A CLASS ACT: Senior dancers from Terrace’s Northern Conservatory of Dance
returned home from the Prince George Dance Festival with this trophy in the
lyrical jazz category for their performance of “Barra Barra’. JENNIFER LANG PHOTO

Dance and all that jazz

LOCAL DANCERS have turned in
award-winning performances al a
string of northern festivals recently.

Most recently, performers with the
Northern Conservatory of Dance have
returned home from the Lakes District
Festival of the Performing Arts with a
stack of individual and group tro-
phies.

Ten-year-old Trina Cage was named
best overall dancer under 12 at the April
9-13 festival in Burns Lake. She also won
a jazz solo bursary. She has been accep-
ted to attend summer school at the Natio-
nal Ballet of Canada and earned five in-
dividual awards at an earlier festival in
Prince George.

Katie Trotter, also 10, won best junior

ballet and contemporary solo, among
other awards, including dance excellence
for a ballet solo in Burns Lake.

The juniors also won best junior ballet
group for their performance of Juvenility.
That number also earned the juniors a tro-
phy at last month’s Prince George Dance
Festival, where they also took home hon-
ours for best smal! interpretive group: Ju-
nior Emily Hart took home the trophy for
highest mark in lyrical jazz solo.

The conservatory’s seniors won the top
award in Prince George for lyrical jazz
group for their performance of Barra
Barra. The group later performed Barra
Barra at Gala Night at the Pacific North-
west Music Festival.in Terrace.

Orie Shiga and Michael McInnes”

From B4

‘A land frozen in time’

fact that western Cana-
da is home to the world’s
only significant population
of grizzly bears.

There are just 1,000 in
the United States, where
the animals have lost 99

per cent of their habitat, |

according to B.C. Parks.
They need space: males

need a range of a couple

of hundred kilometres.
Their reproduction rate ~
the slowest of any land

‘mammal in North America

— is another factor working
against them. _
Shymanski is heartsick

when she thinks of one of ©

her bears wandering: out-
side the park’s boundaries
and into the shotgun sights
of a hunter,

But she also recognizes
that a balance must be
struck between preserva-
tion and human industry.

“I'm.a consumer. I use
wood, I use gas to heat my
house. I can’t stand here
and say, no, I'm against
logging and J’m against
this and that. I realize we
need — particularly in Ca-
nada — we need certain re-
sources to survive. But we

-have to get control of

ourselves.”

She is fiercely proud of
the legacy of the Khutzey-
mateen — and what it
means for Canadians.

“The Khutzeymateen is
a pocket of land frozen in

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turned in solo performances at the Gala.

time and it will remain so
just as long as it's protec-
ted.”

She hopes readers will
embrace her message that
preserving habitat for the
bears is an act of global
proportions. ~

_ “Tlook at it as you have ~
the circle of life where all

species have be intact and
fit together. If you take
something out it gets wea-
ker and weaker.”

It can be hard to con-
vince people of the need
to preserve natural habitat
when it appears there’s
still so much wilderness
around,

“You travel over the
world and the north coast
of British Columbia is one

_of the few areas of the

world where there still is
actually nature. Species
still roam freely.”

All of her photographs
are taken from the water,
far from shore, using a
powerful telephoto lens,
working under considerab-
ly difficult lighting condi-
tions — the rain and mist of
the Pacific north coast
rainforest.

She says the book was
a lot of work, but worth it.
“Tt is our gift to the world.”

It’s available at Misty .

River Books and the North
Store. It can be ordered
directly from the publish-
ers at heritagehouse.ca

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Thursday, April 24th © 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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to pick up report cards in the gymnasium on April 24. All the
teachers will be situated at tables around the gym. Please use

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SKEENA CONSTITUENCY

Tam still hearing that the provincial
government is or has privatized parts of
BC Hydro, is that truc?

No. Ownership af BC Hydro renting in
public hands, We have divided the corporation
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entities. ‘This was done to meet two objectives.
The first was to meet the eriteria the Federal
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us into the furure,

Isn't the Accenture Contract a form of privatizatlon? ;

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province, as well as the highest dividend to the share alder (the province of
BC), BC Hydm is looking at all ways to reduce their operating casts: HC Hycra
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