By GEORGE ENGLISH: Skeena Secondary staged anin- door trackmeet (September 27.) There were four houses compet. | ing In three divisions, ‘Teachers,. Seniors, and Juniors, . Had the Gods af Olympus’ been there, they would probably have diod of laughter, as, the afternoon _Wore'on, | It started off with a thing called |. Teachers ‘Antics, The teachers of mae =6each of the four. houses staged a mr «skit, .. of sorts, ‘ina form of w= cofpetition,. The Teachers of ‘house TV were first, Avery funny ; ‘speech was given, ‘which nobody 7 heard, but everybody laughed ‘at, = One teacher standing. out in the | middie of a gym, ‘being laughed at = by nine-hundred ° odd. students °. . ‘That’s ‘ferva, 9-00 House I came ‘out-with ‘instruments, . The director ofthe : school Band marched out and-ans nounced - :that-‘Skeenga's own -“Wangy Bahey. Stalf Band” would “now present the students with a ‘lovely little piece of music, With ane... violént movement of -his ‘magic Wand, the staff banderupt- ed into 4. single; ‘aolitary sour-as- hell-note, The crawd néarly died, _: Well, thought house IL. toitself, if they canbe musicians, so can “we, So after an endleasly funny. speech, (which nobody heard,)and much cued. ‘applause, three mem. bers of the staff stumbled out onto the stage and sang a single, soll- tary, sour-as-hell -. note... The crowd went. wild, ~,.. These are ourte hers? Good, ‘ aiad" to’ see they're with ‘Ite Then, ‘House FV. paraded Gitte: The procession was led by some- hy ing. and fini This is a ‘crawl under a | tumbling mat (completely under, § mind you. , 4), and sit. down at the other emdof the gym,:- | - Then they havetoknock overan Indian War Club.with their feet, . : pick ‘it up and jeave-it in a stand-. carrylng high the olympic | toreh, : She was followed by a somewhat middle-aged weightilfting cham- plon, (Who demonstrated his abil- ity by- struggling with'one end of a barbell.) A javeline champion (Who demonstrated her prowess hurling ‘a*plastic drinking straw.a distance of about three and a half-feet.-“ A. hammer throwing champton. (Who took hishammer, whichwas : actually q balloon onthe ent ofa - piece. of atririg, and quite calmly .: belied “the ‘Javeliness, who was - taking a*goodly:share of bows, in : her posterior) and alurdle-fump. ~ ing champion (Who- : jumped over. ? deflatable hurdles - namely stu- dents’-who quite conveniently lay Fe down when: he¢ame to them,)’ 3am - Next onthe agenda, was athing called The Roundabout. relay, in which both Jy, and Sy, boys and ‘girls; Skip'with a'skip. | ping. ‘rope out toa chair, hoola hoop ‘six tinies, position, : After this, they must & crawl under four chairs, crawl . to a chair on which-is sitting a balloon, sit on it until it breaks, then crawl backwards to the sh (starting) lines, House IV took - first ..plde¢e, followed by Houses I; and i, respectively, - The events at ‘orice, Put, Jr, Boys: ‘Long Jump, and Sr Boys .Discus, The: shot-to be put was a ten pound. medicine ball. The long “third “event was three dr, Girls Shet ip is a thing com- ture it...) was a carboard plate on a picnic, House IV took the Jr, Girls Shot, and the Sr, Boys ' Discus, House I _ took the Long -Jump, * Next was the Teachers Race, thing of a Greek srorts cess a FOUND IT EASILY. . An ‘the Terrace Herald “BUSINESS - "DIRECTORY - fact * BYTOWN DIESEL -' authorized dealer for . _ DETROIT. DIESEL(G.M.)ENGINES.. SALES LTD. «Use: Terrace Herald Classified _ Electrical Cantracting “Commercial cand Residential ; ‘Box: 1468 Wiring oo 5375... Terrace, B.C, a Cossiar Construction “Hl Aq NEW CONSTRUCTION Alterations & Repairs ‘Reasonable Rates. , For. estimates | call . “FRED SCHWAIGER Phone 635-5700 ee P MacKay’s a. F uneral, Homé. Ph: 635-2444 - P.O; Box. 430 _ . . TERRACE B.C, © Also serving: Kitimat. @ Rockyas Propane For all. your Propane needs Residential, Commercial ‘and Appliance Sales and- Service ‘Ltd. . _ TERRACE DIVISION Industrial. ok h. 628-2920 - Lakelse Ave. ad ise. 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Shopping Contre: _ tote) a | tng: Bulldezing, General “Snow: removal, Exeavet-| monly known as Standing B Broad Jump. The discus (ifyoucanfea- + « like whatyouuse when you go a) ment’s activities for days on end, a) we spent:the : first: eights sof Sryour-*Parhiaihentary tine? ee J] the debate being no further ahead al that: he ‘wanted: to chart a. new JB | bills should be voted -on by the i |-other..words we. should look at]! | of: the ‘way -in which ‘all “other ‘Bea’. “ike ver Ver, alow trana{storized,. ‘battery-operated. tor’s- lhe: ‘qnd:-the: “PGE plans id | onite them at auctions, ve This y was a relay, inwhich certain teachers from each house went through a series of contortions in- volving eggs, ami oranges, The. first teacher had to carry an ogg on @ Spoon-a raw egg ona spoon = to a chair ‘abont half way downthe gym. He left it there, and came back with a nice juicy Cif it breaka ] orange _ between his-knees, time- wasting By FRANK HOWARD .