OMMUNITY The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 17, 1993 - Page B1 NEW JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD City Scene, Page B2 The Terrace Standard offers What's Up as a public service to iis ‘readers and community “organizations. ‘This column is intended for non-profit organizations and those events for which there [s no admission charge. Items will run two weeks before each event, We ask that items be submit- ‘ted by noon on the FRIDAY ~before the tssue in which It Is to ' appear. For other contributed articles, ‘the deadline is 5 p.m. on the THURSDAY before the Issue comes out, Submissicns should be typed or printed neatly. : Seeet ‘MARCH 17, 1993 - Terrace Women’s Resource Center is hav- -ing a workshop on Menopause, myths and misconceptions, this ; will be held at 4542 Park Avenue cat730 pm, 1p48 wt . aeane “MARCH 19, 1993 + Chronic ‘fatigue. support group is having a combined meeting for those with fibromyalgia at the Happy Gang Centre at 7pm. 2p47 eeeeer : MARCH 19, 1993 - Combined “support group mecting for persons ’ with ‘chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, information is avail- able from Darlene at 638-8688 or 635-4059, takes place at the Happy Gang Centre at 7: :00 p.m. 1p48 -MARCH 3, 1993 - Chronic "Fatigue support group is having a ‘combined meeting for these with fibromyalgia, this is held at the “[:Happy Gang Centre at 7:00pm, ; 2p4? 7 eeeee 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 -+ Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum ‘Street, at 1:30 pm. tin : eeene CRISIS | LINE Is open 24 liouirs d ca anyone. inerisis: Call.635~ ; tfn “ee eee. : ‘EVERY TUESDAY evening, the |'Skeena valley quilters meet at ‘from 7pm to’ 9:30 pm for more information cal! Cathy at 635- 1.2230, st ehae-d .|:EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8- «| 8:00 pm. Terrace Narcotics Anon- ymous. "Steps to Recovery" meets at the Skeena Health ( Unit audito- ‘rium. bu . Rete * My ‘BVERY. WEDNESDAY - Terrace [Ladies Kermodie Lions Club .mects at the Inn of the West. For -} times and more info contact Doro- thy Barisoff at 633-8183. ~ a . asthe : [EVERY THURSDAY at 7:30pm Overeaters Anonymous at Wom- CURTAIN CALL FOR CAL PAIR “Skeena Junior Secondary School. ON STAGE: Caledonia Grade 12 students Melanie Conrad and Louia Pelletier are off to the B.C. Festival of the Arts in May thanks to their winning performance last week at the zone drama festi- val. They won best production, best-directed production, best set design and awards for acting ex- cellence for the play Where Have Alf the Lightning Bugs Gone?._ _ HISTORY LIVES AT MUSEUM CEDARVALE HE JAPANESE . bombed Cedarvale in 1945. Mary Dalen has proof. Tacked to the wall of the museum she runs in Cedarvale is a piece of ordinary-looking. hemp rope, with siiall Hooks in it. . It’s the only Temaining evidence of one of the hundreds of balloon bombs floated. across B.C. by . Japanese forces ‘during the Sec- ond Warld War. The balloon campaign was. aimed at destroying the pro- vince’s forests and economy by starting thousands of forest fires with small incendiary bombs. The balloon attack was largely un- successful but some of the bombs drifted as far as Manitoba. The bomb that fell on Cedar- vale caused no damage because its balloon landed ina tree. The bomb that fell on Cedarvale caused no: Dramatic sweep wins ‘For Melanie Conrad and Louic Pelletier, it was like sweeping the ‘Academy Awards. The Caledonia Senior - Secondary acting duo produced, ‘directed and performed the play -that cleaned up at the high school zone drama competition here last week, Their winning performance of Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone? earned best produc- tion, best-directed play, best sel design. And Peiletier and Conrad both received awards of excellence for their avting in the one-act play. For a student-directed play, that’s nothing short of phenomenal. “I was supremely shocked,” Pelletier said. The two have been working on the play for the last four months. “The toughest part was doing it without a director — being your own director,’ he said, “‘It’s real- ly tough doing it by. yourself.”’ actors a ticket to Trail The play was one of seven judged at the competition and one of two from Terrace. Conrad directed the play, eami- ing an award for excellence in direction. She also pluyed the main character in their play. Pelletier plays more than a dozen oller characters. — Eight plays representing five schools from Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Terrace and Hazelton competed here last week. Each play was presented before an audience and was then later adjudicated Second place went to a produc- tion from Kitimat entitled The Girl in the Mirror. But the two Cal students don’t exit stage left quite yet, Having won the zone, they now take their performance on the road to the B.C. Festival of the Arts in Trail from May 24-26. They’re also considering put- ting on a performance of the play for their school. . damage because ifs balloon : t nd failed to detonat landed in a tree. War. The incendiary bomb landed in atree a e, It's one of dozens of interesting artifacts in the museum Dalen helps run in Gedarvale. HERITAGE PRESERVED: Mary Dalen of the Meanskinisht Vil lage Historical Association hefts the piece of rope that carried a Japanese balloon bomb to Cedarvale during the Second World }en’s Resource Centre. Cail 635- 6446. eeaue _- | EVERY: MONDAY Terrace Co- | Dependanis Anonymous meets _p from. 8-9 pm. Call Karen. 633- 0707. a sass EVERY 3RD MONDAY of each month the Arthritis Society has a drop-in for information at Happy | Gang Centre 3226 Kalum 1:30- 43:00, . eeaas. aS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for "| Terraceview Lodge Pet Visitation -| Program. Once a month commit- :| ment needed, Dogs only. For more info call Bonnie at 638-0223. os weeee a ‘The ‘*CHILD HEALTH | CLINICS” need your volunteer ~-Pservices. Duties include weighing '&. measuring children. No lifting ‘| necessary. Clinics are Tuesdays ‘from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and ‘| from 1:30 p.oi. = 4:00 p.m. Thurs- < | days 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 pm. For amore information call Catherine @ 1 638-3310.: fee eehee- -: LTERRACE PIPES & DRUMS ‘[:practice every Mon. from 7:30- 8:10 p.m. Jr. Table; 8:20-9:00 p.m. “1 Sr. Table; 9:15-9:45 p.m. piping & | drumming. Meet at the Kin Hut “next to Heritage Park. Anyone Interested in playing or learning to pea ‘call Audrey Kerr at 635- seeen oa TERRACE AND DISTRICT [the Women’s. Resource Centre. ‘Everyone welcome. For informa- ‘tion phone Sylvie at 635-6422 or Elizabeth at 638-1397, geese PIONEER KIDS CLUB meets every Wed. from 6:30-8 pm. For ‘kids 6-9 yeara at Terrace Pentecos- ‘tal Assembly, 3511 Eby St, Ph. 635-2434 for more Info. , . eneee io ci» [> White Cane Club meeting the 2nd |- | Tues. of every month at 1:00 pm in Agnes Sutton first spotted the balloon descending into the vil- lage. Dalen said postmistress Edith Essex — who had the only telephone there — notified the . authorities, “The army came and cut it down,”’ said Dalen, The balloon bombing story is just one of many fascinating bits of northwest history preserved in the museum, Other artifacts include an old CN register from 1904 and an organ donaled by the Tomlison family to the museum. Te also houses a collection of PROBLEM-SOLVING paraphernalia from the native people, carly settlers, railroad, loggers and the school, Many of the. items are on loan to the Meanskinisht Village Historical Association for display, The association now owns its own land and museum building after 13 years of effort. Dalen, secretary for the associa- tion, said the association first ap- proached School District 88 in 1980 with the request that Ihey ~ sell the old village school. house © in Cedarvale for use as a muse- # um. A mind- bending won the event, but were sidelined.” Even Einstein would have found it a challenge. Students from seven focal teams, representing three Terrace scheols, competed last week in Prince Rupert at