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SEPTEMBER 24, 1992 — The Skeena Valley Car Club will be holding {t's regular monthly meeting at the Terrace Kin Hut on the corner of North Sparks and Halliwell at 7:30 pm. For more info call Doug (635-4809) or Larry (638-3746)

kk kik SEPTEMBER 25-27, 1992 — Art Rental Show featuring works from the Art Rental collection. The pieces are available for ren- tal but will remain displayed for the duration of the show. Ter- race Art Gallery in the library basement,

kkkkk SEPTEMBER 26, 1992 — Cana- dian Women in Timber Annual General Meeting from 12-4 pm at the Coast Inn of the West, Rm. 328. Those wishing to attend the buffet luncheon at 12:00pm please phone Donna at 635-7881,

kkk SEPTEMBER 26, 1992 — 10th Aaniversary Terrace—Kitimat Toy Run. Events begin at 10:00

- am and the parade of toys begins

at 2:00 pm from the weigh scales at Hwy. 16 & 37. For more info call’ 635-9217 or. in Kitimat,

. 632-9520, -Alle motoreycltsts, -

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1992 —-. The

Lakelse Community Association.

will hold its next General

Meeting at Mount Layton

Hotsprings at 8:00 pm. Topic —

Halloween. For further informa-

tion call 798-2449.

: . kkhkik SEPTEMBER 29, 1992 — The Terrace Hospice Society is holding a public information meeting::in the Skeena Health Unit: Auditorium at 7:30 pm. Guest’ speaker: Dr. Christine Piercy, Volunteer Hospice Pro- gram, Smithers. The opportunity to become a volunteer will be provided,

kkkkk OCTOBER 2 — NOV, 1, 1992

"— Terrace Art Gallery presents ‘Abstract Art’. Curated by Ed- ward Epp, this show will feature abstract art by local artists and from private collections, This type of show hasn’t been seen locally in several years. Come & challenge your senses!

tk hkk OCTOBER 5, 1992 —Terrace Pipes and Drums Society Annual General Meeting will be held at 7:30 pm in the Terrace Kinsmen Complex (behind Heritage Park). For information phone: Audrey Kerr at .635-3726 or Barry English at 635-5905

kkekkk ‘OCTOBER 6, 1992 — All members of L.A,, Branch 113 to Royal. Canadian Legion, please attend monthly meeting on Oc- tober 6/92 at 8 pm.

a. . 2 see OCTOBER 4, 1992 —The 37th Annual General Meeting of the Kitimat General Hospital Saciety will be held-at 8:00 pm in the hospital. ‘cafeteria, Call the hospital for information.

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TERRACE: TOASTMASTERS CLUB —Leara pubilc speaking skills. Meetings held on Ast and 3rd Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Inn of the West, east banquet room. Call Diana English at 635-5905 for more information. . kKaknk EVERY WEDNESDAY — Building Healthier Babies holds weekly groups for anyone that is pregnant and would like infor- mation on pregnancy, labour, parenting. and everything inbet- ween! If is a chance for you te talk with other pregnant women ‘and also enjoy guest speakers. (We provide a snack and would ‘be happy to pick you up. 1-2:30 at Building Healthier Babies in the Child Development Centre. Call 635-7664 for more info,

kakk "EVERY WEDNESDAY fram 8

-.6:00 p.m. Terrace Narcolics—

Anonymous '‘Steps to Recovery’! meets at the Skeena Health Unit auditorium. For in- fo. call 638-8117.

. kKkkkxw.. -EVERY THURSDAY. at 7:30 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous at - Women’s Resource Centre, Call - 635-6446. .

New stage in the script for TLT

It's just a dream right now, but Terrace Litthe Theatre members have decided it’s time to share it.

They want to replace the old and cramped McColl Phiyhouse, building a brand new ~12,000- square-foat theatre building at a cost of more than $800,000.

TLT members. packed. into their, “fe night’ to . celebrate the prospect of & new... building and to wiveil the draw,

old digs Saturday

ings. The main floor would house a

nearly 200-seat- theatre —. dow-°

bling TLT’s current 90-seat ca-

pacity — as wellas a fobby and —

washrooms.

Downstairs there will bea ‘prop storage room, a .costtime room, full-size dressing rooms; a bar, a kitchen, a green room [or cast incetings and socializing, and a full-size rchearsal hall.

Terrace Litile Theatre. president .

Gordon Oates said: the ‘rehearsal hall would enable the theatre ta double its production capacity, actually preparing one show while another is being performed upstairs.

“Tt would give us flexibility,”’ he said.

The idea’ of a uew playhouse has been bantered around ‘for at Teast Pwo or three years.

“Tt’s only been in the last year that we’ve started pulling it all to- gether,’’’ Terrace Little. Tlicatre president’ Gordon Oates. said, “Is at the paint where it’s not a reality — it’s just a dream.”?

more

The glu-lam. wood- beam siruc-”

ture would go up on the back of the property formed by the three adjacent lots they 1 now own. That

would enable them“to continue —

using ‘the present building: while construction goes on,

Oates says although basic draw- ings are prepared, a start to con- struction is probably more than a year away.

“Our Pen building is just too small,” Oates said. “It’s get-

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 23, 1992 — Page B1

A DREAM LIKE MINE: Terrace Little Theatre president Gordon

Oates hefts the artists conception for a new McCall Playhouse —.

probably: years away. ‘The building would: gives them: much more room. and would more ‘than double their seating to ‘around 200.

ting fairly old and it’s in need of repairs.’

