| INSIDE SECTION B city. JEFF NAGEL , 638-7283 ~ SCENE B2 A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Wednesday, November 17 CANADIAN WOMEN IN TIMBER host their annual Christmas bazaar at the Coast Inn of the West banquet room from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, November 18 CENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL stages the grand opening al 7 p.m. for their new addition followed by an open house. Friday, November 19 CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (or fibromyalgia) support group mects 7 p.m. at ihe Happy Gang Centre. For more info call Darlene at 638-8688 or 635-4059, Saturday, Navember 20 VERITAS SCHOOL BAZAAR takes place at the Veritas gym from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. . NORTHWEST REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL holds its annual general meeting at 10 a.m. at the Kitimat school board office at 1515 Kingfisher, Monday, Nevember 22 TERRACE DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets at 7 p.m. in the library basement. Saturday, November 27 A BAZAAR AND TEA will be hosted by St. Matthew’s Anglican Church from 2-4 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Centre. CANDLELIGHT TEA AND BAKE SALE will be hosted by the Salvation Army Home League from 6 - 8 p.m, at the Salvation Army Church at 4643 Walsh Ave. For info call 635-5446. Monday, November 29 LAKELSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION holds its general meeting at 8 p.m. at Mt. Layton Hotsprings.: TERRACE PEAKS GYMNASTICS CLUB “1 holds its annual general meeting at 7 p.mi. at the Inn of the West. — December 3-5 PET PICTURES WITH SANTA hosted by the Terrace SPCA will take place from 5-9 p.m. Fri- day, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, downstairs at the Terrace arena. For appointment, phone 638-8868. Saturday, December 4 UNITED CHURCH WOMEN?s Christmas tea and bazaar takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at Knox United Church. All welcome. Tuesday, December 7 TERRACEVIEW LODGE holds its annual Christmas Tea and Bazaar from 2 to 4:30 p.m. LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY hold their December meeting at 7:30 p.m. Potluck supper starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, December 11 TERRACE REGIONAL MUSEUM SOCIETY holds ils annual book and bake sale at the Skeena Mail from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WEDNESDAYS SKEENA VALLEY QUILTERS meet every Wednesday at 7 p.m, in the sewing room at Skeena Junior Secondary School. Beginners and more experienced quilicrs welcome. Call 635- 2230 for more information. HUFF AND PUFF Asthma Group holds its monthly mecting the third Wednesday of cach | month at the Women’s Resource Centre on Park Ave, from 7 to 9 p.m. LADIES KERMODEI LIONS club meets at the Inn of the West. Call Carolynn at 638-0707 for times and more info. : TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS _*Sieps to Recovery’’ meets at 7 p.m. every Wed- nesday at the Kermode Friendship Centre. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS meet Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Centre, Contact Karen at 638-0707. , THURSDAYS THE TERRACE BRIDGE CLUB meets the second and fourth Thursday of every month. They get started Oct. 14 at the Legion. Call Pat al 635-_. 2537 or Ethel at 635-5046 for more info. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS micct every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Centre. The Terrace Standard offers the What's Up community calendar as a public service to ts readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organiza- tions and those events for which there is no ad- inttssion charge. Hems will run two weeks before each event. : We ask that items be submitted by 5 p.m. on the Thursday before the issue in which it is to appear. Submissions should be typed or printed neatly.. Book tells tale of Oros HE MAD TRAPPER of Teslin Lake is a story that has haunted = norlhwest B.C, for two decades, Michael Oros went insane in the isolation of the northern wildemess and roamed a huge area, Now the true story of how he hunted people — killing a Ger- man trapper and a Terrace RCMP officer — has become a book. Former Terrace prosecutor Vern Frolick, who tried un- successfully to have Oros locked up, is the author of Descent into Madness, published by Hancock House. The book traces Oros’ steps, first as a Vietnam war draft dodger who left a commune in Taos, New Mexico to find