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Vol: XXXV Issue: 9 Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 Santa brings smiles LCCJoins provincial energy group
By Shawne Mohl Endeavour Staff
Rising energy costs have forced LCC to join with other insti tutions across the province to form a consumer group. The Public Institutional Consumers of Alberta (PICA) was . formed in an attempt to control energy costs for its members when deregulation takes effect Jan. 1. Memebership in PICA is completely voluntary and includes colleges, universities, public schools and health authorities, including hospitals from throughout the province. The consumer group has a goal to provide its members with the means to secure electrical supply with predictable and bel ter than market rates. Sixteen Alberta power companies were invited lo tender for energy supply to the member institutions. 'The two companies that PICA chose were Epcor (Edmonton) and Em-on (Texas)," said Rick Buis, vice president of corportate services at LCC. Although Epcor was picked as the preferred supplier by other members of PICA, the Board of Govemors at LCC decided Nov. 28 to enter into a five-year purchase contract beginning Jan. 1, with Enmax, a Calgary-based energy provider. This decision came just before an announcement from Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to freeze the provincial Energy Utilities Board surtax On natural gas and electricity in an effort to give Albertans temporary relief from spiralling energy costs.
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Hotnefront p.12 PHOTO BY MELISSA OLSON Entertainment Old Saint Nick and a hard-working elf take gift suggestions from an excited Christtnas parties and traditions p.19 group of childrien from the LCC daycare. Santa stopped by LCC on his way tothe North Pole. Sports Joel Martin profile p.30
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2 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 COLLEGE NEWS THE ENDEAVOUR Suicide: Christmas myth, January reality
society today is becoming more superficial and province of Alberta. BY STEVE KUNO focused on the individual. This attitude often leaves In 1997, 115 people took their lives in the area iMiiivtMrSiifl people contemplating suicide, in an isolated position, classified as rural north, which does not include Edmonton. In the Lethbridge area, classified as rural Suicide is the number one cause of injury related and the expression of their thoughts of death, more south, 82 people killed themselves. death in Alberta and is the second leading cause of easily expressible. Wright attributes this to the isolation the residents death amongst Canadians age 10-24. Dube also expresses concem over the amount of of northern Alberta experience. Alberta has the second highest rate of suicide per knowledge society has about suicide and it's causes. "There's a lot to be said about the amount of serv capita in the country after Quebec. "We don't equate mental stress and difficulties to ices available," she says. It remains a persistent myth that the rate of suicide physical difficulties," he said, "If someone breaks In the latest statistics available, dating from 1997, increases over the Christmas holiday season. their leg you can actually see it." Mental pain, he 402 Albertans committed suicide. According to Hilde Schlosar, executive director of says remains covered. According to Dube this number does not reflect the Samaritans, the extra protective factors that go Because of the hidden quality of mental anguish, the greater, potential reality. into place during this time help keep the amount of Dube says more money needs to be invested in the suicides at an average level. services available to people in distress. Single vehicle accidents and senior citizens over dosing on medication are just two examples of death "Even the most lonely people will be reached out "Counselling services are grossly under-funded," that could fall into either the accidental or intentional to," said Schlosar. Dube said. category. She says extra donations going to the food bank, While many Albertans do pay premiums for health "It is important that people be aware that these the giving of money to other charities, and people care, visiting a doctor and receiving treatment for a numbers are people," Dube says. generally being kinder to each other are some of the physical problem at the hospital remains essentially reasons for the level rate of suicides during this time. free. Although Dube stresses that because someone If the rate of suicide remains at average. Alberta can expect roughly 400 deaths this year. This rate, "It's after the holidays when we tend to see a rise is suicidal it does not mean that they have a mental altered for changes in population, has remained in the number of suicides," Schlosar said. illness. He says people suffering from depression and approximately the same since the 197Gs. She said it is when people retum to their usual rou manic-stress disorder are not necessarily going to get tines that the suicide rate begins to rise. free treatment. Counselling services charge on a slid People who are contemplating suicide have servic es available to them. Statistically, the largest number of self-inflicted ing scale from nothing to over $50 an hour. deaths occur in fall and spring. "We're one of the few countries in the world that The Samaritans, a 24-hour crisis phone-line (320- 1212), gives people under stress someone to talk to. "Christmas is the time of highest depression and doesn't have a strategic suicide plan," says Joan The Samaritans does not take part in direct inter lowest suicide," says John Dube, Lethbridge Family Wright, executive director of the Canadian vention but can direct a crisis team to prevent and Services program director He adds that the number Association of Suicide Prevention. assist anyone considering taking their own life. of suicides actually dips below average during this "More dollars need to be put in education," she Lethbridge Family Services and Crossroads time. says. Counselling offers more long-term care. "It's a sad fact of today's society. We want instant Alberta is not uniform in the amount of suicides friendship. When people ask 'How are you doing?' which occur by area. The north suffers from a signif They recommend seeking the services at they don't really care, they don't really want to icantly greater number of suicides than the rest of the Lethbridge Regional Hospital emergency department know," said Dube for an example, describing how province says the chief medical examiner for the in extreme cases where there is a threat to life. Monday morning collision leaves two injured
BY E. A. LAGASSE EndeairoBf staff • Two men were taken to hospital with minor injuries and later released following a collision on College Drive on Monday. Witnesses at the scene say a white Pontiac travelling south tumed from College Drive into the Sportsplex entrance in the path of a grey Olds 88 heading north, shortly before 10 a.m. Emergency services transported the male driver of the Olds to hospital on a sti-etcher. He suffered Emergency medical minor facial injuries. technicians prepare The driver of the Pontiac had lacerations to his to transport the hand. Neither vehicle was carrying passengers. injured driver of an No charges have been laid and police are still Olds 88 after a colli mvesUgating the incident. sion on College Drive Perry Albert, head of campus security, says the on Monday morning. location of the collision is just north of the cam Tha driver wa^' pus boundary which ends at Tudor Boulevard. Although the speed limit on campus is 30 km/h, released from hospi the spot where the collision occurred would be the tal the same day. standard city speed limit of 50 km/h. PHOTO BY E A LAGASSE
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PHOTO BY SONYA STATHAM Crimilial Justice Alyscia Herauf, renewable resources student, examines an aquatic bug under a microscope during a lab. Criminal Justice students will be IVCF volunteering their time for the Exotic Travel Light Tour on Dec. 17. On Dec. 7 there will be a club meet The students will be directing traffic ing in the Sunflower room. for the tour, which begins at Sp.m. at Afterwards the club will go food- the Enmax Centre. For. more informa First Nations drive carolling for the food bank in Tudor Estates with the other LCC tion on the tour contact Steve Koch at Dean Stetson, Dean of Student Exotic Travel. clubs. IVCF member, Karen Franz Services at LCC will have another invites everyone in the school to name to go by after Thursday, Dec.7. "come out for a great time!" In a special ceremony performed by a Blood Trit>e Elder at the LCC Centre H^^' 1 English as a Core, Stetson will be given a v^^ir' '^^^e Blackfoot name. H^i«^ Second Language "It's a really great honour. It's usu B^a |p^ The majority of ESL students will be ally given to someone who has accom K^ plished a great deal for the native peo ^^^Bkkt^ R** getting their certificate of recognition. ^^Hl^Ji fiy^ «^ H^*^^^ Many of the students will be retuming ple," says LCC advisor Val Mcfarlane, after Christmas to finish their courses. who has been involved in arranging the ceremony. "I think he's only the HI 9^ '^^^wH f^/" second member of LCC to receive this ff^S^^YtH^"^ •~~~J m honour," she says. i^^**''''' Stetson is retiring from LCC after Enyironmental over 28 years of service. HKsB The ceremony is scheduled for 4 Sciences p.m. at Centre Core. Tony Manyfingers, aboriginal work place Students in the Environmental ment coordinator will be master of cer PHOTO BY MEUSSA OLSON Sciences program are gearing up for emonies. Everyone is welcome to The LCC students' chapter of the International / final exams this week. A few labs attend. Association of Administrative Professionals have remain to be completed, says received their new colour printer for desktop publishing Conservation Enforcement instructor, Guy L'Heurieux. after fundraising for the last year and a half. Sheila "We're in survival mode right now," VViebe, LAPP, president, presents desktop publishing he says. instructor, Joy Tustian with the printer on Dec. 1.
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Miniam Bravo, Child Care Ghislain Chabot, Ag / Heavy Duty Seung-Youn Kim Evan Harker, Business Admin. "We open our presents at Midnight "We go to midnight mass, and then "We enjoy (Christmas time) with "We have fish and chips on on New Year's Eve." we open our Christmas gifts and eat friends and go to a movie." Christmas Eve every year." meat pie." 4 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 VIEWPOINT THE ENDEAVOUR Coyote Ugly
Dinner is served... Dan Slezak (left) and Dustin Wells (right), Environmental Science students are shown here doing an analysis of a coyote stomach .
