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RICK MUNRO EDITORIAL

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On with the new

The Terrace Community Centre is no longer with us. It has passed on to history and memory. It has served its purpose.

What do you say about a $100,000 building that burned down? ‘That. it was a centre for recreation, that it was used to the fullest...

But rather than wallowing in an obituary for an old and borderline inefficient building, we should look at the good side. And there is a good side to it.

The need for a recreation outlet in Terrace is now enormous. Now we are in a position where we need a facility to accomodate the Bingos, the Plays, the Tournaments, the Dances, and all the other things that took place in the old centre.

There will be roughly $185,000 insurance monies resulting from the fire. Should these funds not be put immediately into building a new centre? Perhaps they should be used to finish off the complex at the top of Little Park.

The eventual plans up there call for a complete recreation complex complete with swimming pool, auditorium, ice arena and all the extras that go along with the ideal recreation complex.

The monies from the old centre would help to finish off the first stage of .

the new complex - namely the arena.

The surface of the area can be used as an auditorium during the summer months. It’s food for thought anyway.

Meanwhile, Prince Rupert is putting the finishing touches onto their brand new million doller complex. Their centre burned to the ground three years ago, and today they have one of the most beautiful complexes in Canada.

Their centre is being build from civic funds and donations. I[t will include a convention centre, auditoriums, ice arena, and a host of other facilities including a stage area with theatre seating...a semi- professional theatre. Not bad...maybe Terrace should push for the theatre idea, Terrace the “Cultural centre of the Northwest.”

- If Prince Rupert can do it, there is no reason why Terrace cannot. If they can have a complex worthy of comparison to Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Terrace should be able to create a centre comparible to Yankee Stadium in New York City.

Instead of giving up, the people of Terrace should pour all the support they have into the construction and financing of both the arena and the community center. It would be well worthwhile.

"We feel for you, Terrace

_ The burning of the Community Centre in Terrace Wednesday: night: - brought back many memories for us Rupertites of that night in April, 1968, when our own Civic.Centre burned to the ground.

Granted that both buildings were getting old and had many drawbacks, they were still used for a great number of civic affairs, and Terrace residents will feel the loss of their centre just as we did.

But they are more fortunate in the. fact they have already started a new Arena, and although it will be several months before it is completed, at least it is started, so their activities will not be curtailed tao long.

At a time like this though, it is quite likely that people say, “Remember the dances we put. on there? — the bingos — the trade fairs

— the Music Festivals — or -the - plays?”? (We remember: several Drama ‘and*Music Festivals put on there, with plays like ‘Trifles’, and “Suppressed Desires’ and ‘‘As Long

as They’re Happy’’ and “Not Enough

Rope’’ just to name a few).

That Centre was a meeting place for young and old and lived up to its name as a focal point for community gatherings, as well as for area get- togethers and competitions.

To our friends in Terrace, we can

‘only say we are sorry about their loss,

but are glad that noone was injured in the blaze, And we know that they have worked just as hard as we did, to raise funds for a new Centre, and will ap-

- preciate it all the more for doing so.

And we will help them celebrate

their opening, just as they are joining -

us in our Labor Day festivities.

Prince Rupert Daily News

of, Histerners." ' Both. clergy. and: ‘iaity” are - . -ebisted in thelr task by.a new ‘bi-weekly. publication,. Homily:

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C,

Olag it looks like the gods took our message about Tezoning literly. Anymore and we will-have anew town. oy

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BILL SMILEY

Trees are for the birds

For yeers I have been a tree- lover. Not that I knew anything about them, or ever planted any. But 1 did know the common varieties. And I did have a feeling that they were something special in a world steadily growing more ugly. I had what you might call the ‘‘o- nly God can make a tree” syndrome. There was something mystic about trees. I have written ecastatic columns about the trees around our

_place: the matronly maples;

the magnificent oaks; the towering spruce; the virginly elms; spruce; the lilacs; the single butternut.

[have sat inmy backyard and watched them by the hour, deeply moved by the human qualities | gave them. Even the dirty great cedar tha! drips mucus or something all over the

clothesline.

