Your Christmas ‘donation guide | Christmas is. known as a ‘time for giving and a number of local organizations and_ businesses have organized campaigns for. those less for- tunate. . tkhkkhk The. Salvation Army. ex- - pects to deliver approximate- - ly 400 Christmas hampers, _ an increase of 100 over last year, says Lieutenant Mike : ‘Hoeft. . Hoeft estimated ‘that each a hamper, depending on size of family, will average $70 for a ’ Christmas‘and other meals.” Donatioris of money, ‘cans ’-Monies’ collected: fromi the : Army’ s Kettle campaign also go to year round local relief. efforts. The deadline: for - hamper : applications i is Dec. 14. Ap- ‘proximately 200 were filed late last week. kkekekk The Golden Rule Society distributes goody bags of food on Christmas Eve, They’re for the “people who fall through the cracks,’’ says organizer Juanita Hatton who expects 200 deliveries in this, her . 22nd year of running the pro- gram: ‘She’s selling tickets in the Skeena Mall for three dif- ferent raffles with a draw date of Dec. 21. Donations can also be made to the Golden Rule Christmas Goody Bag account at the Royal Bank, kkkkkk . Fhe Terrace Child Development Centre pro- vides services for children with learning disabilities. It raises 30 per cent of what it needs locally. One way is through its an- nual Tree of Lights campaign -_ -~takes place tomorrow at 4d: 30: ’ somebody. else. . ‘the lobby of its building. _. handled. by the Salvation Ar- ned and ‘dry foods can’ be ny for its hampér ‘program 7 dropped off at the Salvation’.,: Aimy office, located beside : its. thrift store at. 4438 ‘Lakelse, in the afternoons. - The phone number is . 635-4368. .- for senior citizens.-Gift sug- tion Army hamper program. ; tached to the tree: whereby donations-of $2 to $50 are recognized by col- oured, lights on the tree.’ ' The tree went up in the Skeena Mail last week and its. official. lighting ceremony p.m. . Donations can be made i in your name or on behalf ‘of kekkkk . _ Skeena Broadcasters ‘is: ones. again accepting gifts under its Christmas tree in Gift. distribution is being and for the transition house and group homes run by the Ksan House Society. _ This year, organizers hape for more gifts for teens and gestions can be picked up at the front desk or can be view- edon Channel 10. ~ Residents are asked to br- ‘ing gifts in as soon as possi- ble. They needn’t be wrap- _ ped but if they are, a tag in- dicating the sex and age of the person for whom it is in- tended is appreciated. wk kkk k The Terrace and District: Credit Union is also accep- ting monetary and canned food donations for the Salva- They can be dropped off at the credit union, on Lazelle Ave., during its regular : business hours, kkk kkk . KMart in the Skeena Mall has a needy children’s Christmas tree containing tags on which are listed a child’s first mame, sex, age and clothing size, . Pluck a tag; -buy a gift at any location and bring §it, wrapped, for registration to. the store by Dec..15. The names of the children were acquired from local ser- vice organizations. As of last week, 60 names had been at- Friday, Dec. 14 Record. downe pour ot "TERRACE — Last week's record downpour flooded. area homes and partiatly washed.out’. ‘roads throughout the region. The more than 100mm of rain. '. brought a torrent of runoff “water down from the mountains . after more than three feet of snow. blanketed. the region ‘eartier i in the. week. a By Friday, Terrace Provincial Emergency Program coor- - . dinator Ray Tank said his office was swamped with calls from tural homeowners experiencing minor flooding. ‘Fank said five families were evacuated from their houses at ‘Copper River Estates on Friday ’ and were moved to local motels. ‘The Provincial Emergency | Program's - lacal office also” issued . several flooding ad- visories. and offered residents © assistance in evacuating and sandbagging homes. Tank said the waters were felts ® At Lakelse Lake, where a submerged First Avenue was closed to traffic when it partly washed out Friday. Lakeshore ~ residents eyed the water level as it crept to within inches of some permanent homes, and flooded - some summer cabins. - | -* At Water Lily Bay, where travel.along Hwy37 to Kitimat was reduced to when one lane of _ the highway was eroded, Water was covering the highway at Williams Creek. At several loca- tions along Hwy37 road shoulders were washed out. . * At Old Lakelse Lake road, where part of the road washed out, reducing travel to one Jane. * At Beam Station Road, near the airport, where rushing water submerged and washed out the road Friday, making it impassable. until repairs were made. * At the Nass Valley native village of Greenville, which was cut off from the rest of the valley by flooding and a slide. * On Kalum Lake drive, where one house was flooded by inadequate ground drainage. , The road also was covered with. _. Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 12, 1990 — Page A3. ‘loods swamp homes, roads age. Sober warning - STAYING ALIVE: Ambulance attendants perform a first aid demonstration on Grade 9 student Clint Hartman at Thornhill Junior Secondary School at lunch Friday. Shocked students watched as Hartman was loaded into an ambulance and whisked away. It was all part of the kick off of the Christmas Counterattack to promote. awa reness of the hazards of drinking and driving at an early. ed at the slide area at Mile 17. It was closed Friday night as - North Coast Road Maintenance Lid. crews made repairs. — District highways manager John Newhouse said crews were faced with a ‘major problem” on the weekend as a raging Kitimat River threatened to spill over its banks and erode con- siderable stretches of the Hwy37 . south of the Kitimat River bridge, ‘flood waters and partially erod:: aw 3e'Newhouse said workers ‘were Open till 11:00 p.m. _\ALL.DAY SUPER SPECIALS: ) ULTRAWAVE also cleaning up after an avalan- che Friday on the Shames mountain road. He said the snow compound- ed the problems of the high rainfall, plugging culverts and drainage ditches and adding to the sunoff from.the mountains. ' Friday’s deluge meant a fran- tic end to a week that already had seen crews scrambling to clear at least two avalanches on Hwyl6 between here and Prince ‘Rupert,.and one east of. town...) ‘due to last Monday’ 8 's snowfalh; ah "A Also closed-‘at. times was Hwy37 leading north of Meziadin and Hwy37 leading into Stewart. Weather services specialist Harry Earle said 111.6mm of: - rain fell Friday, breaking the one-day rainfall record for December. , it also gave Terrace in one day well over the 90.9mm, on average, the area. usually receives in the entire month of December, pate OSTESS POTATO CHIPS 200 9g bag | GHRISTMAS Gt 275 per akg. R 2./99° SAVE 80% CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAP 8 Roll Pkg. Y PRICE Reg. $7.99 — Sale g pm - 9 pm ALL WINTER ALL SIZES 40% ASSORTMENT PING PONG TABLE Fogea with Casters Chooss from many items! 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