The way I see it... by Stephanie Wiebe _ Wrong. I feel guilty because of my mother. My mother saves everything. Paper bags, rubber bands, egg cartons (‘Sometimes the Boy Scouts want them!?’), and twist ties. She’s so efficient at recycling, I’m sure she could scrape out the bottom of my fridge and make a casserole of the © crumbs. She would find some ingenious use for those mis- matched buttons that I want to waste. — Most men save things like — nails and screws and wire, like squirrels storing nuts for the winter. My husband has as complete a collection as any man, but it seems to me that he never has the exact size and " Well, it's that time of year again. Spring cleaning. I figure that the extra daylight brings - out some ‘nesting’ hormone in those of us who indulge in this annual rite. So where did all ‘of this junk come from? I don’t buy junk, -but there it is, spread through- - out the house. Every year I throw out boxes of junk, only to find more of it the next spring. Where does it come from? How does one acquire Tup- perware lids with no matching container? Where did those 53 comic books come from? And why do I have something called ‘Concrete Cleaner” whenI don’t own anything concrete? type of screw needed to suc- cessfully repair whatever needs repairing. _ . There's seven paint cans, each containing two inches of © dehydrating paint, mostly beige tion of the project. Skeena MLA Dave Parker recen There is still some fundraising to be done, says Fire Safety House coordinator Ray co Tremblay (right), but a B.C. Lotteries grant of $14,366 will go a tong way toward the comple- ©: tly gave officlal confirmation of the grant... . ean come in handy sometimes. No wonder there’s so much: s banquet In Terrace. and white: There’s empty shoe- boxes, which I really can’t throw out because shoeboxes | junk around here, - I'd like to-go on a rampage, ‘and throw out all the paint - There’s hideous chartruese knit cans, the. broken laundry . - to Tremblay during the annual flrefighters’ award Letter to the Editor fabric that'l’ll never make basket, the framed’3x5-foot anything out-of, but who can = map of Squamish,*the seven — . — throw away: perfectly good stubby pencils without erasers, D O u b | e st a n da rd weak and the pet door we'll never in- stall. But you never know when you’re going to need just that "particular item. [envision myself someday, when ‘the great depression of the 90’s - hits, sobbing into my husband’s arms, ‘‘I’m sorry I ever threw out those seven pen- cils, when we could now use the wood to heat our meager - ‘shack.”’ SE _ Perhaps if I lie down, the - - urge will pass. _ fabric? 1 don’t know where © those inner door ‘panels from a "73. Chevy came from. Perhaps they were left by the previous owner of the house. _— It’s awful to be torn between the spring cleaning urge and the voice of my conscience. “Waste not, want not’’. T save buttons, but they never match any other buttons, so what good are they? There- fore, I can toss out that jar of buttons without any guilt, Ta the Editor; The provincial government gram on drug abuse — alcohol being abused the - worst. The - facts are overwhelming; over half of crime and family violence is alcohol-related, as are one-third of all hospital ad- . missions. - a What the Socreds in particular general don’t seem to realize is right? _ heavily from drug abuse, and they want more. The prolifera- tion of privately owned beer and wine stores and pubs open on Subdivision dispute may be nearing ON series ox: alcoho! consumption and con- has initiated a long-awaited pro- . and some business interests in ¢ that they contribute and profit. propaganda that puts ‘alcoho! at the center of a delightful life- style. And, the brewing industry _. is winning! Although it is dif- ficult to measure the impact advertising has, now almost half of teenagers start to drink by the” time they are 16 years old,.com- pared to a quarter of them who started at that age in 1971. ens programs ~ ‘The government can have as many programs on drug abuse as they want and spend lots of money doing them,. but as long as we have this double standard, our youth will not take the in- itiatives seriously. William Hayes, ~ ‘Terrace, B.C. City awaits WCB ruling | TERRACE — The city’s Direc- tor of Engineering, Stew Chris- tensen, attended a Worker’s Compensation Board appeal hearing last month and if his efforts were successful, he may have saved the city from a According to the city’s Depu- ty Administrator Denise Fisher, Public Works employees didn’t think’ they were contravening any WCB regulations at the time but WCB inspectors apparently didn’t agree.. The city will now THORNHILL — Jackpine Flats ‘resident Larisa, Tarwick may "finally be successful in her bid to subdivide a piéce of property she owns on Old.;Lakelse Lake Drives “ Tarwick originally obtained the property as a.crown grant of agricultural Jand in 1979 and received title to it in 1983. That same year, she made application ~~ to. subdivide the land into two parcels but. the District Agricul- turist said the land was within the Agricultural Land Reserve cand, although there were no farms in the area arid the soil varies from “sandy to gravel”, jt.was the intent of the crown that all parcels of crown granted ~ Jand in that area should remain dintact. -. - The application was refused arid Tarwick was advised by the B.C, Agricultural Land Com- mission that ‘your parcel was _ originally created as a result of -"an-application to the Agricultur- ‘ al Land Commission which con- vinced the Commission that ’ there was a need in the Terrace ‘area to provide some siall agri- ‘cultufal holdings... It was ‘deter-. mined that these parcels have suitability for market gardening and probably small fruit. pro- duction.” At the same time, she was told that a second residence, a rental unit she had moved onto the land, had to be either at- tached to her own home, con- verted to a storage shed, or torn down. To date, she has refused to comply with. these instruc- tions. In January of this year, Tar- wick made a new application to subdivide her land. The regional district board has. advised the Land Commission that they had no objection, due to the nature of the soil in the area but added the condition that neither piece of property resulting from the subdivision should be less than 10 acres. _ Director Pete Weeber said that he was generally not in favor of people acquiring land “under the guise’? of farming but added that there was general agreement that this particular site ‘‘is not conducive to farm- ing’. 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