INSIDE
COMMUNITY
EVENTS B2

CHARLYNN TOEWS

Oh, you wish

ON’T YOU JUST hate it when
in front of you is being so slow?

burst from irritation and aggravation.

for her, she simply jumps right over him.
Like this moming. Nelson was standing

there trying to remember why he meowed

at the door and Kip ran across the yard and

son could lift a paw.

Don’t you wish you could do that in the
grocery store? Instead of maneuvering be-
tween the slow shopper paused with 2 huge
overflowing cart, reading a can of beans,

other side of the aisle, you could just jump
over the whole lot of them, red little basket
in hand,

Instead of saying, ‘‘Oh excuse me,”’ then
waiting while their brains switched from

ister the fact they were hogging the aisle,
you could be lightly springing over their

pers coming up, you could take a bit of a

them even knowing you were there.
- ¥ou could-save-a: great deal of time and
trouble; it would be great.

Don’t you wish when the service clerk
says to you, ‘‘Need a hand out with that
today?”’ you could say, ‘‘No, but come to

—and they would?

“Sure, I'll just grab my jacket,” the
energetic young person would say, and effi-
ciently clean your house, take care of chil-
dren and start supper.

“Thanks,” you could say after your
refreshing break. They’d say, ‘‘No prob-
lem,” or ‘*‘You’re welcome,’’ and then skip
back to work to bag another order of
groceries. That would be grand, don’t you
think?

Don’t you wish there was some sort of
way to perm your hair on a good hair day? I
mean, you wake up one morning when you
have no appointments with great hair — out
of the blue it happens to be completely per-
fect. If there were some sort of emergency
spray-on perm product you could just
quickly apply, you could have that great
hair day for months.

Then the next day when you have all

scheduled, you could have yesterday’s ac-

it. But no, it doesn’t work that way.

Don’t you wish you could save one cold
and dreary winter day for the middle of
summer if you felt like it? Your neighbours
might be surprised to see so much snow in
July and baseball teams would be annoyed
to cancel games because it was so chilly
and dark, but it would be a nice break for
everyone.

Just when it’s so stifling all ihe time and
dry and difficult to sleep at night because
it’s hot and bright, you could say, “That's
it. Today I’m using February 10th,’’ and
wake up toa cool, quiel morning.

Then you could read bundled up inside all
day, something dark and mysterious, and
test hecause pretty well everything would
be closed or canceled because of the confu-
sion.

Then the next day would break warm and
sunny and everyone would be so happy the
whole town would be cheerful.

Don’t you wish real people would sud-
denly start dancing in the streets like in
Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire movies and
music videos?

It would take a bit of practice, of course,
but that part would be enjoyable. These
town-wide rehearsals might even build a
strong sense of camaraderie amongst the
citizens of our city. This might even com-
pletely eliminate the feelings of aggravation

they can’t jump like a cat, Oh, you wish,
you wish.

you’re in a hurry and the person

Oh man, a person could almost -

hopped over him to get inside before Nel-—

and a gagele of teenagers clogging up the .

gossip, or trying to picture palm ail, to reg- .

heads. If you saw an obstruction of shop--

running start and leap over them without -

my house and vacuum while I have a nap,’”

kinds of public appearances and photo opps:

Our little cat Kip has the right idea: if
Nelson the big old cat is moving too slow .

-cidentally great hair again when you need °

and irritation anyone might have because “

| TERRACE STANDARD

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - B1

Volunteer of the Year

OMMUNITY

SECTION B
CRIS LEYKAUF
638-7283

Hats off to local volunteers

AS GOVERNMENTS trim
their budgets, they rely in-
creasingly on volunteers to
strengthen the stitches of
socicly’s social fabric,

Volunteers are slill needed
in traditional roles, such as
helping seniors or putting
out fires, but now govern-
ment is asking for more
vol inteers,

For example, the attorney
general’s ministry is asking
for volunteers for new com-
munity justice —_circles.
Volunteers, victims and
others will meet to figure
oul appropriate sentences

for young offenders and for °

non-serious crimes.

At the same time as
goverment is relying more
on volunteers, B.C.’s econo-
my is lagging badly behind
the rest of the country.

That means as people
struggle to make ends meet,

perhaps working longer
hours, there’s less energy
for volunteering.

In light of this we think
there’s a special emphasis

behind the fourth annual
Volunteer of the Year con-
lest, sponsored by The Ter-
race Standard and Over-
wailea,

That holds particulazly
true in Terrace, which is still
recovering from a severe
selback in the forestry in-
dustry.

So if you've benefited

from the actions of a
volunteer, or know someone
who’s devoted countless
hours to helping others, we
want to hear about that per-
son,

Sometimes just the honour
of being nominated is
enough, says Lovina Tyler,
head of the Volunteer
Bureau,

“They're doing so much,
plugging away,”’ says Tyler,
“This is your chance to say,
“Yes. You really made a dif-
ferencel’ "

In the first year Aileen
Frank won the honour for
her tireless efforts on behalf
of seniors. The year after
Jim Ryan was named
Volunteer of the Year for
the incredible work he’s
done with the Terrace Com-

. munity Band and Symphony

Orchestra. And last year
Carol Zucchiatti got the nod

for the devotion she’s
shown to the Pacific NW
Music Festival.

Tyler has agreed to be
convener again, since

there’s too much possibility

for conflict-of-interest for
her to act as a judge.

