22. Terrace Review a Wednesday, October 5, 1988

Board of Health, drama students -

. unite to confront teen drinking _.

TERRACE — A report released
earlier this year on the subject of
drug and alcohol abuse among
_B.C, adolescents sent shock

waves through the ‘health and ~

education communities... the
frequency and intensity of intox-
ication in teenagers was shown
to be much worse than anyone
suspected. . . ,
The report, based on a survey
taken by the Ministry of Health
in 1987, indicated that nearly
one-fourth of the 14,712
adolescents surveyed had been
drunk in the previous four
weeks, one out of five had gone
on weekend drinking binges at
least three times in their lives,
and 12.5 percent of the respon-
dents have received warnings

- - from, police related to alcohol

consumption.
In an-effort to sort through

- Heart Foundation
~ issues cookbook

_-The-Canadian Heart Founda-
tion has come out with The
_Lighthearied Cookbook, a
brand new collection of health-
‘ful recipes, dietary information,
and sound advice on lifestyle
_changes. Author Anne Lindsay
has ‘included lots of suggestions
to make heart-healthy eating
- more interesting.

Beautiful. color photographs

the social tangles that lead kids
to turn into problem drinkers,
the Skeena Union Board of
Health has launched a unique
project that takes advantage of a
unique local resource: the
theater arts students at Skeena
Junior Secondary School.

The theater arts students,
under the guidance of teacher
Brian Koven, have gained: a
reputation for hard-hitting,
straight-shooting high quality
productions that take on dif-
ficult and sensitive material
without flinching. This project
could be their biggest challenge;
the teens at Skeena have a cer-
tain amount of notoriety with
regard to substance abuse, and
many of the 50 or so involved in
the theater arts program will be
confronting issues that loom
large in their lives,

and a modest price ($14.95)
make the cookbook a good
choice for yourself or a thought-
ful gift for someone you care
about. It’s not available in
bookstores — call Karen Enri-
quez (Chairperson of Terrace

Unit, B.C. Heart Foundation) at:

638-0487 to place your order.
Part of the proceeds go to the
B.C. and Yukon Heart Founda-
tion.

BC Tel — continued from page 10

offering the old service right up
until the new system goes into
‘ effect, Bakker explained.

Presently Hixon and Cluculz
Lake have one-way EAS plans
into Prince George, and Topley
to Houston. While some nor-
thern communities are interested
in getting. or expanding EAS
plans, some consumers: in the
lower mainland are looking to
get out. Two-way EAS plans
between a number of exchanges
like Burnaby and West Van-
couver means some consumers
pay alot for their basic service.
An individual line in a residence
can cost as much.as $19, Meers
said. ‘“Some want to go off the
Vancouver base, perhaps having
only a small cluster of exchanges
for their EAS. If they do have
occasion to call outside the area,
they'd rather pay the long

distance charge.”’ . .

BC Tel is now in the summa-
tion stage; Meers said. The bid
to lower long distance rates is
due.to changes. in. technology
which allow the company to of-.

fer better service for a lower’

prices, she said. She doesn’t an-
ticipate any problem in having
final approval granted. The
CRTC will also be looking at all
of the aspects. of the EAS pro-
posal before an approved
package will be available for
communities to consider for
their own phone service.

BC Tel also wants the Com-
mission to set their profit levels

at about 14 percent for the next |

few years, but some speakers at
the hearings noted that keeping
the profit level at 12 percent
would allow for a lowering of
local rates. :

Sea creatureS — continued trom page 19

draws its limbs up into its snail
shell and uses its one large claw
to cover the opening like a door.

Some of our B.C. sea
creatures are so still and stable
scientists thought they were
plants until relatively recently,
like the organ-less, tissue-less
sponge. The sea cucumber
‘moves so slowly, a graceful
backwards flip is the fastest
‘method it can use to escape a
-hungry starfish, which, luckily
-for the ocean gerkins, is also
‘slow moving. Scallops, on the

other hand, have a jet engine to.

flee the starfish, opening and
-:¢losing their shells rapidly to

“shoot water out the back, look- .

