DUSTIN _ CHARLYNN TOEWS | Sorry, don’t have any nough time in the day can be hard to find. For example, some people don’t have time to read. So when you aay to them, “Did you read in the paper... "they will answer, “I don’t have time to read.” Turns out they are doing odd things like exercis- ing regularly -- always at the gym -- or they play baseball, or in winter, indoor volleyball. Whatever, some weird activity. p Or some people have a hard time finding ume for exercising. Let’s say you were discussing “e. ercise more” as an option to improve health. This is is a fine goal, for practically everyone. If you are like me, however, you do the after-school thing, then . the supper thing, then try. to call your mother or — write'an e-mail and the whole evening’s. gone. - [have known people who claim they do not have ~ time for watching TV. Odd, because you can watch TV while you eat supper, for only one example. I like to read a fresh new New Yorker during the commercials. Plus, you can fold laundry in front of the tube: perhaps their laundry-folding is so com- plex that it requires their complete attention. One time | knew this guy who thought being awake meant having the TV on. He dropped by and I was cooking and listening’to the radio. “No -TV?” he said. I told him it worked just fine, but that I liked the radio on for news at suppertime. He seemed tense, edgy, distracted. I didn’t date him long enough for him to find out my belief that Aretha Franklin or Annie Lennox were the only * suitable options to accompany housework. There is time for TV and time for radio néws and time for rock ‘n’ roll vacuuming. There are those who are so pressed for time they are unable to reply. This has happened to me, that I make a call, I leave a message, and then years later I think, “Whoa! I never ever did get a call back from them!” Imagine a super-busy person, by the time they had a second, it was years later and the question was moot. That happens. “There is time for TV. and time for radio news and time for rock ‘n’ roll vacuuming.” n ‘Some people have time but feel they don’t have “the money. “I can’t afford it,” they say, and you wonder why they buy all those other things instead. Maybe | they have de-prioritized the things they could buy in favour of buying the things that they do buy. That could be! If you have more time than money, a second-had store is the best place to shop. If you have more money than brains, call me later, 1 can help you with that. As residents of Deepest Darkest Horseshoe, we at our house participate in almost every door- | knocking initiative. We enjoy this, and we tend to have quarters and loonies on hand. Mostly it is easy to dispatch an after-supper door-knocker with a few . plastic pop bottles or a Loonie or two. Sometimes it has happened, though, that we re- ally don’t have any bottles or twoonies on hand, and we have to say, “Sorry, don’t have any.” And close the door. Some people like to say, “We don’t have any choice.” I really wonder about that, about having no choice, and so I often delve deeper into the sub- ject at hand. One .time I was working at a non-profit place and a co-worker said, “We have to do this. We have no choice.” _I objected, saying we did have a choice. To which she replied, “Alright, then we lose our fund- ing.” I said we still had a choice: to do what our funders asked and to continue to receive funding, or to decide to NOT do what they asked, and lose our funding. We had the choice, and we chose funding. Even though we didn’t necessarily * want to do what our funders asked. So we chose, meaning we did have a choice, and we made the decision. Or, “I had no choice! It was either that or lose my house!” Okay, so you chose your house. That is a choice, probably a good one, I don’t know. I haven’t seen your house. Is the TV set up so you can fold laundry nearby? Is there a radio in the kitchen? _ You may have the time or inclination to look into to this. I am sorry, but I don’t have any. By DUSTIN QUEZADA THE POTTERY community in Terrace has tripled i in the last five years, but without a community pottery studio, there is a limit to its growth, say members of the local clay artists’ society. “Most people that want to try potting don’t want to put the $10, 000 it takes to set up a studio,” ’ said Patsy O’Connell, a ~ society member. | The start-up costs include the wheel and kiln, along with ongoing costs for chemicals and clay. O'Connell said if people only have to pay for the clay:and the studio time, the hobby would be much more feasible. - And she should know. Fellow potter Pat Irving said O’Connell’s arrival in Terrace in 1999 really sparked the growth of the local scene.. She had taken courses and a workshop i in Waterloo, Ont., a community active with potters. “The more potters there are, the more vibrant (the potting community) is,” said O’Connell. Kae Williams joined her two colleagues last week in ‘the Terrace Art Gallery who collectively said a community stu- ; dio would not only allow interested potters to give: “throwing | a pot” a try but will help the experienced potters also. