OMMUNITY Terrace Standard, ve nesday, April 1, 1992 -- Page B1 The Terrace Standard offers What’s Up as a public service to its readers and community organizations, This columm is intended for non-profit organiza- tions and those events for which there is no admis- - Sion charge. To meet our production deadlines, we ask that any ‘item for What’s Up be submitted by noon on the FRIDAY preceding the issue in which it is to ap- pear. For contributed articles, the deadline is 5 p.m. on the preceding THURS- _ DAY. We also ask that ali sub- missions be typed or printed neatly. s Keknk _ APRIL 4, 1992 — Terrace Public Library. presents ‘‘Take Part Story Theatre’? with Herb and Lois Walker on Sat. Perfor- mances will take place place at 11 a.m, and 2 p.m. at the library. Please pick up a free ticket at the library prior to the performance. No admission without a ticket. For more information, please call the library al 638-8177. keke APRIL 4, 1992 -— Terrace Homebased Business Pair 10 a.m. - 4 p.m Sat. Terrace Inn (The Skeena Room) Free admis- sion. ‘ kk kkk APRIL 7, 1992 — Ladies Aux- iliary Legion Branch 13 monthly meeting to be held at 8 p.m. All members please attend. keke APRIL 7, 1992 — Terrace Breastfeeding Support Croup ‘will be on’tues, at’B p.m, in the education room at Mills Memorial. As well as answering -breastfeeding questions we will talk about positive discipline. For further info, call Terry at 635-3287 “ keiekk APRIL 8, 1992 —°7:30 p.m. at City Hall, Canada Day commit- tee meeting. Bring and idea & br- ing a friend. Phone Mary Graydon, 635-5518. kerk APRIL 8, 1992 — The Terrace Little Theatre will hold its general meeting on Wed. at 7:30 ° p.m, at the McColl Playhouse, 3625 Kalum Street. Call 638-1215 or 635-2942 for info. Don’t be shy! — bring a friend!! kek APRIL 8, 1992 — Ladies soft- ball organizational meeting 7:30 p.m, at 4927 Scott Ave. Anyone interested in playing in the 1992 season, please phone May 635-6972 or Joyce 635-7098. kkekks APRIL 9, 1992 — Regular mon- thly meeting sponsored by B,C.O.A.P.0. No. 73. 2:00 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum Street. For further infor- mation please call 635-9090. kek APRIL 11, 1992 — Terrace Multicultural Assoc. and Nor- thwest Development Education Assoc, will be hosting an open house for their new office space on the second floor of the Anglican Church office building at 4506 Lakelse Ave. on Sat, from noon to 3 p.m. Everyone welcome to drop in for tea and cookies. keke MAY 22-24, 1992 — 75 Year Reunion for all former students and staff Boston Bar/North Bend school in Boston Bar, B.C, Contact the school at (604)867-9222 for further infor- mation. tkikr NOVEMBER 14, 1992 -- The Dr. REM Lee Hospital Founda- tion wili be holding a Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair, Door prizes and a raffle held. 40 craft tables avilable, Craft tables are now on sale and going fast. To book a table contact Debbie at 635-4601 evenings. kaekik WITH OVER 50 VOLUNTEER positions at a variety of com- munity organizations to choose from, we can help you find the volunteer opportunity to match your interests and skills. Visit our office at 4506 Lakelse weekdays between 8:30 a.m, and 4:30 p.m. Terrace Community Volunteer Bureau & Senior's In- formation Access. keke EVERY WEDNESDAY — A.C,O.A. self-help open meeting. 7:30 p.m. at the Knox United Church, 4907 Lazeile. For information phone Paul at 635-3045, Cont'd B10 BREAKING FAST: Skeena Grade 10 student Robin Kohl and 60 other students there ate weil after the school’s 30-hour famine last weekend, Students here are starving to help the poor, This weekend and last weekend, students at both Caledonia Secondary and Skeena Jr, Secondary were tak- ing part in the annua! 30-hour World Vision famine to support their needy counterparts in other countries. But this year’s pledge drive has a different twist: half the benefits will go to a project for street kids in Brazil that a local teacher heiped start. Caledonia teacher Bob Bussanich and his wife Claudia had the idea while driving home from Prince Rupert a couple of years ago: they would help friends and relatives in a shan- tytown district of Olinda, Brazil start a school for homeless children there. Claudia’s sister Eliane and nearly 30 other volunteers now lead the project in Olinda, Bussanich and Caledonia vice- principal Mark Frey have been organizing fund-raising drives here to make the idea a reality. So far they have raised nearly $12,000 and clearing began for the school at the beginning of this year after a local church agreed to give them land for the school. “When you go there and see the number of kids that are orn, she: explains, “you “ might as well nat be ee Bob Bussanich homeless, you sometimes want to give up,’’ Bussanich says. ‘When there are millions on the street what we're doing is a drop in the bucket. But those 30 or 60 kids are going to benefit,’ He said the schoolhouse when complete will have classroom space for about 60 street kids, as well as a drop-in space for some of them ta stay. Known in Brazil by its Spanish acronym AMO (mean- ing love in Spanish), the Children’s Haven Project school should be finished by the end of this year. It's hoped that within two years the school will be self- sufficient, subsisting on craft