and operated newspaper Your hometown locally owned Riverboat Days group filling out calendar Contributed by Mary Ann Burdette A general meeting of the Riverboat Days Society was held in the Terrace Legion auditori- um April 16. The following members were approved as ex- ecutive officers for the coming term: Maria Thomsen, presi- dent; Gayle Holtom, internal vice-president; Mary Ann Burdett, external vice-president; Louise Beaumont, treasurer; Daisy McAlpine, secretary; and Milt Lindsay, Donna Laurent and Joyce Schulmeister as direc- tors, Numerous service clubs and organizations were represented, and some of the events have _ been confirmed already. The Royal Canadian Legion will once again sponsor the parade and hold a barbecue following it — Joan Davis- McKenzie will be the coordi- nator, and informs us that entry forms for the parade will be available at the branch at 4425 Legion Avenue by June 15. The Centennial Lions Club is sponsoring a Science Squad, who will be having presentations in Lower Little Park on the Sun- day at 1 and 3 p.m., with workshops at 2 and 4 p.m. The Science Squad is an outreach program from Science World, and will be performing some amazing feats for our enter- tainment and learning. The Centennial Lions will also be bringing us Music in the Park, and in conjunction with Music 91, which will be sending us Mark Perry for our entertain- ment, there will be many local groups entertaining. Mark Perry shows will be both Saturday and Sunday at 2 and 4 p.m. Friday night will again see fireworks at Ferry Island, spon- sored by the city of Terrace and ably monitored by Ray Tremblay. The Senior Citizens’ Associa- tion will be holding their pan- cake breakfast, and the Senior Games Association will be hav- ing their mile run again. The Inn of the West will be sponsoring the Slingers Race in the downtown area on the Sun- day, and the Northern Motor Inn will be holding a keg-rolling contest and tricycle race. The Terrace Museum Society will be having Music at Heritage Park, and this is only the start. Riverboat Days 1991 promises the busiest most exciting week- end yet. The committee asks that anyone interested in sponsoring events of any kind get in touch as soon as possible — there is going to be a lot involved in the scheduling this year, and time will be required to accomplish it. Oh yes, one other important part — the Slow Pitch Tourna- - ment and Paddle Wheel Tavern will be with us again — what a weekend! The next meeting for River- boat Days will be at the Legion at 7:30 p.m. May 8. Come on along and get involved. Something special coming this year, watch for more about the Pacific Northwest Skydivers. ‘Music 91 The organizational meeting for Music 91 was held in the Legion on April 17. The River- boat Days Society committee was in attendance and there was representation from the Royal Canadian Legion, the Rugby Club, the Rotary Club, the Community Band, the Kinsmen Club and the Nisga’a Tribal ‘ Council, Elan Travel also sent a representative, who promptly found herself named to the com- mittee, as did the rep from the Nisga’a Tribal Council. Thank you Barb and Caroline. The organizations in atten- dance quickly split up the work load and things are off to a fly- ing start. Music 91 will be sen- ding us ‘Guitars and Cadillacs’’ who will do a one-hour tribute to Dwight Yokum and then play from 9 p.m. ’til 1 a.m. for danc- ing. That will be Saturday night, Aug. 3. Further information will be available after the. committee’s next meeting at 7:30 -p.m., May 15 at the Legion. Sports Community News Arts & Entertainment Features Ray Tank, area coordinator for the Provincial Emergency Program in Terrace, was honoured in Victoria recently for being the top area coordinator in the province. Solicitor General lvan Messmer presented Tank with a plaque at an awards banquet. Terrace emergency plan architect earns award Terrace’s Ray Tank has been named Area Coordinator of the Year for the B.C. Provincial Emergency Program. Tank was presented with a commemorative plaque by Solicitor General Ivan Messmer at an awards banquet in Victoria April 20. The PEP Zone Manager for the Terrace area, Rod Salem, had the following to say on the occasion: ‘‘In 1980 Ray Tank joined Terrace’s Search and Rescue group. In 198! he took over as president of Terrace’s SAR group. During this time Ray turned the SAR group from a social club into the most pro- gressive and active SAR group in the Northwest. He was re- sponsible for bringing special- ized training to his members, like cliff rescue and specialized tracking courses. Also, during his first three years as president he travelled to Victoria regularly to assist in training other volunteers in SAR, prior to the time when the Justice Institute took over train- ing responsibilities. Ray was also instrumental in getting a lot of the equipment that the Terrace SAR group has — oxygen kit, heat treatment kit, cliff rescue gear, and other material. In 1986 Ray was appointed area coordinator for Terrace. This position was normally held by the city’s chief engineer. Asa volunteer, Ray developed a very intricate .and complete City Emergency Play complete with Volunteer Bureau laying ground work It will probably be sometime this fall before the downtown office of the Terrace Community Volunteer Bureau and Seniors’ Information Access Centre opens, but that docsn’t mean there’s not a lot happening right now. Angela Young has been hired to do all the ground work, the group has been incorporated under the Society Act of B.C., and on May 8 at 7:30 p.m. a board of directors wil! be elected during a meeting at the Skeena Health Unit. And over the next four or five months, there will be a lot more happening. Committee .Member Betty Stewart of Terrace Home Support Services says Young will be contacting local community groups, developing training pro- grams, designing volunicer and board orientation kits and design- ing registration forms. In the middle of ali this, she hopes to attend a training program in Vancouver. The idea of a Terrace volunteer bureau has been around for five or six years but it really came into being through the Strong Com- munities in the 90s program last fall. Stewart says that while a committee was formed and holding meetings in the Community Ser- vices board room, Doug Smith, economic development officer Peter Monteith and city admini- strator Bob Hallsor did a lot of the initial work and applied for the $29,924 Healthy Communities Initiative grant that is currently funding the bureau. She adds that the city continues to support the project through free office space at city hall that the bureau can use until a permanent downtown loca- tion is found. Since receiving the original grant, a second application for a Seniors Talent Bank was filed by, Home Support Services, and this has now been approved, adding another $10,304 to the bureau’s funds. With this money, the talents of many of our seniors will be put to good use in our community through volunteer work. hazard analysis maps and a com- plete city resource list of busi- hesses, equipment, and pro- ducts. Ray has also lobbied city council over the past four years and has obtained a very substan- tial budget for the Terrace emergency programs. Since I have been Zone Manager, Ray has shown a ded- ication, aggression and pro- fessionalism second to no other coordinator. He has been in- strumental in getting Terrace’s water rescue team up and going. In November 1989, the Zone Manager for Terrace resigned and was not replaced until April 1990. Ray made himself available to Pat Allan and PEP Victoria to act in place of the Zone Manager assisting in keep- ing PEP alive in the Northwest. - Ray’s knowledge and exper- tise has been a very valuable asset to me in my day-to-day job. 1 have turned to Ray for ad- vice and assistance on numerous occasions, and he has always come through.”’ The awards banquet came a® the beginning of Emergency Pre- paredness Week, a campaign to make the public more aware of the emergency response struc- ture set up and ready to go into action in the event of a disaster. The core-of the pragram is 7,000 volunteers. who contrib- uted 41,000 hours of service in B.C. last year, B.C. has the largest emergency program of any Canadian province. |