Soccer reps.

getting the trip of a
lifetime in February.

Our minor hockey rep
team has been named to
take part in a week-long

aa ; exchange program under a

Manuel’ s Pumas of Terrace Youth Soccer’s under-18 division made it to the final alayofts where:
they last out to Dave's Plumbing.

Terrace club
hosts ladies’

The Terrace Curling
Club will be hosting the
' District 4 ladies’ play-
downs Jan. 9, 10 and 11,
1987,

by Marge Skead,
Terrace contributor

Teams from Prince
Rupert, Smithers, Hous-
ton and Terrace will be
competing to represent
our zone in the provincial
finals to be held in Fort
Nelson Jan, 28 to Feb. 4.

The winner in Fort
Nelson will advance to the
Ladies’ National Cham-
pionships (Scott Tourna-
ment of Hearts) to be held
in Lethbridge, Alberta
Feb. 28 to March 4. The
winner from here goes to

the Ladies’ World Cham-
pionships to be: held in
Chicago, . Illinois,- March
22 to 29.

Curling commences at
the Terrace Curling Club
on Friday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m.
Further draw times are
Saturday,, Jan. 10 at 10
am., 2 p.m. and .7:30
p.m. Sunday’s games are
9 a.m. and | p.m. Mem-
‘bers hope to see residents
at the club.to watch any or
all of these games.

TEAMS

Prince Rupert - Judy
Marineau, Wendy Atchi-
son; Smithers - Carol
MacGregor; Houston -
Gail Book; Terrace - Barb
Opheim, Paulette Patter-
son.

Students at Clarence
Michiel Elementary
. School in Terrace recent-
ly presented the Salva-
tion Army with a cheque
for $680.00, The students
raised the funds for

needy residents.
Danlele Berquist photo

: Older )
is better

The old guys from 1976 and
back to the second world war
proved they hadn't lost their
touch at. the recent annual:
grads basketball tournament
at Caledonia High School.
These ancient ones came up
with two wins and two tles
against younger opponents.
Players are Fred Lindsay, Pat
Kofoed, Kim Checkley, Willie
' Chemko, Greg Ross, Pau!
Walker, Ray Warner, .Bruce
Johnson, Rob Onstein and

Terry Marleau.

federally ‘financed: ‘‘open
house Canada”’ trip from
the Secretary of State’s
department.

Bantams t to Quebec |

The Terrace Inland /
Kenworth Bantams are

The team, under coach |
John Amos and manager .

Guy. Belanger leave for
Sorel, Quebec, at the end
of January and will spend
a week there under this
cultural. exchange pro-
gram. -

~* During. this month the

team is ‘undergoing extra
lessons in spoken French
so they'll be able to con-

verse with their hosts.. All

‘the boys will be billeted

for this trip.
The Sorel Bantam team

will come to Terrace and

spend a week here starting

Feb, 25. They'll also visit

Hazelton, Kitimat and
Prince Rupert, taking part
in roughly the same rou-
tine as our boys will do at

‘Sorel.

Cart thefts raise costs
for local supermarkets |

by Daniele Berquist
Sometimes they’re
used as ‘‘baby buggies’’,

.sometimes they carry

‘“‘garbage’’, sometimes
they’re used as ‘‘go-
carts’? and occasionally
they’re used to carry
“food’’,

‘“‘They’’ are called
shopping carts, but are
used for a variety of pur-
poses, stated spokesmen
for the Terrace Co-
operative, Overwaitea
Foods and Canada Safe-
way.

Groceries supervisor
at the Terrace Co-op,
Ron Brown, said in total
they have 70 shopping
carts available to their
customers and approx-
imately 10 to 15 are lost
throughout the year. He

said that last year 40_

carts were purchased;

out of the.40 they are left
with 29. Brown said that
the customer pays in-
directly, from food
prices, for the missing
carts. He added that an
employee picks up lost
carts weekly and
brings them back for a
dolar a cart.

_ Barry DeRosier, man-
ager for Overwaitea
Foods, said that a new
shopping cart sells for
approximately $150,
They lose approximately
30 of the 175 carts owned
by the store. The com-
pany attributes their
losses, said DeRosier, to
‘theft and vandalism.

Customers pay indi-

rectly for the approx-
imately 25 carts that are
purchased yearly.

_ Again, an individual is
employed to bring back

lost carts for $1.
Canada Safeway’s .
manager, Eric Johann-
son said they own 150
shopping carts and he
estimated 40 to. 50 are
lost annually. Safeway
replaces the full
amount lost annually,
and customers are charg-
ed indirectly from
overhead. The lost carts
are brought back by a
hired person for $1.
The three grocery
stores agree that a good
method of preventing the
loss of carts or reducing

it woilld be to: install a. |

coin-release operation

where people deposit a

quarter and a cart is
released. When custom-
ers bring the cart back, a
quarter is released. This
device is used in Van-
couver at newer Canada -
Safeway stores, Over-
waitea Food stores and
Co-ops.

We don’t see getting
that set up in the near
future, said management
at the local stores, but it
definitely makes sense to
reduce loss of carts.

Abandoned

Shopping carts sometimes ap-
pear to have a life and random
volition of their own; abandon:
ed carls are a common sight
around Terrace, both on the
streets and in more unusual
locations. The wheeled
baskets cost about $150 each
to replace, and local store
owners say the losses are
passed on to consumers in
retail prices.

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