apne a Page 4 February 1986 Cassiar Courier Cassiar Not many Cassiar Country residents will be in town very long before they meet Gary in one aspect or another. Be it checking out activities in the Rec Centre or different club information. or schedules for the facilities, you prob- ably met Gary Periard. If you were at the Children’s Christmas Party and saw a man bustling about checking on all the little details, you saw Gary. If you were into the gym before the Fashion Show and saw a person handing out orders and keys in a flurry, you have seen Gary Per- iard, the Recreation Director of Cassiar. Gary has been in Cassiar for 9 years, having come here from Elsa in July 1977. In Elsa he was the Recrea- tion Director and the move to Cassiar brought him the op- portunity of more facilities and responsibilities. Gary be- came Recreation Director in Elsa after being an under- ground labourer and truck driver in the mine there. When the position of Director came available in Elsa, the Hotel Administration Degree which Gary held was a clincher for the job. Priorities of both recreation director and hotel ad- ministration are: finances, budgets and dealing with the public. Before moving north, Gary worked in Vancouver at the Bay Shore Inn. There he worked his way through sev- eral different departments. His final position there was Entertainment Director. Showing his liking for juggling numbers, budgets and people! Gary had many comments about his arrival in Cassiar. ‘When | arrived, the town of Cassiar was growing,”’ he stated, ‘‘unfortunately the facilities, which consisted of Recreation Centre, covered seasonal pool, arena (with natural ice), and squash court, were in need of repairs. The facilities were not being utilized.’ Said Gary, ‘‘There was a Club Director and Business Manager and we worked on a day to day basis with no budget. As the Company made changes to the system, positions were combined. Finally, the C.C.C. took over its own books and | was the person to oversee the books and facilities.” Gary commented proudly, ‘‘Most of our facilities have been built through volunteer labour. The arena, cov- ered pool, squash court and ski hill were all built and up- graded by the people of Cassiar.”’ POPOD POD SC OSOS January will see tne departure of some key personnel at the hospital. Darlene Mattson, R.N. has decided to go back to Saskatchewan for a while before she decides on her future. Darlene has been at the hospital since July 1983. She is an exceedingly competent nurse and we will all miss her very much, but wish her the best of luck. Of course, when people leave they have to be re--- placed. Fortunately, Jennifer Greenwood, an Australian trained registered nurse is visiting in town and will fill in until a full time replacement arrives. Irene is hoping this will be soon as the residence is pretty quiet right now. Dr. Larry Otto has been in town relieving for Drs. de la Mare and Crawford. As the town is probably well aware, Larry enjoys a good time and doesn’t require much of an excuse to have a party. Larry also received a unicycle for Christmas and once he learns to ride the thing, plans to unicycle from exam room to exam room. Larry thinks it'll definitely pick up business in the clinic. RE ps! BORN TO: Rose Loverin and Andy Rousseau, of Dease Lake a daughter, Suntanna Rose, 7 Ibs. 6 oz., in Ter- race Hospital, on December 3, 1985. Her grana- parents, Don & Marjorie Loverin, great-grandmor- her Rose Dennis, and great great grandmother Eva Carlick, all live in the Cassiar and Dease Lake area. Gerry and Kiernan Loughran, son Shane, 7lbs. 3 ozs. on January 3, 1986 at the Whitehorse General Hospital, Whitehorse, Yukon. Mom was realiy surprised to find the two front teeth! Janet and Bob Lefebvre, a daughter, Angela Jazz, Angela was born on January 9, 1986 at Laval, Quebec, and weighed 7 lbs. 14 oz. By Cathy Morrison For those of Cassiar country who have resided here for awhile, they can probably remember the movies in the Rec Centre. Full house for most movies was not uncom- mon. “They had started the new theatre when | arrived,” Gary said, “but with the introduction of cablevision the new theatre was soon closed as a deficit facility.’’ At pre- sent there is a private club looking into utilizing the theatre again. i “Slowly we began to hiré specialized people for dif- ferent facilities,’ Gary said. ‘‘We trained a lot of people here too, because of the difficulty of acquiring trained people for short seasons,’’ Gary finished. Away from his ‘definitely not 9 to 5’ job, Gary has other interests. Entertaining is one of Gary’s favorite pas- times. If you‘ve tasted some of his cooking you can vouch for his culinary expertise. And, as most people of the north, Gary enjoys a good hand of cards. LIBRARY NEWS The Cassiar Library is getting 1986 off to a good start with more additions to our collection. We received 175 new books between Sept. and Dec. 1985 and are keeping up the pace for this year too. Many of our titles currently appear on the best seller list and we are very proud of our revitalized selections. Younger readers will enjoy browsing through the bins of bright attractive books where new titles appear reg- ularly too. Some Of Our New Titles In stock now and on order) FICTION 1. The Mammoth Hunters Auel 2. Texas Michener 3. The Handmaid's Tale Atwood 4. What's Bred in the Bone Davies 5. Contact Sagan 6. The Red Fox : Hyde 7. Secrets Steel 8. Lucky Collins 9. lf Tomorrow Comes Sheldon 10. The Road To Paradise Island Holt NON FICTION 1. Straight From The Heart Chretien 2. Yeager Yeager with Janos 3. The World Of Robert Batemen Derry 4. Dancing In The Light Maclean 5. The Golden Giant Hart 6. War Dyer WANTED We have to furnish a trailer and need furniture. Anyone having furniture for sale or donation, please call Peggy Wurtak at 778-7481 or 778-7566. “In the summer | love to go haying,” expressed Gary, “and in winter | am a backseat hockey player and like cross-country skiing. My idea of cross-country skiing is nothing drastic, | like to just stick to flat terrain.”’ During our interview, Gary failed to mention the Drama Club, of which he is an active member. If anyone in Cassiar Country has not seen Gary participating in some little skit in the Fashion Show Intermissions or singing at the Fireman’s Ball you have missed a performance. As it is with most Recreation Directors, they lead us to believe that they live quiet lives, restricted in fun and frivolity. Don’t believe it! This breed of people love ac- tion. So if you’re in Vancouver or Whitehorse or maybe even Watson Lake and you find a group of people with a chuckling from within, if you look, one of that group will probably be Gary. Then again, when you grow up in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, that may explain all the yelling and screaming in front of the T.V. during the Montreal-Quebec games. When asked what he thought of Cassiar, Gary said, “Cassiar is most uniquely situated between borders with great distances to travel in any direction. This tends to band people together.”’ ‘’‘Cassiar people when in time of need, band together and back the people in town, showing great pride and support of the,local townspeople.” Gary is busy gearing up for the Northern Invitational Friendship Games to be held here in Cassiar on March 7th to 9th. When asked why here, Gary replied,’“After having to struggle with so much government red tape to get into other such games and the Northern Invitational Friend- ship Games offer minimum competition and awareness of sportsmanship, | had very little problem convincing other areas to get into these games.”’ Gary is hoping that these Friendship Games will be good for the kids of the local clubs and they will enjoy the simple ‘taking part in a sport’, without competition rating the highest priority. There will be 11 sports and approximately 300 partici- pants. Many volunteers are needed for anyone interested. Gary’s advice to newcomers to Cassiar is: ‘‘You will never have time to dislike the town if you get yourself busy in different clubs and provide your input.” a No Trump by Kees van der Pol The 1986 Duplicate bridge season did not start off with a bang but it did start, on January 7, as promised. Seven of the old die-hards did show up but we had great difficulty in finding an eighth. Some frantic telephoning took place but it seemed that most people were in need of a vacation from their Christmas holidays! Not to be devastated by the situation, the seven of us sat down and played duplicate for fun, with the dummy from one table moving to the next table (after the bidding at the first table was finished) ready to bid the next hand. We had a lot of fun playing with different partners all night. January 14 produced a much better turnout - 2% tables. Welcome back! to Claire Redmond. We played 25 hands, producing an average score of 10. Kelly Mc- Phail/Mario Gimmi came in first with 14% points, and Sherry Sethen/Claudia Huber were second with 10%. All you bridge players out there who said that you might be coming out in the new year; it is 1986! We need you! c~eoo roo ooo ooo oe om Gumnasties by Karen Farrell The Jade Mountain Gymnastics Club held their ex- ecutive meeting on January 6th. Elected as president was Marlene Hogg. Head coach Pauline Snell is happy that Cathy Morrison will be assisting her and Phyllis Hardy with the club practises. The seniors of the gym- nastics club will be taking part in the Nothern Friend- ship games to be held here in Cassiar, March 7-9. All the gymnasts are asked to try to billet incoming gymnasts for the games plus volunteers are needed for all kinds of things for the games. Jade Mountain Gymn- astics Cookbooks are still available through Pauline at 778-7240. Plans are being made for the wind-up display of the club which will be something to watch for. Anglican Church News SERVICE TIMES SUNDAY WORSHIP - 10:30 a.m. (with Sunday school) Holy Communion: lst,3rd and 5th Sunday of the month Morning Worship: 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month Choir Practise: 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Church Women's Group: 7:00 p.m., 2nd Monday of the month Rummage Sale: 7:00 p.m., 2nd Wednesday of the month Parish Weekend Retreat — Feb. 21, 22, 23 The Venerable Terry Buckle, Rector, St. Mary Magdalene, Fort Nelson Minister: the Rev. Allan Studd, Phone 778-7239 Lay Readers: Marian Craft, Verna Knowles Zachary, the Brass Churchmouse, was floating down the aisle of the Chancel on his way into the Minister’s office. Priscilla, his wife, was lost deep in thought somewhere behind the Altar. Kendal, their son, was trying to figure out the square root of 2 on the Minister’s pocket cal- culator. It