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4 | THURSDAY; SEPTEMBER 16, 1971

crews work on new Municipal drainage scheme.

The $400,000 project wilt allow better drainage of
surface water which has plagued downtown
pedestrians for years, The new storm sewer will

TERRACE CONCERT ASSN.
Mon, 20th Sept. 1971
8 pm

Terrace Gantennial Library.

come to Terrace through a low interest
provincial loan. Here crews work near Skeena
River, just east of Keith.

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Annual General Meeting

ALL MEMBERS, PLEASE ATTEND

* Food that. may reduce the

family’s risk of heart disease

ean be achieved with moderate

changes in eating habits, Says

the B.C, Heart Foundation. :
XXEXXK

CENTENNIAL MEMO --
Clement Francis Cornwall

(1836-1910) introduced fox

hunting to British Columbia in
the 1860's near Ashcroft. He
Jater.. became. a Lieutenant-
Governor: of the Province,

giving.a hearty welcome. to
"Ferrace’ Tesidents ip :
mee the chung activities.

TERRACE HERALD, T TERRACE, Bo.

| e ‘Ashlet

tops:
“golfers.

‘The Thornhill : Ladies Golf
Champlonship. “Tournament
took place aver the weekend at
the Thornhill Golf Club... ..-

Out-of the twenty-one ladies
taking part, nineteen’ were In
the eaghteen hole division and
two were in’ the nine hole
division. The results of. the
Tournament: in the Cham-
pionship: Flight. were Ashley
Proceviat First, Sylvia Mac-
donald tirat runner up, Marylin
‘Davies second runner up,
Winnie Blakeburn net‘ winner
and Jean Orr runner up.

In the B Flight Jan Condon
was thefirst, Mags Gingles first
runner up, Audrie Cox second
runner up, dulie Little net
winner, Donna Harvey first
‘runner up and Gail Sharples
second runner up. In the Nine
hold division Anne Waldie was
the winner. :

happening |
at Alliance.

Several good things have been.
happening at a local Church,

Terrac Alliance Chapel this
week announced that: new
pastor R. Munro will. be
arriving in town shortly, Rev.
R. Munro is expected to be on
hand for September 26 services
and will be officially welcomed

| atan induction service October

“Further reports. from the

Chapel. said Sunday School is

starting its fall session and an
increase In school attendance ig
expected. A. spokesman

_4ttributed the increase to 2

Successful daily Vacation Bible
School which was held here at
the end of August.

The Young people of the
Chapel will be in charge of the
evening . servi service on
September 19. .

“There is. a good rhusical -
Program with Mr, Ed De Vris

,45 speaker planned for the
occasion,” the spokesman said.

They ended their report by

, "BY &. JOHNSON | :
st (HE ¥ouDon' Like It, Serap Ip

You will ho doubt weary of me
‘apleling off from/time to tihedn *

the subject of painting, since it
has been an incurable vice of
mine for the past tén years, and
avery unprofitablé one for the
first five, My advice to the

- beginner in oil painting (and if .

advice was worth a' dime, we'd
all be rich) is: “If you have any
choice, take up gambling. in-
stead.”. ‘This habit is hard on
the backbone, expensive, only
for those who delight in solitude,
and irreversible once it gets into
gear, And if you have any

- illusions about” getting rich

quick, . forget it!. You'll: be
painting your own grey hair ina’
self-portrait before you sell
your first landscape. All those
paintings you’vye seen with the
high price tags, have likely been
collecting dust for two years.

(Mind you...some people ARE

_ licky, like the guy who heard ©

there was a grand prize for--

. modern, art; so he decided he
‘would pour some paint-on-the
. canvas and run over it with his

Good “things.

bicycle. He won -first prize.
Let me give you a better idea
what is involved. You ‘are
preparing to do, what in your
mind, is. going to be the final

word in abstract expressionism, -

with swirling visions of Jackson .

. Pollock filling your brain. You

rush down to the carpenter with
a rather heavy board (can-
vasboards from the drugstore
will not support the materials
you've hauled home from the
auto-wreckers); and you have
this board perfectly squared at
all corners, bearing in mind the
problems encountered in trying
to frame anything but a ninety
degree angle. Now you are
ready to begin. NOT AT ALL.

You have forgotten {o sand the
rough edges down, and to size
the sponge-like surface with
some.tacky (Odourless?) white
guck, You commence to paint.

Ah...but wait a minute...you ,

have also forgotten that you are
wearing your best sweater; that
you have NOT donned your.
painter’s mask (otherwise
known as a gas mask); and that
you are not using your skin-tight ~~
gloves. So you get on your
surgeon’s garb; while con-
fronting you is a spotless, white .
board with absolutely nothing

on it. THIS, my friends, is the |

moment that every artist has

“dreaded: fon «centuries: As
‘clouds! ‘atid’ blue’ ‘skies moye _

completely installed in :
overy respeot for only OS

a franchise for

grasp a brush in one hand,

- knife in the other, saya fervent .F
prayer to your personal muse

and. begin slashing away.

“For the first hour you have “
‘the: uncomfortable coriviction. .
that you should have opted for -
‘your favourite programm

“TV. By the end of the second |

eon

hour, you have paint up to your

- elbows (not to. mention the
“floor), beads of sweat running —
‘into glazed veins; You recall,
with distant nostalgia, the -
painting you did at thirteen ofa
man hanging from a tree with |

vultures ci his head; and

“it comes to you with a terrible

realization that if you had to

_paint for a living, you'd starve.”

to death. And is it any wonder?
’ -Inyour blind panic, paint, and
Btrictly classified materials 1

dare not describe, begin to.ooze

out of scrimpled tubes, tins,
and other paraphernalia. : “You

‘think. “I'm not Going to make -

it. Why didn’t 1
broide
Temem!|

take up em-

or a teenager who once

-clogely observed one of your

sardine can collages, that had
‘ful’ sardine cans cemented
against what you thought was a
brilliant abstract background,
-and said, “‘Ummmm, the cans
DO bring you back to reality,
don't they?” (Yes, young
people are wonderful critics of

_art if you can stand the truth). -.
As‘the third hour progresses,
you decide that a cheese and.

lettuce sandwich will ‘do the
trick’...not omitting your tenth
cigarette and fifth cup of coffee.
You Jeave your masterpiece
behind and go inside to wash up.
Returning again to your shack,
which you presume to be a
“studio” of sorts, you sit on
some oil spillage and study your
painting intently. It's rotidn.
(Four bueks shot!). The
composition is so lopsided
you re not quite sure which end
isup. The colours have merged
into a river that looks
hopelessly polluted. The tex-
ture is flatter than yesterday’s
pancakes. In fact, nothing will
redeem this bad statistic (one
out of three) except the garbage
dump or a fire extinguisher,
Suddenly, a neighborhood kid
knocks on the door, and you
hear a voice say, “Mrs.

_haveyou gotanymore paintings
; ‘yo don’ t want?”

_, (Artist's Alias: s. Sands)

is proud to announce they have acquired

before your eves, you

then you °

1:30 - 4:30 PM 6:30

MEASLES
LING

"September 17, 1971

Skeena Health Unit
Terrace

For All Children 1 - 11 Years

(no charge)

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