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“and writing.

“and features. mem-.

in, part, paid for

received. last year
. from

- “dation to. Assist

“There ‘sold ‘more

than’ 1,000 copies,

Rooney Playhouse.

call 622-8603

northern B.C. As

with UNBC.

bers from Spirit « of

‘the West.
The album’ Ss.
production’ ° was,

‘by a grant Gibson ©
the ;Foun-....
‘Canadian’. Talent’

-on Recording, an .
that.

organization .
"helps emerging Ca-, ”
nadian talent. -

And. ‘emerging i
‘she. -is. " Here: nor:

-a solid number for- -
an ‘independent artist.
 Gibson;+a- self-described: wait-folk:rock singet/ .
songwriter, who most recently played the Skeena,
Valley Fall Fair here, will release the album and .
_ perform. Saturday, Jan. 28 at Prince Rupert’ s Tom

Thornhill PALS

THORNHILL’ PRIMARY School is proud to an-
. Mounce the start of its 2006 Parents As Literacy
Supporters (PALS) starting on Jan. 19, 2006. .
_* Designed as a literacy program | for parents and
families of 5- to 6-year-olds in the Thornhill area,
its goal is to strengthen the connection between
“home: and school while helping kids with reading

‘For more info, please. contact principal Barry
Eyjolfson at 635-7066...

Celebrate Sall’ S ‘CD

; PRINCE RUPERT songtress Sall Gibson is ‘throw-
ing a party to celebrate- the release of her antici~ :
pated second album, Simply Undone. : _

‘The new album, a follow-up'to her: debut, Here

-nor:There, was’ produced by bluesman David Essig, |

- Sal Sibson

. ‘» Doors open at 7:30-p.m. and an opening act will
_take the stage at 8 p.m., followed by Gibson and her .
".back-up ‘band with’ special Buests. eee
» Admission ‘is by donation of a non-perishable
food item or food bank donation.
The new CD will be on sale for $15..For info, .

TWO Terrace high school graduates from last
. year have received UNBC Scholars awards.
This ‘scholarship program récognizes the top” |
Students from. secondary schools all around
long as they maintain. a B.
average in full-time studies at UNBC, UNBC °
-.Scholars can complete an entire bachelor’s
. degree program tuition-free. At current tuition
levels, the total scholarship value is just over
$12,000. Tristan Higginson, above, attended.
Centennial Christian School and is majoring
in Chemistry. Caitlin McCooey, below, gradu-
ated from Caledonia Senior Secondary and is
planning to major in Biology. Both Higginson
and McCooey are in their first year of studies
‘, ROBERT VAN ADRICHEM PHOTO

BEING Aregionalhubcomes
with certain responsibilities —
say. members of a . 8roup *
"spearheading a campaign

to buy a-mobile kitchen for —
surrounding

Terrace ,, and
- communities. .
“We’re now a regional

centre and being a regional «
‘centre means there are. new —

demands,” said Roger Har-’

ris, part. of the five-man ”

group. “This Bives us ‘a new »
tool.”

That new ‘tool is a com-.
_munity crisis response truck ©
" that would be owned and op-

_ erated by the local SalVation |
Army and would be the only
one west of Princé George.

Captain Dave Moulton of *

the Army got to see first hand
how : effective. the. mobile °

kitchens are, first at.Ground .
Zero in'New York City in.

September 2001 and then in”
the. Kelowna region duting
‘the forest fires i in 2003.

Moulton, also on the com- °

>mittee, said teams of two
worked around the clock out:

of the kitchens to keep a va-
‘riety of emergency’ workers _
“| and others affected fed.

~, it’s an overhead: (unit)
that takes, the load: off the
emergency. personnel,” said
* city councillor Brian Down-

« ie, who will lobby | commu-

"nity service. groups as his
contribution to the commit-

_ Terrace Fire Chief and .
- emergency coordinator Pe-

ter Weeber agrees.
He says thé unit would be
employed in small and large-

scale municipal emergencies .
_ aswell as those in outlying

communities.

“Emergencies are typi-
cally one to four hours,”
-said Weeber. “(In the past)
We've gotten by, by setting
up and bringing in food but
it’s a huge undertaking feed-
_ing up to 100 people at the
drop of a hat.” *

The group cites several
examples, of local emer-
- gencies — the 2004 forest
- fires in Thornhill, floods, a
.. power disruption in Kitkatla.
— where the mobile kitchen
would have. been an invalu-
able tool.

