INSIDE - SECTION B CITY , | JEFF NAGEL SCENE B2 . 638-7283 i | A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Wednesday, May 11 TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE holds _ its monthly general meeting at 8:00 p.m. in the McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum St. to prepare for the June 4th Arts Council production. At the same _ lime, TLT holds a workshop in story theatre with Karla Hennig. Thursday, May 12 ADOPTION INFORMATION NIGHT sponsored by the Ministry of Social Services lakes place at #400-4545 Lazelle Ave at 7 p.m. Call Sandy or Jackie at 638-3527 to register. Saturday, May 14 CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE open house lakes place from 11 a.m. to 2 pam. at 2510 5. Eby St. ‘Tuesday, May 17 DIABETIC TEACHING CLINIC (one day refresher clinic) is scheduled. Contact Dana Hill at 635-2211 loc. 250 or 638-1956 for more info. A doctor’s referral is required. B.C. SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY meets at Stepping Stone Clubhouse at 3302 Sparks St (downstairs) al 7:30 p.m. ‘Wednesday, May 18 TERRACE CONCERT SOCIETY holds its an- nual general meeting for the 1994-95 season at 7:30 p.m. in the RE.M. Lee Theatre Lobby. Any- one interested is urged to allend, : Thursday, May 19 FIBROMYALGIA / chronic fatigue sundrome combined support group meeting takes place from 2 to4 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. Phone Dar- lene at 638-8688 or 635-4059 for more info. Friday, May 27 TERRACE ANTI-POVERTY GROUP Society ~ holds a free information session on UIC, social assistance, and landiord/icnant issues. It happens from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the library basement. For More info cali Helga or Gerry at 635-4631. . Saturday, May 28 PARKSIDE FUN FAIR takes place from 11 am. to 3 p.m. Games, concession, rummage and bake sale by the Parkside School Parents Ad- visory Council. Monday, May 30 TERRACE FIGURE SKATING CLUB holds its annual general meeting al 7:30 p.m. in the li- brary basemen. TUESDAYS T & K SINGLES meet every Tuesday for coffee night at Mr. Mike’s at 7 p.m. Call Bea at 635- 3238 for more info. ZAZEN every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Daiko-Ji SotoZen Centre. Call 638-8396 for more info. TERRACE TOASTMASTERS meet the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Coast Inn of the West. Contact Karen at 638- 7633 or 638-0418 for more information. SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP 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, mests at the Women’s Resource Centre the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for more in- formation. THE KERMODEI CHORISTERS invite boys and girls ages 8-12 to come sing along on Tues- days from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m, at the Skeena Band Room. Cal! Terry Anderson 638-1183 for info. RELAPSE PREVENTION group meets Tues- 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 SINGLE PARENTS SUPFORT GROUP meets Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. at the Women’s . Centre. For more info call 638-0228, TERRACE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meeis at 7 p.m. at he Women’s Centre, Also Sat- urday nights at 7:30, TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S AS- SOCIATION holds ils monthly mecting the third . Wednesday of every month. Meet for lunch at the Terrace inn from noon to 1 p.m. Contact Joyce at 635-9660. | LADIES KERMODEI LIONS club meets at the * Inn of the West. Call Karen at 638-0707. for times and more info. _ TERRACE STANDARD » The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 11, 1994 - Bt Our first UNBC grad she gets degree before university opens By DANA HUBLER TERRACE’S FIRST graduate from the University of Northern B.C. walks away from her classes with mixed emotions, ‘Most people’ expect ‘that® I’m really excited to be done,’ says Kari Stedham Gosnell, a 22 year- old wha leaves the: Quickstart program with a General Bachelor of Arts degree. ‘Really, I don’t feel like I’m done and I don’t know what to do. with myself now,? ae Her three-year-old and ‘eight- weck-oid children will probably fill most of that:free ‘time as“her husband is ‘still a student: at Northwest Community College. She hopes that more ‘Terrace residenis, especially those wiih children and working people, make use of the opportunities of- fered by the UNBC program at the local college. “T really wish the kids