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From the: CASSIAR LIONS DEN

Grass and work required have been completed
at the cemetary and many compliments received on
how nice it looks.

The park at Chain Lakes has been cleaned up.
Everyone is asked to help us keep it this way.
It is to everyones advantage. Repairce and re-
anchored ahoy.

The next Park project to be undertaken by
the Cassiar Lions will be the new kiddies park
and playground west of Tagish Street.

The bottle drive will be done every Saturda
morning starting at 9:00 a.m. in the west side
of town. Lets have your bottles for the good of
our Community. If you have a garage or cellar
full just call Lion Al Flanagan anytime for
pickup service.

Lions Competition for a Cassiar Lions
Badge was won by Vito Plisco. A prize of $25.

NAMING OF TILE DEASE (Excerpt from Weekend)

(¥: I would like some infomnation about my
great-grandfather, Peter Warren Dease, after
whom a lake and a river were named in British
Columbia.

Blanche Picke, Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.

A: Your great-grandfather was born Jan. 1,
1788, in Michigan, the son of a doctor who work-
ed for the Indian department. After a nunber of
years working for a succession of trading
companies in the Mackenzie River district,
Peter Warren Dease was appointed commissariat
officer of an expedition that, in 1826-27,
explored the region from Great Bear Lake to the
Arctic, Sir George Simpson, then governor of
the Hudson's Bay Company, described Dease as
"one of our best voyageurs, of a strong robust
habit of body, possessing much firmess of mind
joined to a great suavity of manners’. In 1837-
39 he made another expedition into the Far North
this time with Thomas Simpson (cousin of Sir
George). They went down the Mackenzie River
and worked westward, mapping the Arctic coast

as far as Point Barrow, Alaska the first year
and the following year travelled east as far as
Victoria Island. Because of these explorations,
two rivers, a lake, a strait and an am were
named after him, and Queen Victoria gave him a
pension of 100 a year. He married Elizabeth
Chouinard while in the Northwest, and had eight
children. Dease died on January 17, 1863, at
his farm near Montreal, to which he had retired
in 1843.

TRAVEL.

Wemer and Gertrude Tischler along with
their sons Ralph and Bernd had a: trip of a life.
time to Germany. They flew from Edmonton on
June 27th and landed in Amsterdam. There they
picked up their rented car and drove to Utreciit
for the night. The next day they headed for the
German border.

The first thing Gertrude noticed was that
the pedestrians do not have the right .of way and
as there is no speed limit, walking and driving
are nerve wracking for tourists. Eventhough
people drove extremely fast, the roads were very
good and generously endowed with direction signs.

Actually the Tischlers did not go as tourists
to Germany, for that country is their homeland.
The trip was more of a family affair and they saw
their families after a period of twelve years.
Gertrude's mother lives in East Berlin but was
allowed out for several weeks to visit ner family.

Gertrude found the shopping to be excellent
and was overwhelmed by the vast selection in the
well stocked stores. The clothing is of good
quality but rather expensive. Food is expensive
but the German people all scem to be well fed.
Wine and beer are very cheap over in that country
and are usually a part of every meal.

The Tischlers saw the wall between East and
West Berline and found it to be a depressing and
frustrating sight. The wall is about 6 feet
high and well wired. Gertrude said that they
could wave to the people in the East. Signs are
erected periodically along the wall stating how
many people were killed trying to escape.

Although the German countryside is breath-

takingly beautiful, the Tischler family was glad
to be home in Canada.

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