oe broadcast — and preserve — music heritage Terrace-based Northern Native -Broadcasting recently formed a branch organization to provide new material for its. broadcasting operations. by Philip Musselman The Native Music Heritage Society is an organization which _ focuses on native traditional songs and works under the theme “communication through music’, - - According to. Terrance Arm- strong, managing director of the ‘newly-formed organization, the everyday work put into finding and developing native talent is moving the association closer to ‘achieving the proper reflection of the native community. The office of the Native Music Heritage Society is based in the . Northern. Native Broadcasting offices, but a mobile recording _ facility will be available by using. new and improved equipment that has just arrived. The association will not only _ provide music for Northern Na- tive Broadcasting but will also approach other media systems. and offer native traditional and contemporary music as a part of programming variety. The group will also-work- “with videos and other forms of com-. munication in order to further their purposes. Elders will be approached and family stories will be transcribed into print. . Keeping learning i in mind, ‘the society has already been in con- tact with the Knowledge Net- work and will be working to set . up documentaries for the net- work’s use in the future. _ The Native Music Heritage Society has applied. for funding in order to help it create a strong approach into the communica- tion needed to present the native way of life to non-native people. Three major goals in what is ‘‘Native Musician called’ the Campaign’’ are, according to Armstrong, to. increase aware- ness of native talents to non- native people, (o encourage native people to cultivate their talents, and to recognize talents in traditional and contemporary native musicians and reflect the culture and traditions of native peoples. © On Oct. 24 a concert will be held in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre to showcase native talent. The - No Vehicle? No Vehicle? _ Do you have problems with picking up prescriptions, grocerles, appliances or anything else? 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As an affiliate of this organization, the society will work with feature full- length videos like the recently completed :video of the Kitsum- kalum Pole Raising ceremony, soo to be aired on CFTK televi- sion. The Native Music Heritage Society has received $6,000 in funding for .a conference on ‘Heritage. Conservation of Oral Traditions, at which native and government representatives will discuss policies in order to relay a common picture of oral trad : --tion «heritage - cénservation® B.C, With so many sources of com- munication offered, the society will be busy keeping involved i in all initiatives. “ven though it may seem that we are involving ourselves in a number of different in- itiatives, in reality they all com- plement each other,’’ Arm- strong concluded. 7 Police Report Numerous small thefts have" been occurring in the Terrace area, mostly from unlocked vehicles. Terrace RCMP suggest that locked vehicles will prevent — thefts of personal. items, and that valuable objects should not be left in vehicles. Tobacco — continued from page 6 _ want a small minority opposed to a Clean-Air By-law to dominate’and dictate us. *** “Joe Schoenfeld. Terrace eo Terrace resident Brent Fuergutz, injured in a sawmill accident last year, recently. became involved in a new . Workers’ Compensation Board program and is now taking computer training in the WCB Richmond facillty. _ Terrace: man involved in. _ unique taining program ‘Terrace resident . Fuergutz . is ..one of 15 par- ticipants in a unique new pro- gram organized by the Workers’ Compensation Board,said to be’ the first of its kind i in Canada.. by Philip Musselman -. Fuergutz lost three fingers last year at a.local sawmill in an in- dustrial” accident involving’ a trim saw. One of those fingers was re-attached by surgeons, but Fuergutz needs a_ specially- ; designed splint so that he can write and operate a typewriter with his right hand. .The Terrace man is now par- ticipating in the Access Ability ‘program at - the Rehabilitation Centre in Richmond, where he is learning to: become a computer | programmer. The WCB invested over $600,000 in building a classroom - to accommodate the course, A Brent. course for the 15 students. | variety of. business companies have advised the WCB during various stages of the program’s’ - Organization in order to- help provide a completely . detailed Each of the pupils had to‘ have had-an interest in computers and a ‘grade 12 education. Classes _ run five days per week, and a : series of tests had to be made in order to determine which of -the 60 applicants would be accepted for the 15 places in the course.. According to Fuergutz the- program is challenging and in- teresting. The helpfulness displayed by the. instructors has also impressed him. The > ‘students come from a wide range of different backgrounds and have suffered different types of injuries. They .Support each other and help each other to understand and ex- cel. : Puergutz. With the implementation of programs like. Access Ability, . more and -more injured. workers | will have a chance to get back in- to the. working world, said Bids open ‘Tenders have been called fora contract to. reconstruct the . Khyex River to Aberdeen Creek section of Highway 16 between - Terrace and Prince Rupert, — The project, 9.376 kilometers _ long,’ will consist generally of © new grade construction from quarried rock, placement and maintenance of surcharges, drainage, gravelling, paving, construction and. subsequent removal of a temporary _ haul bridge, and the restoration of the Skeena River foreshore. ‘All -tenders are returnable ~ October 27, 1987. ‘You don’t have to _be rich to — advertise! -Acclassified ad in the Terrace Review . is yours for ONLY 84 (per week, 30 words or less) ‘How do you get your ad into the Review? — @ drop It in our mail slot @ mail it to us ® come Into our office ® phone us ® or stop us on the street There will be no billing! Pay ‘next time youth come in or next time you see us. We're work: & ingt the “Honor System” Terrace Review 4535 Greig Ave., Terrace