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‘Feature teacher - Mrs. Gingles |

By Ingrid Metzmeier

Mr, Gingles has taught at Skeena for seven years. Within those feats she has coached volleyball and cress country along with sponsoring the cheerleading

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teams. She has also trained Students in track and field and organized a dance club. Now Mrs. Gingles sponsors the school curling club.

Mrs. Gingles spent four of her seven years, at Skeena,

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- Skeena's ‘coming events

BIG BAND DANCE Place: Skeena Gym

Date: December 3, 1976 Time: 9 p.m.

Price: $20 per couple Kind: ‘Semi Formal STUDENTS CHRISTMAS DANCE

Place: Skeena Gym

Date: December 10, 1976 Time: 4 to 12 p.m.-

Price: $1.50 single, $2.50 couple ;

Kind; Semi Formal DANCE-A-THON ‘ Place: Skeena Gym . Dale: January 15, 1977 Time: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. (16

hours)

Music: CFTK (disco)

For: Sunshine Variety Club Telethon

BAND CHAISTMAS CONCERT

Place: R.E.M. Lee Theatre Date: Sunday, December 5 Time: :2 p.m.

PLAY DAY

Place:. Prince Rupert Date: December 4, 1976 Sports - Wrestling, Bad- minton, Ping Pong -

_ INVITATIONAL TOUR-

NAMENT

| Place: Kitimat

Date: December 4, 1976... Sport; Boys basketball PLAY DAY Place: Port Simpson Date: December 4, 1976

B Suzanne Urbanczyck and Susan Harris

“A” team |

teaching ph sical education

and the other three as a

girl's counsellor. - As a girls counsellur, Mrs. Gingies, and the other

counsellors, are responsible’

for all student services such as programming, time tables, making interm reports and making out progress. reports.

Mrs. Gingles is originall from Londonderry, Ereland, She went to school in Ireland and went to university just outside Belfast, rs. Gingles specialized in P.E., but as a young girl had always wanted to be anything from an airline stewardess to a surgeontoa police woman,

After university, Mrs. Gingles immigrated to Canada with her husband. Mrs. Gingles adm: tted that she missed Ireland's small and hospitable munities. However, she enjoys Canada’s sports such as the fishing and hunting in winter and the swimming and skiing in the summer.

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By Loretta Fricke (written when she was in grade 7) —

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- NOTICE | TO HOME OWNERS AND TRAILER OWNERS | The Deadlise for claiming the 1976 Homeowner Grant is Dacember 31, 1976. This is the white copy of your Tax Notice. It should be in the hands of the Collector at the Municipal Office before 4:30 p.m. on December 31, 1976, Signed | ‘The District of Terrace

. The hot sun was pounding on the heads of everyone while the lizards clung to the sides of houses, trying to seek shade, The mud on the

ound was cracking under

e sun’s pressure and the grass was turning brown and yellow.

Two small, brown feet padded down the mud- cracked path; each step the child took was a painful

ocess. His stomach was

loated and he was chewin on a chunk of moldy bread. He was clothed in a small, white robe which tied at the waist, Slowly, he walked

into a tiny tumble-down hut. -

“Carl,” his mother questioned, ‘‘where have you been? You know [ wanted you to cut some

ass for our beds,” “I

ow, but I went to the

Talent

This year's Talent Day was quite a success. It was held on the afternoon of Novernber 19. In all, there were eleven original per- formances. ,

First place went to a dancing group BPR. This group, consisting of Bonnie Gerow, Pam

Currie, and Rhonda Ear] did ©

their dance interpretation of Roxy Roller, a rock song. Second place went to the duet singers, Nina De

Giovanni and Lisa Davis.

known as -

Elsie Troelstra and Sharon Euverman

- The Bloody Mess

Taissionary first to see Sister

Mary. I'll go get the grass —

now. Bye.” “Bye.”

Carl walked te a clearing and cut a large bundle of

ass. He started to walk

ck when he heard the shuffle of leaves. Behind him was the padding of footsteps on dry grass. Swiftly, Carl turned around. That's when he saw it, the bright . orange, yellow, brown and black shades of a tiger. Fear engulfed poor Carl and, dropping the grass, he took off like a rocket... ‘

The tiger ri after him, his efaws a into

‘the mud leaving. deep.

ashes. His mouth was

ooling and thick Blobs of saliva dropped to the dry ground, splattering like raindrops. ;

_ By Bell Ingrid Metzmeier . (grade 8)

Cindy and Leah Reicheltt took third place for. singing two original compositions.

