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Every year in B.C. since 1984, an award is given to a Canadian resident living in’ B.C. who is 65 years or older and has a demonstrated record of voluntary service to the community. The Brock House _ Society, in cooperation with the Bank of Montreal, initiated sponsoring this award. The . award is the Brock House Society medal and a $5,000 Bank of Montreal non-taxable ~ grant. .

One such person nominated last year for this award was Terrace resident Gertrude Grundman. Her nomination was supported by many organizations and people in the community. Those who know Gertie realize she is one of those tireless people helping out ‘ wherever a helping hand is needed. Although Gertie did not win the award, she felt very honored to be nominated.

Each nominee’s history becomes a valued part of the Brock House Archives. Gertie received a Certificate of Honour in recognition of being nominated for the British Col- umbia Senior Award for out- standing voluntary community.

service. Nominations for the 1989 award may be submitted to Brock House in Vancouver or any Bank of Montreal branch manager in B.C. no

later than the close of business _

August 31, 1989.

By going to flea markets, garage sales or the farmers’ market, you sometimes get to

tle different than your average next door neighbor. When I took my weekly stroll through the farmers’ market and stop- ped by the table with the Man- dalas (an ancient Indian meditation device), I met just one such person. Although we had never met before, we | started talking and it was like we’d known each other for a long time.

One thing led to another, and I ended up having a glass of iced tea at her home the other day, while looking at a fabulous collection of artifacts and strange and wonderful

"things she has assembled over the years. Her unusual and in-

teresting things are scattered all through the house. Every room is furnished with something an-

tique, something odd or wood or something glass. She also has a wonderful collection of

old clutch purses, antique irons

* and vanity mirrors. She has beautiful dressers restored to the.original wood after pain-

stakingly removing 15 coats of paint of different colors. All of

‘this is amongst contemporary . farniture and rattan picces.

Besides being an avid collec- tor, she’s been a truckdriver, — she has operated a forklife, she occasionally drives a schoolbus

' weekend for Terrace Pipes and _ Drums, and lots of things were

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and she is also an aerobics in- | structor. The day I met Fay and daughter Teneille, they — wore identical sweatshirts .say- ing “Don’t Worry — Be Hop- py’’. It suited them to a ‘‘tee’’, as their last name is Hopp.

There was-also a prize for all won a pass'to the Hot Spr-

Mrs. Elder’s Group. ©" - Next year, this is going to be bigger and better. A footnote: Some teams went to Vesta : Douglas’ house for the autograph needed from a city official; One of the teams came back with an envelope and a donation from Vesta for the Terrace Pipes.and Drums. All said it was truly a fun evening!

‘Last weekend was the

going on in support of the band. It started off with a pan- cake breakfast on Lazelle Ave. - last Saturday morning. There were lots.of people there when I arrived for breakfast. All the stuff for the breakfast was donated by many community- minded businesses, and the band members cooked up a storm. — That same night, the Terrace Legion sponsored a B.B.Q. and a scavenger hunt to aid the Terrace Pipes and Drums. The scavenger hunt was a riot. A total of 10 teams entered, each team consisting of four people. Not at all bad for a first time. Each team was given a list of 19 items they had to scrounge up. oO The first item on the list was a set of false teeth (real ones), they had to get ladies’ bikini _ underwear (red or black), and the autograph of a city official. They had to know the special at the Bavarian Inn for that night, and trying to get it over the phone did not work — they had to go there to find out. They also had to find out how many sports were represented by the monkey in All Season’s Sporting Goods and they had to get a Close Up magazine for

other day,. visiting-here with ‘their family from Australia. —

Springs... | Alice Spr of Australia near Ayers Rock, the biggest rock in the world. . Toni-Anne isin Grade 6 and Peita in Grade 8, They. are. travelling around for three _months and they were happy to escape the Australian winter for our.summer. Not that it

winter temperature is 10 above and the average nighttime low is about 2 above. (Wouldn’t we like to settle for winters like that.) _ Since their seasons are the opposite of ours I thought it interesting when they talked about the school year. The school year starts.at the end of January with a week off at ‘Easter time and four weeks off during their winter (which is our summer). During their summer (our winter)-they enjoy.

the week of June 24-30. And six weeks’ summer holidays. these were just some of the Then there are public holidays, things. for which the schools close for

a day here and there, and they also get a week off in the mid- dle of the last semester. For them, this is Spring break, the same time our schools enjoy a break during the Fall.

All team members also had

to be dressed in graffiti style.

‘The young and the young-at- heart participated in this event.

the things on the list, but some of them did. They were award- ed points for however many things they had managed to collect. The first team in, with

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. rainy season is around Easter

The Canadian team, Including Anne-Marie Nehring, won

the recent dragon boat competition held in Hong Kong, the _

first time in history the Chinese team was defeated. Anne- Marie Is a former Northwest resident who comes back here occasionally to teach painting classes; for her story of th

race, see Alle Toop in next week’s Terrace Review. -

have never touched snow or had a rip roarin’ good snowball fight. They also think that the kids here, their age, are much

- more fashionable and the music is different. In Australia you can actually understand all the words to the songs, here you

The part of Australia they live in is really dry, there are not as many green trees, and the green is a dingy and dry- looking green. They tell me that our colors are much richer. The only time they have any kind of a river flowing is when it rains and the dry river- bed fills up with water. Their ing Terrace to go On a cross-"_ Canada tour by car.

I very much enjoyed talking to these youngsters. Thanks Toni-Anne and Peita. Good

luck and enjoy your trip.

time, and this year it rained so much that the river overflowed and flooded. It was so bad that it even gave them a couple of extra days off school. -

They tell me that the Cana- dian mosquitoes are,much big- ger than the Australian ones. They are very impressed with our mountains and no, they

Many Terrace kids who grad- uated around 1971 or 1972 will

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