The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Seplember 25, 1996 - B1 TERRACE. Ss ‘ANDARD. INSIDE : SECTION B COMMUNITY CRIS LEYKAUF EVENTS B2 638-7283 - AT THE LIBRARY — SHEELAGH MEIKLEM Stay healthy, stay active ALL IS the time of year whei we begin to turn inward, tidying our perimeters and battening down the hatches in hopeful attempts to sur- vive another winter. We begin to think about Ou, colds, the health of ourselves and our loved ones, There is a wide assortment of books on this topic, both with tra- ditional remedies and with so-called ‘‘New Age”’ discoveries. The American Holistic Health Association Complete Guide to Alternative Medicine by William Collinge is a comprehensive guide to alternative health care traditions available today: Chinese medicine, ayurveda, homeopathy, naturopathy, massage therapy etc. It is unbiased and very interesting, AND in- cludes case studies. Feeling Great by Jeanne Segal is a personal program to speed healing and enhance wellness with an holistic approach. If you have a lot of time on your hands you might try some of the exercises shown here to expand awareness , emotionally, physically and spiritually. For instance, observe the movement patterns of toddlers, then go home and do what you saw them doing for three minutes or longer. Now observe. your feelings and perceptions — are they different? This only works if you don’t have toddlers at home. If you do, you won’t have time to perform! Another interesting book about the abstracts of healing is Healing Words:The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, by Larry Dossey. Itis a scholarly approach to the subject, using case studies and history. The relationship between spirituality and health is a mystery, un- knowable. As Gertrude Stein wrote, ‘There is ro answer. There has never becn an answer. There never will be an answer, That’s the ans- wer”? The editors of Prevention Magazine have pub- lished Prevention's Healing with Vitamins which gives the most effective vitamin and mineral treatments for every kind of health problem. The Vegetarian Way: Total Health for you and your Family by Virginia Messina tells you how to become a vegetarian, the benefits of vegetarianism and includes menus and recipes. The Book of Kombucha by Beth Ann Petra tells everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the 2000 year old Chinese tea mushroom and the health benefits of drink- ing this obscure beverage. Men's Health has published two excellent books for men: Total Heakk for Men and Fight Fat: A Tatal Lifestyle program for Men to Stay Slim and Heaithy. These are comprehensive and readable guides to good health. The latter book includes recipes for quick-to-fix fat free meals, For people who prefer a more traditional ap- proach to medicine there is a revised edition of Joe Graedon's The People's Pharmacy, the con- sumer’s guide to prescription drugs and over- the-counter drugs, home remedies, health and beauty products. This is full of useful informa- tion including side effects and dangerous drug interactions. For those interested in real life experiences, Christina Middlebrook’s Memoir of dying, Seeing the Crab is a fascinating account of her joumey through cancer, It is full of humour and grace but 1 couldn’t finish reading it for sorrow. A more cheerful book is Medicine Man io the Inuit, a Young Doctor's Adventures Among the Eskimos, Dr. Moody was the only doctor In over 600,000 square miles of East Arctic and had many interesting adventures. For mystery lovers there’s an English murder series with a nurse/detective as heroine, She’s single, size 14 and her landlord is an undertaker who wants nothing more than to help her solve crimes. Some of the titles in the series are Dead- ly Practice, Deadly Admirer, and Deadly Er- rand. Slay healthy, stay active, and stay informed with the help of the Public Library.! And re- member the words of Rilke: ‘if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud- shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that.Jife bas not forgoticn you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.’* ABOVE: WOMEN TOOK to the streets last Friday night, speaking women marched through the dark city streets. BELOW: The crowd out against vialence during the annual Take Back the Night march © was treated to same moving songs prior to the march, by a group and rally. Pedestrians stared and cars honked in support as the modestly dubbed, Just Us, | Women speak out against violence THERE’S NO EXCUSE for woman abuse... Women unite. Take back the night.”’ Approximately 60 women shouted these slogans as they marched through the dark streets of Terrace last Friday night At first the voices of many women were hesitant, and the two megaphones overpowered the crowd. But as the march got underway, and cars honked in support, the voices grew louder. Midway through the march you could hear the women shouting from blocks away. The women had come together to take part in the annual Take Back the Night march and rally. At last year's march, Tammy Fee was a silent observer. This year she was a key speaker, and she told her story of surviving a sexual assault to an utterly silent room. Fee was atlacked one year ago by Ric White, and has spoken out about victim’s rights many times since. ‘‘My sense of personal securily, privacy and trust have been taken away from me,”’ said Fee. "I feel [ am the one in jail, imprisoned by my fear of him,’’ When she was at iast year’s march, she said at that time she had felt very much alone, ‘Seeing people understood, it gave me hope,’ Fee said, “Some people may think I’m grandstanding, but I want those who’ve been assaulted to know that I understand,’’ she said. Another speaker, Lynne Terbasket, spoke about the many ways Voices can be silenced. “Let's find a thousand ways to speak out against violence,’” she urged. Elizabeth Snider echoed her message. She asked the crowd to ask themselves in what ways they had acted to stop violence against women. Did anyone support a woman to leave an abusive man? Stop a fight? Call the police? Take a self defense course? Snider said it was important to act against violence all ycar long. “This is not about one night when we get together and say Violence against womea must stop.’’ Women must be there for each olher, she concluded. Concert society offers another world IF THOUGHTS ofa long winter are getting by Tchaikovsky. you down, you might want to consider The interpretation takes in the opening in- buying a scasons ticket to the concert vasion of mice and rates to the grand pas society’s performances, in order to get you. deux of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the through the cold nights. Cavalier. The season starts with a cabaret-style = In the new year the Joc Sealy quartet per- tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber in mid- forms Africville Suite, Sealy’s musical October, It’s an overview of some of the tribute to the spirit of this community estab- best songs from two decades of music, in- lished in the 1800s on the edge of Halifax, cluding Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Nova Scotia. Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat In February, the Arts Club Theatre and Sunset Boulevard, presents Tapestry, a musical revue of The lords of improv are let loose in No- Carole King, Clap along with your vember with Vancouver Theatre Sports’s favourites from this timeless 1971 album. improvised salute to Willic Shakespeare, The season wraps up with the Foothills Suggestions from the audience delermine Brass, a world class brass chamber ensem- ; d . : the players’ fate as they struggle to conjure ble-on its 15th anniversary tour. THE FOOTHILLS QUINTET is aworld class brass Shakespearean tragedy and comedy from They promise a delightfully eclectic chamber ensemble, and It stopping by Terrace an its eet i time for Christmas, the concert Pedsons tickets for alt sic performa 15th anniversary tour. The quintet has an informal nces ly eclecti itaire. society presents the Nutcracker Ballet. are on sale now at Erwin ’s Jewellers i in the stage presence, and a daligntfully eclectic repertoir ‘Ballet Jorgen presents the timeless classic Skeena Mall.