STEFKA HAIGH is busy this time of year making sure that each child who wrote Santa Claus through Canada Post recelves @ personal message from St, Nick. The retired

postal worker will have signed more than 400 letters by the time she’s through taking care of Santa’s mail,

Government hires native connector

THE. PROVINCIAL government is hiring another co-ordinator.

This time it’s a position within the aboriginal affairs. ministry

ly.

Interviews have finished and the positions should be filled by the end of January.

with a mandate to cover the | An original plan to hire eight northwest, Says ministry official _ co-ordinators was cut to six be- Susan Kelly. ~"° ' -esuse of budget cuts, said Kelly.

She said the ministry. knows there is.a need to develop better

There’ll be five other co- ordinators doing the same for

other regions of the province, © relations with natives. “Right now First Nations know Although the co-ordinators will who to. contact in. the com-- be based in Victorla, Kelly said it

will often be easier for them to Teach places in their regions from the ap 20 than to travel from one

munities. when things are going tight. They don’t know who to contact when things aren’! and

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News In Brief

Storage shed going up A NEW storage shed at Heritage Park should be finished by the end of January. The foundations for the shed’s posis have been poured and construction will begin again once the Christmas season is done, says Mamie Kerby of the Terrace Regional Museum Society,

The society began raising money and accepting contributed | Material the middle of the year. It needs the shed to store |, wagons and other artifacts now crowded into an existing facility .~

or which sit outside for periods of the year.

Originally budgeted at $17,000, the structure should cost...

$32,000 in cash and contributions when finished. ‘*We’ve been very happy with the donations,” said Kerby. Among those was a $12,500 BC21 grant,

Spread out those calls

B.C. TEL is expecting to handie more than 2.5 million long dis- tance calls Christmas Day. And while its putting 750 operators on duty for the day, the company has suggestions on improving the chances of your call getting through.

One is to spread calls over Christmas Eve and on Boxing Day because extra operators will also be on duty, And don’t call be- tween 7:30 a.m, and 1:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Christmas Day because these are peak periods.

Get phone numbers ahead of time and avoid directory as- sistance which chews up Operator time. Direct call because it is

’ cheaper,

Library gets grant.

TERRACE PUBLIC library is one of 34 in the province to receive a government grant for participating in the inter-library loan system. . ‘The $1,319 grant is based on the number of items loaned and is meant to offset the costs incurred in being part of the system. Price Rupert received $1,024 and Kitimat library just $196.

You are invited to: a candlelit Christmas. Eve

service at the Terrace Pentecostal Church. ‘Join *

with us as we celebrate the birth of the Saviour,

Jesus Christ! It‘ will be a night of special music |

and memories.

‘Time: 7 pm on Christmas Eve Location: Terrace Pentecostal Assembly . 8511 Eby St.

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- RAGES, ‘Daycare Society ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING

Tuesday, February 1, 1994 : 7:30pm at the ee ee a Terrace Public Library Meeting Room

Everyone Welcome

THANK YOU!

The Therapeutic Work Program extends thanks to the following for their assistance in making its raffle . a. success.

Diane Leblanc, Marsha Lioyd, TWP. volunteers, Ester Postuk, Osborne Home, Rosemarie Fleming, Eilleen Callanan, Mental Health, Skeena mall and Overwaltea | Foods, ~

Thank you to {hose who shared in the fun- filled job of selling tickets, and to those who supported the program through purchasing tickets. ;

Congratulations to the winners.

ist Prize Geniene Sutherland Framed Cross-stitch Tariace, BC - e 2nd: Prize Sherri Johnson Lottery Tree ° Co Terrace, BC — . 3rd Prize Carol Harrison Smoked Salmon Terrace, BC 4th Prize = MT. Araujo . Therapeutic Work Terrace,BC ” Program Cookbook ~~ F. Kaska

Program Manager

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