| : INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS B2 Around Town | Kitimat curio RECENTLY, a Terrace Standard reader came to the office with an unusual object he'd found among his parent’s belongings not long ago. It was a small, aluminum disc the size of a - silver dollar or 50 cent piece. One side of the ‘aluminum coin depicted a coat of arms and the inscription, Corporation of the District of _ Kitimat 1953. © “The words, “Kitimat”, “British Columbia" ’ -.and “Aluminum City” are printed on the other , side, which depicts a beaver totem pole next ‘ to a bird’s eye view scene of tiny houses lining several U-shaped cul-de-sacs, and the expanse of. the Douglas Channel lying beyond. The reader had never seen anything like it, ‘[.; and.considering 2003 is Kitimat’s 50th’ anni- “) versary year, ne wanted to find out more. It turns out both the District of Kitimat and - Alcan used to cast aluminum coins. comme- ’ morating special dates, Angela Eastman of the . Kitimat Centennial Museum says. ‘.. This. particular coin commemorates the in- _ eorporation of the district of Kitimat in 1953. That’s actually before the smelter got up and : running, and it’s before there were streets. The ~ land for the townsite was cleared in 1952, she ‘says, with construction on the new town com- _mencing in 1953. “They didn’t want people to think it was a company town,” she said. Alcan also minted and distributed comme- morative coins to employees and others throughout the ‘50s, ‘60s; ‘70s and possibly as late as the 1980s. For example, when Alcan crews poured the first aluminum ingot, the company struck special coins to com- Mmemorate such an im- portant milestone. Various aluminum coins were given out as part of goodie bags that would have been dis- tributed to people fram outside of Kitimat. The museum has several just like it in ils collection of, Kitimat artifacts. Eastman . sus" Aluminum coin because Alcan employees: live: here,-too. T’was maybe the work of a grievous gremlin? AN ACTOR in Skeena Junior Secondary’s entry in the high school zone drama festival fied in a photograph in the Feb. 26 edition of the Terrace Standard (“An intro to the Immor- tal Bard,” page B3). The actor playing King Lear in Shakedown Shakespeare, presented tomorrow night at the R.E.M. Lee along with one of Caledonia’s en- tries, Cup Final, is named Brennan Kelly. CHRIS WEBB takes a bearing while tra- versing a cut block boundary. Forest friendly LOCAL HIGH school students are gaining re- spect for the forest surrounding Terrace, says instructor Brian Jones. Forestry resources Grade 11/12 students at Caledonia Senisr Secondary are getting a head start for jobs in forestry and other resour- ce-based scetors. Surprisingly, it’s one of just a handful of schools in B.C, offering a forestry resources program, Students spend a lot of time’ outside of the classroom, gaining practical, hands-on exper- ience in a range of skills, including basic for- est surveying techniques, map reading and mapmaking. The students also learn how to timber cruise and will do a resource inventory of an area. The class even plans to lay out a block of tim- ber this year. Even though forestry. isn "exactly booming in Terrace, Jones says the skills these students learn can be used in other resource-based in- dustries, He said. the class plans. to earn a fire sup- pression certificate from. Northwest: Commun- ity College as part of the course. Many also pian to take their Level | First Aid certificate. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 83 TERRACE STANDARD... SECTION B pects there are more’ Kitimat ‘coins if Terrace” ° taking place this week was incorrectly identi- - MUNITY-=: a Mini Me? ART STUDENTS at Skeena Jr. looked inward (and outward) for inspiration during their latest project — making cartoon people out of papier mache. These are just three of the nearly 180 students in grades 8-10 created over three weeks. At left, stu- dent Hannah Gray holds her version of Garth Alar, the horn rim-wearing slacker Garth Algar of Wayne’s World fame; Kate Kolterman (centre) made a super tall soccer chick, while Derek Lovell chose to create a spiky-haired version of himself — com- plete with digital watch. Art teacher Lisa Balcombe installed all 180 in the roo. for parent-teacher interview night. Long ago, on an arctic. Fill. varie gic ice floe far, far away © AN EXHIBFF from the Museum of sive ization that explores the history and cul- ture of the earliest inhabitants of Cana- da’s arctic has come to Kitimat. Tunit: The Palaeo-Eskimos is a smal- ler, travelling version of the museum’s Lost Vistons, Forgotten Dreams exhibit. Find out about the people who carved out a fragile existence at the edge of the world — three thousand years before the ‘ a Wilde proposal Inuit. . The show is on view at the Kitimat Centenntial Museum to April. 