-: rolling rivers, .
-stretch out in shimmering beau-
“ty; quaint towns and well-kept
- Villages dot the countryside.
Cities, with their startling sym- -
_bols .of human achievement,
boldly thrust toward “the sky.
_ And best of all, are the people.

' Visitors often comment on
how polite and friendly Cana-
_ dian people are. No matter if it
. is a small Italian deli, a Chinese

2 :
eta bie .
— © oer
Ba ie

Northwest 4-H memb

ers converged on Terrace recently for the Yellowhead Regional Public
Speaking .contest and everyone got recognition from judges Const. Ewen Harvie, Orest
Chalupiak and Rick Webber. Pictured above are

| the winners. Seniors: (rear) Jason Lighten-
_ing, Burns Lake, third place; Julie Kozier,

Shamrock 4-H Club of Terrace, second place; and

Leroy Reitsma of Smithers, first place, Juniors: (front) Matthew Fawcett of Vanderhoof,

third place; Kim Menu of Houston,

first place. - :

second place; and Rachelle Van Zanten, Burns Lake,

country! Majestic mountains,
flatlands that

by Gillian Norman -

corner store, a Native gas sta-

tion, or the hallowed halls of |
: Hospitality Inn,. people here are
- just naturally ‘nice’.

Everyone has a piece of

~ cultural spice to throw into the
‘ - proverbial melting pot. No mat-

ter where or when the journey

began, they came here, to the
land of the free. And that: is
. what makes this country so
- unique,

Thornhill Jun

.* Last week the administration
at Thornhill Junior Secondary
“School released the names of
-' ‘students who made the second
_ term honor roll.

The criteria for determining

. Honor Roll Status at Thornhill
- Junior Secondary is determined
by the Grade Point Average
_ which is based on: A=4; B=3;
C+ =2.5; C=2; and C~=1,
" The. student must not have any
. D's or E’s. The achievement of
the students will be recognized °
- by a special ski trip to Smithers
on April 8. - .

Grade 8

_-. Outstanding Achievement:
*° Josee Banville, Christine Todd,
'-< Jason Ryan, Bryan Trehearne
“ and Rodney Sanches.
>: Meritorious Achievement:
~ > Steven Maxim, Jessica Lam-
- . bright, Keri Sauer, Keri Fell and
~ Jen Smith, . :

Honorable Mention: Shane

* Myram, Melanie Conrad, Yvette
» Renaud, Jamie Gilham, Ron
= Thorsen, Christine Eys, Gena
: Rayden,; Corina Lockyer and
~ Natosha Morris.. ZZ

-Now and then there is a
gathering of one cultural
background or another to share
the common history, to
remember and appreciate the
foods, the colors, the dances. It
‘is, wonderful to belong to a
special society within the vast ar-
Tay of people called Canadian,

Terrace goes one step further.
Under the direction of Terrace’s
Multicultural Association, the

. annual., International Potluck

feast, held at the Thornhill
Recreation Centre on February
. 25, invited a// cultures to con-
tribute.
together in undeniably Canadian
style. .
The potluck was attended by
more than 200 people. Enter-
tainment, coordinated by Peter
Braganza, was the Bamboo
dance ‘Tinikling”’, performed
beautifully by Ophelia and Man-
ny San Luis of the Canadian’
Filipino Association. Wool.
worth generously loaned 28
flowering pots on a few days

ior honor rolf
Grade 9

Outstanding Achievement: |

Chris Stoner, Nicole Sanches,
Jody McMurray and Shawn
Dimitrov. :

Meritorious Achievement:
Tanya Renaud.

Honorable Mention: Ashley
Tait, Lanya Losier, David Car-
son, Lemuel Russell and
Jonathan MacKee.

Grade 10

Angela Ryan, Kyla Palagian,

Nicole Collison, Lia Wand! and

Gerry Fell. _
Meritorious Achievement:

James Stein, Carmen Cebuliak,

Kim Hamakawa and Cindy

Hall,
Honorable Mention: Michael

Coburn, Kristine Torgalson,
‘Donnie Hill, Chad Ziegler, Nita

Schooner, Ryan Back, Lynda
Lukasser, Heath Muller, Margo
Holosko, Philip Lukasser, Matk

