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EV BISHOP

Ramblings
I CAN’T BELIEVE that summer is al-

ready over, One last long weekend and
then, POOF, it’s back to “real” life.
If you’re like me you got exactly
NONE of the things you’d planned to do,
done, OK... That’s not exactly true. I did get
some things done... I cleaned out some closets,
sold off odds and ends at a garage sale, visited
-tons of relatives, spent time on the beach,
went camping... Wait a minute... It sounds like
1 got lots done or did lots, one of the two. 1
guess if I'm honest my discontertment lies nat
in what I experienced this summer but in how
it measured up to my expectations.

June is a deceitful month. The last day of
-school arrives and the summer months balloon
in my imagination, filled with visions of an
end ta busyness, a wonderful chunk of soli-
tude, and a long stretch of uninterrupted time
with the kids. I even wonder, just for a minute,
if | will be able to find enough to do te pass
the time and to entertain the kids and myself
. fot two whole months; that’s where the deceit
- comes in.

June promises TWO months of holidays,
July and August. Two months reprieve
from early morning rushes to schoal, lunch-
making and tight schedules. Sixty days of
freedom from having to watch the clock and
trying to get to bed at a “reasonable time.”
Eight weeks of being able to read to my
heart’s content. What happens to those two
months that June promises? Where do
they go?

There’s no way that July and August are
real months. If they each had a full 30 days

own like“other months; I wouldn’t be fecling so

’ cheated time-wise... I wouldn't feel like so
many of my plans are left undone. I wouldn’t
feel like school just let out and “Back To
School” signs and thoughts about inside shoes

_.wouldn’t shock me.

At the end of June I was envisioning cons of
rest and special times with my kids... I got the
special times with my kids although it coinci-
ded with a wonderful saturation of
houseguests. July disappeared in a wild blur of

‘Nobody notified life there’s
supposed to be a two-month re-
spite period in the summer.’

wet swimsuits and lake sand, trips to the wa-
terslides, treks to the park and sojourns for ice
cream. Not a bad way to lose a month, I] must
admit, but I looked forward, almost desperate-
ly, to the one remaining month that would
have to suffice as my break: August.

Now August has.come and almost gone and
I’m tired, I haven't read anything much... OK,
I've read a bit, mostly on a 100-hour bus-ride
(but that’s a story for another time!) My sche-

‘dule has been just as crazy as
usual. Apparently nobody notified life that
there’s supposed to be a two-month respite
period in the summer... 1 was feeling bummed
about this but now I’m feeling quite cheerful.

Actually, cheerful is the wrong word.
Grateful is more accurate, [’m grateful that my

_life is full, that ] never run out of things that
‘interest me and people to love and spend time
with, I get tired sometimes, depressed by
changes sometimes, heart-broken by losses
sometimes but I would far rather be feeling in-
jensely, than to not be feeling at all. I’d rather
be feeling over-extended than bored or disin-
terested.

Too easily, 1 complain about how fast time
goes instead of relishing the time I have while
I have it. Too often, I lament about failed
plans and lost chances instead of celebrating
all the great memories I’m storing and
creating. Too quickly, I break into ramblings

‘about how short my summer was instead of
focussing on all the wonderful people who
made time and expended energy to see mé
_and all the great times I had staying up with

‘my kids till the sun went down.

Looking at my summer as a two-month
lump, I could say, “Wow... 1 didn’t accomplish
-much for such a big amount of time.” But if I

ize that I accomplished everything that I nee-
ded to, everything important.1 made
memories. I enjoyed people that I love and
was reminded that every minute I have with
ihem is a gift.

My only summer's regret is that ] wasted
some of my precious time concentrating on
what I wasn’t managing to do. Time is short
‘and it’s made even shorter by dwelling on that
fact but I can fight ils passage by fully
submersing ‘myself in each. moment, paying °
great attention to the. details that make up my
days. oS

TERRACE STANDARD

MMUNIT Y-

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - B1

EXCHANGE students Kana Nishio and Nayoko Kameyama,
seen here with Terrace friend Rachel Haliski, were impressed by

Japanese visitors leave with
fond memories of Terrace

_ By JOANNA WONG
BEFORE EXCHANGE student Kana Nishio
came to Canada, a horse was something she
could only see in a zoo.

But during her one-month stay in Terrace
with new friend Rachel Haliski, Nishio had a
laste of the real thing.

Haliski, also a horse lover, was happy to in-
troduce Nishio to the excitement of riding,
horse shows and braiding manes and tails.

Nishio was one of eight Japanese exchange
students aged 12-14 who came to stay in Ter-
race this July and August. Most of the students
stayed with families involved in the 4-H club.

Equine operation
Four-legged refugees elude butcher’s knife,
thanks to local women on a rescue mission.

By JENNIFER LANG
A ROSSWOOD woman
has come to the rescue of
10 Albertan fodls headed
for the slaughterhouse.