PHOTO BY RICKI TINK Think before you drink As Christmas nears and the That's where it all goes wrong. blood all over you, you see the small price to pay considering rum and eggnogs are brought Just when you think you are car being pried open with the you could kill yourself or some out, people will find themselves safe, you take a comer too fast, Jaws of Life and bodies being one else. People are there to caught up in the Christmas spirit or the road is icy, and, suddenly, pulled out. (Are they O.K.?). help, people volunteer their time and maybe have a few too many you are on the wrong side of the Everything feels so surreal as the every weekend from Dec. I to drinks. Many of us have been road and wham! You hit a car bodies are placed on a stretcher Dec 31 including New Year's there; a night out with the family head-on on the other side of the and covered with a body bag. eve to help you get home safely. or friends for a Christmas cele road. (How did that get there?). You begin to sober up as the This is a free service with dona bration; God knows you haven't You get out of your car; you panic sets in. (They can't be tions welcome; all proceeds go seen each other in ages. You can't even feel the pain from dead....) The baby is put into the to the U of L athletics depart have a few drinks, then a few your broken nose and your cut- ambulance and rushed away, ment. more and, before you know it, up face. You hear the sirens blar your head is pounding. (What The key to your safety and the you are completely smashed and ing in the distance. (What's have I done?) Your heart is rac safety of others lies in the end it is time to go home. going on?). ing and suddenly.... less opportunities available to The question is how do you Then you see it, the other can POW! you. Call someone to pick you get there? As you make your way over you You are back at the party, get up, call a cab, use the Operation The big decision; your mind hear the screams of a baby from ting ready to put the key in your Red Nose program, or the goes through the whole process. the back seat. (Where are the car door. Right now you get a Altemate Driver program, which 'Well, I could call a cab, no, that parents?). The car is so badly second chance; what will you is similar to Operation Red Nose is too expensive, or, I spent all smashed it is crushed like an decide? and runs all year, take the bus if of my money on booze. Are the accordion, the front end is right Where there is a problem, it's still running, do whatever it buses still running? It's 3 a.m. up to the start of the backseat, there is always a solution. If you takes to be responsible because forget it. My car is parked just where the baby continues to don't want to spend the money in the end it's up to you to make across the street, I could always howl. (Where are the parents?). on a cab, or you can't afford the right choice. drive, right? I am only two The ambulance and police one, or you don't want to leave This Christmas season take.the blocks away from home, nothing arrive; you are grabbed, cuffed your car overnight, remember proper precautions and please bad will happen. I am invinci and thrown into the backseat of Operation Red Nose. People will don't drink and drive because no ble.' the police car. As you sit there, come get you and your car and one gains when it is all over. drive you home. They try to be there to get you 2000" 2001 in twenty minutes or less; a See related story on Page 7
^Md^'f^ihigWi Editors: Lynn Ske: Got a beef? Got a bouquet? : Dariel Bethune Rob Vogt Mike Zmurchyk Advisors: Anne Raslask Just got something to say? Technlcla^: Kevin Kooy Bill Whitelaw Lynda Varzari Write a letter to the editor
146 times each school year by the Print Joumaiism and You can drop your letter off at AN 1719 or Advertising/Public Relations students of LCC e-mail it to endeavor @raptor.lethbridgec .ab.ca ^^^i^Pi^^^vour OmQQ'M^n%t' Phone: 320-3301 lfS;a|Xi35^^„v.'..^.. THE ENDEAVOUR COLLEGE NEWS WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 • 5 Hands-on at industry show Students get involved in the real business of promoting tourism
BY AMBER CASEY ization and running of the show. rodeo for the visitors. iRdBiviBr staff Over 65 students volunteered to take "Every single one of them has been part in the show. outstanding. They are wonderful and The head of the Travel and Tourism Anderson said they worked hard, " . are doing very professional work," program heard plenty of good stuff . . coming in early in the morning and said Anderson. about her students last week. staying late at night." "It was a good experience, meeting Jane Anderson received phone calls The class received training from people from different countries and from general managers and directors conference organizers on how to han getting our names out there to be rec of the Canada West Marketplace dle their responsibilities. The.se ognized in the tourism field," said sec tourism industry show commending responsibilities included meeting and ond-year student Jodi Colwill. students in the program for the great greeting people at the airport and "It was a good learning opportunity job they did at the show. seven different hotels throughout the and gave me the chance to interact The show was held for the first time city. with people in the tourism trade," said in Lethbridge at the Exhibition They manned information desks, student Sacha Smith. Pavillion, running from Nov. 26 to delivered gift baskets, hosted recep Anderson was pleased with the stu PHOTO BY E. A. LAGASSE Nov. 29. tions, assisted event coordinators and dent attitudes and volunteer work and Travel and Tourism students gained worked as translators and office assis said it was great for them to get their Second-year broadcast jour hands-on experience through volunteer tants. names and faces out there, and to learn nalism student Christine Cook participation in the preparation, organ- They monitored the buying and sell about what the industry is all about. in the studio. ing at the show and planned a mini "They're doing it all," she said.
Canada is no stranger to the disease. HFV each yeaf.' BY TliNA COBB Despite the fact that our health-Care Last year the AIDS cases in Alberta indaawMi'staff Canada system is one of the finest in the represented eight per cent of all cases world, ADDS has not left Canada out of nationally. Since 1990, nearly 1,000 Over 34 million adults and 1.4 mil the equation. AIDS cases are from this province. lion children worldwide are infected The cumulative total of Canadians During the holiday season it is espe saw AIDS with HIV, the virus responsible for diagnosed with AIDS in 1999 was cially important for people to remem AIDS. 16,913. ber the risk of contracting HIV through AIDS is an epidemic. It*s a fatal dis One hundred and ninety-six of those sexual contact or intravenous drug use. totals rise ease and it's found everywhere. were children under the age of 15. And Traditionally a time for higher alco These statistics were compiled by that's not the whole story. Added to hol consumption which may lead to the World Health Organization. these numbers are the many cases that impaired judgement when it comes to In 1999 the global total of deaths in 1999 go undiagnosed and unreported. making decisions about behaviour, ifs from AIDS was the highest ever. As we approach the Christmas holi worth bearing in mind that poor deci Despite new medications that have • days, we need to increase awareness of sions about personal conduct are not helped slow the rate of deaths in the - WHO this disease. just potentialy dangerous, they could westem world, 2.8 million people died. In Canada 5,000 people contract i^ deadly.
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BY LEAH HOLLIDAY grows about five new services every cars home if they have had too much to Operation Red Nose runs every week EndMOTM Stalf year it is running. drink. Last year alone there were 52,000 end from Dec. I to Dec. 31, including "There isn't one in the States yet," volunteers nationwide with 101,668 trips Thursdays Dec. 14, 21, 28 and New Once again as the Christmas season says Slavin, Operation Red Nose organ made to pick up people in need of the Year's Eve. nears. Operation Red Nose, a service for izer at the U of L. "But they are talking service. Although this is Operation Red Nose's people to use as an alternative to drink about starting one." Lethbridge has contributed to the sixth year in the making, they have just ing and driving, is starting up here in The Lethbridge organization runs out nation wide success of volunteers. switched their phone number to 320- Lethbridge. of the University of Lethbridge. "Last year we had about 554 volun 4155. The program began 17 years ago in Although it is a free service, any dona teers," said Slavin. "This year we are "We just changed our number from Laval, Que. and is now in its sixth year tions go to the U of L Athletics hoping for 600. Right now we only have the past five years, " said Slavin. "So il's here in Lethbridge. Last year there were Department. about 400, but lots of people come in for really important that people know our 96 host organizations across Canada, as The program has benefitted many New Year's (Eve)." new number." well as services in France and organizations across the country earning Slavin says their goal is to get to peo For more information about the organ Switzerland. $1,100,000 in donations. ple within 20 minutes of their call. ization or how to volunteer contact Sandy Slavin says the organization People from all over Canada volunteer "(Although) It does slow down around Sandy Slavin at 329-2681. their time to help drive people and their 2 a.m." said Slavin. Campus Crime Updates Gas prices vary provincially
BY LYNN SKETCHLEY BY JOANNE MARTHALLER cities usually sell more gas. This allows Endiwrar^ffl iBiiawMfSiall them to operate at a lower profit mar gin for every litre sold. The year 2000 brought many ups and Not completely true. LCC evades extensive vandalism downs in the lives of people across the On Saturday, Dec. 2, prices at Shell country. The price of gasoline went up stations across the province for regular The Physical Facilities department says vandalism at Lethbridge Community over the course of the year, leaving gasoline fluctuated from one place to College has been minimal during the fall semester. Reports of vandalism included: people wondering why. the next. • a broken window in the front entrance door discovered by security on their "You don't get as much Lethbridge locations rounds during October. Perry Albert, head of physical facilities, says there were no for what you pay for," rang in at 68.9, Calgary at witnesses. said Stacey Kempe, an 66.9, Medicine Hat • a cement picnic table overturned outside the Andrews building also in October, Office Administration stu charged 71.9, Red Deer however nothing was reported to security. dent. was 69.9 and Edmonton • three windows in the Cousins Building walkway broken during the hours of 3 On the web site came in at 67.9. and 5 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 19. Albert says security discovered the broken windows www.gaswatch.com, Small town Shell sta on their routine check. He says a rock or brick may have been used. There were no many reasons were given tions also had varied rates. suspects in the incident. for the increased cost. In Taber the going rate -' '' . _ ., . ..V- Local demand for gas, was 69.9, Pincher Creek and lodal supply condi was at 67.9, and Threatening student goes to trial tions, vary from area to Claresholm Shell had the area. lowest at 66.9. A former Lethbridge Community College student who is charged with uttering The cost to get the gas But that is not the low threats against an instructor will go to trial on Dec. 18. to the pumps in some Melody Marlatt, est in the province. In The accused failed to appear in court Oct. 25 and a warrant was issued for his areas of Canada is also Travel and Tourism, Standoff, the Outwest Gas arrest. He was to appear in court at a later date and when he failed to show again, higher than others. watches the dollars station charged only 62.9 another warant was issued for his arrest. He has since been remanded in custody. The web site also said add up. cents per litre. The incident occured on Feb. 2, 2000. that retailers in large
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The riders focus completely on the task at hand as they pre pare to be flying out of the chute on the bulls back.
Relaxing before the intensity begins, the riders hang over the rail of the chute, where the bull awaits.
The rider dusts off his hat after a The angry bull darts after the rodeo clown powerful after an intense bout with its rider. ride and a painful looking fall off the bull.
