The. Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 9, 1995 - B1-

“TERRACE STANDARD.

SECTION B

INSIDE a D
COMMUNITY CRIS: LEYKAUF
EVENTS B2 638-7283

OVER 4,000 flowers.
That's what it took to

win this year's Ter-
race Beautification
Society's garden con-
test. And that’s not
even counting the
perennials.

Kay. .and George Hagen, of
3213 Kofoed Drive in Thornhill,
spent 28 years transforming their .
three acre yard into a stunning
landscape, overflowing ©. with
colours and scents. ;

Lush, - sculpted lawn, curved
borders of every imaginable
shade .of pink and purple, {|
highlighted by dusky. blues, -yel-. . [
low miarigolds and rose bushes
heavy with deep red blooms over-
-whelmed this year’s judges..

“The total overall effect is just
incredible,” says Judy Chafin.
She and “her husband Howard.
helped judged this year’s contest,
after winning. the mobile home
‘division the past three years.

The two other judges were
Erika Langer, of. the .Northwest

_FAE RATES SOS

Never again
, never thought our hast ‘good-bye
_ would be forever. . .

But that’s what happens ina war.

The lyrics quoted above are from

- “NEVER AGAIN!” — the theme song fora .
. Video series of the same name, produced by The
‘War Amputees of Canada.

It’s a remarkable series that tells, firsthand, of
the horrors and heartache of war remembered.
In the hearts and minds of those old soldiers, it
happened only yesterday.
’ This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of

RESIDENTIAL WINNERS from the Terrace Beautification Soclety's garden contest, stand In front.”
of one small corner of thelr garden. That's judge Judy Chafin on the left, with winner Kay and

the end of the Second World War. It would be
years of peace, But it doesn’t

Officer, has a desire to outlaw war forever.
“War is a terrible, dehumanizing experience
“and we should do everything in our power to
~~ prevent it,’ he wrote in a letter to me recently.
oe Mn Chadderton knows firsthand the hoirors
o£ war. He lost his right leg during the Second
World War,
_ The: War ‘Amps. began the “NEVER
AGAIN!” program, Mr. Chadderton explained
in his letter, ‘when we realized that the youth
"of today were receiving.a inixed message about
war. Unrealistic: Hollywood films, such -as

glorious and exciting, ‘We felt it was extremely
_. important to" get our message’ of ‘war across
* while our ‘members:were still around to do so,’"-
For so’ many of us today, the Second World
‘War -is not something we personally experi-
enced. We know about it through stories told to
us by others. Or, as Mr. Chadderton suggests,
we watch the glorified fiction from Hollywood.

Over 42,000 Canadian service
men and women died in a foreign
land, “beneath a foreign sky” dur-
ing the Second World War.

And because it was so long ago, the veterans
we see on Remembrance Day cach year are
more often our grandparents and great
grandparents, For the young, it seems as if that
war was fought by old peaple.

Yet, those who fought, who died, who
sacrificed, suffered and carried on, were so
very, very young themselves.

‘War is not heroics nor is it pride,” the song
oes,
s What was the cost in blood? Over 42,000 Ca-
nadian service men and women died in a for-
eign land, ‘beneath a foreign sky’? during the
_ Second World War. Over 42,000 of over one
tnillion who performed full-time duty in the
Royal Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Air
Force, and the Royal Canadian Navy gave the
ultimate sacrifice — their lives.
. Statistics we don’t read or hear about are the
effects, and the after-effects (that can linger
throughout a lifetime) of having gone through a
war.

**Some come home with minds and bodies in
pain. Where's the glory?”’ the song asks,

Since the First World War, according to their
Service Bureau records, 4,000 war amputees
have registered with The War Amps.

‘Broken bodies. Broken minds. Broken spirit.

"When it comes to dying for your country,
It’s better not to die at all.”

So said a war-weary young: trench soldicr dur-
ing ‘the First World War, in a more realistic Hol-

- Jywood war film called Ail Quiet on the West-
ern Front, Mit doesn’t matter what number you
ive it, war is war and just as deadly.)

“There is oie scene in this film, where the
young soldier is in a wet and mucky shell hole,
alone, except for an enemy soldier whom he has
just killed,

**You see,” he explains to the dead body near
him, ‘‘when you jumped in here, you were my
enemy — and I was afrald of you. But you’re
just a man like me, and I killed you, ., Oh, God!
Why did they do this to us? We only wanted to
live, you and J, Why should they send us out to

You'll have to forgive me. . .

