a he Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 10, 1994 - B1 INSIDE | - SECTION B CITY JEFF NAGEL SCENE B2 638- 7283 "A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Thursday, August 11 COPING WITH LOSS AND GRIEF workshop takes place al the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre at 1 p.m. Pre-registration is required. To register or gei more info call Alice at 638-0228. Saturday, August 13 B.C. SENIORS. GAMES ZONE 10 generai meeting at the Happy Gang Centre at 2 p.m. & Aug. 15-19 FHORNHILL COMMUNITY CHURCH Dai- ly Vacation Bible School for ages 4-12 happens at the Thornhill Community Hail from 9:30 a.m. to noon. For more info call 638-8024. Tuesday, August 16 TERRACE TOASTMASTERS mecis from noon to 1 p.m. at the Terrace Inn. For more in- formation call Diana at 635-5905 or Linda at 638- 1856, Toastmasters is an opportunity to learn and enhance speaking and communication skills. . Thursday, August 18 CHRONIC . FATIGUE SYNDROME / Fibromyalgia support group meets from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. Phone Elreen at 635-9415 for more information. August 20-21 FEMINISTS’ RETREAT, an open forum for feminists to dicuss current issues and directions, takes place at Crow’s Nest Farm 28 miles east of ‘Terrace on Hwy 16. For more info call Maureen Bostock/Elizabeth Snyder ai 638-9402 between 5 and 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 30 B.C. SPECIAL OLYMPICS-Terrace holds a volunteer meeting at 7 p.m. at the Aquatic Centre board room, Call Joan al 635-5633 for more info. . THURSDAYS THE HEALING CIRCLE meets every Thurs- day from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kermode Friend- ship Centre. For more information call Benita Chapdelaine al 635-7670, ALANON meets every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the Mills Memorial Hospital conference room. TOPS (Take Of Pounds Scnsibly) mecis 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- 2537 or Ethel at 635-5046 for more info. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS mect every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Centre. TERRACE HIV, INFORMATION SUPPORT Group (T.ELIS.) meets the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the Mills Memoria! Hosplial board room, Contact Carrie at 635-4885. LIVING WITH CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets the second and fourth Thursday every month starting Aug. 11 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Stepping Stone Clubhouse at 3302 Sparks. For more info call 638-3325 or 638-0296. 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. SUNDAYS TERRACE PENTECOSTAL Sunday School holds a special children’s program for everyone ages 4 to 11 startling al 9:30 a.m, every Sunday until Sept. 4. MONDAYS ARE YOU HAVING trouble secing your grand- children? A support group to promote grand- parent ties to families and access tu grandchildren meets Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. at the United Church. Call Claudetic al 635-1645 for info. VOICES IN THE VALLEY community choir holds rehearsals each Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church. Contact 638-1230, - ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. = Riverboat Daze ’94 RECOVERING COUCH POTATOES (top), featuring Jake Muller, Leanne Boschmann-Epp, John Krisinger, John Peguin and Rob Grant, were one of the first acts to take the stage at Riverboat Days’ celebrations in the park. It was just one of , dozens of events across town that included the annual Kit- sumkalum Band salmon barbecue, the ever-popular Slingers Race, and the Wild Duck Race. Rotary Club members had all their ducks in a row (bottem left), or at least lining the river- bank, by the time the race was over. Lucky ducks this year _were Debbie Jephson, who won a:Mexican cruise, Dwayne Callbreath,. who won a TV set, and Lyle Harvey, who won a supermarket Shopping spree. iran pn xan Senior woman in Forces Our new surgeon-general has local connections WENDY CLAY, daughter of Io- cal notary public Lawrence Clay, has been promoted major-general. and surgeon-general of the Cana- dian Forces, She is the first female surgeon- general in Canada, the © first woman {0 reach major-general rank and the only female general officer in the Forces. - in 1989 and was named deputy surgeon-gencral in 1992, Clay is also the chair of the Committee of Women in NATO. Clay joined the Forces in 1956 during her (bird year in medical. same plane used by the Snow- birds, While in Trenton, she also be- gon her training as a flight surgeon, a doctor specializing in f medical problems of flyers. - at the Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. AS surgeon-peneral : ‘she will be school at UBC." She became the first female the chief doctor in charge of "Jt was originally simply a way flight surgeon in the Canadian medical policies for the Canadian of getting” through ~ medical Forces. The Terrace Standard offers the What's Up community calendar.as a public service to its Forces, “JT don’t see any reason why I shouldn't. have this job,’’ said Clay while in Terrace visiting her. father last week. ‘‘T like to think I - school,’’ she said. - Afier medical. school and. her internship” in Toronto, her first’ posting was in Trenton, Ontario When she entered: the Forces, Clay said, women could be ad- | - ministrators, nurses or dieticians. **T think my career has been one readers and community organizations. Where -she became interested in -of the factors that opened up jobs " ‘This column is.intended for non-profit organiza- got the job based ‘on merit be- flying.” in the military for oma,” she “Gen. . Wendy Clay tions and those events for which there is no ad- cause I have the experience 3 and Clay was told. she could. only - said. “I’ve seen the scope for she docs not belleve in programs mission charge. qualifications. get flight training if she ‘made-a: women’s employment in the mili- _ of affirmative action. ©. Ttems will run two weeks before each event. We ask that items be submitted by 5 pam. on the Thursday before the iste in which it is to appeur, Submissions should be typed or r printed neatly, Qualified she.-is- as .a. “doctor,- pilot, fight surgeon abd 26-yoar military, she recalls. o An’ 1974, Clay ° ‘recelved her. = plo’ wings. flying Tutor jets, the... veleran of the Forces, - She became a brigadier genera mee ‘permanent commitment to the ‘tary expand exponentially.” ~ Although she is-in favour of ~ women - advancing Into. senior positions in the Forces, sald Clay, merit,”’ she sald, “Tm certainly very. supportive of women’s progress inthe mill- but it has to be cammed by.