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Digital photographers:
snap to it :

THE TERRACE Tourism Society" s (TTS) first

ever photo contest is in motion.

Appropriately, the group has chosen a as the con-
test's theme: “Terrace in motion”

The contest is designed to engage the commu-

_hity in opportunities to promote the unique ¢ aspects
and quality of life in _ 2 oe

our region. Photos ‘gas
are: invited from
across the North-

«The . 2006
contest is seek-.”
ing photos _
that il-'

trate .

gion’s
people
in® mo-
tion and.
shots
that ‘de-
pict. the
“emotions”
and the feel of

life in the North- a | ;

west.
The photo contest is open to everyone and all

photos must be submitted in jpeg format at high ©

resolution (300dpi: at.4”°x5”). Only. submissions
adhering to these rules will be accepted.

Every digital photo submitted must be accom-
panied by a completed online entry form:.Each
photo is considered a separate entry. .

Contact information must be submitted with ;

each entry, along with the date and location of

_ the photograph | (note interesting facts about the.

subject{s] in the photo that may not otherwise be
obvious to the judges).
Title the photo and provide information about
how this photo represents the contest theme.
Submissions will be judged by the following:
criteria.

Relevancy to category topic: “how effectively ~

does the photo illustrate the theme?

Composition/ Arrangement: are the subjects in
the photo arranged in a meaningful, pleasing man-
ner? Did the photographer use the best angle or
otherwise interesting perspective?

Focus/ Sharpness: is the object of the photo in
focus? If not in sharp focus, does it appear to be
an intentional effect to enhance the image in some

“artistic” way? :

Lighting: do any extremes of darkness or bright-
ness lend to, or distract from, the image content?

Creativity: does the photographer show some

* creative thought or original idea in the making of

this image?
Winning photos will be displayed in two loca-

‘tions, the first being the Terrace Tourism website
_in the form of e-cards. E-cards are free, online

electronic postcards available worldwide through
the Internet.
This virtual campaign, developed by TTS, en-

, courages residents to send e-cards to invite friends,

family and acquaintances to visit Terrace and the
northwest area.

The second location is a 2007 travel guide pro-
duced each year by the society.

The 2006 photo contest runs to Oct. 1. Winning .

entries will be selected by the Terrace Tourism

Society. Contest winners will be announced, and

winning photographs unveiled before the end of
the year. ,

For further details, go lo www. terracetourism.
be.ca ;

_ Literary luminaries in
the Northwest

TERRACE HOSTS two decorated writers with
ties to the Northwest over the next eight days.

Poet George
Stanley, _visits
the George Little
House Sunday

Aug. 6. Read more
about Stanley on
this page or for
more information
about his reading,
contact Alisa at
635-0935.

On Thursday,
Aug. 10, former
Kitimaat resident
-Eden Robinson
comes to the Ter-
race Public Library
from 7-8 p.m.
Robinson will

read from her
new novel, Blood
Sports, which re-
visits characters from her previous ‘novella, Con-

Eden Robinson

“tact Sports.

Robinson. too, has awards and nominations to
her credit: most notably, she’s been nominated for

the 2000 Governor General's Award and the 2000 -

Giller Award for Monkey Beach, and won the 1998
Winifred Holtby Prize for Traplines.
For more info, call the library at 638-8177.

“bers: have done the dirty ©
work, dedicating a year to.

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Pioneer women, pioneer play

By DUSTIN QUEZADA

HISTORY. The: word is

_ enough to make some people
shudder, thoughts of restless

research sessions through
textbooks and the Internet
with a looming test or essay.

It doesn’t have to-be that .
way as-employees at Heri-
tage Park Museum have dis- _
"covered.

‘Following their mandate
to educate people on local
history, museum staff mem-

develop a script that brings

act play.

Museum curator Cindy:

Hansen wrote and produced
Ma ‘Lambly's with, former
summer student Penny
Beames. —

Together, they conducted

one-on-one. interviews. with
people who knew some of
the characters depicted as
well as consulted newspaper
articles and history books.
“I prefer to talk with peo-

ple instead of using history

books,” said Hansen, adding

and biases.
The play was first pre-
sented at the museum during

‘the holiday season in 2004.
“Tt proved such a success °
"with locals and visitors that

it returned last summer and —

is now onits third run. —
Hansen. convinced her
friend,

Janine Hamming, to star in
the play and she has been
bringing Ma Pamnbly's Sto life
ever since.

