The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 18, 1994 - B41 ota aerate) Sener aerial I INSIDE SECTION B CITY JEFF NAGEL SCENE B2 638-7283 ead et eee MAO SPARSE COE MEDD} SPM SR Ae ed 1a ran A eae ef Det A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Wednesday, May 18 TERRACE CONCERT SOCIETY holds its an- nual general meeting for the 1994-95 season at 7:30 p.m. in the R-E.M. Lee Theatre Lobby, Any- one interested is urged to attend. Thursday, May 19 , FIBROMYALGIA / chronic fatigue sundrome combined support proup meeting takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. Phone Dar- lene at 638-8688 or 635-4059 for more info. Wednesday, May 25 THE LEPROSY MISSION, Terrace Auxilliary hosts an evening of drama and dessert with na- fiona! Leprosy Mission communications director Nicholas Hunter. It starts at 7:30 p.m. in the li- brary meeting room. Admission free, all wel- come. For more info call Betty at 635-6248. Friday, May 27 TERRACE ANTI-POVERTY GROUP Society holds a free information session on UIC, social assistance, and landiord/lenant issues. It happens from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the library basement. For more info call Helga or Gerry at 635-4631. Saturday, May 28 PARKSIDE FUN FAIR takes place from 11 am. lo 3 p.m. Games, concession, rummage and bake sale by the Parkside School Parents Ad- YOUTH AMBASSADORS Show ends spe TY cial season IT WAS truly a night to remem- ber for Maggic Botelho. She was named Terrace’s 1994 Youth Ambassador from among nine other contestants at the an- nual event held Saturday night in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre. Botelho, sponsored by the Ter- race Shopping Centre, will represent Terrace at local evenis as well as the PNE Youth Ambas- sador Competition in Vancouver, She will receive a $1,500 scholarship from the Terrace Youth Ambassador Society among other gifts donated by lo- cal businesses. Named as ist Ambassador was Carrie McElroy, sponsored by Tim Horton’s, who showed her sewing and choreographic skills in a fashion show in the talent portion of the contest. A $1,000 scholarhip from Braid Notary, McAlpine and Co, Northwest Counseliing and Wilkinson Business Machines is just one of the prizes McElroy will be awarded with. Jassie Csei-Tutu, the first male to enter the Terrace Youth Am- bassador contest, will be the 2nd i Ambassador for 1994, visory Council. With that title comes a $500 ATTENTION ALL DIVERS! Northwest scuba scholarship from McDonalds. divers are meeting to clean up the area under the wharf at Kitamaat Village from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, Come and help out. Contact 632-2338. Monday, May 36 _ ‘TERRACE FIGURE SKATING CLUB holds its annual gencral meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the li- brary basement, "NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT Education Assaciation board meeting is 7:30 p.m. al the St Matthew’s Centre 2nd floor. Call 635-6233 for more info. Al! welcome. Friday, June 3 CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH holds its 40th anniversary June 3-5. Contact Mrs. H. Godlinski at 635-5397 for more information. = WEDNESDAYS SINGLE PARENT'S SUPPORT GROUP meets Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. at the Women’s Centre. For more info call 638-0228. TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets at 7 p.m, at the Women’s Centre. Also Sat- urday nights at 7:30. TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S AS- SOCIATION holds its monthly mecting the third Wednesday of every month. Meet for lunch at the Terrace Inn from noon to 1 p.m. Contact Joyce at 635-9660. SKEENA VALLEY QUILTERS mect the first and third Wednesday each month at 7 p.m. in the “home ec. room at Skeena Junior Secondary School. Beginners and more experienced quilters welcome. Call 635-2230 for more information. "HUFF AND PUFF Asthma Group holds its monthly mecting the third Wednesday of each 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 Karen at 638-0707 for times and more info. SOCIAL CREDIT WOMEN’S AUXILLIARY mect the second Wednesday of cach month. New- comers welcome. Call Mary at 635-2577 or Lil- lian al 635-5888 for more info. TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS “Steps to Recovery’? meets at 7 p.m. every Wed- nesday at the Kermode Friendship Centre. THURSDAYS TOPS (Take Off Pounds Scnsibly) meets every ‘Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Skeena Health Unit auditorium. Weigh-in at 6 p.m. THE TERRACE BRIDGE CLUB meets the second and fourth Thursday of every month, They - gel Started Oct. 14 at the Legion. C3all Pat at 635- __ 2537 or Ethel at 635-5046 for more info. The Terrace Standard offers the What's Up ' community calendar as a-public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organiza- _ tlans and those events for which there is no ad- “> mission charge, Ttems 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. JASSIE