The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 13, 1995 - B14

INSIDE SECTION B

COMMUNITY CRIS LEYKAUF

EVENTS B2

LIBRARY EXPRESS
HARRIETT FIAAGESUND

Dust off a classic
this weekend

LL ABOARD! Nice

to see so many of you again.
Ma’am, you and your two little
ones might enjoy that window
Seat over there. Everyone get comfortable
now, the old Library Express is about to pull
out of the station.
The Many Hats of Mr. Minches
By Paulatte Bourgeois, Stoddart Publishing
It didn’t take Dotty Rupert long to figure out
there was something downright fishy about Mr.
and Mrs. Minches. For one thing, the Minches
owned nothing but hundreds and hundreds and

hundreds of hats. But Dotty soon discovered _

somelhing wonderful about these hats.

The kiddies will love the illustrations,

Get Set...Go! Spring!

By Ruth Thomson, Watts Books

Springtime means the days will start growing
longer and warmer. It also means there are all
kinds of neat projects to try out. Things like:
making paper windmills, woolly greeting cards,
" decoraling eggs and making a decorated nest, and

how to. make papercuis.

A fun book for the little ones.

Stairway to Doom ,

By Robert Quackenbush, Prentice-Hall - _.

Miss Mallard, the world-famous ducktective,
travels to a spooky Scottish castle to hear the
reading of her Great Aunt Abby’s will. The will
is very simple---any relative who spends one
“night in the castle will inherit the castle. But
there is a warning: Beware of Kisscula!

A great bedtime story!

Shamu and His Friends

By Ellen Welss, Third Story Books

Baby Shamu is a little killer whale, and is one
of Sea World's favorite babies. He has many
friends. There is a red-eared slider turtle, a baby
harbor scal named Cupid, and a baby walrus or-
phan who was raised on "walrus milkshakes",

Features Sea World photography.

Support Your Local Wizard

By Diane Duane, Delacorte Press

Nita Callahan was surprised when she ran
across a book of wizardry in the children's li-
brary. Solemnly reciting the Wizatd’s Oath
printed inside, Nita didn’t really expect anything
lo happen. So imagine her surprise when a trec
started talking to her!

An excellent read for young and old alike.

Frankenstein and Other Storles of

Man-Made Monsters

By Eric Kudalis, Capstone Press

Frankenstein was produced by Universal
Studios in 1931, and remains once of the most
popular horror films every made. This book ex-
plores the science behind the story.

A good read for Frankenstein fans, regardless of
age.

Altention! Next stop: The video section,

The More the Merrier

Starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea &
Charles Coburn. Produced and directed by
George Stevens.

Sofi-hearted Senator Benjamine Dingle
(Coburn) can't resist doing a little matchmaking.
With a litte scheming on his part, his two
‘roomies, Contance Milligan (Arthur) and Joe
Carter (McCrea), will be a match made in heaven.

A very funny World War 11 movie.

Cape Fear

Starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum &
Polly Bergen. Produced by Sy Bartlett,
directed by J, Lee Thompson.

Attomey Sam Bowden’s (Peck) life takes on the
elements of a nightmare when bad guy Max Cady
(Mitchum) comes calling. Bowden sent Cady to
prison for eight years, and now Cady’s hot for
revenge.

The original version of Cape Fear, and worth

viewing!
Forbidden Planet

Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis &
Leslie Nielsen. Produced by Nicholas
Maytack, and directed by Fred McLeod,

United Planets Cruiser C57-D, is on a special
mission to Altair 1V to search for the survivors of
. @ parly of scientists, But Commander Adams
(Nielsen) finds only a very evasive Dr. Morbius
(Pidgeon) and his daughter Altaira (Francis) left
alive, ‘ .

A bit creaky, but still a classic.

Okay, folks, we're heading back to the station,
I look forward to seeing all of you on the next run
of the Library Express| .

VOLUNTEERS OF THE YEAR

By JEFF NAGEL
THE FIRST nominations
for Terrace’s community
Volunteers of the Year are
beginning to arrive.

The first two nominees are
the Terrace Communily
Band’s Jim Ryan and Terrace
Minor Hockey president
Brian Downie,

Ryan, a pillar of the Terrace
music scene for many years,
was nominated by Bob Simp-
son, of Stewart,

*“Jim’s contribution of time
and talent has proven benefi-
cial to both aspiring and expe-
rienced musicians of all
ages,”’ he says. ‘‘The success
of the Terrace Community
Band directly reflects his tire-
less efforts.”’

Brian Downie is one of those
people who has a challenging
day job — namely district
manager for the forests minis-
ty — yet still finds
tremendous time to donate to
what he believes in.

