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These Grade 6 and 7 students from Clarence Michiel School took a trip to Kitsumkalum Mountain recently for an
éducation of a different sort, The mountain’s Ski Schoo! and School District 88 have collaborated In a discount in-
struction program that introduces young people to the pleasures and challenges of downitill skiing.

Local students hit the slopes

Kitsumkalum Mountain Ski

School is in full swing after its.

second week of operation this
season. Last week 62 Grade 6
and 7 students from five classes
in Clarence Michiel Elementary
School made their way out to the
ski slopes, many for the first
time.

by Betty Barton

The Ski School program for
school children, headed by Kit-
sumkalum chief instructor An-
drew Rushton, involves four

‘half-days, once weekly, weather

permitting. The students are
first outfitted with skis, poles
and boots in the ski rental shop,
if they don’t have their own
gear. Once outside, they are

divided into groups, according

Books For Young People

This story

_ for the timid

By Andrea Deakin

The winner of-the International Children’s Fiction Contest was
Welwyn Katz of London, Ontario with her novel ‘‘False Faces’’,
published by Groundwood Books at $12.95.

Welwyn Katz has already made a mark with two earlier novels
based in early mythology, but in a contemporary setting. ‘False
Faces’’, set in London, also deals with the same theme. Walking
through a meadow near her home, Laney is startled when her dog
unearths some Indian artifacts from a boggy, overgrown patch.
There is a pipe, a comb, and a small mask.

A part-Indian friend, Tom Walsh, realizes the importance of her
find and warns her not only that she has no right to keep the mask,
but also that it has a strange power. From the moment that the
mask comes into Laney’s possession a wave of difficulties and
dissensions descends on Laney, her family and Tom. The potential
for disaster is already there. Poor Laney bears a striking
resemblence to her father, and so carries the brunt of her mother’s
resentment against her ex-husband. Alicia has made a successful
new life as an antique dealer, and she is very ambitious. Laney’s
sister is a brittle and selfish young woman. Tom resents his white

mother’s move from the reservation on his father’s death, and can-

not adjust to white society. The power of the little mask and the
full-size mask which surfaces, and then vanishes from the bog,
flames resentment and dislike to hatred, and hatred to vicious at-
tack, threatening io destroy them all.

This complex novel deals with ethical dilemmas, issues of historic
right, painful personal problems of alienation — from affection,
from place. It is a powerful, thoughtful novel which builds to a
frightening climax before solution. It is not a novel for the timid, it

‘is certainly one for the reflective.

A Fitting Sequel

I awaited Stephane Poulin’s new book, “Can You Catch
Josephine?’’ with some apprehension. ‘‘Have You Seen Josephine’
combined wit and observation in a delightful tale of a very in-
dividual cat and her young master. I need not have been concerned;
“Can You Catch Josephine’ (Tundra:$12.95) has that same
delicate touch, exact and witty observation, and. fine perception of
detail. I found myself chuckling out loud at some of the nicer points
of Poulin’s observations of school life. In this new book the in-
domitable Josephine follows young Daniel to school, hiding in his
schoolbag. The chase that she leads him on, until at last they meet
up with a very understanding principal, involves the whole school.
What a riotous and delightful romp it is.-

to their skiing proficiency —
novice, intermediate and ad-
vanced. Then the warm-up exer-
cises begin — about 10 minutes
of stretching and warming
muscles prior .to skiing.
The main objectives of the
lessons, in chronological order,
are to introduce the youngsters

to the sport, give them mobility.

on skis, teach them safety — to
ski in control, and the basics in

skiing skills. Initially, the

students are taught snow plow
turns and stops, how to stand up
after falling, how to walk up a
slope on skis, how to use the
rope tow and finally, the chair
lift, as their skiing skills pro-
gress, stage by stage.

Including return bus transpor-
‘tation, ski equipment rental,
lessons and use of the tows and
chair lift, the cost of the 4-day
outing is $71.00 per student.
Students with ski equipment
and/or season’s passes have
their fees adjusted accordingly.

Teacher Steve Thomas from
Clarence Michiel School feels

that ‘‘you can’t look at
everything in academic
terms...the skiing experience is
education too.”? The school ski
program offers students safety-
oriented and structured ski in-
struction, when they might not
otherwise have the opportunity.

Two of the five Grade 6 and 7
teachers at Clarence Michiel
take turns chaperoning the
students and supervising their
progress and behavior on the
mountain.

At present, Veritas, Uplands,
Alliance and Clarence Michiel
Schools are involved in the Ski
School program at Kitsumkalum
Mountain. Ski School director
Andrew Rushton hopes that
other schools in the area will see
the benefits of the program and
enter into the Ski School pro-
gram this ski season.

In court

In Terrace provincial court on
Friday, January 8 Thomas Tait
was fined $50 and $75 for
violating two sections of the

” Motor Vehicle Act.

In Terrace provincial court on
Friday, January 8 Ronald Malyk
was fined $100 and $75 for two
Violations of the Motor -Vehicle

ct.

Betty Barton photo -

Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 3, 1988 17

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Stopping, starting and balance are‘some of the primary tools in learning to
enjoy skiing, as this local student discovered during a racent outing to Kit-
sumkalum Mountain. There are presently four local schools Involved in the
Ski School program. Betiy Barton photo

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