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TERRACE-- If there’s a street,
park or other city landmark lacking
an appropriate name, it may
eventually be dubbed "Nattress" by
city council. At the present time,
the Finance, Personnel: and

_. Administration Committee is

reviewing a. request from Tricia
_ Nattress, who has asked the city if

they would consider granting this
honor in.the memory of her father
and mother, and Terrace aldermen
seem to agree that.this is an honor
that has been well carned.

Nick Nattress came to Terrace in-

1960 to. work on the construction
- of Mills Memorial Hospital and a
few months later asked his wife,
Molly, and his children to join him
here. Terrace was to be their home
for the next 23 years and they
would do far more than. simply
reside here. They would become a
vital part of the community and
play a’ role in it's future
development. -
‘Nick took a liking to Tertace
. from his first day here and in order
to remain in the area went to work
for Bill McRae at Skeena Forest
Products in 1960 and he remained

In the early 1960's, Nick Nattress

help to train many young Terrace
athletes in association with the
Royal Canadian Legion Junior
Olympics Pian while he studied
the finer points of coaching
through programs offered by’ the
University of Guelph. Through his
studies he soon eared the title of
Senior Canadian Coach and in
1967 was awarded the Canadian
Centennial Medal for his’ work
with young athletes.

Nick is also remembered in
Terrace for his work with Terrace
Youth Soccer, Terrace Little
Theatre and Branch 13 of the
Royal Canadian Legion where he
served as president for a year.

Molly Nattress became involved
in Terrace Little Theatre in the late
1960's and later became president
of the organization. She won
several awards for both directing
and acting and was a driving force
behind the establishment of
Terrace Little Theatre’s McColl
Playhouse. She later Joined the
B.C. Drama Association (now
known as Theatre B.C.) and was

later elected vice-president of that

future.

organization.

Outside theatre, Molly served as
a city alderman for three years,
vice-president of the K’san House

‘Society for three years and for a

time was chairman of the Terrace
Advisory Parks and Recreation
Commission. While a_ city
alderman, Molly also became the
chairman of the local Board of
Health and later a member of the
Provincial Board of Health.

On behalf of her parents, Tricia
Nattress says they both enjoyed
serving the community. In her
letter to city council she writes, "I
would hope you could agree that
both my parents served Terrace
well and that they deserve to be
remembered in a lasting way."

Following his retirement in 1982,
Nick and Molly moved back to
Wales, England, where Molly still
resides. Nick died suddenly last

August, leaving as his legacy a

number of young Terrace people --
now adults -- whose lives wouldn’t

be the same if he hadn’t invested
many hours of his time in their

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Health unit hosts _
power breakfast

The Adult Health Core Pro-
gram at the Skeena Health Unit
is an evolving one. It is defined

as “strategies aimed at promot-.

ing and maintaining the state of
mental and physical well-being
which makes it possible for per-
sons 19 or over to maintain or
enhance their quality of life’’.

by Betty Barton

_ It focuses on healthy lifestyles
and modification of unhealthy

behavior. In recognition that -

adults generally have the right
and the ability to choose, an em-
phasis is placed on encouraging
individuals and communities to
reduce or eliminate health risks
by providing healthy alter-
natives.

The Skeena Adult Health
Core Program is being directed
by a committee with regional
representation and input from
all disciplines. The committee
members will be working with
their communities and Skeena

Health Unit field staff to

develop program strategies and

implementing activities.

In conjunction with this, the
Skeena Health Unit held a
Breakfast Celebration March
22 attended by 53 community
members. The purpose of the
Breakfast Celebration was to en-
courage healthy eating, and to
distribute completed Communi-
ty Profiles in a manner that will
encourage recipients io use the
documents. Hosts were nutri-
tionists and staff of the Skeena
Health Unit. The Skeena Union
Board of Health sponsored the
occasion.

‘“‘They do have coffee here. —
My daughter sent me here to
find out how to get rid of this.
— Gee, this is just too healthy.
— Where’s the butter?’’ These
were just a few of the comments
made by participants in. last
week’s Breakfast Celebration
for nutritious eating.

The Breakfast Celebration
recognized March as Nutrition
Month, as well as the arrival of
the Northwest AIMS for Health
document. Since January of
1989, a committee of represen-
tatives from different social
health agencies have been work-
ing on a community diagnosis of

health in each of 10 communities

-jn the Skeena Health Unit area.

Nutritionist Sonya Kupka wel-
comed the guests.

Coordinator and public health
nurse Rose Dreger. explained
that the community health pro-
files resulted as a.directive from —

the Ministry: of Health to all

health units in the province.-The

‘ Skeend Health Unit is one of the

pioneers of the project and
perhaps the first to actually have
the health profiles completed.

Northwest AIMS for Health is

divided into four sections:

@ Terrace community charac-
teristics.
@ Community services related

te health.

@ Community opinion —— which

| Dreger called the most exciting,

with. 2,500 surveys returned
throughout the Health Unit, just
over 600 in Terrace. The. three
basic questions asked were: 1)
main health problems in your

community; 2) most important

causes of these health problems;
and 3) how these problems could
be reduced or eliminated. —
Results were divided into. general —
community and key informant
responses. Key informants were
community leaders who either
attended one of several informa-
tion meetings, or who were in-
terviewed by health unit staff.
The four health problems iden-
tified by more than half of the
respondents were alcohol abuse,
drug abuse, mental illness and
cancer, The results of this survey
were identified by Dreger ‘‘as a
springboard for your action and

_ activities in the community, And

some of the lobbying we do can
be supported by the document.”’
e Health Status identified the
need for hospital and medical
services, in addition to measur-
ing the current health of the
community. Stillbirths and in-
fant mortality were higher in
Skeena than the B.C, statistical
average. Twelve percent of
babies here were born to teenage
mothers in Skeena, compared to
six percent in B.C. generally.

Dreger concluded, ‘‘The
Skeena Health Unit and the
community as a whole have to
work on the health of the com-
munity to make Terrace a better
place to live.”

Agenda set for women’s
northern conference

Prince George will host a
Northern Women’s Conference
to be held at Esther’s Inn April
27-29. Northern women are in-
vited to attend this third annual
affair. Applications are avail-
able through the Terrace Wo-
men’s. Resource Centre, Carol
Sabo and Angela Young. Travel
subsidies are available on a first-
come, first-served basis.

This conference will have a
special focus on Native

Women’s issues and cross-cul-
tural sharing. One of the
keynote speakers will be Martha
ManyGreyHorses. A variety of

workshops will be offered rang-
ing from healing, sexual assault,
women and addictions, hidden
racism, to empowering yourself
and parenting.

Because this conference is
financed by project funding
through women’s and native
programs, it is not affected by
recent core funding budget cuts
from the federal government, =~

The conference will be an op- -
portunity for women to reaffirm

life in the north and share com-

monalities and goals

with
others. ;

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