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No. 4802
Terrace Registry

iN THE SUPREME COURT
‘OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

RE: Mortgage granted to Gerald
David Friel by Bank of Montreal
BETWEEN: Bank of Montreal,.
Petitioner AND: Gerald David
Friel (a.k.a Gerry Friel); Sheila
Marilyn Friel; Workers’ Compen-
sation Board; Pacific Credit
Bureau Services Ltd. (now
known as Thomas Downie Hold-
ings Ltd.), Respondents TO:
Sheila Marilyn Friel.

NOTICE

A Petition for Foreclosure has
been issued by Bank of Montreal
naming you as Respondent; fore-
closing property described as:

All and singular that certain
parcel or tract of lands and
premises situate, lying and be-
ing in the Prince Rupert Assess-
ment District, in the Province of
British Columbia being more
particularly known and de-
scribed as:

That part of District Lot 1036 ly-
ing West of the Northerly prolon-
gation of the East boundary of
District Lot 1037 Range 5 Coast
District

By reason of your whereabouts
being unknown, A Judge of the »
Court has the 14th day of No-
vember, 1990 ordered that you
may be served substitutionally
by one publication of this Notice
on any day other than a Sunday.
You may inspect the Petition at
the Office of the Registrar at The
Supreme Court of British Colum-
bia, 3408 Kalum Street, Terrace,
British Columbia. If you wish to
defend the action, you must give
notice of your intention by filing
an Appearance in the above Reg-
istry within fourteen (14) days of
the publication of this-Notice. In
default of Appearance, you will
not be entitled to notice of any
further proceedings. A copy of
the Petition and supporting ma-
terial will be mailed to you upon
receipt of a written request to
the above — named Registrar.

ROBERT J. ELLIS

Ellls, Roadburg
Barristers and Solicitors
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Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3B4

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Life on the other side - a personal view

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by Tod Strachan

November 18 to 24 was National
Addictions Awareness Week. The.
theme, "Keep the Circle Strong,"
was adopted from a Northwest
Territories campaign and conveys
the message that a growing circle
of individuals, families and com-
munities have chosen a lifestyle
free of alcohol, drug and solvent
abuse. The week was designed to
encourage people to join and
strengthen the circle of life.

In recognition of this event, the
Terrace Review went to the Ter-
race Regional Correctional Centre
to talk to a few inmates. We
wanted to know how events in
their lives led to their imprison-
ment and what they might have
done to change it. There were
several volunteers ~~ eager, willing
to help — people with concerns
about their lives and the lives of
their fellow citizens, average
people in many ways. Except
they’re in jail.

They named three main reasons
for substance abuse: peer pressure,
examples set by adults, and the
boredom of living in- a small,
isolated community. And while
several solutions were suggested,
ihere was a single theme: Listen to
what they have to say... and learn.

We would like to thank these
people for their willingness to
speak out.

At 14 years of age Ray was
finding life difficult, both at home
and in school, so he began smok-
ing marijuana, "Pretty well steady."
When he was 16, he added alcohol
to his recipe for peace of mind and
by the time he was 18 he was an
alcoholic. ~

Ray managed to suppress his

craving for alcohol —- he hasn't:

had a drink for about eight years
— but not his craving for mari-
juana. He continued smoking, lost
his job when he was about 25, and
as a result began selling a little
"pot" on the side to support his
habit. Now, at the age of 28, he is

_ serving four months in the Terrace

Regional Correctional Centre for

selling marijuana.

Ray’s story isn’t unusual. We
talked to seven inmates at the
correctional centre and they all
said the same thing. They began

drinking or "doing drugs" at an

early age due to peer pressure or
the example set by their parents.

Percy, 20, had his first drink the
day before he was to begin Grade
8. "I got totally plastered,” he
remembers. "Just me and my other
two buddies. We went through
three twenty-sixers of Canadian
Club." Percy didn’t feel weil the
next day, the day he was to begin
Grade 8, but he found a quick
solution: "The way to beat a hang-
over is to stay drunk... We took
four mickeys on the bus."

Percy failed Grade 8 that year
because of alcohol, he now admits.
"I was missing a lot of school...
Not doing my homework," he
recalls. In retrospect, he doesn’t
look back at that first drinking
experience with any great pleasure.
"I wish I had never started drink-

_ing," he says six years later. “It’s

holding me too far back. All I can
say is that alcohol is..." Percy is
still trying to get his Grade 12 and
is serving time for alcohol-related
offenses.