peace in Faitbanks, Alaska. MANY TOOK time out last Thursday to ponder Remembrance day and its meaning. William and Norma Bennett (right) receivad the salute this year. William was in the Seaforth Highlanders for the entire six years of the war and participated in the invasion of Sicily. Norma was in the RCAF working in the codes and signals branch in Ottawa. -IN REMEMBRANCE- Laler he would move to north- em B.C, and establish himself in the wilderness around Teslin Lake. He would be the beacon for other freedom-seckers to follow to find peace in the north. : When they didn’t come, he con- cluded the authoritics had con- Spired against them. He believed they were spraying the woods with “torivre drugs’ to affecthis mind. Voices roared through his mind. Shadows flitted through the snowy wilderness. They were the sneak-arounds, who in league with the torture- druggers, were out to drive him out of the wilderness — dead or alive. Oros hunted and shot at these phantoms. His reputation became known to all in the area. Trappers looked on him wilh the caution and respect they would accord a wounded grizzly. Sloreowners panicked when Oros walked out of the bush to buy ammunition from them. Pilols wouldn't fly over the area below 5,000 fect because of Teports Oras had shot at planes. And the Tabltan natives who held the trapping rights to the ter- rilory slopped going there ~~ il belonged to Oras. Tn 1981, when German trapper Gunter Lishy went missing at the epicentre of Oros’ territory, Atlin RCMP Cpl, Bird knew Oros was involved, Thus began the six-month RCMP manhunt for Oros that finally resulted in his capture ear- ly in 1982. But Gros wouldn’t talk about Lishy and {he police were unable to get enough evidence to charge him for the murder. Michael Oros Oros stayed in Terrace for the next six months awailing Iral on charges of possession of stolen property — Lishy’s. At first in | custody at the Terrace RCMP detachment, he later camped out ' Cont'd Page BS. °F cily lost Terrace veteran John during the parade. Oman ran the city’s maintenance shop for many years. PAYING TRIBUTE: Alfred DeFrane lays a wr of the cenataph during the Remembrance Day service. The Me eath at the hase Oman, who collapsed and died First back for curtain call FORTY YEARS ago this month, Terrace was small but the drama was high, The Aluminum Company of Canada’s rock-workers had just linked up beneath Mt Dubose, completing the tunnel for the massive generators that would power an aluminum smelter at the new town of Kitimat. Dominion Telephone — and Telegraph had just ‘sold its facilities to B.C. Tel and the Ca- nadian National Railway. - And in an-old army drill hall where the curling tink now stands, a theatre group called the - Civic Centre Drama Association was performing the town’s first major play — The Father of the Bride. ‘Back then the ticket price was $1: or 35 cents If you hada coupon from one of. the local merchants. And it was a community hap- pening of grand proportions. The review in the Ontineca- Herald tells of 750 patrons jam- ming into the drifl hall for the show. ~ Terrace Little Theatre has come along way since 1953 — includ- ing being burnt outa few times —— but it’s that first big produc- tion that the troupe will pay tribute to when they perform the 40th anniversary production of The Father of the Bride Nov. 25- 1 . Some of the original cast mem-" | bers will:be back to wilness the - event, Carole Dale, the bride in the | 1953 production, has heatd about. the 40th anniversary performance is returning to Terrace ftom’ En-- Bland to see It. Here’s to 40 years of theatre play comes a ey THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE: original 1953 cast members Edna Cooper, Ron Paulsen, Carole Dale, and Bud McColl, “She phoned me from England and said she was coming,’’ said director Merry Hallsor. The mother of the bride in the original cast —- Edna Cooper — will give'a spccial. appearance in the 1993 production. Cooper remembers that first’ production well. =. Mien Van Heck for sitting down. . in the wrong placs. : “> ‘Then there was the moment® in. Cooper got an_ earful from. -ditectors’ Loreen “McColl and the final scence when falher of the — bride Bud McColl was to receive a phone call. - He stood front and centre while the telephone rang somewhere off stage and wondered aloud where ‘the phone went. A slagehand © - brought the phone table back and - McColl continued uninterrupted, = _- And while some things change, others stay the same.) © © Cont'd Page B12.