The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 6, 2005 - B1 TERRACE STANDARD DUSTIN QUEZADA 638-7283 oO Around Town Spotlight on lifesavers - THE BRITISH Columbia Ambulance Service | is celebrating its annual Paramedic Appreciation Week July 1-7. — " The week presents an opportunity to recognize 7 the important work paramedics: do in communities throughout the province both on and off the job each day. In Terrace’s Ambulance Station 4804 on n Hwy ~16'West, local paramedics will host an open house July 6 where visitors can have their blood pressure and blood sugar levels measured and view the inte- rior of an ambulance. There will also be a barbecue. _ _The community is invited from noon to 4 p.m. The B.C. Ambulance Service i is in its 31st year _ of operation. It all started here... _ ACOUPLE that wed in Terrace 50 years ago recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. John and Alice Jongsma, who tied the knot here » in/1955 before moving to Smithers and eventual- ly the Lower Mainland, are now retired in Clear- brook. . wa _ Their 50th anniversary was celebrated by family and friends from as far away as Holland. Local partnership raises 5K > LOCAL RADIO station CFNR and Terrace Totem Ford came together to raise $5, 000 for. the local Canadian Cancer Society. . ‘Last week, members from. the classic rock sta- - tion presented Morgan Evans, thecancer society’s - Relay for Life coordinator, with the cheque. The money was raised during April — Cancer, month:— and May. . The Ford dealership donated a 2005 Mustang. that people were automatically entered to win with a donation toward the cancer fund. The bulk of the $5,000. came during the Auto- trixx Car Show in May. Final tallies for this year’ § Rally tor Life are still being counted RELAY For Life coordinator ‘Morgan Evans (second from left) accepts the $5,000-cheque _ from CFNR CEO Clarence Martin. DJ Steve Little. and Promotions coordinator Denise Young look on. ‘Mortar boards off to them all 4 OF THE 500 Trinity Western University students who received their undergraduate degrees ‘in commencement ceremonies at Abbotsford Pentecostal Assembly last week, two hailed from Terrace. | Heidi Aléxis Ruchotzke received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and Pamela Jewel VandeVelde earned her B.A. in music. - The univeristy in Langley, B.C., is a not-for-. profit Christian liberal arts university’ enrolling over 3,500 students with a broad based, liberal arts and sciences curriculum, including undergraduate degrees in 38 major areas of study. Closer to home, six graduates received their Bachelor of Education with Minors in Curriculum . and Instruction from Simon Fraser University’s program at Northwest Community College. They were Nicky Adam, Cameron Penfold, Karen TIng, | Barbra Elduayen, Teresa Pires, and Joslyn Bagg. Updates on previous stories FOLLOW UP on two community stories from June editions of the Terrace Standard. The June 15 paper told the story of Julia Tuin- inga,. who began a cycling ride across Canada June 25. Readers can track the group’s ride on the Web. Check www.crcna.org/seatosea or www.seato- sea.cjb.net | ’ The June 22 issue featured a story on the mural painted by the House of Friends, a noon-hour group from Thornhill Junior Secondary School. Two students who came out to help paint that didn’t get credit were Nina Bolton and Stacey Calder. TERRACE native .. . | Eric Duncan shows b/ what kind of pro- tection from the elements is neces- sary in the Antarctic. Here, he’s dressed up to wipe snow off a telescope. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Northerner cooks in t By ERIC DUNCAN - HELLO AGAIN Terrace from my seventh. month - cat -Amundsen- Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica: It was mid-winter on the 21st of June; four and a half of months since the final plane left and we were plunged into what seems like eternal darkness. The first rays of the sun will not be seen until late August and the sun itself in late September. You feel like you are in space here, and with the exception of when the moon is up, you walk outside and everything is pitch black; with the white snow and the night sky, all you can see is black and the person walking in front of you. | So far, the coldest it has been here is -74C. To give you an idea, the coldest temperature recorded in Canada is -63C in the Yukon 60 years ago. The -74C is without the wind — with the wind it has reached over -100C. I go outside and touch metal and instantly get a blister. The Auroras, or the southern lights down here are amaz-— ing, though not as colorful as they are in the North. The sky lights up with shades of green here it is one of the most gor- geous things I have ever seen! I was employed as a cook here, some say chef, | say cook. It has been a long and hard challenge so far. We have very limited supplies. = When the final plane left, we received our last “freshies” for eight months of isolation. Feeding 86 people three times ~ a day, you can imagine the fresh food running out quite * rapidly. To make a long story short, the last time I saw an orange, fresh onion or potato was March. But we still do « have fresh eggs; these eggs may last until October, as