Sr vapl > at “5.70 } * Rew enh ila vel) Te Oe eee te . . Page 6 July 1986 Cassiar Couriér. “*" “=~ f"s Cassiar Country seems to be saying good-bye to a lot of familiar faces this summer. One long time resident who will be moving south is Father Oscar Pauwels of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Mission. Father Pauwels has been the parish priest here for 11 years. He has served the parishioners as well as the community at large in many and varied ways — whether through counselling sessions in people’s homes, administering the sacraments at Our Lady of Lourdes Mission and at Good Hope Lake Church, and through moderating the Systematic Training For Effective Parenting (S.T.E.P.) course — to name a few examples, In his good-bye sermon to his parishioners Father Pauwels joked that he was going into semi-retirement even though his new parish, St. Patrick’s of Lethbridge, will have 900 families. He said at St. Patrick’s there will be a housekeeper, secretary and janitor as well as many lay people to help out with the ‘administration of the church. That will be a big change from Cassiar where he has had to do everything from shovelling snow to balan- cing the books! In commenting on his work here Father Pauwels said working in the north is a very personal experience. Because of the small size of his church a priest gets to know everyone very well. The work is a challenge too, he says, because priests work hundreds of miles away from each other and must make decisions without the com- fort of consultation with other priests. It was this mission aspect, however, that drew Father Pauwels to the north. He is an Oblate priest. Men who join this order do so with the intention of serving people who might not otherwise have a priest because of their location. So. in 1952, when he first came to Canada from Bel- gium, Father Pauwels asked to be sent to the northern missions. He spent about nine months in Battleford, Saskatchewan, improving his English, and in July, 1953, he took the train north. After a ten day stop over in Lower Post he was sent to Mayo-Elsa. However, Father Pauwels was not destined to stay in the north very long, Due to health reasons he returned to Saskatchewan the following January. He had seen enough of the north, though, to want to return! Come in and S Cassiar Counery see our 1956 4-Wheelers at 1985 prices by Pat Lewis Beaton After doing some replacement work in Saskatchewan and an 18 month term in Oshawa, he was asked if he’d like to go to a German parish in Winnipeg. By this time an old Polish doctor had diagnosed his health problem — fallen arches — and feeling healthy again, Father Pauwels said yes to the appointment. The Manitoba Provincial of the Oblates asked Father Pauwels to take on the position because the parish was mainly composed of immigrants. Father Pauwels had spent the second world war in Europe and was a fairly recently immigrant himself, All he had to do was learn to speak German! . He laughs when he looks back to those days! The only German books he had to study were 1885 Gothic German books. The language was pretty much the same, he says, but he had to modernize the ideas! In the begin- ning most of his sermons were memorized. However, after 10 years in the parish some of the church members didn’t | know he wasn’t German-born. ; A high point of his time in Winnipeg was his work sss SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsss " dease lake shel Polaris Snowmobile Sales & Service Tire Sales and Service Auto & RY. Repairs john 7" brown — SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS$S$S$SSSSSSSSSSSSSSFSSSS$SSSSSSSSSS$S$SSSSSSS $$$ SSSSSSSSSSSSS SSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, with the Kolping Society. This is a group of workmen dedicated to developing 1) good tradesmen, 2) good citizens, 3) good Christians and 4) good family men. The men met Once a week and discussed one of these four aims at each meeting. Father Pauwels was national pres- ident of the society for four years from 1961-1965. In 1966 the Yukon was looking for someone to help the bishop in Whitehorse. Father Pauwels was approached by the Superior General of his Order to transfer to the Yukon. However, the Provincial of Winnipeg didn’t want to see Father Pauwels go. This was a time of internal turmoil for Father Pauwels. He felt he was doing good work in Winnipeg, however, at heart he was a missionary, and in the end, he was allowed to transfer to Whitehorse. “To me it was a challenge...1 had great hope and enthusiasm about working in the north...In the Yukon there is no other city parish within 1000 miles to compare notes with or get feedback information,” he says. ‘Only two minutes drive from Whitehorse and you are in the wilderness...the first thing I did when I arrived in the north was take a car mechanics course!.”’ During his stay in the Yukon Father Pauwels was involved with all aspects of family service; he was Director of Catholic schools; he introduced the new catechism to all grades; he got the Scouts operating again in Whitehorse. In addition to these duties he was elected as first coun- sellor of the Oblates in the Yukon and Northern B.C. district. While in Whitehorse Father Pauwels began to sense the immense problems affecting families in the ’60’s. Statistics showed that family breakdowns had increased about 60% over a five year period. He felt he needed to know more about how to deal with these problems. And so he took a year off from his parish duties to obtain a masters degree in family studies at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa. The course has proved to be invaluable to Father Pauwels in his work in Whitehorse and Cassiar. In 1975 the position of parish priest in Cassiar became available. He says, “Cassiar had all the elements of work that I was interested in ... I wanted to experience the mission aspect of the north - of being on my own - working with immigrants, working men, familes and Continued on Page 16 er nal AWARDS DAY Students were recognized for their accomplishments in many areas over the year. STIKINE TROPHY (Best all-round senior student) Jacqueline Molan and Michelle Billingsley TOP ACADEMIC GRADE 8 Ellen Artico GRADE 9 Dyonne Zubek GRADE 10 Mary Molan GRADE 11 Troy Wanner GRADE 12 Jacqueline Molan GOLD HONOR ROLL Mary Molan Dyonne Zubek Jacqueline Molan Jennifer Pewsey Ellen Artico SILVER HONOR ROLL Kamal Athwal Amarjit Athwal Michelle Billingsley Janice Joseph Troy Wanner David Lanphear Asha Lekhi Travis Penno Sonia Saro Joe Gowan John Cavanagh -Joanne Coran Harbinder Mangat Sonia Girardin Derek Andrews Chantal Bilodeau Lisa Ray BRONZE HONOR ROLL Annabel Nole Paul Guarducci Kim Madore CITIZENSHIP AWARDS Chantal Bilodea Mary Molan Simone Meise David Madore Korlaina Boutin Robbie McCauley Pam King David Lanphear Asha Lekhi Samantha Wurtak Troy Wanner Dyonne Zubek Hazel Quash Travis Penno - Julie Creyke Jennifer Pewsey Kishanda Boutin Amarjit Athwal Debbie Hardy Michelle Korhonen Michelle Billingsley ATTENDANCE No Absences/Lates Trina Bartel No Absences Kamal Athwal Chad DeCecco School District 87 (Stikine) held a French teachers’ workshop on June 12 and 13 in Cassiar. French teachers from four District schools spent two information-packed days with Ms. Wendy Campbell, a consultant from Campbell, Golinsky & Associates, discussing French programs, teaching materials, strategies and techniques. Mr. Keith Lanphear, Superintendent of Schools, secured a $2500 grant from the Provincial Government’s Divi- sion of Modern Languages, to pay for the workshop. The goal was to improve the quality of French instruc- tion and program implementation in our Northern District. This is the first “French-as a Second Language” workshop to take place in the District. Participants gathered in Claire Redmond’s French classroom at Snowridge Elementary School to address the very special needs of French language teachers. The group was composed of Claire Redmond, Norm Vickery from C.S.S., John Powell from Dease Lake, Terry Markley from Atlin, and Judith Knapp, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, organizer of the event. The workshop focused on the core program “Vive Le Francais” by Addison and Wesley. Ms. Campbell is - co-author of the Promenades (Levels 1-2) texts which are the beginning levels for this program. Ms. Campbell’s ee Gee ea ee oe ee ey at Fi ae In and Around Cassiar Secondary School COMMERCE Troy Wanner Jennifer Pewsey Jacqueline Molan SPEED Mary Molan Sonia Girardin Mary Molan Michelle Billingsley Sonia Girardin Emmy Fiorella Trina Bartel SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE awarded to top science graduate by Sciance Council) Jacqueline Molan GRACE MCARTHY B.C. SPORTS DEVELOPMENT Janice Joseph (Basketball) MOST IMPROVED STUDENT Grade 8A Simone Meise