The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 27, 1993 - Page B1 JEFF NAGEL 638- 7283 COMMUNITY The Terrace Standard offers What's Up asa public service to ils. readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organizations and those events for which there Is no admission charge. Items wil run two weeks before cach event, We ask that Items be submit- ted by noon on the FRIDAY before the issue in which it is to appear, For other contributed articles, the deadline is § p.m. on the THURSDAY before the Issue comes out, Submissions should be typed or printed neatly. ee ES FEBRUARY 1, 1993 - Monday, 7:30 in the Skeena Parent Advi- sory Council will have its - first meeting of the new year in the Skeena Secondary Library. There is lots to talk about. Call Wanda 635-2895 forinformation. ip41 +e eat FEBRUARY 2, 1993 - Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. the Terrace Breastfeeding Support Group will be having its monthly meeting & discussion in the Mills Memorial Education Room. For further information. Call @ 635- 4694, . 1p4t er) FEBRUARY 3, 1993 - 2:30 pm- 3;30 pm at the Terrace Women’s Centre, 4542 Park Ave, Event: Understanding your lax return with accountant Donna Demers. 2p40 eeee FEBRUARY 10, 1993 - Wed. 7:00-9:00 p.m. “the Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery Support Group will be having its monthly meeting at the Terrace Women’s Resource Center 2p41 ete ee CRISIS LINE is open 24 hours a day for anyone in crisis. Call 635- 4042, tfn #4 ee TERRACE PUBLIC Library will be holding preschool storylime for three to five year old Thursday, afternaons at 1:30 p.m. “and Friday-f -thornings ‘at 10:30 a.m., beginning Jan. 29 and 29, This isa forty-five minute session with pic- jure boooks, puppets, fingerplays and lots of fun! Please register in advance. There is no charge. Tel. 638-8177. eka IT’S A PUPPET SHOW! At the Terrace Public Library, Saturday January 30 at 2:00 pm and a repeat performance Friday, Febrary, 5, at 7:00 pm. Enjoy the thriiling adven- tures oF Molly Whuppie and the Giant. There is no charge. For more information call the Library, Tel. 638-8177. eee ee FAMILY DACARE Days at the Terrace Public Library, Thursdays at 10:30 am, January 28, Febrary 25, and March 25. Caregivers are welcome to bring: children of ali ages for a special storytime. Please let us know if you plan to attend as a minimum registration is needed to go ahead with this program, There is no charge. Te. 638-8177. +k es “TALES FOR TWOS”’ at the Terrace Public Library begins Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 10:30 am and will run for six weeks, This is ‘a half-hour storytime with picture | books, puppets and fingerplays especially for.two year olds. Chil- ‘dren must-be accompanied by an adult. Please register in advance. .There is no charge. To register call the library, tel. 638-8177, : te TERRACE VOLUNTEER BUREAU for Volunteer Opportu- nities to sult your needs & time available. Contact Lovina Tyler at §38-1530. Mon-Fri, 8:30 - 4:30, rere Tae ~ EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8- .8:00 pm. Terrace Narcotics Anon- ymous "Steps to Recovery" meets ‘at the Skeena Health Unit audito- alum, seaeee ~ EVERY ‘WEDNESDAY - Ter- race Ladies Kermodej Lions Club -meets at the Inn of the West. For - 41 times and more Info contact Doro- : thy Bartsoff. al 638-8183. ' een, “EVERY THURSDAY at 7:30pm : Oveteaters Anonymous at Wom- | en’s ‘Resource Centre. Call 635- 6446. +e EVERY MONDAY Terrace Co- ‘] Dependants, Anonymous - meets from 8-9 _ pm. “Call Karen 638- 0701; vy : dad . * * : “BVERY. 3RD “MONDAY of “each ‘mionth the Arthritis Society haga: drop-in for information at | Happy. Gang Centre 3226 Kalum 1:1530-3:00. Bd rm LJ ma VOLUNTEERS ‘NEEDED. for paceview: Lodge: Pet. Visitation Program Once’a-month commit- Info call Bonnie at 638-0225. _ ‘tent needed. Dogs only. For more | - CROSSROADER’S DIARY 7 On stage in a schoolyar Kirsten Murphy i is @ 24-year-old Northwest Community College stu- dent working in Zimbabwe with Canadian Crossroads fnternational. TSHELANYEMBA, ZIMBABWE By KIRSTEN MURPHY HORTLY AFTER 11:00 a.m., I jump on my bike and pedal three kilometres to Parents Day at Tshelanyemba Pri- mary School, Tam allowing myself the morn- ing offin order to catch a glimpse of live rural Zimbabwean culture. My face balhed with Cop- pertone 25, baseball. cap securely placed on my head and skirt tucked between my Icgs, I skill- fully manoeuvre through a course of spindly irces and hidden sand traps. The sun bites my outstretched arms like a million starved thosquitoes ard the airings wilh a symphony of high-pitched _ Christmas beetles, As I coast up to the school yard, a flood of applause fills the air _ and six smiling children retura to - their seats as the headmaster an- ’ nounces the next performance. ° Tam greeled at the gate by a crooked little man with cajun black skin. He smiles: shyly and motions the direction I am to fol- - low. Three steps ahead and his cycs to the ground, he does not notice the domino effect of 500 school children turning to have a look at us. Kirsten Murphy draped in, on and around a baobob tree; each student eagerly awails his or her debut per- - formance. Almond brown. soil begins to fly as a group of Grade Five stu- dents wearing goat skin head dresses kick and jump around, '. When they are finished the crowd bursts into a roar of applause and the goat skin ensemble skips hap- pily back to their places under the tree. Performances are successions of shoeless children with bright smiles and faded — school uniforms. Many students wait with trepidation for their verse or dance to finish as a proud mother sprints to her child to swing him like-a pin wheel in the wind. - The audience grows restless: as ‘the combination