the northwest regional finals for the Odyssey of. - the Mind. The brain-draining problem- solving competition pitted the teams in cach division . against each other in aquest for the best. “Tt: was a fantastic day,’? said Wayne Paquet, who coordinated the Terrace teams. One of the main events was the construction of a car powered only by mechanical jacks. It had to do two laps around a square track, then go backwards, ae was an amazing technical. challenge,” Paquet said, adding a ~ team from Cassie Hall nearly whien their axle broke. Other events involved the crea- tion of a play or a book and the .. performance of it in the form ofa skit, “Tt was an amazing: tech- r | nical challenge.” Bee The Clarence Michicl team won 2 ’ first in their division With.an anal- ogy to Hemingway's The Old. Man and the Sea. They pore: formed a skit about a baseball , player who’ loses his. arm to can, cen. One team of Cassie Hall Gtade- - 4 students. won their division by. constructing an incredible balsa The board at that time turned down the sale request, but al- lowed the group to set up and op- erate its museum there provided the board had no liability or ex. pense. In 1991 the school board de- cided it had no further use for the land and turned the parcel over to Crown lands with the recom- -mendalion that it be granted to the historical association for its _ Inuseum. - “Crown agreed to the transfer by the end of that year — but it cost ‘the’ Aistoricat association. more Sdyesey ‘wood. structure that. held more than two thousand times its own weight. - The: students jnanaged to stack 80 pounds on top of the cight- - inch-high 18-gram. balsa wood “structure without it collapsing — _ blowing away the competition. Paquet said the. children worked on their long-term’ problem’ for ~ three rhonths in advance. -Another area of competition was creative . and. spontaneous _roblem solving... One such area required : students 40 brainstorm as many excuses for ‘not doing things they were | supposed ioas possible. — “Five. teams’. from Cassie Hall . Elementary. School competed, as well.- as. one. from. Clarence Michiel Elementary and one : from Uplands. than just the $1 price tag. By the time everything. was signed, the association had paid out more than $2,500 in survey- ing fees, property laxes and trans- fer fees. But now, Dalen says, the Cedarvale area’s hiislory’ is secure, The original name of the village was Gitlusec, but it later changed to Meanskinisht, which mcams “bencath the pines.” "After CN Rail came through, they renamed it Cedarvale,” Dalen said. The communily grew up on both sides of the Skeena River, but in 1952 the school across the river was closed so all the Cedar- vale children attended the school which now houses the museum. A ferry similar to the one still in use at Usk carried people back and forth to each side of the com- munity. The school, which Dalen her- self attended, only went up to Grade 8. Older children were. bussed to Terrace. In. 1972 that school also closed and al] siu-. dents were bussed to Terrace. drama Fest entry. Moon. held in Prince Rupert in May. Dinner Theatre stages comeback The folks at Terrace Little Theatre are bringing thelr popular dinner theatre format — this time to showcase their zone Rehearsals are now underway for David French's Saltwater John McGowan stars as Jacob Mercer, who returns to Coley's Point, Newfoundland, to rekindle an old romance and prevent the impending marriage of his sweetheart —- Mary Snow — played by his real-life wife Maria MeGowan. The situation is complicated by the Identity of the groont-to-be — a family rival. Saltwater Moon is TLT's entry in the zone drama Festival to be Marla McGowan is a newcomer to TLT. Her husband John is well-known to McColl Playhouse patrons for his roles fn Brighton Beach Memoirs, Hooters, and most recently as veterinarian Tom in Living Together. The dinner theatre play runs April 16-18 and April 23-25 at the Curling Rink, Tickets:are $20 and. are available. Apr I Ist. at Carter's Jewellers and the Bank of Montreal, .