Her:-first try at-a mono- .

logue, let alone a historical
play, Hamming says putting
the play together has been a
welcome challenge.

“It’s been very interest-
ing because I’ve been so in-
volved in creating the final
product,” Hamming said.

Since its first run, lines
and characters have been
added and deleted.

local: teacher and.
-Terrace Little Theatre actor

-made-in-Terrace play Ma Lambly’s

JANINE Hamming skillfully jumps between the roles of nine different women in the

DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

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“It’s, a. different play,”
Hamming said.

interactive and
one performed in the. Dix’s
Dance. Hall building on the
museum grounds.

Hamming enters from the
back of the audience, plung-
ing the onlookers into the
life of the title character. _

. Flossie. Lambly, known
to her customers as Ma,
operated the Corner Snack
Bar in what. would become
downtown Terrace.

Lambly is the only re-
curring character as the
monologue flows through a
collection of nine women,
some real, others fictional
that portray what life was

‘The one-act play is an °
_ intimate ©.

- hearsed,”

like for the pioneer women .

that made Terrace in its in-
fancy.

Hamming says her act-.
ing talents have been tested —
playing so many characters

on one stage in a mono-
logue.
“It’s difficult playing so
many characters. It’s so re-
said Hamming,
adding she must be sure to
distinguish the characters so
not to confuse the audience.
We meet Eliza Thornhill,
a trapper and sister of a Kit-
selas chief who married the
first white man in Terrace.
There’s Vina Eby, “an
all around pioneer woman”
who opened Eby’s Landing,
a store famously located at

Poet returns fresh from
winning high honour

By SARAH ARTIS

A LITERARY genius has
returned to our midst.
George Stanley, an ac-
complish poet who lived
in Terrace for 15 years,
will read a selection of his
work as part of Riverboat

Days Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. atthe .

George Little House.
Stanley started writing
poetry in high school, when
his teacher ordered his class
to write, then told only him

and two others they had tal-

ent and go with it.

‘He’ continued to write
while in the army and stuck
with it, he said, after meeting
a group of encouraging, fel-
low poets in San Francisco,
where he was born.

Stanley moved to Terrace ~

several years later when the

Northwest Community Col- .

‘Jege hired him as a teacher,

and.lived here until he re-

tired in 1991.

’ “One of the pleasures of
having George come here
is that his work is relevant
at a time when poetry and
even all art has somehow
become foreign to us,”

said Simon Thompson, an. §

NWCC English teacher who
knows Stanley well. “When
we think of poetry, we
think of something alien but
George’s work is familiar.
It’s about us.”

Stanley has many poems
about life in the North, as
well as. a poetry book, Af
Andy’s, named after a poem
about being at his. good

friend Andre Klingner’s’

house in Terrace.
“He even has a poem

about Hanky’s.” You. would
think, ‘How are you sup-
posed to write a poem about

_ Hanky’s?,” but there it is,”
Thompson said. -

“George Stanley
sounds like nobody
else.” -

Stanley is brilliant,
Thompson said.

“He’s a man who thinks.

Intellectually, he has a very.
deep understanding of the

world around him and has
done a great deal of thinking
;» about the world-in which he
lives. And he is able to ar-

George Stanley

ticulate about that world,”
he said.

The poet recently won the
Shelley Memorial Award,
the second most prestigious

award given by the Poetry - .

Society of America.

The award’s only criteria

is genius and need.

This year’s judges, Joshua |

Clover and Sonia Sanchez,
wrote in the award citation:

“Stanley's capacity to.

grasp both the personal and

_ the social, the local and the

conceptual — and how they
are always reaching for each
other, dreaming of each
other, failing each other and
themselves —. is surprising,
moving, seductive.”
“George Stanley sounds
like nobody else,”
“In terms of poetics, that
is a spectacular achievement

» ~ it doesn’t happen for many

writers,” Thompson said.
Stanley is humble about
his work, and describes his

"Style .as: “traditional mod-
_em.

