The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 17, 1993 - Page Bt

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FEBRUARY 18 TO MARCH 25
1993 - Nobodys perfect parenting
program is holding a 6 week par-
enting program for free for parents
with children under the age 0-5
years old, call Candice at 635-
2116 or Marj 635-2472, program
ds on Thursdays for 12:30 to
2:30. 1p44

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FEBRUARY 19 1993 ~ The Ter-
race Public Library is having a
annual general meeting for the
elections of officers for the library
board and presentation of annual
report for the year, It takes place at
the Terrace Public library in the
meeting room at 7:00 pm. i1p44

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FEBRUARY 22, 1993 - The
Jakelse community association will
be holding its annual general meet-
ing at 8:00 pm at Mount Layton
Hotsprings. Topics that will be
‘covered are the election of offi-
cers, Hitthe herman haircut, for
more information 798-2449, ‘p44
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MARCH 2-5, £993 - The Instant
Science Centre from Science
E. Wosld will be at the Terrace Public
-Library, during library regular

hours: ° 2p44
Free

IMARCIT 6, 1993 » ‘The ‘Terrace

Science Fair feature. displays &
}- Contests through the day. Children

“fidrning. This takes place in’ the
‘Caledonia school gym. 2p44
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"MARCH 16, 1993 - The Tertace
Women's Resource Centre will be
holding a menopause, myths and
misconseptions meeting at the Ter-
race Women’s Resource Centre at
7:30 pm. 2p43
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MARCH 17, 1993 - The Terrace
& District S.P.C.A, is having a
general meeting, downstairs in the
meeting room of the Terrace
Library at 7:30 pm. Contact 638-

2002, 1p44
ease

OCTOBER 23, 1993 - The
BCOAPO Branch 73 is having an
Annual Tea and Bazaar featuring
J'year-round practical gifts and
baked goods. It is held at the
Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum
Street, al 1:30 pm. tin
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MONDAY & WEDNESDAY -
Terrace masters swim club prac-
lices: Swinomers 20 years & older
eligible. This ‘takes place at the
Terrace Aquatic Centre between
8:00 and 9:00 pm. For more infor-
mation call John Dando at 635-
5637 .2p43

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CRISES LINE is open.24 hours a
uy for anyone in crisis, Call 635-

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FAMILY DAYCARE Days at the
Terrace Public Library, Thursdays
at. 10:30 am, January 28, Febrary
25, and March 25. Caregivers are
welcome to- bring children of all
ages fora special storytime. Please
tet us know if you plan to attend as
a minimum registration is needed
to ‘go ahead with this program.
There is no chazge. Te. 638-8177.
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“TALES FOR TWOS8’ at the
Terrace Public Library begins
Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 10:30 am
| and will ran Gor six weeks. This is
a half-hour storytime with picture
books,. puppets and fingerplays
especially for two year olds. Chil-
dren must be accompanied by an
adult.. Please register in advance,
There is no charge. To register cail
the library, tel. 638-8177,
waten
TERRACE VOLUNTEER
BUREAU for Volunteer Opportu-
nities to suit your needs & time
available, Contact Lovina Tyler at
638-1330. Mon-Fri, 8:30 - 4:30,
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EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8-
8:00 pm, Terrace Narcotics Anon-
ymaus "Steps to Recovery" meets
at the Skeena Health Unit audito-

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EVERY WEDNESDAY - Terrace
‘Ladies Kermodei- Lions Club
meets at the Inn of the ‘West, For
times and more info contact Doro-
‘thy Bartsoff at 638-9183." .

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-Thls column is Intended for:

Like a human cannonball

EAR WAS MORE
than just a word for
John Oman back in
the 1930s.

It was slaring down the 85-foot-
fong trestle of Prince George’s

famous Cotinaught Hill ski jump,

knowing you were about to simu-
late a cannonball.

‘Serious airlime’? means a 20-
foot jump to today's teens armed
with state-of-the-art skis, snow-
boards and bindings.

Try flying 110 feet through the
air — wearing wooden - skis,

leather boots and suicide straps
~~ and land looking more dig-
nified than hamburger.

Oman did just that to win the
northern B.C, junior ski jumping
championship in. Bums Lake in
1932 at the age of 13.

He did it on a. pair of skis that
are now. part of the Terrace Muse-
um Society’s collection and are
on display throughout this week
— Heritage Week --- in the
window at Ev’s Mens Wear,

“I had more guts than brains
when I was a kid,”’ recalls the 69-

* were

He grew up living in Wells,
B.C., near ..Barkerville, . Skiing
was simply part of growing up in

the snowy cariboo country,

unique pointed tips cut into them

later thal year,
“They were a little bit long for
me and that’s where I got my dis-

"I had more guts than brains when I was a kid.”

Oman got his jumping skis
when he was 12 from Norwegian
immigrant Chris -Alviniss who
“took quite a few cups"’ in
Scandinavia.

They had one broken tip, but
repaired

lance when I was jumping,”
Oman said.

The Prince George ski jump
was particulary tricky. Since it
was such a long jump, racers had

to tinte their jumps carefully with

the. wind.

