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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 8, 1995 - Bt

Volunteers of the Year

Help us celebrate the city’s unsung heroes

WHEN YOU stop to admire
the flowers, swing a bat in a
ball park or go to the hospital
for a test, you’re often enjoy-
ing the benefits of volunteer
work.

Terrace is widely recognized
as being a generous com-
munity when it comes to help-
ing people out,

That’s in part a reflection of
the degree to which local
people and businesses are
willing to contribute.

And it’s also a measure of

the dedication and drive of the
hundreds of volunteers work-
ing on behalf of numerous

‘groups in the city.

To recognize those com-
munity volunteers, the Ter-
race Standard is organizing a
‘Volunteers of the Year’?
contest this spring.

It’s your chance lo nominate
someone you think does a lot
to make Terrace a better place,

Anyone who docs unpaid
volunteer work is eligible,
They don’t have to be af-

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filiated with a club or organi-
zation.

You'll find an entry form on
page B4 of today’s Paper. The
deadline for entries is Friday,
March 31,

Tell us as much as you can
about your nominee — how
long they’ve been here, what
kind of volunteer work
they’ve dohe, and how they’ve
helped improve life in Terrace,

A panel of three judges — to
be announced in coming
weeks — will adjudicate and

Curtain rises on
a theatrical Escape

IF MARIANNE Weston is
right, ihe laughter ought to
echo down Kalum Street when
the curtain rises on Terrace
Little ‘Theatre’s Escape From
Happiness tomorrow night.

Weston knows from experi-

“ence,

She’s not only the director,
she was part of the audience
several weeks ago when the
Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
performed the same play.

“And [ laughed my head
off,” she says. ‘‘I screamed
with laughter for two hours,”

The story, wrilten by Cana-
dian playwright George F.

Walker, follows the
comically-neuratic Samuels
family as they struggle
through some dark and

desperate moments together,

Cities face off for maras

TAKE TWO teams of male and
female athletes. Add seven
athletic events. Spread over a 24-
hour period and provide plenty of
fresh clothes and liquids.

That’s the recipe for a different
kind of challenge between Prince
Rupert and Terrace,

The finished product is called a
marasportathon and the goal is to
collect pledges and donations in
support of B,C.’s Children’s Has-
pital.

It happens March 18 and 19 in
Prince Rupert.

“That cily bas had several
marasporlathons in the past, all of
which have raised moncy for the
" children’s hospital.

Each proved so successful it
seemed natural to spread the con-
" cept to include a challenge with a
neighbouring city, says Prince
Rupert marasporlathon organizer
Doug Kydd.

“*The hospital just docsn’t serve
the lower mainland, Kids frorn all
over go there,” said Kydd in ex-
plaining why B.C.’s Children’s
Hospital is a worthy recipient.

Last year there were 133 visits
to the hospital from Terrace and
area children and 138 visits fom

Prince Rupert.

That almost equal number
added to the altraction of the
challenge, said Kydd.

The hospital also sends special-
ized teams around the province to
provide services.

Onc such example took place
here in January when a children’s
hospital team held an EEG clinic
‘at Mills Memorial Hospital.

This first-ever marasportathon
between Terrace and Prince
Rupert features curling, dances-

clze, aquabasketball, hockey,
bowling, indoor soccer, vol-
leyball and basketball.

One of the more venturcsome
of the events is dancercize,

It's ta take place in conjunction
with the Ladies Marine Bonspic!
Social. Participants will be auc-
tioned off and they'll dance non-

,

The Samuels are far from a
Brady-Bunch crew.

Their lives pivot around
Nora, a nattering matriarch
played by Karla Hennig, who
makes tea and stuffs envelopes
between crises -- gun-toting
criminals in the kitchen, illegal
drugs stashed in the basement,
and that vacant-eyed man up-
stairs who bears a striking
resemblance to her ‘‘dead’’
ex-husband.

Nora’s bizarre life unfolds in
her kitchen. When the police
arrest her for drug-dealing, she
kindly offers them tea and
cake.

Nora’s kitchen is also the
backdrop for her family’s off-
beat drama.

Her three daughters, played
by Joan Sangster, Jennifer

Dave Cater

Debbie Scarborough

slop for an hour with those who
took part in the auction.

Here’s a breakdown of the local
team.

Dave Cater is a teacher at
Uplands Elementary and has
lived here for six years,

He ranks his athletic ability as
*'so so’? but has played old time
hockey and basketball, has played
volleyball for a number of years,
taken part in cufling fun
bonspiels, bowled as a child and
played soccer as a youth.

