and operated newspaper

Your hometown locally owned

r

The way
I see it...

by Siephanie Wiebe

"We've got to start saying
*NO’", my friend told me. I
nodded in agreement, Life was

. getting pretty hectic again, with
_ the kids’ activities, part-time
work, and those volunteer —
organizations. Kids’ activities
mean driving, fund raising, phone
calls, fund raising, meetings, and
selling chocolate-covered almonds
for fund raising. Volunteer
organizations. mean hours of
meetings, with the odd fund
raising thrown in for excitement, .
Yep, it was time to start saying
NO..

“We psyched ourselves up for
the annual onslaught of autumn
phone calls. "Would you be
willing to serve on a committee?”
Could you possible spare an hour

_ fo canvass door-to-door?" We
were determined to be tough.
“There comes a time when
Rriorities. need to be put into
“order, and every person has the
“tight to say NO, We were ready.
Then the phone began ringing.
_ Well, one meeting a month
wouldn't hurt. Sure, I could make
a few phone calls to organize
some volunteers. And how could
anybody not join in the support -
of at least one cause? This nation
. would crumble without the work
of volunteers to carry. it along,
and cach person has a duty to
contribute their share. Suddenly,
the calendar was filling up. I
could hear the desperation in my
voice whenever I answered the
phone. The laundry pile started
building into.a mountain, the cat
__ Suffered neglect and my library
f “books were overdue, It was
: happening again.
_ . And then I said NO. A woman
a phoned, someone I knew, and
oa -asked.me to canvass door-to-door.

3 _ for a worthy cause, to raise oy

_. money: to fight a horrible disease

c=. _—_that T hope I never get. But I said

ee a

a . + She sounded disappointed, ‘and I
ig . “knew she had a few more phone -
ae calls to make that night, checking .

od .” Off her list of hopeful volunteers. -
- ' [held my ground and apologized,

. but said that my plate was getting

OG fairly full and I just couldn’t take —
an - ‘on another task. I felt assertive

i and proud.

ot And guilty. The moment I hung

a, "up the phone, I knew that God

_— could strike me down with the
a very disease I had refused to

ny support. I thought of all the sweet

zl suffering children in hospitals

i . ‘around the country, counting on
_Nolunteers to give up one lousy

_ evening to raise.money toward - -
"finding. a cure for this horrid
illness. For.all I knew, millions

of volunteers throughout the
world might assert themselves
like I had, and refuse to help
others in need. I thought of the
selfless, missionaries overseas,
giving up their comfortable lives
to help those less fortunate. I
thought of Mother Teresa,
epidemics, poverty, earthquakes
and tornadoes. I thought of
malnourished babies, street
people, barren rainforests, cruel
animal testing, and the thinning
of the ozone layer. Oh, what had

I done?

I phoned my friend for support.
"Did they call you?"

"Yes."

"And did you do it? Did you
say "NO’?"

"Well..."

Not only did I ruin the world,
but I did it alone.

When the volunteer came to my

_ house to.collect for that awful,

disease, I handled it well. She
refused to-accept my wedding
rings and the keys to the station
wagon, but I understood where
she was coming from. Sometimes
a person just has to say no.

Sports  <-F eatures
Community News .
Arts & Entertainment

A DEJECTED OTTO GRUNDMANN looks over the damage done to two fruit trees

_ in the back yard of his Hanson St. home by a marauding and apparently health

food.oriented bear recently. Grundmann believes the bear was attempting to climb
the plum trees to clean off the goodies in the upper growth and broke the trunks
and limbs in the process. Local conservation officers expect more incidents of this

kind as berries and salmon become scarce and bears start trying to put on fat for

_ hibernation.

School board recognizes
last year’s academic
aces from Caledonia

Caledonia Senior Secondary
School students who racked up
outstanding achievements in the
1989-90. academic year were

_given certificates of recognition
. by the trustees of School District

88 at the first board meeting of
the school year Sept. 11.

_ Framed certificates were made .
put for the following students:

rY

. Provincial Scholarship
. Winners = $1,000

Carolle Michaud — SMS total
of 1976, attending University of

. Alberta in Edmonton in Science,

planning to go into optometry.

Theresa Newhouse — SMS
total of 1986, attending Univer-
sity of Victoria, planning to ma-
jor in Political Science, also
awarded a scholarship for UBC
for next year.

Jason Parviainen — SMS
total of 1912, attending NWCC
in Science. -—

Ryan Stevenson — SMS total.
of 1959, attending UBC in Pre-
Medicine,

winner of 1990.
_ .Governor Generals. Medal, Nor-
_ man MacKenzie Scholarship...

Provincial Scholarship
Winners — $2,000

Nathan Wilkerson — SMS
total of 2257 and ranked among
the top 20 provincial scholarship
winners in B.C., attending Brig-
ham Young University in Utah
in Engineering, won $30,000 per
year entrance scholarship.

Grade 11 students who wrote
‘ Grade 12 exams In June

Presently in Grade 12 at Cale-
donia — Chad Edmonds, Bio-
logy 12, 93%; Jason Krause,
Biology 12, 95%; Kannin Osei-
Tutu, Biology 12, 90%; David
Shepherd, Biology 12, 96%;
David Wolfe, Algebra 12, 96%.

Graduates

Brian Anderson, Chemistry
12, 93%, attending UBC — En-
gineering.

Kirsten Mackenzie, Biology
12, 90%, attending NWCC,
First Year Arts, going: into lin-
guistics,

 Carolle Michaud, Algebra 12,
95% and Chemistry 12, 98%
and French 12, 95%, attending

University of Alberta in Edmon-
ton in Science, planning to go in-. .

to optometry, winner of provin-
cial scholarship.

Jason Parviainen, Biology 12,
94% and Chemistry 12, 91%, at-
tending NWCC in Science, win-
ner of provincial scholarship.

Ryan Stevenson, Biology 12,
94%, attending UBC in Pre-
Medicine, winner of 1990

Governor Generals Medal, Nor-

man MacKenzie Scholarship,

winner of provincial scholar-—

ship. .
Callie Swan, Physics 12,.90%,
attending University of Victoria
in Science, planning to go into
Veterinary Medicine, winner of
Nancy Greene Scholarship.

Heidi Weibe, English 12,
92%, presently working at the
Toronto Dominion Bank, plan-
ning to go to university in Re-
Hab Medicine.

Nathan Wilkerson, Algebra
12, 98%, and Geography 12,
96%, attending Brigham Young
University in Utah in Engineer-
ing, won $30,000 per year en-

- trance scholarship, plus a $2,000

government scholarship award-

ed to the top 20 students in the

province.

TERRACE — Local conservation
officers were forced to destroy a
black bear that was disturbing
residents in. the North Kalum
trailer court over the Labour Day
weekend.

Conservation officer Peter Kalina
said last week that intrusion of
bears into the downtown core is
not unusual. "It’s not a daily event,

_but it’s not uncommon."
Bear sightings and complaints in

Terrace are running at their usual
high level, Kalina said. He expects
reports to run in excess of 200 by
the end of summer. And the prob-
lem will probably worsen as the
fall progresses.

During the carly summer, Kalina

said, bears are normally happy to

Stay out.in the bush during years
like this when berries are plentiful
and the salmon are running. With
the end of the salmon run and the
bushes picked clean, however, they
start looking for other sources of
food, often finding the refuse left
out around human habitations. The
bears’ appetite problems are aggra-

vated at this time of the year by
the fact that they're trying to put

‘on weight in preparation for hiber-

nating, .

a a 2 ee

sos