of “heat, un- comfortable seating and hunger The’ sun bitesmy out- stretched arms like a. mil- lion starved mosquitoes and the air rings with a. symphony of high-pitched designed for someone half my height, I notice a section of elegantly dressed women across from me. I self consciously smooth out my wrinkled skirt and place my canvas backpack on the ground. The ‘‘stage’’ is a portion of schoolyard approximately half the size of a tennis court. At one end tcachers, proud parents and honowed guests sit. Twenty-five metres across from us, 500 school children are ques and it reminds me of Cana- da’s referendum, Someone leans over and whispers: “Did you enjoy your- self? Are you staying for lunch?” I glance at the children singing and smile. ‘“‘YES, it’s been a great day, but NO, I won't be able to stay for lunch.” Readers in Terrace can write to Kirsten with questions or com- ments. The address is: Kirsten Murphy, Tshelanyemba, P. Bag 5703, Maphisa, Zimbabwe. Chri istmas beetles. . pains affects the crowd simulta- . neously, One of the last performances is Once seated on a. bench an English version of Freré Jac- Sticks and stones ‘CRAFTY: Nine-year-old Mark Vivelros creates a all- natural -moblle made out of sticks and dried plants In a project with “|: the ist Terrace Cubs, wet TPES oe THIS VARIED THRUSH had a close ¢ encounter fast week with a window at Otto Grundman’s Hansen St. home. Many of the species of thrush have been spotted around town this winter. Bird count coordinator Diane Weissmiller sald about 45 species of birds were tallied up during the Christmas bird count this year. A few cattle egrets were reported before Christmas and the count itself turned up purple finches for the first time, as well as evening groesbeaks, eagles, fobins and many other common species. Cold can kill pets Bitter winter weather is parlicu- larly hard on family pets lefl out- doors. And SPCA member Rose Hig- bie is calling on pet owners to be careful about leaving © their animals outside during cold snaps, A Great Dane froze to death recently because the dog was locked up in an uninsulated shed, “Wt is very sad,’’ Higbie said, “You just can’t do that witha short-haired breed of dog.” Higbie says it’s important to make sure dogs have cither a doghouse or some other sheltered area to stay wan in. It must also be insulated, she stresses. Straw works well, but must be fluffed up cach day. Shorl-haired breeds in particu- lar are vulucrable, she said, But longer-haired dogs and cats can also be affected, “The wel snow can get balled up in their fur,” Higbie ex- plained. ‘*You know when you . for the Prevention of Cruelty to : casionally available for adoption, Currently the cost for adopting an animal through the program is $30 for cats or kittens and $50 for dogs or puppies, The shelter covers the cost of the balance of the basic spay or neuter and you pay the GST and additional costs, ifany. | The SPCA is also embarking on a new program aimed at finan- cially helping people who already own pets, but can’t afford velerinary care. Financial as- sistance may be available for spay/neuter, short term nutritional requirements, of in special cases, unexpected medical costs.’ The program, and others, are made possible by raffles, memberships and bingos: The SPCA needs community support to maintain its branch status, The group ’s second meet- ing of 1993 is scheduled for Feb. 3, It will be held at 7:30 p.m. in dhe mecling room of the Terrace - Public Library. For more information on Ter- . yace’s SPCA, phone 638-2002, can throw a good snowball it’s time to worry.’”’ She said her own cat would have died the other day if she hada't found her in time. ‘She was so balled up she couldn’t move. She was just mewing.”” Other common probiems_ in- clude icc in the pads. Terrace’s branch of the Saciety Animals (SPCA) is relatively new, The city’s own. volunteer branch started just two ycars ago. The group’s role is to speak for those who cannot speak for them- selves — the animals. The Jocal group has put togeth- era spay/neuter program. Although animals are only oc- the spay/neuter program offers people who adopt animals from the SPCA or local shelters an. in- centive to spay or neuter their animals. Okay, okay — — | confess By MALCOLM BAXTER Try, try again. Yup, the great bult-out fizzled early, The sceds of disaster were sowa when the deci-: sion was made to allow ‘sanity’? cigarettes — °° © health-conscious people would. say that’s a con- . tradiction in terms, Regardless, thase well- spaced drags: all-too-soon became a cloud of : pollution resembling Los Angeles on onc of its famous smog-shrouded days. — However, the paper's now goric to bed, the pres- . sure's off and therefore that excuse has gone. ~ So naw it’s time to buckle down again. After all, those TV ads say the main ‘hing is not to quit quit- » ting, It also helps 10 know you've gat the Smoke Police on. your side: they?re. the, frighteningly numerous: people who caught me with. a cancer stick in my mouth and | immediately queried my actions, T really knew Big Brother was alive, well and watching when a Kitimat alderman J ran into gave mea hard time. ~ Seems there’s no escape! ‘In order to ensure success this time, I am invok- -ing Plan B. . That involves retreating | to a ‘small cabin in the ‘Kispiox valley fora weekend’s ice fishing and not taking any cigareties wilh me. Of course, my companions on this annual adven- ‘ture aré smokers, but fortunately they’re sadistic enough “to cold. shoulder ‘any desperate, whining pleas I may make for ‘just one” “After all,’ they'll tell me with broad grins, i . for your own good.” - Well, ‘that’s all for this ipdites 1 have to head “down to’ the corer store,,.just to gel a | couple of ° ilues of milk, you understand, 8.