Ihave been fascinated by the elunking of acorns falling, by the sweet, longing whispers of my two elms, by the muttering of the dowager maples, by the solitary arrogance of my spruce which I have to craw] under to get into my tool-shed.

But I’m beginning to have doubts, like a priest who has been swept away by something he doesn't quite understand, and then discovers that there’s something rotten in Denmark. Tf not in his own backyard.

That snarl you can’t quite hear outside my window is a chain saw, The operator is hacking up one of those brooding oaks which came crashing down during yesterday’s summer storm, cutting telephone hydro and indispensable of indispensabies,

PRECIOUS TIDBITS

The geese are invading our neighbourhoods. This alarming cry can be heard daily around the north end of Eby Street in Terrace, It is not the only cry. A family of geese in the area have ..

. refused toremain id their yards aiid have Expressed theif newly**" found freedom by tearing about the neighbourhood.

The area of concern is zoned by the District as a Residential ‘1’ area but still the farm animals fly and toddle about.

One angry resident last week complained to police after she Met nose-to-nose with one of the birds, The young lady,

occupying a basement suite, saw her window curtain blown about like a national flag perched atop the Empre State building © ona stormy day. Since the Terrace conditions at. the time were relatively peaceful and nothing inthe way.of a storm, she slowly approached the window and drew back the curtain. She later reported lo the Herald thatif she had left her hand on the curtain for more than a few seconds the long, snapping beak on the other Side would have surely taken her hand away.

This is not the first time geese have invaded house dwellers. - Residents of the area are hoping however that it is the last time. SPCA officials, who were contacted, can not use their powers . but the RCMP are reportedly looking. into'the fowl matter.

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Terrace residents teday have begun to withdraw from home built bomb shelters now that the weekend's airplane activity has subsided. No bombs reportedly fell on the area but visiting pilots at the Kiwanis Airshow sure put the scare into many : residents. Acrobatics is one thing but when planes start flying in bombing formation, performing dives and turns which would frighten any world war velrans, then it is time we put on the combat helmets. Kiwanis spokemen are sorry for the scare and deeply thank all those concerned in helping boost the weekend

affair,

Letter to the editor

The Editor, Daily News, Prince Rupert,

Dear Sir:

“I don't go to church

anymore because I don’t get

anything cut of it’ is a com:

ment heard more and more these days ... and not only from young "people. Others slump in their uncomfortable pew and clalm most preaching is irrelevant to the pulse of everyday life,

But the times they are changing and so is the preaching.

In many parishes across Canada and the U.S,, clergy and Jailty are grappling with this problem. The clergy contribute their knowledge of . scripture, doctrine; and liturgy and the laity assist. them to express their message = in real life terms.

“We thought we discovered a new methud of preaching’ said a layman from Montreal

“hut later we discovered it:

was really the same method . used by Christ”. The words « and examples of Christ evoked - a response because they | reflected the life experience of

the people to whom he spoke. ..

Now we are. working with our | clergy todothe same thing’.

come a will evoke a response because , they reflect the life experience

Hinta, whichis’ ‘offers fresh | ‘prictteal suggestions for:

- rarislating - ‘the , message““in with sermons that :

it at i Montreal, Que.

integrating current events _

into the Sunday sermon.

The newsletter emphasizes the fact that the way of life» advocated by Christ as written in scripture, expressed in doctrine and celebrated in’ liturgy also manifests itself to contemporary man in the events of daily life. “It is the daily life aspect that needs to be stressed in preaching. today’. said a successful preacher fram Vancouver,

The publishers of Homily Hints are optimistic about their new. publication. “We think it is the sort of positive assistance that many of the clergy are seeking’ said a

~ director of the company.

“Christ ‘was faithful to: the message of the Old Testament but preached the Christian | way of life by integrating his message with the events of his

y.. . @ wedding feast,

tribute to Caesar, a storm. Homily Hints is faithful to the message of scripture, doctrine ‘and liturgy but assists ‘the | preacher to speak in terms of - today... anew movie, a best selling book, a recent event, "

.. Many preachers get so

‘involved in. scripture: and © °.

