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This is the event that put downtown Terrace and the surrounding area in
darkness for about an hour Jan. 23 — a student at Caledonia school

missed the turn Into the parking lot and hit a power pole. Hydro crews

were an active group of people over the following weekend when a winter
storm caused numerous power outages throughout the region.

February facts: events in history .

Compiled by Tom Taggart

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Death of U.S. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, European military administrator (1972).

U.S. detonates the first hydrogen bomb (1954).
Mathematician/ philosopher Bertrand Russell takes a rest at age 97 (1970).
GROUNDHOG DAY/USA (weather forecasting by divination).

Birth of Horace Greeley (1811), journalist, editor, historian, politician.
Coup d’etat in Paraguay turns out 35-year Stroessner regime (1989).
Death of the geographer, Gilbert H. Grosvenor (1966), and poet Louise Bogan (1970).
Birth and death, resp., of violinist Ole Bull (181) and poet Marianne Moore (1972).
Zurich: Cabaret Voltaire opens for business (1916), dada lives. 7
Mother of Ronald Reagan has a bad day (1911), passes it on.

Birth of the authors, Thomas More (1478) and Charles Dickens (1832).

Daybreak in Grenada: the ‘New Jewel Movement’ assumes command (1979).

Sophie Tucker aka “Last of the Red Hot Mamas’ exits stage left (1966).

FULL MOON; 1990.

Asterisk: Famed midget Tom Thumb (2711’’) marries Lavina Warren (2’8”’) (1862).
France’s fast ocean liner ‘Normandie’ capsizes at New York (1942).

Death of the Russians, Sergei Eisenstein (1948) and Yuro Andropov (Feb. 9, 1984).
Gander: Canadian radar tracks UFO at 1800 mph over Atlantic Ocean (1951).

1809: Evolutionist Charles Darwin and american president Abraham Lincoln actualize.

TERRACE BID TO HOST
ARTS FESTIVAL REJECTED |

"’““errace’s bid to host the 1992

B.C. Festival of the Arts has
been declined, according to a let-
ter from festival chairman
Cherie Thiessen directed to Ter-
race: city council. Instead,
Thiessen says that North Van-
couver will host the 1991 festival
and in 1992 it will move to the
Okanagan city of Vernon.

“In coming to a decision
many factors were looked at,’’
writes Thiessen. ‘‘Regional

balance, delegate travel ex-
penses, accommodation and
venue difficulties and a host of
other considerations.’? She did
offer some hope for the future,
though. “We would like to keep
your bid active and retain it until
such time as bids are accepted

for the 1993, 1994 and 1995

festivals,’’ she says. She adds
that the Terrace application can
be updated and revised prior to
the time of selection,

First automobile fatality: Henry Lindfield crashes his electric Imperial (1898).
U.S. troops land in Hawaii on pretext of protecting the King (1874).

Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone (1876).

SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY.

Death of Vito Don Vitone Genovese, American Mafioso entrepreneur (1969).
Astronomer/physicist Galileo begins looking around (1564). .
Havana: Mysterious explosion of U.S. ship ‘Maine’ incites war fever (1898).
Death of the journalist, Edgar Snow, friend of China (1972).

The ‘Red Brigade’ rubs out NATO’s General Hunt (1984).

Heliocentricist advocate Giordano Bruno burnt at the stake (1600).

Paramilitary killing of Albert Johnson aka the ‘Mad Trapper of Rat River’ (1932).
Global circumnavigator aviatrix Joan Smith flames out at Big Pine, Calif. (1965).

Terrace and District
Victims Assistance Program

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

TVAP is presently accepting applications from
people interested in becoming VICTIMS SERVICE
WORKERS. _ |

Successful applicants will receive 30-40 hours of
training and must be R.C.M.P. Security Screened.

VICTIMS SERVICE WORKERS will deal directly

(EVENT OF THE MONTH: World Teacher Krishnamurti assimilates to the Light/1986))).
Birth of Andre Breton (1896), dadaist/surrealist. |
Killer avalanche wipes out Leduc minesite near Stewart, B.C. (1965).

Poland: The astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus begins looking around (1473). ~. .

Soviet forces repel invasion by Brits, Yanks, Japs and lesser capitalists (1919).

Nixon in China (1972); Reagan in Grenada (1986).

Wales: The first steam locomotive hits the rails (1804).

‘Rhodesia: Birth of the Zimbabwean statesman, Robert Mugabe (1924).

Assassinations of Augusto Cesar Sandino (1934), and Malcolm X (1965). -

Legendary ‘Klondike Kate’ Rockwell passes on at age 76 (1957).

Manassas, Virginia: CIA rubs out citizen Larry Chin (1986). ° .

Birth of George Washington, first Masonic President of the U.S. (1732).

Birth and death, resp., of the poet, James Lowell (1819) and artist Andy Warhol (1987).
Death of Tommy Douglas, foremost NDP legislator for Canadians (1986).

Death of ‘Peyton Place’ author, Metalious (1964) and ‘New Masses’ editor Rorty (1973).
Birth of the poet H.W. Longfellow (1807), and librarian H.R, Huntington (1850).
Second battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. goes to 300 Ogalala Sioux. warriors (1973)."

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® acting as a liaison person between the Courts,
Police, Social Agencies and the Victim.

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Interested persons should contact the TVAP Co-
ordinator, Karen Walker at 638-0333 or can pick
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