_ ing like gag-shop false teeth clat-
tering away. The Pacific flying
‘squid: propels. itself with -such

-gpéed. it. zoorts right out of the,

cieeer

water, gliding 40 or 50 fect
through the air. :

After viewing the short film

and slides taken by underwater
photographer Brent Cook,
members of the audience ex-
amined the exhibits and asked
questions about the Royal B.C.
Museum, protected” marine
‘parks’, the speakers’ tour, and
the study of marine life as a

_ career, One interested partici-

pant picked. up an inpenetrable-
looking box crab shell, asking if

the. creature. was edible. ‘Yes, ..
the meat is.good, but a colleague.
of mine-spent. his whole lurich-

hour, smashing the. sell witha
hammer, to.eatone.” 6° |
Our sea creatures are

beautiful, fascinating-and color-.
-ful, and, many.of them are quite...
Se uh ofisks to make people think.’

delicious,

‘Teenagers: are turned .off.. by:

In announcing the project,
Skeena Chief Medical. Health
Officer Dr. David Bowering said
the group will be up against

‘some formidably entrenched

social attitudes. ‘Alcohol is the
social drug of choice, and it’s
come to symbolize a rite of
passage for young people, a
growing up. It’s so pervasive
that we’ve developed all sorts of.
ways of not seeing it.”’

Bowering went on to say that |

the current agenda will have the
project steering committee
members — Eleanor Bell, Carol
Harvie, Sue Higgins, Carol Har-
rison, Joyce Krause, Bowering
himself and part-time coor-
dinator Gail Murray — immers-
ed in a two-day intensive
workshop Oct, 15 and 16, Then

it will be the students turn, as .

they meet with some people who

“have direct experience with the

problem: Alcoholics Anony-
mous, Alateen, the Salvation

~ Army’s Harbour Light Mission,

a medical doctor and others.
That will be followed by a
therapeutic counselling and
workshop session,

‘Ideally, the students would

go on to develop the plays,”’

Bowering concluded. They’re
hoping for two plays: one direct-
ed at Grade 5 to 7 students titled
‘‘Squéeze’’, addressing the
pressure on young people to take

up drinking, and another for

older teens called ‘‘Juice’.
Bowering said they hope to be

able to take the second play ona ©

tour of the Health Unit region in
the spring. The entire process of
developing the plays will be
videotaped by CFTK and pro-
duced as a documentary.

Brian Koven says one of the

‘reasons he likes running the
theater arts program is that

students are open with him in a
manner that would be unlikely if
he were, for example, a math
teacher. One of his students died
last summer in an accident that
involved alcohol, and he has a
personal interest in seeing this

‘project bear fruit.

“Every Friday Caledonia stu-
dents get together and: decide
where they’re going to drink,”’
Koven said. ‘‘The figures indi-

‘gate 75 percent of teenagers

drink. Maybe that’s an exagger-
ation, maybe not, but it’s a
point of view.”

’ Koven described the current

school program, consisting

largely of the Ministry of Educa-
tion’s recently conceived Family
Life course, as a “‘raindrop’’,
and he stressed that the success
of the Board of Health project

will require active involvement |

of parents in supporting the
students’ efforts. ‘‘Teenagers
are not moved by a two percent
effort,”’ he said. - oo
It’s a “very risky’ under-
taking, he said. The plays have
to be developed by the students,
but Koven expressed fears for
possible censorship. ‘We can’t
allow it to bé- watered: down.

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Usually I like to begin these articles
with a little information about astronomy
and then to describe some of the-things.
that might be especially good to look for
in the night sky for the coming month.
This month it gives me a great deal of. .

