as J this: Saturday night, = northwest during” the - fest ‘of- the: 2004-05 season, ‘The Christmas concert _ lee, seen here receiving a Southwest Asia Ser-: ‘vice. Medal from Governor. General Adrienne * Clarkson’ when she was aboard HMCS Wins} _hipeg in. the Persian Gulf on Dec. 27,,2002, is - one of Canada’s Armed Forces‘members with “a connection to Terrace., ‘He grew up here. « Tellus your stories. ” REMEMBRANCE DAY is approaching. +... * And in honour of the holiday The Tertace Stan “\dard-will be publishing stories. subrnitled: by our | “teaders about Canadian veterans’ war time Service, ; vin n November., oo . - Did ‘you serve. ‘Caitada | in: war. time? or did. a ‘lose relative of yours? .” . . Write to ug-svith-your: family’s siory of wartime: 7 - memories, Try to’ keep it to. 300: words ‘or less; Be: : sure toinclude your namie, mailing address and day: f “time: phone number: “Wes also. ‘welcome’ | ~ photos: and storiés from “| > Canadian’ Armed Fore-.-. mas 88. peacekeeping mis- ‘signs: - _ Aid: we're” also. ins} rested ini noncornba: ..|- “tants”. wartime” recol--:: -lections — perhaps: from. |. people avho. lived: in’ ” “War-torm Europe t before. _immi grating to Canada, .or from Terrace: resi--- “dents. who were in the - - Second: World War: cals ‘Have’ a photo: of: a family. y yeieran ‘who you de “like to seé honoured'in the newspaper?.Send.us the ' ~ photo and at least a sentence. or two: about where - they served, ; >You: “can: -email: “your. - pofitributions ” “10. mento aratenonar .com, mail them to Ter: me 3210 Clinton St. » Terrace. B. Cc V8G . race’ Slandar ~SR2; ‘or drop. them off'at ‘our front counter: 27 : Send your submissions by Wednesday Nov, ‘3. A Halloween classic. FEEL LIKE. dressing ° “up for. Halloween enjoying a night at the ‘symphony? ‘ “The: ‘Terrace Symphony’; ‘Orchestra. “opens iis. “Lith exciting. ‘season ‘with its’ “traditional..Hallow- JP een themed. concert, a performance. that’s geared to: » Children ~ -and:the young’at heart, AS always, ‘the. audience ‘and - the’. symphony. ~ jnembers are encouraged. to. dress’i in: ‘costume, Mu-, - ‘sical: selections will be familiar pieces everyone can recognize. we! : : Children’ 8. ‘thoits from’ E: - ‘Kenney aiid’ Ki K’Shan® ‘primary . ‘schdols ‘will ‘also be Joining the. “T$0 for a Fé’ ‘numbers as: special: guests,” 1k “The: conceit, “an evening. Of, miusi¢ ‘and song, is: 06 30-at.7 p. m. at thé R: E. M ‘Lee Theatre. ‘That! Ss. Also look for a surprise visit ‘froin’ the members? “OF Terrace’ Little ‘Theatre’s upcoming Pantomime * . extravaganza, Jack: and the Beanstalk. . ea The:-TSO- participated. j in.last” year’s ‘production ° oF Cinderelli, and: are- back this year to provide. “some of the music for. the TLT’s latest.‘ : “And that's nol all: ‘the. TSO has planned for the, s Dec. I8'at Knox, United Church, and in February,’ the’ TSO willalso be. bringing’ up Trio: Accdérd* and. ~ Gene Ramsbottom from the Vancouver Symphony: ” Orchiestra, as well-as the. CBC Orchestra ‘and UBC. : Kitsilano ‘flip through, their allases and encyclope-- : ~ dias to find ott more about northern B.C.” : ~ “Some authors, Tthink, footnote’ these things or-offer‘an explanation,” de Leeuw says. ’. 8 “These communiti¢s.don’t deserve to be foot- “notes for‘a: ‘larger: audience. If those audiendes~: ~ wank to learn’ : tore, they'll ‘Unmarked: Ey “look for it.” - ‘Its. dé. .Landscapes. Along: Leeww's: first ‘Highway. 16°. fs . a cand Sarah de, Leeuw “she cutely, 118 pages ; ‘aware, readers ° ; “heré= will.-be-: NeWest Press 2004. her most artic- 2 ulate critics? ator “.« So-when she embarked 0 on 3 Tecent, book t tour : “that took her: back ‘through: many: of. her. former’. a “stomping grounds, she, didn’ t know: quite what to. expect puis, , ~ Her trepidation was: quickly erased. as: she dis-- “eovered people‘ were eager to have their.c commu: : : _ nities validated onthe: printed page... >. “ Places: like Port Clements: on. the: Charlottes, oo “the Zoo, a, mushroom pickers" shanty, t town: near ° "A PEEING t tree. A field of lava. Muddy- log: yards “: : “De Leeuw’s altitude is, Jet-the. late-sippers of fe mo, Le The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October'20; 2004 - E Sys Bt ~ LOOKING FOR. ESSENCE: Sarah de Leeuw has S published her first book, a collection of ; ~ oreative. non-fiction: essays: o ” JENNIFER LANG PHOTO as ~ Cranberry Junction, or. Résswood; home. of the “ Peeing:Tree