INSIDE _ SECTION B COMMUNITY JENNIFER LANG EVENTS B2 638-7283 | Around Town Santa found many warm hearts here THIS JUST IN — a message from Santa’s Ter- race Headquarters, AKA Nelson McGinJay’s house on Highway 16 West: “Thank you,” Each year, the McGinlays festoon their yard with a dazzling array of colourful Christmas lights and decorations, a beacon to children ]. and their parents who come to take a peck, and visit with Santa. This year 516 children, plus their parents and grandparents, visited with Santa Claus outside the home in the evenings leading up ta the Big Night, donating $1,400 to McGinlay’s Christmas Fund. McGinlay also appears as Santa Claus at many corporate Christmas par- ties in December. Those businesses donated another $1,200 to the fund, totalling $2,600. OF that, $1,580 will be donated to the Ter- trace Fire Department for the firefighters’ burn fund; $680 will be donated to breast cancer re- search; and the remaining $340 will be dona- ted to the Fishermans’ Park enhancement pro- ject, in memory of Trevor Olson. Nelson McGinlay and his wife Pat also send an apology to the people of Terrace; they both fell il! during Christmas, so the lights at Santa’s Headquarters were darkened eariy this year. They would also like to send a special thank: you to their generous neighbours, Jerry and Yvonne, for their help powering the annual display. White Cane Week CANADA'S AGING population is fuelling the number of visually impaired or blind clients assisted by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Aging is a major cause of vision loss, and mote than 90 per cent of all new clients’ are senior citizens, the institute reports. The CNIB, a non-profit agency established in 1918, offers rehabilitation services to people who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind, - through a network, of 57 centres across the country. | oo This Saturday, ‘staff and volunteers at the ‘local’ ‘CNIB will bé" at ‘thé Skeetia’ Mall be- ‘tween 11am. and 4 p.m. as part of White ~ Cane Week, a national awareness campaign. You're invited to come and meet them. As well, the western Canadian rep of a company ‘that makes low and high vision aids will also be on hand for demonstrations. Stopping violence and crime in local schools SOME LOCAL students will be working with teachers, school staff and police officers this week to help prevent violence in schools. The Youth Taking Action workshop takes place at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly Feb. 7 and 8. Following the workshop, the students will head: back to their own schools armed with ideas and strategies to teach other students how to deal with intimidation, harassment and violence. Terrace is one of 13 communities where Youth Taking Action workshops, presented by ‘the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General, are ° being held. The anti-violence and crime workshop comes just as the Coast Mountains School District is considering enacting a district-wide anti-bulling policy. The school board got the ball rolling in De- cember, when it decided to ask each school in the district to send in a copy of their bullying policies. Those are now being reviewed by the | district’s education committee in order to de- velop a district-wide anti-bullying policy. District superintendent Herb Fader was among those concerned attending a public meeting on bullying in Terrace Dec. 12, The . meeting, called Isn't it Time? was organized by Dierdre McEwan. All schools have been asked to provide dis- trict’s education committee to review bulling | policies at each school. Fourth Rising Spirit | workshop announced MOVIE STAR and native leader Chief Leo- nard George comes to Terrace later this month when the Friendship Society’s' alcohol and_ _ drug program hosts Rising Spirit IV. | George is described as a traditionalist and spiritual leader. He’s also a lecturer and con-' sultant with a decidedly ironic sense of hu- mour, The two-and-a-half day workshop will also - feature Lee Brown, a Kelowna college instruc- . tor who uses traditional First Nations approa- ‘ ches to healing, learning, personal growth and community development. Topics include community development on alcohol and drugs, prophecies, abuse, healing _and spirituality, organizer Benita Chapdelaine “gays. The workshops take place at the Kermode | - Friendship Society: Feb, 21,.22 and 23, Tolre- gislero ot for more information, call 635-7670, E. T. KENNEY'S Skylene Smith uses a 4 magnifying giasé to see tiny alevins, a kind of juvenile salmon. By JENNIFER LANG HOW DO planes fly? Scientific inquiry be- that, as several dozen E.T. students learned during a the concept of “lift”. They watched in rapt - Loggin, model aisplane in hand, gestured the action air makes over a plane’s FELICIA BOLTON watches her teacher Debra Thame of Claranca Michial Ele- mentary launch a bottle rocket mada with vinegar, water and baking soda. Demand steady for Pioneer Legacy Released in December, Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River