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CINDERELLA will be the theme for the Terrace Figure Skating Club’s annual
carnival, running for two nights ~ March 29 and 30 ~ at the Terrace Arena. Dress
rehearsals begin today, and shown here in costume are Christine Eys, Shelley
Lefebure, Chella Levesque, Nicole Page, Jessica Lambright and Jennifer Smith.

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_ Action by the city on a request
for a zoning bylaw change by
Glannino Pretto of Terrace Shell
won't be required. Pretto applied
earlier this month for a zoning
change that would allow the
addition of a laundromat to his
Kalum St, gas bar but, as has been
pointed out by city planner Marvin
Kamenz, the city has already held
a public mecting. and approved
such.a change in principle.
The zoning change began in
1988. with a request
-Copperside Foods proposing the
‘construction of a new outlet at the
corner of Kalum and Davis. That
" change is currently sitting at third
_ reading pending council approval
_ of Copperside’s final construction
plans, and in light of Pretto’s

. asked city . adminstration . to
- proceed with the. zoning change.

.food outlet

Shell to close one of its service
bays in order to accommodate the
new laundromat.

In the meantime, Bob Lavoie of
Copperside Foods says his project
at Kalum and Davis is ready to
proceed, He says he has submitted
final plans to the city and there has
been little change to the original
proposal... except for the fact that
the laundromat has been scratched.

Lavoie says the 4,200-square foot
is designed to

Development booms on Kalum St.

complement the atmosphere of
George Little Memorial Park and
will offer gasoline sales, an
in-store bakery, a delicatessan,
basic groceries and one of the
biggest in-store fast food outlets in
the province. On the menu, he
says, will be everything from
hamburgers to chicken and
lasagna, Lavoie says they hope to
begin construction next month and
have set a tentative opening date

_of July 1.

from —

application council has simply .

Sports... B2
Business... B8

Who is... B15 __

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The Teen Page... B16...

The way
I see it...

It gets more difficult to come
up with subjects for a weekly
column all the time. My husband
says, “Don’t embarrass me",

The kids are reading it now. I
really have to watch myself,

and there’s only so many things
to write about.

So'I usually keep a few extra
pre-written columns on my
computer disk, in case of
emergencies. Emergencies means
that its been a hectic week around
the house, maybe the toilet
overflows and the cat throws up,
the bank has. messed up our
cheques or the kids get sick. But
there’s always these extra
columns, usually not seasonal or
holiday-related, to fill in
for those busy weeks.

For about a year now, I’ve had
this one that I] thought was
not too bad, a self-help quiz,
along the lines of the ones
Cosmopolitan magazine puts out.
I thought it was kind of funny,
and L- could use-it-any-time. -It’s
nice to have something to
fall back on, knowing there’s an
extra column on your disk. But
then Bob Jackman stole it.

I don’t know how he did it, but
there it was, two weeks ago
in this paper, in Bob Jackman’s
column. Oh sure, some of the
wording was changed, but most

of it was almost exactly what I

had on my disk. We lock the

doors, and I’m sure the neighbors
would’ve noticed if he was
lurking around our house, but
there it was, my column under
his byline.

Now, I know Bob, and he’s

always scemed the decent sort to ~

me, a nice guy, you know. I was
really glad to sce him in the
Review again, even though his
page does precede mine. (His
picture is better, too, I’ve
noticed.) I don’t think he’d
actually break in and sical my
column -- he’s just not the type.
So how did he get it?

Psychic theft, It’s the only
answer. I’ve been mentally
robbed (though some people say
it happened years ago). I’ve
read about this.in the Enquirer.
Some people have the gift,
although evidently we can all
develop this ability, and they can
read your minds, searching for

_ useful and interesting *
information, and taking whatever
‘they want, Aliens can do this,
I’ve heard,

Which brings us to another
question — is Bob Jackman an
alien? Really, how well do we
know him? Where did he come
from? He was already here when
I moved into town. Has he
always been here? What else can

by. Stephanie Wiebe
"Aliens can do this,
P’ve heard."

‘to Mr. Spock? We really don’t

this man do? And does he know
if Elvis is still alive?

I thought about this for a while,
carefully considering the
ramifications of this man’s ability
to scan through my mind and
steal columns. There had to be a
catch, a disadvantage of his
being an alien with mind-reading
powers. I mean, if he can
perform this little trick, imagine
what else he could do? Can
he balance rotating dinner plates
on those little sticks? Does
he know what actually happened

know a lot about aliens yet. And
yet, for some unknown reason,
he lives a quiet life among us
regular folk.

-Then I realised, .if.he could read

my columns, he could read

my grocery list, too. He knows “
we're out of Pert shampoo and
waiting for it to go on sale. He
knows that the cat is allergic

to kitty litter and needs a bath
every week. He knows we missed
garbage collection day last week.
Ha! My revenge — he knows
every single stupid thing I have
to think about!

I think about holes in the kids
socks, broken vacuum cleaners,
and doctor's appointments. I
wonder about how the sacks
disappear in the laundry, when
the muffler will fall off the car,
and why I don’t win the
Publisher’s Clearing House
sweepstakes. There is so much
useless trash floating around my
brain, aliens could never find
another column or anything else
that makes sense, for that matter.
Bob Jackman will have to
move on to another victim to
practise his psychic theft again.
(it did take him a year the first
time, didn’t it?) And the
garbage in my mind is always
collecting more, like lint on 4

black sweater. The man’s
mind-reading rampage will end -
he picked the wrong mind to
read.

You'll probably read it next
week. Milk, eggs, bread ~ oh
and I can't forget to pick up that
special kitty litter. He'll
try to shake off these confusing
bits of information, but he'll
keep thinking about garbage

. collection day.

Ha! Bob Jackman, alien powers
cannot conquer the female
psyche. And i’m getting 4 new
picture, too. Lo, ;