-doctrine that they forget: about .

terms of life. today: We think: » Homily Hints will help. them

“200 de Gaupe, Apt 1016,

the FV cable wire, both for one of my oaks, with a girth af

myself and my next door neighbour,

Al TH get out of that is a bill for $100 and twelve bucks worth of fireplace wood too green to do anything but smoulder.

I'd just got back from a long drive in 90-degree heat, lugged in all the junk from the ‘car, and settled in the backyard with a cold drink and the evening paper when nature took one of her whims

For a few Minutes, it was enjoyable, The wind came up. The lawn chairs went flying. The-acorns rattled, and leaves and twigs hurtled down on me. I even went in and called the girls to come out and enjoy the storm.

Then the trees started to twist and dance, Even the mightly oaks were, writhing like tormented creatures, I love sterms, but when the rain came I dashed for shelter.

I'd suddenly remembered a storm. at the cottage, when I , “wasee kid, Same thing, “Purple: ° sky. Dead calm. Sudden wind of” cyclone force that knocked over giant pines like toothpicks and a

’ torrent of rain. One 80-foot pine

snapped. about halfway up and smashed through the roof of the

cottage. it wasn't so bad this time, but

.

My-¢edar it sniet

about 40 inches lay there like a stricken bull, I. had destroyed a fence, several smaller trees. Fortunately our neighbours had got the kids inside hefore the real fury of the wind broke, and no one was hurt.

This morning I talked to the hydro man who was stringing new line. He said he and his

- mates had worked all through

the night in a driving rain and laconically remarked that it wasn’t much fun.

But toget back to trees, They provide shade and they're pretty to look at. What, else? They shower you with unwanted leaves in the fall. They suck up all the juice and prevent you having a decent lawn.

My two virginal elms have been raped by the Dutch disease and look just like a couple of gentle old maids who have been raped. It will cost $200 to have them buried.

My giant spruce is uprooting my garage at a rate of about _ two inches each y Sey, Ki em

frp: Lebanon; I've never seerisicha gawky thing in Canada) is litte but a. rendezvous for mating squirrels,

it would take wild horses ta make me cut them all down, but I'm beginning to think that bemaps i trees are for the birds.

ARE YOu TRYIN’ T' GET es

. question to be posed to visitly _ Canadian Forces and the Ard

and skills. of the Canad * Forces in

gir-cooled -° enclosure _ perform aretic akills consistiga

- Visitors, will. view the activitig - through glass panels locat ‘

- the specially. equipped cinem

- briefing officers -will illustrat

- (Hawaii) and the United tates |

; MONDAY, AUGUST 23, q Can, you “survive -

* “Can you survive” is |

to the Canadian Armed Fa Display near the grandstan the PNE now being readied t the exhibition opening. ‘Ff

Frontier” is the 1971 theme, .purpose being -to inf “Canadians about 1. equipment, professional abi the . Arc exivironnient, . a Highlight of the exhibit -illf a “cool room” where parka personnel working i ina specialg™

-of erecting tents, cooking e&

around the room. 7 _ Those visiting the display be able to’ rest comfortably

while viewing the multi-imagt film presentation “Aret| Frontier.” 7

Another planned attraction 7 the “Air Drop” where twit parachute harnesses will suspended in front of an aeriag scene backdrop and whe complimentary —_ photograp will be taken of visitors “pettin't the feel” of ‘dropping from thik sky... ; In the. operations “room

and report on the stalus Canadian Forces around. thi world, using a large map ‘where ; up to-date information fronky Defence Headquarters: will b posted. an) _ Another feature will.be thqg “hot-line: information service’ |i ‘immediate answers to their queries, by means of a ‘direc link with Ottawa: Defencct® Headquarters,

The 42-person exhibition ” team, headed by Major George Lilley, Ottawa, will include both] male and female personnellim drawn from units | across Canada.

Ci entennial | briefs:

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town of Fernie was named afler | @ William Fernie, adventurer, (J

government official and miner who located the immense coal deposils of the Crow’s. Nest (am Pass. Hediedin Victoria i in 1921 | at age 84. i

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