The judges will be famil-
jar faces — city councilor
Rich McDaniel and Over-

Lovina Tyler
waitea manager Dale Lufkin

have agreed to do the job
once more, They'll be

joined by last year’s winner

Carol Zucchiatti.

There are four chances for
your volunteer to be recog-
nized. In addition to the top
honour, there’s also two
runner-up spols and a sepa-
rate award for special ser-

Rooms with doors

YOU’D think battles over
rooms would be some-
thing confined to siblings.
But in Terrace Little
Theatre’s new play The
Caretaker, the room be-
comes something more
— the only truly safe
place in ‘a confusing
world.

The room is on the up-
per floor of a large
dilapadated house in
London — the year is
about 1959, .
Floor boards on the
lower story are rotting
away and no other rooms
save this one are suitable
for habitation, If you’d
call this room fit to live
in.

Layers of three or four
different types of
wallpaper are peeling

away. The floor is horrid -'

dingy green. And it’s fur-
nished with a remarkable
collection of junk.

‘The acting has to be
deep and intense,’’
says Barnswell.
“There’s so much
going on underneath
the language.”

Literally.
There are three men
batlling for control of the

room. Two are brothers .

Mick and Aston,

When the play opens
the reclusive Aston is
living alone in the room.
It’s not clear how long
he’s been up there.

_ Brother Mick owns the
house with Aston, but he
lives somewhere else.
Just where is left up to
the audience to figure out.

Into this odd rela-
tionship comes Davies, a
xenophobic bum.

“To Davies, this room
is goldmine,’” says direc-
tor Daniel Barnswell.
Barnswell also plays the
role of the bum in the
play — complete with a
low class English accent,
born in the gutters.

In contrast Mick uses
sophisticated language,
trying to baffle the others
with big words. But his
brother is just a simple,
straight-forward speaking
man,

ALL QUIET ON THE SET — Danial Barnswell acts In and directs Terrace Little

Theatre's upcoming play, The Caretaker, He plays the role of Davies, a bum who
covets a dilapadated room, filled with dingy furniture such as this old bed.

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“The language is very
‘rich and entwined,”
Barnswell says of the

. Script. It has a musical

quality, with liberal use
af pauses.

Despite the quality of
the language, the
dialogue in the play can
be very simple. That’s be-
cause much of the rela-
tionship between the
three characters goes un-
said.

“The acting has to be

deep and intense,’’ says.

Barnswell. There’ S so
much going on — un-
demeath the language.” .

Barnswell chose the
play because he and the
other actors, Ted Wyatt
and Andy Roth, wanted a
challenge.

And the play, written by
the famous and respected
‘Harold Pinter, injects a
European taste to a sea-
son filled with Canadian

plays.
“It’s a treat,’ says
Barnswell. ‘You don’t

get this kind of stuff very
often.’’

‘As the battle for the
room progresses during
the play, the audience

‘realizes the room isn’t the.

_ March

safe haven the characters
thought it was. That’s be-
cause rooms have doors,
And anyone can knock on
the door.

‘I’s a comedy of
menace,” says
Barnswell. ‘‘There’s dark
forces at work on these
characters.”’

In the end though,
there’s no more for these
characters to fear than
children who fear the

boogieman under the bed. °

The Caretaker opens
26. Tickets are
$12,

_take

vices volunteers. This award
was created to recognize
volunteers who typically
specialized training.
Examples of these types of
services are Search and Res-
cue, Victim's Assistance,
and volunteer firefighters,

The grand winner
Volunteer of the Year —
will be treated to dinner for
two at the Bavarian Inn
reslaurant.

And all nominces will be
invited to the Volunteer
Bureau’s annual luncheon in
April.

Nomination forms are
available at the Terrace
Standard office or the
Volunteer Bureau, mext to
Hava Java. You can also
look for nomination fonns
in this paper next week.

Or skip the form and fax
us (638-8432) all the in-
formation you can about
what your volunteer does
and why you think he or she
should win the honour.

The contest closes April
10 at noon.

Around

Town

Keeping
the spirit

THE WOMEN’S centre
is hosting a film and dis- |
cussion evening Friday,
March 27 at 7 p.m.

Goddess Remembered
is the first in the National
Film Board’s women and
spirituality series, and
will be the first of three
shown at the women’s
centre,

Goddess worshipping
has continued despite pe-
tiods of intense prosecu-
tion throughout history.

Advocating a belief in
an interconnected life
system, with respect for
the earth and regarding
the female as fundamen-
tal to our survival, this
pre-Christian religion
continues to gain support
in modem times.
~ During the film’s show-
ing assistance for child
care will be available.

Festive
t-shirts
SUPPORT the Pacific
NW Music Festival —

buy a t-shirt.

The festival runs March
24-April 4 and organizers
are hoping Terrace resi-
dents will show their sup-
port by wearing the t-
shirts during the two
weeks,

These $15 shirls are
available at local
businesses and proceeds
go to the festival.

Programs for the festi-
val can be bought before
the festival at Sight and
Sound or during the festi-
val at all venues.

Breathing

clean

WOMEN WHO are preg-
nant or parenting young
children and want to quit
smoking are invited to
lake this free program,

The program consists of
motivating, quitting and
follow-up sessions.
Transportation and
snacks are provided,

The program _ starts
April 1 from 7-9 p.m. at
the Terrace Child Devel-
opment Centre.

Phone to register at
Building Healthier
Babies -~ 635-9388,