E

WHAT'S

UP

~ JANUARY 23, 1991 — Cana-
- diari Cancer Society presents Liv-
< ing’ with Cancee Support Group
: for Families and Friends. Wed.
é at .7:30-p.m. 4623 Tuck Avenue,
-Senlor. Citizens’ Lounge. Con-
tacts, Mrs, ‘ Nielsen at 635-2995

“FEBRUARY vf fete — Pancake

~ breakfast at Happy’ Gang Cen- «.
“tre. Sponsored. by. Branch. 73°
OB C.° Old Age. Pensioner’s a
ae Blam.)

kaekik

: FEBRUARY 4,5 1991 — Audi-
“dons for “The Crackwalker’” .

directed by Daniel Barnswell,

“will be held at-7:30 p.m. at the
“~ McColl Playhouse (Terrace. Lit-
_ fle, Theatre building). Needed at
12 females. and 3 males, Call.
‘635-5170 for Information. ©”
ah tt
FEBRUARY 6, 199L.-- Ques-
“tlons on wills, estates will be
‘discussed at at Free law’ class
“sponsored by The Public Legal
Education Society, at the Happy
“Gang: Centre from 7 - 9 p.m.
~Repiner by calling 638-4750.
kkk :
* FEBRUARY 11,12 1991— Audi- ~
“tions for “Talking With’’-
“directed by Karla Hennig, will be
held at 7:00 p.m. at the McColl
Playhouse. Needed. are 8 women:
Call Karla at 635-5463 {mornings
cand evenings) or Marianne
635-2942 for more information. ‘
kkk ts
" FEBRUARY 12, 1991 — Fld :
: out more about buying or selling
a home by attending a free jaw
tlass from 7-9 p.m. at the Hap-
: py Gang Centre, Sponsored by
the Public Legal - Education
‘Society. To register, call:

| 638-4750,

Pe oe 2 2
‘FEBRUARY. 15, 1991 — The
Pacific Northwest Music Festival
“ Committee is asking for
* yolunteers. during the nusic

.. festival, Mar, 10 - 23, 1991. Ad-
= Judicators, secretaries and door-

people are required. The list of

helpers must be completed by
‘| .. Feb. £5. Anyone willing to assist

- please call one of the following
. between 4:30 and § p.m, Linda
Tupper §35-3582, Crispina Cote.
[ 635-9281, Lita Flynn 635-6263.
wane

FEBRUARY 28, 1991 — Find
gut about the options of real
« @atateé Fidinelig dd mortgage’ al
-& free-law- class; ¢ponsored by" -

“Society, Ie: takes place at. the

” Happy Gang Centre fram 7 - a.

: pam. Register at 638-4780... -.*-"-
whkak

ADULT FEMALE SUR-

VIVORS OF SEXUAL .

ASSAULT GROUP. Every

Wed, 7-9 p.m, Call 635-4042 for

further info.

_ weken
BATTERED WOMEN’S SUP.
PORT GROUP. Every Tues..7 -9.
p.m, Call 635-6447 or 635-4042
for further info.

tkhkeek
TERRACE | DUPLICATE
BRIDGE CLUB meets at 7:18
every Wed. at Caledonia Sr. Sec.

welcome. For moze info. call
Ellen Smith at 635-4096 or Dave
Comfort at 635-4875.
tk kit
TERRACE ‘CO-DEPENDENTS
Anonymous. Meets Monday
Evenings 8-9 p.m. at Skeena
Health Unit. the only require:
ment: for’ membership is the
desire for healthy and fulfilling
télationships, Contact Mary at
635-5518 -
- kkk ,
ALANON MEETING. Family
and Friends of alcoholics meet
" Mon. nights 8 p.m. at Mills
Memoria! Hospltal,psych. con-
ference room, Contacts: Noreen
635-6938 or Sharon 638-1836,
waht .
-THE OVEREATERS ANON-
 YMOUS support group meets
‘every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at
the Terrace Women’s Resource
“Centre, 4542. Park Ave. Ph.’
635-4084 or 638-0664 for more
information.’ Newcomers
welcome.
toto te
THE KINETTE CLUB OF Ter:
_ face hold: thelr meetings on the.
second and fourth: Wed. of the
month. Anyone. interested ‘in
more information ‘about the
“Kinettes' or mectings Pleasc call
Gail at t 635-9283.
om x x * *

- offers What's ‘Up as a
public . service © to. Its

aq readers. and those ‘com.
=" mevuinlty rganizatlons ie

or:
are: for. non-profit

~ organizations ‘and. for

those “events: in which

; ithere:'Is no cost to gain

admission, i a ° ; ’
“- ‘To’ meet our produc:
‘ton: ‘deadlines, we ask

} thar all: items be'submit-—
“T ted by. toon -on - the
“TD RRIDAY. preceding the
L. fallowing week's lssuc

| We also agk that items be

a _feegrittes | or be Pinte’

The. Public Legal . prmanedal bi .

in. the cafeteria. Everyone |

No buts... it’ S$ ti

The main benefits: resulting

' from the. decision to give up
' smoking are much: touted and
well-known. However, as local
resident

Chris * Jennings
discovered, sometimes: there can

be an unexpected plus.

