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COMMUNITY
EVENTS B2

‘the cookie recipe

cookies,

Around Town
Hikers hit the trail

MEMBERS of the Terrace Hiking Club are. la-
cing up their boots for another season.

The group started off with an easy to mod-
erate hike April 28 along the Kitimat shoreline
irail, an outing that winds through the dark
cedar forests and past salt water vistas of the
Douglas Channel.

Other hikes planned for this spring include
the Black Sister Trail near Cedarvale, which
takes hikers to a glacial moraine, the Clear-
water Lakes south of Terrace near Onion Lake,
and the intriguing-sounding Insect Lookout, a
hike that’s described as mederate,

A schedule of the hikes planned for May
and June are available at the Terrace Public
Library, All Season’s Source for Sports, Val-
halla Pure Outfitters, the Terrace Standard, or
by calling Chris at 635-5996,

Hikes take place on Sundays. Participants
are expected to come prepared with proper
clothing and footwear, and should bring their
own water and food supplies.

HAMMING IT UP: acting students seen
during last summer's Drama Days.

Young actors hone
dramatic skills

' DO -YOU wanna be a STAR? It’s that time

apain. Springtime. And that means that just
around the corner is summer vacation. Which
means, what's there to do for two whole
months in Terrace? For 22 years, kids have
been enjoying Terrace Little Theatre’s Sum-
mer Drama Days.

And this year’s no different... or is it? TLT is
taking to heart what their summer instructors
told them: get proactive and design the pro-
gram to fit the kids,

So this summer you can sign up for morn-
ings or aflernoons, regardless of age. Your
child can take drama for eight weeks, if de-
sired. Kids go four days a week, and instructors
spend one day a week tailoring the program to
the kids.

If your child has a dramatic streak or untap-
ped talent, or you just want him to have a fun-
filled, extra-special summer activity, call TLT.

Each parent has the opportunity to provide
input prior to the start of the first session! Ses-
sions run July 2 to 26 and Aug. 6 to 30. Choose
either mornings (9 a.m, to 12 p.m.) or after-
noons (1 to 4 p.m.). To register, please call
Nancy at 635-1329 or Marianne at 635-2942,

-Contributed

A Girl Guide classic
poised for change

YOU MAY want to freeze those Girl Guide
cookies you just bought during the recent
spring campaign, if you’re a big fan.

After nearly 40 years with the same cookie
company, Canada’s Girl Guides are switching
suppliers, ending a partnership with
Nabisco/Christie Brown.

In the past three years, Girl Guides of Ca-
nada had only
been able to ne-
gotiate one-year
contracts and the
current one ends
this year. The
company owns

for the classic
Girl Guide cookie
and the chocolate
mint.

Starting in
2003, Dare Foods
Ltd will make the

That makes
this spring’s coo-
kie drive the last The ‘Classic’
time the original,

t “classic”, Girl Guide cookies will be on
sale.

The new cookies will be made in a similar

' Style ~.spring’s chocolate and vanilla sand-

wich and the chocolate mint sold in the fall -
but it’s not yet known exactly what the new
cookies will be like,

The annual cookie campaign brings in
about $14 million for programs and events.
Guides started selling cookies 1927.:-Over the
years, maple, peanut b butter and other varieties ‘
were sold. rae

- up to the relay.

TERRACE STANDARD.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 81

SECTION B
JENNIFER LANG
638-7283

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Survivors

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SIBLINGS Brandon, 7,
and Stephanie Venus,
9, join their older sister,
Christine, 11, and family
pooch "Grannie” for a
short rest break from a
spirited game of base-
ball fetch. Grannie is ac-
tually too small to fetch
the baseball, but she
earns full marks for ef-
fort. The group was
spotted racing around
the fiald at George Little
Park one sunny after-
noon last week, while
dad Eric Venus pushed
youngest daughter Ma-
define, 2, on the nearby
swing set.

porters get

By JENNIFER LANG

“[ think it’s very important

ready for Relay for a Friend

IT’S AMAZING what people can
accomplish when they take up the
battle against an enemy that
doesn’t discriminate.

Take the participants at last
year’s Relay for A Friend, a
marathen event that raised more
than $45,700 for the Canadian
Cancer Society in just 12 hours.