‘Frank Azedy and Quentin Wright put on an act about a ven loquist and a dummy. They had everyone thinking that Frank was the dummy and Quentin was the ven- triloquist but at the end it was just the opposite. Messrs. Bell, Grieves, Woodroof and Bosello gave their interpretation of a 1920 jazz band, which the student ody appreciated. Two

Carl was.running as fast as he could, but as he tripped over a stump, the tiger pounded on him, his teeth tearing into Carl's tough skin. The tiger’s teeth founda majority of the loose meat on the boy’s body, Contentedly full the tiger strolled off for his mid- afternoon siesta.

At home Carl's mother was becoming frantic. "Carl should have been back by now,” she thought. “Where could he be?”

She ran to the missionary, hoping Carl may have stopped there. She dashed into the building, and seeing Sister Mary, asked if she hadseen Carl in the last half hour or so. The answer was negative and with her hopes smashed, Carl’s mother ran out of the missionary.

Day at Skeena .

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teachers’ on. the ’Skeena staif, Mr. Bosello and Mr. Grieves. sang two-hilarious songs. Elsie Troelstra and Sharon Euverman sang two folk songs. Monque Pollard, Barbara Thomas, Laura Quast and Jill Harris put on a_ gymnast demonstration.

Cheryl Stubbs and Mr. Grieves, the latter playing the guitar, sang two songs. Later Mr. Grieves, ac- companied Darcy Hogg ‘in ringing two pepular songs.

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"Blinded by tears she kept

ing until she fell from exhaustion. She cleared her eyes of tears and saw she was in a clearing. Suddenly she spotted a bundle of press: Beside this was a uge imprint of a tiger. She followed the trail of foot- prints and came an abrupt stop, as she saw a

bloody mess in front of her.

‘Intestines were strewn al over the ground, eyes were clawed out and the head was bashed in. Limbs were torn apart and bones were crushed.

“Maybe it was better for him,"’ thought his mother, ‘he won't have to go through the suffering of starvation like the rest of

She walked home as the sun set, ending the suffering of Carl, _

Boys ‘A’

volleyball

"By Ken Brewer (grade 3) ’

Mr.. DeWynter coached the. boys “A” volleyball team to.a successful con- clusion this year, Led by David Metzmeier, Richard

- Klein and Jamie Harvey,

the boys won their zone finals. The Smithers team

took second place. +t

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THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 8, 1976, PAGE B?

from Skeena

‘A short story

Cross

Cross country running has | just- finished for the season.

The team ran very well this year. In the zone finals’ Coleen McGhee placed first in the girl's division and Wayne Canary placed second fh the boy's division,

Of. the five meets, two were held in Prince Rupert, one in Kitimat and the remaining two were held at Skeena.

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country team By Rachet LeFranc

The girls of the team were Coleen McGhee, Christine Paupst, Irene LaFrance, May Latvonen and Edith Roy. The boys of the team were Wayne Canary, Les Hargreaves, Mike Jones, Dave Kenny, Stanton Omeje and Gary Moen.

ecial thanks should go to their coach, Mr. Grieves, who spent many hours training and encouraging the Skeena Cross Country am.

Boys Grade & basketball

By Clinton Jeffery (grade §)

‘It should be a good season for the Grade 8 boys in

.basketball this year. The

players that will be on the team will be announced Thursday or Friday af-

‘ ternoon,

oe They will be laying Thornhill and teams ‘om Prince Rupert and Kitimat,

Girls “A"

by Ken Brewer.

The girls “A" volleyball team coached by Mrs. Sharon Lewis suffered a disappointing loss in the zone inals. The team didn’t

ay q well en to Beat the Thornhill tear The girls came in third with the | Thornhill team placing

The rest of the players will be put in house teams and will play afler school on cerlain days. The coach, Mr. Gustafson, has been working very hard in getting a good team together.

They will be playing very scon and they hope their combined efforts will produce wins.

Good luck to all.

Volleyball

second. The strong Smithers team took first place. ‘There were two awards given to the “A” team, One went to June Wideman and the other to her sister, J Unfortunately the team will not be representing our zone in the Northern Winter games.

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