Homeless famil

Hardships
make them
stronger

By JEFF NAGEL
BEING HOMELESS might
tear some families apart.

Not so for Samuel Lincoln,
his wife Eleanor and their four
children.

The family is now living in a
‘tent on Ferry Island after near-
ly a year of looking For a home

‘in Terrace.

Nobody would rent to them
because their family is too
large and they’re on social as-
sistance.

They took up tent life May
1st after a winter of living ina
motel room.

‘In most ways [ think this is
the best thing that’s happened
to us,’’ says Sam, as he carves
a block of maple.

‘Tn most ways I think
this is the best thing that’s
happened to us. There’s no
TV, no video games, no
distractions. We talk to
each other now.”

“There’s no TV, no video
games, no distractions,’’ he
says. ‘‘Just us, We talk to each
other now.’?

After five years in Van-
couver, he and his wife and
their four children returned to
the northwest last June to get
closer to their Nisga’a and
Tsimshian roots.

‘| forgot how homesick I
was for this territory,’’ says
Sam.

In Vancouver, he says, their
lives were aut of control. They
had to gel out.

‘Our aldest son, we lost him
to the streets,’? he recalls.

**We didn’t want that lo hap- ,-

pen to the rest of the kids.’’
Their determination to stick

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grows closer

AFTER 4 YEAR of searching for a place to live, Sam Lincoln and his family are
living in a tent on Ferry Island. They're on social assistance and so-far haven't
found anyone who will rent to them, Sam says he believes the * experience has
brought the family closer together,

Police
Beat

it out here shows in the sweat
lodge Sam’s built at the camp-
site, and in the slow careful
strokes as he carves.

“It’s been 15 years since I
made anything out of wood,”
he says, proudly displaying a
ceremonial soup ladle he’s
making.

‘My grandmother used to
have one;’’ he says. ‘But they
don’t make them-any more.”’

He’d get hit by it, he says, if

his fingers got too close lo a
pot of gravy in the kitchen.

‘YT tell some people it’s an
Indian boomerang,’’ _he
laughs.

Both Samuel and Eleanor are -

on the waiting list to get into
the Adult Basic Education
program at Northwest Com-
munity College.

He says they kept telling the

kids to go to school and do
well, they figured they should

‘Kincolith

do it themselves.

Sam, now 42, was born in
and went io an
Anglican residential school in
Lytton.

He graduated from high
school in 1972.

But standards have changed

since then, he says, adding he
has to upgrade.

“Once he’ 8 finished « ‘that he

wants to study forestry.

For now though, the man
with no roof over his head is
looking to put s some up over
others.

He’s looking for work as a
roofer and is bidding on a few
local projects.

And things are looking up,
he says, adding | his wife got a
job working i in 4 restaurant.,
We're’ goitig’ to: 8 éfine,
he says confidently, *” 7

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RCMP said a masked man
wielding a knife entered the
slore at about 5 am. on May
6 and forced an employee ta
hand over an undetermined
amount of cash.

Nobedy was hurt, police
say, and (he investigation is
conlinuing, and charges are
expecied.

Shot fired

e RCMP ARRESTED three
men near the Terrace Inn at
about 2:30 a.m. May 6 after
a report of a shot being fired
was made,

Staff Sgt. John Veldman
said the gun in question was
a revolver,

The incident happened: at
2:30 a.m. on May 6, he said,
and nabody was injured,

As of last week the inves-
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