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A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

What's Up!

Monday, August 29
THE CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS sup-
port group meets at 7 p.m. For info call Kim at
635-7576.

LAKELSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
holds its annual general meeting and election of
officers at the Mt. Layton Hotsprings roof gar-
dens at 8 p.m. Call 798-2449 for more info.

COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL for Ter-
race and area holds an open meeting from 7 to 9
p.m. at the Skeena Health Unit Auditorium. For
more info call Judith McLean at 635-0830.

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY Skeena
constituency association holds a board mecting
via speaker phone with members in Smithers at
8:05 p.m. Contact Webb Westerhof at 635-6904.

Tuesday, August 30
B.C. SPECIAL OLYMPICS-Terrace holds a
yolunteer mecling at 7 p.m. at the Aquatic Centre
board room. Call Joan at 635-5633 for more info.

September 3-4
SKEENA YALLEY FALL FAIR runs Saturday

and Sunday at the Thornhill Community Centre
on Century Road. See Around Town on page B
for more details on entry form deadlines.

Tuesday, September 6
LEGION LADIES AUXILIARY Sepiember
monthly mecting will be held at the legion hall.
The potluck dinner staris at 6:30 p.m. and the
meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, September 12
BREAST FEEDING SUPPORT GROUP

meets at 8 p.m. at the Mills Memorial Hospital
education room.

Tuesday, September 13
PACIFIC NORTHWEST MUSIC FESTIVAL
.. holds their annual general meeting at 8 p.m. at the
home of Irene Kuhar, 3309 Thomas St. Monthly
meeting to follow AGM. New members welcome
"and encouraged to attend. Call Irene at 635-3215
for more information.

Thursday, September 15
TERRACE REGIONAL HEALTH Care
Society hold its annual general meeting Thursday,
September 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the education room
at Mills Memorial Hospital.

Saturday, September 17
DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP ‘2 Sweet’?
meets in the Women’s Resource Centre at 2. p.m.
For info call Gen Roberts at 635- 3094 or Kathy
Corbeti at 638-8323.

THURSDAYS

_ the second and fourth Thursday of every month
from 7:30-9:00 p.m. in the Stepping Stone Club-
house at 3302 Sparkes St. For more information
call Diane at 638-3325 or 638-0296.

THE HEALING CIRCLE meets every Thurs-
_ day fom 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kermode Friend-

Chapdelaine at 635-7670.

ALANON meets every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in
the Mills Memorial Hospital conference room.

- TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets every
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Skeena Health Unit
auditorium. Weigh-in at 6 p.m.

THE TERRACE BRIDGE CLUB meets the
second and fourth Thursday of every month, They
get started Oct. 14 at the Legion. Call Pat at 635-
2037 or Ethel al 635-5046 for more info.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS imeet every
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Resource
Centre,

TERRACE HIV INFORMATION SUPPORT
Group (T.H.ES.) meets the third Thursday of
every month at 7:30 p.m. in the Mills Memorial
Hospital board room. Contact Carrie at 635-4885.

SATURDAYS
BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION clinics take
place at Emerson Medical Clinic the last Saturday
of each month. Free instruction by qualified
nurses. Call Lila Flynn at 635-6263 or Emerson
Clinic at 635-7234 for appointment.

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LIVING WITH CANCER Support Group meets _

Ship Centre. For more’ information call Benita -

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.TERRACE STANDARD

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 24, 1994- B4

Music to

her ears

Choristers dazzle royal
audience in Prince George

LIKE SONIC PERFUME,

That’s how Terry Anderson re-
members the voices of his
Kermodei Choristers as they per-
formed before Queen Elizabeth II
in Prince George last Wednesday.

‘The kids looked gorgeous and
sounded incredible”? Anderson
says of the Terrace youth choir he
directs.

Thousands crowded into the
open air theatre at the University
of Norther B.C. campus for the
ceremony to open the new uni-
versity.

Although numerous other

groups were performing that day |

for the opening, the Kermodei
Choristers were the only ones
who performed in the presence of
the Queen.

“She just craned her neck
around and watched the whole
time,”” Anderson says, calling the
children’s performance ‘*flaw-
less.”’

The crowd present for the per-
formance was estimated at more
than 5,000. It was also televised
live across the country on CBC-
TV.

The choir gave a stirring rendi-
tion of B.C. composer Paul Hal-
ley’s A Song Far Canada.

