Katimavik Group Used Food Bank by SARAH GLEN Given by Local Bakeries to the Headquarters in Montreal
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Liberals lose the first Local babies need to get shots to The Junior Girls Babe Ruth baseball round of their challenge of the help fight off a deadly Whooping championships took over Rotary Nisga'a treaty\NEWS A8 cough virus\COMMUNITY B1 Park last week\SPORTS B4 WEDNESDAY $1.00 PLUS 7¢ GST August2,2000 (51.10 plus 8¢ GST outside of the Terrace area) TANDA RD VOL. 13 NO. 5.7 Katimavik group used food bank By SARAH GLEN given by local bakeries to the headquarters in Montreal. tine Dawson. bread from people if 1 thought Sessford estimates that the A FEDERAL youth group Salvation Army to help feed The group here is part of the "She said that the cost of they needed it." bank gives about 10 loaves to visiting Terrace has been or- needy local families. national Katimavik program, living was higher here and it David Sessford, the director the farms every few days, but dered to stop taking bread The local Katimavik group which gives youth between 17 would be more expensive to of community and family ser- only after the loaves have from a local food bank. has been taking bread to avoid to 21 years old a chance to tra- buy all the ingredients when we vices for the Salvation Army stayed n the shelves for awhile. making its own, which is part of vel and live for seven months in could get free 'bread," said food bank is surprised the group The Katimavik program re- "We have to make sure that its mandate. communities across Canada. Brandon of Dawson. would take free bread, but notes the bread is not needed [before gularly stations groups of "We take the bread because Katimavik operates on a $12 Dawson does acknowledge that "there is a lot of bread." donating it the farms]," he said. young people in Terrace for it's free and we often don't million annual budget from the that she came up with the idea "The service is there for If the Katimavik food budget about two months at a time to have the time to make it federal government to cover to take the free bread, but only those in need," said Sessford. "I is strained, Brandon hasn't no- do volunteer work. [bread] from scratch," said transportation, food and lodging. after a former Katimavik mem- would assume that the group ticed. This particular group has Scott Brandon, a Katimavik Each group gets about $5 a ber who was working at the must've been hungry." He said that the "fridge is been here almost two months member here. day for each group member for food bank told her about the But Sessford doesn't ever re- always full" at the Katimavik and has been taking dated "Baking bread instead of food. bank's bread surplus. member the bank's extra bread house and he has never gone bread donated to the Salvation buying it is one aspect of the Brandon said the idea to "I was told that it [the bank] being giving to dogs. hungry. Army's food bank about once a Katimavik experience," said take the Salvation Army bread has so much extra bread that "We donate our extra bread "We do pretty well on our week. Christine Rocheleau, communi- instead of making it came from they fed it to the dogs," Daw- to chicken farms in the com- budget ! think," he said. Dated bread and buns are cations advisor for Katimavik one of the group's leaders, Jus- son said. "1 would never take munity," he said. Continued Page A2 Land-use talks to end in secrecy By JEFF NAGEL to tile groups and organi- A CRITICAL meeting zations they represent. later this month to con- "I polled the table to clude a land-use plan for see if they wanted to have the region will be held be- the last meeting in- hind closed doors. camera," he said. "The Kalum Land and Re- feeling was that they did." "For this Aug. 21 meet- source Management Plan ing they wanted just the table members meet again group there themselves." here Aug. 21-22. Meanwhile, technical The August meeting is groups of foresters and bio- expected to see the final logists have been meeting decisions made on how to to crunch numbers and achieve the table's goal of assess proposals made at protecting grizzly bear ha- the last meeting, he said. bitat without crippling the That should lead to a local forest industry. more concrete estimate of But this time, says co- the effect on the regional ordinator Eamon O'Do- timber supply - and by ex- noghue, news reporters and tension jobs - of the plan's members of the public will environmental planks. be barred from the room. O' Donoghue said early That's because some work in the technical MOMMA - a drag queen famous in Los Angeles nightclubs - turing Terrace and the politics of the gay pride issue. table members were un- groups suggests a deal is flew here last Friday for a week of shooting a television pilot fea- comfortable with news possible that will be ac- coverage by the Standard ceptable to forest industry • in June that detailed the players. debate at that month's "They're certainly con- Whole Iotta Momma going on meeting, he said. cerned about the impacts," Reported statements he said. "But they say this Drag queen takes aim jority in this town." Others watched apprehensively, saying they made it clear biologists looks a lot more workable Momma sported a well-padded rainbow- expect Terrace will end up as the butt of a were running out of ideas than it did a few months at gay pride issue here coloured gown, sequined fishnet stockings, large joke, and be portrayed as a backwards to ease timber impacts ago." giant faux pearls, colourful gum ball bracelets hick town. while protecting bear habi- By JEFF NAGEL If an agreement can be and an assortment of other colourfui, glittering "They'll edit out whatever they want, and tat, and that foresters fear A FLAMBOYANT Hollywood drag queen is in reached at the August accessories. add whatever they want," said Peter Arcadi. the plan's effects could town continuing his mission to probe city meeting, he said, the final His hair is a flaming red bouffant, his eye "It's a big publicity stunt." seriously hurt industry's council's refusal to issue a gay pride procla- Kalum land-use plan will shadow multicoloured, and his eyelashes are He said a pride proclamation by the city is viability. mation. go out to public review in enormous. unnecessary, and that gay people shouldn't While nothing was in- "Momma" - a giant six-foot-four, 350-1b September. Locals reacted with double-takes, mostly need to seek approval from the state. correct in the story, O' Do- gay man dressed as a woman - arrived Friday It would then be signed followed by bemused smiles, but occasionally The show's producers, one of whom is ori- noghue said, reported with a camera crew from Docu-Drama Queen by LRMP participants looks of disgust or fear. ginally from Terrace, said they decided to comments made "in the Productions, an outlet hoping to turn Momma's after any final adjustments "1 don't bite," he assured them. "Why are come here after hearing about council's deci- heat of discussion" made exploits into a TV series. are made at a ratification people afraid of a man in a dress.'/Women are sion. it difficult for table mem- They leave tomorrow at the end of six days meeting in late September allowed to wear pants but if a man tries to be- "People here are very gay-friendly, very bers to explain the debate • of shooting. or early October. come a little glamourous there's something gay-supportive and what the council has done Momma and her crew visited the Farmer's drastically wrong with that." is not reflective of the community," said pro- Market Saturday morning before heading to Many didn't want to appear on camera with ducer Daniel Leipnik. the drag races at the airport to get reaction Longer sockeye Momma. He is planning to sell Momma's visit to there. But those who did bantered playfully with Terrace as the first show in a series of real TV- Although most city councillors are either the drag queen. type docudramas. fishery criticized out of town or reluctant to talk, Momma's Asked about council's gay pride decision, "This will be shot on the run and is going to strategy is to explore the issue by talking to By KEITH FREEMAN support of the sport fishing many called the situation silly and said coun- follow the trend of other real TV shows," said other residents. A THREE-day extension of community here, and cil has mishandled the issue. Leipnik. "i'm not here to go after or to attack seven the gillnet fishery around hopes DFO will continue "Society could benefit from being more to- The TV series, which Leipnik calls people," he said. "I'm actually trying to allow the mouth of the Skeena is its policy of ensuring con- lerant," said Davis Lindsay. "I know what it's Momma's Moments, hasn't been bought by a drawing fire from a local servation come first. the majority in this town who don't feel like like not to fit in. I was teased as a kid for hav- production company yet.