Vou had to. - watch’ for

crosswinds,’’ he.said,. ‘otherwise...
‘they’d take you and just ‘thraw

you,’”

Also at the age of 13, Oman
started working in a Prince
George sawmill, earning 25 cents
an hour,

“That was good money,” be
remembers,

He got out of ski-jumping after
the war, and ended up working as
a heavy duty mechanic and later
as head of the City of Terrace’s
maintenance shop until his retire-
ment. .

may sign’ up’ for .contests-- -in’ the:

‘ype oy

year-old Oman.

and. had. their

THROWN
OUT LIKE
TRASH

FIRST it sounded like a tiny
whine coming from inside the
box.

Then it was a faint scratching.

Inside the box, abandoned in

’ a wooded area at the end of
Dobbie St. in Thornhill, was a
tiny puppy.

Once out of the box the pup
led 13-year-old Jamie Kilgren
and his friends to another pup
from the same litter,

It’s a classic case of animals
being dumped like garbage
when they become in-
convenient, says the SPCA’s
Rose Bigbie.

She's now looking after the
two pups, squirming as she
feeds them milk out of a bottle,

"T don’t know what's the mat-
ter with people,’’ Higbie says.
‘They don't have to resort te
this.”’

Both local animal shelters will
take puppies and kittens when
there are too many in a litter
for the owners to handle.

MY. don't think alot of people
realize they have the option,’’
she snid.

Pet owners can avoid the
problem in the first place by
paying the money to have their
animals spayed or neutered,

Higbie says an SPCA pro-
gram helps subsidize the cost of ©
spaying and neutering.

The two puppies found Feb. 6
don't have a home yet. They’re
three weeks old and they’ be
kept by the SPCA for another
three weeks before being put up.
for adoption.

For more information contact
the Terrace SFCA at 638-2002.

DISPOSABLE PETS? These three-week-old puppies were
abandoned in a cardboard box in Thornhill. The two pups

were found and are now being cared for’ by. the: SPCA. Pet
owners are urged to have their pets spayed or neitered,

BREAKUP on the Skeena piled up slabs of ice at crazy angles in the lees last week, and set loose -

icebergs like these on the river's stretches of open wale

WEATHER

A bright,

January °93 was. the third consecutive one in
which a sunshine record for the month was set.
The Terrace-Kitimat airport weather office re-

corded 104.1: hours’ of. sunshine,
specialist Harry Earle. ©

That’s double what the arca usually gets and
eclipsed the previous 1991 record by almost 10

hours.

Last year, the record was at the olher, gloomy end
-of the scale when residents saw the sun for only 72°

minutes in the entire month.

Not surprisingly, the clear weather brought with it:

lower than normal temperatures,

Earle ‘said the average high for the month | was *
minus 5,9 degtces, 2.2. below the norm while lows LP
averaged minus 11. 3; down 3. 2 degrees. oe

sunshiny month

“tion, At 93,7mm, - it was abcul ‘60 per cent: of”

” normal, he said,
said weather

usual for January.

bree week stretch.

“Tike recently, Farle warned: winter, was”

a ”
“We. can: still get lois of
af pointed iit... :

“sitow-in® March,’

1. The stifring sang’s first verse reads:

Although January? s cold spell: lasted a litte longer ~
“than we are used to, Earle said it wasn! tat all une ©

“Tt had also fallen short of the Big Chill of Novem- Ps
ber 1985 when, with the mercury. “hovering around
‘minus. 25, record lows | were set every. day ‘over a!

Although the weathct: had. tnied! alniost: spring-

_AROUND TOWN

Sensational science coming

THE DEADLINE is fast approaching for the 28th Annual Terrace
Science Fair. Students have until Feb. 26 io return entry forms —
available at Misty River Books and the public library — to the of-
fice at Caledonia school.

This year’s fair from Mar. 1-5 will likely be bigger and better than
ever before, °

The famous Science World discovery boxes have already begun
arriving in all the schools,

And there will be spectacular crowd-pleasing Science World
roadshaws on the wonders of light, pressure, heat and cold,

Open to all at the library will be an Instant Science Centre from
Mar. 2-5. It features a serics of table-top displays modelled in the
style of exhibils at Science World B.C.

_And finally, the display of student cxhibits will be open to the
public between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Mar, 6 at
Caledonia Senior Secondary.

The Eagle has landed

IT'S A SIXTEEN-FOOT HIGH MONSTER.

‘The giant cagle that now graces the gym wall at Kiti K’Shan Pri-
mary School marks the end of a long fund-raising effort by the Kiti
K’Shan Parents Advisory Group.

They raised. $1,130 to have the plywood cagle mounted on the

wail and to have the words 1o the school’s song painted on it.
- The idea behind It, says group spokesman Diane Penner, is to help
unify the school. In the past students at the Jack Cook School and.
Kiti K°Shan have felt apart from each other, as have the French im-
‘mersion students from the rest of the student body.
The cagle was a | mascot the students at the school voted for last. .
year, . ae

Kitt K’shan — the children of the river

“Kitt K’Shan —our school, our song. ae
“Teaching us more than just ourABCs 8
Helping us to be a learning family, .
“Their next project is an 8-by-16 foot Canadian fag’ with © > Cane
“da? ‘emblazoned on it in French and English. - a

2 Choral ¢ group to play

. THE KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR will play a frée concert t Mon-

: ‘day, Feb. 22 at’7 p.m. in the Terrace Christian Reformed Church, -
y The Edmonton-based choir plays material crossing five centuries.

and.

“from church music to madrigals to love songs, Pait a cap 1

“with | instrumental ticcompaniment.

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