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of the downtown core.

NATIONAL ACCESS AWARENESS WEEK. In order to assess the accessibility of various areas
of the City, local alderman David Hull (right) and friends gathered at

City Hall for a wheelchair tour .

HOWDOYOUDO DAY.
CELEBRATED with
cutting by Miss Terrace Lisa
Lagace (right), 1st princess
Suzanne Banville and visitors
Patrick and Bunty Wright.

-Howdoyoudo
Day |
celebrated

by Harriet Fjaagesund

The official opening of the tour-
ist season with Howdoyoudo Day
was held last Saturday at the
Chamber of Commerce Infocentre.
-On hand for the ribbon-cutting
ceremony to mark the occasion

- Mrs. Wright, visiting Canada for
. the first time, loved it, thought the

- gcenery’. spectacular. and found

“ Canadians very friendly. ,
Lara Roldo ‘at.the:.Travel Info-. -
‘centre said tourism figures are |

ribbon- if

FOR SALE
Plastic Flowers
for Weddings or

other Special

— ” Occasions.

A variety of colours

are available.
Bag of 50 Flowers - $10 each
Large Hearts - $30 each

PLEASE CALL DONNA OR RUTH IN
THE ACTIVITY CENTRE,
TERRACEVIEW LODGE, 638-0223.

: were Miss Terrace Lisa Lagace, he a School District #88
First Pri S ‘Banville .

and pattick end Bunty Wright aes (Terrace)

‘from Aberdeen, Scotland. Mr. and N OT ICE

Beginning in May and ending
in October, 1990, grass fer-

-Terrace Review — Wednesday, ‘June 20, 1990 AS5

7{ National Awarene

wheelchair tour

by Harriet Fjaagesund

National Access Awareness
Week, June 10 - 16, was topped
off in Terrace by a wheelchair tour
on June 14th. Organized by
regional rehabilitation officer
Marie Hildebrandt, several inter-
ested persons participated in the
tour.

Alderman David Hull, director of
engineering for the City of Terrace
Stew Christensen, adult special
education co-ordinator Elizabeth
Snyder, college students Pam
Savard, Catherine Bolton, Brad
Ruchatze, Clarice DeAmaral and
Corey Swan, who acted as assis-
tant to Hildebrandt for the tour.

The purpose of the tour was to
assess the accessibility of various
areas of the city - crosswalks,
sidewalks, ramps and building
entrances - to wheelchairs.

Starting from City Hall, in two
groups, they visited the Court

House, Post - Office, Employment. —

Centre, Credit Union, Terrace
Public library and random stores in
the Skeena Mall and McDonalds.
When asked later, Stew Chris-
tensen said he how has a much
greater awareness of the needs and

concems of disabled persons and

paraplegics. "I have alot of upper

body strength, but just trying to .

manoeuvre my wheelchair over
something simple like the thre-
shold of a door presented a prob-
lem." He added that some areas of
Terrace that appear to have good
wheelchair access do not, AND
that he will be looking into the
problem. |

David Hull said he
believed in a thousand years it
could be so difficult to propel a
wheelchair, and that there must be

more careful planning in the con-.

struction of buildings, entrances,
sidewalks and crosswalks.

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GRADE 10 THORNHILL JR. SECONDARY student Harold
Fedderson is the happy winner of the Terrace Review's recent

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