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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 20, 1985 Terrace Ba Soeinar y What if they are Children by Duane Peters "'The whole group rose and took Jesus before Pilate, where they began to accuse Him, '"We caught this Man misleading our people, telling them not to pay taxes to the Emperor, and claiming that He Himself is Christ, a King."' 2 2K 2K 2 The people rose up and took the unborn children before the Supreme Court and began to accuse them saying, "We caught these things threatening to use our resources and pollute our lands. They will cost us taxes, and they claim to be human."' 2K KK So Pilate asked Him, "Are you a King then?" Jesus answered, "'You say that I am a King. I was born and came into the world for this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to Me." "And . what is the truth?" Pilate, asked. RK "So the court asked the children, "Are you human then?" The children answered, "'Do you even have to ask? We want to be born to give witness to the truth. We are children of God just as you. Do not be afraid to admit the truth about us." "And what is the truth", asked the court. KR "At. every Passover The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is Laurentian Publishi Telephone: (807) 825-3747. GENERAL/ADV OFFICE published every Wednesday by: ing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. .... Vivian Ludington . . Kelley Ann Chesley Be re ee ee a eee nee Mary Melo Feast Pilate would set tree any prisoner the people asked for. At that time a man named Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder in the riot. When the crowd gathered and began to ask Pilate for the usual favor, he asked them, "'Do you want me to see free for you the Kind of the Jews?" He knew very well that the chief preists had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask in- stead, for Pilate to set Barabbas free for them. e aR RRR The court knew that the children had been handed over because they caused pain and worry, and tied their parents down, and put a strain on the budget. So they said to the people, **Which do you want, the responsiblity of the children you have sired, or a life devoted to your own ease and _ whatever pleasures you can buy?"' The people answered, "'Give us our privacy so that we may be free do to 'whatever we wish."' e aK KK 'What, then, shall I do with Jesus called the Christ?" Pilate asked them. "Nail Him to the cross" they all answered. But Pilate asked them, "*What crime has He com- mitted?" Then they all started shouting at the top of their voices, "Nail Him to the cross." When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, wahsed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for the death of this Man. This is your doing." The whole crowd answered back, "Let the punishment for His death fall on us and on our children." Then Pilate set Barabbas free for them; he had Jesus whip- ped and handed Him over to be nailed on the cross. eK '*What then, shall I do with these children' asked the court. "Away with them,"' they all answered. But the court asked, "'What if they are human?" Then they started shouting at the tops of their voices. "*Away with them."' Final- ly the judges washed their hands of the whole affair and said, "We cannot say whether these beings are human or not. Take them yourselves and kill them. It is a private matter between a woman and her doctor... We are not responsible for , their deaths." The people answered back, "Let. the punishment be upon our children." Then the court handed the children over to be done away with. And it was night. Did you Know? LIKE HAVING THE EX-WIFE BACK IN THE KITCHEN -.. rm | GISSE Concerned Citizen replies Dear Mr. Ernie Kettle: I am writing in reply to the article in last week's Terraée Bay Schreiber News regarding the damage done to our Recreation Centre by the two nine year olds. I wish to point out that, in my opinion, when we decide to punish these children by denying them the access to our Recrea- tion Complex, we have failed the people of this community. By abandon- ing these children to their own devices for recreation indicates that it is easier to hide a problem than to solve it. Team involvement is a vital and beneficial phase in the development of children in our society. When a child fails to assimilate to his or her peer group and expresses it in a physical way perhaps a more meaningful lesson is needed. Perhaps as a sug- gestion, physical work around the complex, unde the supervision, with the doors of communication left open could be in- stituted. This would afford the child an opportunity to realize the serious nature of misbehaviour, and the value of what the Recrea- tion Centre stands for and means to this community. The denial of access will, in my opinion, encourage further, and perhaps, more serious misbehaviour. By having children realize that their community cares for them as well as their parents and peers would certainly -help them to become better all around citizen. Forbidding these children the use of the Recreation Centre is definitely not the answer. Sincerely, 4 Mr. Chris Joubert Concerned Citizen This Sunday, February 24th marks 30 years since the first community televi- sion was available in Ter- race Bay. : ideog There are three things that I have trouble believing about video games, The first is that anybody can be bothered fooling with the damn things. But that's just my cranky old age showing. ; The second is that the wretched devices have been around for nearly a decade. No kidding! Even though it seems to me like video games just showed up a few months back, the fact is, they burst on the scene in 1977 -- eight long years ago. For eight years now, kids have been cadging quarters and shuffling off to video parlours to get a phosphorescent tan while feeding those insatiable mechanical maws. believing, but am delighted to report ... is that it looks like the video game craze is as dead as disco. It is definitely no longer a growth industry. Just a few short years ago, there were seven or eight huge and rapacious companies cranking out video games as fast as the solder would cool. Today, only two -- Col- eco and Atari -- survive. And they aren't exactly wallowing in manna. In 1984, Coleco sold a paltry 200 thousand video game units. That was down from half a million units sold during the. previous Christmas season alone. What killed video games? Well, no doubt the cut-throat competition _ ames craze is dead The other thing that I have trouble _ helped. You get seven or eight com- panies flogging expensive and large- ly identical wares to the same finite market and, to quote Sinatra: Somethin's gotta give. But I think the real death blow was simple boredom. How long can anyone -- even a teenager -- Stay in- terested in pushing buttons and yank- ing levers to manipulate blips on a TV screen? Video games have gone the way of most fads of the past few years. Somewhere, in a gigantic Graveyard for Commercial Trivialities, half-forgotten cultural oddities such as Rubik's cubes, Pet Rocks, Hot Pants, Deely Boppers, Disco records, Hula Hoops, and Davy Crockett coonskin caps are moving over to make room for games like PacMan, Asteroids and Space Invaders. ~ My sympathies to video game stockholders and Arcade landlords ... but I am somewhat less than heart- broken. I never thought video games were the high water mark of our civilization anyway. They will pass largely unlamented. I feel confident the same oblivion awaits last year's much-heralded Cabbage Patch Kids. In fact, for all I know, those disconcertingly home- ly dolls are already passe. I haven't had a recent report from the Cabbage Patch. And so it goes. That fickle abstrac- tion known as Public Demand turns its back on Video games and flounces off, looking for new thrills. And we, who only stand and purchase, find ourselves temporarily fadless. Caught with our trends down. It shouldn't bother me, of course. I'm so ancient I can remember Slinky Toys and Jughead Beanies with pro- pellers on top. It shouldn't ... but it does. I shud- der to think what might come next. Let's face it. In a world that con- fers a Peace Prize on Henry Kiss- inger, an Academy Award on John Wayne and an NHL franchise on Harold Ballard anything -- is possible.