Page2 April 1982 Cassiar:Courier _ Erickson C reek Column SS ry 23 Ss 7s — co ae Le by Pat Lewis Beaton What's in a name? Sometimes names immortalize people or events. Or sometimes they express the feelings of a particular per- son or era. It’s obvious how Table Mountain and Needlepoint got their names. But most people don’t know that Erickson was a Swedish prospector who climbed these mountains decades ago. or that McDame Creek and Lake are named after a Negro prospector who also passed this way before the turn of the century. The story goes that McDame said he wasn’t going to leave this country until he had the weight of his dog in gold. And he had a big dog! Two veins at Erickson are named Agnes and Jennie. Agnes is the wife of Charlie Davis, an old timer who once held claims here. (Last year Charlie was still placer mining in the Boulder Creek area of the Dease country). But somehow we still haven‘t discovered who Jennie was. The Jennie Vein is a beauty — it’s rich and long and played hard to get with early prospectors. We'd like to think Jennie was a lovely woman with skin as white as the quartz and hair as black as the tetrahedrite in the vein. But then some joker suggested Jennie was one old timer’s mule and, well ..... there goes the romance out of my theory! (I still like to think that past- president Dave Ross knows who Jennie was but he just isn’t talk- ing.) We have another vein in our mountain recently named the Maura Vein, Now| know who she is! She’s our year old daughter - the first Erickson-born baby. My Maura is cute as a button, strong- willed and very temperamental. / Olen wonder how the vein will turn out. Then there’s the Goldie vein — named after Mine Engineer Steve and Joy Wuschke’s mutt (because it’s a bit of a dog). We have a Devine Vein, for our plumber Charlie Devine, who is the best storyteller | know. And our latest discovery is “The Bear Vein A.JIVL President Kristian Ross’ nickname for his little daughter Kristina, Gold mining is hard work, but there are some fun aspects to it too! Congratulations this month to Joe Hebert and his industrial first aiders. Joe just taught his first industrial first aid course and seven out of eight of his students received their certificates. The class presented Joe with a silver tray to commemorate his first course. Joe is a carpenter at Erickson. It’s springtime in Cassiar Country. Watch out for the mud! STIKINE BUDGFT CUT Continued from Page 1 The trustees had already exercised considerable restraint in cutting $60,000.00 from its provisional budget and going with a bare-bones, essential education services budget. The teachers and parents may be concerned that such a drastic re- duction could result in teacher lay-offs, increased class size and higher pupil-teacher ratios and serious cutbacks in school sup- port systems (learning assistance, in-service programs, new pro- gram implanentations, etc.) The Minister has advised all districts that the interim Ed- ucation Finance Act is being prepared and will be submitted to the legislature early in the coming session and will operate retrospectively to over-ride the School Act which presently dictates education financing parameters. The Board of Trustees and its executive officers are study- ing the Stikine’s final budget to measure the impact upon 1982 services of slashing $80,808.00 from its projected programs. The Board is adamant that this reduction will not be effected by laying off teachers and that budget reductions will be made in areas that have minimal impact on the delivery of education to Stikine’s students. “Any reduction in our final budget must have some detrimental effect on our total 1982 educational program’ said Owen Corcoran, Supertintendent of Schools. ‘What we must endeavour to do is to regulate these reduct- ions so that we minimize their effect on teacher and student morale and on our educational delivery. system. ’ TRINA~ANNE RIVER EXCURSIONS TELEGRAPH CREEK, B.C. TO WRANGELL, ALASKA On the Stikine River Tourist & Commercial Trips Francis & Anne Gleason Box 96 Cassiar, B.C. (604) 778-7316 Telegraph Creek, B.C. . (604) 235-3167 e : Ouinsam Coal Quinsam Coal is a joint project between Brinco Mining Limited and Weldwood of Canada Limited to develop a coal mine about 27 kilometres from Campbell River. This project is man- aged by Brinco Mining Limited and Mr. W. Jim Hogan has been named Project Manager. Prior to this appointment Mr. Hogan was General Manager of Brinco’s San Antonio Gold Mine in Bissett, Manitoba. It is hoped government approval will be received in the near future to proceed with the proposed mine and that construction can start in earnest in mid 1983. Construction of the mine and mill will take about two years and will cost approximately $100 million and involve 300 workers. When the mine goes into oper- ation an estimated 208 people will be employed. The mine will produce approximately one million tons of clean coal per year and has a life expectancy of over thirty years. The coal will be mined using the most modern mining equipment, design and methods and the land will be reclaimed as mining pro- ceeds, using a simultaneous mining-reclamation method. The product will be shipped to markets from a new port at Middle Point, seven kilometres trom Campbell River. Quinsam Coal Limited has an office at 973 Alder Street, Campbell River, B.C. V9W 2R1, where more can be found out about the mine and where job applications can be filed, RCMP NEWS Court News / VAN JOHNNY — charged with false pretenses. Trial will be held during May 20 sitting. STETTLER BURNS — charged with assault. Given two months probation ahd four hours community work, He must also apol- ogize to the victim. 