Never again! Never again[?!
Outlaw war forever: I wish we knew how.

nice if it also marked the beginning of fifty .
H.C. Chadderton, War Amps Chief Executive

“Rambo, were:- depicting. war as ‘something -

- fight each other? If they threw away these ries
-and these uniforms, you could be my brother. ne

‘Never: again take anns- against a brother.
Never again take a Ilfe without knowing why. + ey

Real Estate Board, and Joyce
Findlay, representing’ the public.
Alison Johansen helped organize
the event. ©

The Hagen’s garden extends
froma large front yard, curves
around the side of the house, en-

compasses a large vegetable gar-

den ‘and greenhouse, and. spills
over ita’ a rock garden full of
spring blooming perennials. :

Inctedibly, the couple started
most of the flowers from seed, as
early 3 as January.

“We had them in about N-
flats, imder fluorescent light, kept:
warm with wood beat,’ says.
“Then” ‘Kay

George Hagen,
would transplant them into Pots
or baskets of six.??) 2."

The flats averaged 72 plants

_ each, and even though they gave

George Hagen on the right. Kay is holding her family’ s next generation of gardeners, her grandson ce

Brendon.

some away, y, Kay ‘estimates, thoy
probably planted over 4,000

' flowers this spring.

“We originally started small,”’
says Kay, “And every year we

.. tried ta improve something... I

" guess we just got carried away,’ ”
she laughs... “>

«She's already started ordering
“seeds for next year, :

think it might be hard. to pick a
favourite, but’ Kay. docsn’t
‘hesitate? Lewisia’?: = a~peren-
nial with rosy pink flowers rising:
above a thick, glossy-leaved base.
is the plant she admires‘ imost, for:
-it’s unusual foliage: ©":

‘Other winners from the ninth

ABOVE LEFT: Terrace’s Junior Wolverine Patrol didn’t really end up behind bars during the

jamboree — the jail was just part of the frontier centre. ABOVE RIGHT: Jessie Bone, Justin —
Johnstone and Matt Smith are muddy, but ready for the next part of the obstacle course. BE-
LOW: No, that’s not Tarzan, that’s Patrick Stewart. Photos and Story by Eric Harkonen pe

Fun and games at jamboree

OBSTACLE courses, water. -

wheels, hikes, canoe trips — the.’
B.C. and Yukon scouting jam- .
boree was a week of non-stop aCe
7 Washington ‘slate,
‘Northern Island. and- the ‘French
scouts: of Canada, ‘The - Terrace:
troop had a.chance to meet with
many of these scouts during a
‘friendship ‘ game. held after the the: :
é ~ eoitipldted he requlted

tivily for Terrace scouts.

Fifteen scouts and three jeaders
from Tertace and Thornhill. took
part in the seventh annual jam-
boree, held at West Lake, near
Prince George, July 15-21.- >

The jamboree attracted over

1,700 scouts, 467 leaders and 636:
service staff. -The-theme for this.
year’s camp was the frontier. ~~

In order to prepare: for.the mas-
sive camp,’ the Terrace: ‘scouts

held pre-camps, leartiing -to: work

together as a Bru, They:

With: all: those flowers you'd” -:

» wide: Variety : of: activities:

annual garden contest have also:

put inipressive time and. effort
into their yards, ;

Cypress, were -' given “a

‘honourable mention by the judges’

for a yard: that showed good | ime.

| agination, It. -was. ‘very. well -

trimmed and landscaped,” ” SAYS
Chafin. a ; :
~ Sue Ferretti, ¥12 5016 Park,

“wort top’ honours. ‘in. the mobile

‘home category. Honourable: men-

first place. Skee -
The. BC. “Building "Gorpees

’ tion's landscaping . “job_ at ‘their.
Karen and Al Reid,” of. 2062. new. build the: : :

And | Tinally, in, “the aaah
‘category, the: Terrace" Jee and: Ts

‘Poitier

“tion went td “Ken and’! Phyllis aa

Torgalson, . HO at ‘Timberland.
Trailer Park... 7

‘In the: multi-dwelling ' cateyéiy,”

the beautifully landscaped gar-

dens at Twin River Estates took

Opening ceremonies at the: jam-

boree were held on July 16 and
attracted... scouting . troops’ ‘and:
* froia around the world, including: “..°
Australia,’ ”

openitg ceremonies,’

-Throughout the rest of the week "

the scouts were kept busy with a

7 ‘tour, rae

"gave them a. unig way. to.
-and triake new friends with s
from all over the Brave:

weatherginne.”
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‘gardeners’ to sla
next year,

the. younger patrol, while ::the
older s scouts went On 8 “mystery”

for the environment. Canada’ crest,
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~ The }ndges ae everyone for: ..~
; _ their - entries, .a