B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 6, 1994

Furry tourist rides the rails

A FURRY emissary from Win-
nipeg is spending a couple of
weeks in the Northwest,

He comes complete with a
backpack and journals full of
travel tales.

Wandering Winnie, a Pooh
Bear lookalike, is riding the rails
to help students in Sophie
Munro’s Grade 5 class learn more
about Canada,

When he’s squeezed Winnie
sounds rumbly in his tumbly. It’s
actually a taped message explain-"
ing his mission: ‘‘Hello, my name
is Wandering Winnie. I’m from
Bonnycastle School in Winnipeg.
My class sent me on Via Rail to
explore Canada.”’

Since hitting the road in No-
vember, 1993, the stuffed toy has
roamed north to the Arctic, east
to Ottawa and now west to B.C.
The bear travels by train mostly,
but bush pilots flew it as far north
as Repulse Bay, Northwest Terri-

CANCER

tories.

During
Bulkicy Valley and beyond, a
Telkwa resident and Via Rail em-
ployee, Anita Marple, will play
host.

**He’s been on boats and planes
— all soris of things,” says Mar-
ple. “I’m bringing him to Rupert.
He’s going on a fishing trip.””

Clad in a fur-lined parka he was
given during a visit to Rankin In-
let on the Arctic Circle, Winnie is
festooned with pins and ‘carries
souvenirs from across Canada.

He even attended the opening
session of Parliament and met
Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

Winnie’s journal relates adven-
tures across the country. In the
arctic, children wrote of sunless
days in and the arrival of beluga
whales and polar bears,

In Vancouver, students took
him to Chinese New Year
celebrations and a performance of

Winnie’s visit to the -

the Vancouver Symphony Or-
chestta.

Winnie was chosen for the trip
because students felt it best
tepresented their city. He also
represents an obscure bit of Win-
nipeg’s past.

During the First World War, a
troop train stopped near Thunder
Bay, Ont, where Capt. Harry
Colburn bought a live black bear
cub as a regimental mascot, Col-
burn named the cub Winnie after

his hometown of Winnipeg.

The bear sailed overseas and
ended up in London Zoo after
troops were sent into combat.
Tame as a puppy, it became the

. favorite of a certain child named

Christopher Robin, son of author
AA. Milne.

Thus the bear became the in-
Spiration for the classic Winnic

~ the Pooh tales.

Wandering Winnie wraps up its
western four this month and will
return to Winnipeg,

Volunteers lead fight

THE NUMBER of volunteers
battling cancer in Terrace has bal-
looned in recent years.

**There used to be just three or
four volunteers here,’’ says
Stephen Horton, northern district
manager for the Canadian Cancer
Society. ‘Now there’s more than
a dozen and they’re really keen.””

In Terrace, he said, two
volunteers handle counselling
with patients and family about
general types of cancer,

Two women deal strictly with
other women who have breast
cancer, ,

And two more run the Living
With Cancer support group.

But despite all the work that is

carried out, people don’t really
know what the Canadian Cancer
Socicly does at the local level,
Horton says,

“They know we do research
and treatment, but they don’t
know how much we do in town,”’
he says.

In addition to the. support
groups, the society pays thou-
sands of dollars cach year to as-
sist needy patients and — their
families with the high cost of
travelling for treatment.

He said the Terrace group is
also breaking new ground for
small communities in increased
prevention.

“*Renee Lucky has done a lot of

good work in education,” he
added.

Horton says many people don’t
realize local canvassers are
volunteers — not paid staff.

“We're not a staff-run organi-
zation. If something happens in
this town, it?s because some
volunteer did it.”

He said changes in the govern-
ment’s health care strategy to
focus more on prevention than
treatment makes such volunteer
groups even more important.

Cancer Society canvassers are
going door-to-door for the month
of April seeking donations during
Cancer Month.

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