This week

in local
Wednesday, Oct. 26 — At

Parkside Elementary the first

cultural school concert of the

year will be held. An East Indian
solo dancer will be performing
for students at E.T. Kenney

‘School. 7

Thursday, Oct. 27 — This is a

Professional Development day

at Clarence Michiel Elementary

and students will be dismissed at
noon, _ Ce,

- Thursday, Oct. 27 — The first
Grade 7 dance of the year will be
held at Clarence Michiel Ele-
mentary in the school gymna-
sium. a

Friday, Oct. 28 -- This is a
district-wide Teacher’s In-
Service Non-Instructional Day.

Monday, Oct. 29 — Thornhill
Junior Secondary ‘‘A’’ boys and
girls volleyball teams travel to
Prince George.

_ Monday, Oct, 29 — Thornhill
Junior Secondary Grade 8 boys
and girls volleyball teams travel
to Kitwanga and Hazelton.
Wednesday, Oct. 29 — Be-
tween 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
school. photos will be taken at

Kiti K’Shan Primary School by -

- Jostens Photo Service.

Monday, Oct. 31 — From
12:10 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. there
will be a Hallowe’en Dance in
the Uplands Elementary gym-
nasium for older students. At
1:30 p.m. there will bé a Primary
Costume Parade through class-
rooms and the gymnasium for
the younger students. Parents
are welcome.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 — This is

the first day that Thornhill
Primary School Grade 1! stu-
dents will be dismissed at the
regular time of 2:30 rather than
2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 — From
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. E.T.
Kenney Primary, students in
Ms. Sneddon and Mrs.
Ringuette’s classes will be
visiting the swimming pool for
swim lessons. Please make sure
your child has a towel and swim
suit,

Friday, Nov. 4 — Thornhill
Junior Secondary ‘‘A’’ boys
volleyball team travels to B,C.
junior boys provincial cham-
pionships in Quesnel.
| Friday, Noy. 4 — At 1:15
p.m, the Menaka Thakkar con-
cert will take place in the
Uplands Elementary School
gymnasium. |

Saturday, Nov. 5 — Thornhill
Junior Secondary Grade 8 boys
and girls volleyball teams travel
to zone finals in Kitimat.

Wrenching
correction

In last week’s Terrace Review
we reported that a McGavin’s
Bakery bread truck rolled into
the Skeena River while the driver
was attempting to change a flat
‘tire, Subsequent information in-
dicates that the tire was being
changed by a local tire company,
not the driver.

Our apologies.

etting
The Native Arts Pro-
gram, an extension of the .
Native Indian Education
.Program, is a special pro-
ject at Clarence Michiel
Elementary which pro-
mofes an awareness and
appreciation of Native art
‘ and .culture.. Under. the.
direction of Native artist
James Adams, the pro-
gram fs held every Wed-
nesday from 3 p.m. to 4:30
"p.m. and Is open to all
Clarence Michiei stu-
dents. Drawing and paint
ing are the focus at the
present time, but after
Christmas Adams hopes
to add wood carving to

the agenda. Adams is
shown here demonstra-

ting technique to Clarence
Michiel student Charity
Parnell.

Organization starts for music fest

contributed by —
Diane Weismiller

Plans are well underway for -
the 1989 Pacific Northwest
Music Festival. Adjudicators
have been selected, set pieces
have been chosen, and the
syllabus is now available at the
following locations: Sight and
Sound stores in Terrace, Kitimat
and Prince Rupert; Public

Libraries
Kitimat; Northwest Community
College offices. The syllabus can
also be obtained by writing to
the Secretary, Box 456, Terrace,
B.C. V8G 4B5.

the classes that may be entered
this year. It contains advice for
competitors and rules governing
the Festival which should be

in Terrace and

The syllabus describes all of

Zuchiatti; Ist Vice President,
Diane Weismiller; 2nd Vice

read carefully by all com-
petitors, their teachers and
parents,

The Festival will be held from Corresponding Secretary, Irene

March 5 to March 17, 1989 and Kuhar; Recording Secretary,
the entry closing date is January Linda Tupper; Treasurer,
10, 1989. Marilyn Kerr.