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - B1 s TERRACE STANDARD ‘fe “A community studio allows for dialogue‘and for sharing of ideas and problem solving,” said Irving, a 20-year potter. When exactly the proposed community studio will be - open is unknown, though Irving said the Clay Artists of Ter-. race Society hopes to’make an announcement in January. . The society ‘doesn’t want to make an announcement until the studio is operational. . Earlier ‘this: year, it was in negotiations with the city to establish its location in the basement of the recently- moved . George Little House. .. ° The clay artists decided the space did not ft their needs - and backed out of the talks. Irving said the society may have found a communal space in a building that a member has acquired for a private stu- dio. For now, the eight-member group is basking i in the suc- cess of its exhibit at the art gallery. Fired up! An Inferno of Creativity, opened ‘Oct. 7 with 150 to 200 people attending the opening gala. . Every artist sold a piece that night and proceeds from the sales through the month will go to the community studio. ° Upcoming events that will also raise money for the cause ‘include a Raku (mask making) workshop Oct Christmas sale Nov. 17-20 in the Skeena Mall. The three society members said a community space will expose a great activity. “Tt’s a hobby that just snowballs into a lifestyle,” said Ir- ving. “It’s so enjoyable, so peaceful...it gets all your frustra- tions out.” Added O’Connell: “It’s Zen. It’s both physical and ce- » rebral — you don’ t think about anything else .when you Te (potting).” The art gallery exhibit, which features a mix of functional and decorative clay art, goes to Oct. 30. By DUSTIN _ QUEZADA ENOLA MATHIEU is starting to know what it feels like to be a rock star on tour. | While she isn’t playing to throngs of ador- ing fans, the president of the Royal Purple of Canada i is spreading a message across. the country. “The order has been the best kept secret for 90 years,” said Mathieu, who stopped in Terrace last week to.address the local lodge. “I want to promote public awareness and get the word out because membership is dwin- dling.” Mathieu, who lives in Thunder Bay, Ont., said the drop in numbers is due to an aging membership. “Some members have passed away, oth- ers have just become too busy,” Mathieu said. _ Inan attempt to attract younger members, the order that comprises 210 lodges in Cana- da has increased incentives for joining. Last year, the order lowered the minimum membership age from 16 to 14 for juniors who pay only half dues. “We hope to catch the younger group coming out of the Girl Guides,” said Ma- thieu, serving her one-year term as presi- dent. Mathieu also stressed that the purple dress associated with Royal Purple members i is not . Mandatory wear. “The regalia puts younger people off but they can wear anything,” Mathieu said. Betty Hamilton of the Terrace Royal Pur- ple said the local chapter has more or less weathered the storm in terms of dwindling _ membership. “We’ve increased awareness,” Hamilton said. “People ask, ‘Royal Purple? Who is that?’ It’s a free-standing women’s organi- zation.” So instead of offering a seniors’ tea as it had in the past that it found to be attended exclusively by friends, the local lodge now . 29 and a Purple president here on promotional tour, Enola Mathieu, the Supreme Honoured Royal Lady, stopped in Terrace, which along with Prince Rupert and Smithers, comprises the Royal! Purple’s District 8. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO hosts Caledonia’s women grads each spring for a tea. While the grad tea can raise awareness and membership, the lodge has to find a way to raise money for its causes. Nationally, the Royal Purple raises money: for the Fund for Children that helps hearing impaired youngsters, those affected by fire and then any local children in need. ' The yearly Riverside Music Festival orga- nized by Hamilton and her husband is a main reason the local chapter has won a plaque for highest per capita support for children. Mathieu’s visit was the first by an order president in four or five years. Presidents spend their year visiting lodges across the nation. POTTERS (from left) Kae Williams, Pat Irving and Patsy O’Connell display a piece - of their own work now on display in the Terrace Art Gallery. All three are members | of the Clay Artists of Terrace Society. ‘DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO _ Around Town look for if they want to participate in the annual Op- eration Christmas Child Shoebox Program on now through Nov. 12. DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO Campaign a shoe-in | Operation Christmas Child i is back with its shoebox pro- gram. Through the generosity of individuals, schools churches and businesses, 869 shoeboxes bearing gifts were sent out from Terrace, as part of the world’s largest children’s Christ- mas project. This year, local coordinator Eleanor Froese hopes to bet- ~ ter last year’s number. She has already distributed 600 boxes and has ordered 400 more. She says the drive provides Canadians with a practical way of sharing love with children living in countries ravaged by war, famine, extreme poverty or natural disaster. The decorative shoeboxes are packed for a boy or a girl in three age categories. They are available for pick-up and drop-off at corporate sponsors Canada Safeway and Grey- hound Canada. They are then packed for shipping by volunteers to be delivered overseas by plane or ship. The 2005 deadline .is Nov. 12. Operation Christmas Child is a project of ‘Samaritans Purse. For information, call 1-800-303-1269, Eleanor locally at 615-3253 or visit www.samaritanspurse.ca ‘ELEANOR Froese shows Terrace residents what to. 638-7283