The rider rocks and rolls as the bucking bull attempts to throw him off. 9 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 COLLEGE NEWS THE ENDEAVOUR earing Up For Ctiristmas Third in a three-part series So many The bird and the beer
recipes BY MICHAEL ZMURCHYK As my blood pressure begins to rise I InilBawur staff l:ry to take a quick time-out to decide what I should do. untried After having downed a few beers and I know I could nuke it in the watched the game come to a close, I microwave. Unfortunately, as I try it BY E. A. LAGASSE drifted off to sleep for a while. When I doesn't seem to be fitting no matter BUMWft stiff woke again, I felt like a new man, how I stuff it. refreshed and ready to cook that turkey. I have only two other options. The •'-" There's an old Chinese proverb After a few wake-up yawns and first, I abandon this bird, toss him in that goes something like - no banging into a few walls until I found t:lie backyard for the dog and head on woman will ever live long enough my balance, I came into the kitchen to down to the grocery store to pick up to try all the recipes she clips from see my beautiful masterpiece lying in one of the ones cooking. Or? Hey, I'll magazines and food packages. the pan, waiting for a nice hot cook. get a couple cases of beer. Ya that's it, Doesn't sound very Chinese, does Let's see, everyone is arriving for E'll get my guests drunk, that way they it? six, and it's four now. won't notice time passing and won't I haye this little do-it-yourself "Alright, I've got lots of time, realize it's nine o'clock when we actu recipe book with blank pages. I was Where's that cookbook. ally eat. so excited when I got it and I " I'll check to see when I need to put I tossed in the turkey and drove to remember clipping recipes carefully this thing in the oven. the liquor store. After having a few and gluing them into the book. After Here we are. First turn the oven on to beers myself and getting the rest of the a while I just clipped the recipes about 350 degrees. Check. Then place supper ready, which consists of a This is going to be one heck of a good and shoved them in the book. the turkey in, cover with lid or foil for prepackaged salad and potatoes from a meal, I just hope I can remember it in So every time I take the book out about four hours... box, my guests start to arrive. the morning and don't burn down the of the drawer, which is not too terri "Oh $'^%&#@. Four hours!" Before they have a chance to even house, due to passing out and forgetting bly often, all these bits of paper, and What am I going to do? I never get in the door I greet them with a about this bird. tiny cut out pieces of cardboard fall expected it would take four hours to smile and a nice stiff drink, or two. 1 t*hink next year we'll just order out. I haven't actually tried any of cook this thing. pizza. them yet, but I found one that looks just the thing for Christmas baking. It's quick and easy and there's no actual baking involved. Here goes: The angel goes on top One cup of chocolate chips and BY JOANNE MARTHALLER little glass balls where the paint chips off easily. one cup of butterscotch chips. Melt Endeavour staff Once you have decorations on the floor surrounding the them together in a pan over low tree, it's time to put them on. Lights are a good start but be heat. So you've found the perfect sure they are specifically indoor bulbs. Take one cup of chopped walnuts Christmas tree and cut it to fit the The angel or star should be put on top of the tree and one cup of flaked coconut and size of your house. Now it needs before the ornaments go on, in case you have a disas mix with contents of package ... some decorations to spruce things ter and knock the tree over while reaching up there. Oh dear. There's no way of telling up. Next come ornaments. As long as you didn't get a what "contents of package" could If you live away from home and tree with needles that are slippery and point to the have been. This little scrap of card don't have decorations of your own, ground, your ornaments should go close to the front board doesn't smell of anything. you can revert to years past when of the branch. Try and fill in any sparse sections of "Chow Bars" is the name of the you made ornaments in school. the tree with lights and ornaments. recipe. O.K. Assuming we know the Last comes the tinsel or garland. Do not overdo it. mystery ingredient, put the mixture Thread some popcom onto a piece of string and wind it around the tree. A little goes a long way, otherwise you will not be in a eight inch square pan and pour able to see the tree if it's buried under silver, glitter the melted chips over it. If all else fails, why not use streamers. If they are good enough ing tinsel. Chill to harden then cut into 25 Once finished, sit back and admire the beauty of squares. Oh Hey! I knew there was to celebrate birthdays, why not get use out of them at Christmas as nature in your own home. something Chinese about it. Do not forget to water the tree daily, and turn the "Contents of package" was chow well. Ornaments are not all that expen lights off when you go to bed. You don't want to mein noodles. awaken to the smoke detector going off. Enjoy, as they say. sive if you buy plastic ones, or the Never mind the paper, it's the thought that counts BY ROB VOGT What you need to do is bu^ one of those rolls of That is why it is so important for beginners not to EnilBawur staff wrapping paper big enough tc make a lot of mistakes use paper with Santa or reindeer or some other living with. The dollar stores usually have an ample supply, creature on it. If you need to fix up a gap, it is hard to If man versus turkey is the greatest battle at however they seem to-charge more than a dol match up the body parts exactly. Christmas time, mar versus wrapping paper is lar now. There is nothing more horrifying for your six-year- the second most fierce. Measure yom present on the paper old niece then Rudolph with two heads or Santa with I reached into my bachelor's handbook by placing it on the paper and wrap none at all. to find some advice on how to wrap a ping it first, Do not tape. Make the If none of this makes any sense to you, I am having Christmas present. appropriate measurements then cut a hard time explaining it. The book was full of reminders of your piec< of wrapping paper. My mom always made it look so simple - and it what not to do. Wrap tie paper around the pres was always perfect. Wrap your entire present in hockey ent and use one piece of tape to How come neither I, nor any of my friends, had the tape? No. It takes the person hours to keep it in place while you deal same luck? It's never the way Mom's is (kind of like unwrap it. with the eids. our cooking, our baking, and folding our laundry). Leave it in the bag and tape the ends Those enis are my biggest night The most important thing to remember: it's the shut, add card and give the present? Uh, no mare. Fold tiiem down and in, into thought that counts. Use newspaper and masking tape? Not even some triangular form and tape up. Perhaps, the best words I have ever heard were: the illustrious Globe and Mail or National Post Theoretically there will be no gaps expos "That will be $19.95. Would you like us to wrap that." can add class to that. ing the present. If there are, you can always Oh, yes, let me count the ways. tape on a bit of excess paper. 10 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 COLLEGE NEWS THE ENDEAVOUR This is where it's at Native student centre proposed
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The Piita Paawani Leaming ; Society, formerly known as the First Nations Club would like a native student centre at Lethbridge Community College designed for "supporting native students on campus." Dean Stetson, vice president of bludent and enrolment services, elaborated on the issue at the Boaid of Governors meeting Nov 28. PHOTO BY NEILS CHRISTENSEN Recently taking a trip to Mount The DA Electric Barn to the top right of the picture, taken from the new TEC2000 third floor of the Royal College, he and others tech wing. The open area to the upper left is being considered for the new residence construction. from the school wanted some Inset Is an architect's drawing otthe proposed cottage-style residences. feed back from the college, which"' Started.;* native learning centre funding for this project, it will have to borrow money from BY KRISTEN HARDING two years ago. the Alberta Municipal Finance Corporation. Endaavour staff Jl ;/^*lThey were really pleased on "There will be a definite increase in (residence) fees, but h<^,'i^^^^haji{0m'to^ bring The preferred location of the planned new student resi there hasn't been one in over three years," said Stetson. both the "native arid non-native dences is just north of the DA Electric Barn. It was originally proposed that the new residences should students together. It's not just a ^; "It's not a definite plan, but it's 99.999 per cent certainty," be built south of the Barn, but environmental and residential place for aboriginal, studetits'to go - said Dean Stetson, LCC vice-president of student and enrol concerns, which include a 900-foot fill site requiring the con and hang out," said Stetson. ; ment services, at the Board of Governors meeting on Nov. 28. struction of a lift station with an additional expenditure of The Piita Paawani Learning Students can expect the residences to be completed before $250,000, make the location to the north more favourable. Society v^ould like to raise the Local i-esidents south of the Barn were apprehensive of the next fall. money for the new centre and original construction plans but support the north location. "We will be in the ground by February," said Rick Buis, hire an architect to build it. "The citizens that are near the south location are more in vice-president of corporate services. "They're not asking for any The residences will be cottage-style bungalows with up to favour of having the new residence on the north location near the front of the college," Stetson said. '\.mfeey;.tiiey*j:easkiiigfor,support 16 students in each building. The new complex will accom ' to work with them," said Stetson. modate 192 additional students with the possibility of future Final decisions will be made about the site after a meeting with the firm of architects, Cohos and Evamy, in the next two Although the idea was present expansion. ed only for disctisMbn at this "It's exciting," Stetson said of the project. weeks. Stetson said, although it is almost certain that the new residences will be built north of the Barn. ^stage; Stetsoii^saidjhe feels^ppsi- The college estimates construction of the project will cost Sye
PHOTO BY KEVIN KOOY Endeavour staff, print journalism and advertising/public relations students, displaying their Christmas spirit.
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Editor: Colleen Furlong Kissing your home goodbye BY TINA COBB in pack it out theory. Often students EMteavanrStan leave stuff (furniture, books, and appliances) in the apartment for an extra couple of days and find when Throw out the science experiments they retum it's gone. As soon as your you started in the refrigerator last notice to vacate has expired a land September, return the 600 beer bottles in lord has the right to dispose of your the hallway closet, vacuum the foreign stuff or even sell it. dust mites in the carpet, clean the under Remembering to pay the remainder side of the toilet seat and give a month of your bills is crucial. These will notice to your landlord before you leave. follow you wherever you go. It*s only right. Neglecting them can mean no tele December is one of the busiest months phone, cable, utilities or gas in your for students. For many, December marks next residence. Call and cancel the the end of their term of study. Sounds service on the day you move out, or wonderful, but leaving isn't always as arrange it ahead of time. easy as anticipated. There is more to do Consequently if you follow the than pack-up and head to the comforts PART UN 'terminating etiquette' accordingly it of home. is appropriate to ask your landlord for need not encounter at the end of your place and left a huge mess," says a rep On top of final exams comes the a reference letter. This will help you study period. resentative from Penny Properties. accountability of moving out responsi secure a place in the future, and shows Secondly, it is only right you leave the Finally, on the day you do move out, bly. Too many times students leave their you are a responsible tenant. apartments or housing in shambles sim place in the same shape you found it in. bring all of your stuff with you. Pack it ply because they did not prepare in time. Hopefully that is clean and undamaged. It seems trivial during crunch time to So many times, landlords are forced to worry about letting your landlord know sandblast dirt off the walls that has accu your plans, but there is 'terminating resi mulated for months, or repair that hole dence' etiquette. in the wall that just appeared one mom "Pay the rent on time, don't destroy ing. If you fail to take responsibility for the property and follow the rules of your this, you will face monetary penalties lease," says Eleanor Nichol of Braemore (amount depending on damage), and Management Ltd. ruin it for students in the future. With it already being so difficult to find housing First and foremost it is vital you give in Lethbridge (.9 per cent) vacancy rate your landlord one month written notice this year) it is important to leave land that you are leaving. This will avoid any lords with the confidence that renting to hard feelings, and ensure you get a good students isn't so bad. reference. (That is also assuming you were a tolerable tenant for the duration "One time we rented to students that of your stay.) If you fail to do this, the moved in more people than were allowed. There were footprints on the landlord has the right to charge you for PHOTO BY NEILS CHRISTENSEN an additional month. An expense you wall , they had been cooking in the fire The weight of packing day, or just a heavy box? Roommates: balancing a
BY JESSIE GOERTZEN EndeawBUf staff Four guys, one house and lots of visitors. Will Letkeman, second year Criminal Justice student, lives in a busy house but seems to have fun with it and the people. "This year was better than last, we lived in an apartment with only three rooms so two of us always had to room together," he said. "We were always in each others face, it got to be annoying some times." Will and his other roommates planned to live together since grad uating from Garden Valley Collegiate High in Winkler, Manitoba. They were all coming to Lethbridge to attend LCC, so to beat the high prices of rent; they squished into a small apartment and barely survived last year. They decided to splurge this year artd rent out a house. With four bedrooms, up and downstairs, there's more space for all. 'There's always someone to talk to, but you can get away from them when you need to." To lighten the mood in the house these guys like to play practical jokes on each other. "We always put fruit in each others pillows and wait to see how long until that person notices." One of his roommates slept with a banana in his pillow for a cou ple nights. Shoes in the freezer seem to be a good joke as well. There is a down side sometimes with roommates though, "Two of my buddies don't do the dishes, which makes me angry. Also, we all pay for food separately, but when one person runs out of something, another's groceries will disappear. We never talk about it, it just happens."
