The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - B1

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Around Town

UVic holds 2002

grad ceremonies

EIGHT FORMER Terrace students have
earned degrees from the University of Victoria
this spring.

Virginia Rego has earned a master of edu-
cation. Janet Lennox has earned a Bachelor of
Laws.

Victoria Chemko and Krister Partel re-
ceived bachelor of arts degrees.

Anne Silsbe has earned a bachelor degree
in music.

Melissa Da Silva and Michael Davies have

Sheppard has earned a bachelor of social work.

More than 3,800 graduates received ceriifi-
cates, diplomas and degrees at UVic’s spring
convocation ceremonies, held June 5-7 at the
Farquhar Auditorium.

ing the lifetime achievements of seven people,
ster Lloyd Axeworthy, aulhor and journalist

Julie Payette.

Canadian medal

nominees sought

KNOW SOMEONE who has made a signif:
icant contribution to the communily or the
country?

Terrace city council is looking for local no-
minees for medals commemorating the Golden
Jubilee of the
crowning of
Queen Elizabeth
I.

The medal has
been struck to
honour people
who have made a
significant contri-
bution to Canada,
its cities, towns,
provinces, or have
made an outstand-

~ ing ‘achievement
’ abroad that brings
credit to Canada.
Councillor
Marylin Davies

earned bachelor of Science degrees. Sonya .

UVic conferred honorary degrees recogniz- :
including former federal Liberal cabinet mini-

Peter C. Newman, and Canadian astronaut

‘chemotherapy with temporary

Wig power

Why Suzie Metzmeier recently sent her shorn locks all the way to Toronto.

By JOANNA WONG
TERRACE RESIDENT Suzie
Metznieier’s new ‘do - a short but
stylish arrangement of curly au-
burn locks - wasn’! your everyday
haircul.

After snipping off nearly 10
inches of the long hair she'd spor-
ted for the past 20 years, Metz-
meier popped her hair in a Ziploc
bag, rushed to the post office, and
sent it to Toronto.

Metzmeier’s eastern- bound
hair is destined for a higher pur-
pose,

Once in Toronto, her hair will
be cut, styled, and made into a
wig.

The hair will then make its
way to a Canadian Cancer Socie-
ty (CCS) wig bank, which pro-
vides patients who are undergoing

hair.

“One of my friends has a brain
tumour and where they do radia-
lion therapy [her hair] may never
come back,” says Metzmeier, a
full-time mom of four.

The wig donation program is a
neat way to help people who are
in a lot of pain, she says.

“And if I didn't like [the hair-

TERRACE’ g Suzie Metzmeier holds a picture of herself before her recent haircut. She wore her
hair long for two decades. Now her long locks are about to be made into a wig for cancer patients.

says the city is
looking for readers
help in identifying
Terrace’s exemplary citizens.

If you know someone deserving, she says,
you can call the city’s talkback line at 638-
4778 and leave your name as well as the name

- of the candidate and a short bio of the nomi-
nee. The deadline for nominees is Friday, June
21.

Nominees must be Canadian citizens — al-
though not necessarily residing in Canada right
now — who were alive on the Feb. 6, 2002 offi-
cial anniversary of Her Majesty’s accession to
the throne.

A global grad

A TERRACE student has earned a Master of
Business Administration from a smal] univers-
ity in Alberta specializing in distance educa-
tion.

Sheldon Bennett has received his degree
from Athabasca University.

Students enrol at the university, located
150-km north of Edmonton, from across the
country — and the warld.

This year's grad class includes students in
Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Saudi
Arabia, Great Britain and the U.S.

“Convocation is the first time most of our
students set foot on campus,” says president
Dominique Abrioux, adding many use email or
the telephone to contact professors and tutors
during their studies,

Little descendent dies

THE LAST surviving child of Terrace founder
George Little and his wife Clara (Beste) Little
died Jast month.
Clara Little Foy passed away at the age of
85 at her home in Burlington, North Carolina
May 3 following a short illness.
She is survived by her husband of 56 years,
Douglas Foy, an American she married in
‘ 1945 when they left Terrace for Jacksonville,
North Carolina, three adult children, and other
descendent.
Clara, named for her mother, had a twin
‘sister, Dorothy, who died in 1971. Sister Edith
and brothers Dudley and Gordon have also
Passed away.

Proud Canadian?

DANA ASHER wants you to sing loud and
- Sing proud on Canada Day.
_ Asher is behind a national campaign to
‘have the whole country sing the national an-
them at the same time on the same day — July
1, ;
’ The plan is for everyone to sing at noon Fa-
‘cific Time, samething that Asher hopes be-
-comes-an annual Canada Day tradition.
» For more details, check out the campaign’s
website at www.singforcanada.ca.

Marylin Davies

cut] at least I knew I'd done
something good,” Metzmeier
adds.

According to Mairin McManus,
the manager of the cancer sacie-
ty's Vancouver Lodge for the past
seven years, the wig bank service
is essential,

“People are reeling with how
the treatment causes hair to fall
out and are always very pleasant-

ly surprised about [the wig bank],”

McManus says..

She describes the loss of hair,
eyebrows and eyelashes that often
accompanies radiation therapy as
devastating for cancer patients,

“People dealing with the dia-
gnosis of cancer is tough enough,”

she says. “It’s another component
of the loss af power of your situa-
tion.”

The Vancouver Lodge wig
bank, one of eight CCS banks in
B.C., loans out about 150 wigs a
year.

asked for — it’s a win-win situa-
tion,” McManus says of the wig
bank program. “People feel goad
about doing it and patients are so
happy to receive it.”

