The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 27, 1996 - A3 Make it merry | News in Brief | this season IF YOU'D like to make someone else’s Christmas merry this year, then there are a number of organizations around town which could use some help. The Salvation Army jis once more looking for donations for Its annual Christmas hamper program. The church puts together the hampers, with a turkey and fixings for a Christmas dinner, along with presents for children. It usually hands out around 500 of the hampers, and this ycar it'll be distributing them Dec. 16-20. "It's a -big job, and the Salvation Army is looking for about $20,000 for the hampers. Volunteers will be out with the familiar red kettles starting Nov. 29, and Lieutenant Norm Hamelin asks people to be generous. Ifyou or your family is in need of hamper this year, then drop by the food bank in the Ukrainian Hail on Walsh St. from 1-3 p.m. today or tomorrow. khkkkek Tf you'd like to contribute a gift to those Salvation Army hampers then you can drop one off at Skeena Broad- casters’ office, on the comer of Lazelie and Emerson. The Salvation Army is looking for gifts for children ranging from newborn to about 16 years old. Toys and gifts should be new and unwrapped. - The Harley Owner's Group got an early start on Christ- mas, and members donated a large number of toys during their annual toy run earlier this year. Particularly in demand are gifts for young teens. The church usually has a surplus of toys for those aged 4-6, Please drop gifts off by Dec. 13. However, the Salvation Army usually gels last-minute requests from parents, so gifts dropped off later on will still find homes, if not this year, then next Christmas, kk kkk The Terrace Anti-Poverty Group is also delivering toys for children again this year. Families who think they’ll need help bringing Christmas to their kids have until December 13 to register with Ter- tace Anti-Poverly, upstairs in room 200 in the Tillicum Twin Theatre building. There is no age cut-off. “You can’t give a gift to a 10-year-old and give nothing to his 17-year-old sibling,’ says organizer Helga Kenny. She’s expecting aboul 500 names to come in. Informa- lion is kept confidential, and a tag with the child’s age, gender and size is placed on Christmas trees in Kmart and Terrace Co-op. Kmart’s tree is up now, and Terrace Co- op should have their tree up soon. Again, il will belp to have your gift under the tree, un- wrapped, as soon as possible, and by Dec, 18 at the latest. Kenny and other staff and volunteers will be delivering them from Dec. 19-25. Kenny is worried about the economic situation in Ter- race this year, She hopes people will still be able to chip in and buy presents, even though money is tight for many. ak kkk The Terrace Child Development Centre’s Christmas Tree of Lights plugs in this week at the Skeena Mall. Chil- dren from the centre will decorate the tree Friday. The public and local businesses are invited to buy a light for the tree, Costs are from $2-50 for individuals and $10- 100 for businesses. All proceeds go toward providing therapy and services to children with special needs. Up, up and away | THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE using the Terrace airport are climbing and should pass last ycar’s amount, says manager Darryl Laurenh As of the end of October, 83,214 people passed through the airport and close to 95,000 should have by ; the end of the year, be said, That latter figure will be approximately 4,000 ahead of the 1995 amount. , “T's not spectacular growth, bur it's goad,” ” noted Laurent of the traffic. The amount is still bebind the boom years of the ear- ly 1990s when workers flying in and out of Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project pushed yearly totals to 104,000. Traffic fell off substantially when that project closed down, Laurent said the gradual climb back is an indication. of the steady growth in the area. ‘‘] think it speaks very well for the economy generally,”’ be said. Students win STUDENTS in small secondary schools and remote areas will be the winners in a new gavernment pro- gram. They are being given greater access to a broad range of courses through a new state of the art Open school distance learning service, The courses are for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 who want to take courses which aren’t avail- able in their school. Adults can also use the new open school to finish high school. And students who have difficulty tearning in a traditional classroom can also benefit. , The new service is part of a transfer of responsibilities from the ministry’s distance education branch to the Open Learning Agency. The open school will use the Community Learning Network, the Knowledge Network television channel, interactive video and mulli-media technology. It’s a similar concept to an open college program already un- derway. Students wil have access to approximately 30 on-line courses, With four or five new courses added cach year. He’s still there THE WEATHER observer in Dease Lake scheduled to be Laid off as part of Environment Canada’s nation- wide reductions plan is still on the job. There was to have been an automated weather recording system in piace by now in Dease Lake but a wide-spread review of the sysiem is still underway, says Environment Canada official Al Wallace. “The system has been installed but until such lime as the review is finished, the observer remains,’’ he said, Dease Lake has had a human weather observer in place since 1944, Automated weather systems are intended to save money and provide all the serv:ces humans can. But i the review was oxdered after suspect information put in WANT TO make this Christmas a better one for a needy chifd? Stop by Kmart and pick up a child's tag off their Christmas tree. 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