The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 29, 1993 - B1 = INSIDE “SECTION B ciyY’ oo JEFF. NAGEL - 638-7283 -ISCENE B2 A WEEKLY. CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Saturday, January 1 POLAR BEAR SWIM takes place at 1 p.m. at Lakeise Lake. Register at the Hotsprings at.noon. For information call Scott Linley at 635-7117 or Jim Mackenzie at 635-9201. Farms available at local pubs. Tuesda anuary 4 LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY meets at 8 p.m. at the LEgion. Thursday, January, 13 TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S As- sociation will hold its first meeting at the Terrace Inn from noon to 1 p.m. Bring your ideas and be-. come a founding member! Call Lillian at 635- 5888 for more information.. | COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE for. HIV. Meeting Jan. 13, 1994 7:30 p.m. Hospital Board Room. a7 Tuesday, January 18 REFRESHER CLINIC for diabetics takes place at Mills Memorial Hospital. A doctor’s referral is ‘required, Call Dana Hill at 635-4050 or 638-1956 for more information. . : Tuesday, January 25 4 OPENNESS IN ADOPTION information night by ministry of social services in the Terrace Li- brary basement from 7 to 9 p.m. Contact Jackie or Sandy at.638-3527 for more information. MONDAYS ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets the third Monday of each month in the board -: room at 8 p.m. Everyone | is welcome. . ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTIA | support " group riteets at 1 p.m. on the fast Monday df the *“ months at theTerrace Mental Health Centre. Cail -.638-3325: for more,jnfo. ' THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY has an informa- tion drop-in the third Monday of each month at ‘the ne Happy Gang Centre from 1:30 to 3 p.m. TUESDAYS LIVING WITH CANCER support group of the | Canadian Cancer Society for. patients, family and friends, meets at the Women’s Resource Centre the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for more in- formation. T & K SINGLES meet every Tuesday at 7 aim for coffee night at Mr. Mike’s. Events through November with T & K Singles will’be: Nov. 13 -—- Games night at 8 p.m; ‘Nov. 19.-—~ Dessert». Nite at the Northern at 8 p.m.;.Nov. 21 — Hotspr- - ings 1:30 p.m; Nov. 27 — Xmas party dine and dance at 7 p.m.; Nov, 28 — Ski hill 1:30 p.m. THE KERMODEL CHORISTERS invite boys: and girls ages 8-12 10 come sing along on Tues- days from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at.the Skeena Band - Room. Call Terry Anderson 638-1183 for info. ~ RELAPSE PREVENTION group meets Tues- day evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Call 638-8117 for further information. THE SPCA meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the Terrace’ Women's Resource Centre at 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAYS SKEENA VALLEY QUILTERS meet every : Wednesday at .7 pm. in the sewing ‘room at Skecna Junior Secondary School: Beginners. and more: experienced quilters welcome, Call 635- : 2230 for more information, HUFF AND PUFF Asthma Group. holds its. monthly meeting the third Wednesday of each - - month at the Women’s Resource Centre on Park : Ave. from 7 to9 p.m. LADIES KERMODEI LIONS club meets at the | Inn of the West. Call Karen at 638-0707 for times 7 and more info. SOCIAL CREDIT WOMEN'S ‘AURILLIARY: To meet the second Wednesday of each month, New- comers welcome. Call, Mary at 635-2577. or. Lil- lian at 635-5888 for more ‘info. le TERRACE NARCOTICS ‘ANONYMOUS - “Sieps to Recovery” mecis-at 7 p.m every Wed- J nesday at the Kermode aaaien Centres. ae THURSDAYS © ‘THE TERRACE BRIDGE CLUB ‘meets the : secon and fourth Thursday of every month. Thty = _ get started Oct. 14 at the Legion, Call Pat at 635- 2537 or Ethel at 635-5046 for more info. OVEREATERS _ ANONYMOUS © mect . ‘evely i Thursday at 7: a0 p.m. at the ‘Women's: ‘Resmuroe 1: Contre, “ mere iitits) wrceaeabesasassts itt it bb eanesseee “im Come break the ice THAT’S RIGHT, it's that time of year when we all gather at Lakelsé Lake to publicly certify who the craziest people in the Skeena valley are, Last year seven brave souls — including 29- time poler bear swim veteran Steve Schmidt (above) — braved minus-20 degred weather to leap through a hole in the foot-thick “ {ea, Organizers of the: Srd annual Kermodel Bear Swim may not even need to use chainsaws to break the ice this Saturday. I Some participants ara collecting pledges in support of the Kins- men Kiddies Kamp. Participants meat first at Mt. Layton