Last September, “J ennings

"spent. 10 “minutes | under ‘the
water in.the.Skeena River after
his vehicle had spun off-.the

Prince. Rupert - “highway.
Although rescuers: ‘succeeded i in

restoring his’ breathing,. he. was"
unconcious for the next day and.

ahalfe

However, once > aviake, J enn- |

ings recovered quickly and that,

said his doctors, was-because he ©

had given up smoking a year

earlier. There-had been enough -

time for his lungs to recover and

“therefore better cope with the.

trauma. i

Jennings calls himself | a
reformed smoker rather than a
non-smoker. “I think it’s a bit

Help you ng stay smokeless

-qmoker, there is a near 30 per cent chance he or
she will be one inthe next two years.

That’s not the kind of news parents like to
hear, but it’s a fact. As a parent, you know this
is the beginning of an expensive, unhealthy
“habit. However, although there’s no guarantee.
you can convince your child not to smoke, you
have a lot more influence than you may think.

This-year, B.C. health organizations taking
part in National Non-smoking Week (January |
22-28) want you to. know you can make a dif-
ference. They are;the.B.C, Lung Association, |
Adventist Health Network, B.C. Pharmacist .
Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Cana-
dian Cancer Soclety and the Registered Nurses :

-““Astociation of: ‘BG: strategy 6

The: majority of.11- 4 year ‘olds do not
smoke, but that’s the age most try tobacco for -
the first time. These years, then, are the optimal
ones to begin a low-key, positive approach to”

promote non-smoking.

If you are a non-smoker, that in itself will
have a direct effect on your child’s attitude to

- smoking.

However, even if you do smoke, there are
still many things you can do to promote non-

smoking in your children,

® discuss reasons why smoking might appeal
- and talk about constructive ways to deal with

like alcoholism,” he explains,
“You're always orie.”” ‘

When he gave up cigarettes in n
July, 1989, he was a two-pack- —

a-day smoker, Health concerns

prompted the decision.: ‘I'd :
"been getting two or three bron-

chitis attacks ‘a year,’ he says..

After a coughing bout that kept

hirn awake most of the night, he

decided ‘I don’t need to be. "do
ing this to myself,””

While -he had made-thai kind ‘
"of resolution before, this time
- he stuck to it. However, he-ad-

_ mits, kicking a 20-year habit

wasn’t easy. “It was pretty
tense at first,’? he recalls, ad-

“ding it was a couple of months

before it -got any easier,

Although | he says he: may’

once. in a while subconciously

think about: smoking,’ those:
. tough early days’are well behind

him. Even when around
smokers,

peer pressure,

rat

arts events. .

he doesn't ” find.
himself wanting to rejoin their

Chris Jennings

ranks,

. A healthier person today for
‘giving up, he also has the
memory of that September acci-
dent to underline.the impor-

' “tance of his decision to do so.

® discuss the positive aspects of notemoking
such as doing well in sports, having ‘extra
money, good breath and nice looking teeth and
appealing to the opposite sex — things that
diminish with tobacco use.

® talk about tobacco advertising’s messages
and counter with the truth about the addictive. -
nature of smoking.

* if you smoke, talk about your own quitting
” problems. Be open about the difficulties you’ve
had and never give up trying to quit.
~ . Young people are growing into a world where
smoking is less accepted and where not smoking:
“is the norm. You can help promote this trend to
non-smoking i in your child’s: environment;
-S. .®d6n'tever send your: kids to-buy: ‘cigarettes
® support school, community’ and” business
_ efforts that promote non-smoking:
® support efforts for stronger legislation -
against tobacco advertising, selling tobacco to
-tinors and tobacco sponsorship of sports and

The time to start non-smoking promotion in
your home is now, If you can. help your

children avoid smoking through adolecence,

they will likely never start.
For more information on National Non-

smoking Week or on smoking generally, con-

tions, :

tact any of the above named health organiza-

Did you
know that...

Courtesy Skeena Heath Unit

Of course you knew that...

Terrace, B.C, V8G 472.

Did. you know that...amoking { is bad for ‘you? ee
It pollutes your breath and stains your skin. It reduces the:
quality and the length of your life. It offends people around.
you and can‘make them sick. It sets you up for some of the:
worst and most rapidly debilitating forms of cancer. It costs a
- lot of money and reduces your chances for employment. .

‘Do you still smoke? More and mere Canadians are quitting.
every day, As one-poster puts it, “The Question for smokers
is not whether to quit, but when”...