3 NELSON PINTO — charged with theft under $200.00. He re- ceived a conditional discharge, three months probation, and 40 hours community work. MARVIN QUOCK — charged with impaired driving. Sentenced to 3 months in jail, fon : MARVIN QUOCK — charged with taking ski-doo without owner's consent. Sentenced to 2 months in fail. DAVID QUASH — charged with assault causing bodily harm. Trial will be held during May 20 sitting. TINA MUIR — charged with false pretenses. Did not appear so a warrant has been issued. BRIAN CARLICK — charged with assault. Sentenced to one year probation, no physical contact with the victim during probation, and 100 hours of community work. MICHAEL JOHNNY — charged with assault causing bodily harm. Trial will be held during May 20 sitting. BRAHAM AZAZ— charged with making threatening phone calls. Failed to show for court so a warrant was issued for his arrest. GUY DUBE — charged with assault causing bodily harm. He was sentenced to 2 days in jail and'$200 fine. GRAHAM REYNOLDS — charged in 1978 with possession of re- stricted weapon. Found not guilty and given an absolute discharge. GLEN MADORE — charged with irpaired driving. Trial held and case disrissed. KEKE KEKKEKEK KER February 19, 1982 — Police vehicle, driven by Const. Mike Cain, backed into a parked car in the Arena parking lot. Damage was ap- proximately $1300.00 to the parked vehide and no damage to the police vehicle. March 12, 1982 —A poline vehicle, driven by Const. John O’Neil of the Dease Lake Detachment, was in collision with a vehicle driven by Frank Zubek, which was pulling out from P & W/ Ser- vices, There were no injuries and damage to the Zubek car was approximately $1000.00. There was no damage to the police vehicle. March 12, 1982 — A vehide, driven by Everett Brown, left the road at Camp Creek and burned. No injuries were sustained by the driver, The accident took place.at 3:00 a.m. PITTTTTT TTT COURIER STAFF - Lee Coran, Kerry Jones, Pat Riddle Deadline for articles for the April issue of the Cassiar Courier is April 8th. Please try to get your artides in early. 0908 OOO 0G0GO098OOOOGOSSOO0SOSOOOSSOOHOGHOG Dear Sir/Madam: On Saturday, November 28th, | boarded the 1:30 p.m CP. Air flight from Edmonton to Watson Lake, Yukon, with my wife and two children. The plane made an approach at Watson Lake but we were informed we would not be able to land because of fog and*the flight would be continuing on to Whitehorse. On arrival there we were told to unload and check at the CP. desk as to what. arrangements were being made for us. In reply to our inquiries, we were told there . was a bus waiting outside which would drive us to Watson Lake, approximately a7 hour drive, and and it would stop at Teslin on the way to feed us. The fact that our final destination was Cassiar, B.C., a further 2 - 3 hours drive from Watson, did not seem to concern them, They could not even assure us if the Cassiar bus, that normally leaves Watson at 6:30 p.m would still be waiting for us at 3:30 am. or if we would be stranded for the night. There were 28 people. all told, who should have got off at Watson Lake. One passenger phoned Watson Lake to inform far- ily what was happening and was told the fog had cleared five min- utes after we flew over and itwas now clear.as a bell. Another pas- senger phoned Teslin, fearing the worst about the catering capabil- ities of the establishment and. was told that they neither had the ability or the intention of feeding 28 people at that time of night. We went back to the CP. desk and informed them of this, and asked why we could not board the southbound plane that would be leaving soon. We were told it was not scheduled to land at Watson Lake that night and it was against CP. policy to re- schedule where their flights stopped. We pointed out that they had managed to change their flight stops on the way up when as far as we could ascertain, the only person who could not see the ground was the pilot. | asked them what were the alternatives, a there was no vay 1 could take my wie, my 3 year old daughter and my 2 year old son ona ten hour bus ride through the middle of the night, espec- jally as the two children do not travel well and had been on medication since 11:00.a.m. that morning. | was told there were no alternatives — we took the bus ar we got nothing. | told them | was not satisfied and wanted to see the manager was told he was at home. | asked was there anyone capable of making some de- cision. | was told there was not and they did not need anyone as the decision had been made for us