TERRACE

— What some
people might discard, the Terrace
Regional Historical Socicty
treasurcs.

Tt's got an old safe, found in the
bush with the battom blown out.

Repaired and used by a person
before being donated to the
society, it's been the subject of
any number of stories.

. .! There are a.lot of people wha

‘think. they) know what hap-
‘pened,’ says Mamic Kerby, pres-
ident of the society which runs
Heritage Park adjacent to Ter-
raceview Lodge. °

Hardly a week goes by without
‘somebody showing up with a box
or an item dating back years, says
Kerby.

Although. the society con-
centrates on items prior to 1950,
itll take donations past that year
if they are significant to the area.
or have a unique historical value.

"We have thousands of items,’’
says Sheila Sandover-Sly, hired
as the socicty’s archivist.

We just get all kinds of bits
and pieces of things. Each one is
catalogued,”’ she said.

The society has been the benefi-
clary this past. summer of a
healthy batch of donations.

Tour and Jenny Hart, son and
daughter-in-law of pioncer setiler
Joe Hart who came here in 1919,
donated a large number of items,
including an old and still working
wood stove.

Joe Hart developed two farms
in the area, on the south and north
ends of Kalum Lake.

Kerby’s particularly happy with
the Hart donations because Joc
Hart buill the linesman cabin that
forms part of the building ex-
hibits at Heritage Park.

“He left the area and came
back some years latcr very well
off. He helped all those people
who were so nice fo him before. .
We think he broke his leg,’’ said
Kerby.

“He bought up all of their
places so they could be well off
— their furniture and everything
when they went into old folks
homes,” she added.

Included in the donations this
year is a gramophone that ouce
belanged to another settler, Bill

1

Trestoniieesree _ (etOry

There is a collection of records:
with |
works just fine.

The old =Tomacek place at
Kalim Lake, though vandalized,
yiclded boxes of shect-music and
books on sewing and crochet.

Some people inay regard a mu-
scum as a place of storage for old
times, “but not Sandover-Sly and
‘Kerby, °

A. local musician, for instance, ©
‘was. found. copying portions ‘of

he sheet music mentioned above... |

«Acdress: with a separate collar

“dating back to the 1920s or 1930s —

- proved a drawing card for peaple
~who'sew: so they could examine
ew it was constructed.
- ‘Bach item says

Death of

“AS a dream dies, along with a
town,

“Stores and schools are all
closed down,

‘All the homes are being torn
apart, “
“Along: “with the
; dreams, they depart,

“The waters still run, the sky
‘is so blue, .

2 ‘No children are playing,

. The people already knew,

: The atmosphere is so very

7 sd,
The dreams of the people all

- pbite bad, | :

"A brand. new'school with no
children i init, ;

SA's “really “a shame — our
os government did it,

“Sixty million they did spond,
Te no avail-until the end,”
~The playground park is so

very, emply,
There’ used ‘to be dogs and

something

people’s

istory pres

it and° the gramophone

'T'S HAND OPERATED and dates back to the turn of the century and the , bullaing ‘of the Dominion

Telegraph. This telephone
Sandover-Sly family and ifs

about our own life and character-
istics,’ said Kerby. ‘Thal. they
come fram local. families is his-
aahow. aitzwaszused: ‘anidwhor
used it here,"

Being prepared by the socicty is
a slide and tape show of the con-
struction of CN bridges between
Terrace and Kitimat in: the e early
1950s.

Those slides were given to the
sociely this. summer by the CN
resident engineer - here in those

’ days.

His. commentary: was taped as
the slides were being shaw so it

could be played later on.

Taping is a new concept to the
society but one ‘Kerby and

‘Sandover-Sly regard as impor-

tant.

The socicty ‘also collects

arlifacts not from Terrace and

arca,

Cassliar

children plenty,

Soon the people will all
move away,

IV bea depressing day,

The hunting and fishing they
will miss, :

‘The wiulers | sure weren't
heavenly-bliss,...,

The skiing, the tennis, ils al]
gone,

It’s sure ashame what our
_ governinent has done;
The people. will start over in

a fown so new

Someure moving to Terrace,
loo!

- Let's: wish them all the hest
of fuck,

Aud. the very. best wishes
toa!

For Cassia, the people will
remember you, tou!

Author? ‘Ss nanie withheld by
reqs

set is on loan to the Terrace Regional Museum Society by the
being demonstrated by museum guide Lara Tessaro, The item i is one
of many to make an appearance t

his year at the society's Heritage Park site.

saeeey?

RECENT DONATION to the Terrace Regional Museum Society
is this wood stove. That's society archivist Sheila Sandover-Sly
with the donation. It comes from the Hart family. Tom Hart arrived
in the area in 1919, developing two farms, One was on the south
end and the other on the north end of Kalum Lake. A good num--
ber of donations this year have added to the society's collection
of local and other historical artifacts.

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“LETTERS,

TO THE TERRACE STANDARD

> achieve their own priorities.

