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Editors note:

Awhile back this paper ran a
series of articles on individuals
entitled "Cassiar Country," which
highlighted certain persons natu-
rally from, in and around Cas-
Siar. When I assumed the respon-
Sibility as managing editor I
intended to continue the series
seemed popular with the

readers. However, shortly after-

wards I cancelled the page for a
couple or reasons. Picstly yest
did not feel I was doing justice
to the people I wrote about and
secondly, a couple of people told
me I should write about them be-
cause they " deserved it."

A number of people have sug-
gested that we bring the page
back. On top of that Donna the
lady that does most of the work
in our shop, has promised dire

consequences if some articles are.

not forthcoming forthwith. This

I interviewed this
the bar one day on a slow shift.

guy in

He had been in before a
couple of times. A husky middle-
aged fellow, looked like he had
worked hard sometime in his life,
but had fattened up lately and
grown a pot. Never smiled much
and never talked too much, he
would just come in and mind his
own business. He bought me a
beer one day and I thought, "this
would be a good time to try out
interviewing techniques."

OH tore Saide-wrim= Don,
what's your name?" "Call me Bud,"
He said. "“O.K. Bud, what do you
do for a living?" "Work," he
said. "What at," I asked. "This
and that," he said. "Where do
you work?" "Here and there," he
said.

BOY .this] guy, ise tude oF
information, maybe I should try a
different track.

"Where were you born?" I
asked.

"Alberta," he said " Lamont
Alberta, a small farming com-

munity east of Edmonton.
on a farm there, grew up,
half my life there."

“When. .were you. born?" I
He thought for a minute
before he answered. " I remember
some of the dirty .thirties," he
answered.

Boy this Bud must be about

Raised
spent

my age, maybe older, doesn't
matter, I started him talking
now.

eT remember the dirty
thirties," he repeated, "I remem-

ber when people walked the roads
looking for work, or for some-
thing to eat or a bed for the
remember my parents
feeding them or Bsetnn them up
for the ‘night..\\; Peop € helped
each other ~/ out more ‘thdén," he

SES

added.

Mat Started es Gut et os bess.a
farmer," Bud said, “at one time
or another I raised chickens,
cows, and sheep. No money in
farming in those days, so I tried
working out and farming on the
Side. Worked out.on power line
construction for a couple years,
drove a school bus for 5 or 6
years, ati loaded fertilizer into
box cars.

cain did you do after that
Bud?" I asked.

"Well one day I walked into
a jail and told them I wanted to
be=as-gquard. = Ixtound out-1- liked
the work and stayed there for 22
years, I worked in jails in Fort
Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yellow-
knife and in- Frobisher Bay in the
N.W.T. I finally got fed up with
the system," Bud added, ™ “too
many social workers and to many
bleeding heart do-gooders."

a f left the correctional
service in. Frobisher Bay and went
back to Alberta, where I worked
as an instructor in corrections
at a community college. I also
did some contract workshops back
in the Territories."

"Leaving Alberta," Bud cont-
inued on, “we bought a campsite
near Kamloops, where we spent 4
years before moving to Cassiar."

Oh hell I'm not fooling any-
one, this is me trying to do a
thumbnail sketch on me. Basic-
ally it's all true, except I left
out some of the sordid details.
I feel I am not afraid to under-
take something new and ‘I am not
afraid to work, it's just that I
would rather have someone else to
do it for me.

I also procrastinate a lot,
that's why people see me wander-
ing around town trying to stay
out of work. . AS

I Should also Sda “that twas”
a failure as a teenager and that

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oS ee oe

is probably not a true statement

because Brenda the other lady

in the operation also
does a lot of the work also. To
be truthful, between the two of
them, they do the work and I just
sort of hang around.

Anyway, this first guy is

not the one I wanted to start the

series with, but, with a deadline
fast approaching and a couple of
people not finished to my liking,
this one will have to do.

Don Campbell.

I’ was kicked out of school in

grade 10 because I couldn't pass
English. Now you know why the
Courier is always late and why

Donna and Brenda have to do all
the work and why the spelling and
punctuation is so bad.

I should also like to add
that I have five grown up child-
ren, who I am very proud of. I

am married to a fantastic lady,
who I am also very proud of and
happy to be with and who has 2
grown up children.

Both of us like outdoor act-
ivities such as boating, fishing,
camping and trail riding. Karren
is interested in computers and I

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