: TERRACE STANDARD “INSIDE SECTION B CITY JEFF NAGEL SCENE B2 | 638-7283 A WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS What's Up! Wednesday, February 2 LEGION LADIES AUXILLIARY meets at 8 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion. Thursday, February 3 NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT Educalion Associalion holds its monthly mecting at 7:30 p.m. in the St. Matthews Centre. Anyone inter- ested is welcome to attend. Call Mary at 635- 6233 for more information. Friday, February 4 EATING DISORDER WORKSHOP ‘‘Break- ing free — celebraling our body sizes” takes place at 7 p.m. at the Skeena Health Unit auditorium. Saturday, February § TERRACE DISTRICT SCIENCE FESTIVAL takes place 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. al the Caledonia gym. Monday, February 7 VISUALLY IMPAIRED Support Group meets at 7 p.m. in the Skeena Health Unil auditorium. ' For more information cali 635-2750. BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS annual gener- al meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Terrace Inn. Wednesday, February 9 TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE holds its monthly general mecting at 7:30 p.m. in the McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum St. TERRACE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S As- sociation meets at noon al the Terrace Inn. Topic: “RRSPs. Thursday, February 10 NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT EDUCA- TION Associalion presents Mexico: The Struggle for Social Justice, a slide show and presentation by Lynn Joseph at 7:30 in St. Matthews Centre. Sunday, February 13 ‘SENIORS’ SWEETHEART DINNER. & DANCE takes place at the Elks Hall. Doors open 4:30 and dinner is at 5:30. If transportation is re- quired, pre-register with the Kineite Club by call- ing 635-2520 or 635-7777. Call Katherine at 638- 1782 for more information. Monday, February 14 ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE informa- tion night 7 p.m. at the Elks Hall, Tuesday, February 15 B,C. SCHIZOPHRENIC SOCIETY meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Stepping Stone Clubhouse at 3302 Sparks (downstairs). ‘Thursday, February 87 TERRACE HIV INFORMATION SUPPORT Group (T.H.L5.) holds ils monjhly mecting at 7:30 p.m. at the Mills Memorial Hospital board room. Contact Carrie at 635-4885. Tuesday, February 22 DIABETIC REFRESHER CLINIC takes place at Mills Memorial Hosptial Feb. 22, Mar. 1 and Mar. 29. A doctor’s referral is required, Contact Dana Hill at 635-2211 loc. 50 or 638-1956 for . more information. Thursday, February 24 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION of B.C. monthly meeting at NWCC preschool at 7 p.m. Friday, February 25 ERNEST MEETS THE EGGOSAURUS pup- ” pel show at the Terrace Public Library. 7 p.m, Friday Fob, 25 and again Saturday Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. Call 638-8177 for more information. MONDAYS ORDER OF THE ROYAL PURPLE meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall. Call 635-5121 for more info. . MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital Auxiliary meets the third Monday of each month in the board Toom at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. ' ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTIA support . group mects at 1 p.m. on the last Monday of the . Months at the Terrace Mental Health Centre. Call 638-3325 for more info, THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY has an informa- tion drop-in the third Monday of each month at the Happy Gang Centre from 1:30 to 3 p.m. TUESDAYS SINGLE PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP lakes place the second (1. p.m.) and fourth (7 p.m.) Tuesdays of the month at ihe Terrace Women’s Resource Centre, Call 638-0228 for more Info. LIVING WITH CANCER support group of the Canadian Cancer Society for patients, family and friends, meets at the Women’s Resource Centre "the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 ‘p.m. Call 638-3325 or 638-0296 for more ine formation. Keypals exchange messages IN THE ELECTRONIC class- room, you don’l have penpals any more — you have keypals. Parkside Elementary School students tap away al their key- boards 10 send computer mes- sages through the Internet to keypals as far away as Pennsyl- vania, Alabama and Nevada, But it was the keypals from Ap- ple Valley, California who cap- tured the imaginations of young minds here when they sent a mes- sage at 11:55 am. on January 17 describing an earthquake that struck the San Fernando Valley early that morning. “Tt felt like someone was shak- ing our beds to get us to get up to get ready for school,’ one stu- dent wrote. “Lamps were shaking and rat- tling and windows were rattling. First there was a lot of shaking and then there was rolling motion like being on the ocean. Our pets were frightened, meowing, bark- ing and tweeting.”’ - Parkside teacher Linda Wis- niewski said her Grade 3 students here had only just linked up with the school in California. When the earthquake happened, and the California keypals started sending messages, students here were glued to the screen. OMMUNITY : Window on the world ON-LINE: Keely Wallace, Jennifer Dunfeld and Praphact Parmar are among the students € at Park: side Elementary Schaot who send messages to keypals across the continent through the giant In- ternet computer network. ‘They’re going around the school sharing it with all the other classes,’” Wisniewski said. “They’re quite excited about the whole thing.’ ‘The school connects via the ed- ucation minisiry’s Community Learning Network. The kids in California live about 80 miles away from the quake epicentre. **They’re all safe but they did describe their experience and the damage that was done,’’ Wis- niewski said. The thrill of getting mail from a long way away and sending teplics inspires students to im- prove their reading, writing and keyboarding skills. Early messages were about dif- ferences in geography and climate, she says. “‘One class was describing a kind of tree that they had that our Students had no idea what they. were talking about,’’ she said. That prompted Parkside stu- dents to troop down to the library to find a picture of the tree. ‘Right now we're writing to nine different places exchanging information,’’ Wisniewski said. She’s also looking for new keypals, hopefully somewhere in the arctic. Wisniewski says she’s also used the Internet to poke around ir NASA’s computer system, where you can download digitized pho- lographs taken by the’ Hubble Space Telescope. **There are all kinds of wonder- ful possibilities,” she says, Other classes in town are also on line, Students at Copper -Mountain Elementary have been communi- cating with a class in Chile for mor than a year. (They can’t tight now, because it’s summer holidays in Chile. They'll be back on line in March.) » Winter scouting WEENIE ROAST: Nine-year-old Christopher Hartman was among the Seventh Terrace Cubs who hiked around Ferry Island on a snowy Sunday te fulfill the requirements of thelr winter cubbing badge. They identified traes and had to light a fira and cook a simple meal, After they were fed, the group clowned around tor a group photo. : ‘PHOTO — -ERIC HARIKONEN Marla Maximehuk Global thinking is key to future — ISSUES OF international de- velopment are more than just catchwords to Maria Maxi- mechuk. Born in Mexico Clty, she now lives in Terrace and is a member of the Northwest. De- velopment Education Associa- tion. Even looking from afar, con- flicts like the recent armed in- surrection by peasants in the ~ Mexican state of Chiapas, hold personal significance for Max- imchuk. Her father had joined a rebel army at the age of 10 and fought during Mexico's 1910- 17 revolution. a The struggle in Mexico is the product of a long history. of. conflict between the in-: digenous population and wealthy landowners, she says, One of the poorest Mexican states, Chiapas. has been a - haven = For ‘Guatemalan refugees since 1980. po Working through a group - called ‘“Women in Develop- ment’’, Maximchuk and others. _ are now trying to help a.com-- =" munity group in the. north’ ‘of Cont'd Page Ba" |