part two also sparks a renewed interest in Volume One among novice history buffs COPIES OF Pioneer Legacy, Vo- lune I], are making their way across town, the province ~ and the globe — as sales maintain a steady pace following its recent publication. The locally wrilten and com- piled history book is the second instalment of the late Norma ¥. Bennett’s Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River, published by the Dr. R.E.M. Lee Hospital Foundation just before Christmas. “The sales are very good,” ports Helene McRae, wha helped complete the book after Bennett passed away last year... “I’m just sorry Mrs. Bennett isn't here to see it, because I - think she’d be pretty proud of it.” In fact, it’s selling just as well as Volume I. - “2 think maybe more people "are interested in it bechuse of the | gins with a question like’ ‘| Kenney Primary School recent demonstration of ‘PERFECTING PAPER airplanes, Students in E.T. Kenney’ s sclence club com: pare folding techniques. They: later took thelr paper planes for a test flight. Celebrating science Preparations build for the annual festival wings, lifting the hulking mass into the air. Later, real live pilots, Hawkair’s Scott and Wayne, shared a valuable ; tip every kid needs to know. - how to make a paper airplane. It was science in ac- tion, and since the start of the new year, E.T, Kenney has hosted a weekly Sci- ence Club featuring ex- perimenis and demonstra- lions by Loggin and Nancy Jay, both parent volun- teers. “The idea is to generate interest in science projects and provide assistance | with the projects they want to enter in the upcoming science fair,” school prin- cipal Sue Springer says. Students all over Ter- race are gearing up for the annual festival, which takes place Feb. 17 at Thornhill Junior. The gym will be a hive of activity as students, teachers and parents ga- ther to view displays, per- form experiments, com- pete in contests, or take part in science activities. Debra Thame, science festival committee chair and a teacher at Clarence Michiel Elementary, says the festival gaing to be non-competitive this year. Judges will instead offer ‘of work. ‘this age group,” constructive comments. Prizes will be awarded. by drawing entrants’ names out of a barrel. The decision to go non- competitive was. made be- cause judging 400 or more entries each year was a lot “How can you pick the best 60?” she says, adding it was difficult keeping criteria consistent. More troubling, how- ever, was the fact that or- ganizers noticed some stu- dents had a lot of help from their parents, while others obviously did the work themselves. This way, there is more incentive for students to complete their work on their own. “The whole idea of the Science Festival, the ori- ginal mandate was simply to promote science within Thame says. Organizers will consider | going back to a campeti- tive festival if entries are way down from last year. “If we drop to 150, then absolutely we'd have to look at competitive entries again.” Keeners craving com- petition, she says, stilt have the option of entering regional, provincial and national competitions. human interest, because it starts with some of the pioneers they know.” ; She and her husband Biil Mc- Rae, both members of the hospital foundation, ate selling copies of the book, which is also available at local stores. “I’ve sent a couple of copies Fan letters are also.pouring in, including one from the man after whor the foundation is named. “This is an extremely impor- tant book from an historical point of view — the best [ have seen on such a subject,” wrote former Ter- race resident Dr. R.E.M. Lee, who now resides in Victoria. down. to the States, and one to Swit- zeriand,” she says. “They're going all over the world.” Claser to “'m just Bennett isn't here to see it gion, because | think she'd be pretty proud of it.” Phylis Bowman, author of 14 books on the re- wrote, “The . book is beautiful — it is professional looking and so sorry Mrs. home, former Terrace residents are also request- ing copies of the book, including iong-limte Terrace logger and con- tractor Ray Skoglund, now of White: Rock, B.C., has requested a copy. many good clear pictures.” a McRae also notes thete’s re- newed interest in Volume 1. “[ guess. people are interested in local history and realize how valuable it is to preserve it,” she: arn says. In keeping with Bennett’s in- tent, both books are published by the R-E.M. Lee Hospital Founda- tion as fundraising projects to raise money to purchase hospital equipment for Mills Memorial Hospital. McRae says the hospital badly needs a new mammography unit. The current one is 12 years old and out of date. Replacemeat costs fange around $130,000. The unit’s processor, meanwhile, is 14 years old. it will cost another $60,000 to replace. Volume I won a B.C. Historical Society prize the year it was pub- lished. McRae ways the second vo- lume could be in the running this year, too. It’s been entered in the annual contest. Judging takes place later this year.