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~ Benefit show scrapped,

The White Cane Club Christmas
Variety Show scheduled to take

place at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre in

Terrace Dec. 15 was cancelled,
leaving ticket holders bewildered
_and prompting a police investiga-
“tion of the affair and some
apparently related incidents in

Prince Rupert and Kitimat.

The tickets, sold by telephone
solicitation, were $6 each, $20 for
a family. It was apparently for a
good cause, and many local people
found it difficult to refuse.

For those who bought tickets, a
short time before the show was to
take place tickets that appeared to
be professionally printed - were
personally delivered to the buyer’s
front door. The price was paid,
tickets changed hands... But there
was a problem. There was no
show; there’s not even any indica-
tion at this point one was ever
booked.

police investigating

Seventy-two people who didn’t
hear radio ads cancelling the show
found out the hard way. They
showed up at R.E.M. Lee Theatre

at 2 p.m. last Saturday and were
turned away at the door.

Some may feel bitter about this
apparent scam. A lot of good
names were tossed about... the
Canadian National Institute for the
Blind, associated with the Terrace
Centennial Lions (who, by the
way, cancelled their own annual
variety show when this one was
booked). The R.E.M. Lee Theatre.
The Canadian Council for the
Blind, the umbrelia group for
White Cane clubs across the coun-
try. Pro Tel Marketing of Kam-
loops who, it was said, was putting
on the show. And of course the
Terrace Chapter of the White Cane
Club itself.

— Continued on page A2

Minister names trustees

School District 88 now has a complete board. Effective Dec. 17,
former minister of education Tony Brummet has appointed three

people to fill vacant trustee seats.

Mery Spconer will represent Hazelton, Terry Brown will
represent the villages of Gitwangak, Kitwancool and Kitsegukla, .
and Stewart Christensen will take a vacant Terrace trusteeship.

Brown is a lawyer in Terrace and the executive director of the
Terrace Community Law Office. Christensen is a resident of
Terrace and the director of the city’s pubiic works department.

The appointments became necessary because only six candidates
filed nomination papers for nine seats on the board im the Nov.
‘17 civic elections. All six were acclaimed and the board asked the
minister to ill the remaining seats by appointment under section
42(3) of the School Act. The new trustees will be sworn in at the
Jan. 8 public meeting of the board.

The board now has more newcomers than it has Incumbents.
Brown and Spooner join new trustees Gordon Sebastian of
Hazelton and Laurte Mitchell of Thornhill. Christensen is not an
incumbent but served a previous term on the board during the

mid-1980's.

Incumbents are John Pousette, Wayne Braid and chairman :
Edna Cooper of Terrace and Kirsten Chapman of Stewart.
~The appointments are for one year, which means the district

will have a byelection in the full of 1991.

New home for the holidays

Two focal families (left) who adopted

children’s first Canadian Christmas — A10.

Ordeal by fire

Fire chief Bob Beckett gets a spectacular
welcome — A4

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Terrace Cubs and Scouts have a tree for you... a Christmas tree, that is. This year’s selection
costs $10 and the money goes to a worthwhile cause. Above, Terrace 6th Cubs George Johnson
cand James Crawford amine one of their tress and offer some consumer advice: buy-early and
get the best of the lot.

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