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~ Anne-Marie Nehring was
born in Burns Lake, B.C. and
spent her childhood exploring
the mountains and valleys of

-- northern B.C, She is a self-

taught painter and has worked

as‘a full time artist for over 25 —

years. She is also as much at
home i in a canoe’ in white water
as she is on the banks of the -

 Skeena River painting the land-

scape. She now makes her
home down in southern B.C.,
and it is only in-the last few
years that she’s been involved
in Dragon Boat Racing.
:..Dragon Boats were first in-

troduced in Canada during Ex- ©

po 86. It was in the fall of 1987
that the False Creek Racing
Canoe Club women’s team de-
cided to enter the 1988 Hong
Kong International Dragon
Boat Festival and Races. With
no funds from sponsors, it was

- determined that each member

had to be capable of providing
her own way to Hong Kong. -
Dragon Boat Racing has
‘been going on in China for
over 2,000 years. It is just in
the last few years that it has
become an international event.
The races-commemorate a-
patriotic poet by the name of
Qu Yuan, who drowned ~
himself in the Mi Lo River to
~ protest against corruption |
among government officials.
According to legend, local
’ fishermen raced out in their

boats to save him, but failed i in

their attempt.

‘The Dragon Boat Festival
takes place every year on the
fifth day of the fifth moon,
which fell on June 8 this year.
During the celebrations the
legend is re-enacted in the form
of the Dragon Boat Races.
which have become the sport-
ting highlight of the summer in
Southeast Asia. It takes 22
people working in unison to
power the heavy teak boats
over the 640-meter course. A
team consists of 20 paddlers, a
drummer who sets the pace,
atid a sterns person or steers-
man to keep the boat on
course. Stamina and rhythm
are the keys to victory, The
very act of participating in the
‘races is thought to ward off
evil and bring good health and
prosperity for the following
year, not only to the crews of
‘the boats, but to their family
‘and even their communities as
a whole. | .

The spectacle of intense.
athletic effort and elaborately
painted boats has fired enthusi-
asm worldwide, with races now
being held in Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, the United
States and Europe. Eleven for-
eign countries took part in this
year’s races, fielding 24 teams.

Last year our Canadian

. .. women’s team came away with

the silver medal. This year they
did even Better — they cap-" *
tured the gold. This was the:

. _ fit time all ofthe: eas of: ‘pt

Terrace Review
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— Weiinesday, July 19, 1989 21

e ’ Pieces - ee 2 by Alle Toop .

~ Bits:

~ team from the outside. ‘Dragon |

‘what ice hockey is to Cana-

- those moments they. will never

; 1945, It is sal about the Prince Rupert Highway, built in the carly

‘If our cars get racked to pieces and the brush gets in our hair,

_ Becomes a major problem as we bounce down Rupert way.

It’s only ‘‘paid load”’ up to date, a heavy layer of dust.
If the wonderous scenery you’d admire, be very sure to park,

_And watch the good old Skeena rolling proudly to the sea.

Won't someone listen to this plea, ‘tho it may be poorly tyled.
Come, summon your paternal pride, adopt this. wayward. child.

The Canadian team ended up
‘this year with a few sponsors,
. although they were not major

sponsors, their hope is that the — |:
gold medal will make it easier —[
_to find a major sponsor for
next year, For now they are all
back. in Canada, jubilant at:
haying done so well, but also
happy to-leave the Dragon.
, Boats behind for a while and
“concentrate on their work, their
_ studies, and. their lives.

Chiriese have been beaten by. a

Boat Racing is to the Chinese -

dians; it is their national sport.
When the time came to collect”
the Gold Medal for their ef-
forts, Anne-Marie Nehring and
one of her teammates went up
to the podium, It was one of

[ss

forget, They wore mitts in the
form of the maple leaf to wave
to the crowd.

"This i isa poem originally printed in 1 the Terrace Herald in July,.
40's. I , -
ar ‘The Prince Rupert Highway
She" 5 still nobody’ s baby and no one seems to care

It’s put us on the map ’til true, but how on earth we'll stay,
The chuckholes are stupendous, their depths I’ve sounded twice,

And I'll tell you in all frankness, the sensation isn’t nice.
One needs to. be a superman, with arms like tempered steel,

if even he remotely hopes to keep on an even keel.’ _
’ Snowslides come and snowslides go... When Old Sol has done his

: part. . . : -
No help just yet, from William Lyon and none from Mr. Hart.

