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iettee MAY I, 1993 - Elks & Royal Pur- ple is having a purple cross lag day (for speech and hearing) down town after 10 am call 635-5258 for more information. lp2

eeeee MAY 3, i993 - Skeena Parent Advisory Council will be mecting in the library of the school at 7:30 pm, will be discussing school dis- cipline, all parents are welcome, conlact Wanda Kerby at 635- 2895 2pl

aeute MAY 4, 1993 + Terrace breastfeeding support groups regu- tar manthly meeting at Mills Memorial Hospital in the educa-

the topic of discussion, snacks & refreshments provided. 2p2 sate 8 MAY 5, 1993 - B.C. Aboriginal network on disabliity saciety the primary focus is to hear the con- cems and needs of aboriginal peo- ple with special needs, this will take place at Dzel-K'ant Indian Friendship Society, 3955 Third Ave Smithers B.C, at 10:00 am ta 4:00 pm or call 847-8959 to con- firm attendance. . 2p2 7 enue t

MAY 6, 1993 - B.C. Aboriginal

_priniary. fogys. is, céris and feeds of aboriginal peo-

take place at the old Bingd hall | (4818 hwy .16, Terrace) from 10:00 am ‘to 4:00 pm, call 635- 4906 to confirm attendance, 2p2 ; ae ane MAY 7, 1993 - B.C. Aboriginal netwrok on disability society, the primary focus is to hear the con- cers and needs of aboriginal peo- ple’ with special needs, this will lake place at the Public Library (Prince Rupert) 6th avenue west, from 1;00 am to 5:00 pm, call 627- 1717 to confirm attendance, . seeue MAY 19, 1993 - Terrace Christian Churches Ministerial Association is having a meeting to discuss a christian counselling centre, this will lake place at. the christian reformed chutch at 7:30 pm. = 2pZ i sage MAY 10, 1993 - Ladies auxiliary Royal Canadian legion (branch 13) general meeting at the royal canadian legion al 8:00 pm. = 2p2 sehen OCTOBER 23, 1993 + The BCOAPO Branch 73 is having an Annual Tea and Bazaar featuring year-round practical gifts and baked goods.;I1 is held at the Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum Street, at 1:30 pm. tfo * eae ; OCTOBER 30, 1993 - Shames Mountain ski club is having an annual ski‘swap at the arena ban- quet room atoond to 1500 hrs. tf_n 4 s

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4th TUESDAY OF EVERY

MONTH - Aizhelmirs and demen-

tia support groups hold meeting at

the mental health centre at 1 pm.

on Tuesday. ‘fn 7 a eeee

THE HERITAGE PARK MUSEUM is now open lo the pub- lic from Tuesday to Saturday, for more information regarding tours, weddings etc, please phone the museom at 635-4546 or the Ter- race Regional Museym Socicty at 635-2508. En

- eenne EVERY MONDAY evening at 7:00. pm Northwest Alcohol & Dig Services present an on-going ‘Relapse Recovery Group, call 638- ‘| 8117 for more information. —

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3RD THURSDAY OF the month B.CP.A Advisory Comm, is hav- -} ing a meeting at 200 A - 4630 “| Lazelie Ave at‘7:00 pm.

4 eee ae ; CRISIS LINE is open 24 hours a “| day-for anyone in crisis: Call 635-

; 4042, : Be a tin . fh ekeae EVERY TUESDAY. evening, the Skeena Valley quillers meet’ at "| Skeena Junior Secondary, Sctiool

‘from: 7pm to. 9:30 pm ‘for mote

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lion room "night time parenting" is |.

network on disability society lhe: is, to: hear the ‘con-

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information -call. Cathy at 635-

Straight HEY ARE masters in the art of raising money. They’ve slaged

concerts, hockey games, and

butler auctions.

But how about a chicken drop?

That’s what one class of Caledonia Senior Secondary school students class came up with to raise money for the an- nua! Milk Run.

