INSIDE COMMUNITY _ EVENTS B2 TERRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 14, 1999 - BI SECTION 8 Around Town Very applicable ‘AFTER STUDYING for years and spending hard-earned cash on tuition and books, Ruth Rogers graduated with a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Simon Fraser University June 4. Rogers completed most of her instruction in - Terrace while working as an on call teacher for the local school district. Rogers’ degree was inadvertently listed as not applicable in the July 7 edition of The Terrace Standard. HandyDART clients need to register CHANGES TO Terrace HandyDART have been implemented to enhance passenger safety and ser- vice. Passengers are reminded that: * only passengers in wheelchairs are permitted to use the wheelchair lift to board or exit the vehicle. * passengers in wheelchairs are responsible for their own transportation after disembarking from the vehicle, Residents are also reminded that HandyDART passengers should be registered with Terrace Regional Transit System by September 15, 1999. Transit representatives will be available to ans- wer questions and provide personal trip planning services at the HandyDART information booth at the Skeena Mail in July and September. Best Garden contest THE GREATER Terrace Beautification Society is pleased to announced the 1999 Best Garden Contest. Each year the society sponsors a conlest to recognize outstanding achievement in gardening. Judging will take place the week of July 19-25. Please ask owacr’s pennission If you are enier- ing a garden other than your own. Categories include: commercial, industrial, apartment or multiple swelling, mobile home and residential. Entry forms are available at CFTK (Skeena Broadcasters). Entries must be returned by July 17, 1999. For more information conlact Myrna Ralfsen at 635-4224, New council members sworn in THE NEW directors for the Terrace First Na- tions Council of Women include; Frances Stanley -—- president Mae Derrick — vice-president Maxine Tollefsen — secretary Collcen Russell — treasurer Gail Morrison — youth rep Judy Gwilliam —- director Loretie Mould — director Bonnie Douse — director Elizabeth Nelson --- director Eunice Johnson — director TLT auditions AUDITIONS for the Terrace Litlle Theatre Play, One flew over the cooceos nest will be held July 19 and 20th at 7:30 p.m. at the McColl Playhouse. For more infonnation call Marianne 635-2942 or Vicki at 638-1215. Needed are 14 male roles 4 female roles. Artist wins native art fellowship RICK RIVET, Metis painter from Terrace, and fellow aboriginal artist Marianne Nicholson of the Kwakwak’awakw tribe on Vancouver Island are amoung the first recipients of the Eileljorg Fel- lowships for Native American fine art. The honour will net then $20,000 US each when an exhibition of their works opens next fall at the Eiteljong Museum in Indianapolis, They were chosen from among more than 100 North American aboriginal artists applying for the newly crealed fellowships. Epp exhibits art in Toronto LOCAL ARTIST Edward Epp will present a solo exhibition of his paintings at Gallery One in Toronto, Ontario July 17 to August 8. Epp found powerful inspiration from his Baha’i faith and from the magnificent fandscape around Terrace and the Prairies. Tea and garden tour planned THE TERRACE Women and Development group are hosting the 2nd Perennial Garden Tour and Tea Sunday, July 18 from 1-4 p.m. Ten of the ’ most beautiful gardens in Terrace will be fea- ’ tured. Tickets are $12 and available at Misty River Books and Sidewalkers. For more informa- tion call Ester at 638-0488, Girls’ camp makes science fun TERRACE GIRLS waded through Howe Creck trails, copper-plated dimes and got their hands dirty making paper and plastic las! week in the name of science. The girls were part of this summer's first Girls in Science camp — a hands-on project. for girls aged 8-12 created by the - Terrace Women’s Resource Centre to show girls how. fun science can be. ne And from the reaction of. ten girls at the Family Centre July 7, the cainp is right on target. “T really like scicnce,”’ said 10-year-old Stacey Zom as she squished her hands through a pulverized mix of paper and water “Tt's really fun.’” Each of the girls had a favourite —_activily whether it be identifying bugs in Howe Creek or tum- ing dimes inta pennies via a copper-sulfale solution and Leclerc. But one of the girls two coordinators, Solveig Adair was a more philosophical about the camp. Adair said the camp, which sports a waiting list for the remaining summer sessions,. hopes to make science fun so more girks will consider laking science in schooi. Adair, altends classes al UBC, and says 98 per cent of math, chemistry and physics professors are men. The number of female stu- ‘dents, she said hovers around 20 per cent, depend- ing ou the class. She said the camp targets pre-teen girls aged 8-12 as they begin forming ideas about who and what they want io be in life, The project was made pos- sible by the Terrace Ladies Auxiliary, - which donated $300 to materials and supplics. “It's a really good idea. | have four daughters myself — they never had any- thing like this growing up.” a car baltery. Most of the girls agreed having boys at ihe camp wouldn't have been as pro- ductive, “They fool. around more,’ ‘said 10-year-old Briana Pellegrino adding it’s harder to learn with boys around. “Boys will be toa messy,” said Sheena “Tt’s really a good idca,’’ said Auxiliary president Marje Cromarty. ‘‘I have four. daughters myself — they never had anything like this growing up.’ Cromarty said the ladies approved the much needed money without reservation. “T's ‘just neat fo sce young minds al work,” she said. the camp for | RIP iT UP: Nahinni Balfour, B, and ‘Stacey Zorn, 10, shred scraps of paper in hopes of making funky stationary of their own during a Girls in Sciance project at the Family Place last week. NICE BEAR: Rotary Youth Exchange students were in Terrace last week on part ofa cross-country tour. They spend the day at Furlong Bay before heading to Kitimat and then to Prince Rupert, where they will take the ferry down to the Lower Mainland. Exchange students cruise into town TWO BUSES that stopped here July 5 and 6 resembicd mini global villages. Filled with 104 Rotary Youth Exchange students from 24 different countries, the buses were buzzing with cultural diversity. The students, aged 16-18, are on a month-long cross- _ Canada tour. Each student is on a year-long exchange, and has been hosted by one . of the dozens of Rotary * Clubs throughout Canada, The bus tour, which began in Stratford, Ontario June 24, will take students to Vicloria, B.C. and’ ‘back again, wilh stopovers in 21 different cities en route, By the flurry of inorning ; « bugs and excited tales of _ change evenings spent with host families, il’s hard to belicve most of the students just met twa weeks ago. Exchange student, Aaron Skinner, 16, from Geclong, Australia, explained there’s a special bond between ex- students because each one understands what the other fas been through over the past few months, “You mect an exchange student for 15 minutes and you feel like you’ve known them you're entire life,’ he sald. He said the best part of the ‘cross-country tour is meel- ‘ing fellow ~ students from around the world. “The friends: I’ve nade has: been. awesome,’ he said. “I now have a place to stay with friends at basically any country in the world.” And a lot of people will come to visit him too, when "he’s: back In Australia, he added, - Many of ihe students were impressed with Canada’s size, During their stay in Terrace the group took a Skecnid Cellulose log tour, walked trails at Lakelse Lake and enjoyed a feast — and dancitg in Kitimaat Vil- lage. The hospitality shown to them throughoul their trip from the Kilimat, Skeena Valley and Terrace Rolary clubs has also been a good lesson in being soclable, they said. - High school reunion needs more people A REUNION planned on Riverboat weekend for ali Terrace high school students from 1924-1964 has only . beard back from half the people expected to altend. . “We're having — dif- ficulties,’’? said organizer Elaine Johnson.‘‘Half the people in town haven't even - responded.” She urges people who : have forgoticn to fill out their registration forms to hurry up and send them in. The registration deadline is July 15. Jolnson said she was ex- pecting about 500 people to turn up at the gathering to reunite with lellow school- malcs. But so far, she’s only heard back from about 250 people. At the first reunion, beld in 1982, Johnson said every- one had a wonderdul time calching up with old tricnds. “(As soon as people came, the room just filled with ave and good {cllowship,’’ ad the list reunion, held in 1992, was equally sue. cessful, she added. This may be the last op- portunity for some people to get logether since none of the high school students Elaine Johnson from 1924-1964 are getting any younger, she said. Jolinson reminds people thal everyouc who went to Skeena Secondary, Kaium Highschool or . Terrace Highschool from 1924-1964 is invited to tie reunion — not jus! graduales. - People who have lost their registration form can pick a new one up at Terrace Builders, Ev’s Men’s Wear and the Terrace Public Li: brary. If you have any questions or would like more informa- tion contact Elaine Johnson al 635-2965 or Sally Smaha al 635-4243, Around Town Calling all vendors! PRINCE RUPERT'S Farmers’ Market is look- ing for vendors every Sunday from (0 aim, to noon, The market is located at the Park Avenue campground. For more information call 624- 5861. Learn to belly dance AN INTRODUCTION to belly dancing work- shop with Pamela Hoekstra is offercd al the Ter- race Public Library Thursday, July 22 from 7-9 p-m. Ii is free! Limited space is available so please register al the library,