Page 2 November 1982 Cassiar Courier

Land Committee
Formed

Representatives from the Ministry of Lands, Parks
and Housing. have been holding meetings in Cassiar over
the past few months and on October 16, 1982, at an open
meeting attended by approximately 25 people, a Land
Use Committee for the Cassiar area was set up. On this
Committee are Stan Deyo, Jean Lister, Jonnie Anderson,
Jerry Kamlah and Chris Tates.

This Committee was set up to act as a liaison between
the community and the Parks, Lands & Housing in
Smithers. Some of its functions will be:

(i) Identify and draft land use recommendations, e.g.
residential, recreational and commercial

(ii) Ensure local concerns regarding future land use are
made known to the Ministry.

Representatives from Lands, Parks and Housing,
Smithers, who attended the meeting were Max Nock, Dis-
trict Manager, Ross Taylor and Randy Diehl, Regional
Planners and Bob Purdon, Land Inspector.

The Area Lana Use Planning Committee met Sunday,
October 17, with the District Manager and Regional Plan-
ners of the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing from
Smithers. The primary purpose of this meeting was to est-
ablish planning objectives, identify planning issues, ident-
ify existing land uses, and establish area boundaries to be
encompassed by the planning committee.

General discussions covered such areas as possible res-
idential and recreational development areas, possible re-
leasing of claimed lands for recreational use, and recog-
nition of various areas for use only as wilderness recre-
ation areas on which no development will be allowed.

The group from Smithers left with a greater under-
standing of the needs of the people in the Cassiar area.
Based on this first meeting the Smithers group will now
do some preliminary work on land use plans for the Cas-
Siar area.

The Area Land Use Planning Committee will be advis-
ing the Smithers people on an ongoing basis and to this
end are soliciting input from all concerned individuals and
community groups. There will be public meetings held in
the near future in order to obtain more specific inform-
ation into specific land use requirements of people in the

So you think you think
you got a deal?

Did you get a deal on filling your freezer lately? If
you did, it cost you about 75% more to have it delivered
to your door.

Comparative shopping is how most people down
south shop so why not here? | had my wife take a form
“Freezer Filler No. 2’’ to the store and write beside each
item the store list price. My cost to the ‘‘Freezer Filler’
company was to be $1,775.00 cash or a total of $1,951.00
if paid in 9 monthly instalments. The store list totalled
$1,100.00, with the 20% discount, and | thought the store
did o.k.

Don’t sign anything in haste or later you could find
that you did pay more to have it delivered. Substantially
more! !!!

Bob Clark

Who says there’s a recession??

Recently I placed a call to the Court Registry in Prince Rupert, offering
them a deal for travel to Prince Rupert from Cassiar. This call was placed
due to my having to attend a court session as a witness, along with two

other people; in Prince Rupert.

A person answered the phone at the Court Registry in Prince Rupert

and | stated to her the following:-

“Is it possible for us to lease a van from Cassiar to Prince Rupert at a cost
of $200.00 per day, plus gas, and leave on the Sunday (the day before
Court), and look at a cost of roughly $700.00, plus gas?”

The reply was that all they could pay me (according to rules and
regulations), was 20 cents per kilometer, which amounted to $374.00.

I stated that this wasn’t enough money.

The reply was that the Court Registry made arrangements to fly three
witnesses to Vancouver on the Friday Night (due to no flights on Satur-
day) — give us two nights accomodation at the Grosvenor Hotel — pay our
taxis, meals — fly us out to Prince Rupert on Sunday — and return us via
the same way back to Cassiar. The total amount of this being paid in the

‘neighborhood of $4,000.00!

All three of us went on the package as stated above.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the taxpayers

out there who gave us a nice trip.

R.C.M.P REPORT

COURT NEWS

WAYNE GILCHRIST — charged with impaired driving.
He was fined $400 and his driver's license was suspended,

CALVIN MARION — Charged with causing a distur-
bance. He was given a suspended sentence and one
month probation,

OSCAR AERSSEN — charged with two counts of mis-
chief. He pleaded not guilty and trial will be held on
December 2.

GERT HAGEMANN -— charged with possession of a re-
stricted weapon at a place other than specified on the
registration certificate. Given an absolute discharge.

JOHN BLEZARD — charged with possession of a nar-
cotic and fined $150.00.

DOUG NYBERG — charged with possession of a nar-
cotic and fined $150.00.

TOMMY HAWKINS — charged with common assault
and sentenced to 45 days in jail. He was also found guil-
ty of theft over $200 and received a sentence of 10
hours of community work.

CARL POLACK — charged with possession of a narcotic
for the purpose of trafficking. He pleaded not guilty and
trial will be held December 2.

DON FUGERE — charged with refusing to take a breath-
alyser test. He was fined $100 and his driver’s licence
was suspended.

LARRY PRINCE — charged with theft over $200. He
pleaded not guilty and his trial will be held December 2.

BRAD JEFFERSON — charged with trafficking in a
narcotic. He pleaded not guilty and his trial will be held
December 2.

STAMEN JACIMOWSKI. — charged with impaired driv-
ing. He received a $400 fine, plus a driver’s license sus-
pension,

PETER WHALEN — charged with impaired driving. He
was fined $50 and his driver's license was suspended.

ANDRE CHARBONNEAU — charged with a fisheries
offence - retention of pink salmon in non-tidal water.
He received a $50 fine.

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PIERRE PARE — charged with obtaining food and lodg-
ing by fraud, Fined $50, plus restitution.

STEVE PERON — charged with driving without a li-
cense and due care and attention. He was fined $85.

NICOLAI KREISSLE — charged with driving without in-

surance and misuse of plates, He was fined $315. _

DAVID QUASH — pleaded guilty to assault causing bod-

ily harm. He was fined $500 and given 6 months
probation.

BRIAN CARLICK — charged with impaired driving. He
was fined $400 and given a drivers license suspension.

Two Good Hope Lake juveniles were charged with
breaking and entering. They pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to community work and 1% year probation.

A Cassiar juvenile was charged with wilful damage and
attempted theft. He pleaded guilty and was given 10
hours of community work and probation. Another Cas-
siar juvenile was found not guilty of a motor vehicle
offence.

R.C.M.P. NEWS

Sept. 19 A vehicle owned by Herbert Daum was damage-

ed, as well as the canoe on top of this vehicle,
when it was involved in a hit and run accident.
After investigation, police have laid charges.

Sept. 21 Police received a complaint regarding pellet gun
shooting and charges have been laid, as a result
of investigation.

Sept. 23 Items valued at approximately $300 were stol-
en from 371 McDame and a juvenile has been
charged with the offence.

Sept. 25 Two persons were charged with impaired driv-
ing and will appear in court on Dec. 2.

Sept. 26 A breaking and entering occurred at Good
Hope Lake but no charges have been laid.

Sept. 29 A breaking and entering at Plaza Mines was re-
ported and is still under investigation.

John Forsberg’s vehicle was damaged in a hit
and run accident in the Cassiar Resources park-
ing lot. Charges have been laid.

Oct. 3 Police investigated two complaints of theft at

the Community Centre and the Lions Club, Ap- -

proximately $500 worth of sporting equipment
was taken from the Pro Shop and there was
general vandalism and theft of a flag and soft
drinks from the Lions Club. As a result of this

investigation, three juveniles have been charged.

An out-of-town resident was charged with im-
Paired driving.

As a result of a complaint from the Royal Bank
a person has been charged with forgery.

Cassiar resident was charged with impaired
driving and will appear in court December 2.

Oct. 4

Oct. 9

A vehicle owned by Joseph Dennis, parked on
Malozemoff St. was involved in a hit and run
accident and there was approximately $600
damage to his GMC truck. This is still under
investigation and no charges have been laid.

Oct. 12 A theft over $200 was reported by a bunk-
house resident and a Good Hope Lake resid-
ent has been charged.

Oct. 14 Police investigated four counts of false pre-
tences, totalling in excess of $6,100. A Cassiar
resident has been charged with these offences,
as well as a charge of public mischief.

NZ NE SU
AS AS AS

“Well, is it BEAR .... or BULL???”

By Gary Perriard

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CASSIAR

Bits & Pieces

It’s good to see Christine Tates out of hospital
and home. Hope to see you back at the bank soon,

Ex-Cassiarites Ian and Meg McColl were in town
recently visiting Tony and Marjorie de la Mare.

They were en route to London, England via Van-
couver and hope to make a return visit in the
spring when they will be able to renew old ac-
quaintances.

Doreen Dancetovic’s mother, Mrs. Milka Tadic
from Hamilton, Ontario, was visiting recently.

The Guarducci family were happy to have Anna’s
mother, Mrs. Maggi from Rome, Italy, here for an
extended visit. She is really enjoying the visit, es-;-
pecially the day they shot two moose.

Mrs. G. Pewsey from Durban, South Africa, has
been visiting her son Dave and. his family before
going to Vancouver to spend Christmas with
Brian, Doreen and family.

Bernie Making from Coquitlam is here visiting her
daughter Carol and family. Seems she’s joining
right in and helping spoil that new young lady in
the Giles’ household!

To the person who inquired about the 5 a.m.
phone call saying ‘I’m home! I’m home!” Really
at that time of the morning, F.B. you should be
at home — not riding your bike and checking out
mud puddles.

Congratulations to Bill and Christine Nymeyer,
who were married on October 18. Bill says it
sure takes a long time to get married in Cassiar-—
when he left to go down to the office for the
ceremony it was in the 3rd round of a boxing
match on TV and when they came back —
married — it was only the 6th round! Now who
would watch TV just after they got married????

Congratulations also to Wayne and Debbie Gies-
brecht (nee McLean) who were married in Van-
couver on October 9.

We heard a rumor that a certain school principal
(won’t mention any names but K.L. could be the
initials) took his own supply of swizzle sticks to
Whitehorse recently. 3

Marie Knudslien and Darlene Dick recently co-
hosted a baby shower for Debbie Anscombe and
approximately 15 ladies spent an enjoyable even-
ing.