Teams of cancer survivors,
their friends and family, and other
supporters, gather pledges leading

On relay day they walk, run,
or use wheelchairs to complete
laps around George Little Memor-
ial Park in downtown Terrace.

Teams are required to have al
least one member on the track at
all times.

It’s suggested each member
suggested each member spend
about an hour on the track each.

DETERMINED: Mackenzie Lindsay, seen during last year's
relay, completed 80 laps around the park.

FILE PHOTO

people are more aware,” says
Diane Chritchley of team Pizza
Hut, one of more than 27 teams
that have already signed up for
this year’s relay,

“When cancer hits close to
home, it’s an eye opener,” she
says. “Every contribution counts.”

The countdown has begun for
this year’s relay, slated for May

12:.--Mother’s Day-- at George
Little. Memorial Park. It. starts at
-10 am. »

’ The first lap is led by survivors.
The 12-hour relay concludes with
a candlelight service.

It’s just one of the relays taking
place in communities all across
Canada, including Kitimat and

. Prince Rupert, supporting re-
search, programs and services for
cancer patients, says organizer
Lynda Fagan, a volunteer with the
Canadian Cancer Society.

But just -try telling that to

people like Rita Hall. A member
of last year’s Team CUPE local
5052, she walked for seven and a
half hours in memory of her hus-
band. She’d wanted to complete

the full 12 hours.

And then there was Clarence
Michiel Elementary student Mac-
Kenzie Lindsay, then aged 9, who
completed an awe-inspiring 80

laps over the course of the day.
He ran most of them.

With determination like that,
it’s little wonder last year’s event
was such a success.

If you’d like to become a team
captain, call 635-9276. If you
can’t get enough people together
to form a team, space will be
found for you on an existing team.

Hot shots
bring trophy
to Terrace

By JENNIFER LANG
MEMBERS of the Terrace Ranger Patrol are
the proud winners of this year’s Skill-At-Arms
irophy, wrestling the tithe away from Port
Hardy after three years.

The award, now in its fourth year, is presen-
ted by the 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group
to the patrol that demonstrates outstanding
markmanship.

The Terrace Patrol was originally tied with
two other Patrols in the Pacific Coastal Militia
Rangers, leading to a timed tie-breaker shoot,
Patrol Commander Greg Harris says.

Terrace Patrol’s best marksman, Pierre
Cote, completed the final timed shoot, break-
ing the tie, and putting Terrace in the lead.

The Terrace Patrol has 25 members.
They’re issued 303 rifles, which date back to
the Second World War, Harris says.

Members preparing for the skill-testing con-
test practice by. hitting targets.

Once they're confident, they fire off 10

THE START of a tradition? Terrace Patrot Commander Greg Harris with the Skill-At-
Arms trophy. Terrace takes tha fledgling award from three-time winners Port Hardy.

rounds each at a target from a standing, kneel-
ing and finally from a prone position.
Individual scores are then compiled into a

patrol average and sent in for tabulation.

The patrol] with the best average wins. The

Terrace Patrol keeps the trophy for one year.

Judges pick
IT WAS a difficult decision, but in the end
the judges realized there was only one
choice.

Copper Mountain Elementary School has
been named the Cleanest School Yard, bea-
ting 17 other schools in-Terrace for the
Greater Terrace Beautification Society's an-
nual award.

“There is so much improvement,.it is ab-
solutely amazing,” past president Betty

Campbell said after she returned from jud-
ging the schools Friday moming.

Terrace’s Cleanest School

“You can really tell these kids care,” she
said, pointing cut the staff are to be congra-
tulated as well.

Proud Copper Mountain students Andrea
Bennett, Amy Martinson, Hannah Dale and
principal Phillip Barron happily posed for
pictures with the judges.

The panel of judges - Campbell, city
councillor Marylin Davies and Erica Sterner
— found it very. difficult to chose just one
winner after visiting 18 schools, but Coppet
Mountain was spotless.

plaque in the near future at a special as-
sembly.

runner-up certificates will be awarded to Up-
lands Elementary, Parkside
Veritas, Centennial Christian, the Seventh
Day Adventist School, PACES and Lakelse
Jr. High School.

trash, covered containers with lids in use,
extra effort, and size of the school yard.

The school will reccive a commemorative

Because so many schools did so well,

Elementary,

Schools were judged on amount of visible