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.

Regardless of budget cuts,
Wen said fund-raising for
band travel has always been
necessary.

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