Sauer, Angela Parmar, Tracey:
Tomas, Carl Devost and Marty:
Eisner, oe aS

And people came

Terrace supports multiculturalism

CANADA... What a marvelous

notice for the decorations.
According to coordinator

. Erlinda Okano, local businesses
_ were extremely generous in their

donations to the event. George
Darvoudis, manager of the

Golden Flame, created a sump-

tuous dessert; Shan Yan

- Restaurant supplied two dishes:
. Polly’s Cafe and Niko's Pizza

both put in one delicious dish,
all on a few days notice, due to a

' mix-up.in the mail; ,

Many businesses. gave a little
something of what' they had to
offer. B.C. Tel donated a phone
for a raffle, and special mention

‘should go to Spee-Dee Printers

for printing tickets for the event
free of charge. To ail the people
who had a hand in making the
International Potluck’ such a
success, named and unnamed,
Okano, on behalf of the Terrace
Multicultural Association, ex-
tends warm thanks... Only in
Canada, eh?

"Books For Aduls

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 29, 1989 15

by Andrea Deakin

The sun rose in the sky and struck the windows of a house in
North London. It “crept slowly across the bedclothes, as if ner-
vous of what it might find amongst them, slunk down the side of
the bed, moved in a rather startled way across some objects it en- |
countered on the floor, toyed nervously. with a couple of mots of
dust, lit briefly on a stuffed fruit basket hanging in the corner,
and fled.”” By now you must have guessed that the room be-
longed to Dirk Gently — Douglas Adams’ detective from Dirk .
.Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. In another burlesque of the.
detective thriller, Gently is brought in to solve a mystery that -
begins with an éxplosion at Heathrow Airport, termed by baffled
authorities as “‘an act of God’’, It is actually an act of Thor _-
who, in the disguise of a disgruntled Scandinavian tourist, had
earlier been hammering at the airline desk-in fury. Dirk Gently is
into another bizarre investigation as the Norse gods are existing
in a parallel universe which can be entered through London’s St.

- Pancras station. - . ;

Douglas Adams cannot be totally disappointing, and there are
some very funny moments in The Long Dark Teatime of the.
Soul, but where is the taut plotting, lively energy and pointed ~:
satire of the Hitchhiker books? The ‘insightful writing and wit do -
surface from time to time, but there is also a feeling that he is
writing before he is quite ready, meeting some deadline that does
not allow for the careful plotting and development of satiric
theme of which he is capable. Douglas Adams enthusiasts will .
find something to enjoy here though, even with this disappoint-

“ment. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is published by Stod- -

dard at $23.95.

Sue Townsend is perhaps best known for The Secret Diary of
Adrian Mole, aged 13. She has also written a number of-plays, a
stage version of the book, and a television series. Rebuilding
Coventry is yet another entertaining, challenging, indeed biting -
look at society, Coventry Dakin is beautiful, different, a little ec-
centric. She lives with her two children, one of each sex, conven-
tionally called John and Mary, and with her husband Derek (an
ardent member of the Tortoise Society) in a ‘‘grey house ona _
grey estate in a city in the middle of England’’. ;

She is awakening to a sense of being stifled, a desire to find
out who Coventry is, to make a mark in the world; and then she
does, She is half way through cleaning her chimney on a Wednes-
day afternoon when she sees through her window. her neighbor
Gerald Fox strangling his wife. She dashes over and hits Gerald ©
with the first thing to hand, an Action Man (G.I Joe) doll. Un- .
fottunately, he has a very fragile skull, She kills him,

Coventry has to flee at once, making for London without her
handbag. Any woman realizes how vital that omission is..
Without her purse she has no identity, no money, no existence. -
Sue Townsend then takes us on this headlong escape, hiding
under the arches of Waterloo, befriended and finally flown away
from a life she can no longer return to, while at home family and
neighbors are left wondering. In the process, Ms. Townsend _
makes some telling points about many aspects of contemporary
British society, while never losing our sympathy for the embattled
Coventry. Rebuilding Coventry is a witty, intelligent and totally
original book which leaves you laughing, and thinking, for some
time after you have read it. It is published in Canada by General
Publishing at $19.95, - 7 .

Outstanding Achievement:

Think a 6 Month
Driving Prohibitio

is Tough?

Think Again!

Think what it would

that’s only the beginning,

You might also want to think about the minimum
fine of $300 and possible prison sentence.

Give it some thought.

’ It would bé' like to be without your
driver's licence for 6 months. Than double it.
“Because In British Columbia you now face a full
year driving prohibition*, as an absolute mini-
mum, if you’ré a convicted drinkin

“Effective April, 1989

g driver. And

PROGRAM OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

ae Sponsored by.
_ the Hon. Lyail Hanson and the Hon. Angus Ree