- destres

- in the Sept. 16 issue of The

Review the deal
before you vote

Dear Sir:

Ever since Mr. Mulroney" 8
failure at Mecch Lake, his per-
sonal agenda and. prideful .
aspirations have been to bring — provinces elect representatives, .
a final constitutional package In addition, Quebec retains
home so that he will-be kuown-25 per cent of the scats.in the
as the Prime , Minister, who House of Commons forever. Is
unified Canada, that representation by popula-

Nothing else has mattered to “tion and/or equality for all Ca-

and then have to-bow to Mr.
Bourassa’s demands for an in-
effective senate, where Quebec
gets to appoint and all other

Mr. Mulroney. Not the dismal ~nadins?’
state of the Canadian econo- We-alsd get the inclusion of -
my; not the failure of the GST... ‘‘nalive © self-government”’

to lower the Canadian deficit;
not the loss of GNP. and jobs
attributable to the U.S: Free
Trade Agreement; © not the-
divisive social policies imple-—
mnented against the moral ma-
jority will of the common Ca-
nadian citizen; nat. the legacy :
of conservative patronage. >
Nothing has mattered except
Mr. Mulroney’s own self?
serving agenda driven by his
personal desires and political

without a clear definition of
what that means.
We. do ‘get /a- national:
referendum © (that isn't bind-
ing), but on what? The word-
ing of the question.to be
“based. on the agreement
reached on Aug. 28, 1992"”,

So what is the agreement? It
is still’ being discussed. and -
drafted. Wha knows what is
going to be in it, or how ayes
or no vote will be interpreted.

goals, “AML of this is very important,
Lock at the Canada Round and 1 don’t have enough faith
Process —~: supposedly,. cross . in the present group of elected

Canada meetings to determine
the will and wants of the Cana-
dian public.

Jnstead, the meetings _ are
stacked with hand picked rep-
resentatives of special interest
groups ready to sell out on.
same options in order to

officials to give Uiem a carte
blanche to go ahead with this
deal without: secing the fin-
ished praduct first.

I implore all Canadians to
closely review all that has and
is happening in this- constitu-

“tional deal. Learw about it and
make an informed decision on
October 26, 1992;

The result of this whole pro-
cess is loo important | to the fu-
ture of Canada to vote yes just
because you are tired of hear-
ing abut the constitution and
want the thing 10 “end.

If there is any ‘doubt in your .
mind. abut the Constitutional
process, . lhe’ special * stats
given to same peoples, the

- final deal or the question itself,
then your vole has to be NO.
And if your answer is no -

make sure that you vote and-
send that clear message to all
our elected officials, The. time,
tional comments and highlight ~ has came to get involved and
the hidden agenda... end the.running of this country,
Look al” the. crésull-s Nie py thie Veal Ahi! wWito!
provincial-premiers ands. Mrs. showupogbn elo
Mulroney agreeing on a pack- °°. <: Greg. Cowman
age only to take it to Quebec Terrace, B.C.

Shopping plan
affects workers

Dear Sir: 1, fee! this is a rather myopic ©
Tread with interest the article viewpoint,

I feel the article focused sale-
ly on the monetary aspects of
the issue. What about the ef-
fect of this issue on the per-
sonal lives of. those thal arc

Nothing has. mattered
except Mr. Mulroney’s
own self serving agenda
driven by his personal.
and political
goals.

Mecling facilitators steering
comments and summations
toward . a.” previously
determined end,’ and mecting
reports that totally ignore ra-

Terrace Standard regarding
shopping on statutory holidays.

The article stated that ‘the
majority of both local and out-

oftown = shoppers wanted forced, duc: to being’ ‘employed
stares to be open’? on Good in the. retail sector, to work
Friday. these holidays? : .

It also. stated thal’ being I work in wholesale so [get

closed that day cost-the four the weekends: off as. well as

major ontlets.-an estimated. statutory holidays. This is
$200,000 in-sales, according to something -T:-look forward to
Safeway manager Eric and feel forlunate to. have,

Johanson. Johanson also stated
that stares closing resulted ina
loss of $88,000 from cut-ol-
lown shoppers.

The article went on to say
that if we waul to be a regional
center we had better recognize
the potential of these lost sales
and the potential for attracting
new business with open shop-
ping on statutory hatidays. :

While I recognize that much
of what was stated in the arli-
cle may be relevant in these

recessionary lines and that we — holidays are left to these indi-
would all like to maximize ap-

portunities for increased sales, Cont'd Page A11

About the letters

Letters are subject to editing
for reasons of length and for
good taste. Unsigned leiters
are thrown away.

(Yes, Tam. guilty of shopping
on Sundays and. nights | oc-
-caslonally but T would willing-
ly give this up since I don’t
really think it is a necessity.)

There are. others, though,
who work invretail and are
forced to work Saturdays and
alternate Sundays and have al-
ready been forced into working
cerlain holidays.

Now the four major chains
‘are leading the movement to
take away what few remaining

| The Terrace Standard wel-
comes letters to the editor. We
ask that they he signed and a
phone number be incteded.

oe bey

“

“The Start is for people
learning how to read,

The man in the picture
is Mark Hawse.

He works for the recy-
cling depot. ;
~ The depot has a prob-

cans or bottles... 2.

magazines.” .

fora good price, =
The depot will. only take:

Please, no |

lem. It will not,take tin:
Tt will: not take. glossy

It cannot. sell the items
the dump.:

ver eapers an
cardboard. Jt will eg:
take while paper,
It can stili sell those for.
money. . .
The. depot is behind
Kondola’s Furniture. on
the hi ghway.
The: more’ you, recycle,
the Jess’ garbage Goes in

You should: help out.-

Hearing

A new kind of traffic
light is coming.

It will make a sound.

This is for people who
can not hear.

It will. let them know
when it is safe to cross
the street.) °- >

The light. will p01 in on
Lakelse Ave near the'n new
Safeway store, ;

This will happen soon.

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