B10 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 30, 1990

Gurbax Gill, Linda Mercer
and Ranjit Nizar make up the
collating crew. Gurbax has
worked for Close Up Business
‘Services for more. than nine
years as supervisor of the col-
lating team. She works about 30
hours per week with her crew
collating both the Terrace
_ Review and Close Up magazine.
They collate, cut, stitch, bundle
and mail — whatever is required
for the particular job at hand.
Gurbax likes the job and the
staff so much that she thinks
she’ll say a litile longer. Another
nine years, Gurbax?

Linda has been here for five
and a half years. She previously
worked in an office. Her only
criticism of the job is that there
aren’t enough guys in their
department.

Ranjit just started in Septem-
ber of last year, on a recom-
mendation from Gurbax. She
says she sometimes reads the
paper, but she’s usually seen
enough of it after collating the
week’s newspaper run,

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-** gund writes “The Best from the

Stacks’’ and ‘On the Small
Screen’. Harriett ‘says, ‘‘It’s
hard to believe I get paid for

* «something: I enjoy so. much!’”.

..Harriett .is a‘ founding member.
of the Terrace. Writers! Guild

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and for five years has won
CFTK’s Country Chillers con-
test. She says she used to drive
her mother crazy tearing up
paper bags to use for writing,
and she even remembers writing
on match boxes when paper was
in short supply.

Harriett goes through the
boxes of books that come into
the Terrace Public Library on a
regular basis. Before the books
are catalogued, labelled or dust-
covered, Harriett identifies the
books that have caught her eye.
The cover is the first clue, then
she reads the flap. If it seems to
have broad audience appeal, she
waits until the book has been
processed and then takes it home

to read. Her two boys are teen-.

agers and not home much, so

she has lots of time for reading. -
. The video reviews she does.

from a list provided by the
Video Station. :darriett says she

-enjoys:a movie more once she’s

completed: her. assessment of it,

sometimes screening movies “a

second-or third:time. -

GURBAX GILL.

Stephanie Wiebe has been
writing ‘‘The Way I See It’”’ for
the last three years. She says,
“I’ve always had to write. If I
don’t, I go loony, or I guess I

should say, loonier.’’ Stephanie

took journalism at university
because she wanted to write chil-
dren’s books, and because she
didn’t want to become a teacher.
Stephanie finally became a hair-
dresser because she thought it
would be more practical than be-
ing a journalist. She didn’t really
know what a journalist did, and
had never thought about having
her writing published. Until she
wrote a piece about slugs. After
much cajoling and encourage-
ment from friends, she finally
dropped a copy of it off at the
Review. Michael Kelly phoned
her and asked if she'd like to do
a regular column. Stephanie had
an article published in January’s
issue of B.C. Woman to
Woman. The topic was ‘‘Mov-
ing to Terrace’, which she and
her husband did six years ago.
Stephanie likes reading and she
likes the humorous side of every-
day activities. She says topics are
harder to find as her kids get
older. They say, “Aw, mom,
don’t embarrass us!”’

Nancy Orr, freelancer, has
been with the Terrace Review
since the spring of 1989, having
at that time completed a one-
year journalism course at
Kwantlen College in Richmond.
During her course, Nancy did a
practicum at the Richmond
Times, . learned photography,

“and the class even put out a
newspaper. Nancy says it gave
her a new interest.

She and her husband Len had
arrived in Terrace in 1951. They
came to work in the woods end

of things. Len was a scaler. The
Orrs brought up five daughters. -

And-now Nancy has the pleasure
of 1$- grandchildren. from the

ages of two to 20... ar

_STEPHANIE WEIE

Since 1968, she was an active
member of the School District
88 school board. She was the on-
ly female member for quite a
while.

Until 1977 when Nancy retired
from the school board, she de-
scribed it as “definitely a policy-
making board’’..She re-entered
the school board-room from
1981 to 85, but found it too
much with Len being so ill.

After Len’s death, Nancy re-

turned to education, this time as -
a-student. She attended Simon ‘|:

Fraser University and took a

potpourri of courses .ranging

from English to Philosophy to

- Communications, prior to trans-- ;
-ferring: to: Kwantlen.. .

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