. e ’ 4 INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS B2 » Around Town Money going to libraries The Terrace Public Library was awarded a slight in- crease in operating grants last week from the province. Terrace’s library can expect more than $15,000 this year from the provincial government to provide easy access to information. All of British Columbia’s 71 public libraries, representing 227 public library branches, were given operating grants totalling more than $8.3 million for 1998 to ensure free access to libraries. Opportunities for youth The Terrace Anti-Poverty Group Society is starting ‘Opportunities for Youth’, a new community service to help youths aged 15-29 to find and keep jobs. Through the program, youths will be able to upgrade their skills, further their education, and learn job find- ing and maintenance skills. At the new Youth Resource Centre, youths will have access to a photocopier, fax, answering machine, mes- sage board and telephone. They will also be able to access the Human Resources Development Centre’s job bank, Internet, and jabour market information. An employment counselor offering one on one assistance, peer counsel- ing and tutoring will also be available. The office's grand opening will be on Tuesday, July 7 from 10-6 pm at 6-4717 Lakelse Avenue. Coffee, soft drinks, and barbecue items will be provided at no cost and gift certificates from Sight and Sound and Coles books will be presented as door prizes. Principal retires Thornhill Primary’s principal Rick Olson is retiring this year after 32 years of running schools in Terrace and Thornhill. Olson has been a principal at Uplands Elementary, E.T, Kenney Primary, Clarence Michiel Elementary’ and spent his last six years at Thornhill Junior Secondary. Students at Thornhill Junior Secondary gave Olson an Australian bat for wearing when he learns to fly fish, and the school band played him a song they named ‘‘Mr. Olson’s Opus.” Scott Corp, vice principal of Thornhill Junior Secondary said Olson will enjoy retirement operating a Bed and Breakfast at Lakelse Lake with his wife. Next spring, the Olsons are planning on travelling to Spain, Portugal and England. Thank you I would like to take this opportunity to thank the community of Terrace for its generosity and its tremendous support of the Big Bike event. It was yet again a very successful day for both the teams who participated and the Heart and Stroke Foun- dation of B.C. and the Yukon. Heart disease and strokes are still the number one killer in Canada. Ali efforts to support this cause are greatly ap- preciated. I thank everyone for their time and effert, Please call 638-8464 for questions and concerns, Sincerely, Christine Walkinshaw, community development coordinator Terrace. Scouts to get High school credits Starting this fall Scouts in B.C. will receive four Grade 11 credits and Venturers will receive four Grade 12 credits when they successfully complete the Chief Scout's Award and the Queen’s Venture Award. Scouts who complete these awards will be given the equivalent of a full senior secondary school course. The carning of these awards includes passing Scout- ing requirements in conservation, first aid, voluntary community service, youth leadership, citizenship, and outdoor skills. As well, challenges in the areas of athletics, science and technology, cultural arts, home and family care, and personal development must be met. Dry Grad committee gives thanks © Dry Grad is over! We would like to say this year’s event was a huge success. Approximately 200 grade 12s attended the Friday night party at the arena, Arriving in decorated buses at 10 p.m.,, grads partied until 6 a.m, The students were having so much fun they didn’t want to leave. We were pushing them through the door. With Iots of food, entertainment and prizes, ihe class was overwhelmed. The Caledonia dry grad committee would like thank the community of Terrace, the volunteers, parents, and supparters for their input and tong hours of labor to bring this event to a success, There was only one negative issue that happened from the entire event. During clean-up, full cases of pop and juice disappeared after the Dry Grad. These cases were purchased by the committee fund and could have been returned for refund. All monies left from this year’s Dry Grad are passed on to next year’s commiltec fund. Parent participation is what really makes this event a success. The more parents to.assist, the easier the workload is on everybody. Through our efforts and mistakes, we will be passing on a Dry Grad workbook for next year’s commitice. We hope it will assist next year’s group. This chance comes but once in a lifetime, and the rewards are even more worthwhile. wo PICKING RHUBARB: Instead of letting for sale CITY COUNCILLOR Rich McDaniel is selling 30,000 hemlock, spruce, pine and fir seedlings at bargain prices because of Terrace’s poor economic situation. The seedlings were donated to McDaniel by Bell Pole Co. because the company didn’t cut down enough trees this year in order to replant them all. Since forestry companies have to order seedlings two years in advance, they have to forecast what areas they think they will log. "Because of the economic situation over the past 12 months, we've had to adjust our logging schedule,” said lan Smith, Bell Pole’s area manager.‘‘It’s a very unusual situation that we hadn’t anticipated.’ Smith said he tried to sell the seedlings to other companies, but everybody had extra trees this year. Profits from the seedlings will. go towards the future skatepark and to Terrace’s Beautification Socicty. A case of 360 seedlings will sell for $4.50. A bundle of 20 trees is only 75 cents, TERRACE STANDARD. | your excess fruit go to waste this year, let the Terrace First Nations Council of Women will pick it for you, They will distribute it to elders and other people In need. Picking rhubarb in the photo above are members of the Terrace First Nations Council of Women: Judith Benson, Frances Stanley, Rosalee Morgan, Eva Mercer and Connie Little John. Seedlings biG "WE'LL MISS YOU": That's what students at Thorn- hill Primary School were saying to Armand Lapland June 25 as they left his big yellow school bus. Lapland, a bus driver, is retiring after 13 years. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 8, 1998 - BI SECTION B They'll pick your fruit TERRACE FIRST Nations Council of Women gather un- wanted fruit so they can give to others, Since spring and summer are normally food gathering limes for native people, members of Terrace’s First Na- tions Council of Women thought it was important to carry on the tradition, ‘Last year we thought it would be a good idea to collect fruit so we could bring boxes to families and elders who can’t climb trees or walk the fields themselves,’’ said Frances Stanley, president of the council. Last year, the seasonal gatherers were very successful, They collected a variely of fruits and wild berries like pears, apples and crabapples, soapberries, blueberries, sal- monberries, raspberries and strawberries. “People with no use for all of their fruit let us come and pick it,” Stanley said, Once picked, most of the fruit was put into boxes and distributed to those in need. The rest of the fruit was canned and given as Christmas gifts to homeless people and elders. If you don’t want your vegetables, fruit or berries, call the First Nations Council of Women at 635-9429, EXTRA SEEDLINGS: Terrace’ city councillor Rich McDaniel is selling Bell Poles Company's left over seedlings “at low prices. Profits will go toward Terrace's future skatepark and to the Beautification Society. . Bye-bye Mr. Bus driver Volunteers available for work The Skeena Native Development Socicty’s first Sum- mer Student Youth Program is looking to assist seniors and others in need. Students aged 14-17 are available to help with yard work, car washing, small painting THERE’LL BE bi yellow buses or school chile | PFeiecls, and other small jobs. If you necd help, call dren for Armand Lapland. Beverly at 636-1180. Please leave a message. Afier 13 years of driving school buses, Lapland is retiring so that he can fish and relax with his wife. To celebrate his last day of work June 25, dozens of balloons filled the bus’s Rotary Outstanding student award Caledonia graduate Kyla Rice is the first recipient of the Rotary Outstanding Student Award for School Citizenship and Social Responsibility. She receives a aisle. scholarship worth $1,500. Lapland said that his Thomhill students went World’s best resume contest * The Human Resources Centre for students are hold- ing a resume writing contest in search of the ‘“World’s Best Resume’’, Students are encouraged to submit their resumes to be evaluated and prizes will be awarded to the top three, All resumes submitted will be retumed with helpful suggestions, hints and comments. Workshops will be held to learn how to create perfect resumes. If you're interested in attending a workshop, call Natalie or Alison at 635-7134 local 303. Students can drop off resumes for the contest at 4630 Lazelle. crazy when they saw the balloons. ‘There was no use set- ing the kids down this morning,’’ Lapland said. “We had a lot fua.’’ When asked about retire- ment, Lapland said he was- going to miss the children. And Thornhill -primary students are going to miss him, too. More than a few girls ran back to the bus to give Lapland onc last good- bye hug. Two paddlers quit their punishing trek Paddling across Canada wasn’t as fun as two canoeists hoped it would be. After batiling giardia, broken ribs, hunger, and deadly currents, Frank Wolf and Ben O'Hara abandoned their grueling cross-country tour June 6, half way down the Peace River in Al- berta. Wolf of North Vancouver said he and his pad- dling, partner O’Hara of Inglewood, Ontario were just not personally motivated anymore, and had to make the bard decision to quit. In bis final Royal Canadian Geographic Inter- Het journal entry, Wolf described their quest as “snakebitten’”’ from the start, as he detailed the series of difficultics he and O'Hara faced. The two were rescued in May on the Babine River north of Hazelton, when they lost their canoe in rapids as they were returning to Hazelton after a long bushwhacking portage left them weak and running out of food, They got new gear from sponsors, and set out again pulling their new canoe 140 kilometers on___ land from Hazelton to start again at Lake: Babine, , Physical pain was part of the decision to quit. Wolf suffered two broken ribs when he fell on the canoe prow, and O'Hara was coping with a bad case of Achilles tendinitis developed on a portage, With four months ahead of them, and thelr health and spirits at a very low ebb, their in- juries meant four months of pain... Paddling 7,000 strokes a day forced Wolf’s ribs nearly through the skin, and porlaging made O'Hara’s ankle swell like a balloon as he hobbled along. The two adventurers had to face the reality of their physical and mental barriers. They had been travelling abont six weeks, and covered 1,500 of 7,000 kilometers that lay ahead. Wolf says instead of looking forward to cach day, they had begun to dread the journey and only want it to be over. “IF you’re not doing it for the right reasons, you have to quit,’” said Wolf, who crossed Can- ada by canoe in 1995 from cast to west. "On the last trip we had good breaks, but.on ‘this ‘one things just piled up,’ said Wolf,-noting: they had giardia early on, then the foss of canoc, equipment and nearly their lives on the Bab followed by the physical problems. However Wolf, on the phone from Van- couver, said be has no regrets and that it was a- good adventure and leaming experience, They've got about 160 good photos, and will still do a piece for their Canadian Geographic Sponsors. Their several sponsors, who twice have pro- vided clothing, gear, cameras and film, as well as two canoes, are just glad the men are alive, says Wolf, and there is no obligation. ‘When they take on an expedition, it’s part of the game,” explained Wolf, ‘‘you have to think of the benefits,’’ such as the photographs. O'Hara has returned to Ontario, and Wolf is back in North Vancouver. Wolf said O'Hara may do some solo canoe tripping. Wolf will be doing local road races, and is planning 10 enter an adventure race, Raid Gauloises, to be held next year in Ecuador. Racers are dropped from a helicopter in a remote area and kayak, mountain bike and mountaincer their way out. - Considering his experiences on the Canadian Quest, Wolf may be better prepared than others for the challenge. _ oe