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BOOKING IN. .
PETER HEPBURN

No trouble with
this double

D CURELI. has served our
community as librarian for al-4
most 17 yours now. | remember
quite well his carly days in Ter-
race bath because my dad, who was on the
board al the time, had a hand in hiring him,
and because he always seemed such an in-
timidating figure to my childhood self,

T eventually learned that Ed is not so very
fearsome. In fact, he has a particularly wry
sense of humour that ve grown to ap-
preciate in the last decade.

Ii my opinion, Ed has been the mest im-
portant asset of our public library. All of
you likely think he just reads and
catalogues books day in and day out. Oh
no. Not the man who brought compulers
and videos and CDs to the facility. Not the
man who had to master the daily conun-
drums of our recent expansion.

Tam, in fact, thinking of proposing a new
library program wherein people could
shadow him aboul his daily work. Just to
Set.

All these accomplishments al-the library,
and now this April brings one more for
him. Signs in the library have heralded the
event. Staff have mentioned it to you. Even
your check-out slip has foretold it.

“On April 2; the fines.on adult books and
CDs will double to ten cents a day.

To me, this is piffle, despite my frequent
overdues. Believe me, you don’t want to
face the fines that university libraries will
extort. | once paid twenty dollars for a peri-
adical when really I should have offered
them a year’s subscription instead,

Please, don’t believe for a sec-
ond that we need money for
luxuries. Unless you regard writ-
ten materials as a fuxury, that is.

To the library board, this fine increase is
lifeblood, The library, you sce, is funded by
various levels of government, but mostly by
lhe city. This year, however, the city did
not give the library’s proposed budget any
real consideration, and so our actual grant
came. in significantly lower than aur re-
quested grant,

Please, don't believe for a second that we
need money for luxuries. Unless you regard
writlen materials as a luxury, that is. Paper
cosis have risen, resulting in decreased ac-
quisition last year compared to the previous
one. If we cannot obtain books for the col-
lection, we are failing our patrons.

It is not fair 10 say that since we have our
new building we deserve nothing more. Of
course utililics will be greater. We can,
moreover, persevere = without _air-
conditioning or a book security system —
we've done withoul so long now,

I do feel, however, that aur staff has

earned at least uw modest salary ‘increase,
We've doubled our floor space. without ad-
ditional staff to manage it. Circulation fig-
ures so-far in 1996 forecast record numbers,
just one more indication of how much
busier cveryone is.

To Ed, this fine increase is a move that is
perhaps long overdue (forgive the pun), but

hot entirely welcome. This is his first ever

fine increase, but he is not convinced that
higher fines necessarily [acililate the
recovery of materials. And then there is the
idca of twice asking for money from the
patrons,

You pay for the serviecs at the library
through your laxes. You pay again'in your
~ overdue fincs. Unfair perhaps, but it’s what
“we must do to get through the year. Other
cities — Victoria and Prince Rupert come
to mind — have had to close their libraries.
temporarily. We have no desire to withhold
services that are so visibly important to
Terrace. This means we must Taise the
tines.

“If you have overdues now, there will be a

fine-frec week at the-ehd of March. Once
April comes, though, we will press on.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 20, 1996 - B41

A salute to local volunteers

THEY SIT ata sick, lone-
ly person's bedside and
offer quiet words of com-
fort.

They help out at local
schools, organizing spe-
cial events for children.

They spend time with
the elderly, keeping them
company, and brighten-
ing their days.

They never stop giving.

They give time.

They give effort.

They give of them-
selves.

They are volunteers, and it’s
lime once again to recognize

~ these hard working people and
say “thank you."
You nominated 25 hard-
working voluntecrs for The
Terrace Standard/Overwaitea

Volunteer of the Year contest

last year, and we're confident
you'll surpass that number this
year,

There’s no doubt Terrace is a
very “generous © ‘community

with literally hundreds of

people who spend countless
hours doing things for others,
So, who do you know who
dovs. 4a lol to make Terrace a
better place to work and live?
Anyone who does Unpaid
voluntecr work “is eligible.

They don’t have to he af-
filiated with a club or organi-
zation,

You'll find an entry form in
the community seclion of this
week’s. issue of The Terrace

Standard. Wi also Appear in.

future issucs.
Think about your choice this

week and look far. the: form.

Tear “it out and fill it in; or
make a ‘few copics first and

pass them around to friends

and neighbours.”

Tell us sas much as. you an,

about your nominee,

Let us know how long
they’ve lived’ here, what kind
of volunteer work they do, and

how they help improve life in
Terrace,

The deadline for entries is
April 12.

After that, a panel of judges
{rom the community will .be-

gin the difficult task of choos-

ing a winner. .

So, say. ‘thank you’? to
somecone.today, and nominate
them for the Volunteer of the
Yedr,

You can drop off your
entrics at the ‘Terrace Stan-
dard, or*mail them to 3210
Clinton Street, Terrace, BC
V8GSR2. 0

Or you can fax us al 638-
8432,

Music festival coming to town

THEY'RE — tuning _ strings,
practicing chords and
memorizing Haydn, Music
students across the city are
getting ready for the upcoming
Pacific Northwest Music Fes-
tival, April 9-20,

Close to 300 of those stu-
dents are studying under the

direction of the Terrace Inde-*

pendent Music Educators
Socicty,

The society is relatively
young — il formed in Septem-
ber ‘94 — and is unique in the
urea. However, membership is

_ growing quickly.

‘We started with seven local
music teachers, and how we
have 15,” says Fiona Onstein,
vice- president.

The music teachers all work -
out of their homes. They
joined together to form a non-
profil society in order to share
ideas, support cach other and
host joint recitals -for their stu-
dents, says Onstein,

An individual teacher proba-
bly wouldn’t be able to afford
to rent a venue for recitals, but
as a group they can.

Recilals are held once a
month in order to give stu-
dents a chance to hone their
performance skills. Now that
the music festival is coming
up, the pace has picked up and
recilals are happening biweck-
ly,

“The kids are really getting
good at their songs,’ says
Onstcin. “Il means a lot to
them to do well.”* °

Another way the  saciety
helps its students. prepare for
festivals is through work-
shops. Past workshop leaders
include Carrie Baker, Bariana
Katz-Eser and the Gryphon
Trio. Another workshop is
scheduled with Angela Hewitt
on April 9.

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SARAH GLEN was one of many music sludents who took part in a recent music recital put on by
the Terrace Independent Music Educators Society. The recital was a warm-up for the Pacific
Northwest Music Festival, April 9-20.

World of
Differences

ET KENNEY'S multicultural
feast last week started off with
a very fitling song, A Worid of
Differences, sung by a choir of
grades 1-3 students.

The feast celebrated cultural
differences, Many guests of
honour were invited, including
the Kermode Bear Dancers.

The feast also featured a dis-
play of East Indian. dancing by

the grade ‘one and twa classes
and wrapped up with a multi-
~-cullural potluck junch.

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