was a math assignment from school. Zachary and Priscilla had just got off the phene where they had been in conversation with tie Rev. Terry Buckle. Terry is comina to lead All Saints’ Church in a weekend retreat and he had been filling in the Brassmice on what he hoped to accomplish on the weekend of Feb- ruary 21, 22 and 23. Now they were very ex- cited at what they had heard. As Zachary reached the office, Kendel fin- ally got his answer out of thecalculator and was busily tidying up his books. The minister was looking with dismay at the 1986 budget which showed that All Saints’ needed $7,000 more than they had taken in last year. ‘‘How about that,’ exclaimed Zachary. ‘‘What’s that,’’ was the Minister’s distracted reply. ‘‘Well first, ”’ replied Zachary clambering up on top of the desk and planting himself firmly in the middle of the budget sheets, ‘‘Well first, the Bishop lowered the required amount of money needed for man- power costs so that we were able to meet our committment in 1985."" Yes, you were really worried about that.” ‘“‘And we made it,’’ said By Allan Studd Zachary with a sense of relief in his voice. ‘“Then the Parish list got revised and printed by Home Computer and that brought some order out of chaos.”’ ‘‘Yea, it sure did,”admitted the Min- ister, ‘‘Just what are you leading up to Zachary? “We were just speaking with Terry.’’ ‘“‘Oh, now | know why you are standing on my budget sheet. Plug the kettle in and let’s have a talk.” When tea was made and Priscilla had been roused out of her hiding place everybody sat down to discuss the Parish Retreat. Terry had intormed them that he was calling the week- end CALLED TO SERVE - a Workshop on the New Testament Pattern of Ministry. It was to consist of 7 sessions on the Friday evening and on Saturday exploring what Christian ministry is, what the purpose of the Local Church is and what it means to be the Christian Church, the family of God. The sessions are to be informal in nature and would involve a fair amount of Bible Study. ‘‘And you know what else he said he would do,” inquired Priscilla. ‘“‘Hee said he was going to lead the Parish through a process of identifying gifts and talents and setting some goals and objectives for the parish family. He is going to help us develop a vision of what God wants for this Parish.”’ “Well!*‘ exclaimed the Minister, ‘‘that’s good, very good indeed. | guess that we have a lot of work to do to get ready. There are posters to make, people to invite, food to make.” “Coffee and doughnuts\ sang out Zachary. ““Community Meal to organ- ize,’ added Priscilla. ‘‘More*cream buns, Praise the Lord!” exclaimed Kendel. And so it was the the Brassmice family once more rolled up their sleeves and tackled the job of making All Saints’ Anglican Community Church a viable, family oriented Christian com- munity in which all people are ministers of God and all people feel welcome to join in wor- shipping God. This is just one more step along the way to Spiritual renewal. It is hoped that people who have up to this point ignored the Church, will feel moved to join in this exciting weekend of discovering what it means to be part of the Christian family. Please keep the weekend of February 21-23 clear of all other appoint- ments. 4 | rE Te UE Cassiar Courier February 1986 Page 5 Our Lady of Lourdes Mission FEBRUARY 2nd SUNDAY Feast of the presentation of the Lord TUESDAY, FEB. 11 Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes - Mass 6.45 p.m. ASH WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 Mass at 7:30 p.m. Blessing of Ashes Beginning of Lenten season Saving for the poor and hungry of the world FRIDAY, FEB. 14 Service for Christian Unity SUNDAY EUCHARIST Saturday — 7:15 p.m. Sunday — 11:00 a.m. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION MONDAYS — 6:30 p.m. Courses 1 to 5 TUESDAYS — 5:00 p.m. Course 7 , 6:30 p.m. Course 8 THURSDAYS — 8:00 p.m. — Adults Th i/ i Siluer Wolf Cage ES and Amusement OPEN: Sun. thru Thur. - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fri. and Sat. - 10 a.m. to Midnight Half price for children who are accompanied by their parents on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. “The Lord Re ign! Friday evening -- introduction Saturday afternoon -- All Saints’ Anglican Community Church Presents: CALLED TO SERVE - A weekend workshop on the New. Testament Pattern of Ministry WITH: The Venerable Terry Buckle Anglican Priest, Fort Nelson Co-founder of New Life Ministries FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1986 to SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1986 172 Elliott Street CASSIAR‘ 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning -- Ministry Defined Ministry of the Whole Body of Christ New Life in Christ --On Being the Church, The Family of God The Purpose of the Local Church 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening -- Empowered to Serve 10:30 a.m. Sunday Morning -- Festival Eucharist Preacher -- Rev. 3uckle An informal weekend to help us explore through Bible Study, Discussion and Lectures what it means to serve God through being part of His family -- the Church. For more information: The Rev. Allan Studd - 778-7239 Mrs. Marian Craft - 778-7773 or Parish Members. ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN COMMUNITY CHURCH ieee tines — se etn Rit peas eae teats —