a eh ee ee eee ee ee ee Pe 8 kk ee ee eee eRe A ES ake eee ee a oe * AAT WHAT'S UP The Terrace Standard of- fers What's Up as a public service to its: readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organizations and those events for which there is no admission charge. To meet our production deadlines, we ask that any item for What's Up be sub- mitted by noon on the FRI- DAY preceding the issue in which it is to appear. For contributed articles, the deadline is 5 p.m. on the preceding THURSDAY. We also ask that all submis- sions be typed or printed neatly, NOVEMBER 18, 1992 - Hombased Business mecting. 12 noon, Gims Restaurant. El- teen 635-9415, Lori 635- 9533. 2p31 xe KK NOVEMBER 18, 1992 - In- formal or Licensed care pro- viders are Welcome at a caregivers’ meeting at 7 p.m. at Skeena Child Care Support, 4542 park Ave, Terrace. Call 638-1113. 2p31 xe RH NOVEMBER 18, 1992 - Save the Deep Creck Hatchery meeting at Coast Inn of the West at 7:00 pm. For info: 635-9237 Doug Webb. 2p30 re: NOVEMBER 19, 1992 - Reg- ular monthly meeting for the Canadian Cancer Society will be held at 12 noon in the Edu- cation Room at Mills Memorial Hospital. 2p30 a tH NOVEMBER 20, 1992 - Combined support group meel- ing for people with chronic fa- tigue syndrome or fibromyal- gia, Information available to ,anyone -. interested... At the. Happy Gang Centre at 7:00 pm. Phone Darlene at 638- 8688 or 635-4059. 2p30 * ¥ *k * NOVEMBER 21, 1992 - Make a ‘Story quilt’ at the Ter- race Public Library at 1:00 pm. Enjoy stories and draw a pic- ture for our ‘story quilt’. Suitable for kids 6 and up, For more info call 638-8177. 2p30 wok eM NOVEMBER 25, 1992 - K’San House Society is having a semi-annual mecting at 8:30 pm at the B.C. Access Centre. oo 2p30 +e NOVEMBER 27, 1992 - The Skeena Valley Car Club will be holding its Regular Monthly Meeting at he Terrace KinHut on the corner of North Sparks and Halliwell. At 7:30 p.m. Call Doug at 635-4809 or Larry at 635-4793 for info. 2p31 Ce NOVEMBER 28, 1992 - Ter- race Regional Museum Society are having a Bake & Bood Sale from 10am - 4pm at the Skeena Mall. Donations of baking greatly appreciated. 2p30 ‘ ee RK NOVEMBER 28, 1992 - St. Matthews Annual ACW Tea & Bazaar will be fom 2-4:00 pm at St. Matthews Center, 4506 Lakelse Ave. Contact: Ingrid, 635-3139 or Susan, 638-1990, 2p30 ek mm NOVEMBER 30, 1992 - 30 Year Reunion for Thornhill Elementary School. Monday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend. Join us for cake and freindship, 635- 5082. 2p3l : eee ee DECEMBER 1, 1992 - Resi- dents and staff invile you to at- tend Terraceview Lodge’s An- nual Christmas tea & Bazaar from 2:00-4:00 pm and 7-9 pm. For more info contact 638- 0223, ext, 21. 2p30 eer DECEMBER 5, 1992 - United Church will be holding. their Christmas bazaar on Saturday at 2 - 4 p.m. Knox United Church, 4907 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, Everyone Wel- come. p31 ot HEN LIZ William- son tries to sing rock music it comes out sounding like Mozart. “My kids used to say ‘Mom, how do you always make rock sound Jike a church spiritual?’” she laughs. There will be litte rock and a lot of spirit when . Williamson goes on stage Dec. 5 with the rest of the Northwest: Singers in the choir’s 10th anniversary per- formance. uo Williamson’ is one of | the group’s 11 original members — eight of whom will be back on -slage at the Terrace Arena ban- quet room. The choir has had four conductors since its incep- tion, and all four — Geoff Parr, Andy Brodie, Tim Coonan and Marilyn Brodie -- will be back for the reunion and will con- duct. And there won’t be any Guns and Roses or Pink Floyd tunes in the songbook. The audience will be treated to a smorgasbord of the group’s favourite classical, jazz and folk songs. , Included will be old favourites such as ‘Java Jive’? and ‘‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’? and excit- ing new music like ‘‘Gamelan”’ from Bali. And no Northwest Singers ex- travaganza’ would be complete without. a healthy dose of madrigals. — oe It was 1982 when Williamson wrapped her alto vocal chords around the centuries-old English folk songs. “1 found them very difficult, but great fun,’’ she recalls. Back then the group was called to Youth Terrace’s own Jessica Bower- ing has been nained to the B.C. Youth Council. Bowering was one of ten new members appointed