He noted the theatre "3 member- ship has more than doubled in the last two years — jumping from 3410 80.

Right now seating is so limiled that shows must be extended to as much as twice as formance dates.

_ Gates says iVs difficult to. ok

pect Voliliiteers” lo: put that titich time in.

“TEM be about double the 5 size of what we: lave -now,’” said.

Where would the money come from?

Well, the socicty figures it has about $100, 000 equity in the ex-

Kiev Symphony tour falls apart

Citing financial problems, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra has cancelled its entire Canadian tour.

Friday’s announcement comes as a blow to local classical inusic lovers.

The orchestra was scheduled to play the R.E.M. Lec Theatre in Terrace on Friday, Nov. 20 as the premier show in the Terrace Con- cert Sociely’s fall lineup. 4

“Ts really devastating for us,’ said concert socicly past president Glenn Saunders. ‘‘That was our main feature for the concert society this year, Our whole sea-. son was built around it.”

The 105-member — orchestra, conducted by For Blazhikalf, was to slart a tour of 16 Canadian cities Nov. 1.

"We'll try to replace ‘iL with

something,’’. Saunders - said. “Possibly the Prince . George Symphony Orcliesira, - But . it

won'l be anything of the same calibre”? Holders of tickets und season passes will be able ta get refunds. He said the cancellation doesn’t affect the rest of the society's 92-93 concert lincup, which be-

gins Oct. 3 with Joclle Rabu in “Tonight... Piaf.’’ :

Promoters of the — Kiev Symphony tour said the orchestra kept making new — financial demands upon them,

“We agreed to every new re- quest that they put forward,’” said Overture Cuncerts’ George Zukerman, ‘We did everything pessible to retain the tour, br they scemed unable to agree.”’

The deal finally fell apazt when the Ukrainian ministry of culture demanded ‘another 4.5 million rubles (US $80,000) for two

charter aircrafl fights to Canada,

They said they were unable to fy with Baltiair because landing rights have not been negotinted for Canada.

~ “When tliey asked ‘for the new air costs, Wwe countered by agree- ing to 50° per cent of the costs even though. it virtually climinated all possible carnings on the tour,”? Zukerman said.

He suggested the problems may have. involved the . inpending change’ of currency in the Ukraine from rubles’ ta Ukrainian mriv- nya. ,

Lisa and Mickey — Part I

Lisa Carpino is already plan- ning the party for her 16th birlhday.

Never mind that it’s. still five ;

years away. But it’s a sign of confidence, in an 1t-year-old Terrace girl who

thinks often, about another ainl- ,

niversary. °

It will be one, year. next month .

since her - final. session of chemotherapy ita’ battle with cancer that nearly killed her. °

And: she ‘celebrated last week with: another trip to Disneyland

yenr. : She first travelled there in ‘April

' with the help of donations from —

~ disabilities -- or. « _ illuesses to Mickey's Playland for a day. of fin.

local supporters. That followed the .four difficult rounds of chemotherapy she went through after. doctors found a Wmour on her ovary.

‘This time the Sunshine Founda- |

tion of Canada flew Lisa and 77 other B.C. childreit with. severe life-threatening

They were imet. by 80 officers from the Orange County Sheriff's

department, whi-were on hand to.

“escort the. chile — hier second. jaunt there. this“.

neyland,:-

OY Isa. had a ball,’ " said her She ‘wenit on all -

mom: Maria, the rides 289 f°

many . per-

Oates

“around. Dis- :

isting propérty.

They hape to get $100, 000. in arts foundation grauts,: $200,000 fram the. province's: yet-to-be- announced replacement for. the GO B.C. lottery grant system, and

up to $200,000 in discounts and

formances in the next year. or so. geared-lo.boost the building find.

: Terrace Little Theatre has been. “dn their current Kalun St..joca-.

tion since 1975, and the building Ng oak the -Baptist

volunteer. work from suppliers

and contractors,

- They'll be g going cap in liand 10 the public for “the | remaining $200,000 ar so.

Oales says the public cain ex. pect to sec lots of fund-raiser per-

World-sponsore

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——FOR THE RECORD

that,

foes | was’ coisidercd ald: when they ‘sold it, to, ns,’ Oates, says,” around for a

it’'s-been while.”

TLT was burned out of their

previous two homes,

The. theatre sociely — formed in, 1952 and the second-oldest such group in the province — ini-

= ally. operated out of the old civic

cenire (and former. army mess _ hall) near the.current curling rink,

. After that burned in the Jate

’ Fiflies:the actors ‘moved to the . slightly, sewer - old. ‘civic. contre enear where’ the Aibrary i is today. It - perished: dna “blaze A: sthe“mid-

Sixties, .

“We lost. all: our props and

costumes - — everything — ~— in that cone," * says Oates, They were without a home, op- crating out of the. arena until moving. ..into the McColl playhouse on Kalum St in 1975,

'SAFETY'S. SAKE: Three-year-old Conrad Kalmbach gets his fi ingerprints taken by ROMP “Constable Stephen. White at the Skeena Mall. The fingerprinting effort is part of the Realty d-Natlonal Child Find program, which records tlie vital statistics and photog- raphs of youngstets: They’ r published in a booklet, which Is used should the child go missing.

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