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Liberals
on the
move

in B.C.

The B.C. Liberal Par-
ty’s three day convention
ended in Vancouver on
Sunday, March 9, witha
united and a highly
energized party that is in-
creasingly optimistic
about their electoral
chances in the upcoming
provincial election.

Iona Campagnola, the
federal party président,
said the latest polls in-
dicate that 35 percent of
British Columbians
favor the federal
Liberals and support has
risen into ‘the high
teens” provincially.

Skeena Liberal can-
didate William Hayes
Stated that people are
turning away from the
“‘them and us’’ mentality

and are coming forward
to make a credible mid-
die focusing party.

“Our policies focus on
de-emphasizing mega-
projects and outside
capital, and we are in-
stead concentrating on
helping small busi-
nessmen; especially start-
ing entrepreneurs in the
sunrise industries of
aquaculture and _ silvi-
culture. The key is pro-

Fred MacDonald

by Daniele Berquist
Terrace Alderman

Fred MacDonald has

handed in his resignation
which becomes effective
March 31, 1986.

Willlam Hayes,
Liberal candidate
for Skeena.

viding an infrastructure
in which many people
can take small steps to
become self reliant not a
few large interests taking
a couple of giant steps to
become richer.’’

‘The B.C. Liberal
Party is making a fresh
Start with fresh ideas and
we are quickly filling the
void in the middle to
develop confidence
within the business com-
munity and fairness
within the social services
community,”’. Hayes
added. a

William Hayes runs a
mixed agribusiness in the
summer and is an
educator during the
winter.

Alderman resigns

MacDonald will be

taking a new post on ~

April 1 in Vancouver
with the Health Science
Centre, where he will be
managing a drug treat-
ment program.

MacDonald said he
has enjoyed Terrace very
much in the last five
years. It's been a won-
derful place to live and
my wife Irene and I have
fine memories of Ter-
race: Our son Stefane,
now five months old,
was born here, Mac-
Donald said.

MacDonald was _in-
volved in programs at
Terrace Community Ser-
vices, Terraceview Lodge
Society, the Skeena Unit
Board of Health and city
City Council.

~Women enri

by Stephanie Smart
Ferrace Women’s
Centre Associate

We've been lucky this
winter with the weather
being milder than usual,
but many women still
find themselves isolated
in their homes due to
small children, lack of
transportation, shortage
of free money or simply
through loneliness and
lack of contact with the
outside world. It’s es-
pecially hard for new-
comers or non-white
women to break out of
this societal isolation,
simply because of the
lack of places to meet
new friends.

The Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre (first
Opened in 1979 in order
to provide a space where
women, especially those
with young children,
could meet each other,
develop new friendships,
share their skills and ex-
periences and also have
available new programs
and information that

could make their lives
more positive for them-
selves.

The free and comfor-
table atmosphere of the
‘open door’? policy, the

Girl Wednesday

Terrace resident Nicole
Pealo enjoys reading, swim-
ming and dancing. She Is a
Grade 6 student at Clarence
Michiel Elementary School.

Good Vision

A British sclentist proved that
a chameleon's keen distance vi-
sion allows it-ta shoot out its |
tongue to catch Insects with
amazing accuracy. In an experi-
ment, she made the lizards miss
their targets by distorting their
vision with eyeglasses, showing
that chameleons use focus as their
cueto accuracy.

Art critics speak

TERRACE — Guest art
critics from Vancouver,
Mia Johnson and Dianne
Carr spoke at the Ter-
race Art Gallery Sunday,
March 9.

by Sherri Haifyard

Mia Johnson is an art-
ist who has held art

shows in Vancouver as

well as New York. She is
also a teacher,

photographer, writer

and art critic.

Dianne Carr is an art
history graduate from
the University of
Oregon. She works as a
freelance curator and art
critic in Vancouver.

. Johnson and Carr
were in Terrace to judge
local artists’ work
entered in the Northwest
Regional Juried Show
March 1986.

Art selected from the

show by Johnson and
Carr is to be submitted
to the Provincial Festival
of the Arts to be held in
Prince George this May.