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY WILL LETKEMAN Roommates are a good idea for most students to make living expenses easier, and besides some minor spats, the good times Roomates Dustin Smaill and on the right, Will Letkeman are having fun carv- mostly outweigh the bad ing a pumpkin at halloween. THE ENDEAVOUR FEATURES WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 • 13 Will to live and breathe
BY STEVE KUNO "An aunt in Missisauga helped," he says, but essen Then according to Dean a miracle occurred. Just Endeavaur staff tially he was separated from his family with his only prior to the operation Wesley began to breath on his company being doctors and nurses. own. Doctors were dumbfounded at the time but Dean Small and naked, he lies on his side, eyes closed Surgery was performed to remove the excess muscle credited his son's recovery to all the prayers. beneath the warm glow of his incubator. Tubes snake from his heart but complications ensued when doctors On March 11, 1980 Wesley was well enough to into his nose and belly, electrodes are taped to his legs, return home, this time to stay. chest and head. His parents lives, which were in stasis until then, The photograph lacks much of the detail of his face were able to take on the semblance of normalcy. Dean but his mouth is open in a small "o" of exhausted rest. enrolled at LCC and graduated in 1981. This is a picture taken in 1979 of LCC student Although his life is not entirely free of hospitals, Wesley Sallenback, 21, after an emergency operation in Wesley says it was much more of concern in his earlier Calgary just days after he was born. life. He says this despite receiving a pig heart valve It appears along with his story, two years later, in the transplant five years ago. He expects to have a similar Sept. 24, 1981 issue of the Endeavour. Wesley's father transplant in around 4 0 years because a pigs heart valve Dean was attending LCC that year. When Wesley's doesn't grow at the same rate as a human's would. story first ran in the paper he was only two and a half Wesley says he doesn't recall anything of his unusual years old and a survivor of open-heart surgery. early life although he figures it had an affect on him. Bom six-weeks pre-mature, Wesley was flown His bond wasn't as strong with his mother and he immediately to Calgary because of a host of serious says he would often choose to be with his father over medical problems including a severely malformed her. Because of his malformed esophagus Wesley esophagus which was separated into two parts. All couldn't breastfeed which he says could have been a would require extensive surgery and he would come factor. close to death more than once. "He was a little different socially, he was very offi "It was uncertain," Dean says of the 14 months his cial," Dean says. He attributes this to all the doctors son spent in hospital. It's an understatement but he and nurses Wesley spent so much time with and says the uncertainty was good in some ways. because he wasn't held as much as a child. "If we knew it was going to be 14 months it would PHOTO BY E. A. LAGASSt Overall Dean says his experience with Wesley gave have been a lot harder," he says. Wesley Sallenback, a general studies him a new appreciation of life. It was particularly hard for Wesley's father and student at LCC. "It made us respect life...the miracle of life. It made mother Cindy when a doctor in Lethbridge suspected me appreciate it," he says. their year old son had a muscle build-up around a heart believed a nerve that controlled his diaphragm was cut. Despite ongoing medical issues Wesley continues valve. Wesley was connected to a respirator and a 10-day positive into his future. Wesley would have to be flown to Toronto in stay turned into three months. After graduating from LCC he plans on taking law, January of 1980 for surgery. A second surgery was scheduled, this time to sew his which after looking at his first 14 months of life, "The finances weren't there for them to stay with two diaphragms together. A less then ideal but essen should be a breeze. rae," says Wesley. tial procedure for Wesley to breath on his own. Coffee: LCC's connection WMEPE THE *FON* NEVER SETS/ to the Third World BY STEVE KUNO side of the world and its price is much Eniaawar staff closer to Latin American and African varieties. Every week the students of LCC con In response to growing consumer sume 250 pounds or $1500 worth of regard for third-world working condi coffee. Though they may not realize it, tions, various organizations throughout coffee is, according to author Gregory Europe, North America and other coun Dicum, 'An immediate, tangible con tries have been working to support and nection to the rural poor in some of the build consumer awareness of fair-trade most destitute places in the world.' coffee. From the Third World To be labeled fair- to your styrofoam cup. trade, coffee pur Coffee beans not unlike chasers must meet TOONIE MONPAyS a lot of running shoes, are four initial criteria:. bom in the third-world, a Minimum price, pur product produced most chase of beans from often by the have-nots and democratically organ Bowling • Billiards consumed mostly by the ized small growers, 'haves'. The United-States provision of pre-har- alone accounts for 3/5 of vest credit and agree Pizza • Beer» Hiballs the worlds consumption of ment to purchase on a coffee. long term. Over 400 billion cups According Caroline are consumed annually Whitby, managing worldwide and it is, after PIZZA HUT EXPRESS PHOTO BY MELISSA OLSON director of Transfair, oil, the most legally trad Jen Zentner, water shed an organization that ed commodity on the approves coffee as planet. managennent, samples meeting the fair-trade The price of coffee is the goods at Cuppers. criterion, if a coffee reflective of where it is buyer meets these produced. As an example, Kona coffee, standards they can receive this label. a variety grown in Hawaii and harvested Al Anctil, owner of Cuppers, imports under American labour laws costs 3 fair-trade coffees. The price is around $39.50 per pound compared to a pound $14.95 per pound or $3 more then the of Latin American coffee which sells for coffee produced under regular condi around $11.95 per pound. Terry Anctil, tions. an employee of Cruppers, a Lethbridge Even with his non-fair-trade coffees, coffee roaster and seller, said the price Anctil said he remains conscious of wh'' BOWLING & BILLIARDS of the Hawaiian variety does include the he is purchasing from. fact that it is grown on a distant island. "We try to buy from people who 1702 23rd Street N. • Park Meadows Mall This does not take into account that know treat their workers better," he Indonesian coffee is grown on the other said. 14 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 FEATURES THE ENDEAVOUR The 1950's hope to make comeback in Fort Macleod, restaurant style BY LEAH HOLLIDAY one." 'There's an antique car show in town or anything," said Featherstone. Featherstone is in the beginning stages every April," said Featherstone. 'They Featherstone and his wife live in Fort of his planning but he has the image he block off three blocks on Main Street Macleod with their three children, Ocean and some parking lots get full as well. who's four years old, Mackenzie, three, Big plans are in store for first-year wants for his restaurant all planned in The business is good there." and River, seven weeks. LCC Culinary Arts student, Kim his mind. His vision includes bringing back the Featherstone says he taught himself Featherstone. He plans to open his own "I want black and white, or red tiles, I old days to the younger generations and how to cook by watching his mom cook 50's style restaiirant in Fort Macleod, haven't decided yet," said Featherstone. to the people who have lived the life. and through TV shows like The Iron Alberta. " I want the waitresses in poodle skirts "Having an older restaurant come Chef and Emeril Live. Bom and bred in Fort Macleod, now and a juke box that only plays 50's and back will bring back memories," he said. "I like throwing things together and I 30 -year- old Featherstone was inspired 60's music." "I am going to try to get pictures from use lots of spices," said Featherstone. with the idea of a 50's restaurant The location Featherstone wants is the past (Fort Macleod's) put up every Featherstone actually wanted to take through his father, who is a antique deal right downtown in Fort Macleod on where. I think people in town will the business management course at er restoring classic cars. He also thought Main Street where there is lots of traffic. LCC, but says it's basically included in of the idea from going to the Hot Rod donate pictures the cooking program. Cafe here in Lethbridge except it is for from when there adults only because of the smoking were all dirt "We learn how to cook for large bylaw. roads." groups of people, in quantities, and buy He has the ing product," said Featherstone. 'The bylaw isn't in Fort Macleod," plan down to the Featherstone said he is also learning a said Featherstone. "So it will be a smok very last morsel lot about cooking and is changing some ing restaurant, but it will be for every- of food. of the ways he has learned how to cook. "There will be "Most mothers cook things like roast big floats, sun in water, but when I came here I found Looking daes in tall glass out that you don't cook it in water," said for a great es with hard ice Featherstone. place to cream, hamburg Needless to say, Featherstone has a. work? ers, fries and passion for cooking. chicken fingers," "I love cooking," said Featherstone. "I "Well Done" said do the cooking and my wife does the Restaurant Featherstone. cleaning." Lethbridge Alta. "Nothing fancy, He plans to have his restaurant ope:ned it's going to be within three years. Full-Time and Part-Time cheap too, not as "I will have everything organized positions avallalile cheap as back hopefully and ready to do it," he said. Faxresume to : then but cheaper Featherstone figures it will cost him (4031381-6031 than nowadays." around $40,000 to start up. "And the ham "I may buy or lease a building I'm not burgers will be sUre yet," said Featherstone. homemade not Featherstone has been working odd jobs store bought," he and saving money since high school, but adds. "And it hopes to get sponsorship for his proj&ct. won't be a "My Indian Reserve, Drift Pile, will lounge (no alco hopefully sponsor me," said hol), it will be a Featherstone. "I have to find out the family atmos costs for rent and equipment and stuff. phere." Once I have a plan I can send it to Featherstone them." says his wife, Featherstone says he will finish off his Natasha, sup first year in the cooking program with a ports him 100 certificate and then plans on saving per cent, but money and working as a cook some doesn't want where until the business is ready to go. PHOTO BY LEAH HOLLIDAY .. . He won't be giving up cooking once the ^ . . . .,..-, , , . anything to do restaurant is open; he will be the owner Culinary Arts student Kim Featherstone working ^-^^^ ^ and a cook. But, Feathersone says he is at the LCC food court. He plans on returning "she doesn't ready for the challenge. home to start a very special kind of restaurant, want to waitress THE ENDEAVOUR FEATURES WEDNESDAY, DEC.6, 2000 • 15 Sudanese student seeks new life who speaks Arabic and his tribal lan more people. African man likes guage of Cpllo (pronounced shaw-low), The competition for worked with cultural information in a resources, such as oil wells ih practical training government office before attending uni the south, is a major factor in versity in the northem part of the coun the fighting. in Ag/Heavy/Duty try for five years. He received his He says the oil companies degree in wildlife science and says the are protected by guards while Mechanics government has free education but the they are drilling. campus does not have a relaxed atmos "No human activity is BY^YNN SKETCHLEY phere. allowed near the site, maybe EnilaawDr staff 'The government would fire false for 40 or 50 kilometers." The approaching noise he heard bullets on the campus to make the peo Akwoch says the Sudanese made him swallow hard over the lump ple afraid." government hires oil compa in his throat. The jet fighters were a Akwoch says police were called to nies, such as Calgary-based familiar sound to his ears but every break up any protesters at the universi Talisman, to drill under pro time he heard them he wondered if he ty. The protesters did not like how the tected guard. If the oil is on a would die. military government was running the person's land the govemment Akwoch Daniel Ding lived with the country. Akwoch says the government does not have compassion for fear of dying every day of his life in wants control of the resources in the the owners, says Akwoch, Sudan, Africa. south including the oil reserves. 