Lyrics that spoke of ‘‘the song
of the whales meeting the sound
of the whispering pines’? cap-
tivated the audience and then late
in the song, half the choir broke
into O Canada.

Their delivery stunned even
Anderson.

“Tt just knocked everybody
out,’’ he said. ‘*There wasn’t a
dry eye in the place.’’

Several choir members noticed .

an equipment technician working
on the site.

“It just knocked every-
body out. There wasn’t

a dry eye in the place.”

“As they were singing he had
to take his glasses off,”? Anderson
recalls. ‘‘He was just sobbing,”

On her way out, the Queen saw
the kids in the crowd, waved and
said goodbye to them.

Other dignitaries stopped choir

members to commend them on.

the performance,
“The’ kids were so happy, they
just beamed,”’ Anderson says.

“*The sun was in my eyes and a ~

smile was on my face.”

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University. gets regal Start

QUEEN ELIZABETH II bathed
UNBC in a sunny glow of
warmth and anticipation last
Wednesday as Canada’s newest
university was officially opened.

Like the blazing sun, her canary
yellow dress was a beacon of
hope and pride everywhere she
went that day.

MLAs, university officials, cab-
inet ministers and people from
across the province — mors than
5,000 in all — were on hand to
greet the Queen,

The stage was erected in front
of the library, the largest building
al the University of Northern
B.C’s central Prince George
campus, and one of the first to be
substantially completed.

“T was. told that I was to see a
spectacular campus here at the
University of Northern B.C.,”’ the
68-year-old monarch told the
audience. “I have indeed, and
you are fortunate to learn and
teach in such a matchless sct-
ting.”

“T take pride in opening the
university and I wish you all, in
whatever capacity you serve the
cause of learning, a brigh and
happy future.’’

Politiclans and officials who

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MORE THAN 5,000 people crowded in front of the newly constructed library at the UNBC campus
in Prince George to see Queen Elizabeth || officially open Canada's first new university in 25 years,

took the stage spoke of the chal-
lenges ahead,

‘*The only power greater than a
good idea is a betier idea, and we

intend to generate great numbers
of them here,’’ UNBC chancellor
Tona Campagnolo told the crowd.
“Among the first that we intend

fo overturn is the idea that ex-
cellence requires hundreds of

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Missionaries hit the road |

WENDY MENDEL and Denise
Brehaut are going to be biker
girls — ona mission.

Both are 1991 grads from
Caledonia and 21-year-old mem-
bers of Terrace’s Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Commonly called the Mormon -

Church, teachings require young
members to spend at least a year
overseas spreading the gospel.

Mendel will spend 18 months in
Taipei, Taiwan, while Brehaut is
off to Marseillés on the French
Riviera for the same period of
time.

But Citroens or Renaults are not
in the budget, so both Terrace
missionaries will get around on
bicyele.

.The cycling won't faze Mendel,
who — besides biking — runs,
hikes, scuba dives and rides
horseback,

. “Pil bea missionary biker in a
dress,” she laughs.

Both will be leaming a new lan-

guage — French for Brebaut and ,

Denise Brehaut

Mandarin Chinese for Mendel.

“Pm looking forward to it,’’
Brehaut added.

They start thelr orientation this
week when they Oy to Provo,
Uiah for two months at the.
church’s Missionary Training

Centre at  Brigham-Young Uni-

Wen dy Mendel

versily.

Brehaut has been studying for
three years at the church’s college
in Utah with the aim of becoming
a legal secretary.

Mendel is 2 zoology major at"
Brigham-Young. ma

Each young missionary must
raise all the money for the trip —
more than $7,000,

Both Mendel and Brehaut have

been working for months to pay |

for the trips.

Also leaving for mission work
is Carrie Taylor, who will be sta-
tioned in Salt Lake City.

Another local church member,
Pat Exman, has just returned from
a mission in California and |s”
sindying this fall at Ricks College
in Idaho.

Local Mormon missionary Lee
Wilkerson is now completing his

work in Arizona — where he was |

sent after fighting off a serious
iliness he picked up on. his
original mission posting in ‘the
Ukraine.

Wilkerson —- who witnessed
the damage dealt to people: in
Kiev. by the 1986 Chernobyl
nuclear aceldent — isn’t expéecied

back-in town this fall, however,
as his family has moved t to. the °
vb. }. Souther U.S. eh sulesy cats