Unfortunately the ranks of newly addicted smokers are also
increasing every day. Smoking remains one of the ways
‘teenagers choose to define their transition into adult life. In. ~
the course of a lifetime, tobacco will kill eight times as many
15 year old children who now smoke as will car accidents,
murder, suicide, AIDS and drug abuse combined!

Did you know that you can help to bring the tobacco
epidemic under control? Don’t smoke. Make sure your com-
munity and schools have policies to ensure smoke-free en-
vironments. Lobby against tobacco advertising and for en-
forcement against selling it to minors. Don’t lok the other
way, when you see kids smoking. Don’t give up until your
community is truly smoke-free.

This is National Non Smoking Week. Take advantage of it
and see what you can do to help yourself, your family and
| your community to ‘‘Break Free’, J
_. What are your questions and concerns? Write'us at:. “Did

You Know That”, c/o Skeena Health Unit, 3412 Kalum St.,

I took part.in last month’s
Boxing Day bird count and I

- must say I hada very enjoyable

time.
It began with Wyn Nutley

"picking me up and heading over

to Mary Alice Short’s home on
Agar where we watched a few
birds at her feeder and a few

bathing in a puddle in her back -

yard. Then Wyn, Mary Alice,
Laurelle Lofroth and myself
headed ot to cover the Keith

-eStates area,

During our four-hour foray,
we spotted 11 species including
varied thrushes, flickers,
humerous crows, juncos, a
ruby-crowned kinglet, Cooper's
hawk, ravens, mergansers,
black-caps and gulls.

We also-had an unexpected
sighting, an osprey. They are
not unknown here, of course,
but are usually.only seen during
the warmer months. We watch-

Bird spott ing fun —

‘ed it for about half an hour.

Then it was off to Diane and:

Art Weismiller's home for a
lovely lunch including hot,
mulled apple juice. We were
also treated to a video taken by
Diane of the trumpeter swans at
Lakelse Lake.
kiki

Phil and Marylin Davies are
back from a wonderful six-week
vacation which took them to Fi-
ji, Australia, New Zealand —

regal species. recorded each Boxing Day by participants in the annual bird count.

PHOTO BY une CHRYSLER,

“Here ‘n

_ There”
~ by
Yvonne Moen

where they were joined by

daughter Metessia, a teacher in
Chetwynd — and Singapore.
Marylin said she always takes
some Kermode bear pins with
her when travelling and hands
them out to people she feels
have been extra nice to them.
She gave one to'a hostess at a
Maori feast and was then asked
to go up front, get involved in

the dancing and tell everyone -
‘+ about the Kermode.

ee oe

At the Willows: The residents
and Mel and Cecile are extreme-
ly thankful to the many people
who each year go out of their
way to do so many kind things
for them. A special thanks to
Ed who gave each lady a
beautiful pointsettia for their
apartments.

Celebrating birthdays this
month were Lovina Bugg (Jan.
6) and William Durant (Jan.
21).

Also, a belated happy birth-
day to Mel who was 65 on Jan.
10.

KkKKK

1 hear Norah Olson is in
hospital in Richmond recover-
ing from a broken arm and in-

jured knee. Hi, Norah, and a

Speedy recovery.
I also hear Edna Jensen is at

_the .G.S. Strong rehabilitation -

centre in Vancouver for more
treatment on injuries recelved in

. “a car accldent last year, ‘Good. .
PERENNIAL VISITORS to the shores of Lakelse Lake, trumpeter swans ike these ate one of the more ick, ware ao : :

The Have

having the official opening of
their new kitchen on Feb. 2 and
are inviting everyone to drop in
for coffee or lunch.

And this Friday they are hav-
ing a Robbie Burns dinner
beginning at 6 p.m.

. wKEKKKK

A very happy birthday to my
friend Mary Alice Short, Have a
real nice day Jan. 26, Mary
Alice.

kkkkr

Birthdays at Terraceview this
month were Gregorie
Federenko (Jan. 1, 93); Bessie
Carlick (Jan. 2, 89); Bell Eddies
(Jan. 3, 83); Simon Lockerby
(Jan. 7, 77); Ken Guthrie (Jan.
12, 78); Howard Harper (Jan.
13, 92); and Lindberg Carlson
(Jan. 19, 79). Mary Brownlie
will be celebrating. her Sist on
Jan. 28.

Last Saturday the Girl Guides
paid their annual visit bringing

with them goodies and gifts to .
celebrate an “Un-birthday par-

ty’’.
kkekekk

A. few friends gathered at -

Marg and John De Wacht's
home Jan.

one has been held there. each
year since Howard came to Ter-
race,

Long-time friends dropped in a
~ to wish him well and Maig too.
time out from. ‘Winter: ; hectle a

ster:

13 for Howard _-
Harper's 92nd birthday party ——- = -