NOW INSTALLED in an office on Lakelse Ave., Project Literacy

coordinator Nat Purcell is busy setting up the program which will of-
fer the functionally illiterate an opportunity to upgrade their
reading, writing and arithmetic skills.

Young skaters give fine performa nce

I hope you were out to see the
‘Yee Carnival, March 27-28. The
' Terrace Figure Skating Club did
a wonderful job of the Wizard
of ‘Oz, putting on an evening of
great skating.
“Congratulations too to the

‘-parents who worked so hard on

all the costumes — they were
just beautiful! From the sound
‘of the crowd, everyone was en-
‘joying the show, from the per-
formance of Shelley Lefebvre as
Dorothy.‘ to the lovely little
Munchkin tots.

IL have-a first here, by the
way, When the figure skating .,
club, first’ started up following ”
- the. ‘Opening of the arena, T was
. on its committee. °

We had 629 skaters from pre-

‘schoolers to seniors. The club
: now. has 115 members but the

cost: of ‘skating has gone up
; some since those early days.

: The -club’s pro is about to

leave them so they are looking

for two coaches. If you know

~ -anyone -who would like to

coach, please phone Anita Page
at 635-6451.
Da io ok
_ A bit of an update from local
singer- songwriter Debbie
Toovey:.
- She - says things are . going
great’ so far. She has managed |

to:get some. airplay in various.
- parts of B.C.:Some’ stations’

have been ‘playing her songs
“during: gospel. programs while
‘her other, country music songs,
_ have been played on others.
.73.The.latter- include. CKER.-
7 Edmonton which has also had
_her’on-for a second interview.
-Closer::to home, BVLD-
‘Smithers: has been giving her
airtime as well,

yim, November - of last year
Debbie. ‘sent a tape to Lee
_ ‘Roberts, the hast. of County
Line in Michigan and received
"an immediate response. He did
‘an. ‘interview with her - which

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aired Jan, 20 and her. music will
be played throughout the year.
County Line is a Sunday mor-
ning program and is carried by
CIFW here. Debbie’s Lord,
You're My Best Friend is the

number one song on that pro-

gram at present.

Debbie and husband Rod left
for Nashville April 2 where she
met Lee Roberts and attended a
few seminars. Of course, she
was very excited at the prospect.

She would < like. to
acknowledge Jon’s
Photographic for the picture on
her’ album, cover, ,Sight. and
*Sound anid. ‘Treasure House
“Books for’ “selling” “her ‘recor
dings, and. the many people. in
Terrace who have purchased her
tapes and their kind letters and
calls offering words of en-
couragement. -

She says, ‘Bless you all. ”

kkake

Remember I .was asking a
while back if anyone knew what
happened. to the Bill Roper
family? (Daughter Terri-Leigh
was the first baby born in Mills
Memorial hospital).

Bill was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernie Roper whose other
children ‘were Don, Bruce,
Beryl, Judy and Maxine. The
family lived on Highway 16
west. |

- Bill and family left. Terrace
some years ago for ;Everett,
Washington State, where he
drove logging truck: Apparent-
ly, Bill was killed in a car acci-
dent there. .

_His, father, Ernie, was a
heavy machine - operator. and

also moved away from here, to.

live down south. He too was
killed in a traffic accident when

his vehicle struck a deer while he -

was driving home from his last
day at work before retirement.
I do have Terri-Leigh’s ad-
dress so will be writing to her. -
Wik kkk

Project Literacy Terrace this
week began in earnest its efforts.
fo meet the needs of those who.

have difficulty with reading,

writing or arithmetic.

In this, the first in a two part
series, project co-ordinator Nat
Purcell provides details on 1 the
program.

Project Literacy should | be
seen as ‘‘an opportunity for
people to upgrade and: hone
their skills without feeling em-
barrassed,’* says Purcell,

And while the, most crucial
and perhaps difficult part will
be persuading learners to take
the opportunity to do so, he em-:
phasizes there is little doubt
there is a need.

As evidence, he points to the
results of a provincial study
which determined there are
more than 7,600 “functionally
illiterate’ people in the Skeena
region.

Other studies, he adds, sug-
gest as many as one-in-five
“‘have trouble reading at a very
fundamental level.” As aresult,
many tasks, such as filling out
application or government

- forms are extremely difficult, if.

not impossible for them,
Purcell expects learners will |

most likely come. from those
who, for any ofa number of

reasons, either left school early -

or who were unable to make the
desired progress ‘in the then
school system. That included

‘the -55-plus age group, the lear-

ning “disabled, street kids,
unemployed single mothers and
natives.

Initial - efforts to draw :
‘learners have included talking

to all those agencies and
organizations whose mandate
usually brings them into contact
with the functionally illiterate.
Pureell. hopes word-of-mouth
will: also help get the message
out,

=Conceding learners will be
those “‘courageous enough to
come here and try it for three
months,”” he emphasizes they
are assured complete confiden-
tiality.

Anyone wanting more infor-
mation on Project Literacy can
contact Purcell at 635-9119 or
drop into the office on Lakelse
Ave. (an the ground floor of the

. Tillicum building).

Next week, Purcell explains
the training program for tutors,
teaching methods and plans jor
the future.

Yvonne Moen
,

; ‘Here ‘in
There’’
Se by

I have received a , short note
from Jean Froese Burr in Clear-
brook, who has just returned
from a two-month vacation.

She misses the many friends she ©

made during the 35.or more
years she lived here, but likes
being closer to. her children and
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News from the “Willows:
First, everyone at the Willows
would like to say.a big thank-
you to the people ‘involved in
the Easter Bunny Run.

Easter Bunny Ron Fleming,
fire. chief Bob Beckett and
Sharon Prinz from Mills
Memorial hospital made.a stop
at the Willows with Easter eggs
for everyone (they were
generously donated by local
merchants). :

Then’ Cecile and Mel got busy

making up Easter baskets which ©

they hung on the doors of all the

‘tenants ‘after they’d gone to

bed, From what I hear, the
seniors. were very pleased.
Apparently, Ron, Bob and
Sharon also made stops at Ter-
raceview, ‘-the Tuck Ave.
seniors’ housing complex, Mills
Memorial. hospital and Osborne

, House.

Birthdays at ‘the Willows for

April arez’ Juleite Tremblay,

_Apr. 4; Mildred Hjort, Apr. 18;

and Molly Gauvreau, Apr. 28.
Kkkkt

‘I would like to send out

special birthday greetings to

‘Stella. Miller for April 5 and

hope everything went well,

Happenings at Terraceview
Lodge: A group of singers from
the Alliance Church entertained
last Wednesday...the lodge will
be holding two pub nights this
month...Donna says everyone
up there is doing well.

April birthdays are Patty

¥,Dorion, .77,.0n -Apr. 1; Marie
-. Poelstra; 58.0n Apr. 8; and Carl

‘Clausen, 84 ‘on a Agr. 15,

: Lee Hospital Foundation cash calendars last year was multi- :
__ple wins were possible. A

$100 — Berg’s name was drawn again April 5 to give her

>ash winners

One of the points emphasized by those selling Dr. R.E.M: a

And last week, Wendy Berg of Terrace became the first to °
benefit from the fact winners’ names go straight back into the [
draw, Hard on the heels of her March 31 success'—- worth”

another $50.

Other $50 winners during the past week were Sheryt Fan-
dray, Don Snider, Andy Davis, Joe Mandur and Sean
Moldenhauer, all of Terrace, and Lucy Moar of Alonsa,
Manitoba.

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What ito all these
people have In. common?

“What-is the Schoal Board doing to
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