heritage as:

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ei Button bearers

|. SARAH Smoley and Gabe McFarlane, both 16-year-old students from Parkside Secondér) School, display.
_ their winning designs for a Valentine’s Day button contest promoting anti-violence that was put on by the
Ksan House Society. Smoley’s pin features the words, “Be Cool, Don't Abuse,” while McFarlane’s button
reads “Valentine’s Day is for Love Not Hate.” The teens were encouraged to enter the contest by their art
teacher‘and being picked as winners meant their designs have been made into 100 buttons each that they

_ can distribute to whomever they choose: Smoley says'she’ll distrioute her buttons to people at the,Prince
Rupert transition house, while McFarlane he plans to hand his out to friends and people he knows. The
students ‘both say the exercise opened their eyes to the i issues of violence‘and domestic abuse and that - |
neither of them tolerates them. Not pictured | is the third winner, Brandy Benson, also of Parkside Second-

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hosts. its

oo The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - B3

Around —
Town

“Kinsmen |
celebrate 60

_.THE KINSMEN Club of
Terrace celebrates 60 years

of community .service for
members of the community

- who have been involved in

the Kin Family or for those

- who just want to come out
“and celebrate community

service. The. celebration

“will take, place Saturday,
. Feb. 25 at the Best Western

Terrace Inn's old GiGi's Bar
downstairs.
Dancing will to live band °

will follow a TBA keynote .

. Speaker. Cocktails at 6:30
p.m. and dinner at 8 Pm
Dress is semi-formal.

Tickets can-be purchased

. at McBike or call 635-5225.

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. “Saturday, Feb., 25- at the’.
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Multicultural

'. Hall. Doors open at 4 p.m.’

with - dinner starting at 5.
* Enter with a ticket arid an.
ethnic dish. Call 638-1594
for information or buy tickets

_ at: Misty River Books.

_ Elks, family lose special man

Special

o tribute to the
Baker family |
-FEBRUARY IS Heritage .

“Month and «I encourage:
" everyone. to think of . our

heritage.

The dictionary describes
property that
descends to an heir; legacy;
birthright. My favorite would
be legacy because I see heri-
tage as a continual process

‘from which everyone ben-

efits. For this I would like to

Share a story of a family who

came to Terrace in 1942 and
contributed to Terrace’s his-

Fred and Charlotte Baker
moved to Terrace in 1942,
with sons Lawrence 14, and
four-year-old Clarence. By

this time the older children -
had already left home. Ap-:
parently, this move was very.

exciting to Lawrence — he

‘thought they were moving to
a city. Only he didn’t know .

he would find himself ona
farm at the end of Thomas
Street, up on the bench. —

HERE ‘N THERE |

YVONNE MOEN

~The Baker family, Fred

Baker was born in 1888- died.
1955, Charlotte Hartt- Baker.
was born in 1894- died 1978 .

both died in Terrace. Fred
and Charlotte were married
on April 6, 1912 in Yorkton,
Sask. They had a family of

five boys and one girl, Grace
was born in 1913, Herb in.
1914, Wilfred in 1916, Wal- .

ter in 1925, Lawrence in

1928‘and Clarence in 1938. .
- All the children were born

in Manitoba and the only
one left was Lawrence who
passed away Nov. 11, 2005.

. All this family is gone now.

-As: Lawrence just _re-
cently passed away, I would
like to tell you just a little of
his life and the great contri-
bution he made to Terrace.
Lawrence was 14 when he

came to Terrace but it didn’t -

take him long to get to know
the local kids.. Lawrence,
Don Hull and some of the
other kids got together and
built a bobsled. They rode
that bobsled down Birch

hill around the corner and

‘down Atwood St. towards

the tracks. One of the kids

“was on lookout on Lakelse
Ave., just in case there was ~
traffic. This tradition lasted.

for a few years until one day

Another little story shared
to me by Les York about
Lawrence from August 1942

When the York family came °
to Terrace: Les remembers.
he and Lawrence, both 14

then, worked together as wa-
‘ter boys for his father build-

ing the old military hospital -
- up on the bench and the lock-

up at the old police station.

Les said he remembers that -

time living in Terrace as the
most interesting time of his
life and was left with some
wonderful memories.

It was about three years
after moving to Terrace that
Lawrence, Don Hull’ and
two other local boys headed
east to.do the harvesting in
Saskatchewan. This
during wartime’ and tires

-were rationed. They made it

as far as Marysville in south-

eastern, B.C. when they ran.
out of tires. They spent the.

winter cutting railway ties.
In the spring, the boys
separated and Lawrence

was °

‘the traffic was the RCMP,.. [.
which immediately put a
~ stop to this fun.

LAWRENCE Baker, fourth from the right, was a member of the Benevolent Order.
-of Elks Canada for more than 40 years, serving a as the Elks’ local secretary. for a :
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO .

quarter of a century.

continued east.. In Port Ar- -

> thur, which is now Thunder
_ Bay, Ont.,

Lawrence got a
job hauling cement blocks
to the stores. That is when
he decided he better get his
driver’s license.
After hauling
with his new license, he
headed north where he spent
the next 10 years working
in the gold mines in Red
Lake, Ont. In 1960, Law-
rence came back to Terrace.
He worked as a gas jockey
for Bert Bellamy & Chevron
on River Dr, He later went

.to work as a field mechanic.

for Columbia Cellulose. At
that time, logging was big
in Terrace. Columbia Cel-
lulose had equipment spread
out between the Nass Valley
and Copper River Valley.
Lawrence spent many hours
driving the logging roads
fixing the equipment.

In. 1967, Lawrence em-
barked on many new things

and adventures;:in. Novem- .

ber, he started working for
Transport Canada based at
the Terrace/Kitimat . Air-
port. This job took him from
Dease Lake to Cape St.
James on the southern tip of
Queen Charlotte Islands.

Another change in Law-
rence’s life came on March
15, 1968 when he married

- Jean (Kraft) and took on

four kids aged 8 to 14, three
of whom were. boys. The
plan for the wedding was
to go to Prince Rupert with

cement

colour of their car and felt.

brother Clarence: -and Joyce.

and have a quiet ceremony.

Well, by the ‘time the cer-.
emony’started there were 16 .
‘.on Lakelse; Mrs. Baker dis- '.
played beautiful flowers in

her front window. Another F
longtime family gone ‘that.
' certainly left their mark in.

at the church — so much for a
quiet wedding.
After . the

to the hotel room. Lets just
say, after they left the room
and Lawrence and Jean ar-

rived, they probably had a

tough time with the bed and
Jean found confetti in her
suitcase for years after..

. When they arrived back
home, they found another

shocking “surprise...I guess
some friends didn’t like the

some shoe polish graffiti
might help. Can you imag-
ine? That first summer at 40

years old, taking on a new ©

wife, two kids and two teen-

agers on a road-trip by car. *

Wow!.

Lawrence joined the Be- -
snevolent and Protective Or-

der of the Elks in 1958. in

Red Lake, Ont. A prominent .

member of the Elks for over

40 years, he held a secretary

secretary, he took care of all _
the correspondence, tracked _
all the meeting minutes and ~

position for. the local group
for more than 25 years. As

volunteered with whatever
he could. He certainly was a

dedicated volunteer and will -

be hard to replace.

Lawrence also worked.

with the group with the Riv-
erside Music Festival, which
has been a great success.
Now back to the Bakers.
Both Mr. and Mrs.

ied at the old cemetery. Af-
ter they moved from up on

“the bench, the Baker family

lived on Lakelse Ave. The
location today is the park-

ceremony, |
- Jean’s parents took the kids

ing lot between Twin City.
Meats and Elan Travel.

“ Many people in, Terrace
remember the Baker home

Terrace. If you visit the Her-

itage Park Museum, you can<

view Mrs. Baker’s wedding

‘dress on display, as well a

pretty black party dress,
After six months of living

with the aid of oxygen, Law-

rence Baker passed away

suddenly at home Nov. 11, -

2005. His brother Clarence

died June 3, 1997 — his ul- .

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‘tralight, airplane crashed in 7 .

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and husband Ed Buchholz -

died in car crash at Williams

Lake in 1973 on their way to’
. Vancouver. Wilfred died in
1995 in Prince Rupert. Herb

in 1976 in ‘Ontario and Wal-

‘ter back in Manitoba. _
A celebration of Law- .
rence’s’ life was held on

Nov. 17, 2005 at Thornhill

Community) Church with >.
officiating pastor Rob Brin-- J}

son, with a reception at the

* Elks Hall following service: ° | &
Just a small tribute to the .
Baker family,-a family who ~

came to Terrace and made a
difference. ;

WE wou :

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