°- . The “House ...of Commons .is really, getting down to-business, We Started off by a rather. hur- ried return to a‘timé & few de- eades ago when the Speech from the .Thone contained Parlia- “Well, to be quite truthful about it we didn’t really go back a num ber of..decades —we only w back to 1962: and the rules "tat were in effect at that time. / As a consequence of this andthé insistance of Prime Minister. Trudeau that we retain the ime consuming Throne Speech debate. |": fruitless,: débate ‘about: npothine, had a number of Standing divi- sions of the House, and concluded than when we startéd::. .- The Prime: Minister could have | easily helped the Canadian people to avoid all this by:simply saying, in the. Speech from the. Throne, course for Parliament, But, he choose the traditional, time-wast- }ing, ritualistic procedure, “Tt-has always been my ‘conten- ‘tion. that Parliament should open with ‘the Speech from the Throne |f and then, the very next day, pro- ceed to some item of public busi- ness. and get down to brass-tacks in’ dealing with: ‘the’ Problems of Canada: «: : I ‘think there are a tumber of such’ time-consuming, pointless debates scattered thropghout our |B. g | proceedings. - A good weeding out |. - would be the: most helptut thing = that we could do. “T think algo: that rules of pro- cedure must be modernized -to ‘the -extent. that all ‘government .so-called:"free yote" system. In legislation ‘on its “merits and not. on-its political origin, This, -too,..could. “have: been accom- || plished” by a simple. declaration on the part of the. Prime Mini- ster, Instead:he choose the casy, old-time, antiquated Party route. 1 think; ‘ too, | that: the. various Committeds ‘of. the House should beable: to Initiate studies and | | initiate legislation .on: thelr own, As it stands now committeés can do nothing -unless-.the: approval of. the” government 1s” first. obtained, In other words goverte ment effectively controls: the work: of committees by con- trolling the- business which. will |: : be brought © before: them and ‘lites the regular Party rigidl- @5, “There are’ ‘numerous ‘ other ; changes that can be made ih the rules to make. thei modern and suited to this. ‘swing: age” that seems to pervade everywhere, [ Throne 2 speech| - 5:00 “00: “930° . 8:00. The next t teachertakes the o orange dawn, and brings the egg back, ‘and So on until the circuit is com. pleted,. House II took thia event, ‘followed by houses IV, and yes. pectively, , After this tiasco, the boys from ‘House I had a tug-of-war with Honse IV, and Housel challenged house an House IV won their match, and House OI theirs, With much oomph, arggh, and four let. ter words, the finals were finally reached and ‘Houses I, and IV Played. down, | Everyone was screaming “Heayell”* to anyone who happened to be listening, and House II pulled their opponents half way across the gym, _Vailed, (Much mare oomph, and . argghs, of course, . a _ to our Greek games; ‘We hed aj there was a dance that Then came the Jr, Girls Double or wheelbarrow Race, boys, pretty young faces skidded across and. Skeena's. sacred gym as a result! ¢ of week arms, House I won. this jby one, So what if they've got weak they. 3 arms, They’re supposed. to] j to the balloon ‘on the floor,’ ano | ther girl pumped lke mad, all the way down to the other end of the gym, It sounds easy enough, but have you every tried to blow a@ balloon ina straight Hne? House H prevailed, House 1 and Hil fol- lowing close behind: «.‘. The Junior boys had what the authorities called a Pole Vault, but what I have always called leap | too frog, This was a relay, one of the ones we do in P,E, classes, To finish off tha day; there was’ 7 a Jr/Sr, Piggy back race, Here. a boy piggy backed a girl downto - the- middle of the gym, and she brought him back, Where? On her back, stupid, She signed upforit =~ too, you know, Bealdes, all'the - boys were little wee’ tiny junior: beys, and most of the girls were: reasonably big, HouselV. won this It was simply a great long line of people jumping over one another, i 2nd, and 3rd? Houses IV, Ll he a . The final house standings, at the Then the girls had. a tug of war end of the day. were; House T « 53° in which house IV ultimately pre. points House IX - 33 points, House HI = 52 points, and House IV--" get this - 79 points, Since it was supposed tobe Sadie Hawkins day, . night, and. chariot’ Race,- There are eight/the student council” got pies. senlor boys, Okay? Thenthere is! thrown at ‘em bythe people of div. one little, wee, tiny junior boy,| ision 121, . . right? Okay. The little wee tiny) The. purpose ‘ of the. Olympte Junlor boy climbs up onto two of Games is, “To build a sound mind the senior's shoulders, They run] ina sound body,” The} of. to beat sixty half way down thel our meet. was to build a sound ' ‘gym, around a chafr, and back to] sense of humor in a supposedly the others, The. little wee, tiny| sound mind, and then to try. and junior boy is then transferred tol eram it into a not so sound body... the shoulders of two more senior Anyway, it was fun. “Somehow, the Romans came in World Series Baseball Game 4, St, Louis at Det. roit, 1:00 Friendly Giant © 1:15 Chez Helene ‘1:30. Luncheon Date 2:30 Bonnie Prudden 3:00. Take Thirty - - 3230. Edge of Night .. 4:00 “BBC Classics 4:30 Upside Town’ ~ 5:00 Pick of the Week 5:30 Miriam Britman 6:00 Today 6:30. ‘News, Weather & Sports ER aS He ca s int on pec 3 sant a : Creative moody So a Osa. 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