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efforts together

Amateur radio plays a vital
part in the Provincial Emergen-
cy Program (PEP), and the city
of Terrace recognized the con-
tribution of key people in the
development of communications
for the PEP program in this area
on Monday evening, April 8.

Kim Olfert, zone radio chief,
has organized and coordinated
the communication resources
between the city, the zone of-
fices and the amateur radio club.

Pierre LeRoss has been the
catalyst for the acquisition of
the communication van for use
in emergencies. The van was
used and displayed during the
winter games in February.

Art Mooney, president of the
local Amateur Radio Club, has
coordinated both manpower and
equipment.

Gord Sweeting, who has
dedicated 11 years to the

volunteers within the communi-

years of hard work and dedica-
tion to Search and Rescue and

development of Search and
Rescue activities in the Terrace
area, has spent endless hours
developing equipment and per-
sonnel resources. To ensure
fund raising capabilities, he was
an active promoter of society
status for Search and Rescue.

Terry Myhr, currently presi-
dent of Terrace Land Search and
Rescue, has completed endless
hours of training courses to
qualify for search manager and
trainer and to promote the ac-
tivities and availability of

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a EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WEEK — = APRIL 20-27

Kim Olfert, Gord Sweeting: Endless hours developing equipment and personnel fe resources.

Linda Dennis has contributed

currently holds an executive
position with the organization
and participates in community
training programs throughout
the year.

Stories by

Nancy Orr

Terrace Transition House — Cail us for sup-
port and Information if you are a victim of men-
tal or physical abuse. We're available 24 hours
a day to women and children. Phone 635-6447.

The Alzhelmer Information line: phone
635-3381.

Every Thursday evening it’s Cribbage Night at
Terraceview Lodge from 7 to 9 p.m. Everyone in
the community is invited to drop in and catch
the action.

Terrace Toastmasters — Do you find it difficult
to prepare and give a talk? Turn to
Toastmasters for help. Meetings are the first
and third Tuesday of each month at Northwest
Community College, room 206, at 7:30 p.m. For
information, contact Irene Blackstone at
635-2845.

COFFEEBREAK, a women’s community bible
study, meets Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
We offer free child care, a story hour program
for three- to five-year-olds, an opportunity to
meet new frlends, small group discussions
over a cup of coffee. There's a place for you
with us — join us! Terrace Christian Reformed
Church, on the corner of Sparks and Straume.

The Terrace Friends’ and Families of
Schizophrenics is a support group thal meets
once per month, Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday
of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Psych. Con-
ference Room at Mills Memorial Hospital. One
aim of the group Is to provide community
education about this illness. Anyone wishing
to learn more or become part of this group is
welcome to attend the meetings. Please call
638-3325 for further information.

The Terrace Duplicate Bridge Club meets every
Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. at Caledonia Senior
Secondary in the cafeteria. Anyone interested
in playing please contact Ellen Smith at

635-4096 or May McFarland at 635-2875. .

Everyone welcome.

Skeena Valley Rebekah Lodge holds regular
monthly meetings at their new location in the
Ukrainian Hal!, 4600 biock Walsh, Terrace,
every second and fourth Wednesday at 8 p.m.
If you are interested In Joining our fraternity,
please contact 635-2794 or 638-0674.

Oddfellows Lodge hold meetings every second
and fourth Monday at the new location In the
Ukrainian Hall, 4600 block Walsh, Terrace.

Contact 635-3995 or 635-2956 if you wish —

membership Information.

Plaase, assist the less fortunate of Terrace.
The Anti-poverty Group Society is receiving
donations from people of good will, so that
they may continue helping disadvantaged peo-
ple. Send your contribution to treasurer
Josephine Buck, Room 200, 4721 Lazelle Ave.,
Terrace, B.C., V8G 173. Phone 635-4631.

Terrace Minor Hockey is looking for coaches,
managers, division heads, and referees for the
upcoming season. Those interested should
phone Sandy Marshali at 635-7623 evenings.

Your chance to get involved —

Terrace Contract Bridge Club plays the 1st ana
3rd Thursday of each month at the Legion from
October to April. Please contact Mary at
635-2977 or Rolande at 635-4374. Come and
have a fun night with us!

The Skeena Squares Dance Club meets Mon-
days from 7:30 to 10 p.m. for square dancing at
the Carpenters’ Hall on Sparks St. For more in-
formation, call Bev Greening at 635-7868.

The Parents’ Advisory Committee meets the
third Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in
Skeena Junior Secondary School. All parents/
guardians welcome.

Attention: Girls and Women — If you are in-
terested in camping and outdoors, the home
and family, community service, and interna-
tional experience, Girl Guides of Canada may
be for you. Girls — If you are between the ages
of six and 17, we have a place for you in
Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders, Rangers,
Cadets, or Junior Leaders. Women — we have
opportunities for you to work with the girls or
become members of various councils or com-
mittees. Training plus full support is available
for all positions. For more information, please
call (evenings): Margaret Cooper, 638-0609; or
Kathy Davies, 638-1245.

