The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 10, 1993 - Page 61 Y NEW JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 _ TERRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard offers What's Up as a public service to ils readers and community organizations. _ This: column is Intended for non-profit organizations and those events for which there Is no admission charge. Hems will run two weeks before each event. We ask that items be submit- ted by noon on the FRIDAY before the issue In which it is to appear. . For other contributed articles, the deadtine Is 5 p.m. on the THURSDAY before the issue ‘comes out, Submisslons should be typed or printed neatly. eet FEBRUARY 14, 1993 - Terrace Teredos water polo association is having an annual general meeting at the Terrace Aquatic Centre in ‘the meeting room at 7:00 pm. 1p43 7 eae FEBRUARY 15, 1993 - The Arthritis Saciety, is having a dem- ‘onstration of medical supplies for people with arthritis at the Happy Gang Centre between 1:30pm 1p43 ea kena FEBRUARY 15, 1993 - Directors or volunteers for big brothers big sisters of Terrace is having a annual gencral meeting at 7:30 pm in the Terrace Library Meeting Room. Everyone is Welcome, 1p43 us * Ld FEBRUARY 16, 1993 - Friends and Families. of Schizophrenics Support Group at Mills Memarial Hospital in the Psych Conference Room at:7:30 pm. For more infor- -mation contact Mental Health 638- 3325. 1p43 : / SEER . FEBRUARY 16, 1993 - Terrace Women’s Resource Centre is hav- -ing a breast implant information session with public health nurse Aileen Kallenan at the Resource centre at ic 30 p.m. 2p42. errs ; FEBRUARY 17, 1993 « Homebased business meeting is at Gims Restaurant at 12:00 noon, .pcall £5045, : - 1pa3 see yeRRUARY 24, 1993 - Terrace ‘Women’s Resource Centre will be having a information session on mammograms with the public health nurse Sandra Hartford at the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre at 7:30 p.m. 2p42 "+e eRe FEBRUARY 25 AND MARCH 27 1993 - Community Arts Coun- cil of Kitimat is holding the 11th Annval Juried Art exhibit, any art- ists interested are requested to fill aout entry form. Call Liz Williamson at 635-2886. Place is located at the City Centre Mall, Kitimat. 2p42 keene FEBRUARY 27, 1993 - The Ter- race and District Block Parent Association is having a workshop and everyone is invited. The work- shop will be held at the Terrace Public Library between 10 am - 5 pm. . 2p42 eae MARCH 10, 1993 - Huff n Puff Asthma support group wil be hold- ing 4 meeling at the Terrace Public Library at 7:00 pm. ip43 . wethe ‘MARCH 16, 1993 = The Terrace Women's Resource Centre will be holding a menopause, myths and miscanseptions meeting at the Ter- _tace Women’s Resource Centre at 7:30 pm. 2p43 2 atee se OCTOBER 23, 1993 - The BCOAPO Branch 73 is having an’ Annual Tea and Bazaar featuring year-round practical gifts and ‘| baked goods. It is held at the _, 4 Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum ue Street, at 1:30 pm. tfn See “MONDAY & WEDNESDAY - * ‘Terrace masters swim club prac- tices. Swimmers 20 years & older eligible, This takes place at the. Terrace Aquatic Centre between 8:00 and 9:00 pm. For more infor- ‘of - mation cail John Dando at 635- 5637, 2p43 #8 * es CRISIS LINE i is open 24 hours a ‘day for-anyone in crisis. Call 635- 4042, ifn a : Se eee TERRACE PUBLIC Library will ‘] be holding preschool storytime for || three to five year old Thursday | afternoons at 1:30 p.m. and Friday | “| mornings at 10:30 a.m., beginning 2) Jan, 29 and 29, This is a forty-five . ‘| minute session with picture . ‘| boooks, puppets, fingerplays and Elots of Eun! Please register in ‘} advance. Thére is no charge. Tel. 638-8177, ue _ eeeee IT's A PUPPET SHOW! At the Terrace Public Library, Saturday January 30 at 2:00 pm and a repeat Performan Friday, Febrary, 5, at 7:00 pm. Enjoy the thrilllng adven- ‘| tures of Molly Whuppie and the | Giant, There is: no’ charge.’ For ‘|. more information call the Library, Tel 638-8177, CHILDREN thrill to a pup- pet show by children's Ii- brarian Gillian -Campbeill. After the show, they had a chance to look behind the booth and try on some of the fuzzy creatures. VOLUNTEERS PUPP “DON’T YOU WISH you were in a sack??? woofs the muffied voice of Molly-Whuppie from in- side the cloth bag. ‘‘No!”’ crupts a choms of liltle girls’ and boys’ voices. their sage advice, decides (o sce what it’s like inside the sack. A moment later and our hero — Molly Whuppie —- escapes from. with all the giant’s gold. It’s puppet day at the Terrace Public Library and behind. the curtain are the deft bands of chil- dren’s librarian Gillian Campbell. Today her audience is a group of 60 spellbound Gradé 4 stu- dents from Claience Michiel Elementary School. ° And they hang on every scene right tothe end when Molly- Whuppic’ returns. the King’s sword and he asks her to be his Queen. But Molly-Whuppic turns him Her heart's still golden OR MORE THAN a decade she was _ one of the most ac- tive local volunteers for the B.C. Heart. and Stroke Foundation. ° On Aug. 1, 1990, everything changed’ when paramedics pulled her from a-car wreck ‘with the Jaws of Life. Her spine was crushed —- she would never walk again. That was two years ago and 61-year-old Edna Jensen’s lifé PROFIL will never be the same, But some things. never change. — oe This February -— Heart Month — Edna’s back as an area captain for the heart foun- dation. _ “There’s . furious about it,”’ Jensen says of the accident, that put her in the G.F, Strong Rehabillitation: Cenire for months, ‘‘It doesn’t — improve you if you take a neg-- ative attitude towards things.”’ ~. So she’s back doing what ~- she likes. best -- ‘helping other people, a co .She works’ the — ph organizing volunteers behind the ‘scenes to carry out the door-to-door .dyive: to raise money, Although | she has: a “wheel- chair Jift at her house and her «: van is equipped with hand: controls, it takes ‘her longer to. no use being phones ~ receive instructions there, an she says. “But you just do : campaign organizer, “It t really” _ TWO ) YEARS AFTER being crippled in in a car “crash, 61-year-old : ‘Edna Jansen Is back as a volunteer with the Heart Foundation. get around iown. ‘shows guts and spirit.” . So. canvassers drop. by: her The. heart. foundation isn’t house and pick up. kits and. ‘the. only. beneficiary of this dedicated volunteer. Edna is . “Tt takes a lot out of you,”” ; Le es Royal’ Purplé. and has in the ast worked. wit ocicty, SE She also. takes: in. 1 ibe: ote APS incredible. that she 8: doing thls, Says, Betty: ‘Camp- i. bell,: heart. foundation — P at tthe e Happy cine f Ceittre, on But the giant’s wife, against :| another tight spot and is out of:*-. the castle and across’ the bridge ‘ also.active in the Order of the — th. the Arthilis” ‘casional card game‘and dinner © ETS ALIVE! She pulls the strings down and goes away to seek --more adventure, “Irs a bit and the red-tongued snakes for 15 years at the Terrace Public Li- brary, The proof is written on the smniles of the children’s faces, ‘Kids are so responsive to pup- pets,’’ she says, adding she chooses stories with plenty. of eX- of a modern - Fairy tales are good be- cause there’s lots of action. . They're basic. life-cand= citement. death situations: Will the “Fairy tales are good because giant get me?” there’s lots of action,’* Camphell ! explains, “They’re basic life-and- death . situations: Will the giant a , ‘ get me?!” -ending,”” admits Campbell, who Campbell says it’s traditional altered the traditional fairy tale — for libraries to do puppet shows finish. and that’s where they have been _ All. the puppets are either making a tevival of late, homemade or adapted. Much Puppets and professional pup- work goes into each performance. petcers had been on the decline “Tt is a lot of work, but it’s for years, Campbell says. , fun,” says Campbell, who has “But then the Muppets came animated the puffy-cheeked long and it put puppets right giants, the floppy-eared donkeys, back up there in poputarity.”’ AROUND TOWN Light-hearted quintet to play They call themselves Viveza. , Formed in 1988, the West Coast quintet go on stage next Wedacs- day atthe R.E.M. Lee Theatre. The band consists of pianist Linda Lee Thomas, violinists Gwen Thompson and Mark Koenig, Lee Duckles on cello, and Wilmer Fawcett on double bass. They specialize in light classical music, nostalgic “palm court” favourites, tangos and Latin American music. So far the group has released two CDs — In Palm Court Style and Encore. The $15 tickets for the 8 p.m. Feb.17 performance are available at Erwin’s Jewellers in the Skeena Mall. Lions governor visits area. THE DISTRICT GOVERNOR of the Lions Club will be travelling through the northwest next weck. Terry MacDonald meets wilh the Terrace Downtown Lions at Gim’s Restaurant at 7 pam. He’s off to Kilimat and Prince Rupert on Tuesday and Wednesday, The Centennial Lions will be hosting a lunch at the Inn of the West next Thursday, and. the Kermodci Lions will be there for dinner later that day. , All the meetings are open to anyone interested in fi ading out more about the local Lions clubs. : An ode to the ‘Scan We, the people who used to live there, would like you to know, we really care. We heard you want to buy a scan, so we felt we'd help, if we can. ‘From Terrace Nites, where we liave met,’ we've saved some money, to helpt the debe. We send this cheque, to all of you, - This i is what we'd like to dove - Thal piece of prose accompanied a ‘cheque for St, 205.09:for: the ‘CT Scan fund from a group of expatriate Terracites who lived In Victorla,: | The group called iliemselves Terrace Nites and met regularly in’ ‘the provincial capital during the 1980s. In.1990 some: ‘meribers : | returned to Terrace and the rest dispersed; Meanwhile the group 'g “operating fund -gréew until it was decided recetitly, to tum it over to the Dr, REM. Lee Hospital Foundation.