'They will kill them." "I would be really terrified at the "The protests were messy. They used He says he could not get moment," says Akwoch of the planes tear gas," says Akwoch. along with the government, flying overhead. "If you didn't leave when they told so he chose to leave Sudan. The Agriculture/Heavy/Duty student "I really hated that country says it was routine to bomb outside the "/ left because I could not and the way people live. I left because I could not live city, usually twice a week on average. live the way I want" But he always wondered if the bombs the way I want," says would explode over the city where he - Akwoch Daniel Ding Akwoch. lived. He did not take a plane or He says the most terrifying noise he you, they would start shooting." a bus out of Sudan. He has known has been the sound of the Akwoch was in class once when he couldn't. The army would planes and bombs. heard the terrifying noise of gunfire not let him leave alive. So he 'They would fly over to show they outside. took the risk of crossing the PHOTO BY LYNN SKETCHLEY have the power." The classroom emptied immediately border into Ethiopia on foot. As the temperature drops outside, stu and Akwoch found his way to the hos "If they caught me, they'd Akwoch (pronounced Ak-watch), 34, dents Kelly Coston, left and Akwoch lived in the city of Malakal, southern tel where he lived. That's when he kill me." Sudan, with his mom and dad, one learned his good friend had been shot Akwoch tried to escape Daniel Ding get cool inside working on brother and two sisters. in the leg during a protest. His friend under the cover of darkness, an air-conditioning unit. "My home was made of mud and was taken to the hospital by ambulance but he didn't have directions wood with an iron sheet roof for the but thankfully she was alive. and the border patrol was on guard. He Akwoch is "sometimes talkative." rain." He says some of his other friends says workers moved in the daytime Ryan Kaupp, Ag/Heavy Duty instruc He says they had two big separate weren't so lucky. when he had a better chance of escap tor, says Akwoch is an above average student. buildings with two rooms in one and "Two close friends were killed." ing, so he made his attempt. "He is very conscientious. He gets three in the other. Two rooms were He says one of the close friends had "I dressed like a farmer in dirty rented out and there were two outer involved." been killed and his body was thrown working clothes," he says. buildings on the property. He says his Akwoch says he has a friend in into the river like so many others. He "I took just what I had. I put my cer family also had some farm equipment. tificates in my underwear." Lethbridge from the same country who His father, 62, is a retired printing tells of a jail called 104 that was known speaks the same language as he does. as a "bad jail" because someone could He made it safely across the border press worker and his mother, 56, has into Ethiopia with some friends where The General Studies student, whom always been a homemaker. Akwoch, disappear all of a sudden. Akwoch calls Michael, comes in to the "Some would take you (from 104) to he was picked up as a refugee and spent four days in jail. When he was shop, and the two friends smile and the river and start speaking the language in quick, use an axe or released, he found a job taking care of orphaned refugee children at a United short words. a machete to Akwoch also knows people in make you Nations' school. Akwoch worked there three years before ——^—i^— —————— Edmonton that he disappear. immigrating to may spend You would "/ have people that are Christmas with. He not find the Canada. really suffering badly" says he enjoys the body." "There is a deal - Akwoch Daniel Ding season and he does North and between Canada, n't worry about his south Sudan U.S., Australia, and ^•^•"^••^•^ mom and dad being in danger. have been parts of Europe to help solve the prob "They leave the old people alone." involved in a lem of refugees," he says of coming to civil war for live in North America. But he is worried about his brother the past 17 He chose Canada because he was who still lives in Sudan. years. The hearing a lot about the country. He "Things may change anytime there," predomi wanted to see it, but did not have a Akwoch says of the unstable situation nantly black, choice in where he would be placed. that his brother lives in. African When he got his work visa, it said he As for the future, in five years, Christians of was going to Alberta. Akwoch wants a stable job. the south are He left Africa in 1998 and came to "Maybe working for the gas rigs, seeking reli Edmonton where he worked for a com because in Sudan we have gas rigs," he gious free pany making windows. After a year he says. dom and moved to Brooks where he worked as a Akwoch says he played soccer and greater night janitor. basketball in Sudan but in the later autonomy He found it difficult to get a stable years there he spent more time with his from the job that paid well, so he decided to go friends, talking about the politics of the mainly to college. He chose LCC because he country. He spends his leisure time now Muslim and knew some people here. watching the news channels on televi Arab gov He says he was tired of "theory stuff' sion to keep up with the world. ernment of that he studied in university, so he Akwoch says he wishes people the north. chose mechanics because he enjoys would stop working in the oil fields of PHOTO BY LYNN SKETCHLEY The revenue working with equipment. Akwoch likes southern Sudan. Akwoch Daniel Ding, 34, of Malakal in the southern from the oil, the practical part of the training,. "It will cool down the situation," he says says. Sudan, has come to LCC to study mechanics, "He is dedicated to (the program)," Akwoqh, says classmate Dustin Sletten. "I have people that are really suffer because he enjoys working with equipment and the buys more "He makes sure he knows the infor ing badly." practical part of training. arms to kill mation," Sletten says, adding that 16 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 THE ENDEAVOUR
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No, she's not looking for a good man. She's Christine Buck, a hard-at-work first-year Geomatics student practicing her surveying techniques just west of the college.
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PHOTO BY MELISSA OLSON This cat is out of the bag... and into the garbage. Our feline friend \t enjoying a pleasant nap on a lovely chesterfield after being evicted from his apartment. He should have read The Endeavour's Homefront series. Don't get left out in the cold, Ntw Y%Mi turn to page 12 and check it out. THE ENDEAVOUR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 •!?
''vPHOTO BY MELISSA OLSON Santa and his elf acquire the talents of LCC's first-year carpentry apprentice sttidfents for help making presents for the upcoming holiday. There was no word on what the sander was plugged into.
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PHOTO BY LYNN SKETCHLEY This is a reminder that the beauty of southern Alberta will be waiting just outside the college's back door when we return from holidays. THE ENDEAVOUR 18 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 FEATURES Looking good up front Volunteering well wrorth It's between you time spent and your sweater BY DYLAN PURCELL BY E. A. LAGASSE will need at certain times in your life. EBaaawaarStilf inaaawiBf staff "Just because you wore a certain size four years ago doesn't mean that's what you need The Intemational Year of the Volunteer kicks off as of Jan. 1 Most women are hoping to get at least one now," says Charge. and Lethbridge Community College is already out of the gates. gorgeous sweater this Christmas, but the stun Females involved in every level of sport, and On Monday in Centre Core Jennifer Elliot of the Service ning look your hoping for could be compro this means everything from walking fast to Leaming Centre welcomed students with pizza and pop and let mised for want of attention to that most essen Olympic track and field, should know the them know that LCC's spirit of volunteering was alive and tial underiying detail - the bra. importance of getting the right bra for thejob. vibrant. She congratulated students, staff and faculty for their Although the bra is not seen (generally Sports bras include features like breathable amazing efforts which produced over 5600 volunteer hours. speaking), its effect on body^hape is quite evi fabrics to wick moisture away from the skin, "I'm sure a lot of people didn't have time to report their hours, dent, and fashion expert&:<|ft(i#|ine the impor- seamless cups to cut down on rubbing and so it's definitely a higher number than that." tance of getting it nght. I'^^f^^ •< chafing, racer backs to lessen shifting, wide Elliot has worked hard to help students get class credit for vol "For knit fabrics, usually what you want is shoulder straps for comfort. unteer work both on-campus and in the community. something seamless and smooth,*' says Vicki "Good support is most important and I think "The kids get a lot out of it," she said. Charge, program leader in Fashion Desigig here the racer back gives the best support," says "We get a lot of support from staff for these projects." at LCC ^> A& Erin Farrow, first-year Criminal Justice stu Ron Macdonald is one of the instructors at LCC who helps the Charge has abundant advice about creating' dent. The CJ program includes plenty of physi- service learning centre by sending students out to volunteer for the right look from the inside and^says tliere^J|^y^|,c,^^^ self-defence and physical credit. lots to consider. B^^^f^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W' ''''"'• "I really like the idea. The students come away with a lot of "You want to choose a W^-8irf%rpib|)er'%:f^;''fl^tt^^f|^^ worth the extra money to get experience." support," she says. "A push-up bra gives |gic|4 A^^sC* !say$ Farrqw. "You can fwus on )(our At the kickoff in Centre Core was a Christmas tree with the shape and even larger figures caiiJpd|^^^^^Si|iyi^^ names of organizations in Lethbridge that support staff and stu apush-up." e i^laif is a secdnB-year general. dents who volunteer. ,,,,, Getting i^^comtbrtable i||i|; m dent and & member 6f the Kodiaks J; Elliot encourages students who are interested to come visit her ^ tiyin^r^Jj^tilw^ w' fi5f¥omen*s basketball^ team. She likes the ^ ;J. "•) ^ office at TE1207. gerie sales stafrat the stores are tratned to ^ , ' measure for bras and can assist in finding the ' '^ /' > t^^hen yoU'Sweat1tdoesn*t smy o»70tir' appropriate fit and style. skinf she says, **The fabric kind of makes it ^ Quality bras cost from $30 to $50 ande^r^n , ^v$pofr^f^|^^^|M^^^ ' ^more for specialty garments. If it fits really ^ ; She ai^O finds the i^der back gives better well and provides good support, it's worth the^ support and the straps won't slip off your money, says Charge. shoulders. Different kinds of clothing often require dif Most department stores stock some kind of ferent styles of bras. sports bra, although you may Have to search "The look is less polished if the straps further for the better ones like Nike or show," says Charge, "so for a wider neckline Champion. you need a bra with straps that are set wide." Bras take extra caire to launder as the Lycra Specialty stores, like La Senza in and other elastic fibres are easily damaged by Lethbridge, and catalogues such as Victoria's heat. Secret, have the pretty stuff in laces and satins You can prolong the effectiveness of your and lots of gorgeous colours, as well as figure- bras by taking extra care with laudering. Hand enhancing specialty bras. washing in warm water and hanging to dry are Factors such as pregnancy, weight gain or the methods recommended by most manufac loss and age all influence the type of bra you turers.
