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Maria Young is the newly appointed children’s librarian at the TerracePublic Library and is enthuslastic about meeting her clients.

Young has been em- ployed by the library for four years and this is her first endeavor in this capacity with the library.

Book selection, organizing programs and preschool story hours will be some of the duties she will be performing.

Getting the children into the library and familiar with its surroundings will be the basis for developing their awareness, said Young.

“T really want to go all out on childrens programs,” she said. I still also would like to have aome arrangements

Young says that a special program based on a halloween theme is in the planning stages to be held on the same day as the official opening of the library, sometime in October.

Along with Young's duties at the library she will also be making school visits to assist elementary children with book selection and in any erea she might be of help ta them.

It is also planned that two preschool sessicns per week will be started Oct. 10,‘she said. Young sated these story hours will be open for children ranging in ages from three to five.

A new shipment of audio books for children is on hand and Young is optomistic these will be Greatly appreciated by the young people,

During the months of

July and August Young was responsible for writing and directing a five-week series of skits acted out by children and was very successful, said Librarian Ed Curell.

The childrens section of the recently expanded and renovated Terrace library is most appealing and certainly any child's

dream hideaway to curl

up with a good book.

HONG KONG GOAL Refugees escape by many routes

HONG KONG CP - This @iltering British colony on the Chinese border is one end of the escape route for the hundreds of thousands refugees who. have left or been forced from North and South Vietnam.

By boat, sheltered-by the coast of Vietnam and then China, they can reach this bustling centre of high-rises in three days to three weeks.

There were 6,676 last year. So far this year, there were 72,780, Many thousands more from Vietnam and

-Cambodia and Laos have

arrived in Malaysia and,

Thiailand.

And while world pressure an Communist Vietnam has slowed the flow of refugees, more than2,600 arrived here in September compared with 3,247 in August, 8,707 in July and the peaka of 19,651 and 18,608 in June and May reapectively.

Officials think the situation now may be roughly in equilibrium, about as many departing for Canada; the U.S. and other countries as arrive. But it is a delicate balance.

Canada shipped out 2,135 In flights from July 2% to Aug. 27 and another 336 in September. There are four flights in this month, five in November and two’ in December and then the targets are 1,200 refugees in each of Janvary and February and 400 a month

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The total is 50,000 from all sources. be government sponsored, half by Canadian individuals

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Eighty-two per cent of the arrivals are of Chinese oigin and 18 per cent

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" Vietnamese. Thirty-two per

cent of thein ate fram South and 64 per cent from North Vietnam.

They are distributed here in 13 camps.

The routine is relatively

simple. New arrivals in qarantine for 14 days. Then they enter one of the holding camps. They await the in- terview teams from Canada a@ the U.S., the two most active countries.

The U.S. has taken nearly 6,000 so far this year to Canada's nearly 3,000. Britain has taken about 1,900 and West Germany #0.

Most arrive relatively healthy, say Canadian of- ficials, A third or more almost immediately find work in Hong Kong's in- mmerable factories becawe this centre has a perpetual labor shortage thanks to its booming economy.

Thus, when the refugees in families or as indlviduala eventually board aircraft for new homes elsewhere, they usually carry more possessions than they a@rived with —

They aren't the. only arrivals here. Hong Kong bad half a million people in 1945 and today has§.8 million

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By DON SCHAFFER Herald Staff Writer

Two elementary schools, a rugby team and a service dub in the Terrace Kitimat area received grants totalling $2,200 this summer from the provincial gmvernment’s lottery fund.

The fund dispersed over $6 million in funds province- wide in the -three-month period fram April to June. A total of 826 grants were made airing the period, including 189 grants made by the special events fund.

The Jack Cook School in Terrace received the largest local grant, getting $1,000 to take students to the Special Ciympics in Prince George. Kitimat's Haigla Youth Club received $600, the Kitimat Rugby Club got $300, and the Alexander Elementary School in Kitimat’ also received $300. .

The $300 received by the Alexander Elementary School went toward the eventual $1,700 that its grade 7 class raised for its trip te Ketchikan, Alaska. The trip was basically a “cultural exchange" to give the students from the school a lok at the way people live in different parts of the area.

The students caught the tus to Terrace, where they oonnected with the train to Prine Rupert. From there, they went by ferry to Ket- chikan, a new experience for most of. the children, and travelled by van to Ket- chikan High School,

The 32 students, with their teacher David MacIntyre amdanother chaperone, Aki Graber, were billeted at the highschool for a total of five days. They toured the city, went swimming in the ocean and met all sorts of new yeople.

MacIntyre said that the

trip was a real success, The

tther $1,400 was raised by

-the students by having a ski-

a-thon along with other activities.

The Jack Cook School used their $1,000 grant to take 20 students and 15 adults from the Three Rivers Workshop to Prince George for the Northern Interior ‘Special Olympics.

The group jeft May 30 and. returned June 1 with the only

two trophies presented. Lenore Outerbridge of the Jack Cook School said that the trip was a great time for all concerned. ‘

The Kitlmat Rugby Club took a trip to Prince George in early June to play in a tournament. They received $300 which they put toward travelling and hotel ex- penses. John Shaw said that the club were runners-up to Kamloops, and gained valuable experience by flaying clubs outside the immediate aren.

The Halsla Youth Club in Kitamaat Village received $0) toward a trip to Eugene, Oregon. A group of nine girls and the organizer, Verna Grant, the alcohol and drug

The Herald Tuesday, October 2, 978, Pass 13

Lottery grants here,

counsellor, went to Eugene to attend a basketball camp.

“We didn’t get anywhere near what we asked for from the government in the way of a grant,’ sald Grant, “But that wasa good thing as well, because the biggest thing about the trip wasn't that the girls went to play basketball, but that they learned how to earn money and to spend it productively.”’

The girls raised $2,400 to @ with their $600 grant, and Grant said that another worthwhile thing about the tip was that the parenta of the girls got invalved in the money-ralsing activities.

Yet another part af the experience was that the girls got to get out of the village

and how they’re used

end ses what the rest of the : world was like, "

“Some of the girls have cever been out of the village before the trip,” Grant said. “Weatayed in the University @ Oregon residences for a week (June 23 ta June 0), and the girls really enjoyed it We also wanted to show. them some of the things that giting a good education could bring them, and I think they were really im-, premed'”

ra said that ate was very happy that grou gt the grant, and the 3000 really saved them a lot of work in money ralsing.

Two elementary schools, a

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Grace McCarthy here

Grace McCarthy, the deputy premier and provincial minister of human‘esources, will be in Terrace Wednesday. She will be presenting the year of the child and family award to a

mimber of Terrace citizens *

and service organizations.

Receiving the awards are Pamela Grimshaw, Charles Crown, Trean Crown, Jack Cook, and Mr, and Mrs, James Caruso. ;

McCarthy will also present the award to a represen- tative of the Terrace and District Christian Council for social resources.

Dan Anondy, the district supervisor for human resources in Terrace, says McCarthy will also attend the official opening of the

Skeena Residence on Sparks Street. “The residence has

facilities for 12 retarded.

adults, and is the first of its kind in Terrace,” he said. “Five people will be going into it early in October, the balance when the facility is fully ready.’

The Skeena residence is being formed out of two former teacherages. Anondy explained that there is a real

reed for .the facility and _§

there will be no problem “filling it’. The awards presentations

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