Poge Eight

- "Terrace hed itself. c a pint-sized parade this: May holiday, o
The business firms. and. the floats are conserving their energies” ‘for the’ big
hy vie » July centennial, parade,”
But the local Elks Club wisely enough *

_: decided’ that’, this

- year the May parade was: for. the children.

radio because of dubious weather, the younger ‘people
assembled en masse on the Super-Valu *

‘parking’ fot. .

v They were ready to smarch and march they did.
oe There were trim misses from the Kitimat Elk Twirlettes, marching”
“  thythmically to the music of the Skeena Secondary band, -
and there were children, hundreds of them in quaint costumes which must
have kept mothers sewing for weeks.:

The major trend was to the clothes of a hundred.

years ago, costumes of other r lands, and fashions of sheer

fantasy,

"There was a May Queen, pretty and demure, to lead the parade, a long. line ©

; of happy children watched by parents and passersby, |
‘gladdened to see some color added to ‘downtown streets onan:

otherwise. drab. day.

The people in
the pictures

cause, ,, J0p left: The Kitimat Elk
Twitlettes” ‘ready to step out;
top right, Martin Contant
of Skeena Secondary

band treats Dicky Vander
Velde to an impromptu
oom-pah; lower left, a sudden
sadness clouds the face of
tinselled Darcey Budiselech;
and lower right, it was

a family affair

_With Brenda Nance.
brought out the pram for

. baby brother Derik
. accompanied by older
brother Art,