, Cassiar Couri the Voice of Cassiar Country MAY 1981 10 cents SAFETY AWARD WINNERS _LEFT to RIGHT - R. ASH, ROBERT McCLELLAND, PETER JONES, DON TOTH. HIGHLAND SUCCESS At the Weatherseal Highland Week of International Curling held’ recently in Aviemore, Scotland, the Cassiar ° team surprised themselves and the,locals by placing 4th in the A Event. The team consisted of Frank Nitti, skip, Ciril Habjan third, Tony Coran second and Frank Buckley lead. In the first round the Nitti Rink curled against Sandy Shand of Aberdeen, Scotland, Ben Fuller of U.S.A., Fran Currie of Paris and Sandy Russell of Aviemore. By. winn- © ing three games and tying one our guys placed 1st in their division (and this after going 39 hours without sleep). The final four games were the playoffs and Cassiar lost only one game — the final — a play-off for third place. This was against Heinz Feller of Switzerland and was a very close game resulting in a 6 — 5 score. The team is to be congratulated on placing 4th out of a field of 40 teams from 10 countries. HOTEL FOR CASSIAR Max Lentz, one of a group of developers in Alberta, was in town recently to look into the possibility of build- ing a hotel-motel-office Complex here in Cassiar. Before coming to Cassiar Mr. Lentz had been in con- tact with the Brinco office in Vancouver. The trip to Cas- siar was mainly to look at possible sites and also to deter- mine the actual needs of the community. The proposed complex would include a 35-50 room hotel/motel, coffee shop, restaurant, cocktail lounge, night club, office space and retail store space (depending on the demand of local businessess). This would be locat- ed beyond the Government Building on Connell Drive. The group is also interested in building single dwellings or apartments in Cassiar. Before building the hotel/motel complex the group has to determine how many individuals. and businessess would actually be interested in renting space. If anyone is interested they should contact Frank Buckley at the Town Administration Building and he will forward the in- formation, _ _ Obviously the plans are in the very early stages and Mr. Letz was reluctant to divulge too much information until more definite plans are made. He did say, however, that if the plans do go ahead construction would start this -summer and he would keep us advised of further develop- ments regarding these plans. © The Westherseal competition is an invitational event. which was started in 1967, at which time it was sponsored by Johnny Walker. For the past two years it has been sponsored by. Weatherseal. Cassiar was represented at the Competition in.1979, 1980 and, of course, this year. This is the best placing earned by a Cassiar team in the three _years that they have competed. Listening to the accounts of our four staunch curlers, © the trip was not all work. Frank Buckley decided that “when in Scotland do as the Scots do” and bought a Scottish pushbroom (this may have had something to do” with the success of the team). Frank Nitti and Ciril Hab- jan had a great time renewing old acquaintances and, of course, they all met any new ones. All in all, it was a trip to remember. © - 2 Congratulations, guys! On April 2, 1981 the British Columbia Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources held its annual Safety Awards dinner at the Hotel Vancouver. Cassiar Resources was awarded the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petrol- eum Resources ‘’B’’ Trophy. The award was presented by the B.C. Mines Minister Mr. Robert McClelland and was accepted by Peter Jones(Mine Manager), Reg Ash(Chair- man of the Safety Committee Local 6536) and Don Toth (Safety Supervisor for Cassiar Resources). During 1980, Cassiar Resources worked 1,359,773 hours with a total of 16 compensible injuries. This gave Cassiar an accident frequency of 11.77 per 1,000,000. man hours. This achievement resulted in Cassiar having the lowest accident frequency rate for a large open pit mine in Brit- ish Columbia for the second consecutive year. To be elig- ible for this award, a mine operation must work a min- imum of 200,000 man hours in the competition year and have the lowest compensible injury-frequency rate. : ‘ Though this achievement marks success, it also indicates an injury frequency increase of 3.3 in comparison to the previous competition year. It is hoped that all Cassiar employees will bear this in mind and strive to accomplish a lower . accident freqency rate for the 1981 year. How- ever the success of Cassiar’s two year safety record strong- ly indicates a joint contribution by both union and man- - agement towards safety. Congratulations to all employees of Cassiar for a job well done. im COMMISSIONERS AWARD Long-time Yukoner Charles ‘Chappie’ Chapman ot Watson Lake was presented a Commissioner's Award April 10 in Watson Lake by Commissioner Doug Bell. Chapman, a former Royal Northwest Mounted Police officer who has lived in almost every Yukon community since his arrival in the territory in 1920, was awarded a scroll, one of three levels of Commissioner’s Awards. Chapman, who will be moving to Whitehorse, was singled out for his work in law enforcement, as justice of the peace for eight years, coroner, notary public, literary contributions to the Whitehorse Star and his involvement with numerous service clubs, sports and organizations. “Chappie’s long and distinguished record of commun: ity spirit and service is something he can be proud of, and we in turn, are proud of him,” said Bell. The award presented to Chapman last week is s the 10th Commissioner's Award: given in Yukon since its in- ception in 1979. SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED Cassiar, May 1, 1981 Local secondary student, Karen Taylor received word today that she has been awarded the William and Ada Isabelle Steel Endowment Entrance Scholarship to Simon Fraser University. The scholarship is valued at $10,000 and it consists of a $1000 payment for each of nine semesters during which Karen is enrolled fulltime at Simon Fraser Univ- ersity — provided that a high academic standard is main- tained. The’ remaining $1000 is paid in two install- ments of $500, payable during the first two semesters of enrollment. This scholarship is the highest of six awarded by S.F.U. each year. It should be noted that Karen is the only student in the Stikine District ever to receive a scholar- ship from one of the provinee’s major universities. The scholarship is awarded for high academic ability and citizenship qualities. Karen and her family came to Cassiar four years ago from Danville, Quebec.