‘INSIDE “SCENE B2 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 2, 1994 - At "SECTION B JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Monday, March 7 NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT EDUCA- TION Association holds its 1994-95 program planning meeting at 7:30 p.m. in St. Matthews Centre. Bring your ideas and suggestions. Call Mary al 635-6233 for more information. Tuesday, March 8 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Pot Luck Dinner and evening of entertainment, by women, for women. Bring a friend and a dish. Starts 6 p-m. at the Kin Hut. TERRACE DISTRICT SPCA annual general meeting and election of officers takes place at Terrace Women’s Resource Centre on Park Ave, at 7:30 p.m. For more info call 638-2002, Wednesday, March 9 TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE holds its monthly general meeting at 8:00 p.m. in ihe _ McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum St. ’ Thurday, March 10 CENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL holds an open house for Christian Education Week from 9 am. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 15 B.C. SCHIZOPHRENIC SOCEETY support group meets at Stepping Stone Clubhouse at 3302 Sparks St. Bsement at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 18 SUPPORT GROUP for women in or out of abusive relationships is being ron by K’san House Society. March 18 is the deadline for registering for this 12-week group. Call Lisa at 635-1591 for more info. SATURDAYS BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION clinics take - place at Emerson Medical Clinic ihe last Saturday of each month. Free instruction by qualified nurses. Call Lila Flynn at 635-6263 or Emerson Clinic at 635-7234 for appointment. MONDAYS ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the ' 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. al (he Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets the third Monday of each month in the board - room at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTIA support group meets at 1 p.m, on the last Monday of the months at the Terrace Mental Health Centre. Call _ 638-3325 for more info. TUESDAYS SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GRODP takes place the second (1 p.m.) and fourth (7 p.m.) Tuesdays of the month at the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre. Call 638-0228 for more info. LIVING WITH CANCER support group of the ‘Canadian Cancer Society for patients, family and friends, meets at the Women’s Resource Centre ~ the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p-m. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for more in- formation. T & K SINGLES meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. for coffee night at Mr. Mike’s. Events through February with T & K Singles will be: Jan. 4 — Steak nite; Feb. 6 ~- Hot Springs 1:30 p.m.; Jan. 11 — Fish and Chips Happy Gang Centre at 5:30 " p.m; Feb 13 — Kids Valentine parly and potluck 3:30 p.m; Feb, 19 — Movie night 8 p.m; Feb. 20 — Family bowling 1:30 p.m.; Feb. 24 Dessert nite 8 p.m. For more info cali 635-3238, THE KERMODEI CHORISTERS invite boys "and girls ages 8-12 to come sing along on Tues- days from 6:30 - §:00 p.m. at the Skeena. Band Room. Call Terry Anderson 638-1183 for info. RELAPSE PREVENTION group meets Tucs- - day evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Call 638-8117 for further information. -‘THE SPCA meets on the second Tuesday of , every month at the Terrace Women’s Resource ’ Centre at 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAYS TALES FOR TWOS, a half-hour storytime, at Terrace Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets at 7 p.m. at the Women’s Centre. Also Sat- urday nights at 7:30, SKEENA VALLEY QUILTERS meet the first and third Wednesday cach month at 7 p.m. in the home ec, room at Skeena Junior Secondary Schoo!. Beginners and more experienced quilters welcome. Call 635-2230 for more information. HUFF AND PUFF Asthma Group holds its monthly meeting the third Wednesday of each month at the Women’s Resource Centre on | Park Axe, from 7 to 9 p.m. ; The Motel di A PIECE OF Terrace history is coming down The Motel, beside Riverside Park on Marsh Cres., is being dis- mantled for salvage. The property was the site of Terrace pioneer George Litile’s original homestead. The building that eventually become The Motel was built by the army during the Second World War. ; Nobody ‘seems certain, but longtime owners Bill and Noma Bennett think it may have been an officers’ mess hall, The Bennetis bought the build- ing in 1958 and ran the motel un- til they sold in 1987. They survived fires, watched the community grow — and in 1959 they almost hosted royalty. That, of course, is the year the Queen visited Terrace, “That’s how Queensway got named,” says Norma Bennett. ‘‘That is the route they paved so the Royal cavaleade could drive on pavement instead of the stones the rest of us had.”’ Her Majesty’s anticipated ar- rival created some excitement at The Motel. The local police sergeant phoned up and booked the entire motel for several days. The police security officers would stay at the motel, and if bad weather kept the Queen’s plane grounded that day, they’d have a royal guest as well. *“We had people who were staying there more or less steadi- ly, and we had to do something with them,” says Norma Bennett. So a repairman staying there took up temporary quarters in the workshop, and the Province newspaper reporter ended up bunking in the ladies’ room, In the end, however, it was royally good weather and the Queen flew off to Whitehorse without delay. The site is now being turned into a manufactured home park called Kermode Park by new owners Enos and Shirley Kyle. | would , 2 T he Maestro LIKE A SYMPHONY CONDUCTOR, Terrace cub Kieran Campbell demonstrates his flair with 4 fruit rallup during Scout and Guide Week last week, Local scouts and guides held events throughout the week, including mall displays, campfires, and a heritage display of old uniforms at the arena banquet room last Sunday. PHOTO — ERIC HARKONNEN Set design a key to to housing Orphans IT’S BEEN a year in the making, but Brian Slater hopes you won't even notice the set he’s designed for the upcoming production of Orphans, “I's just a skeletal framework to hold paint and light,”’ he says. “It’s a space for the actors to per- form in.” Terrace Little Theatre director Marianne Weston must see it as more than that. She went so far as lo irack down the ex-Terracite in Edmonton last year to glean his design expertise for her play, Telieved at the news he was moving to nearby Prince Rupert Why? Because Slater's designs have a style all their own. ‘*He’d designed an award-winning set for ‘Living Together’,’? Weston says, ‘It took first place at the provincial drama festival. I’ve never acted in a space that worked so well.”’ For Slater, set design means more than just handing over drawings to a crew. The final pro- duct relics heavily on input from both cast and crew. ‘It’s an improvisation,” he ex- plains. ‘A performance design.”’ **It was a cumulative, coopera- tive effort. I was just a catalyst in getting everyone together on this.”” The resulting set is a dark, abandoned row-house. in Phila- delphia, a moody backdrop for the story of two brothers strug- gling on their own. Orphans, starring John McGowan, TJ. MacKenzie, and Alan Weston, plays at the Terrace Little Theatre March 17-19, and 24-26, Tickets are on sale at Carter’s Jewellers, Group to celebrate Intl Women's Day Contributed INTERNATIONAL Women's Day will be celebrated in Terrace with a paper quilt made by tie public, an women’s art exhibit at the Terrace Art Gallery, and a potluck dinner with entertalnment for women, by women. The Terrace Women's Resource Centre has asked woren to share their talent at a potluck dinner at the Kin Hut on Tuesday, March 8 Doors open at 6 p.m, dinner begins at 6:30 and entertalnment starts at 8 p.m. Al women-and - children are. wol- cOMe. - Pty **Women in Art — An Explora- tion of Womyn’s Art’’ is the show on display at the terrace Art Gallery from March 5-27. The Women’s Centre is also coordinating two paper making workshops where the public is in- vited to learn the skill of recy- cling used paper into new paper. The pieces will then be joined fogether to form a paper quilt. ‘One workshop took place March 1, but a second is schedul- ed for the Skeena Mall on Thurs- - day, March 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. Call. the. Women’s Centre - at. 638-0228 for more information. Around Town Groups offer tax help FREE TAX HELP? Sounds too good to be irue, but it isn’t. If you can’t afford the pros and you need help filing a basic tax return, drop in to the Happy Gang Centre on Tuesdays from 10 am, to noon through until April 26, The free service is being provided by the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre, the Happy Gang Centre, Terrace Anti-Poverty, and the Terrace Volunteer Bureau. Improv theatre workshop BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, Paul Lorette will give lead — another stimulating evening of improvisational theatre techniques al 3 p.m., Wednesday March 9 at the McColl Playhouse, [f you'd like to get involved in Terrace Little Theatre or find out more about the group, call 638-1225. Campus director arrives DOUG BAKER has arrived to take up his new post as the direc- _ lor of the central region for Northwest Community College. He’ll be based in Terrace and assumes responsibility for the Terrace campus and Nass Valley. Nutritionist is leaving COMMUNITY NUTRITIONIST Gerry Kasten is leaving Ter- race at the end of March. He’ll be taking a position as nutritionist Simon Fraser Health Unit based in Coquitlam. Focus. on education” EDUCATION WEEK events are scheduled at schools through- out Terrace and Thombill from March 7-11. a Events include computer labs and other activities at: ‘schools: each day. Monday, March 7, also features spectal guest speaker Ted Johnston at 10:30 am. at Kili K’Shan Primary where an open house is taking place all day. - Tuesday features an open house at E.T. Kenney Primary from 9 to 10:30 a.m. On Wednesday, Parkside is the site of an open house and music festival assembly from 1:0 3 Pees Thuniday’s open bh house Is at Thornhill In Sesonaary, all dy.