be i eae a cs r : ra EVENTS B2 r seewes INSIDE COMMUNITY Around — Town Off to Victoria Four local youths will take MLA Helmut Gies- brecht’s place at the Legislature while he takes his Christmas break. Clara Marinus, 17, Mark Rose, 16, and Jeff Town, 18, of Terrace and John De Silveira of Kitimat have been elected to the BC Youth Parliament’s annual session Dec, 27- 31, . When the MLAs break for the holidays, 90 people aged 16 to 21 from around the province meet in the Legislative Buildings for five days of intense debate, comraderie and education. This year marks the Youth Parliament’s 75 an- niversary. Band telethon School band programs continue to grow and de- velop with hundreds of students participating every year. Groups from Skeena Junior Secondary, Thornhill Junior Secondary and _ Caledonia Senior Secondary perform and com- pete in the Pacific Northwest Music Festival and continue to qualify to participate in MusicFest Canada, the highest level of competition in Cana- da. Throughout the year, students have worked al various fund-raising ventures such as chocolate sales, car washes and bottle drives, The Tri- School band telethon Sunday Feb. 14 is however, the most ambitious efforts and is looked forward to by all the performers. The bands are broadcast live on Channel 40 for three hours. Everyone is encouraged. to go to the ‘R.E.M. Lee Theatre to enjoy the live entertain- ment. Donations will be gratefully acknowledged . during. the coverage of the telethon and in the pro- ‘gram. -Cheques can be payable to the Skeena Parents _for Music Society, 4331 Birch Avenue, Terrace, B.C, V8G 1X3, The Skecna Parents for Music Society Way to go Annie! CONGRATULATIONS to the cast, crew and musicians of the Caledonia Fine Arts production of ANNIE! The entire performance was absolutely out- ~ Standing! The sets were greal, the scene changes flawless. The staging was so well done by the many behind the scenes that ‘‘make it happen’’. The performance of the score was breath taking. It almost seems impossible that a high school music program can result in such a fabulous per- formance. To the on stage falent.. BRAVO!! The singing, the choreography, the acting, it was simply amaz- ing! Rene Geronimo’s performance as Annie was speclacular! - To Robin McCloud, Geoff Parr and the many teachers, staff and parents who put in so much time and effort, thank you. Thank you for challenging so many students to rise to the occasion. Your ability to help some ex- plore hidden talents and for others to hone and perfect their skills is greatly appreciated and cvi- dent, Thank you. David D. Hull Seniors thank : Northern Inn Another Christnas season is upon us aiid the usual round of mery-making is happening. I'd Jike to inject a note of good cheer especially after all the doom and gloom that has been hap- pening around our community. A highlight is the wonderful gift the Northern Inn and therefore Gail and George Munson give our senior every year, We've been encouraged to attend the their an- nual senior’s dinner for last couple of year, bul haven't managed go until this year. We won't speak for others, bul if the compli- ments and the fact that it was a packed house, is any Indication, we'd say it was a luge success and has been so for many years. A very heartfelt thanks to Gail and George for treating our seniors to this annual pleasure. Signed thankful seniors Symphony Orchestra impressive Dear Sir: , We are visitérs from West Vancouver in Ter- race for a month while ] am doing a locum at the hospital. We were pleased to read that a per- formance of Handel’s Messiah was to take place at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre and got lickets, We would like to give a triple A for courage and cffort to every performer. It is not an easy Oralorio to sing or play and you gave us a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Merry Christinas to all, Marlene Hunter, M.D. and Redner Jones. Local hears call TERRACE.STANDARD © of the wild at Lakelse By CHRISTIANA WIENS FROM THE back porch of her house on Lakelse Lake, Judy Chrysler sits and watches trumpeter swans as they float past her window, She is surrounded by files and paper that document the swau’s behaviour and Hight patterns. “‘Tt’s a passion,’’ she says when asked why she and her neighbours spend so much time and money on the elegant birds, Trumpeter swans, known by biologists by their Latin name Cygnus buccinator, were once almost extinct. In 1993, biologists counted only 77 breeding birds in Canada and 50 breeding trumpeters in the United States. Thanks to intensive con- servation efforts and feeders like Chrysler, about 16,000 wild Trumpeter swans. now Lake barley and com ready for that familiar honk of the swans who will stay until the ice melts in March or April. Tnunpeter swans stand about one-metre tall and even