The executive for the 1989
Pacific Northwest Music
Festival are: President, Norah
Ferguson; Past President, Carol

Please feel free to contact any
of them if you would like to
volunteer to assist with the 1989
Festival.

a Time for Books _ by Andrea Deakin

‘The Naturalist’s Garden’? by John Feltwell, published by
McGraw Hill Ryerson at $24.95, is a history of gardens, not only

. discussing the development and arrival of new plants or designs,

-but also the human reason for developing each type of garden.

From the well-established gardens of Ancient Egypt, four thou-
sand years ago, gardeners have worked to create their individual
ideas of beauty and peace and efficiency..Queen Hatshepsut im-.
ported plants for her terraced gardens, King Nebuchadnessar
created the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
Aristotle, an enthusiastic naturalist, spent two years studying the
wild gardens of Lésbos. Pliny the Elder, known as Pliny. the —
Naturalist, expressed his concerns about pollution: “It is not
unusual for us to poison rivers and the very elements of which
the world is made.” Pliny the Younger, his nephew, is said to
have cultivated twelve species of rose and his gardeners to have
devised the first topiary, cutting box shrubs into the shapes of
animals.

This engaging account explains where many of our best loved
plants and trees originated, and how currents of history, like the
Crusades, left behind this benefit. The medicinal herb gardens of
the mediaeval monks, many destroyed by Henry VIII at the
Dissolution of the Monastries, gave us the basis of: phar-

macopoeia, and the seventeenth century naturalists grew with the .

intent of encouraging certain insects and animals to frequent their
land. This interest in the preservation of wildflowers and plants is
alive again today as modern agricultural methods and urban
sprawl threaten, their existence. John Feltwell concludes his book
with a section on encouraging wild flowers and creating habitats

for insects, birds and small animals to become an integral part of:

the garden.
This book which should delight and interest any keen gardener,

and anyone interested in how our iaeas and ideals have developed |

in our relationship with nature. Mention should be made of the

wealth of good illustrations including some lovely botanical draw-_

ings by Valerie Baines.

ATTENTION PRE-SCHOOL AND

DAY CARE TEACHERS!!
Play & Learn Parent/Teacher Store from
Prince George will be in Terrace on Oct. 28,
1988 at Caledonia Senior Secondary School
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. items sultable for your |
age group will be on display and for sale.

Midge Keeble has learned the hard way how to make a garden 7

bloom. She puts this down to’ having created six gardens, each
originating in conditions more apparently hopeless than the last.
The account of how she achieved success is not only highly en-
joyable reading, but eminently practical stuff too. There is no

_ short cut. Hard digging, observation and common sense bring

results — that is made clear; but what humor and love of the soil
and plants comes through the pages. Not only that. My roses will
now grow with my leeks and garlic chives, and the aphids can
seek elsewhere to suck — my roses will be safe. ‘‘Tottering in my
Garden" by Midge Ellis Keeble, published by Oxford at $15.95,
is inspirational reading while you recover from the weeds.

“The Gardener’s Book of Sources”’ (Penguin: $17.95) is a very
full list of companies, books, magazines and societies which sup-
ply equipment and information for almost every kind of garden-
ing. The over 1,000 resources cannot be totally comprehensive in
such a wide-ranging pursuit, but the author states them to be the
best and most unusual resources. Apart from the information on
supplies, William Bryant Logan has tried to classify suppliers,
books, magazines and clubs according to what they offer, plus -
their attitudes towards gardening. The resources are predominant-
ly from the United States, but there are Canadian and overseas
suppliers listed.

President, Marilyn Anderson;

Terrace Elks Hall

October 29, 1988

Doors open at 8 p.m. Dancing at 9 p.m.
$10 per person — For tickets phone

635-6302
ne

Music by Rocky Tops
Prizes for costumes