) B4:- The Tétrace Standard, Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Ss ‘TERRACE STANDARD: | DUSTIN QUEZADA | 638-7283 | _ Acknowledgment and thanks goes out AS FEATURED. in the Terrace Standard’ in previous issues, the city will now have its own «heated oxygen unit. thanks to, student- initiated. , fundraising. «The following people were ° ‘involved in .the. Hearts for Ryan campaign honouring Ryan Ridler: “ students Megan Newton, Annie Greenwood, Mary ‘Warner, Alison McCleary, Kathryn Goodwin, - .: Alex Fraess-Phillips, Jillian Stephens, Amy Peltier, . ‘Chloe Curtis, Nash Park, Erin Bailey, Rupy: Gill, Elisa, Schulz, Ashley Challenger, Siobhan. Sloan- “McMullen, Holly Derow and Ashley Angell; staff ae Kelley. Axelson, Dave Bartley, Patsy Chant, Julia: ~Nieckarz and Dave Crawley; public members Trish - Curtis and the Ridler family, mother Arlene, father “Ron, brother Travis and'sister Sarah. . : . Dave Jephson, of the Terrace Search and Rescue ‘| ““wished"to thank ‘local businesses. Pizza Hut, Don -Diego’s, Mr. Mike’s and Coca-Cola for supplying . food, drink and gift certificates for the ceremonial announcement ‘April 13 at Skeena Junior Second- . _ Thornhil dance for a “good cause “DANCE TO the live music’ of the Accelarators, . “while donating toa fundraiser’ for Megan Soucie ‘this Saturday. « Megan’s Dance. is a fundraiser to help pay’ the “costs of the 10-year-old Terrace girl’s medical “freatment, at Vancouver’ s.Children’s Hospital. ‘As. reported in the Terrace Standard; Soucie is | . in. Vancouver, with her parents, receiving treatment ° for pancolitis. The dance takes place Saturday, ‘April 30 at 7: 30 : ~ p.m. at Thornhill Community. Centre. In addition to music. there will be door prizes and raffles. Tickets are $10'in advance.at Sight & Sound Skeena Mall _ or $12 at the door. A safe ride home will be available. ay A trust fund is also in place at the Bank of Mon- treal under the name of family friend Rhoda Isaak. Rpts lnpey | Perrennial plea ; GEORGE Little House worker Lisa Peterson wishes to remind the community of the May 7 Greater Ter- race Beautification Society’s perrennial plant sale at the house from 8 a.m. until the plants are all gone. ‘Behind-the-scenes healthcare hilighted TO HELP raise awareness of the medical laboratory profession’s role in Canada’s public health system, the the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science is launching a new campaign for National Medical Laboratory Week. “The theme for the April 24-30 campaign is: ~ Canada’s Medical Laboratory Professionals —.On the Frontline for Your Health. In Terrace, MDS Metro, Onemica, the commu- nity lab at Park Avenue Medical Building, is hav- ing an open house and tours on Saturday, April 30 from 10-2 p.m. Canada’s third largest group of healthcare work- - ers plays an essential role in the healtcare system fighting old and new diseases. sults. Heads up for hospice. month in May THE TERRACE Hospice Society is promoting events in May and June for Hospice Palliative Care Month. Lora Maki, coordinator with the Terrace hospice, says 95 per cent of the society’s annual $60,000 ‘budget is raised through projects, On Sunday May 29, the society stages their an- _nual Hike for Hospice from 2-3 p.m. at the Mille- ~ nium Park Trail. _ Pick up your pledge from the hospice office at ‘207-4650 Lazelle Avenue. Maki encourages: getting people out for a worthy cause that keeps money in the community... Also, May 2-8 is National Palliative Care Week. Palliative care is treatment that aims to relieve suf- fering and improve the quality of living and dying for terminally ill patients. Finally, the hospice has a yearly garage sale June 4 from 8-4 p.m. Call 635-7455 after May 15 if you have donations. Up to 85 per cent of physicians’ diagnoses and © treatment decisions are based on n laboratory test re- _ -dent Brianna Ray. her grandmother By DUSTIN QUEZADA AS OF today, the Salvation Army’s familiar red » shield has a new downtown home. The building on Kalum St. and Park Ave. wili consolidate the organization’s food bank, thrift store and church under one roof. And the opening couldn’t come soon enough, _Says an Army manager. “Our operational costs. will go way down,” said Ian McDonough, thrift store and commu- nity.servicés manager. “We're going to save on . Tent, utilities, phone, transportation a andi insurance costs.” The thrift store and community services had been located at the Keith Avenue Mall,. while the “church building was on Walsh