INSIDE
CITY
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A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

What's Up!

Thursday, January, 13
ZOE LANDALE gives a reading of her poetry at
8 p.m. in Room 200 at NWCC.

TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S As-
sociation will hold its first meeting at the Terrace
Inn from noon to 1 p.m. Bring your ideas and be-
come a founding member! Call Lillian at 635-
5888 for more information.

COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE for
HIV. Mecting Jan. 13, 1994 7:30 p.m. Hospital
Board Room,

SHAMES MOUNTAIN SKI CORP annual gen-
eral meeting at 4544 Lakelsc Ave. 8 p.m.

Monday, January 17
TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE production
meeting for cast and crew of Orphans at 7 p.m. in
the McColl Playhouse. Contact Karin at 638-1283
_ or Marianne at 635-2942 for more info.

Tuesday, January 18
REFRESHER CLINIC for diabetics takes place
at Mills Memorial Hospital. A doctor's referral is
required. Call Dana Hill at 635-4050 or 638-1956
for more information.

Tuesday, January 25
OPENNESS IN ADOPTION information night
by ministry of social services in the Terrace Li-
brary basement from 7 to 9 p.m. Contact Jackieor
Sandy at 638-3527 for more information.

Wednesday, January 26
TERRACE MINOR HOCKEY holds a general
parents meeting at the Happy Gang Centre at 7:30
p.m.

Friday, January 28
SPARC (Social Planning and Research Council
of B.C.) holds a public workshop at 9 a.m, at the
Skeena Health Unit auditorium {o report the find-

. ings of a recent study of services to ethnic and .

~ visible minorities in Terrace.

Monday, January 31

PROJECT LITERACY TERRACE will hold
an information session for people interested in ex-
ploring the option of adult literacy tutoring for a,
three month period. This informational session
will be held at The Reading Place, 4506 Lakelse
at 7 p.m. For more info call Nat at 635-9119,

‘Tuesday, Feb. 1
TERRACE HOSPICE SOCIETY annual gener-
al mecting Skeena Health Unit auditorium at 7:30
p.m. Everyone welcome.

MONDAYS
ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the
2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m.
at the Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. *

MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets
the third Monday of each month in the board
room at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTIA | support
group meets at 1 p.m. on the last Monday of the
months at the Terrace Menta! Health Centre. Call
638-3325 for more info.

THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY has an informa-
tion drop-in the third Monday of each month at
the Happy Gang Centre from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

TUESDAYS
SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP takes
place at the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre.
Call 638-0228 for more information.

LIVING WITH CANCER support group of the
Canadian Cancer Society for patients, family and
friends, meets at he Women’s Resource Centre
the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30
p.m. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for more in-
formation, .

T & K SINGLES meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
for coffee night at Mr. Mike’s. Events through
January with T & K Singles will be: Jan. 7 —
Steak nite; Jam. 9 — Swimming.: Jan. 14 - fish
and chips; Jan. 15 - games night; Jan. 21 -
perogie night; Jan. 23 - sleigh riding,

THE KERMODEI CHORISTERS invite boys
and girls ages 8-12 to come sing along on Tues-
days from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Skeena Band
Room. Call Terry Anderson 638-1183 for info.

RELAPSE PREVENTION group meets Tues-
day evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Call 638-8117 for
further information.

THE SPCA meets on the second Tuesday of
every month at the Terrace Women’s Resource
Centre at 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAYS
TALES FOR TWOS, a half-hour storytime, at

Terrace Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. .

monthly meeting the third Wednesday of cach

month at the Women’s Resource Centre on Fark

Ave, from? to 9 p.m.

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 1994 - B1

SECTION B
JEFF NAGEL

g Pathway 1 to adventure

MONEY MAKERS Meghan Dusdal, Brenna Smith, and
Rachel Mendel, in Grade 7 at Cassie Hall Elementary
School, raised money for an adventure playground for the
school. Thay held a paperback book sala in the fall and last

LETTER FROM CHINA

week tumed over $200 in proceads to Sue Halley of the
school's Parents Advisory Council. They need $30,000 to
build the playground, and the schoo! has ralsed about

$2, 300 so far.

sAandong hospitality

warms the spirit —

Valerie Burgess is a Terrace
English teacher who is working
in China until July.

JINAN - Dee. 6
By VALERIE BURGESS
OR THREE and a
half months now, I
have been in the city
of Jinan, the capital
of China's Shandong province.

I discovered after arriving that
Jinan is one o£ China’s hotspots.

Although I apparently missed
the real heat, it remained in the
30s until late September.

It is strange to see fall come . -

with ‘leaves falling from the
mapie trees while it is ‘summer’
— high 20s.

Mid-November did bring a
snow storm with a dump of 12 to
15 centimetres.

The snow {is gone now and we
have had many crisp, clear, cold
days since with temperatures
down to about -5 C.

So far the air pollution from
coal smoke that I had been told to
expect hasn’t arrived, It’s been
beautiful.

I haven't figured it out yet, but
the street vendors are out anytime
it is not raining, snowing or blow-
ing.

