The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 29, 1993 - Page Bi ERRACE STANDARD - A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Cemetery keeps Its parenting at 12:15 to 2:45 contact Carol 635-3459, Marg 635-2472. . +2 0 OE SEPTEMBER 29, 1993 - Saddle Ciub Meeting at 8 p.m, at the “Library. Lh L SEPTEMBER 27, 1993 - Terrace. Art Association is ‘having the annual general meeting -at the Terrace Art ‘Gallery: at-7:30 p.m. . 2 ee OCTOBER: 5, 1993 - Terrace ‘Breastfeeding support group is having monthly meetlngs at the Mills memorial education room -bt: 8:00 p.m.Phone, Terry. Walker. “for further: lfitokmaticn at’ ‘as Ag94 Beets oe £ : sennoenens . ‘OCTOBER. 5, 1993 - Legion Ladies Auxiliary Oct monthly ‘meeting, all members welcome. at the Legion 8:00 p.m. oy eee OCTOBER 23, 1993 - The BCOAPO Branch 73 is having an Annval Tea and Bazaar featur- ing year-round practical gifts and baked goods. It is held at the Happy Gang Centre, 3226 _Kalum Street, at 1:30 pm. - . ETERS EE NOVEMBER 13, 1993 - Terrace Hospice Society arts, crafts, and bake sale, tables atill available phone 638-1265 or 635-3860 by Oct 15 1993, Coast Inn of the West, 9 a, m. to Spm , CPt eeeeeee . ‘WEDNESDAYS Skeena ‘Valley Quilters meet every ‘Wednesday at 7 p.m. in. the sowlag-room:at Skecna Junior Secondary School beginners and ‘more experienced quilters welcome call 635-2230 for more information. see eeeen es | MILLS MEMORIAL ‘Hospital Auxillary meetings third-Monday of each month in ithe. board room at 8 pm. 7 ‘syeryone is welcome, oe be eee oreenee : MOTHERS TIME OFF - And - > [your invited to.drop in and meet -~ J -other;moms, do a craft, learn oe ‘something new, or just enjoy a “"T break. while’ your children play ‘| close by with our experienced ‘care ‘givers, We're open Mon, ~ Wed, Thurs, and Fri 10:00 a.m. - '}-11:30 am. at the Knox United ‘Church, for.-more information cali: 635-4147. during program hours. ; TT - rT Trrit tt to . 2ND and 4Th Monday of every | month o: order of the- Royal Purple regular’ meclings for more information call 635-5121 Elks Hall at 7:30, , &$debbee SHE : KERMODE! CHORISTER Invite ‘boys and girls ages 8-12 to come sing with us Tuesday 6:30 | +800 Skeena Band Room call ‘| Terry Anderson 638-1183 to reglater. PERS RE HSE “TUESDAY EVENINGS Relapse ‘| prevention group for further ‘information call 638-8117 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm : oensesesse ath TUHSDAY OF EVERY MONTH - Alzheimers and De- mentia support groups hold meeting , at the mental heaith treat 1 pin, 2 Heeniag. The dynamite thawed out and then unexpectedly exploded, kill- ing five and seriously injuring two more. Floyd Frank remembers the ar- tival of the injured men at his parents’ farm. **There was 15 inches of snow on the ground,’ he said. ‘Tt was snowing hard as can be.’?. The men arrived’ by sled’ and survived their injuries, The Russians, who died instani- ly, were buried in the cemetery. ~ But for Smaha, the mystery” hasn't ended, - ‘Phe names: printed.in the news-:- paper, you seé, don’t match the names translated from _ the tombstones.. According to the Omenica NORTHWEST Community Col- lege’s Terrace campus direclor i is going to BCIT. Morrison resigned from the college last week in favour of . a new job at the institute in Burnaby. Morrison will be the director of program planning and industry training at BCIT. , His three-year mandate is to help BCIT better meet the train- ing needs of business and indus- try. “Leaving is going to be headstones down the ‘hil : “Now cemetery volunteers. want. iF the. city to better maintain the. graveyard, and prop Up. fallen: Here rests the servant of God. Representative to God for ever aad ever. Nickolas Sekuinia. Died Feb, 3, 1911. Born 1882. Re- membered by Halia Blichna and J, Blichna. _ The other headstone - says Londrovich was born in 1887 and says:. Remembered by brother Rezeni, Ylena Londrov: The old Kitsumkalum cemetery - has had its trials and tribulations over the years. At one point vandals rolled tombstones. ° tough,”’ says Morrison. ‘This place has been more like home to me than anywhere else we have ever been.”’ He is looking forward to. the . new job, however. “They wanted me fairly badly. and it’s something ] want to do- fairly badly,”’ he said. . Morrison has played -a key role in several new developments at Northwest Community College in _ his four years here. He is credited with introducing co-operative education to NWCC, a The Good Guys A GIANT BIKER GANG OF HOPE rade through town last Saturday, marking the ith annual Toy Run. Whether the riders were wearing red velvet like Santa or black leather like Harley owner Bill . McKay, when they dismounted there wes something to cheer — Army workers to collect to brighten som eone’ S$ Christm as, Morrison jeaves | NWCC ~ and helping to establish the col- lege’s extension department downtown in the TEC centre. He is presently second-vice president of the Chamber of . Commerce, a director of the Ter- race Rotary Club, and is a founder of the Terrace