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The Terrace Art Gallery is becoming a popular venue for performing arts
as well as still arts. The Northwest Singers filled the room with song one
evening last week, and students of the Northwest Academy of Performing
Arts will be making regular weekly appearances In the gallery on Sun-

tivities held over several days to offer alte
sion during Pull the Plug Week.

days. The Northwest Singers’ performance was one of a series of ac-

tnative entertainment to televi-

The way
I see it...

by Stephanie Wiebe

J

I was thinking about Valen-
tine’s Day. Romance. Great
romantic couples. 2

I was thinking about this, as
the snow fell, as the driveway
filled: up again with white
precipitation. I started thinking
about romance and all this
snow.

My mother used to read’
romantic mystery stories. I
remember seeing the book .
covers, always showing a _
beautiful woman running away
from a mansion at night, in a

filmy negligee. It wouldn’t haye

the same effect .if the woman.
was wearing a heavy parka,
trudging away from the man-

. sion in the snow.

Would this snow have ef-
fected Romeo ang Juliet?
Cleopatra and Ceasar? Charles:
and Diana? .

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore
art thou Romeo? Deny thy
father,.and refuse thy name --””

Yo! Juliet. Thou forget all
that. Just get out here and
helpeth me clear the driveway.
We'll talketh while we shovel.’’

Yes, I think it would’ve
made a difference. It’s dif-

snowbank. Giggling shyly, she ‘ T hat U n Sa fe feel i ng

fell back on her keisier and was
knocked unconscious..The .
plawman found them there in
the morning, dead and frozen.
Not a pleasant scene, is it?
Anyway, .I was. thinking
about all this, as I cleared the
driveway at 5:30 p.m. The |
hard-packed ‘snow stuck to the -

shovel and the ice underneath

was solid.
_My husband drove up slowly

and parked. He got out and

- said, ‘Honey, stop now. I can -

finish — you have a bad back.
Go on inside and warm up.”

The logistics of any great romantic episodes -
in the north are unthinkable.

ficult to feel romantic after the
first two-and-a-half feet of .
snow has hit, Cinderella’s glass

-slipper would be.lost in a drift

of white. Cleopatra’s asp

would be frozen. The logistics

of any great romantic episodes _

in the north are unthinkable.
They walked together slowly .

through the snowy night. She —.

looked deep into his eyes, His

bright wool toque accented the |

deep blue irises, as his strong
arms enveloped her. Suddenly,
he-lost his footing on the ice,
and tripped headfirst into a

4

_ No.romance in the north? I
could’ve sworn he said, ‘Thou
waiteth inside:-— I'll be right in
to keepeth you warm.’’

Speaking on behalf of the
Lakelse Lake Community

' Association, Sandy Sandhals

has told the Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District that safety at

‘the Lakelse Lake Lodge Road

and Hwy. 37 intersection has to
be improved.

As it exists, says Sandhals, the
intersection presents a hazard to
the travelling public and it

would be in everyone’s best in-

terest if the situation were cor-
rected. And with the help of the
regional district, he says, the
association hopes that some of
the red tape separating the cur-
rent situation from a solution
can be eliminated. _ ,

Sandhals says that the 180

lake residents in the area feel

street lighting would do much to
eliminate the nighttime hazard,
and they’re prepared to pay one-
third of the cost. The balance,
he says, would be paid by the

Ministry of Highways. Regional

district administrator Bob

Marcellin said that a lighting
project would be similar to one
done at the Gossen Creek sub-
division last year.
On the safety

issue, the

‘regional district agrees with San-

dhals and has written a letter to
the Ministry of Highways asking

that they include an amount for

street lighting at the intersection
in their 1990 budget. In ‘addi-
tion, they’ve gone one step fur-
ther and asked the ministry to
investigate the possibility of ad-
ding a left-turn lane at the in-
tersection for northbound traf-

_ fic. According to Cooper, com-

mercial trucks using Hwy. 37 are
travelling at least the speed limit
and northbound cars wanting to _
turn left onto Lakelse - Lake
Lodge Road present an un-
necessary hazard to anyone in
the vicinty. of the intersection. |

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Summer School of the Arts here? B3...
Alie Toop, B6... Forest planning in full
color, B7.... High school with a dif-
ference, B14... Social evolution in the

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