St. “Why have them separate if you.can have them ; together?” MeDonough said. GRADE 6 stu- ‘(above left). with Lissi Sorenson, a Cassie Hall school library. assistant, take a_ breather from - shovelling April 21. wie FIRST Nations academic support worker Ray Green (left) helps the stu- dents at Cassie Hall Elementary School. plant. one of 15 apple trees to celebrate Earth Day. DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTOS PEELING away to unveil the Salvation army Ss red logo i is sign v worker Lary Craig at the new downtown headquarters on Kalum Avenue. ll under A week before the opening, volunteer workers were busy with the last stages of the three-month facelift. ' “All that’s left is the flooring ' ‘anda few touch- ups,” said (Capt.) Dave: Moulton, who added: the job would not have been possible without the help of community volunteers. Since late January when the interior was de-. molished, volunteers have put in about 1000 hours -a month toward the renovation. “Aside from a drywaller, we’ve had three main. volunteers and two guys who’ve been here every day,” Moulton said, adding local contractor John . Vande Velde gave much of his time and expertise in guiding the project... The building used to house a Telus store with about 10 rooms: The space has been opened up to | make the three rooms. McDonough also said: he expects to be busier °* — DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO one new roof in the central location. . “It’s more convenient, because ° we serve a lot of people. downtown and on the north side of the tracks,” he said. “We expect more walk-ins for community service, the thrift shop and soup kitchen.” | The Salvation Army, an international Christian church organization, provides families, the home- less, singles and drop-ins with cheap clothing, food, furnishings and counselling. The official grand opening‘is slated for Friday, April 29 at 2 p.m. There will be an ceremonial ribbon cutting, with local guests, followed by an open house. The move comes just in time for the Salvation -Army’s annual Red Shield canvas on Monday,” May 2, where.canvassers will be going door-to- ‘door. collecting funds for the organization’ sna tional. work, - % Honey, I’ve moved © the business south | DUSTIN GQUEZADA AFTER 26 years, the . local man behind DeHoog Apiaries is moving his honey and wax sales south. — : _ Martin deHoog, who pro- _ duces more honey locally - than anyone else, is moving ~ to Salmon Arm. And our weather is partly to blame. “There’s just more sun- shine (in Salmon Arm),” he said through mesh-faced - protective headwear, adding his wife’s health will benefit from.the warmer climate and - he will be closer to all of his - sons and his daughter. “In the last 10 years, three’ years ‘there’s been no — honey,” he said. “We aver- age 61 inches, of rain per year here.” Sunshine i is the lifeline of MARTIN deHoog takes a break from’ ‘arring the paper off his beehives i in preparation for his move south. bees. It produces nectar, or ' DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO . what deHoog calls fuel for ,.° * adult bees.: hives. them per hive in mid-sum- Nectar attracts - pollinat- His hobby self-admit- mer; are unaffected by the ing insects like bees, who in turn convert the sugary sub- stance into honey. Last year — a good one for ‘local beekeepers — deHoog produced 10,000 pounds of honey. But on a bad year, the former heavy duty mechan- ic has to buy up to $2,000 in sugar just to make 60 to 100 pounds of the golden sweet- ener. For deHoog, who worked at two mills in the city, bee- keeping started as a hobby in 1979 when he had two tedly went out of control, developing into a full-time business with 200 hives. Not bad for someone al- lergic to honeybees. “A doctor told me I had to build up resistance to the bees, so I sting myself once every two weeks,’ he said. The 65-year-old says he- loves what he does and he wouldn’t be doing it if he didn’t. Having made two trips already, deHoog will com- plete his move in late April. The bees, up to 50,000 of move, said deHoog. His departure leaves. a hole in the local honey mar- ket. - Cindy Ridler, of Moun- tain Meadow Honey, said she could expand her business in the future, but for now she . doesn’t have the time to fill the gap deHoog will leave at the annual farmer’s market. Ridler, now the largest “local honey maker with 30 hives, said her market — Ter- race, Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands ~ should remain unchanged.