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Bronze at Calgary for Community Band .

bigger. All the players are get-

’ The ‘Terrace Community
Band won a bronze medal in the
national competition held in
Calgary last weekend.

by Tod Strachan

According to Jim Ryan, one
of the band’s founders, of the
§,000 Canadian musicians
attending the competition the
Terrace Community Band was
the only community band in the
entire country to enter the event.
Even the Calgary Community
Band felt the $35 per member
entry fee was too high — and
they didn’t even have to travel,

“When the community found
out about this deal they got
behind them,” says Ryan. ‘‘All
the various sponsors came
through with really great sup-
port and I’m tremendously
proud of the band themselves.”

Because they were the only
band in their category, Ryan
says the competition was ex-
‘tremely difficult. He explained
that adjudication is difficult for
everyone when there is only a
single entry because there is
nothing to compare their per-
formance with and it is rare to
win a gold or silver. For that
reason, he says, everyone was
elated with the bronze and the
experience gained by competing.

“The adjudication was tough,’

he says. “‘But you ‘never lose.

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Terrace Community Band members were full of confidence when they left for Calgary last week, but they didn’t
realize they were the only community band in Canada who had entered the national competition. Even though
that made the competition.much more difficult, they returned home with a bronze medal.

You always gain.”’

Ryan added that there were
also several other bonuses to the
trip. “Really great’? workshops
and clinics added to the band’s

experience, as did a public per- -

formance in downtown Calgary

~ and another at the University of
Calgary where they stayed dur-

ing the competition.
The community band has

competed provincially in the -

past, and won last year by sub-
mitting a tape. But this is the
first time they’ve travelled
thousands of miles to compete at
the national level. _

“T’ve always told them they’re
capable of doing these things but
now they’re starting to believe

it,’’ he says. ‘‘This is the first ©
time they’ve moved out of town, -

other than when we went down
to Kitimat for the Heavens to
Betsy show, and actually they
started to pick up even from

that. They felt very confident.

that they had done a good job.”’

Ryan, who is currently
recovering from his second
kidney transplant, one which he
describes as a ‘tremendous suc-
cess’’, was unable to make this

trip but says he’s feeling better.

than ever and will be back with
the band as soon as possible.
And, he says, there’s lots on the
agenda to keep everyone busy.
Ryan. says there will be the

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usual number of concerts.in the
George Little Memorial Park,
which will be enhanced by the
newly built bandshell. The band
hopes to have at least one sum-
mer concert at Heritage Park,

‘and they will be performing dur-

_ Ministry approves Mills

ing Riverboat Days, possibly as
a marching band in the parade,
which would be another first for
the group.
“It’s just going to be great,’”
says Ryan, referring to the
future. And, “It’s going to get

ting stronger and stronger and
it’s really rewarding to be a part
of the whole thing and see it
grow — right in front of your
eyes.”” .

-~Memorial capital works

TERRACE — The Ministry of
Health has approved the top
four of 12 capital projects pro-

posed by Mills Memorial

Hospital for the current fiscal
year, According to MMH ad-

ministrator, Norm Carelius, the -

four projects total $63,000 and
the provincial government will
pay 60 percent of that cost. All
that remains now, he says, is the
go-ahead from the. regional
district hospital board, who
must pay the remaining 40 per-
cent: $25,200.

Carelius says that the work to
be done includes the construc-
tion of a secure area in the
psychiatric wing valued at
$4,000, rebuilding the instru-
ment air compressors at a cost of
$4,000, relocation of the ultra-
sound examining room for
$5,000 and the replacement of
the present nurse call system —
which dates back to 1960 — ata

cost of $50,000.

Some of the projects which
were not approved include
medical vacuum outlets for
some rooms, electric dooms for
the emergency department, a
rehaul of the passenger elevator,
a wheelchair patient shower and
new flooring. ;

Carelius says the list of 12
projects was priorized in order
of need and it wasn’t expected

' that all 12 would be funded. He

says the two levels of govern-
ment have financial limitations
too and “they just can’t possibly
address all projects for all
facilities in our region. What we
have to do is try and plan re-
sponsibly, try to identify them in
order of priority, and then at-
tack them as far as the money
will go.”’

The notice of approval came
jointly from Finance and Cor-
porate Relations Minister Mel

Couvelier and Health Minister
Peter Dueck, who said that the
two-year capital spending
envelope for health-related con-
struction in the province will
total about $3.3 million.

‘Treasury Board has ap-
proved $140 million for major
and $32.5 million for minor
capital projects in 1988/89 and
$157. million for major capital
projects in 1989/90,”
Couvelier.

Capital projects are defined as

those which cost more than $1

million and maintain, improve,
develop or acquire land and
buildings and other capital
assets such as roads or bridges.
All other projects are considered
to be minor capital projects.

Funding for capital projects is
approved by the Treasury Board

on a rolling two-year basis. The -

policy of two-year funding en-
velopes began last year.

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