last week by advanced education minister Tom Perry. Now a first-year sludent at Simon Fraser University, she was president and founder of Caledonia Sr, Secondary School’s Amnesty International Club and was a member of Terrace Little Theatre. She is taking women’s studies and political science at Calling all space aliens! by local residents. tions. north end of the lake. hill Mountain. space travellers. Or has it? Singers met, choir founders Jean and "Neville “Hope thal she “first “~~ The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 18, 1992 - Page 81 MMUNITY NEW a A CELEBRATION of 10 years as a choir happens in two weeks with the 10th anniversary concert of the Northwest Singers. Many ex-members and ex-conductors will be back for the show. Monday’s Hope, and they changed the name to ithe North- west Singers in 1984. Since then they’ve preatly widened their repertoire and have a reputation for playing every- thing from Brahms to Beatles. They’ve also done music from Fiddler on the Roof as well as- Westside Story and My Fair Lady. “Musically it’s a challenge to me.’ Williamson says. “It’s a serious group. (Conductor) Marilyn Brodie expects a level of expertise that is unusual in a local choir.”’ Like many of the group, Wil- Bowering named Council “These young péople can be proud of their accomplishments,” Perry said of the new appoint- ments. “I know they will make a significant contribution to the Youth Council and to their com- munitics.”” Bowering is one of 18 members of the youth council, The council was cslablished in 1985, the United Nations International Year of Youth, as a forum for the ex- change of young people’s ideas. Council members, aged 15 to 24, represent various social and ethnic groups, career inlercsts, and regions of B.C. Where have all the spaceships gone? The Terrace area was apparently a favourite destination for little green men back in the summer of 1950. The newspaper of the day featured numerous reports of so- called Flying Saucers and other mysterious phenomena spotted Lakelse Lake appeared to be the focus of many such visita- David Bowen-Colthurst on July 12, 1950 reported a ‘flat moon-shaped object” travelling at tremendous specd over the Another family told of a sighting of a group of five raindrop- shaped grey objects streaking through the June morning sky at a speed of “at least a thousand miles an bour.”’ They appeared from the north with a strange air-tearing sound, flew over the lake and disappeared south towards Kitimat. Three local women also in the summer of 1930 reported seeing a couple of “flying sheets”? hovering In the clouds above Thorn- ‘But in recent years, ihe area seems to have been shunned by We haven’t heard of any mass sightings Iately, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t happened. Maybe the witnesses were too scared to talk. Or were hyp- notized. Or had their brains transversed with Venusians. If you've kept a secret encounter with allens bottled up insid all these years, now’s your chance to come forward. : Send your stories of Flying Saucers — or any other mysterious sightings in the area — to Project Sirlus, c/o The Terrace Standard, 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C., V8G 158, We'll print a selection of some of the best ones. azz Will be back for the. 1 fiamson now plans her week and schedules her trips around Mon- day practice nights. *T’s not a family exactly, but it’s close.” - - The choir has had four con- ductors since its inception, and all four — Geoff Parr, Andy Brodie, Tim Coonan and Marilyn Brodie ¢ and will conduct. : See Past ‘members who will’ be union. . returning for the performance in- . clude founders Neville and Jean Hope, Hilary Rauwchenstcin, Norm Webster, Tim Coonan, Darrell O'Byrne, Matt Ehses, Wynn Nutley, Bruno Belanger, Peter Nicholson, Betty Geier and Laura McGregor. Coonan, afi ex-conductor, returns from Faro, Yukon for the performance, , His advice’ to the singers in years gone by has been to ‘‘Sing with disciplined, wild abandon.” «Witbier, hey... surcly. lil, The Northwest Singers perform their 10th anniversary concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Terrace Arena banquet room. Tickets $13 at Gemma’s Bathroom Boutiques. Liz Wiillamso A NEW CUB aah! ‘aa IT'S OFFICIAL! Eight-year-old Devin Sorenson was one of 14 new cubs Terrace Cub pack in ceremonies last month.