The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 16, 1994 - B1 eden nh ter ot ot ope Pn ep Cea _ A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Wednesday, March 16 TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S As- saclation hoids its monthly meeting at the ‘Terrace Inn from noon to 1 p.m. Call Joyce MacDonald at 635-9660 for more information. Thursday, March 17 CHRONIC FATIGUE/ fibromyalgia support group meets at the Happy Gang Centre from 2 to 4 p.m. Guest speaker is a local physiotherapist. Call Darlene at 638-8688 or 635-4059 for info. TERRACE HIV INFORMATION and services group meets at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Memorial Hos- pital board room. Special guest speaker Diane McComnick from Terrace Hospice. ¥riday, March 18 SUPPORT GROUP for women in or out. of abusive relationships is being run 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, Monday, March 21 TERRACE DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets in the library basement at 7 p.m. Call Gen at 635-3094 or Kathy at 638-8323 for more info. Wednesday, March 23 YOUTH IN CARE NETWORKING confer- ence takes place al 6 p.m. in the west banquet room of the Coast Inn of the West. All youths who have been permanent wards of the courts or anyone interested is invited to hear and express ‘concerns. For more information, contact Mae Jir at 635-3903 or 638-3379, Saturday, March 26 WOMEN’S POTLUCK AND DANCE, sponsored by Terrace Women’s Resource Centre and Northern Lesbians. For more information call 638-0228. Potluck at 7 p.m., dance at 9 p.m, Thursday, March 31 » SKEENA. VALLEY. CAR CLUB holds its an- ?niual general meeting at 7 p.m. at the Kin Hut at ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION monthly meet- ing at 8p.m. Call Kathy at 635-5617. SATURDAYS BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION clinics take place at Emerson Medical Clinic the last Saturday of each month. Free instruction by qualified nurses. Call Lita Flynn at 635-6263 or Emerson Clinic at 635-7234 for appointment. MONDAYS THE SKIEENA SQUARES meet each Monday from 7:30 to 10 p.m, at the Carpenters’ Hall: at 3312 Sparks. Couples or singles welcome. Call 635-1570 or 635-2122 for more information, ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets the third Monday of each month in the board room al 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 ZAZEN every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Datko-Ii SotoZen Centre. Call 638-8396 for more info. TERRACE TOASTMASTERS meet the first and third Tuesday of cach month at 7:30 p.m. at the Coast Inn of the West, Contact Karen at 638- 0707 for more information. ‘SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUF takes place ihe 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 firs! and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for mare in- _ formation. THE KERMODEI CHORISTERS invite boys and girls ages 8-12.10 come sing along on Tues- days from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Skeena Band Room. Call 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. WIDNES DAYS _ ‘TERRACE NARCOTICS. ANONYMOUS © ~~ meets at 7 p.m. at the Women’s Centre, Also Sat- : “sey nights al'7:30, OLYMPIC VICTORY OMMUNITY Stealth car eludes lasers ANY FASTER and it would have warped the very fabric of time and space. Well, okay, maybe that’s a tad dramatic. But the Caledonia = Sr, Secondary star performer at the 1994 Physics Olympics — a fan- powered balsa wood and aluminum car — went so fast even UBC’s laser-guided timing devices couldn’t pick it up. Cal student Norm Dreger said they cemanded officials recalibrate the laser beam timers, but if was impossible. In order to get a time that could be picked up in their second run, the Caledonia students had to put bils of masking tape on the car’s flag so that it would show up bet- ter The second run was slower, they say, but it was still good enough for first place out of 48 teams competing from across the province. And it helped boost Cal to a second-place finish overall in the seven-event competition. Caledonia sindents = Curtis Bretherick, Norm Dreger, Dustin Dunbar, Bob Freeman, Tony Humphrey, Steven Loptson, Erin Parr and Anne Vu were the mem- bers of the team that travelled to UBC for the 1994 Physics Olympics on Mar. 5. According to the rules, the fan- propelled car had to be powered by a one kilogram mass that dropped a distance of one metre. Most teams used the mass to wind up a rubber band to power the car’s fan, Most cars, however, only travelled a few inches because they brought the tower and the weipht along with them. : " Sparks and Halliwell. The Caledonia students used a i } separate tower and mass that ‘Tuesday, April 5 wound up the rubber band on the car, and then detached from it. As a result, the ultra-light Caledonia car was able to travel more than 10 metres, and covered the required two-metre distance in 1.06 seconds. “We would have donc even better if they took our first time,’’ says Dreger. “*They say it was slower, but it was kind of like the fish that got away,'” Says. Allen Wootton, their teacher. The group also came second in the rubber-band powered boat contest -and they were one of the PHYSICS OLYMPIANS Norm Drager, Steven Loptson (at back); Bob Freeman, Erin Parr, Dustin: Dunbar (centre); Anne Vu and Curtis Bretherick (at front) were among the team that went from Caledonia Senior Secondary to UBC to take on the province at the 1994 Physics Olympics, They won the fan-propelled car event and were second overall. Missing from phate was Tony Humphrey. few groups whose calculations were correct in the ballistic egg contest. “They really have to work like @ team in order ta build on cach other’s strengths,’’ says Wootton. “There are maybe a dozen teams in the: province that are really compelitive,”’ he says. ‘'To do well against that dozen, you ‘have to be really good,” It’s not the first time Wootton’s Students have been on the medal podium at UBC. Three years ago, Caledonia stu- dents were Olympians when they took second place overall, and four years ago they were first, The Cal students also got a tour of the TRIUME particle ac- celerator facility at UBC. - YOUNG COMPOSTERS Hannah Kantola and Dan Hicks, in Grade 4 at Parkside Elementary School, grab a desperately struggling mass of red wrigglers from inside a composting container during a tour of the school by B.C. Environment's @ New recruits to the Green Team vegelable scraps and a lot more, Dan says informatively, ... Their class at Parkside will become the ‘Green Team’ for. th school and will try to pass their knowledge. on: Green Team. They eat shredded newspaper, pears, apples, ... . _ asses, Graen Team workshops also took place at Clara Michiel Elementary and Copper. Mountain Elementary. INSIDE SECTION B city. JEFF NAGEL SCENE B2_ 638-7283