” The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 11, 1997 - B4 TERRACE STANDARD INSIDE SECTION B. COMMUNITY CRIS LEYKAUF EVENTS B2 638-7283 CHARLYNN TOEWS Garage sale here today F YOU clean out all kinds of bits and pieces, and arrange them nicely and put up a sign, you can ex- change them for money. [t's a beautiful system. Here’s a garage sale of a different sort. A spring cleaning of column ideas that never made it to print. Manufacturers suggested retail prices are ‘listed on the side, $3 — I find it very relaxing to clean other people’s houses. In my own house, the sight of a wet towel on the bed or coffee table drives me crazy. But in other people’s houses, there is no emotional baggage attached to any dirty sack, toast crumb or pen cap, probably because I have not told the owners of these things to put them away a thousand times. Instead of being representative of lack of con- sideration, laziness or a bad attitude, these items - in someone else’s house are simply themselves, blameless inanimate objects. This makes it a breeze to clean, a refreshing, joyful, practical activity unencumbered by bitterness. You may ask yourselves, ‘‘How can I get this crazy columnist over to MY house??? But I sug- gest you ask yourself instead, ‘‘Whose house will I clean first?” $1 — I miss the snow already. Jt has mar-_ velous muffling qualities. It makes every neigh- bour a quict neighbour, including me. Magical stuff. Snow makes people shut up and slow down | and stay in for a change. When Mother Nature or God or whoever just gets completely sick of our ceaseless human racket and senselesss rabble-rousing, she or hejust dumps a large load of snow on us. ‘'Oh, _ be quiet and sit still,’’ she or he says, and we - do. [ miss the snow already. $15 — How my dad was kind to others: he hired them. He gave them work and then money . and then work and so on, til he died. He had various businesses with various jobs, needing to be done at various times, and so he hired various people. Any awkward kid he took a liking to might get work and moncy and more work from my dad (including me). What a nice gift to be able to give, I think now. My mom told me that right after dad died, a young man, 20 or so, came to the door with tears just streaming down his face. She recog- nized him asa recently hired staffer, a mower or digger or driver of things, I can’t remember. Anyway, she said he stuttered out between deep, deep sobs, ‘‘Mr. Toews was the kindest person I have ever met in my whole life,’” just standing there crying. There were plenty of awkward youths now grown at my dad’s funer- al, old enough to understand the value of getting work and money then more work and more money. $$? Make an offer - You are going to give all of your money to only three places: the govern- ment, the bank, and corporations, That’s it, those three. Government geis tax money, and the rest you put into the bank (which gets first dibs for loan or mortgage payments). Money stays there until you need it to give to whoever owns Safeway, for example. Then, if you have some left over you could give it to Kristin of Krisilin’s Emporium, who in turn would take that money and first give some of it to the government, then to the bank, then to corporations like Over- waitea or Co-op or whatever. She only spends her money in those three places, too, Even if you give money to a charitable organi- zation or your niece, they only want it so they can give it to the government, the bank, or Fisher Price — those some three places again. $5 — 1 wonder what the models think — the woman or women or girls who modeled for the artists whose nude pictures were removed from the REM Lee Theatre. 1 gather from what Suzanne Valadon (a former model turned artist) says, the role of the nude model is not simply one of bystander or object to the arlist: she is also an ‘‘agent of her own work.’’ Whatever that means. By herself drawing and painting nudes (in- cluding a self-portrait at age 66) Suzanne was “‘claiming her own sexuality, presenting her body as her own to inhabit and making her viewer think through ways in which he or she looks at women and their bodies, thinks about . age and sexulaity, sees the relationship between body and self.’’ Cool, eh? I am quoting a writer - named Felicity Edholm here. $2 — The housepainting gene ( which came from my mother and her father before her) is a far more important thing to inherlt than a sumame. A love for taking thin By CRIS LEYKAUF WHEN TERRY REINERT finishes school he shouldn’t have to look too bard for a job. How many other high school students will be able to claim they’re ranked Sth in Canada in their class? Reinert just got back from the Skills Canada competi- tion in Aiberia, Skills Canada is the na- tional level of a competition which tests high school and post-secondary students studying trades and tech- nological areas. Students compete in everything from automotive and carpentry to computer drafting programs, This year Terrace and Kitimat hosted the first ever northwest regional competi- tion for Skills B.C. Reinert, a grade 12 student at Caledonia, won the regional competition in the automotive category for high school students, qualifying for the provincial competition, held April 23. He went onto win gold there, proving he was the best high school automotive student in the province, and then came 5th at the nation- al competition. “I’ve been interested in cars forever,”’ said Peinert. He traces his love of tak- ing things apart to when he was eight years old. “T took apart every door handle in the house,’’ he said. “IT was just curious about how things worked.”’ From there Reinert t quick- lrdliiatehrd ly moved up to lawn mower engines and more. There were few engines that weren’t fair game. *] took apart an outboard motor once, Put all the parts in a big pile. Never got it back together,” be says, laughing. Finally he had a chance to buy a car — a 1975 Firebird. It’s been his most recent, and expensive, pro- ject. “Terry’s vehicle has spent a lot of time in there,’’ says« Caledonia automotive teacher Doug Brewer. He encourages students to bring in projects that they're ex- cited about. The desire to take things apart paid off for Reinert in compclition. He was among 28 other high school competitors at the Skills Canada event. Each student had 20 Minutes to complete each task at 10 different stations, Reinert was tested on everything from air con- ditioning to brakes to valve seals on a cylinder head. Mystery problems were also part of the competition. Reinert had to find out what was wrong with the steering ona truck and use electronic diagnostic equipment to fix a Honda without enough **get up and go.” But the hardest challenge was measuring work on fuel and emissions, including carbon dioxide levels and ‘esting fuel injectors with a toe ah as gs apart YOU WANT HIM TO FIX YOUR CAR — Grade 12 automotive student Terry Asinert came 5th in Canada recenily in a compatition for trades students, multimetre. Though Reinert came Sth over all judges gave him a number one rating on safely. Now he’s thinking about chanics course at Northwest Community College, Brewer is proud of Reinert and of the automotive pro- gram he’s developed at years. “I make certain that what we're offering here is as good as anywhere in the province.”’ taking a heavy duly me- | Caledonia o over the last 24 Bobbi likes local band’s style EVER DREAMED of being a rock star? The members of Terrace band Last Call aren’t getting their hopes too high yet, but they do have a shot at a recording contract. Last Call took part in a Battle of the Bands competi- tion in Burns Lake on May 31, coming in second to Nutboy, of Kitimat. They played mostly hard tock and some cover tunes, but drummer Jocelyn Pel- letier describes their original music as funk punk. Burns Lake studio owner Bobbi Style was a judge at the competition and he in- vited the band back to his studio to do a demo album. Style just moved io Bums Lake from London, England one and a half years ago. He’s built a fully digital studio there, featuring a 96 channel mixer with Dolby surround sound. The studio is state of the art, and now . that it’s finished Style is looking for Canadian artists to produce. Style is no stranger to the music business. Last year he worked on Robert Miles’ hit, Children, and the Piz- zaMan album which was number one in worldwide pop charis. His credits in- clude many top ten UK art- ; ists such as Union Jack, Moondogg and Salamander. His company, Dynamic Studios, also has other studios abroad and contacts with many European labels, Style also bas his own band called) WyldeStyle, which is currently working on a new album called Watch the Bimbo Fall. Style was impressed with what he heard of Last Call during the competition, even though they played a cover song from Pink Floyd, — Another Brick in the Wall. “T hate that song,’’ he said. But he liked how they played it, “7 thought they were very tight, very professional. The crowd certainly responded well to them.”’ This is the first time Style has invited a band from Ter- race to do a demo in his studio. _ “Tf 1 like what I hear, 1’ PRACTICE PAID OFF jor Katrina O'Byme. She just won the junior brass category at the provincial arts festival In Powell River, ‘oriented. get involved. I think we'll get on fine. They’re very good musicians.’’ Last Call formed about a year and a half ago, They practice constantly, some- thing Style says is very im- portant. “You can’t just dream about being a pop star.”’ Style said Last Call would have won first place if they’d done more original music. The demo he wants to make will be three of their original songs. Pelletier says the band would have played more original songs, but most of the bands at the competition were doing heavy punk stuff, so they changed plans and went to more heavy cover tunes, He isn’t a big fan of that music, saying their original songs are much more dance And dance music is what Style is after, “T like the idea of devel- oping new sound from here,’’ said Style. ‘‘I’d like to sec a couple more Cana- dians on the big scene.”’ Young horn TERRACE BAND Last Call has a shot at a recarding contract. The band came second in a Battle of the Bands competition in Burns Lake, Bobbi Style, owner of Lady of the Lakes Records in Burns Lake, liked them and wants to do a demo album with them, player wins provincial competition FROM MECHANICS to music, Terrace students are wowing the province this spring. Clarence Michiel student Katrina O’Byrne is the best junior French hom player in the province. O'Bryne won the 13-and under junior brass category at the B.C, Festival of the Ars in Powell River, May 21-25, “The adjudicator said I had a bright sound and a nice breathing pattern,” said O’Bryne. This was her first time at the festival and for winning her parents gave her a spunky little kitten named Sadie. Sadie, unfortunately, doesn’t care much for O’Bryne’s playing, but has tried to climb inside the horn’s large opening. O’Byme got the chance to play at the provincial festival when she was recom- mended to it after the local Pacific NW Music Festival. This is only O'Byme’s sec- ond year of playing the French horn. She chose the instrument when she tried out for band at Clarence Michiel. “They said it was a really hard instru- ment to play, so I decided to try it.”’ This is her second instrument — she’s been playing the piano since she was six years old. “J like the hom better than the piano, It has a more interesting sound, And everyone plays the piano, but not everybody plays the French horn.” O*Byme credits ber horn teacher Mike Wen (the Thornhill Jr. band director} for teaching her techniques that allowed her win the competition. She also cmulates Wen's other student, Kathleen Marsh, who was runner-up in the intertnediate brass category in Powell River. ‘Kathleen set a good example of stage presence for me to follow. 1 like her sound and [try to copy It” One other Terrace student also did well in provincial competition. Chriszine Bradford was runner-up in the national speech arts category.