A chicken drop, for those who haven’t witnessed one, in- volves drawing up a gtid on a piece of cardboard. The squares are sold, Grey Cup pool style, and the piece of cardboard is placed in the bot- tom of a box.

A chicken is placed inside the box. The first square that gets pooped on is the winner.

“Tt definitely takes imagina- tion,”’ says Caledonia teacher Cam MacKay. “These kids take a lot of pride in being able to say their class raised the most money.’’

“They really give a lot. I’ve seen kids come, in and lay down $20 — just like that.”’

Caledonia has built _ its repulation on that kind of school spirit.

In the last three years the school has placed fourth, third and second provincially in Milk Run fund-raising stand- _ ings. ,

. “They really give a lot. I’ve seen kids come in ‘and lay down $20 — just

Last year Steveston Secondary in Richmond -.a school of 2,000 students — was the only school in the pro- vince to raise more money than the $1,600 collecied at Caledonia.

“You live up in the north you lear how to do these things,’ MacKay explained.

Bands and sports tcams here must travel hundreds of miles to enjoy the same kind of com- petition as their southern counterpar's. So they find crea- tive ways to pay for those trips.

For the last two years B.C. School Sports has donated the money raised in the Milk Run to B.C. Blind Sports and Recreation, .

Now some of that money has come. full circle, back to the community that has given more per capita than any other.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 28, 1993 - Page B1

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IDING BLIND: White Cane Club sighted volunteer S Elizabeth Hong try out a brand new tan

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use in the northwest by B.C. Blind Sports and Recreation.

ylvie Perreault and the club’s blind president dem bike in last week’s Milk Run that has been donated for

band hits the road. _-

It'saroadtrip!

The Terrace Community Band is leaving town. May 13 © for Edmonton to compeic at Music Fest Canada’s national festival. re

Terrace’s stellar community band wowed the crowds al the Pacific Northwest Music. Fes- tival here, picking up the band adjudicator’s award for ex- cellence, and eaming the in- vite to Edmonton.

It will be the group’s third trip to Music Fest Canada...

Their first time was in 1989 when they picked up a bronze merit, They made it again two years ago and eared a silver,

This time they will be com- peting with university level proups.

‘It’s a big, big cost to take a group our size,” says band member Christine Andrews.

The group is planning a May Ist car wash-a-thon at the Petro-Can on Lakelse and Thornhill Motors to. raise money for the trip.

They've also got a big blow- out ‘Jingles for June’ concert planned for the R.E.M. Lee Theatre June 11th to ‘help bankroll the road trip. Tickets are $10 and are available at Sight and sound. and from band members. - |

Their performance at the lo- cal music festival here in- cluded works such as the polka and. fugue. from -the opera Schwanda the Bagpiper by J. Weinberger and Army of the Nile by K. Alford, -

‘‘We're definitely one of the: ‘top community bands in the province,"” Andrews'said. |

‘She says ‘organizing such trips are always.challenging. .

“I'd much rather organize a trip for a. group of kids than for a group of adulis,’’ she laughed. ., The . 10-year-old Terrace - Community. Band formed ‘in 1983, a product of.-an early: "50s group of musicians. ~:

Since 83 their meribership has swelled to neat 50, featur- ing people.from all ages and

B.C. Blind Sports has pur- chased a tandem bike for use by blind and visually impaired people in the northwest,

A sighted person rides in front.and a blind person rides at the back, . “White Cane Club volunteer Sylvie Perreault and club pres- ident Elizabeth Hong showed off the new bike by riding it in

the Milk Run. B.C. Blind Sports local coor-

dinator Christine Purcell says ° the bike is available for use ‘to - any blind people ‘in, the north- ~ west. (She can be reached at -

635-4931). a

Oh, who won?

Jon Shepherd was first over- all with a time of 10:34, close-

iy followed b dol all walks of life. Fenande Mithomens Pand | > ls.2 “verse group ot . . 4. people, Andrews said. third-place Fraser McKay. Lori ‘We've got housewives, Buteau was the fastest female ve ve. ‘firemen and runner with'a time of 12:30. teachers ob t echnol ogists.” (See ti hot C5). - ’ (See team photo page C9). But Andrews. saves. her

\ “MacKay said the school had record participation. in last Wednesday’s run, with more than 500 of the school’s 650 students participating. —

fondest praise for the band’s founder — Jim Ryan.

