INSIDE CITY SCENE B2 -A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Thursday, September 29 A REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY workshop will be offered by Margaret Dediluke at the Ter- race Women’s Resource Centre al 7:30 p.m. Call 638-0228 for more information. Friday, September 30 PROMISE KEEPERS, an interdemoninational men’s ministry, meets at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 2 MULTICULTURAL POTLUCK DINNER, Sponsored by the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre and the Terrace & District Multicultural Association, takes place at 5 p.m. at the Thornhill Community Hall. Tickets at Sight & Sound, Kristin’s Emporium, Sidewalkers, Terrace Women’s Resource Centre. Tuesday, October 4 AURORA SUMMER ARTS SCHOOL holds its annual general meeting at 7:30 p.m, at the _ R.E.M, Lee Theatre. Anyone interested is invited to attend. Call 635-5603 for more info. TERRACE TOASTMASTERS meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Terrace Inn. Contact: Diana at 635-: 5905 or Linda at 638-1856, LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY hold their October monthly meeting at 8 p.m. at the Legion. October 4-5 DIABETIC basic two-day clinictakes place at . Mills Memorial Hospital. Call Dana Hill, RN, for info at 635-2211 local 250 or 638-1956. A dac- tor’s referral is required," Wednesday, October 5 SKEENA PARENT ADVISORY meeting from- . 7:30 to 9 p.m, at Skeena Jr. Secondary School li-. brary. Parents will be participaling with teachers and students in a survey regarding beliefs about education. Everyone welcome. SIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES through the Ter- tace Child Development Centre start Oct. 5. Call -: 635-9388 for more info or to register. ; Friday, October 7 CANADA WORLD YOUTH © culture show/evening of entertainment takes place at 7:30 p.m. at Veriias School. All welcome. Monday, October 10 TERRACE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH presents a community Thanksgiving dinner free of charge from 11:30 a:m. to 2 p.m. at the Pentecostal Church at 3511 Eby St Tuesday, October 11 PACIFIC NORTHWEST MUSIC FESTIVAL committee meeting at 8 p.m. at 4514 Cedar Cres, New members welcome. Call 635-9089 for more info. Wednesday, October 12 DIABETIC REFRESHER CLINIC takes place at Mills Memorial Hospital. Call Dana Hill, RN; at 635-2211 local 250 or 638-1956. A doctor's teferral is required. WEDNESDAYS SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP meets Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. at the Women’s Centre. For more info call 638-0228. TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets at 7 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Centre. . Also Saturday nights at 7:30. TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S AS- SOCIATION holds jis monthly meeting the third Wednesday of every month, Meet for lunch at the Terrace Inn fram noon to 1 p.m. Contact Jayce at 635-9660. ‘HUFF AND PUFF Asthma Group holds its monthly meeting the third Wednesday of cach month at the Women’s Resource Centre on Park . Ave, from 7 to 9 p.m. FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is open every . Wednesday and Thursday from 7 p.m, to 10 p.m..- and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Closed Aug. _ 20. The Terrace Standard offers the Whal’s Up “community calendar as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organiza- : tions and those events for which there is no ad- ‘ mission charge. Htems will run two weeks before each event. We ask that items be submitted by 5 pm, on the — Thursday before the issue in which it is to appear. Submissions should be typed or printed neatly. ND THE HILENCE | trop tHe rae JOLENCE ) END THE Vite SILENCE p THE | E BACK & : WIGHT & ‘TERRACE STANDARD END THE f SILENCE 1 WOMEN The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 28, 1994 - B1 OMMUNITY TAKE BACK THE NIGHT marchers listen to speech by ~ organizer Holly Grueger before picking up placards and begin- TAKE BACK THE NIGHT “END THE SILENCE — stop the violence.’’ - "That was the chant of more than’ 50 women who marched down Lakelse Ave. iast Thursday night in-an annual campaign to end .. Violence against women, “Several men also joined the Take Back the Night march, aimed at symbolically banishing . the danger to a woman who walks | alone at night. "Take Back the Night is about ; fear and the. politics of fear,’ ‘speaker Maurie Montgomery told the crowd at the band shell in Lower Little Park. ‘‘It’s about a fear one half of the population ~ has about the other half.’ Mcn don’t have to think: about where to park their cars, how to TIGHTER RULES on how ser- Vice clubs handle binge revenues are one big headache, says B.C, Elks president John Yazlovasky. The top officer of the service club’s provincial association was -here last Wednesday to meet Ter- - race Elks club members. Yazlavasky said the new restrictions imposed by the B.C. - Public Gaming branch means ser- vice clubs can’t hand over more than $1,000 to any single charity OF needy project. - The move forces service clubs ‘to spread out the money they col- Ject. And it also puts the projects of “some clubs way behind schedule. OTts going to affect every ser- _- vies club in British Columbia,”’ ~. Yazlovasky predicted. “It’s not a : good picture at all as far as we're * concerned.” He ‘said he believes the new rules are a result of ihe recent scandal over how charity bingo furtds in Nanaimo were redirected ‘to: the NDP MLA's re-election ~ Campaign there, “Thats an example of where ‘accountability missed the mark,’’ said Rick Saville, senior licensing _ Officer for the province's public ~ gaming © branch. -. Certainly brought. up long before © be that issue, ” “‘But> it was dress or haw late to go out for a walk, said Montgomery, the for- met regional coordinator for the ministry of women’s equality. “Men don’t have to check the backseats of their cars, carry mace.or practice self-defence,” ning walk to city hall. Despite rain just before the march, more than 50 people turned up. is hunted,” Montgomery said. The mass march is ‘‘a proclama- tion to rapists, wife-beaters and woman-haters that their days are numbered.” “Tonight, with every © breath and every slep, we must commit “Take Back the Night Is about fear. It’s.about a fear.one half of the population has about the other half.” she said, oo “Why do I have fewer choices: and options than men?’? she demanded. ‘‘This is. why we're angry and this is. “what Sonight is about.’?. :- “Every. woman. a walking stone Bingo rules panned © Change most uncharitable, Elks say “John Yazlovasky He says the new regs aren’t in- tended to make things more dif- ficult for service clubs. “I’s not meant to restrict how they use the funds — it’s meant to ensure there’s an acceptable level of accountability,’ Saville said. : The new rules were passed in June:and came in response to the audilor-géeneral's tions. of 1990. “Once a service club donates funds °(taised through | bingo) they’re beyond the control of the Heetsee,"” Savilie._ said. We Cont'd 1Fage & B10. recommenda- - to going the distance.”’ Statistics indicate a woman is raped every three minutes, Mont- gomery said, anda woman is bat- tered every eight seconds. March aims to banish fear - .Terrace’s Bea Richard said that ‘she hopes for relief of the suffer-_ ing of all people who face feat on Po, a daily basis, aa “T pray for anger to be dis- pelled, and fear to evaporate,” she said. ‘For healing to touch 7 ‘all people, mea and women.”* — °° Montgomery also ‘called on. those present to remember four _ women from the Smithers-. Hazelton area — Delphine Nikal, | Ramona Wilson, Sheri Motz, and Michelle Cummings — who ei-' ther went missing or were slain by their partners. a One fled to Vancouver to es- cape an abusive partner, she said, but was tracked down and killed, ' The march ended = at’ the: : cenotaph at city hall, _ organizer Holly Grucger lit thre - candles. THE ELKS gw A national fraternal and charitable service club. wi 60 lodges In B.C. with 6,000 members. 35,000 members nationally, plus another 20,000 members of the Order of the Royat Purple, wm The Purple Cross Fund, the Elks’ national charity, helps pay for children's medical needs with grants for equipment, supplies and transportation. A deaf detection program helps In early detection of hearing Impairment In newborns. @ Thelr provincial pro- Ject Is a serles of Elks camps for children. Local projects of the Terrace Elks Include Elks Park ball flelds on Agar Ave. Terrace Elks have ralsed = large amounts of money for medical equipment at Mills Memorlal Hospital, and were part of the community . effort to bring the CT scanner |Brace for a harsh winter KEEP LOADING your fire- wood and break out those snow shovels, The oracle of Canadian climate has looked Into his crys- tal ball — and he sees snow. Robert B, Thomas's 1995 edi- tion of The Old Farmer’s Al- manae is predicting a colder than normal winter with above average snowfall for British Columbia. If you belleve the Almanac, we will get a brief respite of mild, wet weather from late No- vember to mid-December, ‘Very wintry weather with progressively greater amounts of snow will then prevail through January,’ the tome SBYS. “The first half of February may be mild and wet before a series of cold waves brings colder than normal conditions through March, with above- normal snowfall in the north.’ It calls for a cool spring and’ average but dry summer in 1995, , A year ago, the '94 Almanac predicted near normal tempera- tures this past summer. Tt also suggested this fall would feature “frequent rains thronghout Ociober’' and several cold waves in the north. here. SECTION B JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 where: