The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 26, 1994- B1

TERRACE STANDARD _

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A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

What's Up!

Wednesday, January 26
TERRACE MINOR HOCKEY holds a general
parents mecting at the Happy Gang Centre at 7:30
p.m.

TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE holds an exec-
utive meeting at 7:30 p.m, at 5203 Halliwell.

Thursday, January 27
TERRACE SAILING CLUB holds its Girt

meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the library basement.

ASSOCIATION DES PARENTS IRAN-
COPHONE will hold an information meeting on
French education at the Child Development
Centre at 7:30 p.m. The evening’s topic will be
“How to keep our French culture.””

; Friday, January 28
SPARC (Social Planning and Research Council

of B.C.) holds a public workshop at 9 a.m. at the
Skeena Health Unit auditorium to report the Find-
ings of a recent study of services to ethnic and
visible minorities in Terrace.

Saturday, January 29
BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION clinic takes
place at the Emerson Medical Clinic. Instruction
by quatified. nurses. Call Lita Flynn at 635-6263
of Nel Liewen at 635-7857 for more information
or an appointment,

Monday, January 31
PROJECT LITERACY TERRACE will hold
an information session for people interested in ex-
ploring the option of aduit literacy tutoring for a

three month period. This informational session -

will be held at The Reading Place, 4506 Lakelse
at 7 p.m. For more info call Nal at 635-9119.

‘Tuesday, February 1
TERRACE HOSPICE SOCIETY annual gener-

al meeting Skeena Health Unit auditorium at 7:30
p.m. Everyone welcome.

~ BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT GROUP meets

at 8 p.m. in the hospital education room. For fur-
(her information call Terry al 635-4694,

DIABETIC BASIC CLINIC takes place at Mills
Memorial Hosptial Feb. 1-2. There are also one-
day refresher clinics scheduled for Feb, 22, Mar.
1 and Mar. 29. A doctor’s referral is required.
Contact Dana Hill at 635-2211 loc. 50 or 638-
1956 for more information.

LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY meets at 8
p.m, at the Royal Canadian Legion.

Thursday, February 3
NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT Education
Association holds its monthly meeting at 7:30
p.m. in the St. Matthews Centre. Anyone inter-
ested is welcome to.attend, Call Mary at 635-
6233 for more information.

Friday, February 4 ‘
EATING DISORDER WORKSHOP ‘‘Break-
ing. free — celebrating our body sizes’? takes
place at 7 pm. at the Skeena Health Unit
auditorium.

Saturday, February 5

TERRACE DISTRICT SCIENCE FESTIVAL:

takes place 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caledonia
gym.

Monday, February 7
VISUALLY IMPAIRED Support Group meets
at 7 p.m. in the Skeena Heallh Unit auditorium.
For more information call 635-2750.

BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS annval gener-
al meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Terrace Inn,

* Wednesday, February 9
TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE holds its
monthly general meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the
McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum Si.

MONDAYS
ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the
2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m.
al the Elks Hall. Call-635-5121 for more info.

MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets
the third Monday of cach month in the board
room at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome,

ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTYA = support
group meets at 1 p.m. on the last Monday of the

months at the Terrace Menlal Health Centre. Call .

638-3325 for more info.
THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY has an informa-

tion drop-in the third Monday of each month at

the Happy Gang Centre From 1:30 to 3 p.m.
TUESDAYS

- SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP takes

place the second (1 p.m.) and fourth (7 p.m.)
Tuesdays of the month at the Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre, Call 638-0228 for more info.

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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM: Betty Demmitt holds one of the paper
rolls that go with an old player piano she donated recently to

MUSEUM

THE TERRACE Regional
Museum Society’s latest ac-
quisition is something of a
musical mysiery.

It’s an‘ old ‘player piano’ and > ~

so far nobody seems to know
much about it.

‘We don’t know how it
works, but we do hope to find
out,”* says museum’ society
director Mamie Kerby.-

The piano was donated by
Betty Demmitt, whose hus-
band bought it in the 1970s.

Demmitt donated the player
piano in memory of her hus-
band, Gail Demmitt, who died

Child care planning begins —

WORK HAS started on a
blueprint for child care in Ter-
race, Thornhill and area.

The goal is to draw up an
equivalent to a city’s official
community plan, explains one of

iwo people working on ths pro- .

ject.

“Tt’s not so much as what
should be, but who we plan to do
it —- what will be,” said Gayle
Short of the Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre.

She and Melissa Munn are
working off of a recent survey
which found a need for child care
inthe area, .

That 1993 survey found there
are only 170 licensed spaces (not
including pre-schocl) in the area
compared to a potential need for
3,200 spaces,-OF the latter figure,
1,170 are spaces for pre-school
children.

In particular, the survey dis-
covered a need for before school
and after school care.

_And, there is a big demand for
care for Infants under the age of
two. |

With that in mind, Munn and

Short have set out. three “major —

goals — community participa.
tion, before and after school care
and assembling a handbook on
how to set up.a day care opeta-
tion.

Key to the goals isa ‘sories: of
community mectings followed by .

@ public forum.

“This ls a chance. to get the
involved,” sald
Munn. “This affects if there is a.
day care next door to. you of...

community -

now? |. ;
“There have been a tot of tet:

ters to the editor and this is a

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Piano poses |

three years ago.

“They don’t know it’s history
before that, except that it was
made in Toronto in the carly
1900s. -

Mote than 65 paper rolls of
player piano music came with
it, all dated around 1914; ©

‘We assume the piano is
about the same age,”’ Kerby.
said,

It’s not in the best condition,
but Kerby says it will be a val-
uable addition to the local col-
lection.

“Te was in a garage and
frozen,’’ she said, ‘'Some of

chance to tum that into some-
thing. If you care to write a letter,
you care about an issue,’” she
added:

One possible proposal is estab-
lishing supervised care at schools

before classes start and after .

classes are finished.

There is now money available
from the provincial government,
if the school district makes ap-
plication, for such care,

That would case the problems

’ for parents who start work before

school starts and whose children
are finished school before their,
work day concludes.

“What we want to do is devel-
op some kind of overall plan,
some general guiding princi-

. ples,” said Munn.

“From the comments on the
needs assessment survey, some
people said there were not many
services in Thomhill or in south
Terrace,’’ added Short.

Both acknowledged there is a
network of informal care pro-
vided by grandparents or olher
relatives.

And, Coco Schau, ‘who helps
people set up day care and makes
connections with those who need
day care, suspects there are un-
licensed day cares operating in
the area.

There are . four » community
meetings with the first one taking
place Jan. 31 to cover the Horse-

shoe: and downtown arca. That »

begins at 7 p.m. in ihe basement
of the library.

The second meeting, for bench
and north ‘Terrace residents, tales

“place Feb. 1° at 7 p.m. in the

Uplands Elementary library.
South Terrace residents have

ihe paris are gone, but we'll
use it for a display in our
dance hall.””

‘It was in a garage
and frozen. Some of the
parts are gone, but
we'll use it for a display
in our dance hall.”

‘We're very fortunate we’ve
got even the basics of it,”’

Kerby figures from talking to
oldtimers that there were at
least three player pianos in

muzzle,

the Terrace Regional Museum Soclety. The piano will be on
display at Hertage Park.

‘Terrace carly i in the cei.
Some pioneers have told:
about one that was owned by

Bill Little, another’ ina. local ..

show hall, and that a Mr,
Wentz in Dutch Valley also
had one.

But she said she has no way
of knowing whether the piano
was one of those three.

The paper rolls and the piano
itself seem to bear few clues
as to ownership.
“Tf there’s anyone around _
who knows anything about
player pianos, give us a call,’’

Kerby says.

EKING SOLUTIONS: Mellssa Munn and Gayle Short are

preparing a blueprint for the future of child care in Terrace.

their meeting Feb. 2 at 7 p.m, in
the Cassie Hall library.
The last community meeting,

for Thornhill and area, takes.
place Feb. 3 at’7 pm, in’ the

Thornhill Junlor Secondary oe _Stertor

brary.

The major communlty forum”
takes place in the library base-
ment on Feb. 15, beginning at a
Putt , a

Questions. can bo sadnesacn