President of Minor Hockey
for three seasons, Downie is
also manager of the Skeena
Cellulose Peewee reps, is a
director of the Terrace Rotary
Club, and has just been elected
president of the Second Sheet

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NORTHWEST NATURE scenes provide the raw ingredients

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Jim Ryan
of Ice Committee.

Downie was nominated by
Steve Smyth, who notes he
was also instrumental in form-
ing the Rick and Paul King
Foundation.

“Brian is a perfect example

of the volunteer spirit,’” Smyth .

says, “‘We’re quite sure there
is actually three of him, be-
cause he’s everywhere during
the winterl’’

The . Jerrace Standard’s
Volunteers of the Year contest
is a celebration of the city’s
unsung heroes, who — each in
their own way — help make
Terrace a better place to live.

It’s a chance to recognize

for local artist Dave Comfort's watercolour paintings. A show

Painting for the love of it.

In conversation with artist Dave Comfort

By CRIS LEYKAUF
ULRUSHES
poking through
the snow. Sedge
grasses bending

in the breeze. Round dotted
mushrooms in fall leaves,

These are some of Dave
Comfort’s latest watercolours,
on display at the Terrace Art
Gallery, till March 29,

His paintings are images
gathered mostly from his
wanderings through the sur-
rounding area and the north-
west,

He takes slides of any
colours, texlures or animals
that catch his eye and these
pictures form the basis of his
paintings. : a

Comfort brings the texture of
a pebble, the whites and blues
of snow, and the velvet curve
of a petal to life more effec-
tively than any photograph
could. oo
* "You're making pictures of
what you see, what it was Iike.

for you,” Comfort says of his
paintings.

And if a rock is in the way,
or the trees in the background
aren’t quite right, *‘I get to
cheat’? he says. ‘I can
editorialize all I want,”

Despite the freedom Comfort

Brian Downie

and thank some of the people .

who have poured so much into
this town. .

Anyone who does any kind
of unpaid volunteer work is
eligible.

The deadline for entries is
Friday, March 31.

You can nominate someone
you think is worthy by clip-
ping out the Volunteers of the
Year entry form that appears
on page B11 of today’s paper.

Fill it in — you can attach a
separate sheet to tell us more
about your nominee — and
then send it to us.

You can fax it to 638-8432,

You can mail it to 4647
Lazelle Ave, Terrace, B.C,
V8G 188. Or you can drop
entries off directly at either the
Terrace Standard: office or
Overwaitea.

A panel of three judges will

adjudicate entries and
determine Terrace’s 1995
Volunteers of the Year.

The one winner and two
honourable mentions will
receive commemorative pla-
ques, they’ll be featured in the
Standard and they'll be
honoured at a volunteer ap-
preciation luncheon in April.

The three judges who have
agreed to adjudicate the
entries are:

m@ Communication consul-
tant and emcee-at-large Doug
Smith. (We’re sorry. Judges
are not eligible for nomina-

tion.)

@ Terrace Volunteer Bureau
executive director Lovina
Tyler.

mW Overwaitea store manager
Dale Lufkin.

All three have relevant expe-
rience with community work
and volunteers.

So let’s give them lots to da!
Let’s get those nomination
forms filled in!

look really good, and then you
have to finish it,” he says.
“You don’t want to spill any-
thing.”’

But he willingly sacrifices
the tried and true for the
chance to try a new technique.

“The paintings I get excited

“You're making pictures of what you see,
what It was Ilke for you.”

highlighting 30 of his latest palntings runs until March 29 at
the Terrace Art Gallery, in the library basement.

*feels to alter a scene, he says
watercolours are a difficult
medium to work with, because
you can’t cover up your mis-
takes, .

So Comfort lightly pencils in
an ouiline before’ he starts
painting. ;

“*The worst moment is when

it’s starting to look like it will,

about are the ones that I don’t
know if I can do,’” he says,
‘like that one,” pointing to a
painting of irises in a vase. He
borrowed techniques he’s used
in other works to recreate the
curve and reflection of the
swivelled glass vase, -

Comfort has been painting -

since the mid 1970s. and

estimates he has produced ap-.

proximately 300 paintings... —
But painting is more of a-

past-time than a career for

Comfort. He teaches art and °°:

biology at Caledonia Senior
Secondary and describes him- «

self as ‘extraordinarily con- : _

tent’” pursuing both painting
and teaching, acca

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famous if that’s the driving? 2s
factor behind people-: who..."

make money doing this,"* says ="
Comfort. a

Although he has shown his > .-
galleries.
throughout the province, Com-
fort doesn’t actively try to pro... 2.

watercolours in

mote himself. He selis most of... -
his paintings through word. of
mouth. ee
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like my work."?

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