But more recent examples

-include the apartment. fire
-at the intersection of Ken-
“ney and Agar streets in late
November and the chemtical.

spill at the CN rail yard.
‘The latter turned out to
be containable but Weeber |

says had it been more seri-

‘ous the whole of the south
side may have needed to be -
evacuated.

And. with the apartment

_ fire, Moulton says a make-
. shift kitchen was set up for

emergency workers. and dis-

CALEDONIA Senior Secondary students from left Kory Major, Devin Wall and Ray-
lene Smale are taking a stand against bullying. by teaching younger kids how best
to deal with the problem.

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Chief Councillor Glenn Bennett, have kickstarted a 2 campaign to buy a mobile chen that will be:

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By DUSTIN QUEZADA _

placed tenants on a cold au- » .

-“tumn night.>

“We were serving out of

the back of an old cube van,”
_said Moulton.

Harris, the committee’s

link to the business commu-

nity, says the. unit wouldn’t:

solely be used. for emer-
gency situations, but for the
aftermath of crises and for
community responses.

“It won’t be hard to fill -

the time,” Harris said.

, Moulton says in non-

emergency times, the unit in
Prince George is ‘constantly
busy.
' “(The unit) is on the
-street four nights a week in
the downtown area,” said
Moulton, adding it would be
called upon more in the win-
ter months, .”

Moulton. says in such a

scenario, the truck would be

“parked in a central location -

"of the group represents ‘adif-

: ferent sector that would ben- «.
efit from. having the‘ “valu-

able asset.”
. As the group’ s tie’ to the

business community, Harris

‘said prospective companies
— PNG and Enbridge, for ex-
ample — look for amenities

Harris says each member ‘2

like the mobile kitchen, when __

expanding into new areas.

would leave to help in out-,
of-town emergency efforts.
The group has set an ag-

Weeber said it would also."
represent. Terrace when it:

y

gressive timetable, ‘hoping .
to’ have the $200,000-unit *,

“on local streets by the end of ©
2006.
The group is hoping to.

raise between $150,000 and - |
$200,000 and will begin:

knocking on doors soon.

where needy members of the [MR

community could be fed.

Not only would the chal-
lenge of feeding: people in
need be met but-it would be . §
done so in a safe manner, ~

. with workers certified ‘in
‘Food Safe. .

‘The fifth committee mem-
ber, Kitselas Chief Council-

present last week as he was

attending to business in the .
Lower Mainland but Harris

_ says his role will be.as a liai-.

- son with aboriginal commu-
nities in the region that live
on ‘and off reserves.

outh extend

lor Glenn Bennett, was not -

Ur Zoe,

DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO |

School. prepare ‘ for: their:
February. provincial. exams, ,
|. the more time they put in to
# their books, the more ‘they.

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By DUSTIN ,
/ QUEZADA
F ‘STUDENTS ‘from. *
: Calsdonia Senior ‘Secondary «=.

will benefit themselves and

“their own futures.

ing time away from studying
and instead will help others.

-As part of their biggest
a. project of. the year in Lead- .
ership 12, the students will |

*’ visit Clarence’ Michiel El-

-ementary School ‘students’
- and make. Presentations on | ,
cipal. Todd Hollett. is full.”
iy “Our: goals are ‘to talk _

to Grade 6 and 7 ‘students

about bullying and why you .
‘shouldn’t feel bad if you’ve
™ been bullied,” said Raylene ;
ea 6Smale.

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N

bullying.-

Before the group ‘bal-
looned to 20, Smale, Kory

Major and Devin Wall were -
part 0 of nine students i in the

eee settee an tne oe Jindal | Me

“give them tools. and coping::..[.
- skills to stop from making it mi

. ‘allowed the younger students’: }.
‘to interact, showing both. the
: positive and negative: effects we
.-.. °° of confronting bullies: =.
| But this week, a. ‘group’
of 20: students :will be: tak-

“We freeze the’ skits,” said - .

: Major. “Then we go through} lt
.the steps to avoid. confronta-:.
tion. ©

“You can’t’ ‘stop ” "some:
one from. bullying -so you: ‘

worse,” added Wall: 7
Cassie Hall school prin

of praise for the- Caledonia .

youth presenters. .-

“They did an-absolutely

outstanding, excellent . job”

connecting with our kids,”

said Hollett. “They encour-:
aged students to stand up for
themselves.” ,

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