Thou shalt not bear false
. Witness against thy neighbor.
Exodus 20:16

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“race resident, a mother of two, a

- Brenda’s latest book is Just One
‘ More Colour, and it makes its

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

11:30 a.m.
‘4830 Straume Avenue

Mass Times: Pastor: , .
Saturday: 7:30 p.m. Fr Allan F. Noonan delightful and colourful story about
Sundays: 9:00 a.m. OMI. . a man who paints his house to

635-2313

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church

Priest in Charge:

Holy Eucharist: 10 a.m.
Rev. Eugene Miller, .

Sunday School: 10 a.m.
4506 Lakelse Avenue

635-9019

. Brenda adds, “I like children.

Christ Lutheran Church

Morning Worship — 11:30 a.m. -
Sunday School .— 10:15 a.m.
Pastor: Donald P. Bolstad

3229 Sparks Street 635-5520

Pastor:

Ole Unruh — 635-7313
Prayer Meeting:
Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Sabbath School:
Saturday 9:30 a.m.
Divine Service:
Saturday 11:00 a.m.

3306 Griffiths

Terrace Seventh-Day Adventist Church ,

635-3232

- Evangelical Free Church. «|
Sunday School: Pastor :
(for all ages) W.E. Glasspell
9:45 a.m.

Sunday Services: Prayer Meeting:

by Betty Barton

Brenda Silsbe.is a life-long Ter-

former teacher and the author of
her second children’s book.

debut on the shelves of Misty
River Books this week.
Just One More Colour is a

match the surroundings in nature.
You can imagine what happens
from there — or you could buy the

- pook. Brenda will be autographing .

copies at Misty River on March
73, .
Brenda has several poems and
stories out to publishers right now,
Nall kid’s things", she specifies.

They’re simple and honest.” With
children’s books, Brenda can say
"pig things in simple ways".
When: she writes, she likes to
condense ideas, rather than expand
them.

Brenda spends her day in focused
concentration for writing in her
basement study and scattered con-
centration for her role as mother to
Jesse, age 8 and Anne, age 10.
Anne wants to be an author, too.
"They think it’s neat that I write
id’s books," says Brenda. Brenda
has always liked writing. She
remembers writing a little series as
far back as Grade 4. When asked
if someone or something particular

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 13, 1991 B15

Who is... Brenda Silsbe?

Brenda Silsbe: | like children. They're simple and honest.

Instead, she made a deal with
John that if she could get some-
thing published in two yeals, she
could stay home. Brenda searched
‘through her numerous storics and

She had never considered writing for a living
because "normal people didn *t do those things".

We Know.

One month after it was sent out,
Annick Publishing of Toronto
accepted the work in September
1988. "Bears" sold throughout the
US. and Canada. Brenda still has
friends calling to say they'd seen it
in Toronto, Winnipeg oF
Vancouver airport bookstores. She
even has one friend who fe-

11:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Wed,-7:00 p.m. i
arranges books on shelves in stores
3302 Sparks Street 635-5115 . inspired her, Brenda replied tAll poems and chose to send out The to give "bears" better exposure.
\ the teachers who felt the way Idid Bears We Know. It had been writ- One and a half years later, Just
a . " were inspirational.” ten 12 years before. "People really One More Colour was also
Terrace Full Gospel Christian Fellowship She had never considered writing liked that one”, she recalls. accepted by Annick. Misty River

NEW LOCATION: 9222 Munroe Street
Sunday Service: 10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m

Terrace Pentecostal Assembly

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Pastor: John Caplin

Evening Service: 6:30 p.m.

3511 Eby Street

Morning Service: 10:30 a.m. Associate Pastor: Cliff Siebert

635-2434

The Alliance Church

for a living because "normal
people didn’t do those things". But

her. She made a list of all the
things she liked to do and decided
to become an elementary school

When the youngest was six, she
contemplated returning to teaching.

Brenda goes on to explain that
she’d gone to university with the

going out with Eric Kerby, one of
ihe “bears who owned an old
house in Thornhill. One day, 4

Wanda recounted the story to
Brenda and that inspired The Beats

Books will have 150 copies for
sale and autographing. The Terrace

w : Mid- ice. Pastor: Slade Compt |
Wed a Study eon ° astor: Slade Comp" after training in nursing for two four ‘bears’ in the book. Whenshe Public Library has bought five
Church: 638-8384 Res.: 638-0829 months, she decided it wasn’t for wrote it, her sister Wanda waS copies for their children’s library.

Brenda names Eric Wilson as "a
sort of inspiration, offering en-
couragement and advice" in her

Knox United Church ‘teacher. After training at UBC, neighbour child approached Wanda writing.

Sunday Worship: Minister:. Brenda taught in Terrace for three and said, “I know who lives inthat Brenda Silsbe is now working on
10:30 a.m. Stan Batey years. During that time, she house." a short chapter book. Looking
Sunany School: 7:00 p.m. P matried John Silsbe and then "Who?" asked Wanda. toward the future, Brenda says,
4907 Lazelle Ave. 635-6014 stayed home to raise theirchildren. "The bears", replied the child. "more books, stay in Terrace, and

maybe one day they [the pub-
lishers] will fly me to Toronto".

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