Grade 8B Korlaina Boutin Grade 9 Derek Andrews Grade 10A David Andrews Grade 10B David Duke Grade 11 Annabel Nole Grade 12 Sheila Quash SERVICE AWARDS Michelle Billingsley Asha Lekhi Tracy McDougall Dorothy Duffy Debbie Hardy David Madore Kim Madore Michelle Korhonen Robbie McCauley Lisa Joseph Hazel Quash Jacqueline Molan Julie Creyke Roland Rudkowsky ATHLETIC BLOCK LETTERS LARGE Michelle Billingsley (last year) ! SMALL Nelson Hartman Pat Moth Robbie McCauley Lisa Joseph (last year) CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING PINS David Madore David Lanphear Jon Wurtak Kamal Athwal GRADUATION ACTIVITIES The Graduation Ceremonies and Banquet are over for another year. As one will determine else- where in the Courier, sixteen students composed the 1986 Graduation Class. Students will receive official graduation notice after the Provincial Examination results are known at the end of July. At the Graduation Ceremonies three students received awards. Mr. David Brocklebank present- ed David Madore with a Scholarship on behalf of the United Steelworkers of America, Local 6536. Mr. Brocklebank also presented the Lions Bursary to David Madore and Michelle Billingsley. Mr. Bob Langford presented two awards on behalf of Cassiar Mining Corporation. The Leadership Bur- sary went to Michelle Billingsley and the Acade- mic Scholarship went to Jacqueline Molan. Mr. Keith Lanphear, Superintendent for the Stikine School District, presented Michelle Billingsley with a $500 District Award. Ms. Billingsley will receive a further $500 once she is enrolled at a post secondary institution. _$.D.8'7 Holds Workshop experience as a former French co-ordinator for School District 34 in Abbotsford gave her presentation a greater depth and perception which was appreciated by all the teachers present. s As an added bonus, Judy Sikora displayed an interesting collection of French library books and Warren Cocking displayed audio-visual French materials available in the local District Resource Centre. o~ Le | gy Ms. Wendy Campbell is seen here leading a group of dis- trict teachers in a French workshop held recently in Cassiar. \ eo ve ee + » . pe ees 3. Cassiar Courier July 1986 Page 7 by David Hogg Jacqueline Molan was presented with the Governor General's Bronze Medallion as the graduate with the highest academic standing. Mrs. Best presented the address to the grad- uates. With the assistance of Dorothy Duffy, Mrs. Best projected photos and other memor- abilia of the Grad Class onto the wall of the Rec Centre. Some pictures took the class back a very long way. David Madore delivered the Valedictory Address. David was given the honour by his classmates. , i All members of the Class of '86 were pre- sented with mementos of the evening by trustees Mr. Dave Pewsey and Mr. David Brocklebank of Cassiar, Mrs. Molly Dennis of Good Hope Lake, and Ms. Yvonne Tashoots of Telegraph .Creek. The graduation Banquet was attended by approximately 260 invited guests. The Cookery staff did an excellent job as usual. Ms. Tavener co-ordinated a very competent group of student servers. Father Pauwels blessed the dinner, Mr. Dave Pewsey delivered a toast to the Class, and Jacqueline Molan responded to the toast on behalf of the Class. MILK RUN RESULTS All students at Cassiar Secondary School participated in Milk Run '86 on May 23, along with grades 2-6 from the Elementary School. Following are the results of the run: Boys 1st - Garred Huber 2nd - Paul Guarducci 3rd - Joey George Girls & Ist - Mary Molan Adults 1st - Cheryl McCargar Elem. Student 1st - David Bennett 1986-87 SCHOOL CALENDAR Begin Tuesday September 2 Monday, October 13 Tuesday, November 11 Thanksgiving Day Remembrance Day School Closed for - Christmas Vacation School Reopens Spring Vacation December 22 - January 2 Monday, January 5 March 16 - March 20 Good Friday April 17 Easter Monday April 20 — Victoria Day May 18 June 10 - June 19 June 15- June 19 Provincial Exams School Exam Schedule Last day of Regular Attendance Thursday, June 25 i ™ i Alice Dyk (left) presenting Helen with her ticket The Blue Valley Figure Skating Club recently spon- \ sored a special “Hawaiian Night” bingo. The evening was 4 S enhanced by the fresh pineapples and orchids flown ing lucky winner, Helen Billingsley, will also receive a free night’s accomodation in Vancouver at the Delta Inn, courtesy of Marvel Travel. The prospect of a sunny