in Ter- race would take advantage of it but it seems that lots of people don’t even know about it,”? Sted- ham Gosnell says. “It’s just been great for me because at any olher university program I probably ~couldn’t have done it with my , kids.” Because most of the university courses were offered through teleconferencing, with a professor based at the main Prince George campus teaching her at the Ter- race college, she could often take her Girst child with her to class withoul the instructor even know- ing. ‘At first, having a professor teach you through a speaker was ‘very different but by the end of this last year, I was an old pro,” she says. ‘You just learn to hog ' the speaker to get heard.”’ Her classmates were usually the voices of- other students at speaker phones in places like Fort St. John, Quesnel and Prince George, talking with them regu- larly but rarely ever mecting them. The offical graduation ceremony for Stedham Gosnell and five other grads is this Satur- day at the UNBC main campus with Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn,. Stedham Gosnell is the first degree-recipient from the north- west region. Four of her fellow grads studied in Prince George, while the fifth was in Dawson Creck, She plans to continue her for- mal education in January through Simon ‘Fraser University’s one- year teacher training program of- fered at Northwest Community College. : UNEC officially. opens next fall. Former Terrace pediatrician Dr. Kwadwo Ohene Asante will also be at the convocation to receive a Friends of the University award, along with forester Harry Gairns Carrie Stedham Gosnell and CNC English department founder Mary Fallis, Honourary degrees will be pre- sented lo Canadian Labour Con- gress past president Shirley Carr, Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, Haida artist Bill Reid, and social anthropologist Marc- Adelard Tremblay. , lt bukit ddd osolda tak Seen ia The beat goes on CONGA DRUMS were the new tools of the trade for mem- bers of the Kermodei Choristers children's choir when they took In John Palmer's African drumming workshop, They hape to use the new skills In some upcoming performances. KLONDIKE KATE True pioneer revealed _ WAS THE real Klondike Kate a different woman from the boisterous dance hall queen who look the name during the Yukon Gold Rush? According to Ann Brennan, au- thor of The Real Klondike Kate, her name was Katherine Ryan and she: took the Yukon by storm in the winter of 1898. Ryan grew up in Johnville, New Brunswick before travelling west. She eventually settled ‘In Stewart, in northwestern B.C. | She was never a high-kicking dance hall girl, Brennan contends, but rather lost her ‘“‘name”’ to a Yfukon dance hall queen from Seatile named Kitty Rockwell. The real Klondike Kate's ex- ploits were remarkable, but Rock- well gave the steamy atmosphere more commonly atitibuted to the name, ; Brennan is travelling ihrough- out B.C, and the Yukon to tell the tale of the original Kate. The tour is sponsored by the Canada Council, which brings the wrilet into libraries and museums across the northwest." <: : She dropped -in- on Heritage Park In Terrace last week to ans- .. wer questions from’ locals and - give a short reading from the — book, 2 pm enn BE Dressed in period costume, AUTHOR ANN BRENNAN enjoys tea with Terrace's own city freeman Vesta Douglas, Brennan Is touring the north to talk about Katherine Ryan and her exploits in the Yukon and Stewart. Brennan helps listeners retrace (the steps of Klondike Kate and set the story straight. Kate Ryan was one of the first women lo walk. into the Yukon aver the rugged Stlkine Trail, and: -Jater opened up a series of. Canteens and restauranis, ‘She nursed sick miners and be- ~ came. the: first “‘special .con- stable’’ withifi the Northwest Mounted Police, She struck up a friendship with Robert Service, who chronicled many of her adventures in his poems. Kate Ryan also-used her honie “as - headquarters. for the. Yukon - Women's Protective Lengue, an - organization | that championed women’s suffrage and the’ polill- cal rights of the North. It wasn’t until 1970 that Bren- nan’s curiousity was piqued when a chance request for Information on Katherine Ryan alerted her to the woman’s fascinating adven- tures and her contributlons to the: ~ ‘Canadian Nori, 2 yy In the two. decades that’ ‘fol-- lowed, Brennan pieced together -the dramatic story of the woman’ © ~ called Klondike Kate, ; re |