Al6- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 25, 1998 From front Students and selling Their eldest daughter, Kel- sey Lockhart, 17, is selling chocolates for her dry grad. Their fourteen year old daughter, Erin Lockhart, is selling cheese to raise about $10,000: for a month Jong summer trip to Australia, New © Zealand and Fiji organized by Thornhill Jun- ior Secondary. Their: other two children, Myles Anderson, 10, and Brittany Anderson, 6, are money raising for new gym equipment. “It docs get to be a lot,” Carolyn said of all the sell- ing.‘‘Tt seems like every two weeks one of them is com- ing home with something new to sell.” But, she said, if her chil- | dren don’t sel] things, they won't get to travel or take aprt in competitions. “If they were told they had to sell things I’d be worried about it, but they’re ° given the option to do it if they want, ’’ she said. To raise money for her school organized trip over- seas Erin and her friend, April McGillis, 13, who at-: tend = Thorbill Junior’ Secondary, said they go out. every second day to raise as much as they can. The travel club had six different selling strategies before ‘Christmas to help ‘students each raise their $10,000. Students in the club could choose to sell fruits of the earth (nuts and traiE mix blends), chaco- lates, oranges, cookie mix, cookbooks (local recipes) and cheese. Being a salesperson Officer shortfall critical THE HEAD of Tertace’s RCMP detachment says he’s so short of officers, lo- cal politicians should tell the province how lack of polic- ing will affect their com- munities. , “This situation is com- pletely unacceptable and it is not only an safety concern for the officers and the pub- lic but it is obviously taking its toll on police officers and the quality of service which we are trying so desperately to provide to both Terrace and the regional district,” said Insp. Doug Wheler in a Nov. 15 Ictter to the _Tegiona! district, He’s concermed about the provincial = government's recent decision tc pull a Terrace general duty officer to become an area firearms officer without an immedi- ate replacement. Arca firearms officers are new positions created by the federal firearms Icgislation and were originally schedul- ed to be staffed, province- wide, by incoming officers. But somewhere along the way that didn’t happen and Wheler was ordered to send an officer to Ontario for training. That officer left Terrace for Ontario Nov. 15° for three weeks of training and there's no replacement in sight. Wheler is so short-staffed he says he'll have to consid- er appointing highway patrol and community polic- ing officers to general duty just to provide basic coverage, All told, the detachment is seven officers shy of what it needs. ' But a vacant staff sergeant slot will be filled by Dec. 1. “year. doesn’t bother Erin but April said she was getting tired of it all, That’s because April is also selling choco- lates to raise money for her band to compete at-a music competition in Toronto this “Te’s hard,” she said, “Tt’s tiring.” Caledonia athletics dirce- tor and basketball coach” Cam Mackay, said money- raising tires him out, (oo, He said fund-raising takes up a lot of time — just as much time as coaching. He explained that almost every leam at every school ’ is selling something to raise money so they can travel to competitions. Athletes are selling seafoad, golf balls, pizza, holding auctions — doing anything to make sure they can travel to sports meets and afford to buy new uniforms. “Holy moly there’s a lot of stuffl’? Mackay said. And since the moncy from the district for sports travel has decreased, if his team can’t raise enough money, they won’t go to as many away games this year. “You can only tap your town so much, especially with our economy,’’Mackay said, He has encouraged parents to drive their children to away games to save on bus fees, Mackay also charges admission fees to games to help raise money. Raising moncy isn’t reserved for just the older students, Five-year-old Sheldon Anderson, a kindergarten student at Copper Mountain Elementary School, recently raised the most money ($150). for new gym cquip- ment at his school. His mother Robin, said it doesn’t bother her that her son is already asking others ‘for money, as’ long as it doesn’t happen too often. However, she isn’t happy thal school children have to raise money for things like new gym equipment, “I think that’s what our tax dollars should be spent on,” she said. “We pay a school tax.’’ Thornhill Junior Secondary’s band instructor, Mike Wen, said his fund- raising efforts have in- creased over the years be- cause (he number of siu- dents in band have in- creased, In 1987 he had 16 students and this year he has 68. He said he raises more Imoney nowadays because he’s able to offer more edu- cational things to do with his students. They’ve been able to go to National music festivals across the country, visit varions muscums, like the Royal Ontario museum in Toronto, take part in:i workshops at University of B.C., and watch musicals like the Phantom of the Opera in Vancouver. 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