are: “not apparent tc toa. larger, outside. - audience,” she. Says, : . ~ “For some of the. communities; it’s the: first time these: ‘places, have. been reflected in print,” - “de. Leeuw, who now. lives i in Kingston, Ontario, - ! where: she" ‘s working on: a Pai in sultural ge0g- 7 “raphy. . Uninarked | isa joumey across space aiid time and: shifting: ‘points of View, as dé Leeuw; using . her own story as a Starling point, takes readers on, “atour of sorts, along: Highway 16. “ .. She paints some: of her. landscapes’as “unque ~onably ‘bleak — places: like‘Juskatla, a'small log- ging. camp on ‘the Queen’ Charlotte | ‘Aslands,- or: Terrace, ‘where: restless teens: Shafe at: the limita- o ~ Gons of a small. town...: 7 "-Somtte’ phrases: will regonale with palit ree By REBECCA COLLARD’. new w skills, = ; © HEATHER -BELLAMY = “spent -Tast- Tuesday - night. -_ bringing Terrace : ‘residents ~. "-up:'to speed on her: latest, “work “if- the the “Afghan - capital of Kabul:. , ‘continued:. her: ‘work with the Gardens | Afghanistan. -» Project; a non-governmen- tal organization composed *. F of herself, ariother Canadian © _ and two Afghanis. fk The’. group worked “p Madly with Women’ - And | ~- children organizing: projects “were a challenge. Me “arid helping. th RE E: M. Lee’ ‘Theatre «bythe: concept of Place: and the’ ‘discipline of. g “ography, . “Because. she: writes in the: gente: of creative. ‘non-fiction; de Leeuw: has: the:liberly of captur-- ” , ing-the-truth.as she sees ‘it; if. not: ‘the-black and: Avhite facts, “T, felt: very. relleved to start’ Writing in the genre of creative non-fiction, ‘It allaws you ihe, : freedom of i imagination and creativity.” | think it 5 incredible for healing’ Ald worker intends to return to Afghanistan to continue her rewarding work — “Pm jazzed about: iit. ‘dening,”'said. Bellamy, who’ spoke about a women’s: gar-. - den’ ‘the - group. “restored as. ‘one of their main. projects,” “I think it’ sincredible for : ghanistn i since January, . oo Whilesthe; work. is. tc- : .wardisig,. she. said most days “"Eowrole: to’ a friond in. “Toronto. tind Said-I feel fike -fuimping ‘ship alitiost: every.” day,” she told a-crowd gath- “- “efed to:hear her speak atthe” ognition. among local readers: In ‘one oy se ~ notes, “Everyone seems.to always. be leaying.” ‘She demonstrates an eye for description, l00; - Prince. George appears.td be ‘excavated: from». ‘sand, “a-city :constrained. by cut banks ‘and mo-- . faine: hills. >» the: bowl is Iwo! palms pressed: togelh- et, holding inthe breath‘of Priticé George. sky.” Me Like. many.’ nortlerners,; «this. region is de" : Leeuw’ 's adopted, home. She's lived in many ‘dif. ~ ferent locales, s0.it"s no ‘wonder, she’ 's fascinated , “tion together, eventual ly wveaving together essays a “part travelogue, and ‘part. memoir. —an unflinching’, 1, “record of what it’s ‘like Browing: uni in ‘his remote : ouitsider, and an insider. - ‘this'is my: “home,” she says, adding she intends.to’ : —retum| lo B. Ce once her Studies are complete. “ Some of ihe’ ‘essays are de Leeuw’ $ own stoties -and memories, others belong to family members : Or’ friends. Some’ aré imagined, =..." : De Leguw says her ‘mother: dégcribed | it. like. this: “It’s as iam re Tooking for* essence’ “as 0 . “posed to truth,” Moe 7 she'd previously written with new material... - -The resullis remarkably: seamless; part, expose, a corner of the world, a, “In the end, she seems recoiled to. be both an ' ; > “} realized when F moved’ to ‘southern Ontario, 7 . She. shared: stories. and : healing,” : showed” op he ce slides: of. * group is one ~ | = her life and: "of many aid.” “work in the ~ programs Jtroubled © irying ta --mation, tebuild © the - Bel country, ° . ~lamy, who “which. has grew up in: been. de- | Terrace, “strayed by “recently years of wat “returned. . and fighting - ~ home from | ‘and political . her'last stint - _ turmoil. © : in the cen-. ~ > Bellamy * tral” Asian. = RM said 35 aid” _ eountty. : Heather Bellary “workers While, are ot. haves “been ‘there, she . - killed in Af talk-last week, as ‘did Bobby, 18 and Carol Laird. "My. friend write! ‘back’ siay- * : ing ee thing iv § not d port Oct. Aa " “hacked by a ‘larger evangelis” eal Christian’ -organization,: Samaritan’s Purse Canada, :, Vv hich Tung’ * programs i us over oa 100 6 countries; ar , - Bellamy will be: rluing 2 to Afghanistan: but will: be. working ol on anew project. m