The Canadian Cancer Society
Resource Centre in Terrace has a

_ She knew if she didn’t tike her hair cut, she would
at least know she was doing something gdod.

Demand for wigs will only be
increasing, with CCS statistics
predicting that new cancer cases
may increase by as much as 70
per cent in the next 10 years.

“There’s na money spent or

small wig bank, reports volunteer
Laverne Kelln.

Donations of real or synthetic
wigs are always welcome.

“We can always use more,”
Kelln says. “It’s good because

women need to feel good at a
time like that.”

Women about to take the
plunge and cut off long locks can
send hair donations to Eva and
Company Wigs at 519 West Pen-
der St., Vancouver, B.C., V6B
LV5,

The company asks for no phone
calls but will respond to emails
at: evaandcompany @hotmail.com.

‘Hair that’s donated must be
clean. It shouldn't be permed or
processed and should form a po-
nytail of at least eight ta [0
inches in length,

Once cut, the ponytail should
be stored inside a Ziploc bag and

“society hired her as the first

’ Hall Elementary.

Terrace loses active
community member

Margaret Casey, 80, passed away June 2

WELL KNOWN Terrace resident Margar-
et Casey passed away early last week at
Terraceview Lodge. She was 80 yeats old.

Casey, who died June 2, was a mem-
ber of one of Terrace’s oldest pioneer fa-
milies. Born to Will and Margaret Little
on Dec. 4, 1921, she was the niece of the
man who founded Terrace,
George Little. ;

In the mid-1960s, a local §

teacher at the Peter Pan
School, Terrace’s first pro-
gram for children with disabi-
lities. It was located at Cassie

Her niece, Terrace city im
councillor Lynne Christiansen,
was a student at Cassie Hall §
in those days,

“She was well loved by Ig
those kids - they would sec I
her years later downtown and ii
say, ‘Hello Mrs. Casey!"”

Christiansen said her aunt
was not formally trained but
eagerly learned as much as
she could about teaching
children with disabilities, picking up
courses and gleaning information to use
on the job.

“She was just so good,” Christiansen
said, “It was her niche. She really made
her mark and excelled in that.”

Casey remained active in the com-
munity throughout her life, particularly as
a member of her church, the Evangelical
Free Church.

“She was such a bright, clever, active
person,” Christiansen said. “She was*al-
ways involved in community things.”

Margaret Casey was one of the first
sludents at the old Kitsumkalum School,
located where the school board office is
today.

Christiansen recalled her aunt as eaok -
who had an artistic flair, She- was also a.”

wonderful gardener.
“I have lots of plants from her in my
own m. garden. id oe

Margaret Casey

Declining health forced Casey to take

up residence at Terraceview Lodge in =

1998.

Prior to her death, she enjoyed a re-
cent visit with old school friends — they’d
been the first students to attend the Old
Kitsumkalum School — at an afternoon

tea at Terraceview Lodge.
7 She is survived by her
7 husband of 60 years, Leo-
nard “Curley” Casey.

The two met in 1942 when
she worked behind the
counter at Riley’s Drug
Store, Curley was in the
army and was in charge of
setting up the military
hospital for the troops sta-
tioned in Terrace...They
were introduced by Dr.
Stanley Mills,

They married in October
of that year.

After a stint in Ottawa,
the pair moved back to
Terrace, where Curley
found work as Terrace’s
fire chief, a job that was
originally a volunteer position.

The pair had four sons: Bill, Mike, Pat
and Tom.

At first, the family lived behind Ter-
race's original fire station on Lakelse,
Margaret answered fire and ambulance
calls while Curley, who later worked as
Terrace’s public works superintendent and
as a fire prevention officer for Twin River
Timber, gat the fire truck ready.

She is survived by sisters Ruth Larson,
Grace Warmer and Phyllis Best, prand-
children, and nieces and nephews.

She is predeceased by her siblings -

Amy, Mary and John, who died in a Hong
Kong prisoner of war camp during the
Second World War.

A large number of family and friends
attended the funeral. service, performed

~ by- relative and friend Tom Harris, It was
held Friday, June 7 al tthe * Evangelical,
“Free Church, <>

mailed in a padded envelope.

THIS SKY BLUE mask by Amanda Metzger is cov-
ered in clouds and whimsical feathers,

Kid’s art a hit

IN JUST three weeks,
more than 500 people
dropped by the Terrace Art
Gallery to view the Youth
Art Exhibit 2002, gallery
coordinator Aron Stru-
mecki reports.

“It was a phenomenal
response,” Strumecki says.

The show, on view at
the gallery, which just
wrapped up June 8.

Strumecki says more
than 100 individual stu-
dents — fram Grade 4 to
Grade 12 ~ entered works

in this year’s show. As:

many as 200 different
pieces were featured,

The annual event show-
cases the artistic abilities
of students in Greater Ter-
race. -

“Slowly” but surely,
we're’ ‘tying to develop a

better relationship with our
schools,”

He and the Terrace Art’
Association are working on
offering a children’s art
program at the gallery dur-
ing the summer.

He says the young art-
ists really appreciated

having their work dis-

played in the gallery.

A group of Skeena Ju-
nior Secondary students
came to the gallery with
their instructor, Collette
Goutier, to hang their work
before the show opened in
May.

Judging from the nim-
bers — and the feedback —
the public liked the show,
too. A visiting college pro-
fessor even inquired about
purchasing one of the
drawings in the exhibit,