There always seem to be more ambitious projects in the

wind around here than any community the size of Terrace

could possibly manage, and as spring charges the atmos-

phere this year we seem to be particularly deep in grandi-

ose dreams.

Representatives of the municipality have just returned from an extensive tour of western Canada and the adjac- ent parts of the U.S. They were looking at community centers that other municipalities have built, the object of the trip being to get ideas for a similar structure here. Now the population will be surveyed to get a feel for what the users and taxpayers might want, and eventually a plan may emerge. Meanwhile, the library board is well along in its planning for a $1 million expansion.

A regional task force is trying to boil down the over- whelming gaps in health care services here to a size that | can be subjected to some sort of problem-solving process, and Shames Mountain, after a journey of Homeric prop- ortions, will open it slopes next winter. After an equally bizarre odyssey it appears the new improved version of

the local swimming pool will open soon.

All these undertakings have in common the fact that they’re expensive and those that have gotten off the ground did so only after being fueled with senior govern- ment money in one form or another, and that came only after repeated supplications to the tightfisted cur- mudgeons who guard the public treasuries against these kinds of presumptuous sorties from the outback. It’s time to create a consistent mechanism for delivery of money to the regions and bury the lottery fund pork barrel.

The lottery system itself is certainly a questionable way for governments to raise money, but the manner in which the proceeds are handed out is certainly far worse. Every year the city receives its revenue-sharing grant from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, with the money arriving

through an account deposit and notification by mail; it is _

money distributed by statutory formula, so nobody takes” credit for generosity. Whenever lottery funds appear, it is always in the form of a cheque in the hand of a politician in a very public affair. It implies that the politician has done some sort of heroic deed, but if the system were reasonable no such deeds would be necessary.

In view of the resource royalties and income taxes from high-paying hourly jobs flowing south out of this region, it is insulting to have to go cap-in-hand to Cabinet to get some of it back. The present discretionary system is a

recipe for corruption.

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by Bob Jackman

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It’s been almost three years since I quit my regular job. After almost 20 years of working my way Up The Organization, I had begun to suspect that the author of that book, Robert Townsend, had perhaps made a mistake, and that the real answer lay in adding an apostrophe and an 3 to the title.

Today, as I contemplated a return to "regular employment" after three years of semi-retirem- ent, I re-read part of a manuscript I'd written about the benefits of quitting a job. "Quitting" has negative connotations, so I’ve renamed the book "Winning by Withdrawal", which is basically the same thing. If you have to work, it should be fun! I don’t mean that you have to spend the day telling jokes and goofing off, but you should be able to get up in the moming wanting to go to work, Without taking anything away from leisure time, you should be looking forward to going back to work after a long weekend or a two-week holiday. If you’re not, what the hell are you doing there?

I spend a lot of time travelling, and because of that I spend a lot of time in restaurants. I’ve become a half-decent cook but I hate doing dishes, so even when I’m not travelling ] spend a lot of time in restaurants, The way you're served teils you a jot

-about the way the person feels:

about the job, just as the way

you're treated in a government - office, a store or a gas station tells you more about the person

they have on their customers? Do they know what they’re telling their customer about themselves? Do they know that what they tell their customers about themselves is probably the biggest determi- nant of whether or not the cus- tomer will return, if it’s a service establishment, or how they feel about the City, the Province or the Country, if it’s a government office? I suspect the best ones do.

You've gone into stores where you've been virtually ignored or treated as an annoyance bya bored clerk who’d rather be read- ing a paperback. You’ve probably gone into stores where you were attacked at the door by a piranha on commission. And you've gone into stores where you get an

acknowledgement, a greeting, and

an offer of assistance. Which stores did you go back to? Why do you have a favorite restaurant? Do you go for the steak or do you go for the experience? People who enjoy their jobs do a better job. I’ve been dealing with "people jobs", but there are lots of others that don’t involve contact with the public. As long as you’re suited fo that line of work, and you enjoy it, what

could be better? If you like your |

line of work but your boss is an idiot (some are, you know), there are probably similar jobs where the boss isn’t an idiot. Maybe it's worth chucking five years seniority and four weeks holiday to get a decent boss and a little happiness. Or you could work for yourself and be your own idiot! OF course, If you’ve got kids or a credit card company to support, you may not be able to run off — just yet. But you may be able to plan ahead to the day when you can. If it’s the work itself that

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you can’t stand, you should take . a look at yourself. What are your hobbies? What kind of work do

you do when you don’t have to work? You probably can’t make a living watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs every spring and the World Series every fall on TV, but you probably can do alright making cabinets, or landscaping, or renovating houses. If all you do other than your job is drink beer and watch TV, a major change may not be the answer. Most people do have dreams, though, and they can be made to come true, if you work at it. For instance, you might not be able to be an investigative journalist, but you could write a column. Ora book. Or a letter to your mother...

New Rotary Club

Terrace now has a second Rotary Club.

Officers elected for the Terrace Skeena Valley Rotary Club, as it will be called, are president Darryl Laurent, vice-president Wally Classen, secretary Ed Graydon, treasurer Ray Mordan, and Ser- geants-At-Arms Terry Morris and Bob Audet, Directors are Lawrence Gosselin, Phil Haws, Bil! Gook and Adrian Van De Mosselaer.

The club’s initial membership includes several women, a recent trend in the international organiz- ation which until a few years ago did not admit women.

The April 14 charter presentation was attended by Al Cheshire, Rotary District 504 governor, and included gifts and presentations from the Burns Lake, Smithers, Mackenzic, Vanderhoof, Prince Rupert, Hecate Strait, Vancouver and Terrace: Rotary Clubs.