Y Wave ews ssuenness 6 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW VROTASMARIG THE PENINSULA’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Publisher: Jean Butterfield Editor: or: Judy Rete Reimehe Phone: 656-1151 / Fax: 656-5526 A division of tsland Publishers Ltd. 9726 First St., Sidney, B.C. VBL 3C9 ~ Vol. 88 / No. 28 / Circulation: 13,796 _ os EDITORIAL | | Is it a new Day? ‘4, tockwell Day is in — Preston Manning is out. What that will mean for the Canadian Ailiance m# party, or for the constituents who originally voted in ‘the Reform Party, remains to be seen. : _ This has been a painful growing phase for backers of. . Bo the Reform movement, who now find themselves with a -new party — members of which have come from the: . Progressive Conservative Party —— and with a new leader. The next: year will be a time of finding where they all fit together. | : ~» Inthe meantime, the country wil be. Watching Stock-. well Day. ‘Will his election as head of the party mean, as “some fear, a move to. the extreme Right? If it does, will - the new ‘Alliance members he, former. PCs): move ‘with him? It's doubtful. - SARS ssa aaae scares i 2 NEO NESN DDI ish oe voUn a ER TINO NEN NTN NYE PAN o funda salalist leanings have been tempered Re : = change: now. ‘He 1 may be the head of the: pack, but he's S. _ just one. member. ~ ee Although he’s already thrown down the family value’ : gauntlet to his competitors, it’s more likely he will get on. ’ with the business at.hand, which is mounting acam- .. paign against Jean Chretien and Joe Clark and to try to move his party into the governing side of Parliament. - Bandaid solutions - “Doctors i in British Columbia are stepping: up to the a plate and demanding better working conditions. The — province’s reaction to that, in Prince George, was to give . “doctors better wages and some perks to attract new doc- ie . tors to the area. By doing so, the goaernnient has opened a Pandora’ Se: Box. The plight of smaller, rural communities when it comes to. lack of medical services and practitioners is historical —- especially in the more, northern communi- tics. There has always been a shortage of-doctors and - nurses in those communities. Services that people in ur- ban communities take for granted are simply not avail- able there. “And with the trend toward a continued downturn in ‘ the forest economy, it will only get worse. Smaller, more _ dsolated towns throughout the province have been fight- Bi” “ing to get even basic services. Those attached to large. logging companies or mills have had a slight advantage |. when those companies coughed up the funds to entice: -. doctors to set up practice, The doctors didn't stay long. . The lure of better facilities and oppor' tunities eventually : - took them to larger centres, But the companies kept the — ~ f doctors coming into town. As those opportunities: fade. ; : (Gold River is a good example), the services go with ie i a ‘ : . i. 5 a tieetibedie states A ST ee EO ORI PRIMO NE ETRE AOE OTE — peepee sea ns See See eT inode inte ae A PRCT OE Seaersen them. But if the government is going to up the ante in -gome. towns, others will be quick to line up, and that's “what's happening, ‘What we need is a long-term health plan that will serve all British Columbians. : oar PURVES sia aun suiabunuan sn ses ae SAB AV ANA R AA Sati ONC ‘ida ath SILICO Ree bie abelabiadtedaday atl : OPINION emember- r Rawhide? palkaos ewe before ‘cowboys who drove cattle across the. “West and the adventures that befell ; i them i in the doing of it... « Rawhide'was primarily otable as” |; the debut vehicle for-a lean, squinty-. | _eyed newcomer by the name of Clint: ds Eastwood: | The other thing that’s retunable : about it is that, as a program con- cept, Rawhide would never make. : it off the drawing board today. — ~ Are you kidding? It was about cattle drives, The cowpokes iri the . show used to whoop and yell and wave their Stetsons and lasso stray calves and gallop after run- aways. The theme’ song was a:. punchy, up-tempo ditty with lyrics that went “Move. ‘em on, git em up, git em up move.’em on, move ‘em on, git’em up, Rawhide (whip crack).” ‘Wrong, wrong, all wrong. Cowboys don't deve: pathy. The old and evil cattle drives have been re-', stress livestock management’. - And how does that work exactly? Well, for starters, the Born Again cowboys no long whoop and holler and gallop. Instead they coo and whisper and take extra care to make no sudden movements that. might alarm. or. discomfit. their four-footed _gently moves into the steers ‘space’, then backs of {:+ when the steer moves towards him. And the animals are never, ever appr oached from the rear, I'm not, According toSteve Cote, a ‘spokesman for ‘the U.S. Natural Resource Conservation Service, “low stress livestock handling i is changing, the whole face of the West." solidly i in favor of New Age Wrangling, but what's in it for the cowpokes?: “It’s hard to believe at first,” says Cote, “but the. | results are there for everyone to see — the cattle | are happier, healthier and more. obedient if they are | not shouted at or subjected to siress, They tend to: stay together and not wander away, and conse: your time: It was a TV western, really big . back in the early 60s, all about a gaggle of being br anded if they are talked to gently — which. cattle anymore. Not in this.age of caring and em- placed by ‘holistic herding’, Also known as ‘low - change with them.” charges. Instead of ‘driving’ a steer in any given di-- rection, the ex-cowboy-turned- emotion-counsellor “You think I'm making this up, don't you, Well,. I can see where, if cattle had the votes, they’ d poll : neat rape ate numenmennenneet tin insnomet manera i enti nr ft to omecae netstat rn ene ony Cote ¢ even n claims that the cattle will even 1 accent: 1 find.a. little hard to believe. I've: never: had a acne had: a piece’ of = punchers care about their cattle so. - much, why. don’t they deep-six the Magic Markers? = - Still, holistic herding does look come. ‘falich, hands ‘thing it’s so much. Jonghorn. puckie, but the men: who- pay. their ‘salaries are singing adifferenttune. Horace Smith is a rancher who runs a 17, 000- "hectare spread on the Nevada/ Idaho border. - _” “It's not easy for a lot of (the cowboys)” says Smith, “but times are changing and they have to “And,” Smith j adds bluntly, “ig the cowboys don’ t. want to change and do it our way then we don't: want them Oh, Ican see alot of change heading due West- ye ward, Language alone is going to have to get a lot more sensitive. Perhaps cattle drovers will be is- sued with name tags that say, “HiT m Wilbur, your personal travel facilitator.” ‘Cattle drives’ could be renamed ‘ambulatory in- |. ~ ter-species be-ins’.) _And what's to be : done with those macho, decid: ie ; ‘edly uncool rodeos? Well, I suppose the calf roping amount of sweet talk would per-| uade me that it was a good idea. If} these ‘sensitive New Age cow- | the branding irons and break out ? like an. ‘idea whose time has | : "Predictably, a lot “of the old: oe ‘portion could be redesignated as rotating seminars |. On Coping With Externally Imposed Restraints, The bucking bronco section might be overhauled | cand presented as “Equine applications of Newton: dan Physics, or, What. Goes Up Must Come Down." AIL know is, I'm glad John Wayne moseyed off -to the Last Roundup before holistic herding rode | ~ Jnto town, J don't think the Duke could have han- beet dled the whole dadburned concept. © © ~ But who knows? 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