George, 39, grew up on in a
small, remole community where,
"The priest was a drunk." Today,
he’s in jail, He doesn’t remember
how many times he’s been there
before, but his record lists every-
thing from alcohol-related offenses
to armed robbery; something you
do when no one will hire you and
you need money to buy a drink.

Jim, 21, is in jail as a result of
an alcohol-related offence. He told
us a bit about his past and what he
could remember of one incident
from his past: "The night I
wrecked my truck."

Jim had too much to drink but
ihat didn’t stop him from "racing"
a friend as they drove back to
Terrace.

About 30 miles out of town, Jim
lost control when he entered a
corner at about "three times the
speed limit". The pickup rolled
nine times before coming to rest

and both he and his passenger .

(neither of them wearing a seat

somewhere in the process. ©

Jim’s injuries were not serious,
he only spent a week in the hospi-
tal, But his passenger was hospital-
ized for six months with a broken
back and fractured pelvis.

"{ don’t remember that night,” he
told us. "I smacked my head on
the pavement a few too many

times." But he swears it will never

happen again: "There’s no doubt in
my mind that I wouldn’t have gone
into those comers over three times
the speed limit if I hadn’t been
drunk, But when you’ve had a lot
to drink you don’t really realize
the speed... You're not aware of
any danger."

It was a hard lesson. Jim had
been "getting hammered" and
driving his truck every weekend
for five years and had never had
an accident. It finally caught up to
him.

He says “it will never happen
again", but the cause of that acci-
dent hasn’t gone away. Jim is in
jail for a more recent incident of
alcohol abuse. Still, his message is
clear: "It will catch up to you if
you keep doing it.”

Jim admits he and his friend
were lucky to have survived that
accident a little over a year ago.
Many others aren’t. Ray remem-
bers a 16-year-old friend who died
after he was ejected from a New
Year’s Eve house party. It was a
"drinking" party, and the young
man was severely beaten before
being thrown out of the house into
sub-zero weather.

He wasn’t wearing a coat and
there were a few present who
could see he was in trouble; he
was falling asleep, hypotherniia
was setting in. But they were
drunk and not thinking clearly.
They left him laying in a snow
bank while they went to get help.
Because they were intoxicated, the
people who called the ambulance
had a hard time remembering
where he was. A 16-year-old boy
froze to death as a result.

The same thing almost happened
to George. He nearly froze to
death. But in his case, a couple of
friends found him, loaded him on

‘ home. "That’s a bad thing in the

winter," says George. “You get so
drunk... Some people don’t even
get half way down the street and
they’re in the ditch asleep. You
don’t realize that if you fall asleep
you’ ll be dead in the morning. You
just don’t see it that way.

Jack, 40, started drinking home
brew when he was eight. He was
living in a foster home; both his
natural parents were alcoholic and
couldn’t look after him. Over time,
Jack became an alcoholic himself,
and as he looks back on his life be
says only one thing... he’s angry.
Not so much with his parents,
foster parents or himself; as he
puts it, "I’m just mad about the
alcohol that’s out there in this
world."

He explains: "My parents, they
drink a lot. I've been watching
what they’ve been doing, watching
them hurt each other. And I just...
I just keep my mind shut, You just
close up. You don’t want to think
about it."

But if Jack had thought about it,
talked about it, his life might have
turned different. Instead of being
in jail, he might be home with his
family. But Jack didn’t do cither
of those things, and as a result of
his own alcoholism left his first
wife when his daughter was only
two and his son only six months
old. »

With his life’s experience, we
asked Jack what he would tell his
own kids today. "I would want
them to know," he said, “that
alcohol is bad. Drugs, I don’t need
them... I don’t go for it. | don’t
care for it. And I just hope they
don’t take anything like that."

George agrees: "All I can say, is
that if they’re drinking now, stop.
Take charge before it"stops you."
And from Ray: "Make a life for
your self before you destroy it
with alcohol and drugs."

Of course most kids will say, "I
can handle it". But Ray is one
person with enough expericnce to
tell those kids they just might be
dead wrong. "How many of them

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