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Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 13, 1990

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Elementary —

| The best |
from —
the stacks

by Harrlet Fjaagesund ©

; Julian by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
- Juvenile fiction published by Tundra Books .

Julian is a floppy-eared, high-spirited farm dog.. It is his job to
chase the groundhogs out of the vegetable garden. But Julian
loves to chase anything that | moves, especially the two house cats,
Victoria and Ricky Rainbow. :

Julian’s problem is that he just doesn’t have any ‘manners.
Everyone thinks what a nice dog he would be if he’d only learn

‘to behave himself.

-Then Ricky Rainbow gets lost late one night, and it is left up

to. ‘Julian to find him. This i is his chance to prove what a good

- dog he really is.

Donna Lutz, teacher and principal for the newest and most remote school in District 88 — Meziadin . °°
jokingly offers technical advise to Terry Anderson, the district’s director of music. ~

programs. Anderson was taping some music for Lutz to use with her young Students. in thelr. one. ;

room schoolhouse.

Who is...
by

Betty Barton

Donna Lutz is a pioneer of the
first school in Meziadin, which

‘opened in January of this year. She

is also the principal and only
teacher in this new one-room
schoolhouse in the Nechako High-
ways yard at Meziadin Junction.

_ At present, Donna teaches 13

students from kindergarten to
Grade 3.

These are the children of
employees of Elsworth Logging,

- Ministry of Highways and those

from a small subdivision there.
The parents are extremely glad to
have the facility there so the little

ones don’t have to travel all the

way {to Stewart. Donna explains
that the district is sensitive to the
needs of the parents and their
children. Grades 4 through 12 still
make the daily commute. Donna
says it’s not as stressful or tiring
for the older children to travel. The

youngsters have their own little
‘school bus which delivers them to

Donna Lutz?

the Elsworth camp and the subdiv-
ision.

Donna says she quite likes the
isolation’ of Meziadin, about 40°

kilometers east of Stewart. She had:

previously taught in three remote
villages in Alaska over a 12-year
period, so she thinks of Meziadin
as quite a cosmopolitan centre in
comparison. "It’s a nice place"
says Donna. The other three loca-
tions were fly-in situations. At
least at Meziadin, there is a road.
Donna doesn’t drive, though. She
hasn’t had to for so many years

that now she’d rather just catch a.
ride with someone if she really

needs to get to town.
When I interviewed Donna in
late May, it was her first trip. to

Terrace since January. The purpose

of the trip was a management team

meeting. She’d been to Porcher ©

Island outside of Prince: Rupert
over the Easter break to visit her
husband. He is a commercial fish-
erman there. This summer, Donna
will join him in his commercial

fishing | operation. . Every few

_weeks, he drives-in to visit her in

cher teacherage at Meziadin pro-

vided by Schoo! District 88.
Donna says the district has been

great about ordering things.

‘Because she is teaching alone, she
relies ‘heavily on music tapes, ©

videos and films to give the stu-
dents an outside perspective ‘on
their lessons. Also, various of the
resource people from the School
District drop in on their way to
and from Stewart. Donna says
"Even Terry (Anderson, director of

“music, School District #88) comes |:

with guitar in hand." ‘The children
have a.school garden. The bok
choy isn’t doing well, says Donna,

- but the Jettuce is growing fine. The

parent group is very supportive.
They organize activities and fund-
raise for special events. Next year,
they hope to organize a trip for the
students to Terrace.

: This Easy Book makes. a perfect bedtime story.

. The Lightning Bolt by Michael Bedard
Juvenile. fiction. published by Oxford University Press
“An old woman gathering wood in the forest frees a strange lit-

tle man she finds twisted in the roots of an old tree.
-” For her kindness'he gives her two gifts: a wishing stick that

grants wishes and a magic’cap that can read people’s thoughts...

And that’s when the old woman’s troubles begin. Her hus-
band, who is very cruel and very greedy, takes the gifts from the
old woman and uses them for himself. —

‘He wishes. himself a great king ruling over a vast realm. But he
-is too. greedy to-be-happy. He becomes even more cruel, especial-
ly toward his wife. Things go from bad to worse until the old woman —
fears for her life. This Easy Book is beautifully illustrated.

(C —~]
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| Northwest Arts and
| Entertainment Calendar

R.E.M: Lee Theatre—
| @ June 13, 7:30 p.m. — Skeena Band Concert. |

--@ June 16, 1:30 p.m. — Northwest Academy of Performing Arts recitals.
@ June 22 8 p.m. — Caledonia Grad Ceremonies.

Terrace Art Gallery —
_.@ June 3 to 17 — B.C. Young Artists’ Exhibition. -

Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —
“@ June 11 to 23 — “Long Gone”.

The Terrace Inn — .
© Gigi’s — ‘Fame of Hall”.
@ Augie’s — Chris Kelly, pianist/vocailist.

Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 —
e June 15 and 16 — The Mothballs.

Kitimat Mount Elizabeth Theatre — :

@ June 13 and 14 — Senior drama students present five one- -act plays,
“Werewolf”, “The Day Paul Newman Came to Call”, “No One Wants to
Know”, “Bleeders” and “On Stage, Mr. Smith”.

Kitimat Centennial Museum —

@ Until June 24 — Portraits of the wild, photos by Joanne Monaghan
and Brian Bagatto.

|.@ June 13, 7:30 p.m. — Free flims on nature.

@ June 27 to Aug. 5 — “Fabricated Dreams”, historic quilts and quilts by
| local. craftsmen. |

Prince Rupert Performing Arts Contre —
@ June 23, 7:30 Pt m. — Outreach ballet “Dance Festival ‘90”.

HOWDOYOUDO is the word this coming Saturday at the
Chamber of Commerce infoCentre. Mayor Jack Talstra got
‘ In some hospitality practice recently on InfoCentre tourlem —
counsellor Lara Roldo. The log building on Highway 16 Is
‘holding an open house June 16 and local residents are -
- Invited to drop by and mingle with confused touriste. .

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