INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS B2 TERRACE STANDARD . The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - B1 OMMUNITY- SECTION B Around Town Women’s centre reopens — for now THE DOORS of the Terrace Women’s Re- source Centre are once again open, albeit with fewer operating hours than before. The centre, located at 4542 Park Ave.. has been temporarily closed for the past couple of months, Last week the centre announced it’s now open three days a week, with current drop in hours offered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Women and girls are welcome to come by for information or assistance on almost any topic, says new coordinator Brenda Ramsay, who’s joined by Darlene Westerman of The Family Place. The Terrace Women’s Resource Centre is now run by a new society, according to the Fall 2003 edition of Tamarack, the centre’s long-standing newsletter. The society held an envisioning day with members Nov, | to gather input on the big ‘funding challenges the centre will meet early next year. Both the women’s centre and The Family . Place are facing significant funding reductions. Women are invited to come share your ideas for projects to help the women’s centre _ Stay open after it loses its core funding March 31, 2004. Ramsay, who describes her job as ‘finding funding’, says the women’s centre’s doors will close permanently unless alternate sources of revenue can be found. Feel the beat STARTING this Sunday, Nov. 16, the Terrace Art Gallery is hosting evening drumming ses- sions on alternating Sundays. Beginners and experienced drummers are _ welcome to join master percussionist Cody Skog on alternating Sundays for lessons in hand drumming. There will be a few extra drums for people who don’t have one but would like to try. The lessons start at 7 p.m. - There is a small drop. in fée. To register, call Laura at the gallery at 638-8884. Never enough IF IT’S WORTH having, it’s worth hanging on to. A Kitimat resident named Adrian Trysse~ naar has been collecting since his youth. What's more, he knows a collection is never complete — there’s always one more piece that you are looking for. He’s amassed a mountain of treasure. Some of it is now on-view at the Kitimat Centennial Museum as part of a new exhibit running to Nov. 29. The portion of Tryssenaar’s collection on display highlights his interest in Coca Cola, pop bottles, B.C. bottles, canning jars, tele- phones and radios, music memorabilia and kerosene Janterns. The museum is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, and Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. Supersizing a fairy tale Terrace Little Theatre’s anniversary production, Cinderella, Is big - — real big By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN THE UPCOMING production of Cinderella just might change the way you think about theatre. There is nothing humdrum about this play - it is a non-stop, action-packed, slapstick two and half hours of folly, music and laughs, says director Chris Stone. “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is something for the fa- mily,”’ Stone says. “It’s a musical comedy with the emphasis on co- medy — it’s fun.” Cinderella, which is being pro- duced in honour of the Terrace Little Theatre’s 50th anniversary and the city of Terrace’s 75th, promises to be larger than life. A painstakingly choreographed, physically demanding play for its actors, the production is meant to keep the audience on its toes. “It’s expected to a degree — without going to the extreme — that the audience might boo when the ugly sisters come on stage or cheer when Cinderella does,” Stone says. “In fact, people on the stage will speak to the audience and go among the audience to a certain degree.” That includes Dobbin, a stub- born horse played by Carla Man- lie and Jaclyn Clifford, who may need a pat or two from audience members at times. It also includes interaction be- tween the evil step-sisters played uproariously by Bruce Martindale and Patrick McIntyre. “It’s all very traditional English pantomime — there is always a dame, a dame is a man who dres- ses a8 a woman,” Stone says: - In this case there are two WHERE'S HER FELLA? Julie Jacobs plays the title role in Cinderella. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO dames, whom he affectionately calls the ugly sisters. “Tt all follows the traditional story of Cinderella and the ugly sisters and the terrible deeds they do to her,” he says, adding panto- mime refers to the theatrical genre of musical comedy and has nothing to ‘do with mime. Cinderella is one of the TLT’s biggest budget plays in quite some time. In fact, everything about the play is big. I's being staged at the R.E.M. Lee theatre instead of the McColl Playhouse ta accommodate its cast, set and the Terrace Symph- ony Orchestra. There are 19 parts, 28 actors . including the chorus, bit parts and celebrity guests, more than 75 props, several gigantic set pieces, more than .a-dozen-songs and. so many | set changes the audience ting on a production like this is , will lose count. To date, the cast and crew have logged more than 400 hours . of rehearsal time over three months, with more to come this week. One of the challenges of put- , coordinating what goes on behind the scenes as much as oul front. Continued on Page B3. FOOD COLLECTORS: left to right (back row) Gabriel DaPonte, Tayler Harrison, Jessica Harrison, Keith Johnston. Front: Lovene Operana, Jarrett Harrison and Joshua Raposa. Missing is Katrina Frie- sen. No tricks here WHEN YOU hear a knock on your door on Halloween, you expect the