They are stl! selling fresh pro-
duce in quantity, including of
course, Mandarin oranges which’
are fresh and julcy.

In Canada cold weather sends
everyone indoors except for shop-
ping and winter sports.

Here, life continues much as
usnal with people sitting outdoors
to eat. The ice cream vendors
seem to be the only ones absent.

The city of Jinan has an urban
area of about 2 million people yet
one can cycle from onc end to the
other in about 50 minutes.

Yes, I have a bike. It sure beats
the crowded buses, On Sundays,
everyone is out, especially
families as it is the only time
families are able to be together —-

bus travel then is definitely to be.

avalded|

My classes commenced Sep.
tember 10th. J am at a teachers’

training university where all atu-
denis ate required to learn
English. 7

1 instruct two of the four
English classes in English Con-
Orientation to -

Valerle Burgess

Wester Culture — six hours a

_ week,

I arrived here with a good
repertoire of resource books and
materials; thanks fo the advice of
the many people who shared their
experience with me before I left,

However, it is back to black-
boards and much improvisation.

Photocopiers exist, but toner
has to be imported and the paper
is too expensive {0 make more
than 4 to 6 capies of something
for a class of 30.

As anyone who knows me
will attest, I love markets,
and can now be seen
bargaining (with some suc-
cess) in Chinese with the
street vendors.

Flip chars and good felt
markers don’t seem to be in
Jizan.

I make fairly good use of hand-
written stencils that print onto

newsprint and anything else I can.

come up with.

' The people are wonderful, how-
ever, and more than make up for
a varicty of limitations.

After a cold field trip last week,
invited the students here for tea
and a warm up. From that, a con-
spiracy developed and the class
arranged and paid for an instant
banquet of traditional Shandong

foods to honour me, There was |

nothing for me to do but accept
and enjoy. Slee

More than the ‘food, the real
pleasure for me was seeing the
delight of the students in giving
me the meals.

Sometimes I have to fend off

the many offers of help.

Today, one student was riding
across town to dea! with a mal-
function of my newly acquired
tape deck, while another was
turning up and making adjust-
ments to my bicycle,

If cither of these young men run
into unexpected costs, I know it
will be a battle to relmburse them

a = — and |’ll probably lose!

I haven’t done much restaurant
eating since I’ve been here, partly
because I don’t seem fo know
how to order ‘‘the good stuff’ I
see others cating.

Last week I discovered a way to
change that and to create a closer
balance in retuming what comes
my way.

I take a student to dinner, and
we both have a good meal and a
good time. Students (and teachers
for that matter) just can’t afford
to go to restaurants, so it is really
appreciated. The cost is under $8
Cdn fora good meal,

Every day there is something
few, unexpected, or special that
is worthy of sharing — slghts,
anecdoles, special moments, But
also there is the challenge of
keeping pace with tho students
and with doing all the little
maintenance, things that are
needed anywhere but which take
much longer here.

Not having the language is a
huge hamlicap but, thankfully,
prices ure reasonable.

Even so, it took me an hour and
a half in the post office to go
through all the procedures to ship
three parcels to Canada.

Tt is gratifying to know that all
those lines and marks do sort
themselves out inte recurting
recognizable patterns and that the

_ sounds do become familiar even

though I can’t read or understand
99 per cent of it,

But a5 anyone who knows me
will attest, I love markets, and
can now be seen bargaining (with
some success) in Chinese with
the street vendors!

Think of me when you are
cross-country skilng or having a

coffee with cream in It

race Public Library.

from the weed

Around .
Town

Get weaned

THAT'S RIGHT, folks.

It’s Cold Turkey day again.

Also known as Weedless
Wednesday, it's the day of the
year that millions try in vain
to kick the smoking habit.

But this year can be dif.
ferent!

There’s going to be a spe-
clat Cold Turkey day work-
shop on Wednesday, January
19,

It’s at 7:30 p.m, in Room
318 at the Coast Inn of the
Weat and is free and open to
the public.

Various local health profes-
sionals will be in attendance
fo answer questions about
nutrition, weight gain, the
patch and anything else you
want to know.

They’re also going to give a
omaen turkey away as a door

prize. .
B.C. poet to

give reading

DRAWING ON her seven
years experience in the com-
mercial fishery, poet Zot
Landale will give a reading in
Terrace on Thursday, Jan. 13.

_She will be reading from her
recent collections, Harvest of
Salmon and Colour of Winter
Air, at 8 p.m. in Room 200 at
Northwest Community Col-

its story time
at the library

TALES FOR TWOS, « half-
hour slorytime with picture
books, puppets, fingerplays
and lots of fun takes place
Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
starting January 26 at the Ter-

It's especially for two year
olds and children must be ac-
companied by an adult,

For three- to five-year-olds,
there’s Preschool Storytime
on Thursday afiemoons at
1:30 and Friday mornings at
10:30. That starts Jan.'27 and
28.

Thero’s no charge, but the
library folk ask that you regis-
ter in advance by. calling 638-
8177.

*, 638-7283