the youngest in the group seem to casily reach Chrysler’s waist as she spreads the seeds in the water, As Chrysler feeds them they bob their necks up and dowu furiously, hissing and pecking each other in a fight for space and food. Chrysler doesn’t seem bothered and watches them closely to see how the birds interacl, pointing out a bird she thinks may be having trouble seeing. The feeding ruckus draws more swans who float across the lake, each joining in noisily for their daiiy feed. grace North America’s skies. Chrysler feels lucky to have them as she wails for the retum of some Pacific Coast specimens to Lakelse Lake every October. The birds spend their sum- mers in Alaska and the Yukon, By Halloween, Chrysler has her bags of Bolder swans notice the frenzy while in mid-flight and sweep down honking and flapping their wings — their landing a feet-first cartoon skid across the lake’s surface. Chrysler says that despite their size, the swans are ac- tually quite timid and only became comfortable around He’s 102! Harvey Doll and 60 friends at Ter- raceview Lodge sang carols and ate. cake to celebrate his birthday. HARVEY DOLL has a lot to be happy about. His 102nd birthday Dec. 21 was just one item on a very long list of things to celebrate, Doll was born Dec. 21, 1896 in Waterloo County, Ont. During World War I he worked in a shell factory and later in {reight sheds for the Grand Trunk Railway. It was during the war that he met his wife Caroline (Beachler) Dentinger. Caroline had three children from a previous marriage lo Anthony Denlinger, who died soon after their third child was born, After they married, Harvey and Caroline moved to Al- berta where they farmed and Harvey operated a steam thresber. A few years later they moved to B.C, In 1924 they bought a place at Woodcock where they built a log cabin. Harvey worked cutting rail ties, shakes aud poles, which were transparted to Prince Rupert, The Dolls didn’t move to Terrace until 1927, They buill their first home on Brauns Island but had to leave it after the 1936 flood destroyed everything they owned. At the tine, Harvey was working for Clare Giggie in the mill yard so he was able to take home half of his wages in lumber to build a new home for the family on Park Ave. Their home, built in 1939, was situated where the Park Av- enue Medical Center sits today. Harvey and Caroline contributed to the first medical ser- vices in Terrace. Because there wasn’t a hospital in town al this time Caroline nursed patients in her home, She worked as a midwife with Dr. Stanley Mills and Dr, Bennest. Their home became the [irst premises to provide medical ser- vices to people in the area. Minor operations were per- formed on their kitchen table, During World War II, the couple rented their home and moved to Prince Rupert so Harvey could work as a ship- wright in the shipyards. By this time, they had six children of their own plus Caroline’s three from her previous mar- riage. When the war ended they moved back to Terrace. Har- vey did carpentry work until he retired, Caroline nursed patients again and rented out rooms in the house to board- ers. In later years, the Dolls bought a home on Scott Ave. where Harvey lived: until he moved to Terraceview Lodge in 1987. Caroline passed away in 1977 in the Smithers hospital. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 30, 1998 - B] OMMUNITY:-: FEEDING THE SWANS: Judy Chrysler passes com kernals to a gaggle of swan- behind her house at Lakelse Lake. Trumpeter swans weigh about 11 kilgrams and can have a wingepan up to three metres wide. ‘ SECTION B 4 her afier months of feeding. Her carefully-mended ‘woo! ‘‘{eeding sweater’ she always’ wears (along with the giant metal buckets of fecd) have made her a familiar sight to swans on the lake. She’s worked hard to foster a relationship of trust with the swans that can be untrusting of strange people and unfamiliar noises. They'd blast off at the smallest notice of a boat or ski-deo engine, she says. “4 Tradilionally, trumpeters (he base, their heads tucked show their nervousness by bobbitig their heads while sounding ‘their. foud, low- pitched bugle, the faster they bob, the more excited they are. It's a sharp contrast to the quict pufis of white Chrys- ler sees out on the middle of the fake in the heart; of winter. Most trumpeters sleep — whether they’re on land or in the middle of the lake — with their necks bent back at Harvey Doll and his great-granddaughter Jaimie Striker celebrate his birthday. under a Wing making them easy prey for high-powered snowinodiles as they jet across the. lake, Its more high powered threat than 1930’s European hunters who plucked the bird’s feathers and harassed them to the point of extine- tion, but Chrysler is pro- teclive of the swans who mate for life and like to be about 12 years old in the wild. 5 4