The Terrace Women's Resource Centre, 4542
Park Ave., is open Monday to Friday, 12 noon
to 4 p.m. Who we are: a support service for
women, “women helping women”, concerned
with particular needs of women living in the
north, promoting the status of women through
the realization of our rights and potentials as
people and through lobbying efforts. What we
do: we give women an opportunity to meet
other women: hold special events such as Mrs.
Santa’s Luncheon, open houses, Easter par:
ties, etc.; hold workshops on subjects as
diverse as Women and AIDS, sewing, self-
esteem, communicating with the ones you
love, breast health, cooking; offer support
groups; give on-going courses. We also do lay
counselling, and give encouragement and
emotional support, Information on community
services and areas of concern to women. We
have a Drop-In Centre — a comfortable, re-
laxed atmosphere for women to share ideas
and express themselves. We can be reached at
638-0228.

The Kinette Club of Terrace meets on the sec-
ond and fourth Wednesday of every month. For
more Information, call Gail at 635-9253.

The K-ette Club ladies meet on the third
Wednesday of every month. Please call Sheila
Crampton at 635-4435 for further Information.

The Mills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary meets
on the third Monday of every month at 8:15
p.m. In the board room of Mills Memorial
Hospital. New members are always weicome!!

The Terrace Badminton Club meets Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m. and on Sun-
days from 7 to 10 p.m. at Thornhill Junior
Secondary School. For further information,
call Diane Cey at 635-3564.

Lodging ready for people
who have nowhere to go

Whenever Emergency Social
Services is being discussed, a
name keeps surfacing — Ella-
nore Turner, Lodging coor-
dinator.

‘‘When we were notified of
the flooding at Copperside last
November,”’ said several people

involved, “within 15 minutes

there were 149 rooms avail-
able.’’

Fortunately, that many were
not needed, but it was typical of
the preliminary work and organ-
ization within the volunteer
emergency services within our
community.

Ellanore, formerly a manager
at Slumber Lodge, started with
ESS about a year ago with Pat
Allen as co-worker. Since then,
they have indexed and placed on
computer disks all the available
commerical rooms in the Ter-
race area, from Rosswood to
Lakelse Lake, Cedarvale to
Shames — every bed or cot in
every hotel, motel or rooming
house,

Now they are compiling a list
of non-commerical accommoda-
tion.

During the official Provincial
Emergency Program (PEP)
week of April 20-27, there will
be questionaires available in the
Mall where the demonstrations
take place and at City Hall in
Terrace, and the public is being
asked to fill them out. ,

The questionaires will be in
two parts. Not-only will they ask
what you can provide in an
emergency, but also they will ask
what you meed in an emergency.

“Special diets, handicap pro-
visions, pet care, any special or
unusual needs your household
would require if there is an
emergency in your area,’’ said
Ellanore. ‘‘They would come up
on our computers and we would
know what to look for and be
able to make provisions.”’

‘‘We have the disks in several
locations,’? she said, ‘‘It’s an
‘if?’ type situation, but we try to
think of everything.”’

MOBILE HOSPITAL ON DISPLAY

To demonstrate what can ac-
tually be done in an emergency,
a 200-bed hospital will be as-
sembled on a Sunday afternoon
at the airport this weekend and
be open for public display Mon-
day, April 22 to Wednesday
noon, April 24 at the Air Cadet
building.

Designed to take care of mass
casualties, the units can be set up
in a gymnasium or similar area
of at least 1,700 square metres
floor space in a very short time.
There are 197 of the 200-bed
hospital units in Canada, owned
by the Health and Welfare Na-
tional Medical Stockpile, of
which 87 are pre-positioned in
the provinces.

B.c. has 16, stationed at
Dawson Creek, Prince George,
Terrace, Kitimat, Kamloops,
Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Ver-
non, Mission, Port Coquitlam,
Courtenay, Nanaimo, Duncan
and Victoria, under the custody

of the provincial Health and

Welfare Ministry. There are

seven additional units at the
Canadian Forces Base in Chilli-
wack.

One unit positioned in Vic-
toria is a travelling unit designed
for training, and it will be sent
by ferry via Prince Rupert to
Terrace to be set up for display
from April 22 to 24. From here
the unit travels to Prince George
before returning to Victoria.

-The units are designed for
long-term storage, vacuum seal-
ed and packed in plywood
crates. Their use in an extreme
emergency could involve three
shifts of 80 people, including
physicians, nurses, pharmacists,
technicians and other hospital
personnel.

Hours of display at Terrace
Airport Air Caded hall will be
April 22, aa a.m. to 5 p.m, and
6:30 to 9 p.m.; and April 23, 9
a.m. to 12 noon, | to 5 p.m.,
and 6:30 to 9 p.m. Anyone who
is interested is welcome to drop
by the Air Cadet building and
take a look.

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