before we had landed. We asked’ if they thought it was right for people to travel 16 hours with only a cold plate on flight and the possibility of a hamburger at Teslin. They said the decision had been made and that was final - it was not open to discussion. | said | had no intention of subjecting my family to this ordeal and they could book me on the flight the fol- lowing day. They did this and, to. my surprise, did not charge me for it, as | had fully expected them to do as they had made no mention of this being an alternative. They also gave: me a meal voucher of $12.00 — that is $4.00 for 3 people; my son being not quite two years old did not warrant feeding as te was not a fare- paying passenger, although the only reason we were all on the flight was because our doctor had referred him out on medical, consequently gaining C.P. three fare paying passengers. The price of $4.00 will just buy a hamburger and one coffee at Yukon. The cost of the hotel and taxis | was told | would have to bear my- self as, though it vas not my choice to be there, it was my choice to stay. On returning to Cassiar the following day we found out from other travellers who had taken the bus that they had all demanded to be fed before leaving Whitehorse and C.P. had relented and taken them to the Aimort Chalet and given them all $4.00 vouchers, whidh most of them had to supplement to cover the basic cost of the meal. They finally arrived back in Cassiar at 5:00 am the next morning, At the insistence of a few of the travellers, C.P. Air phoned Watson Lake Bus Co. to guarantee a bus would connect with them for Cassia. One of the travel- lers told me he had left his car at Watson Lake airport on the vay out, but the bus would only go as far a Watson Lake Hotel, so it cost him another $18.00 to get a taxi out to the airport to col- lect his car. Is this the standard way airlines deal with these sort of situ- ations, or are we right to expect some viable alternatives when, after purchasing tickets in good faith, they for one reason or an- other are unable to fulfill their part of the contract? Terry Farrell SES rp enone ae OE Pings ER IE ETRE RCN i | Lp cE Bits & Pieces Wonder what dreadful deeds our Vancou- ver "correspondent" is plotting - seems he threw the flowers in first and we're still waiting for the misdemeanor. On the serious side, the daffodils were greatly appreciated, Bob! Seems it's the "in" thing to have a broken ankle these days - we hope Rita Brown, Dale Teague and Mike the Butcher, are feeling better. On the other hand, maybe the fact that Clare wore her Sh boot to bed (one morning at 6:30 a.m. helped her to avoid a similar fate- she's not telling! We heard that Frank was threatened be- - cause he didn't throw a party for all the folk who share his birthday. Bet Frank Zubek wishes he'd not both- ered to dig his car out to go to Wat- | son Lake for the hockey tournament! Sorry Ciro - we forgot again to. give you credit for the hockey photos in the last issue. They sure turned out nicely and we really appreciated it. We don't mean to cast any aspersions on the "green thumbs" of the Town Ad- ministration staff but we are wondering why their poinsettia is blooming at Eas- ter instead of Christmas, like every- Condolences to Frank and Irene Gricnik on the passing of his father recently. We were saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Carla Hutton, who was killed in a car accident in December. Carla was the daughter of Arnold.and Alice Hutton, former Clintonites. Congratulations to Heather and Jerry Johnson on the birth of their son Jakob Jon, 6 lbs. 14 ozs. on Friday, February 26 at the Mission Hospital. Proud grand- parents are Charlie and Cathy Gander. Fred C informed us that he's made 36,000 cupes of coffee since he moved into the Town’ Admin Building - wonder what gets done there? Congratulations to Bill Z on his new??? position (Pant Supt.)We thought he was a "leg" man but maybe we're wrong. What's the matter, Bill - are pants warmer than Icelandic socks???? We hear there is a final chapter in the: lemon pie saga. Maybe since the eae is out of town Ed is getting Frank is a "cheapee"!!! Not only would he not buy us lunch but he refused to buy "posh" mugs for the Courier office. Guess he must have bought his because the old ones were worn out from 36,000 washings! 1!!! It was nice to see so many ex-Cassiar- ites im town for the Bonspiel. In for a Jod time were Pat Hogan, Noreen McGowan, Gladys Dowgray, Jill Dowgray, Percy Andrews and Leo and Liz Duri. Tony Pinto got a "really big one" He recently caught a northern pike OM long, 18 lbs while ice fishing at Joe Irwin's Lake. WELCOME TO — Jean Marie and Monique Bilodeux and their children, Chantel, Riky and Stefan. George Bunden, Frankie, Jason, Tony and Janine. ~ FAREWELL TO _ Enos and Shirley Kyle and family Rejean and Joan Lecours and their chil- dren Melissa, Derek and Aimee. The Le- cours are ''going home" to Deep River, Ontario. Good luck. David Chapman and family Keith and Beth Minty and family Sam and Claudette Antwi and children, Alexandre and Abigail BORN TO Wes and Nettie Young, a boy Desmond