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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

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