. JUNE 6-21, WHAT’S ~_UP_ The Terrace Standard offers What’s Up as a public service to its readers and community organizations, This column is intended for non-profit organiza- tions and those events for which there is no admis- sion charge, To meet our production deadlines, we ask that any item for What's Up be submitted by noon on the FRIDAY preceding the issue in which it is to ap- pear. For contributed articies, the deadline is 5 p.m. on the preceding THURS- . DAY. We also ask that all sub- missions be typed or printed neatly. MAY 2-30, 1992 — At the Ter- ~ race Art Gallery. A show by local quilters. Come and see the colour and versatility of our local designers. Opening reception May 8, Fri. at 19:30 hrs. kKkaks _ MAY 27, 1992 — Terrace Figure Skating. Club Annual general - meeting. Wed. at 8 p.m. in the Library basement. kkk MAY 28, 1992 -—- The Skeena Valley Car Club will be holding its regular monthly meeting at the Terrace Kin Hut on the cor- ner of North. Sparks and Halliwell on Thurs. at 7:30 p.m ‘For more info you could call ~ Doug at 635-4809. kKkkKE . MAY 28, 1992 — 7:30 p.m. Public Library, Kathy Volek and . Bill Vandenburg will show slides “and share their experiences work- : ing as volunteers in Ethiopia, the «Sudan and Popna New Guinea. * Beverages and snacks will be pro- vided, Everyone welcome. Spon- "sored by the Northwest Develdp- . “ment Education Assoc. Call 7635-6233. khak " MAY 29, 1992 — Information ‘session to establish a Canadian “Red Cross Society branch here. 4:30 p.m. in the library base- “ment, Call Lissi Sorenson 635-2158 for more information. wkhakk - MAY 30, 1992 — Slide show and -talk by Michael Gregson, author ‘cof “Land of Destiny: The ‘Golden Age of British Columbia” Show is 2:30 p.m, in “library meeting room, Everyone welcome. For more info call "638-8177. ek kik MAY 30, 1991 — Sat. from 10-2 at the Petro Canada Stn. on Lakelse Ave, there will be a FREE carwash. Lucas the clown will be there with balloons and - coffee and cookies will be served while you wait. For more info. contact the Terrace Pentecostal - Church. kek MAY 20, 1992 — Bowling fun night with the T&K Northern Singles. 7:30 p.m. Phone Bea al . 635-3238 for more info, kha JUNE 2, 1992 — The Terrace Breastfeeding Support Group is . holding their last mecting until ‘Sept. on Tues. at 8 p.m. in the Education room al Mills Memorial Hosp. We will answer - your breastfeeding questions and discuss common infant health “concerns. For further info. can- ‘tact Terry Walker 635-3287. kikkr JUNE 2, 1992 — Aurora Sum- -mer Afts School annual general meeting, 9 p.m. Tues, in the -REM Lee Theatre, Everyone - welcome. For further info: Tom Walker 635-2101 or Karen _ Birkedal 635-5603. weEKKKEK : JUNE 3, 1992 — 7:30 p.m. City” “Hall, Canada Day planning meeting, We urge local service -groups to send a representalive to this meeting. Time is running out! Help celebrale Canada’s . 125th birthday! Call Mary at 635-5518, : kk kik JUNE 3, 1992 — The Order of the Royal Purple’s Annual Senior Spring Tea. 2-4 p.m. Elks : Hall, 2822 Tetrault St. Terrace. Admission free, For info. call Joyce Martel 635-4277. _ kkk 1992 — Local childrens art show. This show _ will feature art by local school children. Watch for it. It should » be colourful, : eae hk - UNE Li, 1992 °—. Terrace Special Olympics General °" Meeting at-7 p.m, in the Library : basement, Everyone welcome. kkk “JUNE 12-14, 1992 --4 Quill out -. lo be held in the Kisplox Com- munity Hall. Club membership pot requited. Contact Bernice at - ; - 84226314 or Jacque at: 842- 6058 . "evenings. - weapon Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 27, 1992 — Page 81 Young wordsmith wins prize INE-YEAR-OLD Dina Williams never dreamed of winning a contest for writing, much less flying to Ottawa. But that’s exactly whcre she’s going with her mother, Fila Quock, on June 27. Dina -- in Year 3 (Grade 4) here at E.T. Kenney Primary School -- is one of five top winners from across the country in the Aboriginal Heroes Wriling Con- test. The contest is a collaboration between Canada 125 and UBC's Mokakit Indian Education Re- search Association, Nearly 200 native students across the country entered the contest, and 20 winners were selected. But only five of them -- including Dina -- will go on to Ottawa next month to receive their prizes. - ‘Dina’s ‘story is about three pages long and she says she wrote it over about five days. “It’s about. my mom when she was growing up at Coldfish Lake,’’ she said Friday. Her story will be published next year in a book of stories, poems, plays and essays entitled Aboriginal Heroes. Dina and her mother will be in Ottawa for a week. Numerous trips are planned for them there although details aren't yet avail- able, And Dina says she’s already de- cided what she’s going to do with the $100 prize