‘A ride through the park

Kids ride for free at the Terrace Children’s Festival. This year’s celebration will be held
in Lower Little Park, Aug. 17.

Skookum scissors

Participants at the Children's Festival in Terrace last year

were offered free halrcuts.

Shop swamped with

Volunteers, helpers and performers are still needed for

Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 30, 1986 11°

Terrace Children’s

Festival to feature

puppets and face painting

TERRACE — On
August 17 the Terrace
Coffee House Society
will be holding a
children’s festival in
Lower Little Park be-
hind the library; the
event will begin at 1 p.m.
and will continue until
about 4 p.m.

by Philip Musselman

According to commit-
tee member, Elizabeth
Snyder, the festival was
started three years ago
and has become more
popular with children
every year. This year the

the Terrace Children's Festival on Sunday, Aug. 17 from 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. at Lower Little Park (Library Park). Some of
the events planned for this year include: puppets, wood-
working, face painting, movement and games, soap bub-
bles, balloons, crafts far children, .and more. Clowns and
performers will help make the afternoon lots of fun. H1
anyone would lika to help, or if you have any questions,
please call 798-2535 or 635-3487. Be a part of Terrace’s

free festival for children of alt ages.

television repairs

TERRACE — Thunder,
lightning... heavy rain-
fall... on a_ recent
Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.,
the storm started.

by Daniele Berquist

Lightning struck a
tree, the Forest Service
reported six fires that re-
mained under control,

B.C. Hydro reported a

15-minute power outage
in the area along with
some fuses. blowing in
power transformers. A
surge of electricity was
experienced at Mills
Memorial Hospital caus-
ing alarm systems to go
off. .

The following day,
Pro-Tech Electronic

Gilles Lacroix

Engineering, a TV repair
shop in Terrace, was
swamped with calls.
Gilles Lacroix, manager
of the shop said that as a
result of the thunder and
lightning storm, over 30
television sets, along

with VCR’s were
brought in for repair.

Lacroix said television
sets that were plugged in
with cable on, suffered
lightning discharge.
‘Fuses were blown and
diodes were blown as
well,’’ noted Lacroix.

He pointed out that
televisions and other
electrical appliances
should be unplugged
during heavy thunder-
storms.

It was a bad storm and
Terrace doesn’t usually
see incidents similar to
that one. A word of cau-
tion from Lacroix,
“Don’t take chances,
unplug your television
set during a_ thunder-
storm.

committee is -expecting
the attendance of over

300 children and several.

adult volunteers to keep
the whole gathering go-
ing quite smoothly. Ac-
tivities include: face
painting, wood working,
entertainment, games,
puppetry, balloons,
music and food.

The event seems to ap-
peal to children from the
ages five through 14, but
mostly we will get kids
who are aged from seven
to.10, Snyder explained.
We would like to em-
phasize that everyone is

_ welcome and all the day

is free and is non-
commercial fun, so it
doesn’t matter who you
are, you..are welcome
anyway, Snyder en-
couraged...

Usually, Snyder ex-
plained, we will have

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Derksen’s
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about six or seven people
planning the day, but on
the day of the festival we
get 10 to 20 volunteers
who help to set up things
for the children and
usually there are quite a
few people who will
come to paint faces all
day. So if you would like
to see children have fun
on a Sunday in August
be sure to attend.

Rainbow
trout

Alwyn Creek is a
warm water stream

which supports salmon
runs every year.

The creek produces
Pink salmon, Coho, and
Chinook. Also there is a
population of small
Rainbow trout.

Terrace, B.C.

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