University Access Council, which has represented Terrace in dealing with UNBC. ’ Morrison is off to BCIT in No- vember to camry out some preliminary work, and will move to the Lower Mainland carly in the new year. SAVING OUR CEMETERY: Floyd Frank and Sally Smaha are researching some of the fascinating history of the old Kitsumkalum cemetery. This fallen tombstone was the first one placed there, and dozens of toys. for: ‘Salvation Around Town Try pulling your plug IT’S NOT JUST Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton who are unplugged these days. Uplands Elementary School kids and their families are pulling their plugs this week in an effort to cut down on TV watching, Healthier alternatives to television are being offered at the school each night this week during national Pull the e Plug Week (Sept. 26 - Oct. 2). - Kids and their families are urged to try out soccer, softball, bas- ketball, and rollerblading, Tonight families are invited to come and meet Uplands teachers, slaff and the Parents Advisory Council. Organizer Lisa Bulleid says Thursady. night will feature a mini- _basketbali tournament, and softball games on the diamond. Friday night is earmarked for swimming ¢ and skating up at the arena and aquatic centre, For more information contact Lisa Bulleid at 638-3570, — A few statistics about TV viewing: * By the time a child reaches age 5, he/she will have watched a solid working year of just commercials. « There Is a violent act an average of every two minutes on most children’s programs. * Most children spend more time watching ielevision than they spendinschool. a Caledonia tops in province FINAL TALLY of the June 16 Milk Run shows Caledonia Sr. Secondary fund-raising prowess beat oul every other school in the province. Caledonia was the number 1 donor to the 1993 Milk Run, with $2,250 donated. The two closest schools were both much larger — - Sumey’s Semiahmoo, at $1,900 and Richmond’s Steveston Secondary, at $1891.58, Cal has steadily climbed through the ranks in the past five yeals, says athletics director Cam McKay. - Three years ago they had the best: record for donations per capila, ' but were third on the overall list. Last year Cal was second, and this year they finally took top honours. “T's a tribute to the kids in the school, the teachers involved, and also a tribute to the communily,’” says -McKay, ‘who - notes Caledonia's basketball (eam ‘also depends heavily on fund-raising, “If we didn’t have the community behind us we basically ¥ woukin’ t haveateam.’? . McKay says kids in the north gel good at fundraising, because they have to do Itif they want to go anywhere lo compete and Bet more experience. The Milk Run was a fund-raiser. in which the entire schoo! took part. Classes: competed against cach 0 other and humourous games were invented to make it Fun. For the last two years the money raised has been donated to B C ‘Blind Sports and Recreation. That organization invesied ‘some of the money back-In the notthwest this year by: purchasing a taridem bike for use by b blind and visually faapaleed, peopl Up! | secrets The_-Tennce__Standur__offers. ‘| What's Up as 2 public service to THE MYSTERY of the old Herald of the day, the Russians its__seades od community | Kitsumkalum cemetery is were Eli Ogrezobich and John organizations, solved — sort of. Otisovich — not even close to the This. column is intended For non- For years, passers-by have names Nickolas Sekulnia and pivfit omenizalions snd those puzzled over the mysterious writ- Milan Londrovich. ~ ; events for which there is.u2 1 ing on two of the tombstones. Smaha says she has: received admission charges, Thanks to the help of a trans- several different spellings for the Items_will nm two weeks before | ater, the Cyrillic writing has been headstone inscriptions from trans- each event. deciphered, lators —- none of them close to We ask that items be submitted Cemetery researcher Sally _ the newspaper clipping names. by noonon the Friday before the | = Smaha says the Russian text on “There are still a lot of ques- c dae tu whieh itis to appear, the stones give the names Nick- _ tions,”’ she says. For other contributed articles. | ojas Sckulnia and Milan M. — Roughly translated, onc of the the deadine Jn S pm on the | Tondrovich. stones says: Thunday_before the isauecomes | “ pioneer Floyd Frank says the’ ae ub. Russians were among five . . cog ‘Submissions should be typedor | workers killed in an explosion at A box of dynamite had = ontedneatly. the Kitsclas rail tunnel in Febru- frozen and the workers put = senesengen ary, 1911.0 it in the sun against a rock. g SEPTEMBER 23 TO OCT | Tyre tunel wile the blast. <2He @namite thawed out z obodys perfect a , rr 4 iia free 6 week parenting program ing was goingon, and then unexp ectedly ex- bee ‘for. parents of kids aged 0-5 A box of dynamite had frozen ploded, killing five and : .years‘old, group is relaxing, fun | and the workers put it in the sun Seriously injuring two with lots of information on | against a rock. more. q tora