The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 29, 1998 - BI TERRACE STANDAR a ee a 7 INSIDE | SECTION B “COMMUNITY ALEX HAMILTON "EVENTS B2- | 638-7283 SHEELAGH MEIKLEM For the love of books Il my life, books have been a pas- sion for me. As children on the farm, my brother and I would wait anxiously each month for the new shipment of backs from the Open Shelf Library; we would eagerly | search our Christmas pillowcases for the book- shaped packages. Later on, my multiple-ename memberships in book clubs were a fertile field for marital dis- cord, And each vacation had to include a visit to every book store in the city. Then I got a job at the library and was in heaven! Daily encounters with the [atest WALKING ON AIRPLANES: Ryan Desjardins and his dad, James, check out the wing of a Yak-18, a WWII Russian-designed alrcraft. books and all free. I didn’t need to’gZo to book- | stores anymore — until last week. I found myself at loose ends in a mall with a Smith’s at one end. So I spent an hour or so browsing and found some great stuff. The first bock that caught my eye was Slaying | the Mermaid, by Stephanie Golden. It deals with women and the culture of sacrifice. - Women in reality as well as in legend constant- ly disregard their own well-being in order to fulfill the needs of others, In Hans Christian Anderson’s tale of the Little _ Mermaid, she gave up her voice and her life for an unrequited love. And like Sleeping Beauty, a lot of us are still waiting to be awakened by the _ Kiss of a Prince. . ; --We-don't know how-to nurture ourselves, This _ ' . | is the theme of a book by lyanla Vanzant: /n the , ' Meantime - Finding yourself and the love you . |¢ . & | want, This empowerment specialist postulates ' -_ that we are all looking out the window for Mr.Right but the window is dirty so we are not secing Clearly. TERRACE’S AIRSHOW was such a huge success this year that organizers are talking about creating a two-day event next year, “It would include maybe a dance on the Sunday and tet ‘ then the airshow on the Monday,” said Tammie Malkow- Part of achieving personal power’ is Dunham, vice president and program director of the air .. learning to trust yourself and making show society, the right choices. Practical Intuition for Locals came out in droves to watch the snowbirds flirt Success, by Laura Day is a primer on with death as they flew mere feet apart to perform high- now to tum your intuitive powers into a | Speedaerobatics, business tool. The show opened with the Leap Frog parachulists, who dazzled the crowds with their uncanny formations. On the ground, pyrotechaicians lit up the sky with bomb simulations and a wall of fire. More than 5000 people attended this years show, up ap-, proximately 1000 people from last year, A real crowd pleaser was the car drop - some silly driver. refused to move his or her illegally parked car so it was removed, lifted and dropped from the sky from helicopters. Airshow fans were also impressed by the powerful CF18 We need to do a lot of house cleaning first, ’ which means learning to love ourselves and live ; our own life to the fullest. You may have seen Tyanla on Oprah - she is a wonderful evangelist and her ideas apply to men as well as to women, ; Everyone can use her mantra: “I am the t ‘|. beloved!”’ fighters and the diving and rolling antics of stunt pilots Bill Part of achieving personal power is learning to Carter and Ken Wheeler. trust yourself and making the right choices. Malkow-Dunham said the record attendance was a result | Practical Intuition for Success, by Laura Day is of the heavy American military presence, a primer on how to tum your intuitive powers We're really fortunate to have our American support,”’ into a business tool. she said. We all have intuition but we don’t always And the Americans were eager to please as well, ; know it or know how to use it in a practical According to Malkow-Dunham, the U.S. pilots really en- way. This book has exercises that will teach you joy Canadian airshows because of our warm hospitality. , how fo integrate intuition with logic in business “They were really impressed flying into our area,”’ she as well as in life. said, ‘‘They thought the mountains were incredibly beauti. Hard work more than anything else was the ful.”’ LOOK MOM | CAN FLY A CHOPPER: Andrew Moldenhauer, 7, got to be a pilot for afew minutes as he pushed buttons and pretended to maneuver the U.S. Alr Force Paul Hank Sikopsky search and rescue helicopter. ' key to success for Tiger Woods as evidenced by “his father’s book : Playing Through. — Earl Woods writes about the hard lessons be : learned growing up black in America, and the * power of family, faith and hard work, ', Those things will always be important, but they may not be enough to guarantee success in a technological society. The Learning Paradox, by Jim Harris is about gaining success and security in a world of change. Only an ability to embrace change and a ca- pacity for continuous learning will keep us, * afloat in a digital economy. : Someone still afloat and loving it: Jimmy Buf- + ‘fet, For his fiftieth year, he decided to make a : journey by float plane through the Southern Hemisphere, His book, A Pirate looks at Fifty is an autobiography/ravel journal that takes you from his beginnings in New Orleans to his ad- ventures in jungle outposts cf Costa Rica. Successful or just notorious? Trying for both, Mark Fubrmann has written an expose of anoth- er murder, Jn 1975, 15 year old Martha Moxley was killed by a golf club belonging to a nephew of Ethel Kennedy. The crime is still unsolved, although Mr.Fuhrmann delivers a very graphic reenactment that leaves no doubt as to the vil- - fain in his view. For light relict: Sparkle Hayter's The Last Manly Man with her heroine Robin Hudson as PILOT SUPREME: Bill Carter wowed the crowd in his PARACHUTISTS WERE ON 1 FIRE: The Leap Frags Navy Seals parachute team ; wacky detective. . Fitts Special biplane, diving within feet of the ground. dazzled the crowd with their billowing red smoke and thelr aerobatics, . 2 la . ‘ * « . la a: + . e ¥ ra i, ” ‘ rs ‘ i 4