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Submuisslons should be typed or printed neatly. eeeee APRIL 21, 27th, MAY 5, #1, 1993 - Terrace Womens Resource Centre is having Series of films for women for more information 638- 0228, this. will take place al the Women’s resource centre 4542 Park Ave at 7:30 p.m, IplAPRIL 21, 1993 - The Terrace Mental Health Centre is having a Coping with Chronic Pain workshop at the -S$Keena Health Unit Auditorium : from 9:00 am to 4 pm for more information call 638- 3325 ask for Carol, 2p52 maens “APRIL 22, 1993 - The Skeena Valley Car Club will be holding it's regular monthly meeting at the Terrace Kin Hut on the corner of ‘P:-North sparks and Halliwell at 7:30, for moté information you could “call Dougal 635-4 4809 2ps2 aan “APRIL 23, 1993 - Birth Right will “be. having.an openhouse please ‘come and have a coffee with the -volunteers to Gnd out whal ser- -vices we offer, #201 4721 Lazelle “Aye (Tillicum Building) from 5 “pm to 7 pm. 1pl +e oh e / APRIL 26, 1993 - Terrace Home Educators’. is having a support 4 group meeting at the Northern Motor Inn at 6:00 pm. _ ipl eeeee APRIL 26, 1993 - Lakelse Com- ‘munity Association is having a “General--Meeting’ about ‘Greater Tertace’ -Area,: official community plan--at the Mount ‘Layton Hotsprings at 8:00 p.m. , ipl | eee ; APRIL 27, 1993 - At the Terrace Public Library local history comes to. life as Phylis Bowman shares ‘; {her memories and knowledge of the..“*Early Days" in the North- west. Admission is free and every- one is welcome, refreshments will be served, for more information please call the ‘library ‘at 638- 8177 ipl we eee MAY 3, 1993 -- Skeena Parent Advisory Council will be meeting in the library of the school at 7:30 pm, will be discussing schocl dis- cipline, all parents are welcome, contact Wanda Kerby at 635- 2895 - 2p] : Sereee ‘OCTOBER 23, 1993 - The ‘| BCOAPO Branch 73 is having an Annual Tea and Bazaar featuring ‘year-round practical gifts and baked goods. It is held at the Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Klum Street, al 1:30 pm. ttn ween, OCTOBER 30, 1993 ~ Shames Mountain ski club is having an annual ski swap al the arena ban- “quet room at 0900 to 1500 hrs. tin eete EVERY MONDAY evening at -7;00, pm Northwest Alcohol & -Drug Services present an on-going Relapse Recovery Group, call 638- : " _ 8417 for more information. een ‘SRD THURSDAY OF the month ‘B. CP.A Advisory Comm, is hav- ing. a meeting at 200A - 4630 _Lazelle Ave at 7:00 pm. Oe ‘crisis: LINE i is open'24 hours a ‘day: for anyone in crisis. Call 635- 4042. : . ttn +eeee BVERY -TUESDAY evening, the Skeena Valley quilters meet at Skeena Junior Secondary” School ‘fron -7pm to 9:30 pm for more information call Cathy at 635- 2230. : . eeene BVERY WEDNESDAY ‘from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Tercace Nar- cotics Anonynious "Steps to Recovery" meets at the Kermode Friendship Center, . ohne EVERY WEDNESDAY - Terrace Ladies Kermodie Lions Club meeis at the Inn of the West. For times and more Info contact Doro- thy Bartsoff al 638-8183. a eeter EVERY. THURSDAY at 7:30pm Overeatérs Ationymous at Wom- en a Ree Resource Centre, Call 635- 644 | EVERY MONDAY Terrace Co- Dependanis Anonymous - mects froin: m. - Call. Karen 638- From Brazi o Terrace Coming from the second largest city in the world, Terrace seems microscopic. “Tt’s so small fo me,’’ says 18- year-old Nilsa Sayuri Kobashi, a Rotary exchange student visiting Terrace from Brazil. She hails from Sao Paolo, a city of 12 million. “When I got here it was the first time I saw snow,’ she told people at a Northwest Develop- ment Education Association presentation last weck, Kobashi has been attending Caledonia since she arrived in support aids Necklace power is helping win the battle against poverty for a group of street kids in Brazil. They go to school jin a half- finished schoolhouse in Olinda, Brazil built largely on donations ‘from northwestern B.C. Like most street kids there, school is not normally an oplion for them. Their mothers tell them to go ; out anid get money,’” says Terrace teacher Bob Bussanich, who spearheads the local drive to sup- port the project. ‘“So they steal, beg, work for it - whatever.”’ _ Bussanich and the teachers who tun the school have found other ways for the students: to make money and atiend school. at the — ME WANT COOOKIEE!" January and has learned to ski. Although there isn’t as much to do in Terrace as there was-in S10 Paolo, Kobashi says living in.a small town does have its benefils: “Here. we can walk on the streets at night. You don’t have to worry about . robbers: ar, violence,”’ she sald. While she’s here, Grade 11 Caledonia student Romy Maikapar is getting ready ‘to travel. to Brazil for a year starting this August. “Tm looking forward to it’’ she says. Brazilian kids" same time. They’ve been making necklaces out of beads and then ship them to Bussanich here in Terrace. “Local supporters scll the neck- laces for seven or eight dollars. Each street kid gets 50 cents a necklace and the rest goes. into the construction of the new school there. | “They can earn a lot more money making necklaces than they ‘can. on. the streei,”’ Bus- sanich says, After getting their start with the Olinda school, some youths are enrolling in ‘regular’ public schools, and-allowing more stzcel kids into the program. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 21, 1993 - Page B1 City . Scene, Page B2 LOCAL GIRL GUIDES hit the streets next Wednesday night for their annual cookie blitz to raisa money for focal Brownies, Guides and Sparks, That's seven-year-old Megan Noonan and six-year-old sister Katie from 1st Kitsumkalum Brownies, Nine vie for am Corina Knott Here’s an introduction to a couple of this year's Terrace « Youth Ambassador contestants. More will appear in next week's issue, Awards night is May 15. Corina Knott —_- Miss Skeena Valle ey Fence. Hi, I’m Corina Knolt, lam 18 years old and am attending grade 12 at Caledonia. I-work al K-Mart and am aclively involved : with drama and cHoir. I plan on going on to college. to’ become :an elementary school drama teacher. -T entered, the cotnest:s0 I) could. gain; eperistiee and d'get to kiow oe - would like lo. >: learn, assador title more people, Dawn Thomsen Miss Terrace Shopping Centre My name is Dawn Thomsen. I'm 17 years old and I'am in grade eleven. I enjoy softball, volleyball and travelling. I plan to become a criminal. lawyer .and proceed into politics, maybe even -becoming the first woman Prime - Minister of Canada, I entered the contest because I would like more experience in public speaking and Ore about Dawn Thomsen public library. HEE BRAZILIAN CONNECTION: Brazilian exchange student Nilsa Sayuri Kobashi and Romy Maikapar cross paths in Terrace. Malkapar heads for Brazil in August for one year. AROUND TOWN Long live the fair. THE SKEENA Valley Fall Fair might just pull through. Association president Mel Rundell says an emergency mect- ing last Tuesday attracted several people and potenti! new mer- bers. “Tf we're lucky we could have a dozen new: members.—— more than double. what we have. right now,’’ says Rundell. Thal would take.a lot of pres- sure off the current nine. active members who have kept the fair alive in recent years. “It’s just grown beyond what nine people are capable of hand- ling,’” he added. ; The Skeena Valley Fall: “Pair Association will meet again on Monday May 10 at the Thornhill Jr. Secondary School iorary at 8:00 p.m. Just skitting! CALEDONIA: GRADS. will. present a blend of humourous skils in a fashion show scttlng at . the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on Satur- day, April 24. The doors open at 7:30 p.m. and : (he show starts at 8:00. Tickets are $5 at the door and all proceeds go to the grid prom dance. Bowman to share history PRINCE RUPERT author and northwest historian Phytis Bow- man brings her encylopedic knowledge of northwest history to the Terrace Public Library next Tuesday, April 27, at'7:30 p.m. She'll share her memories of the “‘early- days’? in ‘Prince Rupert and Terrace, — Bowman has been a columnist and editor for the Prinee Rupert Daily News. Her books. include: We Skirted the War, Second: World War Memories, . Klondike’ of the Skeena, Land of Liquid Sunshine, . Whistling | Through the West, Tracing Trails of History, -Steam- ing Through Northern . Waters, The Last Liitle: Station, . Met- lakatla — The ‘Holy City, Muske, Rocks and Rain, The. City. of Rainbows, All até available at the : cee ea Et eee et ee ets oe Tc ctbac es bec ee tt tt ee