and
women who gave their lives to
end the nightmare that gave rise
to history’s most horrible geno-
cide — the Third Reich.

Two dates in November
remind us of this, Europe’s dark-
est decade. November 9 marks
the 60th anniversary of the
Kristalinacht, the Night of bro-
ken Glass. On that day, in 1938,
the first carefully planned and
meticulously executed attack on
Germany’s Jews took place.

In the early morning hours,
throughout Germany, storm
troopers, aided by SS and Hitler
Youth destroyed the homes of

Jews, throwing their belongings -

out the windows into the street.”

“When the campaign of terror
ended, tens of thousands of
homes had been trashed, 7,500
Jewish businesses destroyed,
267 synagogues burned, 177 of
them totally destroyed, and 91
Jews killed.

An estimated 25,000 Jews
were rounded up and sent to con-
centralion camps. These were
not yet the death camps of future
years, but Jews taken to the early
camps were routinely subjected
to brutality. Some were beaten to

Canada, what a weird

THE NOVEMBER 3
Vancouver Province was one
“Whoa! What's this headline?’
after another until E wonder what
Canada is coming to.

On Page 8, Surrey Mounties -

sat on a wedding album someone
had turned in after finding it in a
Surrey park ... in March. The
album was due to be destroyed
unless claimed. Then an enter-
prising member tipped the
media.

Radio featured the album.
The Province and BCTV showed
samples of its 300 photos.

Days later the rightful own-
ers retrieved it. It had been
thrown out of the couple’s van
when joyriders stole the newly-
weds’ van from their Cloverdale
driveway and trashed the vehicle.

So why did the Mounties
stay mum for seven months?

On Page 12, a headline:
“MDs turn to Amway for finan-

“FROM.THE CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

death. Thus began the slide into
unimaginable barbarity of a
civilized nation.

And lest someone brain-
washed by the propaganda of
Holocaust deniers question the

nuns a few blocks away. When
mother and I emerged onto the
street, it was littered knee-deep
with everything from kitchen
utensils to couches, to book-
shelves and even pianos.

My mother, a gentle and in
many ways naive woman, was
unable to explain to me what was
going on. Nor could she tell me
why people, including some
neighbours of ours, were being
herded, at gunpoint, toward the
nearby railway station. The
sight, however, has stayed with
me to this very day.

It was to take years before |
understood the horror of what
began in earnest that night, the
Kristallnacht. Nazi propaganda
and-the absence of truth made

veracity ‘of the account, let ‘me..,; 0h

state that 1 speak with. ‘SOME -

authority on the matter. 1 was
there.

That fateful morning, I
awoke to the clamor of voices
barking orders and heavy boots
in the stairwell of the building
where we lived. It was a five-sto-
rey tenement with about 20
suiles, the kind that made up
most of Germany’s cities,
including Duesseldorf,

Mother hastily dressed me
for kindergarten, operated by

THROUGH BIFOCALS'
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

cial health.’ Seems some Ottawa
doctors are peddling everything
from cosmetics to cookware to
supplement their incomes. In
fact, Family Practice medical
magazine rates Oltawa “Doctor

Amway Capitol of Canada.”

Amway confirms more pro-
fessionals — doctors, lawyers —
are joining their ranks, where
Emerald dealers earn $150,000

to $500,000 or more annually.

gure that the minds of Germany's
‘children and youth would remain

bent and twisted to the bitter end.

It was one of my teachers,
Ernst Fiebig, who introduced me
to the concept of democracy. It
blew my mind. That was imme-
diately after the war. Fiebig had
been a Social Democrat and
spend years in concentration
camps himself. He was one of
the few to survive.

It is because of the horror
that began November 9, 1938, |

Ontario doctors claim
they're being paid the same rates
they received in 1989, making it

impossible for them to save |

enough to have any sort of
retirement,

That story would be tough to
swallow if ] hadn’t just read in
Mordecai Richler’s latest book,
Retling the Cat, that Gordie
Howe distributes Amway prod-
ucts from his Hartford,
Connecticut home.

Cartons of health-care items,
cosmetics, jewellery, and garden-
ing materials stacked in Gordie’s
garage make it “look like the
back room of a prairie general
store. And:a large Amway flow
chart hanging from a stand domi-
nates Gordie’s suburban living
room.”

Page 15 headline “You can
steal and still be a refugee:
Court’. A federal court has ruled
a family of Polish gypsies who

these two days

can also fully appreciate
Remembraice Day, observed
two days later. The soldiers who

lost their lives in the fight against’

fascist Hitler Germany were also
the ones who brought an end to

the systematic destruction of a

race,

That is not to treat with dis-
dain the common German sol-
dier. He did what soldiers have
always been told to do — fight.
My brother was drafted at the
age of 15 and sent to the Russian
front.

On Remembrance Day, I
would like to think we honour
the men and women who pave
their lives not so much in the
fight against the German army

_, but against the evil of, Nazi:

Germany.

I believe it is important that
both days be never forgotten.
Observing the anniversary of
Kristallnacht reminds us never to

take for granted the freedom we | -
have, And Remembrance Day |

reinforces that feeling: by
reminding us that others gave
their lives, so we can live in free-
dom and peace,

Beyer can be reached at: Tel:
(250) 920-9300; Fax: (250) 356-
9597; E-mail: hubert@coolcom.com

place

steal for a living can still make a
refugee claim in Canada because

their crimes are petty, not seri-. -

ous, extraditable ones,
Are these gypsies ashamed

of their actions? Nope. They say

stealing is in their blood and was
taught to them as children. Ak,
yes,

ultrasound scanning techniques

will soon provide pregnant
women with very clear pictures

of their unborn children, includ
ing exactly what a baby's face
will look like, Poor baby. i

To top these headlines, Page
B8 “You can ‘be pregnant and

stylish as well’. ‘The elegant
model shows off a pea coat $900,
pants $355, and turtleneck $295;
Doesn't everyone?
She’s either an’ Emerald
Amway dealer ora light-fingered

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