*“Jé i¢ wasn’t for Jim there — wouldn’t be a Terrace Com- munity Band.”

RUSSIAN TORNADO

In love with ba

By PHILLIPA BECK Special to the Standard IBS EKKEL stands before a gymnasium Full of kids, delicate- ly strumming a mini balalaika.

“Can you hear this one?’’ he asks in a thick Russian accent. “It's ‘the smallest of all our balalaikas. It can even fit in your pocket if you’re shy,’’ - Bibs, and his partner Slava Alexandrov, are just winding up Russian Tornado, a whirlwind in- troduction to Russian folk music and the original instruments it’s played on. ;

The pair is dazzling audiences at a series of performances for elementary school children in Terrace today, And that’s just a small fraction of the hundreds of ‘schools they've visited on their B.C. tour this year.

“They’re virtuosos .of an amaz- ing varlety of instruments — four . different sizes of: balalaika, in-

cluding a giant balalaike as large.

asa dowble ‘bass, spoons, ‘accor-

dion,: . rattles, gultar,: castinettes, ee “Bibs, who js-half Russian and “half Pollsh, fell in love with the . balalalke al an early age,

| >" He'was laugtt to play the three: J sttinged istrucnont ax boy, and

“and -

gradually mastered its many dif- ferent shapes and sizes,

He arrived in Vancouver three years ago.

LAVA Alexandrov hails from Vladivostok. He ‘ graduated from Rus-

sia’s musical college as x folk in- .

struments teacher, and worked as

a conductor of an amateur band.in

his home town. -

Just over a year ago-he bought a -

ticket on a Finnish Geighter, and booked a room for the. two week trip. from the former Soviet

Union’s far east coast to B.C.’s.

port city.

As soon as he. reached. Van- :

couver he went straight to the Ca- nadian- immigration office _ and -clalmed refugee status,

That case was refused, but his

appeal for review on com-.

passionate and . humanistic “grounds is to be -heard in twa -Mmonths, 9 0 oe. In the meantime, - Slava cand

‘Bibs have been ‘‘taking North: America by ‘storm,’ as their:

- promo leaflet says.

~Russlan Tornado bogen last

April at a Vancouver audition for :

Arts Canada, .-

ot We bro

ibs says

ugitl the h use d wn?

lalaikas

Their act is a high energy, fun- packed and highly skilled samp- ling of Russia’s wide-ranging folk music.

It includes Cossack melodies, dwarf songs, and the ex-Soviel national anthem,

~The school tours are-a sideline, Bibs’ says, for his Russian Folk Ensemble that performs interna- tionally - from Taiwan to Bermuda.

‘*The idea is to bring music to

kids who don’t get a chance to go "to the theatre,’” -.. The response has been over- whelming, he says. .*.

‘We get many Ietlers afterward and: they’re - mos(. -gratifying. Many say ‘I want to play the balalaika... or the spoons.’ ’”

The palr have been travelling

~ most.of the year, and they don’t plan to stop, —

Russian Tornado is: booked solid until June, at which point It

-“-yilt sweep through the U.S. down

..to. New Mexico... - . Students from E.T. ‘Kenney Pri- maty, Thornhill Elementary, Cas-

: ste . Hall, + Clarence: Michiel ‘Elementary, Copper Mounlain

Elementary, ‘Thornhill’ Primary arid. Veritas schools are taking itt

heir performances today at‘ the -

GARBAGE CRUSADER 11-year-old Gareth Earl slings some - more trash as Cassie Hall classmates and B.C. Buildings Corpo- « ration volunteers cleaned up areas around the, Sande Overpass last Thursday — Earth Day. Students picking up garbage under the overpass had to duck at one point whan a motorist oblivous to the cleanup hurlad an empty pop can out of har window.

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