they _ were dipped in oil when they were delivered and we will be dipping them again soon to last longer. I would never have ’ thought eggs last this long! When cooking here, the biggest skill to have is creativity: ~~ you have to learn to make something from nothing. I liter- ally mean nothing. We have the main frozen vegetables that _ you use in most cooking such as chopped onions, peppers, mushrooms, peas, etc. All the same styles so everything starts to look the same after a while. I’m at the point where I have lost my. sense of taste and smell. People will come up to me and say what a great job on the meal, bread, etc. It all tastes the same to me! _All my breads from an onion bagel, to multigrain, to sour- dough taste like white bread; all my food is tasteless and unappealing (according to me and not to others) and if E have to see iofu within the next five years of leaving this place it will be too soon. But | will keep creating meals to the best of my ability while everyone else eats them and I have a bowl of cereal! As. for station life, a lot goes on here. For only o one day off.a week and one two-day weekend off-a month, we pack - in the activities. . The other night was tropical bingo, where we served up pifia coladas and had prizes such as gift certificates for our return to New Zealand. We have showings of movies and TV series, such as the Sopranos, chess tournaments, pool tour- ' Naments and sometimes I show people how to make bread. There are stitching classes, tae bo, kung fu, salsa dancing and the list goes on. For such a small community (86 people) there is a lot to do. One of the biggest events we have down here is called the “Hash.” When the full moon comes.out, two people set up a a trail outside kind of like a scavenger hunt and everyone gets dressed up.and walks around finding the trail, usually by the end, most of us are € stumbling around trying to find our ' beds! As I mentioned i in the beginning our mid winter was.the 21st of June and that was huge. Volunteers and the Galley staff prepared uppetizers such : as duck pate, sushi, crab legs, ' shrimp cocktail, spinach dip and the main course garlic-in- fused beef tenderloin with fresh challah (that I taught some- ‘one to make), lobster salad, some flavoured sorbets for des- sert and the Germans made an apple strudel. After the feast we proceeded and watched the live bands made up of. construction workers and scientists perform for four hours, which led us to stumbling around and trying to find our rooms again. Continued Page B3 EDMONTON’ s Plaid Tongued Devils bring their Joud, eclectic sound to the Northern Motor Inn tomorrow night for one show only. . TRUDIE LEE PHOTO Music lovers: expect a devilishly good time By DUSTIN QUEZADA , THE PLAID Tongued Devils hail from Calgary, but don’t expect cowboy hats and line dancing when they play Terrace tomorrow night for the first-time. “We're pretty high energy, * says Alan Kolodziejzyk, guitarist and singer for the, Alberta fivesome. “Generally people like to dance and |we’re told people like to drink a lot at our shows, too.”? ; Together for 14 years, the Plaid Tongued Devils has-toured extensively in Canada and Europe; playing festivals and clubs. _ Booked for the Edge of the World. -Music Festival on the Queen Charlotte Islands for the second weekend in July, the band decided to play some shows along the route. Lucky for music lovers who like an in-your-face sound. ~ Described as “Fiddler on the Roof on steroids” in one review, the fiddle i is ever- present in their sound. ; _ Kolodziejzyk says the band is fairly versatile. No kidding. Their music com- prises a wide mix of styles — gypsy, klezmer, . Middle. Eastern, punk, jazz and classical. “We can play crazy rock ‘ n roll and switch to a melodic slower tune,” says Kolodziejzyk, who founded the band with lead singer and songwriter Ty Se- maka. . A live Devils show features two to three sets of music and “pretty much ev- erything we’ve got,” says Kolodziejzyk rock, pop,. of the band’s five-album repertoire. “A lot of people tell us we sound ex- . actly like the record (sounds),” says the guitarist, who adds he doesn’t know: - whether that’s a good ar bad observa- tion. . Rounding out the fivesome is John McNeil on drums and percussion, Jonny Nordstrom on bass an vocals and Jona- than Lewis on'electric violin, mandolin, . farfisa and vocals. ; If you’re counting at home, that’s a _ John, a Jonny and a Jonathan. Interviewed’ over the Kolodziejzyk says he uses a different ac- cent, and tone when addressing his simi- . larly-named mates on stage. Along with accoustic and: electric guitars, Kolodziejzyk plays bass guitar, banjo, didjeridoo, flamenco guitar and - “more. Like their friends, based Painting Daisies who performed here in May, the Devils won. a CBC- sponsored contest. CBC Radio’s show, The Current, polled its listeners nationwide as to what song it to should send George. W. Bush to add to his iPod. Out of hundreds of votes, the Devils’ song, Have An Ice Age, won. For those who come out to the North- | ern Motor Inn: tomorrow, Kolodziejzyk says to bring their dancing shoes and don’t be surprised if a mosh pit material- izes, \ Tickets are $5 at the door only. phone, ° the Edmonton-