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- Ed Oldfield stands in front of his painting in the Skeena artroom.

A new face at city hall

There's a new face at
. the District of Terrace.

It belongs to Rob
Greno, the new planning
director. He started the
job last Monday after it
had been left vacant
since John McNairnay
resigned last Sep-
tember.

Greno worked as a
planning consultant in
the southern area of
Vancouver Island, He is
originally from Toronto
where he received a
planning degree from

Media workshop

Ryerson Institute.

Both he and his wife
enjoy living in small
towns and when they
saw. Terrace and the
mountains here, they
decidedit was what they
wanted, .

As the new planner,
Greno has a backlog of
subdivisions and re-
zoning tocatchup on but
he is also working on

, several projects. One is

to carry on the work
started by McNairnay
to update the zoning by-

scheduled here

Explorations In
Creativity is a weekend
workshop to give area
residents an opportunity to
work, and play, with
Michael Asti-Rose, who is
an accomplished artist,
writer, film-maker and
actor ina variety of media.
It will be held from Feb. 6-8
at Northwest Community
College in Terrace.

Participants will be able
to produce a collage mural
together, create a short
play, and wrile a collective
poem and story, In-
dividuals can opt to watch
rather than participate at

any” time. Materials are
supplied — ‘but notebooks.
sketchbooks and cameras
will be useful as additional
tools, No previous skill or
experience is required:
only a desire to explore
one’s awn creativity at
whatever level. Couples
are encouraged to attend
together.

Interaction and in-
creasing awareness of the
inner creative process are
both key elements of the

:+ workshop. Basic relaxation

techniques are taught to
allow participants to ex-
petiment more freely. In

exploring the writing
medium a tape recorder is
utilized to create
believable dialogue.
Powers of observation are
stressed in writing
description, using all
senses. In creating a play
the group will be en-
couraged to improvise
everyday
juxtaposing these in
unusual ways. Unusual

_ sources [or imagery are

suggested such as group
members tracing each
other hands or taking
prints from one side of the
face or a foot as the basis
for a painting. :

As an editor, writer and
studio director on staff at
the CBC in Toronto Asti-
Rose has been involved for
three years. in a great
Many documentaries and

dramas. as well as finding .

time to produce and direct
two “amateur” films..

The Terrace workshop
will be held from 7 p.m. to
10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6
and from9a.m.to5p.m. on
Saturday and Sunday.
Advance registration fee is

$i5 and can be made at the .
college. The workshop is-

limited to 20 people.

POLICE NEWS

Terrace RCMP
diseovered tire marks
feading into the Skeena
River 41. miles west of
Terrace Wednesday
morning. They are sear-
ching the river for a vehicle
_ but revel not. found
anything

It is Ralleved the vehicle _

was: travelling east to
Terrace.

Contents in one ot thé
municipal district's gaf-
bage trucks caught on fire
Wednesday. The truck was
‘driven to a vacant lot’ on
Davis Street. where the
burning garbage was
dumped. The Terrace Fire
Department watered dowh
the refuse before a loader
came by and picked it up

- again.

law which Greno. says
was instituted in 1966.

The other is to get the
downtown revitalization
plan off the ground. He
says tenders from
consulting firms have
already been submitted.

WEATHER

The sunshine will end on
Friday as a _ Pacific
weather disturbance off the
coast moves into the area.
The weatherman is calling
for cloudy skies with
showers on Friday.

Temperatures will be

cooler with the high
reaching only 3 , degrees
Celsius.

The outlook for the
weekend is more. clouds

and showers’ with tem-

peratures warming up
slightly.

_ The Herald, Thursday: January Ms 1901. Page 3

have works displayed

Terrace ‘is producing
some fine art students and
there are some excellent
works done by Skeena
Junior Secondary students
on display around town,

_ says Lynda Hudson, of the ©

Skeena Parent-Teachers
Association. . f

The mural in the
municipal hall, and the one
in the swimming pool, were
done by. Skeena students.
There are 34 pieces of work °

_on display at the schooi
‘board office; also;
although our area is not .

and

equipped for offering art

courses. outside of school

“we have very fine art

_ shows to enable us to view

fine art,”
Hudson.

says Mrs.

Ed Oidtield - and Toni
Stewart teach 220 art
students at Skeena.- There
are four Grade 6, three
Grade 9, and two Grade 10
classes, With no provincial
standards to follow and no.
course outline the job
cannot be easy; says Mrs.
Hudson; but Oldfield says
his students are producing
above-average wark.

Oldfield has . been
teaching art at Skeena for
three years and he says he
is very happy with his work
here. In June he thought he
would be losing all his best
art students to Caledonia
but his average students
from last year
become ‘‘A'’ , students.
There are also a large
number of Grade 8 students
with a lot of talent. :

-have.

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As well as leaching art
and drafling during school
hours Oldfield is also in
charge of \he schoal's art
club, Ten students belong
to it and their activities

-inclide painting murals for -

school danees. They
receive a fee from the
student's. council for this

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work. The murals are
donated. to other schools.
The club is also com-
missioned to decorate for
local dances. Monies raised
this year -have gone to
Timmy's Christmas
Telethon ($100) and the
Terrace Child Develop-
ment Centre ($100).

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