TERRACE — Light-
house keeper Pete
McKenzie has turned
leisure hours at the sta-
tion toward a productive
end.

Terrace carver Pete McKen-
zle, along with other area ar-
tists, have thelr work on
display at Ev’s Men's Wear
until Saturday.

And then
the lights

went out

TERRACE — ‘Thurs-
day, April 24, seemed
like a regular school day
for the students of
Skeena Junior Secon-
dary. But that ail
changed at approximate-
ly 10:40 a.m., when the
lights in the school went
out.

by Carrie Olson

Wess Thomas, vice-
principal at Skeena, said
apparently B.C. Hydro
was changing the meter
in the basement, and
ended up blowing an old
transformer causing the
lights to go out.

Thomas’ main con-
cern was the smoke com-
ing up from the base-
ment. The fire trucks ar-
rived and firemen used
equipment to remove
smoke from the base-
ment.

B.C. Hydro reported
they had everything
under control, but said
the lights would not be
back on until 1:15 p.m.
Thomas dismissed the
Students thinking they
would return at 1:15

p.m.

At 1:15 p.m., when
students where back in
school, Thomas said
that 40 percent of the
pupils remained absent
due to wrong informa-
tion forwarded.

Thomas said the
power was out for three
hours before being
restored,

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Results of his work are
now on display at Ev’s
Men’s Wear in Terrace.
The display includes
nine, three dimensional

wildlife carvings etched

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Carvers display work

in yellow cedar and
pieces of driftwood
which get caught on the
lighthouse rocks at high
tide. Sometimes the
wood washed ashore
come from pieces which
have broken off ships,
McKenzie noted. Mc-
Kenzie often gets his
ideas for carvings from
scuba diving sessions in
the ocean surrounding
the lighthouse and from
watching sealife such as
dolphins and killer
whales. The lighthouse,
where McKenzie has
been working for the
past four years, is
situated 22 miles west of
Prince Rupert in Hecate
Strait.

McKenzie works four
weeks on and four weeks
off so he is able to visit
his family in Terrace.

McKenzie said he be-
gan carving about two
years after finding that
he wanted ‘something to
do to gain personal
satisfaction’? during his
leisure hours at the sta-
tion. ‘‘You’re really
restricted to what you
can do on a lighthouse.’’
At high tide there is little
room on the rock which
houses his ocean home.

McKenzie’s carvings
vary from six to eight
inch pieces of wood. One
of the nine carvings
features a lighthouse.

The artist has sold a
couple of pieces to the
museum in Prince
Rupert but the show at
Ev’s Men’s Wear is his
first display. Local
residents can view the art
work until Saturday,
May 3.

Although McKenzie
has had no formal train-
ing as a carver, he credits
some of his ability to a

Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 30, 1986 19

natural “‘sense of pro-
portion, which isn’t too
bad.”

He hopes to obtain
employment one day on
dry land as lighthouse
keepers are becoming
redundant with con-
tinued automation. He is

also planning to direct
future carvings towards
themes which have prov-

ed to have an appeal for

his potential audience.
That direction, he said,
will come from carvings
which tend to be more
popular than others,
with buyers.

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