‘INSIDE CITY SCENE B2 A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Thursday, September 22 HOME-BASED BUSINESS meeting at 7 p.m. at 4709 Park Ave to discuss upcoming fair on Nov. 5. Call Elreen at 635-9415 for niore info, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT march starts at 7 p.m. with speeches at the band shell in Lower Little Park. March proceeds down Emerson and Lakelse to the cenotaph at City Hall. Friday, September 23 TALK ABOUT UIC — a workshop with Ter- race Anti Poverty Group takes place at the Car- penter’s Hall from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. A CEC Client Services officer will be in attendance. For more info cal! 635-4631. Saturday, Sentember 24 BENEFIT GARAGE SALE for the Canadian Cancer Society. It happens 8 a.m. to noon at the Carpenter’s Hall, Drop off good, clean items at the hall Friday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Septenber 25 KITE FESTIVAL takes place at Skeena Jr. Secondary School field from 1 to 3° p.m. Sponsored by the Big Brothers and Big Sisters. For more information about the organization or the kite festival, call Lois Doehler at 635-4232. Monday, September 26 TERRACE ART ASSOCIATION holds its an- nual general meeting at the gallery at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 638-8884, COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL steering commitice holds a public forum from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Skeena Jr, Secondary School’s cafeteria. Childcare available at no charge. For info call Judith McLean at 635-0830, , CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY holds their executive mecting a1 8:05 p.m. Call 635-6904 for more information. Tuesday, September 27 TERRACE VICTIMS Assistance Program holds an orientation mecting for prospective volunicers from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Terrace RCMP detachment. . , Thursday, September 29 A REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY workshop will be offered by Margaret Dediluke at the Ter- race Women’s Resource Centre at 7:30 p.m. Call] 638-0228 for more information. Friday, September 30 PROMISE KEEPERS, an interdemoninational men’s ministry, meets at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 2 MULTICULTURAL POTLUCK DINNER, sponsored by the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre and the Terrace & District Multicultural Association, takes place al 5 p.m, at the Thomhill Community Hall. Call the Women’s Centre at 638-0228 for more information. | Tuesday, October 4 TERRACE TOASTMASTERS meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Terrace Jun. Contact: Diana at 635- 5905 or Linda at 638-1856. LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY hold their October monthly meeting at 8 p.m. at the Legion. October 4-5 DIABETIC basic two-day clinictakes place at Mills Memorial Hospital. Call Dana Hill, RN, for info at 635-2211 local 250 or 638-1956. A doc- tor’s referral is required, Octoher 12 DIABETIC REFRESHER CLINIC takes place at Mills Memorial Hospital. Call Dana Hill, RN, at 635-2211 local 250 or 638-1956, A doctor’s referral is required. , MONDAYS BIG BROTHERS & Big Sisters hold a board mecting the third Monday of every month at 3237 Kalum St, at 7:30 pam. They're looking for volunteers and board members, Contact Lois at 635-4232 for more info, ARE YOU HAVING trouble secing your grand- children? A support group to promote grand- parent ties to families and access 10 grandchildren meets Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. at the United Church, Call Claudette at 635-1645 for info, The Terrace Standard offers the What’s Up community calendar as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organiza- tions and those events for which there is xo ad- mission charge. Pe Tiems will run two weeks before each event. We ask that items be submitted by 5 p.m. on the Thursday before the issue in which it is to appear. Submissions should be typed or printed neatly, Pet THREE LOCAL peop! TERRACE STANDARD. @ Were recognized for their volunteer con- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 21, 1994 - Bi ST tenemecr eee JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 and Mamie Kerby and Vera Frank were awarded with plaques by tributions in preserving Terrace's heritage last Saturday. Fred B.C. Heritage Trust board chair Ardyth Cooper. Preserving our heritage THE WORK of three local volunteers was recognized last Saturday. , Vera Frank along with Mamie and Fred Kerby received @ plaque from B.C. Heritage Trust board chair Ardyth Cooper. These three were selected by Terrace people for their dedica- tion to preserving local heritage, said Cooper. Vera Frank has been a member of the Terrace Regional Museum Society since it started in 1983, _ *"Vera’s always had and interest in the community and trying to help the area,’’ said Floyd Frank, currently a museum socicly mem- ber. He said Vera has donated many artifacts to the Heritage Park dis- plays along with many hours of volunteer time, Mamie Kerby started the muse- um socicty in 1983 and has been a board member ever since. “The society is Mamie’s baby,” said Floyd Frank. ‘‘She is Around Town. Tree to honour Ald. Rick King THE TERRACE Beautification Society wants to plant a tree on the arena hill in memory of the late Terrace alderman Rick King. Society vice-president George Clark says the tree is being donated by Otto Grundmann. They’re asking the city to absorb the $400 cost of a bronze plaque honouring ‘King. Clark said the society has managed to install 150 planters downtown in recent years. They’re at the point where they can’t add any more, he said, because they’ve reached the limit of how many they can maintain, Clark said the society will bring in more planters only for businesses who plan to maintain them. Kites to fly this Sunday KITES OF ALL shapes, sizes and colours will grace the skics over Skeena School’s field this Sunday. Local Big Brothers and Big Sisters are organizing their fourth an- nual Kite Festival and it’s apen to everyone. “We're looking for as much community participation as possible,” says organizer Lois Doehler. It’s also an event that tics in with the International Year of the Fam- ily, she added. Medals will be awarded for the largest kite, the funniest kitc, the most — colorful kite, the most unique, the best theme kite, the best Big Brother or Big Sister, and a kite race. “Tt’s a lot of fun,” Dochler said. ‘‘We're hoping for a lot of people to come oul”? She said it’s also an opportunity for people interested in volunteering with the organization to come out and talk to existing Big Brothers and Sisters, | There are presently nine matches between children and Big Brothers or Big Sisters in the program, she said. “We approximately nine little brothers waiting for a match, and three little sisters waiting for a match,’ Doehler added. 12 receive scholarships TWELVE STUDENTS received scholarships at the September 13 school board meeting, Terrace students Jacqueline Bryant and Byron Mikaloff were - awarded with district scholarshixs, along with Hazelton students Grace Williams and Donalee Sebastian. Receiving ‘provincial ‘scholarships. from Terrace were. Curtls Bretherick, Norman Dreger, La Parr and Lara Tessaro. ’ Charissa Tonnesen of Hazelton and Mare Gregoire of Stewart also received provincial scholarships. na Geler, Candice Griffith, Erin. the main pushing force behind the whole project.”’ a Fred Kerby has been working wilh the society for eight years, voluntecring his services as a general bandy-worker. © “Fred does a lot of the work up ‘at Heritage Park,” said Floyd Frank. ‘‘If there’s something to. be done he does it.” . According to Mamie, Fred volunteers countless. numbers of hours forthe society, “T know [’m ‘probably a little biases, but Fred can ‘do any- vee thing,’”’ she said. ‘‘Someone tella us a fence post needs to be fixed and Fred is out the door with his toolbox.” - ‘One of the first projects the Kerby’s undertook was moving _ the old hotel to Heritage Park. "They took the entire hotel apart’ and moved it piece by ' piece,” said Frank. “It actually looks much better now than it did in its old home.””, facility Is being built on the McConnell Avenue. THESE CHILDREN in the Northwest Community College daycare's 3-5 year-old class with Mary McNiece played their part in the construction of the collage’s new daycare bullding and early childhood education instructional centre. Tha naw east side of the campus on