Much expensive road machinery lies idly by to rust,. .

Or the chances are, that rather soon, to the angels you will hark.
Alight and walk... well, stagger then, if that’s what it must be

See yonder mighty waterfall, majestic in its power,

Pay homage to the snow-capped peaks which ever skyward

‘tower.

Must we forever be content with plausible evasions
And nurse in silence all our hurts and manifold abrasions?

L,G. Skinner, Copper River, B. (om

‘Mr. Leslie George Skinner will be remembered by many old
timers. He had the General Store at Copper City. He was q pleas-
ant soft-spoken man. Not the same could be said for Mrs. Skin-
ner. She was a character, and many people would probably use a
different word to describe Mrs, Skinner. But that’s a whole other

: story.

Thanks to Helen Booth, who came up with this while looking

| through old photographs.

Greening starts new
tourism venture

Ee ink nethindedien ak Me cane eee a a Oe a lh oa oe Oa eee

Mike Patterson, chairman of B.C. Heritage Trust, presented
Ministerial Assistant Chris Shaffer with a B.C. Heritage tie
for Minister of Forests/Skeena MLA Dave Parker following

a board meeting In Terrace recently. Patterson also made
- presentations to Mamie Kerby of the Terrace Museum

TERRACE — Roy Greening of
Greening Tours Ltd. has cleared
one more hurdle in his bid to
establish a Terrace-based tour
business. The first hurdle was

crossed when the city issued a
business licence, and the most
recent was a letter from the city

tour covered by the Terrace
Review two years ago was a
Japanese TV crew taping a series
highlighting fishing destinations
around the world. The reaction
of the crew and actors proved
Greening was a true ambassador
of the Northwest.

". guided ‘tours of their choice such .

--Kalum_ Lake, Rosswood and

. Society and Terrace alderman Darryl Laurent.

_ The board of directors of
B.C. Heritage Trust held a meet-
ing in Terrace recently and

“board chairman Mike Patter-
-- ‘son, as well as praising the
Terrace Museum Society for a

job well done, had a lot to say
about the old provincial police
building at the corner of Ka-
lum St. and Lakelse Ave, He
says it’s a valuable resource that
should be saved and Heritage
Trust can provide some funding
to help — but only if the com-
munity gets on the bandwagon
and offers strong support.

The building, the oldest re-

' Police building valuable

maining frame structure in Ter-
race, was built in 1912 by Will
Little — a step-brother of city
founder George Little. But in
recent years it has been rejected
by the Happy Gang Centre and
a city council, who considered
saving the building too expen-
sive, In a report to council in
August, 1988, city administrator
Bob Hallsor stated, ‘‘The city
must consider that $120,000 is
required to preserve the heritage’
significance of this building on
the existing site or $60,000 to
relocate the building to another
site.”

Exchange student misquoted

In the July 12 issue of the Ter-
race Review, freelance reporter
Pam Whitaker indicated that
Janewa Osei-Tutu,
Rotary exchange student who
had recently returned from Mex-
ico, expressed the feeling that
begging children in Mexico City
were lazy.

a local

Osei-Tutu later informed us .
' that she didn’t intend to convey

that opinion; she said visitors
are discouraged from giving
money to children who are beg-
gars because those children have
the option of going to school
and they shouldn’t be given rein-
forcement that would make beg-
ging a viable alternative for
them.

Our apologies for any mis-
understanding.

to the B.C. Public Utilities Com-
mission supporting his proposal.
**] think it’s admirable that
someone is going to do these
tours,’ said alderman Danny
Sheridan as he made his motion
to support Greening’s proposal.
The final decision now rests with
the Public Utilities Commission.
If licenced by Public Utilities,
Greening plans to establish
scheduled tours that would be
booked by local hotels and mo-
tels on a commission business... |
Tourists would then be treated |

as Alcan and. Kitimat, K’San
and the Hazeltons, a Nass circle
tour, Stewart and Hyder, or

Heritage Park,
Greening has operated a tour. |

“ business in the Terrace area for

8. mrumnber. of years and has.

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