are realistic -

Commentary —

vena Wiebe

With only three days left of
1988, I’ve been thinking about
the New Year’s holiday coming
up. Remember those New
Year’s Eves you spent at home,
watching TV and going to bed
early, wishing you were out”
celebrating at a glamorous ex- |

citing party? Remember all the

parties you've been to,
sometimes wishing you’d stayed
at home and watched TV?

' And what about New Year’s
resolutions — something about
a brand new year inspires op-
timism in the human race. For
some reason, we believe we can
stop smoking or start dieting
on January Ist, when we didn’t

-have the gumption back in the
old year (one day before). A
strange custom. But I do it,
too... . 7

This year, I’m trying to keep
my resolutions realistic. I won’t

become blond and slim in 1989,

and.I won’t win the Nobel
Peace prize. My major life-
changing decision for the new:
year will probably go unnoticed
by most: I’in not going to put
the new roll of toilet tissue on
the roller anymore. I’ve had it
with being a doormat, I simply
won't doit.

‘Exhaustive research shows —
that 92.7 percent of new toilet
_ paper rolls are put out by the -

‘lady of the house’. Men ac-
count for 4.3 percent and chil-
dren of roll-changing age are
two percent. That means one
percent of the time, nobody
knows who changes the roll,
This research probably does
not consider that often the
empty roll is left with one or

Youth dies
in mine

An industrial accident at
the site of Skyline’s Johnny
Mountain gold mine has
taken the life of a 19-year-old
Terrace youth, Kelly
McKew. According to Const.
Glen McKenna of the
Stewart RCMP detachment,
McKew was working near a
conveyer system at the mine
site and became entangled in
the equipment. The accident
is being investigated by
Stewart coronor, Russel

Earl, the Stewart detachment
of the RCMP and the district

mine inspector,

Joy, Peace,
Luck Happy

Days Ahead!

| One of the treasures of a New

: Year’ 8 celebration is the

opportunity tosay “thank you”!

~ two sheets hanging on, thereby
leaving the excuse that the roll

- wasn't really empty yet.

As of January Ist, 1989, my
roil-changing days are over. -
The family will just have to
manage for themselves. If the
roll remains empty for an ex-
tended period of time, [ shall
resort to carrying my own -
private supply of tissue until
the new roll has been put out. I
tell ya, this will be the year I.
become liberated.

This could be a turning point
in my life, With the newspaper
coverage and television spots

_ (“Woman Goes on Tissue

Strike’’), 1989 could become
known as ‘“‘The Year the Tissue

-Changed’’. I'd be as famous as

Gloria Steinem.
And you’re just going to lose
a little weight?. -

Regional

On a motion by director Bob
Cooper, the Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District will be discuss-
ing the issue of slash burning
and controlled burns with a rep-
resentative from the Ministry of
Forests in the near future. Ac-

' cording to Cooper, when a

licence to cut timber is issued,
there are no restraints on slash

Letter’

Greetings

from Wales

To the Editor;

May we (through your paper) ©
send Best Wishes for Health and ~

Happiness in 1989 to our many
Terrace friends, and may they
all have a safe and Merry Christ-
mas,

The sad news of disasters in
the past few days — the Russian
earthquake, the plane disaster

while taking people and equip- -

ment.to assist, and the tragic rail
crash near London — will make
sad times for many people.

If we add to that the terrible
floods in Bangladesh, we must
consider how lucky we are, not
to be involved personally, and
spare a thought and a prayer for
those who are. °

Much prosperity to the City of —

Terrace in 1989.
Sincerely,
Nick and Molly Nattress.,

O

_ 4711 Lakelse,
Terrace
638-1180 |

A resident of the Nass Valley, Hubert Doolan, was the winner of the B.C. Elks’ “Get-a-Way”
dream van draw held Dec. 2. Doolan’s wife Lena of. Aiyansh. accepted the keys to the
$45,000 vehicle at the Elks’ Prince Rupert Lodge from Rupert member Pete Peterson, B.C.
Elks’ president Noel Martel of Terrace and Prince Rupert Lodge Exalted Ruler Leo Lohoms.
Proceeds from the draw go to the B.C. Elks Children’ 8 3 Camp Society.

board questions slash burning

fires other than those coming
from authorities responsible for
environmental and fisheries con-
cerns. And he wants someone to
explain the rationale behind this
method of forest management.

Hazelton director Pete
Weeber defended the logging in-

dustry by saying. slash fires or

controlled burns were not lit
‘Sindiscriminately or frivolous- .

ly’, But Thornhill director Les
Watmough disagreed by stating,
**T would wager that escapement

fires Over the years will total all
the natural fires in the
province.’’ .

In making his point, Wat-

mough used several examples of
recent slash burns such as one at"

Legate Creek near Cedarvale,
that began with piles of birch,
which he says could have been

sold or given away as firewood...-

But what began as a controlled

. fire in an area of about 20 to 30
: acres soon raged out of control, -
destroying new stands of coni-

firs. ‘‘The whole place was on

fire,” he said.

Weeber argued however, that. |

each site has to be evaluated by a
professional forester before the
method of soil preparation is
determined. The most common
methods .
burns, herbicides and a variety
of mechanical methods. Weeber
says controlled ‘burns inhibit

brush. and alder growth, allow-.. -
ing conifirs to get a head start...

include controlled

Nowadays, it takes
tly different touc

- toreachsome-
Terrace area telephones,

Until now, this area,
a “all Terrace: Tf you 're
_ area tele- not sure
phones were in the 635- which exchange you want to |
exchange. ~ call, check your phone book,
To meet growing needs i in or callInformation.
the region,however, We're growing with
~BCTelhasaddeda ._ . Terrace. And our new 638-
new and separate exchange. exchange is one more
-Tt's638. _. example of B. CTel's a
_.. With the addition of - on-going commitment to. :
a second exchange, we ask. ._ provide quality service —
“you to be just alittle rnore . toall residents of B, C. :
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