Alexander, March 3, 1982, 6 lbs. in Prince George. appenings Welcome to Brenda Robertson, who has joined us recently and will be working as a full time shift nurse. Brenda carne to us from Victoria, having just recently left the Royal Jubilee Hospital. We hope you enjoy Cassia, Brenda. Thanks to the Safety Dept. for showing us the Back Talk film. Your time and effort was appreciated. ° Thanks, Martha, for the Valentine’s. cake and the birthday cake. They were enjoyed by all. Welcome back to Dr. Bob Wintonyk, ‘who is covering for Dr. Bea- ‘ton for two. weeks, We think he really came to get in a couple weeks of good skiing. Bruce and Jean are off on a spring.camping trip. Rumour has it they took the “doghouse”. A lacal curler was heard to say “Why do you have to sweep the rock all the way down? Isn‘t sweeping just once good enough?” Lucy is having problems with tunnel vision and spots in front of her eyes. She knows the cause but can’t seem to find the cure. One thing she knows for sure is that she isn’t cooking any more pancake breakfasts until after the guests have arrived. KkKKKK: DELIBERATE THEFT While the ‘Prelude to Spring” dinner was scrump- tious, the behavior of some residents leaves a “ bitter aftertaste’ to the event. Seventy-eight of the linen nap- kins borrowed for the occasion were stolen -— this was at a cost of $234.00, which the Concert Society has to pay. At $27.00 a ticket the dinner was a bargain and it was mentioned that the price did not include a nap- kin. We can only thank our lueky stars that the table- cloths were too big to fit into a pocket or purse! The Concert Society is a non-profit organization, pouring all funds raised into the theatre improvements or subsidies for the concerts. /t makes one wonder whether the Society should even bother. /f the offenders have aready discovered that they can’t use the napkins (they are quite identifiable and in a small town news travels fast) then maybe they could mail them to the Town Administration office and save a Iittle face. The address is Box 495, Cassiar, B.C. We can only hope that the students helping out were not witnesses to the theft — what an example to our younger generation. IBA\ falar Cassiar Courier April 1982 Page 3 TIDBITS FROM The Ministry of Transportation and Highways would like to. wel- come to the Dease Lake Highways District Ken Beye and family, Watch out for the Algers! They will be terrorizing the ski hills in the near future. So beware! The’ big secret is to find out where they are going. Rumor has it that Bruce, Diana and family will be leaving for Dis- neyland in April. Bruce can hardly wait to see his life-long idols. Which is it, Bruce? The B.C. Forest Service would like to welcome to the Cassiar For- est District Al Moi and. family and Mike Wagner and family. We also regret saying good-bye to Karl Scholz, who has been trans- ferred to Fort St. James. We will all miss this fun-loving guy. COMMUNITY CLUB NEWS It is time to put away your skates and take out your fins. The Cassiar Arena will be shut down and work will be done in the Cassiar Swimming Pool in preparation for its opening in May. The Community Club would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who used the arena in the past season for their support. SUMMER YOUTH PROJECT The Community Club has applied for a Summer Youth Grant for. 1982. The Project, upon approval, will be hiring nine local students for the months of July and August. The Project will in- volve the clearing, setting up and maintenance of a campground. The location of the camp is approximately 4 miles from the Cas- siar Junction. It will be used as a stopover for tourists along the Cassiar-Stewart Highway, as well as for the locals to go. camping. This project is supported by the Federal Government sponsored Young Canada Works Grant. Job applications will be made avail- able as soon as the Grant is approved. MORE SCHMOO DAZE NEWS Now that we are right at the thick of things, here’s a list of the Events in case you have missed any. Mon. March 29 — Co-ed Broomball in the Arena. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. Tues. Mar. 30 — The Medieval Diner at the Rec Centre. The Carnival theme dinner will be a costume oc- - casion. This will be, indeed, a noble gathering. A Music Jam Session with our Carnival Band “The Canucks” in the lounge. At the Rec Centre the Indoor Soccer Tournament will Wed. Mar. 31 take place. Last year it ended in a three way tie. It will probably be close again this year. The Ski Hill will be the place to be for the Ski Hill races and BBQ. Also, for the second year in a row, an Art Exhibition will be at the Thurs. Apr. 7 Arts & Crafts Centre the same evening. A Country Western Hoedown at the Lounge, a Teen Dance at the Youth Club and the Hyp- notist at the theatre will get everybody set for the last day of the Carnival. The Caesar Breakfast will kick off the last day’s activities. In the afternoon, the Outdoor Events for Kids and Adults will be at the Rec Centre yard and the Market Place will be in Fri. Apr. 2 Sat. April 3 the Rec Centre. 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