Donna Lindsay, a 30-year resi- .

dent of Terrace, is a teller and fit.
ness instructor,
She has taken several years of

Kenney, and Joelle Walker,
display their own diversions
there: one has _ recently
deserted her husband and
child, another casually tosses
oul hints about the bisexual
promiscuity she blends with
her slick career, and the third
lives at home with a man

who’s just been beaten uncon- ©

scious by thugs.

Alan Weston portrays Nora’s
husband and Patrick McIntyre
plays Junior, her son-in-law.

Escape from Happiness, also
a Skeena Zone Drama Festival
entry, runs two weekends:
March 9, 10, and 11; and 17,
18, and 19 at the McColl
Playhouse.

Viewers, take note, there is
some coarse language in the
script. Tickets are on sale for
$12 at Carters Jewellers.

Roy Vick
ballet, has taught aerobics for
nine years and took gymnastics
lessons for five years,

Her least favourite sport is golf,

Roger Harris describes himself
as an ‘‘expiring executive”
whose favourite sport is watching
TSN.

A four-year resident of Terrace
and owner of Bayview Fuels,
Harris lists his age at 42 and
climbing, height at 5 feet 9 inches
and shrinking and weight as 172
and holding.

Heldi Sichring teaches at

. Centennial Christlan School and
has lived in Terrace for two and -
~ half years,

She's a newcomer to basketbatt

delermine Terrace’s
Volunieers of the Year,

The one winner and two
honourable mentions will
Teceive commemorative pla-
ques, will be featured in the
Standard and will be honoured
at a volunteer appreciation
luncheon in April.

You can drop off your
entries at Overwaitea or the
Terrace - Standard, You can
also fax them to the Standard
at 638-8432 or mail them to
4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace,
B.C., V8G iS8.

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Heidi Siebring
and counts soccer, running and
biking as favourite activilies.

Golf is her least favourite sport
and has bowled once or twice,

Caro] Wall has lived in Terrace
for three year and isa recreation
programmer for the city.

Her favourite sport is hockey

and least favourite sport is swim-
ming, |

She’s never played soccer but
has played volleyball and basket-
ball.

Tracy Horwood is an RCMP
officer, she’s been in Terrace for
two and a half years.

Horwood - has bowled at the

provincial ‘level and played heck

ty in recreational leagues,

SECTION B
CRIS LEYKAUF
638-7283

“New face at Standard

B science in 1993.

CRIS LEYKAUF has joined
The Terrace Standard,

From Prince George,
Leykauf graduated from the
| University of Victoria with a
Bachelor of Arts in political

Is a homecoming for
Leykauf. While at UVic she
took part in the creative writ-
ing department’s co-operative
education program.

And that led to a work term
assignment at The Terrace
Standard in 1992,

Leykauf takes over the com-
munity section from Jeff
Nagel, who will concentrate
on news and features,

Hl On the
catwalk

A LOOK BACK: RCMP
CONST. Mel Colette and
84-year-old Muriel
O'Boyle model fashions
of yesteryear at the
Heritage Society's 100
Years of Fashion celebra-
tion at the Arena banquet -
room two Sundays ago. it
wasn't Spring 1995, but.
the fashion flashback
gave the audience an in-
teresting and informative —
look at the clothes of a
bygone era,

poration

Dave Crawley

Her favourite sport is basketball
and played it while in college.

Hans “‘Roy’’ Vick is a teacher
and a five-year resident of Ter-
race.

He’s taken part in three mini-
marathons, competed in. judo
yeats ago, boxed as an amateur
for three years and has been
weight training for 15 years,

Vick counts basketball. ‘and
hockey as a favourite sports,
Debbie Scarborough works for -

B.C. Tel and is an auxiliary
RCMP member and has lived
here for 28 years. :

She plays: basketball, racquét-
ball and sometimes, volleyball. »

- Her hockey activity is Iimited to:

Roger Harris

Tracy Horwood
watching the sport on TV and
says football is her least favourite
sport.

Dave Crawley is a school prin-
cipal and has lived in Terrace for
19 years,

He played high school basket.
bail and volleyball and has
watched soccer on TV,

Crawley’s never played hockey
and lists swimming as a least
favourite sport.

Judy Foy is a paramedic and
has lived in Terrace for two and a
half years,

She played socecr and vol-
leyball in high school and basket-
ball at college,

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