Joe Scott makes a calculated guess at how many hours LCC staff and stu dents volunteered this year. The jar was stuffed with one jelly bean for every hour volunteered by an LCC staff member, faculty member or student. The jelly bean jar contest was part of the International Year of the Volunteer kick-off, Dec 6.
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'Editors: Heidi Burciiby and Raelean Sctieelar Christmas What would you say if I sang you a tune.. is a time
A. for family y / alternatives to the routine madness of DYLAN PURCELL yuletide gatherings of friends and fami Writers windaw ly Christmas is a time of rejoicing, a Try something different. If you play time to be with family and friends, a a board game, try letting the winner time to celebrate being with people you open a present. Maybe a differ'^nt love. Now what? game? Once the travel plans are made and Clue and Monopoly both have varia :*j5. ^* stop. version, complete with a poisoned jelly Some families spend the holidays donut and Waylon Smithers as Mrs. blissfully catching up on happenings White. and enjoying each others' company. Sometimes my mother uncorks cha They laugh and cry and remember that rades (the rules change annually) which Christmas is a time for giving. never ends well. She cheats. Humming Others pass the time with bizarre the tune to broadway shows has noth card games involving dice, horses and ing to do with the concept of pan four-letter words. Some use spoons(?) tomime. in their games. These families gather Try Pictionary, it's a game where PHOTO BY DYLAN PURCELL under the angry haze of a smoke-filled instead of acting out words, they are room and curse at each other while drawn on paper. Be careful, though. I spitefully coveting the paltry $4 avail was rushed to the emergency room able for winning. years ago because a piece of pencil Cara Charles entertains Centre Core with a proud rendition They stare and glare and swear that lead flew into my eye due to my moth of O Canada during the International Year of the Volunteer they were cheated robbed or rustled. er's inability to comprehend my draw Every deuce brings them a dark heart ing of a raven. The doctor did a kickoff on Monday. Pizza and pop flowed freely to con beat closer to winning a pile of grubby remarkable job of stifling his laughter. gratulate volunteers from LCC. She was there in her capac misbegotten dimes and nickels. Above all, make sure that playing the ity as a Student Association representative. Cara volun Christmas party games at my house game is more fun than winning it. If teers much of her time to help charities supported by the Auntie Em is tough to take because she usually degrade into full-contact Trivial SA. Pursuit or high-stakes poker between hurls the shards of glass from her bro rancid uncles and porcine aunts that ken Pilsner at Uncle Bob when she inevitably become mean-spirited and loses, then don't play for the big bucks. very, very personal. Whoever wins does the dishes. Nothing I remember Monopoly, Clue, poker, says Christmas like a room full of peo- rummoli, and blackjack. As I grew • pie who want to lose. older, girlfriends and wives joined in Whatever youf fartiity decides to do the fun. to while away-lhe holiday, please Same old games, same old relatives. remember: yourTamily should put the This does not have to be. There are fun in dysfunction.
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BY LEAH HOLLIDAY made famous because You-Know-Who tndaawour staff (Voldemort) tried to kill him as well, but in his attempt to kill Harry he lost all Wizards, witches, wild creatures and his powers and disappeared. magical arts will captivate your mi|id Harry was left with a lightning bolt for endless hours as you enter the world scar on his forehead. of Harry Potter in the book series writ Harry also finds out on his 1 Ith birth ten by J.K. Rowling. day that he would be going to a special Contrary to what people may hear, the wizard school, Hogwarts School of action packed Harry Potter book series Witchcraft and Wizardry. is not just for children but parents, Harry meets his two best friends at teenagers, and people of all ages who Hogwarts, Hermione Granger and Ron will find themselves engrossed in the Weasley. The three of them get into all novel to the very last line. sorts of mischief, adventure and danger. One book is not enough. Once you Harry also learns his favourite sport at enter Harry Potter's world you'll be Hogwarts - Quidditch. It is a sport craving more, waiting to read Harry's played high up in the air on broom next adventure. sticks, where bludgers fly and try to Harry Potter is a famous wizard knock the players off their sticks. Harry, /I PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MACLEOD GAZETTE before he even realizes that he possesses who is a Seeker, has to catch the golden Santa Claus made a brief stop in Fort Macleod during his pre- any unusual powers. His parents were snitch to win the game. The game isn't killed when he was very young and over until the snitch is caught. Harry Christmas tour. Harry was sent to live with his aunt, helped his team, Gryffindor, win their uncle and his cousin, Dudley, in the first championship in over 100 years. muggle world. Muggles are people who With spells to be learned, potions to are not wizards. be made and divination lessons to His aunt and uncle despise the wizard attend, Harry and his friends embark ~^'^B^"LEAH HOLLIDAY world and never told Harry who he was. upon the most exciting adventures that it was Harry Potter that saved They hated Harry because he was a wiz will keep you on the edge of your seat. Rowling from her hard life. ard. They made him sleep in a cupboard The Harry Potter book series consists The Scottish Council gave her a under the stairs and treated him very of four novels and Harry has a new :^ Like that of her character, Harry grant to fmish the book. It was then badly. adventure in each one starting with the •^Potter, J.K. Rowling, author of the sold to Bloomsbu»y and after it was Harry's life was extremely unhappy Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of pHairy Potter book series, has Uved published the book won the British until hi^ Uth birthday when he found Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban and through some very troublesome times Book Awards Children's 3ook of the out he was really a wizard, and a finally TheGoblet of Fire. and then been rescued by her own tal Year, and the Smarties Prize. famous one at that. It turns out that the J.K. Rowling captures the very ent. The books have been sold to most evil wizard, Voldemort, killed essence of the world of wizardry, mak After a difficult divorce Rowling, a England, France, Germany, Italy, Harry's parenls. Voldemort is so evil in graduate of Exeter Universily and a Holland, Greece, Finland, Denmark, ing it so realistic. You'll find yourself fact that other wizards and witches were J^teacher, found herself unemployed, Spain, Sweden, Canada and the wondering if it really exists. So enter Kiving on public assistance in a tiny U.S.A. and have received rave afraid to mention his name. Harry was the world of Harry Potter, you won't be g|di|ib«rgh flat with her infant daugh- reviews from all places. disappointed.
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THE ENDEAVOUR ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 • 21 Making his i > -^ %(/i^VA CD list... W'm'^n Many little surprises ...checking it thrice for Unbreakable
BY SONYA STATHAM fering his entire life. He has a genetic tmfaawaar Staff disease that causes his bones to be extremely brittle and break very easi ly. Unbreakable, a movie based on the Elijah believes that David is his theme of good vs. evil, will keep you opposite, a modern super hero, a man guessing the whole way through, not able to withstand tremendous pain and to mention the surprise ending. illness that would destroy an ordinary David Dunne (Bruce Willis) is a man. Season's broken-down security guard from Throughout the movie David Philadelphia with a failing marriage. searches for the reason why he is so Top 10 He goes to New York for a job inter different from everyone else in the CDS... view hoping to leave his past behind. world and why he is so unfulfilled On his way home his train derails and with his life. crashes horrifically. Every passenger With a plot that brilliantly unfolds is killed except David. He emerges with many little surprises, you will be . from the wreck without even a unable to anticipate what direction it 1. Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish and scratch. will take. the Hot Dog Flavored Water After he attends the funeral service This movie is based on the fine line 2. Backstreet Boys- Black and Blue for all the victims in the crash, David between good and evil and those cer 3. U2- All That You Can't Leave Behind finds a mysterious note on his wind tain moments in life when our deci 4. Eminem- Marshall Mathers LP shield, it reads, "How niany days of sions come down to either helping 5. Collective Soul- Blender your life have you been sick?" He people or harming them. 6. The Beatles- One realizes he's neVijr\l»ettiH'ah<3?trac^^ Unbreakable is a movie with sus 7. Madonna- Music the note to a comic book gallery pense, mystery, light humor, and the 8. Papa Roach- Infest owned by Elijah Price (Samuel L, hope that the good guys are still out 9. Britney Spears- Oop's I Did It Again Jacksbn)>"''- - •'" ''•= '•"•'• ' •"- V there helping those that cannot help 10. Creed- Human Clay Brock Peterson, trades student Elijah has lived with pain and suf themselves. ponders over what cd's he wil give this year. 22 • WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 2000 ENTERTAINMENT THE ENDEAVOUR Apollo raves in Lethbridge BY TINA COBB W' Eiiaawr staff
Apollo - Greek god of music, p)oetry, facet for expressing himself. prophecy and love. The club is a place that goes against "Apollo or the Animate Practice of the norm. Living Life Outright is about putting It is a statement th^t society should openness into motion," says Ray be freer to do what it wants to do and Hopkins, conceiver, host, member and to bypass the bureaucrats who try to volunteer of the Apollo club. intimidate people into being pawns. ^# This new revolutionary non-profit To Hopkins the Apollo is so much rave club in Lethbridge goes against more than the typical Lethbridge bar the grain of the ordinary over priced where people walk around in circles watering hole, and surrounding busi looking aimlessly for attention, or pay nesses are less than supportive. $7 for a drink and listen to radio tunes. "People are so mad about this club, Apollo represents not letting people they can't stand it that we can stay tell you what you can and cannot do open past 2 a.m.," says Hopkins. and stepping out beyond what's nor He says that some businesses are so mal. angry with the club that certain people The Apollo, sells more bottled water have actually threatened their personal than alcohol, but does sell premium safety when putting out flyers near liquor. their establishment. The prices are more than decent and The Apollo is an after hours club that during happy hour, which runs from exists through membership. 9pm-10pm it's basically sold at cost. Members pay $10 a month to be a They bring in deejays from all over part of it and in retum "receive superi the world and charge far less to see or entertainment and a place to hang them than you would find in any major out and be real," says Hopkins. center. Hopkins and his girlfriend Erin "This is not about making money," Morseth, Trevor Dunlop and Arthur says Hopkins who openly admits he Dietrich run the club but they don't makes nothing ft"om this. own it. "This is about the party." "Essentially the members own it. It Hopkins says he wouldn't even want is a society. Members can vote on how to make money from the Apollo. The Animate Practice of Living Life Outright or Apollo has the place should run," says Hopkins. It is more about having a place for opened its doors to provide an alternative place for people to The Apollo itself is a small venue, his friends and people to hang out and express themselves freely in an open environment. found in the lower half of the old fire listen to quality deejays. hall on 402 Second Ave. S. The money that is brought in The club is unadorned in d^cor and through memberships and drink sales has one paramount attraction, live dee is channelled right back into the club. jays. The Apollo's success or lack there Liquid lights reminiscent of early of, is no surprise to Hopkins. Grateful Dead shows cover one wall. "People aren't ready for this. They On the adjacent wall, a movie pro don't expect anything else then what jector plays an old-school break danc they're used to." ing movie. Lethbridge because of its demo The labyrinth lay out divides the club graphics and mentality doesn't really into different rooms. One with pool allow for places like the Apollo to tables, a nook for a foosball table, and flourish but it doesn't phase Hopkins. a room decked out with couches for "I'm sticking with it," he says. lounging "Eventually it will happen." All rooms are blanketed under the Hopkins is passionate and educated. hum of black lighting. He owns an energy company by day The artwork on the walls defines the and raves out at night. counterculture that gives Apollo life. He knows what he wants and under It is comfortable and its size leaves stands his rights to get it. you no choice but to absorb the syir- Hopkins is not afraid of being real, roundings and the music. / and the Apollo is how he expresses his For Ray Hopkins the ApoUo/s a freedom.