26, along with Sounds of my Soul, the Art of Maria Angelo, presented to April 19. The museum, located in City Centre, is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. It’s closed Sundays. For information, call 250-632-8950. “LOCAL PEOPLE helping local ‘pecpie ae ACTORS Eric Beaupre and Melia Stephens rehearse a scene from Oscar Wilde’s romantic farce, The importance of Being Earnest, one of three plays Caledonia Senior Secondary's Fine Aris department has entered in the Skee- na Zone Drama Festival. Seven plays are featured over three nights. Tickets are just $5 par evening (See City Scene for detalls), Adjudicator Marianne Brorup Weston will announce a winner this weekend. Just one play will repre- sent the zone at the provincials at UBC May 22-25. English and Fine Arts In-- structor Robin McLeod says she and an undetermined number of Cal students plan to go regardless of who wins. JENNIFER LANG PHOTO” __ ete, a re tC That’s what the employees at Terrace’s ICBC claims centre are hoping more people here will do. Last fall employees collected al sorts of toiletries such as soap, shampoo; bath salts, toothpaste, brushes, - deodorant and other items to donate to the Terrace: - Transition House, The items were divided into eight boxes and included | a note to its recipients wishing them well as they en- tered a new part of their life. The donations were very well received, said Trans- ition House coordinator Debbie Scarborough at the time. Those everyday items’ are very ‘much appreciated when a person is homeless, she said. Now, ICBC employees have initiated a corporate | challenge of sorts, encouraging other businesses in the community to do the same. The idea is to collect oodles of shae boxes filled with necessities which will be distributed to local people in need, “This year we have decided to not only involve the Transition House, but also to involve the Emergency '— Shelter as well,” explains one of the campaign’s organi- zers, Kelly Prinz. “Thus helping all women, men and ’ children in the community that could use the support.” The ICBC challenge runs March 1 to Oct. 1. For more details about the shoe box campaign call Kelly Prinz or Julic Steel at 635-9111. Author reading MYSTERY FANS and crime novel enthusiasts will want — to head to the Terrace Public Library this Saturday. Acclaimed crime writer John Brady is holding a Hter- ary reading al 2 pm. He's written seven police procedur- als set in Dublin featuring Inspector Matt Moncgue. The latest, Wonderland, looks at the impact the current boom in the Irish economy is having on, every level of socicty. The Globe and Mail says Brady i is one of Canada’s.up- and-coming literary crime writers, Brady, who was born and raised in Ireland but moved to Canada at the age of 20 in 1980, is a former resident of Terrace, He lived here for a few years in the 1980s. He and his family now live near Toronto. Illness docks tour A GROUP of children’s performers who planned to bring a little seaside fun and song to the Terrace Public Li- brary Saturday has had to postpone its tour of northern B.C. due to illness. Down by the Docks, scheduled to appear March 8 in Terrace and in Kitimat laler thal afterncon, has been downed by the same flu and cold bugs that have hit the Sea to: Sky Corridor. One of the principal performers, Dary! Robb, has been diagnosed with a branchial infection and a touch of lar- yngitis. All fuur members — Rob, Emily McDonald, 12, Shantelle Rob, 10 and Leroy the talking lobster, aged -three-and-a-half — are disappointed because they’re look- ing forward to meeting everyone here, Al press line, the troupe had successfully resche- duled, the. northeast-B.C, portion of the tour for the first week of April.. New. dates for the. communities of Terrace, Kitimat ' and Hazelton will be announced once they’re confirmed. wiih t weg “ens t