Instead of waiting another 8 months, Marvel and
Frank are off on a cruise to South America in

search of the sun.

Golly, you never know who you’re going to run

into on those Adriatic beaches, do you Betty-

Ann?

Goodbye to Laverne Young and Guy Grenville

and family. They have moved to Edmonton.

The local nurses must be fairly pleased. The first
half of their new residence, to be located at 253
Drybrough, arrived recently. The residence should
be ready by the first of the year.

Congratulations to Crystal Daum. Crystal was
the lucky winner of the $700 Curling Club

World Series Pool.

WELCOME TO —

Linda Benner and her daughters Karen and

Danielle Haldane — Tom May’s new family.

David and Carol Mackin and son Chance.

Marie and Mike Zemenchik and family

BORN TO:

Val and Brian Caron, in Saudi Arabia, a son Adam

Paul, 6 Ibs. 5 0z. on September 8th 1982.

Sherry and Dave Chapple, a daugher, Candice Rae
9 Ibs. 1 oz. in the Royal Columbian Hospital,

Vancouver on September 28th.

Carol and Gordon Giles, a daughter Brianne
Nicole, 9 lbs. 9 0z., in the Burnaby General

Hospital on October 3rd.

OBITUARY

GORDON EDWARDS 1907 — 1982

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Gordon Edwards, who worked for Cassiar Asbestos
Corp. Ltd. from 1961 to 1971, passed away in White
Rock, B.C. on September 20, 1982.

Gordon was born in Toronto on October 29, 1907
and prior to coming to Cassiar he and his wife Mabel liv-
ed in Atikokan, Ontario, where he was employed by
Steep Rock Mines. Mabel passed away in Cassiar in July
1969. :

Gordon was an outstanding member of the commun-
ity. He worked hard as one of the original members of
the Lions Club to help obtain the charter for the Club.
He was an active member of the Curling Club and served
on the executive of the Community Club. While he was
on the Community Club Board he realized one of his
fondest dreams — to see the Lions Club build the chil-
dren’s playground. Gordon was a very able master of
ceremonies and was much in demand in this respect so
it was natural he would organize the Toastmaster Club in
Cassiar. He also served as a justice of peace for the area.
In recognition of his community work he was awarded
the Raybestos Manhattan Award in 1968.

Gordon was a member of All Saints Anglican
Church, where he served for many years on the Church
vestry, four of these years as treasurer. Still in use at the
Church is Gordon's family bible, which was published in‘
1889 and donated by him.

He retired from Cassiar as Plant Maintenance Supt.
in 1971 and married the former Edna Martin in March
1972. They settled in White Rock, where he could work
in and enjoy his garden until his health gave out.

Gordon was one of Cassiar’s best story tellers and to
this day is still remembered for them as they are retold
often when oldtimers get together. -

Funeral services were held at St. Marks Church,
Surrey and Rev. David Royce said the eulogy. Cremation
followed. A memorial service was held in Cassiar on
October 6.

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Congratulations to Lana Bernadette Baleski
and Joseph Potocnjak, who were married on
October 2, 1982 in Cassiar. The wedding took
place at Our Lady of Lourdes Church and the
ceremony was performed by Father Oscar Pau-
wels. A reception followed afterwards in the
church hail.

The wedding took place at 3:30 p.m. and was
attended by approximately 35 guests. Included
in the wedding party were the groom’s parents,
Mr. & Mrs. A. Sabolic of Edmonton. Mr. Frank
Kapelari, the groom’s uncle, gave the bride away

and Mrs, Donna Kapelari was matron of honor.

They were from Edmonton. ‘

The bride wore a long formal gown of white
satin and ivory lace. Her bouquet and her head-
piece were both made up of pink and white
roses. Flower girl Julia Potocnjak wore a long
dress of pink eyelet with white satin bows and
she carried a basket of pink and white roses and
daisies. Best man was Tony Miletic.

What are the couple planning for the future?
To grow very old and very happy together.

Good Luck!

Peewee

IN MEMORY

To lose someone we loved so much,
It’s hard beyond belief,

Our hearts come near the breaking
And God alone knows the grief.
Time cannot mend a heartache

Or even stop a tear,

Our memories for you, Andy

Will never fade but only grow deep,

For someone we all loved but could not keep,
Treasure him, Oh Lord, with all respect

For someone so dear is one of the best.

The Cafeteria Staff

Thanks

To the People of Cassiar,

I’m proud of Cassiarites and happy to be one.
It is. unfortunate that it usually takes a tragedy to
bring people together. I am overwhelmed at the
donations that came in. Also, meals were cooked
for Karen, Jordan and her family who arrived to
help. I don’t know if Thank you is enough, as the
feeling goes beyond Thank you. Andy would be
proud to know how.much people helped and
cared,

The donations are being applied towards ex-
penses initially and at a later date a trust for
Jordan will be set up.

On behalf of Karen and Jordan, Thank you.
Thank you very much.

With much gratitude,

Debbie Nichols

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