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BY LEAH HOLLIDAY "It's men mostly. Their wives tell them about a product iiaaawaarstin they saw and the husbands come in to buy it for them." Sex toy parties can be controversial subjects but Sex toys, candles, Tupperware, and angels. No it's Basset sees it as a spice for life. not some kind of funky sex scene. They are all types of "It's all about playful, sexual acting," says Basset. parties people are having nowadays. "Sometimes it can fix a marriage or even help it As we get older so does the bar scene and we find when it gets boring." ourselves looking for something else to do. Something Women who have attended the parties feel a little different. But you can only watch so many movies. nervous about the whole thing but then seem to get into So, why not host a party? the spirit of the evening. "Parties like this have been going on forever, like "It is definitely a mood altering experience," said Avon and Tupperware parties," says Shelly Basset, LCC student Wendy Wakelen. owner of Romantic Passions, a sex-toy-party company. Basset does fairly well with her business, it supports The parties are easy to organize, just call up your her family (her husband's pay checks pay the mort nearest host, book a party and invite some friends. gage), she says she had to invest money into the busi The host does the rest of the work. They bring in the ness first. product, whether it is candles, Tupperware or sex toys, "You have to buy all of your product," says Basset. set it up and present the product. You and your friends "My kit costs around $3000." get to sit back, browse through the products and enjoy Basset recently received her certificate in Angel each other's company. But if you are going to one of Therapy so she is starting to offer angel parties. these parties or you are hosting one, be sure to bring "I do healings on people, it's mostly for those who your pocketbook, because the prices can be high. have lost loved ones," says Basset. "The angels talk Shelly Basset began her Romantic Passions party through you, it's not you at all." business two years ago. The angel party is a strict thing where everyone has "I didn't want a real job," laughs Basset. to get into the feeling of it. There is no smoking, the 'T didn't want to work for someone, I wanted to be phone is shut off, no food is served and only fresh my own boss." spring water can be served. Everyone brings $20 and Basset went to a lady from Red Deer to train for four PHOTO BY LEAH HOLLIDAY through a random name draw everyone is given at least weeks, to learn how to present the products appropri a ten-minute reading. ately. 101 Nights of Great Sex becomes the "This is not fortune telling," says Basset. "You need to present these products (sex toys) with topic of conversation at one of Shelly "It's healing." dignity and class," says Basset. Basset's 'sex parties' But if sex toys and angels aren't for you, there are "It's just a comfortable, easier way of buying the always candle parties, Tupperware parties and even their orders and she delivers their products to them as products and it's a night out." clothing parties. But whatever you choose, it's some well. People tend to keep coming back to Basset after they thing to consider for a night of fun when you start get "People come to the house to buy stuff," says Basset. have already purchased from her. People can phone in ting bored of the same old routine.
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BUMWlPStm Eagles With Solomon off the floor and a were new goalie in net the Screaming Eagles Squeak, squeak, then thump, thump. ready for continued on a landslide, losing 14-2 to That's the sound of sneakers in the another the LCC Selects. gym. game. 'Tried our best, that's all we could No it's not basketball or even volley Sweat hope for." ball. It's the sound of Tuesday and was drip We had a good run, said Troy Thursday night floor hockey. ping off Desrosiers, goalie for the Screaming On Nov. 23 the Screaming Eagles the play Eagles and second year broadcast jour played against Thunder and • ers, as the nalism student. Lightening. game While the two teams were evenly quickly matched until about the second half took its Potty mouth when the Screaming Eagles stairted los toll on the ing there grip on the ball. Screaming volleyball The game became one sided very Eagle PHOTO BY ROB VOGT quickly, with a final score of 16-8 for players. Then an players? Thunder and Lightening. This was the first semi-final game "It was a good game, a good effort. injury, Curtis Solomon the goaltender and finals start next Thursday. BY JESSIE GOERTZEN Our team played phenomenal," said of the Screaming Eagles twisted his All games begin at 7:30 p.m. and right knee while making a save. iniHOTtBiStait Marc Kenly player for Thunder and are an hour in length with three games Carried off the floor in obvious Lightening and former student. a night. agony, with his leg limping behind, It could've almost been good, There are 12 teams in the campus The second game of the night was players from both teams pulled togeth clean, fun. But the swearing and all recreation, co-ed floor hockey, and the LCC Selects against the losers from er in camaraderie. the sexual comments made the were divided into two groups to play a the first game, the Screaming Eagles. Teammates confirmed Solomon had Campus Rec volleyball finals, round robin. With a new goaltender in place the something of an eye opener. " "Stop swearing everybody!" ..; t Melanie Lloyd shouted from the f; court, when the language got to be luicers squeeze out victory I a bit much from both teams. '^ The game was between the two BY AMBER CASEY The team was having fun, laughing and joking. ^" teams known as the Vicious Stylez BiiMiwwrstiii They even took a break from cheering on their teammates and squished together for a group photo. They played for 45 minutes Toothless smiles, scars across the forehead, black eyes and The atmosphere was a little toned down on the Individual's straight with the Vicious Stylez bloody lips are all a part of the game of hockey. bench. Players were cheering with a hint of ftiistration. coming out on top with the score>-• Tension almost cracked the ice at the Enmax centre on last "It's all right (campus recreation ice hockey)." said Jason of 41 to 24. Wednesday night's game. Domski of the "We played 11 teams to get here, Fights were breaking out Individuals. ' We're undefeated." Says Dany and players were ^. "More ice time Nelson, one of the two girls on the mouthing off. and more practices team. After a rough game, the would be good The game started late due to lack Juicers nailed the though," of players, most of them were Individuals 5-1. The referees were doing homework, 'or studying for "We're killing, no, kept busy calling upcoming finals. we're juicing eyeryone in penalties and break Both teams made a couple of the league," laughs Curtis ing up the odd fight. phone calls, and 15 minutes later Moore, who has been "Both teams were both teams were giving it their all playing since last year. pretty chippy, there on the court. "Oh, it's been a blast," was a lot of slashing Best thing about winning the he said from his team's going on," said ref finals? bench, where players were eree Geoff Haanen, "Beer at the Foggn Suds," says cheering on their team. who has been work Myran Hamm. -' The smell of victory . ing for campus "The T-shirls and just winning," (and sweat) lingered in .the recreation for two says Melanie Lloyd. air. PHOTO BY AMBER CASEY years now. Campus Rec sports seems like a 'This is the most stimu^ He said that cam fun way to blow off steam after a lating calibre of hockey Referee Geoff Haanen breaks up a fight on the ice at pus recreation hock long day of classes, or you could I've ever played," said the Enmax Centre during an LCC Campus Rec ice ey has been well go there to just expand your vocab organized. Brent Dobinson of the hockey game. ulary. Juicers.
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school, Viola spent tyjro years in South Dakota on a good runner." Mormon mission. He retumed to Alberta a year and a Until this sununer Viola Runilihg a part half ago and started attending LCC in January 1999 _ ran mostly five imile races taking courses in general studies part time. but is moving into the 10 The following year he stopped attending college and km, 10 mile and longer of life for worked lull time while taking courses through the races. Southem Alberta Institute of Technology's distance 'Ten miles is the distance leaming program. During this time Yiola kept up his I like best now," he says. silver medalist athletic training. Running is part of "I kept myself in shape and I ran by myself," he Steve's life. If he misses a Steve Viola, 22, started running competitively in says. day he feels as if he hasn't junior high when he was 12, Returning to LCC this fall he registered in the new done enough. He grew up in Lethbridge and graduated from Geomatics program. He has his sights set on Lethbridge Collegiate Institute. Viola does his share of work in the various fund- the nationals for next year. "I ran for my high school and also was in the raising efforts it takes to keep the athletics program on As for the future, he's not sure if his career in athlet Lethbridge Track and Field Club." track, ics will continue beyond college. Training takes up Viola says the track and field club gave him the "It does take up a lot of time but I don't mind," he quite a bit of time, and he doesn't know if he can opportunity to go to nationals four times. says. afford to make that time commitment for the next few "I did best the first time, when I came fourth nation Viola placed second in the province at the ACAC years. ally in steeplechase," says Viola. 'That's my best cross country finals at Lac La Biche behind Dallas After completing his program at LCC, Viola says event." Raudebaugh of Red Deer, he's considering going to university in the States "I always came in the first ten," he adds, but he "I had previously beaten him by two minutes," says where he might be able to get into an atiiletic scholar foimd the competition got harder each year. After high Viola. *Tt could have gone either way. He is a very ship program.
