llvJBCj iik J VV l Hi I m 1 Fl 1 V Prejudices and baseless fears Assorted items some from city hall some from other places Recreation in the city gets a shot In the arm with the appointment of four more members to the Civic Proper Properties ¬ ties and Recreation Commis Commission ¬ sion this week George Wood RossCralgle llarry Galrns and Bob Flltton should Inject some new life Into a body Ive always felt is too little heard from Recreation Is becoming more and more Important In our fat society with Its shrink shrinking ¬ ing work week and long hours of leisure time How do we live with leisure Do we respond to the chal challenge ¬ lenge to develop our poten potential ¬ tial Or do our minds and bo bodies ¬ dies vegetate before the omnipresent television set Anyway without trying to become too pompously pro profound ¬ found I think the Civic Pro Properties ¬ perties and Recreation Com Commission ¬ mission offers scope for real leadership Recreation is far far more than collecting rents for the use of facilities It offers a challenge for real community involvement I am sure the new CPRC ap appointees ¬ pointees have some positive contributions to make A rather awesome informa information ¬ tion gap is revealed after all the debate over a new loca location ¬ tion for the Halfway House The issue became one of the more emotional ones to land on city council desks in some time Maybe Aid Harry Lo der was right when he la mented the amount of space the debate received in the newspaper Opinions seemed to become polarized as either for or against at the cost of rea reasoned ¬ soned discussion Its a darn shame If repu reputations ¬ tations of the halfway house residents have been tarnished after all the talk has died away There are outstanding men at the halfway house like its manager Bob Healey The men have an illness which they are trying emphasis on trying to do something about Energetic Ray Wllllston belled those rumors of his resignation with a vigorous speech to local government leaders here last week Ray gave an emphatic forceful speech in which he advised us to pull up our socks and provide more facili ties for an expected influx of tourists Were also at the heart of a resource development area without parallel in the world said silver haired Ray Recognize the fortunate position were in and act he said It was quite a brisk and bracing message Old pulp union acquaintance Peter Marshall is back on the labor scene Pete travelled to Victoria last week on be behalf ¬ half of his fellow BC Govern Government ¬ ment Employees Union mem members ¬ bers who are trying to ex tract more pay from da Preem Mmfl j JWi mm miH ml flHH Dr Phil Staniland president and John R Hopkins with charter for Prince George Big Brothers Association City Big Brothers get formal charter Big Brothers of Prince George I became official Tuefday night After meeting unofficially for the past five months thei local group received Its official charter from John Hopkins oi Vancouver first vice-president of Big Brothers provincial board Dr Phil Staniland president of the Prince George chapter accepted the charter Also at the meeting held at the Northern Interior Health Unit Mayor Harold Moffat was named honorary president and Fred Wall of Woodwards honorary adviser Big Brothers of Prince George have already accepted six big brothers They plan to Introduce their first little brother to his big brother this weekend Anyone interested in becom becoming ¬ ing a big brother or in referring a troubled youngster to the or organization ¬ ganization is asked to phone 003 7811 LAST 24 HOURS Prince George Terrace Smithers Quesnel Williams Lake Kamloops Whltehorse Fort Nelson HMn wjaHniBiHtoM33 iaK i9lBSwHHVar44N2vtM r Bk I I HUMP KEi ymumyWKtKR 1LHmLILLW Yf WX i Hi 9n -JB Sv EIB Hr -M 9k II L Pr 50 37 04 58 42 05 55 43 02 52 41 41 48 35 -G7 46 -64 38 -67 35 - 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The Canadian Merchant Service Guild Wednesday stiffened Its stand In the British Columbia towboat strike saying it will defy any court order that threa threatens ¬ tens the survival of the union or any of Its members Guild spokesman Capt Cecil Rhodes said one such order was an injunction that banned picket ing at Chemainus towing on Vancouver Island The court limited guild picket- I ing to the companjs offices leaving Its tugs free to operate We wont let one more man drown because of unsafe condi conditions ¬ tions on BC tugs Capt Rhodes I said of the injunction one of three granted Wednesday that limited guild picketing The other Injunctions were granted Mac M Man Bloedel Ltd for its two Vancouver Island divisions at Port Alberni A company spokesman said picketing had reduced opera tlons to about 40 per cent of capacity but he was unable to PGE Industrial Site at Prince George by 198G and the study feels that Vanderhoof could certainly share in the expected rapid growth of non scheduled landings The Prince George weather of office ¬ fice reports that the city has a regular average of 44 foggy days per year However BC Air Lines say that only rarely are flights di diverted ¬ verted because of fog The airline company claims they havent had a flight diverted for the past two months because of bad weather and even during Towhoat guild stiffens stand say when operations would re return ¬ turn to normal Big Issues in the strike by 1200 men operating the tugs are safety manning and accommo accommodation ¬ dation A Thought For Today One of the bet letsoni you can learn in lite ii to surmount a fear every day It will make you itronger happier - 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