' pleasure to begin instead by.telling you
about a new astronomy club, the Terrace
Astronomical Society, that began in Ter-
race last month, , bn

On September 20th nineteen people at-
tended the first meeting of the Society

_ that was held in the Terrace Public
‘Library. I was among them and ] think

I wasn’t alone in feeling really excited at finding so manyin- .

terested people gathered for the meeting. Some of: those that at-.

tended the meeting seemed to know quite a lot about astronomy

while others said they knew just a little, but all shared a common

interest in the subject. 7 .

by Alien
Wootton

The Terrace Astronomical Society will hold regular meetings

on the third Tuesday of each month, These meetings will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Public Library. The next meeting will be

held on Tuesday, October 18. At the meeting Todd Killoran will —

give a presentation on how to get started in astronomy. He's |

going to show some books and magazines that are helpful for ©
finding and learning constellations. ‘Afterwards, if the weather
co-operates, there will be telescopes set up outside the library so

_everyone can look at a few of the many interesting objects to be

found there. New members (or potential members) are most
welcome. —
Besides the monthly meetings, the Astronomical Society will be
sponsoring a weekly observing night, also at the Terrace Public
Library. Throughout the winter, one or more telescopes will be
set up near the library from 8 p.m. until about 9:30 p.m. on clear
Tuesday evenings. If you would like to look through a telescope
this is a good opportunity to do so. . |
Besides having a good turnout for the first meeting of the
Astronomical Society we also had good weather, When it was :

dark enough outside we. went out with.a telescope. It was great to

look at Saturn’s rings, the beautiful double star Albireo, a double

cluster of stars between the constellations Cassiopeia and Persets,
~ and at a formation called the Ring Nebula in the constellation

Lyra. | .

For the past two months I have been enjoying watching the
planets that are presently visible in the morning sky. During .
August it was neceasary to get up very early to see them before
the Sun rose. Now, at 6 a.m. they are very bright in the still dark

‘morning sky. Furthest to the west is Mars, presently at a very

close position with respect to the Earth. Its reddish hue is un-
mistakable. The part of Mars that is presently turned towards -.

Earth is moving into Martian summer, and along with this season .

come frequent dust storms. Unfortunately, these dust storms © -
obscure much of the detail that might otherwise be visible on
Mars’ surface, and my recent views of this planet have been less
rewarding than those 1 made two months ago. -
Because the planets move with respect to the stars, it can be.

fun to keep notes of their brightness and position. Mars willbe a .

particularly good subject for this sort of record during October
because its brightness will fade very noticeably as it moves away
from us. |
Also at 6 a.m. Jupiter is high in the sky just slightly to the
west of south. It is located in the constellation Taurus and it is —
well placed for observation now. Slightly above and to the west
of Jupiter is the jewel-like cluster of stars,- the. Pleiades, while . .
below and to the east is the fainter‘V-shaped cluster, the Hyades.
To the southwest of Jupiter is the beautiful winter constellation
Orion. Lo
Still further to the east you will see the planet Venus, Its bright
white light outshines all other objects (except the moon) in the
early morning sky. At the moment Venus is located in the con- —

stellation Leo, and on the morning of October 4 it will pass one.

fifth of a degree south of Regulus, the brightest star in this con-
stellation. The waning crescent moon, Regulus, and Venus will,
make a beautiful trio in the morning skies of October 6 and 7
when all three bright objects will be close together. there.
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may be visible late in-
this month too: It is hard to see because, from our viewpoint, it
never gets far from the Sun in the sky. Its greatest angular © :

distance from the Sun is reached on October 26, when you may —

‘be able to see this moderately bright planet low in the southeast

just before sunrise. —

Saturn is still visible in the evening this month, You will see ‘its -

yellowish glow fairly low in the southwest just after sunset. This
year has been an especially interesting one for looking at Saturn —
because twice already the planet Uranus has appeared very close

‘to Saturn in the sky. These two planets will be close again this —
~-month; on the evening-of the 18th Saturn will be just over one
- degree north.of the otherwise hard-to-find Uranus, With: 9-0-5

dinoculars:you should be able to make out this faint-planet near...
‘right Saturn, rc Oo

» | hope that Terrace-will have many clear nights this month so. .
that it is possible to watch. the changes.in the sky that a mew?"
~ $eason and new planetary positions provide. 1 hope, 100, that you~"
will have: an opportunity to take a:look through a télescopé atthe".
- Terrace Library.some Tuesday. evening this: month... -.-+.

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