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Kyle Kwasnica, 21, a second year Criminal Justice stu LCC. His first semester of athletic training helped him dent, is not the kind of guy v/hu skis around wondering What develop a fitness training program through becoming famil to do with his spare time. iar with specific techniques and learning to build a running He is dedicated to his goal of becoming a police officer schedule. and dedicates a great deal of effort to his CJ studies, from His favourite event is eight kilometre cross country and he which he is due to graduate in spring. Several volunteer placed eighth at the ACAC finals at the end of October. activities are part of his regular schedule. He says he likes Kwasnica then went on to the inter-provincial cross coun the challenge of helping people and he sees each volunteer try championships in Kelowna, B.C. in November finishing position as a training opportunity for his future career. eighth out of 81 runners from Alberta and B.C. He helps out at the Lethbridge Regional Hospital taking "We ran through a little bit of swamp, it was awesome," future surgery patients on tours of the building. he says. "It requires a lot of people skills and makes you more "I had to Jump over a fence. It was great." aware of how people are when it comes to things they're not He started indoor track competition this winter with a used to," says Kwasnica. meet in Edmonton on Nov. 25. He also helps with the Safewalk program here on campus Kwasnica plans to take his athletic career to a higher com and started working with the Blood Tribe Police service in petitive level after he graduates next spring. October. He says he finds it hard to explain his love of running. "I love it - you learn something new everyday," he says. "It brings me a lot of satisfaction," he says. "It's important Kyle tried out for the track team during his first week at to me to be a part of a team."
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BY LYNN SKETCHLEY so much. He is just incredible." floor and he would reach down and feel But if determination can get Martin iMjMwrstaH ' She says Joel is very close to his the skates. to the Hurricanes, then Lethbridge will family and he h as a close bond with his "He would also hold onto his hel not be the last stop for the 6' l", 173- This is a Canadian story. mother. Donna. met," she laughs. pound rookie goaltender. Donna Martin borrowed the money "She's incredibly proud of him. She Martin was eight years old before he "I would like to be drafted." to get her son new goalie pads this talks about him all the time." started playing hockey and says he At this time in his life Martin is like year. Donna has been a concession manag played right wing until the second year most 18 year olds. He listens to rap Now he says he wants to pay back er at the rink in Three Hills for seven of peewee hockey. music, likes being with his friends and the money to his mom when he sells years. She says that over the years they "Then I played goal because it eats fast food at McDonalds. He watch those same goalie pads. He knows what have collected fcottles from the conces seemed like the funnest position." es hockey and The Simpsons and he she has sacrificed to help him get to sion to help pay for Joel's hockey. She Donna says her son has grown up a hates spiders and fruit. He would like where he is today. • has stmggled but she doesn't feel it is a lot in the last year living away from to have a 2000 yellow Mustang con vertible and live someplace warm if he "She bought me all sacrifice. home and playing hockey. had the money. the equipment since I "I never looked at it as He has stayed with billets and this was young," he says. a bad thing," she says. year he is with Stew and Patti Jo Aiken. He has come from shoveling snow 'T owe her some "I am really proud of Patti Jo says Martin is sensitive, quiet and playfully beating on his brother to money." ihim and it doesn't matter and shy. But he does have teenage his greatest accomplishment so far. The son is Joel to me (what he wants to qualities like not cleaning his room. "Being here this year, it's the thing Martin, an IS-year-old do), I love him." "He's a slob, it's horrendous," she I've worked hardest at, I've always rookie goaltender that Donna says she knew laughs as he comes into the room. wanted to do it," he says. came to the Lethbridge he had some talent. And "But he always dresses neat." Martin looks up to NHL goaltender Hurricanes from out of she should know. She is Martin says the Aikens treat him well Dominik Hasek. nowhere. Martin is not a hockey player herself. and give him a lot of space. "(He) is my hero in hockey and who only determined to help She was assistant coach "It's my home away from home." I want to be like." his mom, he is deter of Martin's team when He played in the Crowsnest Pass last He says his teammates treat all the mined to make it in he was younger and she season. rookies well and they have a "pretty hockey. enjoyed the game as H6 says he was washing dishes in a good team unit." The grade 12 student attending Sir much as Joel c3id. restaurant in the Crowsnest Pass this Hurricanes captain Thomas Winston Churchill School was born in "We shot pucks in the basement," she summer when an old coach of his came Scantlebury agrees. Fort Worth, Texas. When Joel was one laughs as she remembers him always into the restaurant. Joel asked him if he 'The whole team is pretty tight," year old his family moved to Ontario wanting to continue playing hockey knew of a team that was looking for a He says Martin is the type of rookie where his parents both had family when she was too tired. goalie. The coach made some phone that can take a joke and hand it back. members. The family then came west Martin was a strong-willed child, calls. "He's a quiet guy but the whole team to Three Hills where his father, Ed, was even from the time they adopted him at "He talked to a scout by the name of is like that until they get to know each a teacher. Martin spent most of his life 17 days old. She says he walked at 10 Glen Crawford in Regina." other." in Three Hills with his two older sis months and he never let anything stop Not long after Joel was asked if he In the season of holly and hockey, ters, Janna 23, Tobi 21 and a younger him. wanted to come and play hockey for Joel reminisces. brother Seth, 15. "When he wants something he goes the Hurricanes. And he knows what his best Joel's parents have recently separated for it." He was excited when he got the call. Christmas gift is. and he says it has been tough but he is His sister Tobi, a psychology student "I knew it was my last chance this "My biggest fan is my mom. "putting it all behind" him. He says his at the University of Lethbridge, agrees. year," he says because the season was "She always came to all my games." girlfriend, Jody Parker, a grade 12 stu "He is very determired. He will go beginning. In an era of hold-outs and selfish dent in Three Hills, has been a continu as far as he •wants to go." "Hopefully I will be here until I am millionaires in pro sports, it's good to ing source of support for him. Tobi says h er mother made "huge 19 or 20 so lean be close to home." see family is still priceless. And the feeling is mutual. sacrifices of her time" for her brother's "I have been sick since July and this hockey but says her mother is level summer mom went away for a week," headed about where it will take him. she says. "She'll do everything she can, she "Joel was there for me every mom has always been like that." ing and every night. Even when mom Tobi adds that if Joel doesn't want to came back, Joel told her he would look go to the NHL then she is OK with after me. He's very supportive and very that, whatever he wants to do. caring." Tobi drove Martin to Stettler to play She says he remains humble when it when she was in college and would sit comes to the attention he receives from and do her homework during the prac his accomplishments. tices but she didn't mind. "He doesn't let it get to his head," "I love hockey. I grew up with it." she says. She tells of how much her brother Parker adds Joel is quiet around peo loved the sport when he was younger. ple he doesn't know but that he's been "When he got new hockey equipment opening up more since he moved to he'd wear it Merry Chnstmas and Happy New Year from all ofu. here at the Front Row Pub PHOTO BY NEILS CHRISTENSEN Jeol Martin prepares to steady the ship for the WHUs Lethbridge Hurricanes. 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"It's CClltlillly an isSU^mujalcipalitif^c Hnve to cvjll- not up yet, but Vic would be, bundled up, his skates Stasiuk is beginning to show the signs of age now. sider," he said. slung over his shoulder and off to the rink. He moves more slowly and his legs bother him a bit. Stasiuk said that the city freely develops soccer Shovel, scrape, flood. It was hockey time. "The old money makers ain't what they used to be," fields and softball diamonds but will not build any It was a Canadian ritual renewed every October. he jokes. outdoor rinks. That was over 60 years ago, but to 71 -year-old Vic But the eyes of Vic Stasiuk are the eyes of a hockey "I don't understand it," he said. Stasiuk it was like yesterday. player. Underneath the left eye, a scar an inch long, "Lethbridge has six indoor rinks and we can't devel "I ask myself the question, 'Why did I make it courtesy of a high stick in an era without visors or hel op a figure skater or a hockey player." ahead of the likes of Billy Gibson, Tommy Wood, the mets. Stasiuk's solution is simple. Macleans, the Zazadnys, the Coyles?," he says. The opposing player told Vic he'd get him, but there "We have to provide a close-to-home facility where He made it all right, and became the veteran of 13 was no backing down for Stasiuk. you can learn to skate, stick handle, shoot and have seasons in the National Hockey League, three-time The eyes still shine when he talks hockey. fun with other neighbourhood children." Stanley Cup winner and former coach of the "Why did the Russians challenge our supremacy?" Stasiuk still wakes up at six in the moming every Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks and he asks. day. California Seals. "The reason is - we've eliminated the outdoor rinks Now he is educating himself He discovered reading None of those other guys did as well though. for indoor rinks that young persons can't use anytime, and the joy of knowledge. "I grew up on the 16^ Street rink built by all the time," he answered. Every day, six days a week he heads to the library neighbourhood parents and older teens," he contin "I grew up on that 16^ Street (outdoor) rink," he where he reads five newspapers a day. ues. said. He has become as relentless in his quest for knowl edge as he was in the comers of the Boston Gardens. "I grew up leaming to love the game, to play for the Stasiuk said that youngsters need the outdoor rinks But if you look real close, you see Stasiuk is still sake of playing." to practice their skills, just as he had honed his skills checking out the hockey scores. Then an indoor rink was built by the city of on that one on 16* Street. Lethbridge. As the first snow falls, the latest group of young He related a conversation he had with the late Fred sters renew the great Canadian rite of passage and take "A lot of players moved to the Lethbridge arena. Shero, the man who replaced Stasiuk as coach of the "When I went, 'Sorry, all filled up.' to the frozen ponds and rivers across the country. -Piyefs. If you look real close, you can see a bit of Vic "Back to the 16^ rink," he says. Just before Stasiuk was fired, he had been ticketed Stasiuk out there, up before the sun, not home until it "All those other players moved into the Lethbridge to go to Moscow. When he was let go Shero took his goes down. arena and gave up ice time. Whereas I was turned place. Those kids should be so lucky. down as a rink rat. Stasiuk ran into Shero 10 years later at an airport. They started talking hockey. Stasiufk had a determination and work ethic forged "Out of the blue he says, 'Vic, you know how many T/5 the season f»aiarnpairs by harsh prairie winter. indoor rinks there are in Russia?' How would I know. nemtt be left yMi a 009 sleigh He said he learned his strength and stamina from "One." preparing the rink and his skills from endless hours of Stasiuk said he had seen a lot of Soviet teams play practice on the rink. and they were all highly skilled. "You scraped and shovelled," he says. "Where are all those players coming from?" he *biakera^iirs asked himself "It gave you an appreciation and love of the ice that Tom