words, “Trick or treat” will scon follow. Not so for people opening the door to child- ren from the Seventh Day Adventist Church. About 20 children and teens went door-to- door Oct. 31 collecting cans for the food bank and not candy for themselves. Local residents were asked for a donation of a non-perishable food item. Still, most people couldn’t break with tradi- tion and handed out candy, too, It’s something the church does each Hallo- ween as a way to encourage children to think about people who are less fortunate, but this is the first year the teens took the initiative, pair- ing up with younger tots and accompanying: them on their rounds. The church community decided to donate the proceeds from the Halloween food drive to the Terrace Churches Food Bank. Scorched entry leads to word wiz. IN THE CLASSIC fairy tale, Cinderella, the King’s son has fallen in love with a beautiful mystery lady. When she vanishes after the ball at mid- hight, his only clue is a dainty glass slipper that will only fit his one, true love. How filling then, that organizers of the TLT’s recent “Cinderella” word contest should end up having to search for the winning con- testant using the harest of clues. - Once the Oct. 31 entry deadline passed, or- ganizers opened up the mailbox at the McColl Playhouse to find vandals had struck. The envelope of the winning had been da- maged by fire - likely from a lit firecracker being thrown through the mail slot, “It turned up as a rather burned offering,” contest. organizer Jan Stone said. “It was singed and scorched.” The contestant’s name and address could not be read. The only legible letters from the entrant’s name and address were a J and a U, a MIT, part of a phone number, and the letters Pumpkin flingers lay siege to gun club by JEFF NAGEL GOOEY ORANGE splats, Triumphant smiles. And impressive medieval tech- nology. It all came together Sunday Nov. 2 at the an- nual Pumpkin Fling, where kids of all ages took enor- mous pleasure in launch- ing spent Halloween pumpkins into the sky. Four siege weapons were the star performers at the event in Thornhill at the rod and gun club. Last year’s winner, Pos- sum Lodge, was back de- inonstrating some of the hidden talents of our local medical community with a massive slingshot contrap- tion powered by several lengths of rubber surgical tubing. The Skeena Valley Ro- tary Club was also back with their enormous trebu- chet. Many sand bags on a counterweight powered a KAL. “From that information, we were able to find the winner,” Stone said, adding the “KAL” in the address looked like “Kalum Street,” a helpful clue. It turns out the entry belonged to Julia Mil- chell, a legal secretary who was able to pro- vide a duplicate copy of her entry when con- test organizers tracked her down. Mitchell, who spelled 258° acceptable words, has won a family pass to see the show, playing Nov. 21-22 at the R.E.M. Lee theatre. The word contest was designed to promote its upcoming anniversary presentation, Cinder- ella, a broadly comic extravaganza modelled on the British pantomime tradition, People were asked to speli as many words as possible using the letters in the name, Cir- derelia. Most entries hovered around the 160-to 175 word mark - no small achievement. Organizers were thrilled that children also tried their hand at the word puzzle. Three will PATRICK ATKINSON- BRUCE jires the cannon at the pumpkin fling. be given a free child’s ticket to the show plus ;- a backstage pass so they can meet the actor of their choice following the performance. Meanwhile, there is another lingering myst- ery stemming from the Cinderella contest. 4 The entry with “far more” correct words than anyone else’s was handed in anonymous- ; ly. She or he simply wrote they loved playing, ; Scrabble and that the prize should be given to . someone else. . “They just did it for the fun if it,” Stone said, adding other people wrote saying how much they enjoyed the contest, “A very sincere thanks from the TLT for all of those peaple who took the time and trouble to enter. We hope that they had fun doing it.” Stone was in.charge of judging the entries, a job that started to capture her imagination. She even began waking up} in the morning with new words, “It became a bit of an obsession,” she laughs. more frequently than its competitor, Its throwing arm could be dragged into position by just two Rotarians, while the much larger Skeena Valley model had to be. armed by pulting a pickup truck into reverse and puli- ing a rope back several feet. Then there was the ser- ious ordnance, Black powder enthu- siasts wilh the North West Charcoal Burners thrilled the crowd by blasting their cannon al a Jone. pumpkin up against the backstop. | With cries of "Fire in the hole” onlookers would cover their ears ahead of: the stunning thump. Am- munition consisted of beer cans filled with concrete. In all 100 pumpkins were hurled by the ‘assor-. ied [lingers who paid $2 per pumpkin. You can see all’ the. long pole throwing arm that flung pumpkins down- tarians, who built a much It performed best with eval times. photoes on the Terrace: But in pure Standard website at” range. A new.and impressive entry his year came-from the downtown. Terrace Ro- smaller and more efficient wooden trebuchet with a compact lead counter- weight. smaller projectiles - and would have operated dan- -perously within arrow . range if-these were medi- speed of firing, the elegant machine could be reloaded much faster and lob orange projectiles downrange far www.lerracestandard.com, Click the Pumpkin: Fling . photo gallery link at the left side of the page.