Hotspr- ings at noon on New Year's Day to register, then proceed to the Lakelse Lake plenic site just past Williams Creek where the ac- tual swim takes place at 1 p.m. For more information, like how to avoid the men in white coats afterwards, call Scott Linley at 635- 7117 ar Jim Mackenzie at 635-9204. ‘SCHIZOPH NIA “or By MARSHA LLOYD : '$ MANY OTHERS who have found _ themselves attending a@ memorial ora fu- neral I reflect on the value of © living. ‘As I listened. to the family talk about their loss -and. their - -pain . they .were ‘also. hae abant the © ‘He was a ‘young man and. he had schizophrenia. The struggle _ to Jive with schizophrenia and to - try. and reach his dreams: and goals led him: to the decision to stop living. None of his family or those’ who knew him will know exactly what ted him to this deci- sion. - What some-of vs do know: though, is that a high percentage of those individuals who are hard hit with schizophrenia do take their own lives, They are three times more like- ly, to Commit suicide than the gen- gle with ‘illness .. eral population. When leaving the church my friend an I shared our thoughts. We live and work with individu- als who have schizophrenia, We have been privileged to be a part of their lives. On a daily ~ basis we get to talk and exchange greetings with people who sirug- . but who are kind and sensitive to others. - Most are-loriély, live in poverty and have. had io put aside their dreams of health and the experi- ences of accomplishment through careers, families, relationships. They have been told to have faith in what the medical field has to offer them, even though the medical field hasn’t been that hopeful inthe past. - Many live in a world that has not allowed for many choices in their life and have had little con- trol over decision making on things that the majority of us take for granted. | And yet, they remain caring, Around Town - Locals get their degrees SEVEN ‘TERRACE students have become graduates of the University of Victoria. ' They received their degrees at a Nov, 29 U Vic fall convocation ceremony... ‘Robert ‘Greenwood, ‘Simon Higginson, Margaret Martin, and ‘Gerald: ‘Sharples received thejr master of education degrees. Louisa Gray recelved-her bachelor of arts. . Denise Hendry teceived her bachelor of education degree. ‘Harold McDames received his bachelor of social work ‘degrec, as - did Maurice t Squires, of Canyon City. wk kkk BCIT student Alexander. Ziemianskt, of Terrace, was awarded a $375 B.C. Tel award at a special ceremony Oct. 27. “He Is studying Tobotics and. automation technology there, | “School concerts on television YOU CAN caich some school Christmas concerts this week on Cable 10 television, . December 29th features Parkside School at 6:05 p.m., and Uplands Elementary at 7:05 p.m. ” .. Veritas School is an Dec. 30th at 7205 p.m. . December. 31t features ‘Cassie Hall (6:05 p.m.), Kit K'Shan (7: 05 __ pam), Centennial Christian (:05 pm )- For them, life i isa lonely’ ‘ struggle in a hostile world — sensitive and not bitter to the world. Sometimes, like the young man recently, they quictly slip away from this world. - I guess that is what struck me the most at the memorial .. they just silently slip away. - - My friend and [ talked ‘about how . many funerals and memorials we had attended that were directly related to the illness ' of schizophrenia, We were saddened that it is a yearly event. I thought ‘about those families and individuals that will be going through some- thing similar in the future. . All deaths Icave a great sense of loss, when young people die and die due to lack of hope that things can get better, it is a loss with confusion and often guilt, ‘And. then the death and its unknown reasons slip quietly away too. This letter was prompled by - that sad silence, Support and information about schizophrenia is available. In Ter- race, we have had a support group for friends and family Imembers for the last 8 years. It is open to anyone who wants lolearn more about schizophrenia and manic depression. , Our goal is to bring families to- a gtealer understanding on how their family is affected and how the symptoms of the illness cf-° fects the family, Like any family that is effected Cont'd Page B12 house stands today, g Among friends MABEL HOBENSCHIELD celebrated her 94th birthday Dec. 14 with all her friends at the Happy Gang Centre, Also on hand was her brother, Harvey Doll, who turned 97 a week later. She came to Terrace in 1948, after first . homesteading at Woodcock, and lived where the court-