OSEI-TUTU was named 2nd Ambassador, Maggie Botelno was named 1994's Youth Am- bassador, and Carrie McElroy was named ist Ambassador at the Terrace Youth Ambassador awards ceremony on Saturday night. The trio and the other six contestants wowed the croud with a series of talent performances through the course of the night. Osei-Tutu, sponsored by the Elks Lodge, also picked up a $200 award from Skeena Broad- casters as best talent for his hip- hop dance routine to Groovy Thang and a $200 prize from the Terrace Standard for the Effectiv Speaker award. , The Personality award went to Tina Helmes, sponsored by McDonald’s. This is a special award as il is determined by the contestants thernselves, Charmaine Dozzi wan the Judges Award, a title given to the contestant showing the most growth and improvement. The Riverboat Days committee named contestant Leasa Clay as Riverboat Days Ambassador and she received a $500 scholarship. Michelle Marshall entertained the crowd with what turned into two lip-syne roulines after the first ended being an unexpected song. A song from Rachael Mohr called In Heaven's Eyes and a musical comedy titled A Love Song for Two Nerds from Corinna Wiebe rounded out the talent competition. Doug Smith, master of ceremonies, kept the evening fast-paced and filled the gaps with his impromptu antics to the delight of the crowd - Witness to historic vote Local lawyer returns from South Africa By JEFF NAGEL THE DETERMINATION of black South Africans to vote will remain etched forever in the memory of a Terrace legal aid lawyer. Linda Lock, of the Lax Ghels Community Law Centre, returned safely May 5 after spending a month in South Africa as an Inter- national election observer, People lined up for blocks out- side (he polling stations, she says, and some had been there since two in the morning. ' Lock recalis one polling station in a church in the black township of Kwazakwalie — an African National Congress stronghold just outside of Port Elizabeth. She watched old and crippled blacks, without wheelchairs or crutches, spend hours in line, “People were crawling up the stairs, crawling down the stairs,” Lock says. ‘‘That made me weep — the determination of thesc people to go vate.” A 70-year-old man, with calaracis in his eyes, was one of. many joyful voters. - “"He said: ‘I’ve waited 44 years for this,’ ’* Lock recalls. ‘He was giggling just like a kid,’? - > She: watched ' another elderly Xhosa woman, who, asked at the ho voting booth who she wanted, | replied; ‘‘ Mandela.”’ “It was so emotional for her she had an asthma atlack,’? she said. ‘I felt so humble being there — like there was a miracle occurring,” When the leadership of the In- katha Freedom Party agreed to participate in the election — just a weck before voting was to be- gin — hopes suddenly grew for the possibility of a bloodless elec- tion. ‘People were crawling up the stairs, crawling down the stairs. That made me weep — the determina- tion of these people to go vote.”? Before’ the announcement, she said, tensions had risen and In- katha supporitrs were. massing ' for a huge anti-clection rally in Johannesburg. ‘ Police were laying razorwire ~ everywhere and truckloads of _ Soldiers were entering the area, ‘There was an audible sigh of | "_tellef all over,’” Lock says. ~The Terrace lawyer, witnessed ~ ‘no violence during. the -election . and said she never felt threatened. The nearest “potential inci- dent’” she was involved in came when police were debating whelher to charge a 16-year-old girl who had tried to vote despite being under-age. It happened at the end of the * day, she said, and the polling sta- tion was nearly completely dark because there was no electricity. The confusion of bodies milling around in the dark and the tension of the blacks waiting oulside for a decision crealed a potentially serious situation, she said. It was defused when the girl was taken to the police station to be charged, accompanied by ANC representatives and interna- tional observers, including Lock. Lock witnessed no deliberate ir- regularities -— mainly © just logistics problems, One day the ballots were late arriving, ‘Everything that could go wrong did,” she says. **They’ve never donc it be- fore,”” she said, ‘It think we have to give them a break.’’ ' Lock predicts South Africa will remain in a ‘honéymoon period’? forsome lime, 9-5 “‘T-have'a.lot.of hope, but we have to be realistic,’’ she said. Linda Lock The whiles she saw were very security conscious and feared for her when she said she was going to the black townships. Their separation from the . blacks, despite the end of the apartheld system, reminded Lock af Canadians who criticize na- - tives but have never been to a reserve. med An extensive program of recon-. ciliation and recovery has to be - carried out, she said, to bring the . country together. U8 Lock was there along with several other Canadian obsorvers under the ausplees.of the Cana-". ~~ dian Bar Association. 9 jf