Jolene McCormick says
she and her friend Marilyn
White were horrified to
discover thousands of un-
wanted foals that are the
by-product of the Pregnant
Mare Urine (PMU) indu-
stry are bought up each
year by meat buyers be-
cause no one else wants
them.

PMU is collected for

The Japanese students were all members of.

Labo International, an after-school club in
Japan that promotes global citizenship through
English lessons and cultural exchange.

The 12-year-old Nishio described Canada as
“a little different.”

“It’s very easygoing,”
people are very easygoing.”

Upon her arrival in Terrace, Nishio was sur-
prised to learn Canadian children don’t have to
wear uniforms to school.

“At our school there’s no piercings, no
necklaces, no tattoo,” she said.

Haliski, 11, said she enjoyed having Nishio

she said. “Many

the breathtaking wilderness here. The two stayed with local fami-
lies during their visit here this summer. JOANNA WONG PHOTO

stay with her family because it gave her an

‘ opportunity to learn about Japanese culture.

Highlights included learning to fold otigami
paper and tearning fun Japanese words like
beka (crazy) and sugoi (great).

“Taking [Nishio] out to all the sights we’ve
been to was the best part,” said Haliski, who
hopes to visit her friend in Japan one day.

The day before leaving for Japan, Nishio
and her fellow exchange student, Nayoko Ka-
meyama, said they would miss Terrace’s
breathtaking wilderness.

“Many many mountains, trees and very
beautiful sky,” Kameyama said.

NWCC instructor
earns Gov Gen award

A SCIENCE instructor at Northwest Community College
instructor who headed back to class and earned some of
the highest marks in the college’s history has earned a
prestigous academic award.

Norma Kirby, who took a year’s leave so she could
complete a diploma at NWCC’'s pores
natural resouree program has won
the Governor General’s 2002
bronze medal.

That’s the highest academic
award in the country for a two-
year college program.

Kirby hit the books so hard she
maintained a 4.28 grade point
average during her studies ~
among the highest marks ever re-
corded at NWCC, college admin-
istrator Brian Loptson said. 4

“I experienced first hand the |
issues and challenges faced by
students today,” Kirby said, add-
ing she now has a greater appre-

-cation for technical and vocational programs and the

Norma Kirby

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break my summer down into moments, | real-.

use in contraceptive and
hormone replacement pills
for women. ;

McCormick says as
many as 22,000 unwanted
foals were waiting to be
processed af one southern
Alberta meat plant.

Normally, just a tiny
fraction — one out of every
10 foals — find homes.

But this year’s devasta-
ting drought on the Cana-
dian prairies is making a
tragic situation for PMU

Jolene McCormick

something. Their search for
answers put them in con-
tact with a woman in Al-
berta who is actively try-
ing to place PMU foals
with good homes.

“The meat buyers are
full. They aren’t even buy-
ing them this year,” Me-
Cormick. says. “Come
Sept. 30, they are gone.
She said they would just

“Let them grow up to be a horse — not

dog food.”

foals even more heart«
breaking.

Farmers ‘and ‘ranchers
are unable to grow hay to
feed horses or other live-
Stock.

McCormick and White

realized they had. to do

shoot them and dig a
hole.”

The rescuers are head-
ing to an Albertan farm
Sept. 7 and hope to come

back - with trailers filled.

with four-legged refugees.

The foals will -be :

13-hour-ald foal

weaned by then.

She points out the foals
are a bargain. Prices start
at just $270, but more for
registered foals.

McCormick is buying
one foal to keep and is
bringing at least nine
others back to the north-
west where they’re lined
up to go to good homes,

They’re urging animal
lovers here to donate
whatever they can. to the

cause — even if they are

unable to buy a foal.
Anyone who wants. to
help can contact her at
635-2922.
“Let them grow up to
be a horse ~ not dog food,”
says McCormick, who

breeds quarterhorses at the

Flying WM Ranch, which

“welcomed a-foal, Sunny,

earlier this season.

staff who teach them, from the point of view of a stu-

dent,

She gave something back to her instructors, as well.
“It also proved to be a learning experience for the

program faculty!”

Kirby recieves her bronze medal today at an event for

college employces.

Couple celebrates 50th

FAMILY, FRIENDS and well-wishers gathered Aug. 23
at the Elks Hail to celebrate the 50th wedding anniver-

sary of Alex and Elia Schulz.

The couple, members of the Lutheran church here,
have made Terrace their home since the 1950s. Originai-
ly from Germany, Alex came first, setlling in Kamloops

before moving to Terrace. Ella followed later,

Alex at first worked for Bill McRae at a sawmill at
Usk. He then spent 35 years with the highways ministry,
retiring in the late 1980s, They are involved in commun-
ity activities, including volunteering at the Terrace

Churches Food Bank.

The couple have two children, Margret, who lives in
Vancouver and who runs an electrical safety program for
school students, and Gary, who is in construction in n On.

tario.

Among the guests at the anniversary dinner were: 5 two
sisters of Ella from Germany and a_sister of Alex! 's. who ;
“lives | in Parksville on- Vancouver Island, - -