INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS B2 TERRACE STANDARD O M M U Ni TY» 6387283 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 21, 1998 - BI SECTION B Around Town Baby walkers are unsafe When a baby walker tips over or falls down stairs, babies suffer head injuries. Baby walkers also help babies to reach dangerous items and appliances, It is estimated that one in three babies who use wheelcd walkers will be injured. Hand in your baby walkers on Baby Walker Disposal Day, Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Terrace Fire Department. For more information call 638-2200. Thanks Lam writing to thank the volunteers, sponsors and guest speakers who participated in the Women and Heart Disease Symposium. More than 180 women at- tended the fact filled afternoon and that is a clear in- dicator to the organizers that it needs to happen again! Heart discase and stroke are the number one killer of men and women in B.C. Unfortunately, the majority of deaths are preventable through awareness of healiby lifestyle choices such as a balanced diet, stress reduc- tion and not smoking. We, at the foundation are cam- mitted to the reduction of heart disease and stroke and your contributions as volunteers and by taking the time to attend will assist in this endeavor to promote health, prevent illness and fund vital research. Please recog- nize this symposium was a direct return to our com- munities which support the Heart and Stroke Founda- tion of BC and Yukon. Christine Walkinshaw, Community Development Coordinator Volunteer Bureau gets money for seniors The Vancouver Foundation gave the Terrace’s Volunteer Bureau a grant to provide instruction to valunteers interested in offering support and assislance to frail seniors. The course will prepare the volunteer with the resources needed ta understand and succeed with seniors when taking them shopping, to appointments, on social oulings and visits with seniors, on a weekly basis. The grant will also allaw the Bureau to provide a coordinator for the Volunteer for Seniors Program. The training course will be held this month. Individu- als wishing to volunteer with seniors will bé extensive- ly interviewed, trained and then matched with a senior. A weekly time commitment of only two to three hours in needed from a volunteer. Seniors are encouraged to call the Bureau to assist them in maintaining maximum independence and self- reliance. For more information call Sonja at 638-1330. Youth get work experience A provincially funded program gives young people the work experience they need to get jobs. Job Start, a part of Youth Options B.C.’s employment program, helps uncmployed youths, aged 17-24, devel- op marketable skills and solid work habits needed io obtain long-term employment. This program provides employers with a wage subsidy of up to 50 per cent of the minimum wage. Funding is provided for a maxi- mum of 360 hours, The subsidy helps businesses offset the time and costs of training a young person who has limited work experience. For more information on this youth employment pro- grams contact Northwest Counselling and Training Centre at 638-8279. StoryVine The StoryVine: Familics Read Together is a family literacy program for preschoolers and parents begin- ning Oct. 19 to Dec. 18. Programs run at various times during the week and will be held at Kiti K’ Shan, E.T. Kenney, Kermode Friendship Centre, Kitsumkalum hall and the Kitselas Band Office, Call Eberle at the Terrace Public Library for more information. Katimavik thanks you Our Katimavik group has had a successful start to our experience here in Terrace. We could not have done it so smoothly without the help of all the work sponsors and volunteers who helped us during orientation week, We wauld like to show our appreciation by thanking all those people who donated furniture to help furnish “Katima House’’, and the businesses that donated arli- cles. Also we send thanks to our work sponsors and our billet familics. Halloween children’s programs The Terrace Public Library is offering the following children’s programs for Halloween. Al programs are free, but registration is required at the library for each of these programs. Call the library for more informa- tion or to register at 638-8177, HALLOWEEN STORIES .AND MONSTER MASKS MAKING will take place-Tuesday, Oct. 27 from 3:30- 4:30 p.m. for children 6-8 years old. MONSTER PAWS, CLAWS AND HEADS WORK- SHOP will take place Wednesday, Oct. 28 from 3:30- 4:30 p.m. for children six years old and older. SCARY STORIES BY CANDLELIGHT will take place Friday, Oct, 30 from 7-8 p.m. for children six . years old and older. ; HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION FOR PRE- SCHOOLERS will take place Saturday, Oct. 31 from 11 a.m. to 12 pan. fro children 3-5 years old who are NOT registered in the Library's regular Preschool Storytime Programme. Please dress up| TLT gears up for new season IT’S WACKY. IT’S CLEVER. IT’S GOOD HUMOUR. That’s how the actors in 7 Stories describe Terrace Little Theatre’s first play of the season, First time director Nancy Stone Archer hopes the season opener, which was written by Vancouver playwright Morris Panych, will make people think about life. “I hope people go out afterward and sit for a drink and .. give their time to surveillance, foot patrol, else. 7 STORIES: UP: (From fight) Actors Patrick Melntyre, Marianne Brorup Weston and Brent Nixon rehearse a scene in Morris Panych’s play, 7 Stories. are talk about the play,’ she said. Stone Archer said the play presents seven windows inta 12 peoples’ strange lives, The play revolves around a man (played by Patrick McIntyre) who is contemplating suicide on the ledge of a seven storey building. While on the ledge, he’s faced with the stories and lives of the people living in the building, “‘He’s dealing with all these odd personalities,’ Stone Archer said. ‘‘They’re living in bizarre situations.’’ She explained the play is about the absurdity of truth and how nonnal everyday life can seem so obscure to everyone ‘T think the end of the show will make people catch their breath,”’ she said. ‘They'll leave feeling hopeful.” Stone Archer explained that the characters’ stories have important echoes for everyone. She said she chose the play because it made her laugh the first time she read it. And she laughed during its second reading, too, Her biggest challenges, she said, are creating the illusion of height and depth, dealing with lighting problems and Space problems. “*There’s a lot that geas into a show," she said, ‘I’m not a bit nervous, I’m really nervous.’’ There are’also 13 characters in the play and Stone Archer has chosen seven actors. That means dual role playing by all but one of them. “*] have a very experienced cast. The challenge will add another dimension to their theatrical experience." But when times get tough for cast and crew, Stone Ar- cher said there are a lot of people to help her out when she’s in trouble, “That’s one of the charms of community theatre,’’ she said. ‘‘Everyone helps to put the show together for the joy of the community.” Stone Archer said audience members will be happy to know the TLT has undergone a facelift this fall, All the chairs have been refurbished and recushioned. The washrooms have been renovated as well. 7 Stories will run November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21, Tickets are available at Uniglobe Courtesy Travel. TERRACE CITIZENS ON PATROL: Winston Gidney (right), Barb Hazard and Keith Trask stand beside an electronic bulletin board which uses laser technology to let drivers know how fast they are going. The 25 volunteer members of the group check for speeders and patrol schools, parks, businesses and parking lots on evenings and weekends looking for vandalism, break-ins and impaired drivers. They're on the lookout TERRACE CITIZENS ON PATROL are Keith Trask, who has been voluntecring recruiting more volunteers to keep an eye with the unit for 3 years. Trask said volunteers call the RCMP In April 1994 a small group of cilizens whenever they sec a crime in progress. But, joined forces with the RCMP to provide most importantly, he said the unit was a on vandals, impaired drivers and speeders. » Farewell tour valuable extra eyes and ears for the com- great crime deterrent. munity, ‘We're the cyes and the cars,” said The first volunteer citizens on patrol Trask. ‘‘No one is going to rob someone if started walking Terrace strects May 1995, Today, Terrace Citizens on Patrol con- we're walching.” Terrace citizens on patrol are also willing “sists of about 25 volunteer members who to provide their services to local businesses like car dealerships, retail outlets and 24 vehicle patrol, automobile theft recovery, hour convenience stores that require extra _ Speed watch, base dispatch and assisting the patrolling, RCMP when needed, But, citizens on patro] don’t make arrests, Opening his magical tickle trunk Oct. 10 In tha R.E.M. Lee Theatre, Mr. Dressup (Ernie Coombs) took children and parents to his magical world of make-believe. Together with musicians Jim Parker and Lance Anderson, Tutie Fruiti and YTV's Dudley the Dragon, Mr. Dressup had chil- dren singing, standing up and jiggling in thelr seats. The show Is part of Mr. Dressup's 14-day retirement tour that started Oct. 3 in Chilliwack If you would iike to become a volunteer (you must be 18 years old or older), call “Thal’s what the RCMP are for,’’ said Constable Kurt Grabinsky at 638-7400. and ended Oct. 18 in Lloydminster. Heart disease is killing more women MORE WOMEN TODAY are suffering from heart attacks and strokes because of their life- styles and gender, said the community coor- dinator for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon. Christine Walkinshaw said women should know that metiopause and their busy roles. in today’s socicty are killing them. “T?s happening and women aren't realizing it,’”’ she said. ‘‘Close to 50 per cent of women will encounter heart disease or strokes at some time in their lives.” Walkinshaw said that’s because when women go through menopause and their ovaries quit producing estrogen, their arteries lose their ability to protect themselves from plaque. “Our bodies become overwhelmed because it has no ability to deal with the lack of estrogen,”’ she said. Walkinshaw said women normally suffer dif- ferent heart attacks than men because when womens’ arteries start to clog, they may have six or seven litthe heart attacks before a critical one, Whereas men more often suffer from mas- sive attacks. And more women are suffering from massive atlacks today because they tend not to recognize the symptoms. Often symptoms like unfamiliar anxicty, vague chest discomfort, unusual short- ness of breath and muscle pain are overlooked, she said. ‘*Women tend to take pain and deal with it? According to Walkinshaw, womens’ stressful lifestyles taday aren’t helping matters either. Because today women are oflen breadwinner, mothers, and homemakers, they are too busy for exercise and stress reduction. ‘Stress is paramount,” she said. “Society doesn’t recognize stress reduction as a really important thing to do. But, women have to leam how to cope with it.”’ Walkinshaw sald many things contribute to heart attacks in women especially smoking, high blood cholesterol (not cating nutritious foods), a lack of exercise, being overweight, stress and a family history of heart disease. To take action against heart disease women can choose heart-healthy dicts (eat more cercals, breads, vegetables and fruits), achleve and maintain a healthy body weight, exercise regu- larly, and stop smoking.