she will receive. “Tm going to buy a camera,”’ she says. My aboriginal hero By DINA WILLIAMS My name is Dina. I am Tahltan and my crest is crow, My aboriginal hero is Ella Quock. She is Tahitan too and she is my mother. I lived with her all my life. My mom was born in Coldfish Lake, far away in the wilderness. It was a difficult life, but the greatest thing is my-mom knows the meaning of total freedom and love.. Her family lived in a tent and hunted for their food. My mom enjoys doing things for the elders. Everything my mom learned when she was a little girl she is teaching me now. She is teaching me to respect the water and the animals and my body. My mom is . teaching me how to fish and hunt and trap. She is also teaching me not to waste meat and food. She is teaching me the ways of the Indian. Once when my brother and I went hunting, we almost got lost, but my mom set a fire in my Grandma’s back yard, and that’s how we got home. I am my mom’s best friend because she is easy to talk to, We talk about growing up. _ My mom grew up ina world very different from mine. _My. mom grew up in atent, moving from place to place, eating whatever they could find. She loved this way of life, but it came to an end because people were making roads and buildings and cars and trucks. My mom says that it is going to be hard for me to grow up. My mom says the world isn’t like what she grew up in, She grew up ii a world that was quiet and peaceful. I am growing up in a world with drugs and machines. The End. THE WINNING ENTRY: Dina Williams holds out the story about her mother that was one of five top winners across Canada in a writing contest for native students. Einstein would be proud Cal students roll way to physics win With old record albums for wheels, the dream car of six Caledonia physics students is no Lambourghini. But the wheeled wonder did its job at the Fiftcenth UBC Physics Olympics in Vancouver. Tt travelled the regulation 10 | metres and literally stopped on a dime. “We were 1.1 centimetres off the mark and came in first,” says Allen Wooton, the students’ Grade 12 physics teacher here. The 1.5-metre-high entry -- by Cal’s Shawn Dimitrov, Lung Liu, Jody McMurray, Roy Preyser, Brian Ramus, and Dennis Venema -- beat out its nearest competitor by a quarter of a centi- metre at the annual showdown of B.C, physics students May 9.. Each vehicle in the mass-driven- car event could use a pair of one- kilogram weights suspended up to one metre high for propulsion. The goal was to go precisely 10 metres and be the closest to the mark. The Caledonia entry’s secret inclided 8 two-stage anti-lock braking system so it would stop at the 10-metre mark without skidding extra distance -- as did many of its failed rivals, The win in that event propelled the Terrace team to a seventh place overall finish across the five events. Thirty-thtce teams, many of them from the Lower Mainland, competed from across the province, Other problems’ inchided the calculation of density of various liquids from minimal informa- tion. They also had. to make a sailboat out of no more than three pop cans. PHYSICS CHAMPS: Brian Ramus, Lung L Liu, Shawn Dimitrov, Roy Preyser, Jody McMurray and: Dennis Venema (not pictured) designed this unlikely looking vehicle that carried them to victory in the mass-propelled car event of the 15th UBC Physics Olympics eartier this month. Vn oe aoa : ich My A call for leaders Terrace Girl Guides are facing a crisis. On the heels of a successful cookie sales campaign, the or- ganization has been hit with a shortage of volunteer leaders. “Tf we don’t gel leaders,”’ says Tall Totem division leader Kathy Davies, ‘‘ihere’s a definite possibility of closures for some units.”’ Close to 135 girls aged five through 18 are active in Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders in the Terrace area. ‘We need leaders all across the board,”' Davies says. The division struggles wilh a shartage of almost 20 leaders, as some transfer from one branch to another, while others relire. There are currently eight units in the division, but Davies notes that with enough leader help, more may open in the future. ; Volunteer leaders, aged nine- (cen and up, are asked to assist at a two-hour weekly | unit meeting, with less than five ad- ditional -hours per month estimated for planning and organizing, Leaders. need not have been previously involved in Girl Guides. “If they enjoy work- ing with girls, there are no pre- requisites,’ Davies says... - The Gulding season runs from September into June. Now is a good time for leaders lo.join, as the coming season -will seeoa mew Guiding pro- gram introduced. : “There’s less emphasis an earning badges, and more on working in tcams toward the service aspect,’’ she says. - Prospective volunteers can reach. Kathy Davies at 638- 1245,