Both Johnson and
Carr were impressed
with the organization of
the Terrace art show.
Carr commented, ‘‘]
have never walked into a
show that was so easy to
handle.’ Carr went on
to say that she was,

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 19, 1986 19

Bread and Roses

coffee pot or tea kettle
warming in the back,
: and the variety of wom-
en who dropped in when
they could, all led to the
development of women
breaking free from their
isolation, getting out and
enriching both their own
and their children’s lives,
The centre soon began
to ask these women what
they wanted and set out
to provide both informa-
tional and social gather-
ings that they requested.
Childcare and all the en-
suing ‘‘hassles’. were
acknowledged and dealt
with and women began
to form their own groups
for support and informa-
tion. Women who had
concerns about child-
raising, family violence,
alcoholism, unemploy-
ment or. conservation
(and many other issues)
got together, organized
themselves and took ac-
tion through films,
books, guest speakers,
each other and whatever
resources they could
find.

TERRACE — Interna-
tional Women’s Day was
recently celebrated at the
Kermode Friendship
Center.

by Sherry Halfyard

The festival, in
celebration of Interna-
tional Women’s Day was
held jointly by Ksan
House, Pro-choice com-
mittee, status of women
in education, and the
Women’s Resource Cen-
tre and other interest
groups.

Displays were set up
by the groups supporting
the festival.

A play area was put
aside for children. A
sing-a-long was led by
Maureen Bostock and
Gloria Mertens.

Women’s centres have
spread throughout the
province and nationally
in many small and large
communities. Primarily
they serve as safe, sup-
portive gathering places
for all women. But in-
creasingly, because their
members and supporters
chose this, they have also
become useful politically
and are a unified source
of power of women.

Females make up 51
percent of the popula-
tion, but because society
tends to be patriarchal,
they haven’t had much
of a voice until recently.
By speaking out as a
unified group, women
are making their con-
cerns known and are en-
suring that those in posi-
‘tions of power address
their concerns.

Women realize that as
voters, they will decide
to support those who
listen to them, respect
their positions and at-
tempt to remedy their
concerns with concrete
action. Issues concerning

One of the song’s
chosen was Imagine, by
John Lennon. Bostock
said that, ‘Imagine, is
characteristic of the
women’s movement.’’

Maureen Bostock

ch their lives

family violence, child
abuse, homemakers, hu-
man rights and many,
many more are being
slowly worked on, Wom-
en’s centres are becom-
ing a welcome addition
to the services available
to women in many com-
munities,

The job right now is to
make sure that spaces for
women continue to be
acknowledged, worked
for and made present in
all communities, This
means moré organizing
on local, provincial and
national levels. Times
have changed, but wom-
en must make sure that
they don’t slip back into
the days of not having an
organized voice for
themselves,

So write! Write your
local centre, your MP,
your MLA and any
others who are ina posi-
tion to address your
needs. 1, for one, would
love to see the day where
any woman could stop in
a new community, check
the phone book and head
on over to the local
Women’s centre, no
matter where in the prov-
ince or country she may
be!

Local females celebrate

Later skits were per-
formed. A pothuck din-
ner and women’s only
dance was held at the
Kermode Friendship
Center.

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and
Gloria Mertens lead a sing:
a-long at the Kermode
Friendship Center In
celabration of “Women's
Day”,

eons, a

Women attend the Interna:
tional Women’s Day
Festival at the Kermode
Friendship Center In Ter-
race,

‘‘pleasantly surprised by
the high standard of art
work in the show.”

Mia spoke to a crowd
of approximately 30 peo-
ple in the Terrace Art
Gallery. She discussed
the artist's individual
style and the intention of
a work of art. “What
you can see is something

that no one else can
see,’’ Johnson told the
artists,

Both Johnson and
Carr encouraged all
those who entered the
show to continue their
work.

All the art work
entered will remain on
display during March.

Selected works from the
show will be avaliable
for purchase.

Editor's Quote Book

There cin be no rainbow
without acloud and a storm,
JAW Wincent