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Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 10, 1990 B13

~ Workshop offered for Cancer Society volunteers —

by Betty Barton

The Canadian Cancer Society will hold a- Western Regional. Workshop for volunteers in Ter- race Oct. 20 and 21. The workshop will provide specific training for existing or potential volunteers

interested in fund raising, public.

relations or volunteer development. Staff and volunteer trainers from Prince George and Vancouver will conduct. the seminars. Residents from throughout the area are en- couraged to attend, Special emnpha- sis will be paid to Terrace volun-

teers,

“The orientation scheduled for Saturday morning at the Inn of the West will be tailored to accommo- date and inform new volunteers of the different options available to volunteers. From there, local par- ticipants can attend specific

. Sessions, depending on their: areas

Support the campaign lo get a

of interest as volunteers to the Canadian Cancer Society.

The Canadian Cancer Society is the chief fund raiser in Canada for the cancer cause. It is also the largest volunteer health organi- zation in the country. Fifty per .Cent of funds raised go to cancer research, the money that backs 60- 65 percent of all cancer research

done in Canada. The remaining 50

percent goes to public education services to patients and their families, including emotional, practical and financial support.

Northern district manager for the Canadian Cancer Society Dan Legault explains some of the Society services available to people in the north.

*Living with cancer provides the nucleus of emotional support for individuals and families of indivi- duals suffering with cancer. Ter- race and other northwest com-

munities have trained facilitators.

‘Reached Recovery is an emo- tional and practical program of support by women who have had breast cancer and. surgery, for women going through the ordeal.

*Cansurmount provides one-on- one emotional support programs for cancer patients.

“Emergency Aid program and volunteers assist with financial resources tO people incurring extreme expense for cancer treat- ment. Once need is determined, transportation, accommodation, meals, non-prescription drugs and prostheses costs. can be at least partially recovered, In northern B.C., between $150,000 and $200,000 was spent last year by the Canadian Cancer Society to assist cancer patients.

*Camp Good Times on the Sechelt peninsula is a camp for children with cancer. Two one-

week camps are held in July at Camp Bing, a Boy Scout camp. Parents are encouraged to enrol children who have cancer.

- In the lower mainland, some of

the other programs provided by the Canadian Cancer Society are a volunteer driver program, a

laryngectomy support program, - and Care of the Human Spirit for ‘clergy to help parishioners with

cancer. The society is connected with the Candlelighters, a support group for parents of children with caricer.

Public education was the reason the Canadian Cancer Society was founded 52 years ago by a group of medical people in Ontario. Some community groups of the Society in northern B.C. have almost as long a history. The pub- lic education program supplies resource materials, videos and docs ©

school presentations on cancer and. its causes. They work with pre- schoolers on a smoke-free program and work with senior high school

students on more involved issues.

They provide workplace informa- — tion packages and do presentations. They conduct breast self-examina- tion clinics. October has been officially. declared Breast Health Month for the Society.

Legault proudly notes, "We are the penultimate resource for printed materials in Canada on cancer." He also highlighted the Cancer Info line, a toll-free num-. ber for specific cancer information. Volunteers are medical pro- fessionals. They have resources and computer data base at hand.

For more information on ‘the

Canadian Cancer Society or on the

Western Regional Workshop, con- tact Joyce Casorso at 635-4116 or Dan Legault at 564-0885,

CT Scanner for the Northwest.

Limited Edition prints by Roy Henry Vickers still available at $1,200, but selling fast _at Northern Light Studio

A portrayal of Ringbolt Island in Kitselas Canyon on the Skeena River. Colours are the blues and greens of a bright spring day ‘with cloudless sky. In the shadow of Ringbolt Island there are faint images of petroglyphs that actually exist on the island today, carved by the ancestors of the Kitselas people before recorded of the river, Skeena. The people of the Kitselas controlled the flow of traffic on the river because their village was situated at this narrowest spot of the river. During goldrush days and early days of the European in the north there was much travel on the river by steamboat or paddle wheeler and Indian dugout canoe. All people travelling to and from the coast had to navigate the often treacherous Kitselas Canyon. The paddle wheelers had to winch themselves through the canyon by ringbolts set in the rocks, hence the name,

history

Ringbolt Island. _

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

KITSELAS

This edition is limited to fifty hand-pulled silk-screened prints, five artist’s proofs, five remarques, five RHV prints, and one printer's proof.

The paper is Fabriano Tiepolo, 100 percent rag paper made in Italy.

Paper size is approximately 68 by 55 centimetres.

Printed at Pacific Editions Limited, Victoria, British Columbia. ~ Released in June'l990 from Eagle Aerie Gallery, Tofino, British Columbia. Copyright 1990 by Roy H. Vickers.

limited

go to the R.E.M. Lee Foundation campaign _ to obtain a CT Scanner for Mills Memorial Hospital

All proceeds from the sale of these special

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edition prints