and candy sales. TLT tops again “What disappoints: me-most is all the red tape,”’ says Bussanich, ‘‘Everything takes so long. 1 want this project to happen fast,”’ Meanwhile, there’s no school but children are being taught out on the pavement. ‘The hardest thing is to get things started,’” he added. “Once you get things started the whole community comes together.” The community in Olinda is already rallying around the pro- ject, he says. And now with the help of students and local ser- vice clubs, so is the community of Terrace. Skeena teacher Dave Bartley says half of the $3,400 gathered in pledges will go to the Children's Haven Project. That amount will be quadrupled by matching grants from Alberta Aid for International Develop- ment and the Canadian Interna- tional Development Agency before going to Brazil. About 60 students at Skeena — more than 10 per cent of the school population — went without food for the 30 hours before chowing down Saturday morning. , And it’s hoped even more students at Caledonia will be taking: part this weekend to add to the total, Local play a wins at fes Terrace Little Theatre’s cast for Living Together will be liv- ing together for a bit longer. They’re now preparing to br- ing their three-act comedy to the provincial drama festival in Campbell River after winning the northwest zone drama festival last week in Smithers. The zone festival adjudicator judged the play best production of the two competing this year. Terrace Little Theatre's Marianne Brorup-Weston said Living Together will be mainstaged ‘in Campbell River in the second week of June along with the other top nine plays from across the province. “We're feeling pretty good,” she said after the zone fest. ‘We have to do a lot of fund- raising now.” TLT’s stage manager, An- nette Canute, won a special merit award for her backstage work with the play, Ken Morton won best director for the pro- duction, and the entire TLT team won the best ensemble award. The Smithers production — Keeping Charlie Company entered by the Bulkley Valley Players’ Hans Saefkow — won awards for best actress, best. supporting - actress and best visual presentation... In deciding not to give a best actor award, the adjudicator said the acting quality was uniformly high, and. that no single actor deserved to be elevated above the others. ‘Terrace Little Theatre will bring Living Together back to the McColl Playhouse for as many as‘ three benefit performances in fate May. Terrace Little Theatre will br- ing Living Together back to the McColl Playhouse here in Ter- race for as many as three benefit performances in late May in an attempt to bankroll their trip to Campbell River. And starting Apr. 30, theatre- goers will have a chance to take in a new cast of local actors ina pair of one-act dramas. Glass Bottle will be directed by Marianne Brorup- Weston, while Annette Canute will be in the director's ‘chair for Under Contra. Seniors give the gift of learning _ It’s a gift from the old to the young, Last week’s donation of $25,000 by the Terrace Old-Age Pensioners Association ta a scholarship fund for local students is an act of generousity that will live on for generations to come. Seniors were at the Happy Gang Centre Wednesday morning to hand the cheque over to the school district's Harold Cox, who also chairs the Northwest Education 88 Foundation. The money was raised over many years through various fundraising activities in- Guding. teas, bake sales, bazaars and raf- es, “This money has accumulated over many years,"’ said first vice-president Lou Gair. “It represents a lot of work,” The $25,000 becomes a. perpetual . scholarship, with 20 per cent of, interest earned being reinvested as ‘growth capital and the remaining 80 per cent of annual in- terest paid out in scholarships each year. Cox said the scholarship — $1,000 this year, increasing in future years to whatever amount the interest payout is — will go to graduating Caledonia Senior Secondary students on the basis of both scholastic ability and need. The twist involved in this particular scholarship is that a student won’t receive it until entering second-year of a college or. university program. “It’s a pretly large donation,” Cox noted, ‘‘and it’s unique in terms of it going to a second- -year student.’’ “1 can’t think of anything more needed in the community,” he added, “This generousity will go on forever.” The $25,000 grant joins nearly two dozen other scholarship funds administered by the Northwest Education °88 Foundation. It becomes the second-largest fund under the auspices of the foundation, which has awarded more than $112,000 in scholar- ships since its inception in 1978. More than $20,000 in scholarships are expected to be paid out to local students . this year. - The foundation now administers scholarship funds totalling more than $160,000 derived from donations from various individuals and organizations. Cox notes. that anyone.can set up a scholarship through the foundation — either by contributing one lump sum or by contributions over a period of time. Many people designate money for the foundation in their wills, Cox said, noting that such legacies are currently the backbone of the current fund total. ~ He said it's possible to donate to any of the existing scholarship funds...