WHAT’S ~_UP The Terrace Standard offers Whats Up as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column 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 ail sub- missions be typed or printed neatly, JUNE 3, 1992 — 7:30 p.m. City Hall. Canada Day planning meeting. We urge local service groups to send a representative to this meeting. Time is running out! Help celebrate Canada's 125th birthday! Call Mary at 635-5518. : sO Rak JUNE 3, 1992 — The Order of the Royal Purple’s Annual Senior Spring Tea. 2-4 p.m. Elks . Hall,. 2822 Tetrault St. Terrace. Admission free. For info. call Joyce Martel 635-4277. ot kkk JUNE 3, 1992 — The last Skeena Parent’s Advisory Council meeting for the school year will be held on Wed. at 7:30 in the Skeena Jr. Sec. Library. Find out about . changes for the coming school year. Mr. Ray Walker will demonstrate the new library technology.. Call ‘Wanda Kerby 635-2895 for nore info, kkk JUNE 6, 1992 — 6:30 p.m. Crystal’s Place » |... (Youth... Centre). Js . holding. a. {One Wild Car Rally’ in the beside. {ne. parking.” lot” Pentecostal Church. 18 yrs, & “up. Prizes & trophies for ‘the”: ‘ best! For more info. Cliff Siebert . 635-2434, kaeekk JUNE 6-21, 1992. — . Local childrens .art show. This show ” will feature art by local school children, Watch for it. It should - be colourful. kek k JUNE 8,9, 1992 — Anne of Green Gables, the musical at 7 p.m. at the REM Lee Theatre, performed by Veritas students. Music provided by Thornhill Jr. Sec. Band. No admission charge, but donations te Mills Memorial Hospital ‘and Sister Maria Raposo’s mission: will be ac- cepted. kakkk JUNE 11, 1992 — Terrace Special, Olympics General Meeting at 7 p.m. in the Library basement, Everyone welcome. ee 2 JUNE 12-14,°1992 — Quilt out to be held in the Kispiox Com- munity Hall. Club membership not required. Contact Bernice at 842-6314 or Jacque at 842-6058 evenings. - kkk SUNE 13, 1992 — How Do You Do Day, The Terrace Travel In- focentre would like to invite the entire community to come join them on their open house from 10 a.m. lo. 6 p.m. This- special day is the official opening of another busy tourist season. Come in and-see what the In- focentre has to offer. you, it's residents, as well as their visitors, Khe * * . JUNE 15, 1992 — ‘The 747 Air Cadet Squadron’is hosting their - annual inspection at: the Air. Cadet Hall at 6:30. p.m, Deserv- ing cadets will’also be presented -]- with awards. and .this annua} event is apen to the public. kK, JUNE 16, 1992 — Friends and: ai Families of Schizophrenics Sup-" “J port Group. Tues. at:7:30 p.m, Mills - Memorial: Hosp. Psych. Conference Rm. Contact mental ° health. Phone 638-3325, kekke JUNE 18, 1992 — The Terrace & District SPCA [s holding their general meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Aquatic Centre boar- ~ droom. Everyone welcome. For more info phone Cam 638-8868. 2 ee ee : NOVEMBER 14, 1992 — The ‘| Dr. REM. Lee Hospital Founda- tion will 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. akkik ; EVERY WEDNESDAY at 7:00 p.m. in Sexual Assuall: Centre. Female Survivors of Sexual Assault/Abuse, Please contact .. Loreen 635-4042,: Young actors tell of emotional tour It was a bigger high than any booze binge. And the forty theatre arts students at Skeena’ Jr. Secondary are still «coming - down from their high energy, emotional tour of the’ north- west. They brought Project Steer Clear — a pair of plays that look at teens drinking and driving — to other students in schools across the region. 7 The plays — The Other Side aimed at Grades. 5-7-and Jn- side on the Outside for Grades 8-10 — were the first produc- tions for many of the Skeena students, most of whom are in their first year of acting. “T’ll never forget it,’” says Karen Shepherd. ‘I don’t think any of us will ever forget it. a? “Tvs a better high than al- cohol will ever give you,” adds Aaron LeBlanc. “I think they began to realize when this girl was. crying that this really says some- thing to people.”? _.. The ieactions of some, of the .. audiences were as dramatic — and shocking as what was hap- pening on stage. In Kitwanga, one girl after ) seeing the play came back- ° ‘stage and told the cast‘of heing | physically and sexually abused by her alcoholic parents. ““We just cried right in front of her,’ recalls Dawn Thom- sen. ‘We all just sat there and cried.” “I think they began to real- ize at this moment when this girl was‘ crying that this really says something to people,” adds Skeena drama teacher Brian Koven,. The following week, stu- dents received word that an- other Kitwanga student. had been partying with a friend in “Terrace after seeing the play. His friend was driving back drunk to Kitwanga, and for some teason he demanded to be let out. Later that night the car crashed and the driver was Library keeps involved in. at this ‘moment taken to hospital in critical condition, ‘*Basically our play may have helped save this guy 5 ~ life,’ Thomsen said. In Kitimat a tough-looking young man speaking during the question: period told them how he cried for days when his friend was killed in an im- paired driving accident. The goal of the project.was to influence children’s atti- tudes towards alcohol in their formative years before they actually started to use it. And teens talking to teens is the best way to get the mes- Sage across ? say ll the young ac- tors. | They say the stern Messages of the Counteraltack campaign simply don’t work. **] think kids just see it as a - commercial on TV that’s preaching at you,’ says Shepherd. “I don’t think there’s ever going to be an ef- fect until you~ hit close to home.” The students weren’t sure what effect they were going to get. “1 don’t. think any of us going out there thought we were going to have any im- pact,’’ Joelle Walker said. " We were wrong,’’ - Koven said the responses on tour were “outstanding.’’ “7 think the kids realize now that it’s not just a. Play -- ithits ~ close to home.”’ - Discussion was freewheeling with the use of what he calls a wholistic approach .to such. a hard-hitting performance. Stu- dents had pre-discussions with RCMP liaison officers before the show, and ‘afterwards could ask general audience questions, and then later broke up into smaller class-sized groups for more discussion. The students started work on. Project Steer Clear — with the help of a $26,500 grant from Health and Welfare Canada —- back in November. They carried out extensive research for the project, working with many’ law enforcement and: other local agencies here. The performances have been videotaped by Skeena Broad- ‘casters for a future docu- mentary to be aired on the lo- cal television station. His limbs are made of wood. His body is wrapped in burlap. And his hair is made of leather. For several years he’s lived in a glassed-in box deep in the depths of the Terrace Art Gallery. - Now _ the driftwood creature is about to come out of the closet ~ with a new name. Gallery attendant Mary Alice Neilly says the mascot -- a sculpture given to the gallery several years ago by Queen Charlotte Islands art- ist Manzanita Snow -- will “anonymous - THE CREATURE who fives ina lass box at ihe Terrace Art Gallery — show here with ‘gallery attendant Mary Alice Neilly — will soon have a name. Yes, the gallery's mascot will be the _ focus of a naming contest in conjunction with the new show of children's art. Anameless beast no more. be natned this month in a contest for local school- children. **He’s been nameless all . this time,’ she says. ‘‘And . he needs some identity, So we're going to hold ‘this contest | and: get” him: ‘a name.” The winner of the conitest, which is;open.to children from kindergarten to Grade 7, will receive a book from Misty River Books, she said. . The. contest coincides with a spectacular show of local .. _ The show. features young. artists of all ages here. .. house, - “cookies, at the gallery Sat- urday afternoon When ihe _and the winning name will ’. be‘announced by. the end of. children’s’ artwork at~ the gallery from June 6- -26. Neilly “said . the. works ; range from masks to fantas-:-]. lic’ pictures: :in Plasticine. There will also be an open : with juice - and’ show opens, They'll judge the- contest. name: entries by the 25th, the. show. wea te up wit By STEPHANIE WIEBE Second of a four-part series on the Terrace Public Library. The days of inked rubber stamps are over. Today, libraries rely on computers to keep track of materials and users, and Ter- race keeps a steady pace. The Terrace computer lists more than 40,000 items, processing a daily average weil over 600. “4 computer is perfect for a li- brary,”’ says chief librarian Ed Curell, “because we're tabulating | items in and out — nothing can do that faster.’’ Four terminals allow pairons to search for materials by author, tile or subject. But Curell says the real advances In information access lic in Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) tech- nology. scratched the surface.’’ That scratch marks a big change in inter-library loans. ‘Its much faster for patrons,’? says Kathy Willcox, inter-library loans clerk. Willcox borrows items from other librarics-on request, @ service that. used to be. hit-atid-miss: die. to limited - access’ wo sofher: collec- : Public Library “We've only just - tions, Since Willcox began using the Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) catalog -this January, she estimates the num- ber of successfully filled requests. has increased six-fold. ““Bventually “you'll: ‘be. able to” dial up with your. computer and get ‘all sorts. of information from the lis: brary, in the comfort of your own home," “Now I have access to ‘more Iie ‘braries,’’. Willcox says, “and 1. . can get items more easily as more - libraries become automated, 9. Two CDs hold 3.6 million ‘pose ; - sibilities to fulfill ‘a request!'On these,- Willcox, ‘can’ search collec- :.. _ tlons-at 39 public libraries-and 15. “colleges in B.C.; quickly. locating | ihe nearest 'stipplicr.-Itemns:are or- dered via electronic mail; anothers time-saver- for brary patrons 2 and h technology | are searched through’ the. Library : Services Branch in Victoria,.ac- cessing a national catalog link-for.. cross-country loans: This network: is also.a vehicle for microfilm: “Joans. of census -and: Periodical . . “records, -: ae So what's: “ahead. in library technology? Curell says a unified . library ‘system isin: the works. “There's a pilot ‘project which will result in a'single card being. -accepted by any public library in “the ‘lower mainland, Including. ~ Bowen Island. and the Fraser Maly. ‘Tey, iF * oe "If that system succeeds, | Curell _ predicts; a unified provincial. card- _ may regult,and ultimately, a data-? base directly Ainking libraries “throughul the province. Curell: points out that dial-in in- “formation ° services are ready available at a high experi : But eventually ‘youll’ b ble: ; “to dial up with your computer and |. “get all-sorts. of Informialld fiom. he library, In. the com fdr! :