[~~ DIAPER POWER

BABY RACER Billy Saline was the second- -place winner in
his heat against two other competitors in the six- to nine-
months category in the May 9 Diaper Derby held at Skeena

Mall. Billy probably would have finished tirst and been in the.
prizes if not distracted midway through by the third-place fin-

isher.

Zen and the art of tree-planting|

Tree planters near town may
-have been a bit surprised to see a
_ Yobed Tibetan monk © striding

"among them last Friday, com-

_ muning with nature and Planting
seedlings.

It was no illusion.

- Zen buddhist monk Amchok
Rimpoche -- who works in exile
“:-With the Dalai Lama at a

monastery in Dharamasala, in

_ horthern India -- came to Terrace

to learn about our forestry prac-
tices.

He’s worried about the
deforestation of his homeland,
which intensified following the
Chinese occupation of Tibet in
the 1950s.

"Here you are logging the trees,

Money

Just over $14,000 was raised
by residential donations local-
ly, says the president of the
Canadian Cancer Society’s lo-
cal unit.

The $14,303 raised during
the society’s April drive is sub-
stantially over the $12,900 col-

“lected last year, said Nel
Lieuwen.
‘More than 100 volunteers
helped with the door-to-door

raised

canvass, she said.

Work by the society con-
tinues with a breast self exam-
ination teaching clinic May 23
at the clinic on Emerson.

It runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
and will be conducted by
nurses trained by the cancer
society. More information is
available by calling Nel

Licuwen at 635-7857.

but at the same time you are
planting the trees," says the 48-
year-old Rimpoche. "In Tibet,
there is cutting but not really any
planting. They keep cutting, cut-
ting, cutting all the time.“

He’s gathering as much in-
formation about reforestation
here as possible, and went tree-
planting on Friday to lear about
that aspect of the B.C. forest in-
dustry first-hand,

He said there are more than
1,000 monks in Tibet who want
to plant trees in that country. But
they need better information
about how to do that, and they
want to lear how to set up their
own nurseries.

The Chinese give the monks in
Tibet some saplings to plant, but
the survival rate is low and
Rimpoche believes the trees are
raised far from Tibet, unsuited to
conditions there,

"The Chinese are doing a Jittle,"

he. says, "but very little compared.

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Amchok Rimpoche
to the logging.”

He said northwestern B.C. and
its mountains, lakes and forests §
remind him of Tibet.

"It’s very much similar to this’

part of Canada," he explained.
"This is one of the reasons I enjoy
being here."

at

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 20, 1992 — Paga B3

The Public
is invited to a
presentation of

the

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CONSENSUS REPORT

for the
Kispiox Timber Supply Area

ve
titania

An Integrated resource
management strategy

and accompanying Resource Analysis

Tuesday, May 26, 1992
_at St. Mary’s School Gym
Hazelton, British Columbia

at 7:30 p.m.

Come out and give us your opinions.
Coples of the Consensus Report and
analyses are available at the:

Kispiox Forest District Office
Highway 62
Hazelton, B British Columbia

BCE. ares “us

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members.

81%.

period.

lack of space.

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— Library usage has more than doubled since 1979.

— 60% of the population served by the Library are Morary
— Over the last 13 years library membership has increased by
— The number of requested books is up 183% over the same
— 14% of the library’s collection is now in storage because of a

— It’s a fact .... we need your support on Saturday, June 20.

We all need room to grow —
- say yes to the
‘Library Expansion on

June 20.

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