=~ Vcomes out, The Terrace Standard offers What's Up as a public service to its‘ readers and community organizations. This column ts intended for non-profit organizations and those events for which there Is no admission charge. : Items will run two weeks before each event, We ask that items be submit- -led-by noon on the FRIDAY ‘before the issue In whlch it Is to ‘appear, - For other contributed articles, the deadline is 5 p.m. on the THURSDAY before the issue Submissions should be typed or printed neatly. DECEMBER 5, 1992 + United Church will be holding their Christmas bazaar on Saturday at 2 -.4 pm. Knox United Church, 4907 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace. Everyone Welcome. 2p3l . oe ees DECEMBER 3, 1992 - Norhtwesters Luge club meeting at Student Body Fitness Centre. NWCC 7 pm. Call Todd 635-6549 -for more information, 2p33 een DECEMBER 5, 1992 + United Church will be holding their Christmas bazaar on Saturday al 2 - 4pm, Knox’ United Church, 4907 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace. Everyone Welcome. 2p31 seeee DECEMBER 6, 1992 - Citizens - OE. Terrace and area are invited to attend the annual Christmas Carol Sing, sponsored by the Terrace Christian. Churches Ministerial Association, to be held at the Pen- tecastal Assembly, 3511 Eby, at 6pm. Enjoy musical praise by choirs and congregational singing of favorite hymns and carols. For info call 635-7725 or 635- 7429. 2P33 ’ seeker DECEMBER 7, 1992 - 7:30 Skeena Parent Advisory meets in the Skeena Secondary School Library. The students council will present their plans for the year. Everyone is welcome to bring questions & concems, Call Wanda 635-2895, a, 2P33 eee DECEMBER 8, 1992:/You are cordially invited to.aliend the reg- ular School Board Meeting School District No. 88 (Terrace) Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. School Board Office Terrace, B.C. 2P33 aeaee DECEMBER 9, 1992 « Wednes- day, 7:30 p.m. Directors Meeting of the Terrace Little Theatre at McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum St. All members welcome, Note that the date in our newsletter is wrong - Dec, 9 is correct date. Call Marianne for info 635-2942 or Gordon 638-1131/638-0996 2P33 eee 8 DECEMBER 16 & 17, 1992 - Wed, & Thurs. GIF7-WRAP fund raiser in the Skeena Mall to sup- port 28th Annual Science Fair. * 2P33 aeeee TERRACE VOLUNTEER BUREAU for Volunteer Opportu- nities to suit your needs & time available. Contact Lovina Tyler at 638-1330. Mon-Fri, 8:30 - 4:30, ; setae EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8- 8:00 pm, Terrace Narcotics Anon- ymous "Steps to Recovery" meets at the Skeena Health Unit audito- rium, eve & EVERY WEDNESDAY - Terrace Ladies Kermodei Lions. Club meets at the Inn of the West. For times and more info contact Doro- thy Bartsoff at 638-8183, . ae EVERY THURSDAY at 7:30pm Overeaters Anonymous at Wom- en’s Resource Centre. Call 635- 6446, . oeeee EVERY WEDNESDAY at 7:00 pm in Sexual Assault Centre. Female Survivors of Sexual Assault/Abuse, Please contact Loreen 635-4042, . Cet EVERY MONDAY Terrace Co- Dependants Anonymous meets from 8-9 pm. Call Karen 638- 0707, sa0e8 EVERY MONDAY at 5pm Teen Survivors of Sexual Assault/Abuse meet in the Skeena Heallh Audito- rium, Bea, 635-4042 or Tonee, 635-4822 (please contact first), Lie VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Terraceview Lodge Pet Visitation Program. Once a month commit. ment needed. Dogs only, For more info call Bonnie at 638-0223,. eee ee VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for “Child Health Clinics’ for Tues- days from 9:30-am - 12 pm and from 1:30 pm - 4 pm. Thursdays 1:30 pm - 4: pm. Duties Include weighing & measuting children. No lifting necessary. For more information call Debra at 638. 3310. WORKIN’ ON THE R ay Club runs track from Smithers to Rupert EN KOLTERMAN points at the blue- and-yellow VIA Rail passenger train. **See the two kids fighting in the dome car? Their parents are in the lounge having a beer — and- they’re just going wild. The grandmother’s supposed to be looking after them, but she’s in the bathroom taking a valium.” The 38-year-old house builder looks up from the tracks, his eyes twinkling, **You have to use your im- agination down here,” he laughs. Down here is the basement of an Agar Ave. daycare centre that ‘the Skeena Valley Model Rail- road Association calls home. It’s a world of dramatic cliffs and loweriug plaster mountains landscaped . with lush = green forests, It very loosely mimics the northwest rail lines from Sinithers to‘Prinee Rupert. Loosely, they say, because the whisilestap of Pacific is a boom- ing metropolis on this layout, eclipsing the handful of buildings and docks that make up Kitimat. The association got started in June of 1989 with an empty base- ment. Since then they’ve slowly built) an ineredibly. detailed landscape and functional railway line. Today the HO-scale layout is a maze of landscaped boards with more than 300 feet of mainline rack laid down, 0 Oe There’s at Irast another 300 feet of track in sidings and. yards. :. And there’s five tunnels and six ~ owner Nereis aero The Terrace Standard, Wednesd UNITY NEWS ol bers who has worked on the detailed set of the Skeena Valley AILRO Model Railroad Association. The club's maze of track and landscape is in the basement of a daycare centre at 5110 Agar. bridges. From the hand-carved bridge trestles, to the clearcut forests, to the bamacles on the Kitinat ‘wharf pilings, the sct shows im- _agination and attention to detail. These are little kids’ toys that have been commandeered by the big boys. ‘The wiring has been the big- gest part of it,"” Kolterman says. “We've got an clectronic slore here, «an clectrical engineer, and au electrician — -and they’ve’managed to keep’ things running.’ He pulls out a control panel and points to the maze. of - circuits wilhin. “Without them, we'd be fost. I don’t even pretend to understand itall.’” As many as six different trains can be operated simultancously, Much work remains to-be com- pleted, however. —_ Kolterman notes that Hazelton and Smithers are completely. un- finished, and the club is only now gelling around to the scenery, sawmill and buildings for the Terrace yard. oo ’ Prince: Rupert: is’ <‘‘the~yard’*~ > ~ and is localed on a scparate level beneath Smithers, ‘'That’s no slight or disrespect though,’’ Koiterman adds. There’s also a ‘crater lake’ in the middle of the board. It’s real- ly a turret that: affords access to the bridges in-case of derailment, Among the Glub’s dozen or so members are old boys like Richard Rinaldi. ‘He was .a.-section foreman for “CN. for:35 years until he retired five years ago. fm Now he remembers the old days “by driving train electronically at 5110-Agar,_. : working on a railroad,’’ he said. Koiterman gol his start at the age of 11. He stopped in his teens “y had to join 186 club'to keep” and didwt pick up the hobby again until afler he married. “Sometimes my wile regrets buying me that second locomo- . tive,’ he laughs. ‘It’s all her fault.” While others. prefer driving trains around, Kolterman gets the greatest enjoyment out of creating _Tealistic-looking scenery. There’s pride in his face as he: surveys the - forbidding-looking cliffs and rock-faces he helped . carve. © And just for a moment you, too, can sec those kids in the VIA Rail dome car. a Are you a ‘Green’ consumer in Terrace? Go through this quick questionnaire and find oul how well you know the three R's, lan Gordon is a member of the Terrace Recycling Advisory Commission. By IAN GORDON IDEALLY, we should cul down on our waste, nol just create systems and industry to deal wilh i. Recycling as an industry requires large volumes of material to be profitable, pulting communilies ‘like Terrace, Kilimat and Prince Rupert at a disadvantage due to our relatively low overall population, and our distance from existing recycling facilities, © The cost of trucking used glass,. paper and cardboard invariably cats up what little profit the recycled product may generate. Bul more on recycling systems later, As consumers we are faced with numerous environ- mental choices every. day. And. though most packag- ing may, have some: sort of recyclable-logo or in-.. - formation on it, the teality of its final resting place: depends on how well informed we are, ~ _... Answer? If you.guessed ‘Recyclable’ did:yo 7 ~ munity’s reeyeling facilities? We all. know that glass TIME TO. LIGHT TREE FOUR-YEAR-OLD Shai-Lee Heit helps decorate the Ter- race Child Develop- ment Centre’s. Christmas Tree of Lights at the Skeena Mall. This holiday season is an opportunity to support the centre by buying a ‘light’. It doesn't cost much and it helps the centre operate its many therapy, sup- port and education programs. * How much waste does the average Terrace household produce each year? (A) 39 Ibs./ 18 kg. (B) 390 Ibs./ 180 kg. (C) 3,900 Ibs./ 1,800 kg. (D) 39,000 Ibs. 180,000 kg. ind or ea Answer: On the average, Canadians (including Terracites) produce the highest. volume of garbage per capita in the world. Our present ability to dump in landfills at low cost in the Terrace/Thornhill -arca “makes. it difficult to convince business and. local: governments that recycling is more than just a°‘cost per tonne’ issuc. (C) 3,900 Ibs/ 1,800 kg. | * The package label that best indicates that a pro- duct benefits the environmentis;s = ‘(A) Ozone-sale. Loe (B) Biodegradable. (C} Recyclable, (D) None of the above. sider’ Whether. it applies “at: all to our loca green do you think you are? is easily recycled, and with little energy can be turned - back into new glass, But is there any glass recycling in Terrace, Prince Rupert or Kitimat? No. (D) None _ of the above. “e Paper grocery bags are environmentally preferable to plastic because: _ (A) They’re recyclable. (B) They’ re biodegradable. (C) They’re made from a rencwahle resource. (D) None of the above. Answer: With present conditions, paper grocery ‘bags have no environmental advantage over plastic. The present landfill system is not designed lo allow iheir contents, including paper, to biodegrade as land- - fills are dry and airless, Again, both paper arid plastic ‘bags: claim to be recyclable, but only as far as the facililies exist 10 recycle them. It’s true that paper “bags are made [tom a renewable resource, but that is ~~ an- economic argument, not an environmental one. “The. best choice is to. re-use. your. bags, .whatever “they're made of. D None of the above. ree