Lights shine this season

Pathway, bridge and park

to get that festive treatment

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS are beginning to twinkle in the community and that means it’s time for the annual Christmas lights decorating contest.

There are four categories this year ~ best home, best effort, best apartment/mobile and best commercial.

The contest is sponsored by The Terrace Standard in conjunction with the B..C. Northern Real Estate Board and the Terrace Beautification Society and local busi- nesses.

Winners will receive plaques and an acknowledgment in The Terrace Standard. The judging night is Wednes- day, Dec. 18 and the judges are local realtors and mem- bers of the beautification society.

. Send entries to The Terrace Standard al 3210 Clinton Ave., Terrace, B.C. V8G 5R2; or fax to 638-8432 or email them to newsroom@terracestandard.com. The

. deadline is 5 p.m., Monday, Dec. 16.

And if you see any displays you think others would

enjoy, contact The Terrace Standard at the above ad- dresses and we’ll be glad to publish the location. ‘This year marks the first-ever effort to light up Herit- age Park. The Terrace Tourism Society and local mer- chants are sponsoring the lighting up of the buildings. Santa will be on hand for the official opening 6 p.m. Dec. 8 and there’!l also be a mailbox for letters to the North Pole resident.

The park is open from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. through the holiday season and into the first part of January.

Also on tap for the same day is the lighting up of the Grand Trunk Millennium Pathway, courtesy of the Ter- race Beautification Society.

’: Volunteers have been oul this week stringing and testing the lights. Rotary club members joined them this

The Terrace Standard, Wednesclay, December 04, 2002 - A3

TERRACE TOURISM Society's Cindy Hansen, left, with Reyann MacDonell from Shames Mountain and Darry! Tucker from Terrace Tourism Society adjust Christmas lights at Heritage Park, one of several places to be lit up over the Christmas season. The millennium pathway and old bridge are also on the list.

Your Christmas donation guide

HERE ARE some ways you can heip others enjoy their Christmas.

Light up the tree

HELP THE Terrace Child Development Centre purchase specialized equipment for kids by spon- soring a red, silver or gold light on the Tree of Lights. in the Skeena Mall.

The annual campaign, now in its 16th year, is the CDC’s biggst fundraiser of the year. Donations support the centre’s programs for special needs children, including therapy, education and support. The centre also sponsors prenatal programs to ex- peciant mothers. Purchase a light for the tree be- tween now and Dec. 16. Tax receipts are available.

lt’s a special meal

THE BREAD of Life Soup Kitchen is asking for your support this holiday season. Organizers host a party and dinner for families and individuals who would not otherwise have a Christmas meal.

Tax deductible financial donations can be made to RR3, S-3A A-10, Terrace, B.C. V8G 4R6, or by calling 635-2807. The soup kitchen is operated year round by voluntéers fram the Seventh Day Adventist Church, along with donations from two local businesses, Safeway and Tim Horton’s.

Salvation Army appeal

THE SALVATION Army delivers hampers filled with all the fixings for a Christmas meal and gifts for children to hundreds of tocal families. Volun- teers seeking your generous support will be ringing bells and manning kettles at various locations around Terrace, including the Skeena Mall and other major retail locations.

The Sharing Tree

Gifts for the Sharing Tree, a campaign in its 31s! year, can be dropped off at the offices of the Mix, CJFW, and NTV (at the corner of Lazelle and Emerson across from the Post Office). You're asked to danate an unwrapped, new gift for a child, teen or adult for distribution by the Salvation

year to help illuminate the gazebo thal was built by the service club.

As well, a group of local residents has spent hours planning and designing a lighting array for the old Skee- na Bridge. The Public Dreams Committee was oul last weekend with the help of volunteers to install the lights.

This weekend the committee and workers will put up a sign signifying the 75th birthday of the city, The bridge was built in 1925 and the city’s birthday is 1927.

An official lighting up tentatively planned for the Dec. 14-15 weekend, says committee member Arlene Herman.

“We want to create a bright light for these hard times,” she said. “It’s something for everybody to enjoy.”

The bridge was closed to traffic this past Sunday so workers could safely install the lights.

Lights of the more mobile kind will take to the streets

this Saturday, Dec. 7 with the 5th annual Kermode

exploration.

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“and Eby, winding down Lakelse before'turning ‘at Kalum’* "Ain acting“ deputy“minister ‘will be province has pledged to work with coastal Danations dan“also be dropped off at Terrac “St. and concluding at George Little Park. Music and food named to take over some of Ebbels’ cur- will follow at the park.

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Fix-it man returns north

THE PERSON the provincial government The relies on when there’s a problem, and the official who headed its Nisga’a treaty ne- are no gotiation team, is heading an office dedi- cated to speeding up offshore oil and gas

Jack Ebbels will have the responsibil- ity to making the concept work, energy minister Richard Neufeld said during a

“That’s going to be their whole job — making sure something happens in the offshore,” Neufeld said of the new office.

Ebbels, presently the depuly minister onmental and in Neufeld’s ministry, becomes deputy Christmas Parade of Lights; ‘organized iby’ the.:‘Terrace. * Minister’ réponsible” for: offshore oil ‘and > Mowsenaemeteptiations and royalty-sharing, and the

Army. Terrace Totem Ford is filling its Sharing Truck with gifts and non-perishable food items as part of the campaign. If yau’re downtown for the Kermode Christmas Parade on Saturday, bring do- nations of food ilems to donate to the Sharing Tree. Local Scouts will collect them and place them in a box on the Mix’s float.

Send a gift to a child

IMAGINE Christmas morning without any gifts under the tree. Thanks to Terrace Anti-Poverty, and its Christmas Campaign partners, Zellers, the Bar- gain Shop, and other local groups, that doesn’t have to happen, You can purchase a gift or article of clothing for a local child or teenager through the Children’s Christmas campaign.

Select a gifl tag containing a child’s age, first name and clothing size from one of the trees de- corated at Zellers or the Bargain Shop and pur- chase a gift. Voluntecrs will wrap and distribute the gifts, ' oe cote by

province has decided there “fatal flaws” barring an offshore oil indu- stry and is moving forward ta carry out research ex- pected ta lead to a lifting of B.C.’s moratorium on drilling.

Besides envir-

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technical issues, the province and Ottawa have to agree on

communities and First Nations to max- Anti-Poverty, located at 4628 Park Avenue.

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