”

He uses free verse but j 48

notas experimental as others, .

he said, adding he doesn’t
use “language games.”
“T try to get out of myself,

' get out of my own ego and’

personal concerns — to get
some lines that seem simply

to be poetry, without relat-_

ing to my own ego,” he said
of his writing.
Stanley’s books include

The Stick, Opening Day, |
Temporarily, San Francis-

co’s Gone, Gentle Northern
Summer, and most recently,
A Tall, Serious Girl.

He now lives in Van-

. couver, but visits Terrace at

least once year. “I still have
the feeling that this town is
my home,” he said.

Stanley’s talk is free and
open to the public.

they said.

the Kalum riverboat stop.
Annie Ross .opened the

first sub-post office in Ross- °

wood, the community named
after her.

ing officer!”
~ Finally, there’ s Josephine

McDonald,» who, moved to

Terrace in 1955, where the ,
former hunting: guide taught

’ people how to drive trucks.

“says McDonald of the title .

McDonald brings it back

— to the affable Lambly as the,

play nears an end.:
“She brings out, the best
in everyone ,— she -does,”

character.
‘It is likely the play will

have run its course with this.
- summer’s last showing on |
Aug. 30, if not permanently

then temporarily. .
. Hamming, 27, says she’ Il
be sad to see it end because

she has had-such a great re-

action from audiences.

“It’s gotten great feed-_

_ back,” Hamming » said. “I

think it’s fabulous in the’
_ Way it gets people. involved
~ with the characters.”
=. Hamming says the play
“represents only a small but.

; significant . portion. of Ter-

Addie Nelson is a young —

Kitsumkalum _ girl, inno-
cently oblivious to the racial
chasms of the day.

_ The play’s three fictional

characters — a nurse, a Royal

Air ‘Force member and a
waitress at Corner Snack —

. give accounts of real events.

Lizzie Rochester is the
air force corporal who tells
of the Terrace mutiny, Ham-
ming’s personal favourite.

“IT really enjoyed that’

story,” Hamming said. “To
think officers were threaten-
ing to shoot their command-

race’s history and she wish- .
es it could be performed i in

area schools.

That won't happen. as
‘long as the junior secondary -
English and drama teacher

owns the role, as her sched- -

ule wouldn’t allow it.
“I feel a lot of’ owner-

‘ship (with the play) but it'll
* probably end up with some-
~.one else taking over,’

” she
added.

Hansen says the muse-
_um’s board of directors will

ultimately decide” whether
Ma Lambly’s returns after

‘the summer or whether an-
other play is born.

“There’s a potential to

develop a male companion *
piece,” Hansen added.

The show is presented

on Wednesday evenings at ©

8 p.m. Audiences can enjoy
the experience while indulg-
ing in complementary coffee
or tea and dessert. Just five
presentations remain, start-
ing tonight...

For ticket details, go to
pageB2.

ROBERT Stanley Sr. adds art earlier this year to the
soon-to-open Wilp Simgan Carving Shed. FILE PHOTO -

Carving a place

for Nisga’a artists

IT’S) A’ PLACE | where
Nisga’a ‘carvers and other
artists come together tocreate
unique pieces of art, but it’s
also a place that. showcases
the Nisga’a_ culture and the
place of artinit. - .

It’s the Wilp Simgan
Carving Shed and its. offi-
cial grand opening is slated,
to happen during Riverboat,

- Days.

The. art studio is.in the
basement of the George

cated space for creating art
— something not every artist
has in their own home, says
Terrace Nisga’a Society. ad-
ministrator Shirley Grey.

In bringing artists togeth-
er in one space, a creative

_ Little House and is a dedi- ©

feeling i is generated that the:

artists feed from, she says,-
adding the carving shed also -

offers other benefits. -
“It offers exposure for the

artists,” says Grey. “There is

interest out there — we have

had several classes come -

just to see what the carvers
are doing and what the envi-
ronment is.”

Having the Nisga’a artists
working at the shed has also
involved support with area
Tsimshian groups. .
because the carving shed,
and Terrace itself, is located
within traditional Tsimshian
territory and the Nisga’a art-
ists operate here with the

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