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LARGEST CROWD IN RECENT HISTORY ATTENDS

CASSTAR SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CONCERT.

Cassiar School's Annual Christmas
Concert was attended by a record
crowd. The concert held on December

. 20, featured presentations by Kinder-

garten through Grade 10 classes.
Skits, pageants, choral groups,
headlined the variety show.

Making costumes, holding rehear-
sals and building props made the
weeks prior to the concert very
hectic and the school staff is to
be commended for their work and
patience. As well, a large number
of students and several staff
members helped backstage and with
the children during the night of
the performance.

“With the large crowd, the child-
ren felt that the concert was fun,
and certainly an exciting time.

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Sports Program

SLVERAL SPORTS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
FOR CASSIAR STUDENTS.

The sports program for the next
few months has been put together
for students in Grades 8 - 12 at
the school. Physical Education
teacher Gerry Smit cites the fol-
lowing activites as highlights
of the school extra-mural pro-
gram for the last half of the
school year. .

The first trip will be to Stew-
art for a return engagement with
the school. Appriximately 42 stu-
dents will be involved in the 400
mile bus trip, on February 23-26,

The Polar Games held annually in
Whitehorse, will form the second
major trip for Cassiar students,
during March 10-12. This event was
attended last year by a group of
Cassiar students and our tems did
very well in stiff competition.

Cassiar school, under the direc—
tion of Mr. Smit and Mr. Olson,
will host an "Elementary Winter

Carnival Games" for outlying schools -
in the district on April 8. Students

from Dease Lake, Good Hope Lake, Atlin
and possibly Lower Post and Telegraph
Creek, will travel to Cassiar for the

competition.

A tentative return engagement with.
Ft. Nelson Senior Secondary School on

May 16-19 will round out the years
sports activities.
In each case, students compete in

basketball, badminton, floor—-hockey,
indoor soccer and other sports during
these get togethers. We are fortunate
to have the people and the financial
support to run the program in a school

which as to have the most. demanding
travel schedule in B. C.

Club Activities

CLUB ACTIVITIES DAY AT THE CASSIAR
SCHOOL

On Friday, February 3, the first

session of "Club Activities" was held

for Cassiar students in Grades 4, 5,
6, and 7. .

The idea of an activity day was
first discussed by the Intermediate

staff last fall. It was decided to go
| ahead with-the planning and under the
direction of Vice-Principal John Olson,

the "Activity Day" was launched.

ing,

Students were given the opportunity

to select an interest from a wide var-
iety of areas and based on the response
of this as well as the availability of
resource persons, several activities

were programmed. Students participated
in cross-country skiing, skating,
pottery, candle making, drama, snow
shoeing and cooking, from 2:00 pm until

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Architects Visit

ENGINEERING STUDY COMPLETED ON
CASSIAR SCHOOL PANABODE SECTION

A team of engineers and one
architect recently visited
Cassiar school to.examine the
original four-classroom pan-
abode structure.

This team ‘associated with
the architectural firm of
Killick, Metz, Rose, was to
recommend to the Ministry of
Education whether the old

structure should be up-

{| graded or phased out. Their

study included structure,
heating and electrical
systems.

Last March, a planning
group from the staff of
Cassiar school recommended
as part of the overall plan
for the reorganization of
facilities that the panabode
section be removed. This
recommendation was a key.
part of the reorganization ~
| which included recommendations
for a new elementary school

| and up-grading and additions
to the present building. The
Ministry of Education request—
ed the engineering study be-

| fore any commitments can be
made for a building program.

As a result, virtually no
progress has been made to-
wards finalizing plans for a
building program. The daily
and yearly problems with
‘facilities are well known
accentuated by the increase .
in enrollment in the school

| itself.

- School authorities must
now await the results and
recommendations of the
engineering study before
the next series of steps

can be taken. The process
involving school capital _
expenses is a lengthy one
and it appears likely that

| construction will not be
started in time for the

| next school year with the
real possibility of further
| increases in school involv-
ment.

| The Superintendent of ©
Schools, school staff com-
panv officials, members of
the Parent Advisory Council
| and members of the community
have all expressed concerns
over delays and the lack of
answers from the Ministry of
. Education.

| As residents of Cassiar,
you may be concerned and if
you wish further information,
please phone the school and

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Active participants at Music Worl:shop.

“ELLMENTARY TEACHERS HOLD PROFESSIONAL DAY

Two leading educators in their
respective fields of elementary
science and music, conducted a day
long workshop in Cassiar for elemen-
tary teachers of the district. Brian
Herrin, elementary science consul-

‘tant from Simon Fraser University,
‘Burnaby, B.C., gave a two-part work-

shop in the elementary science
inquiry approach to both primary
and intermediate teachers. lis
presentation, complete with many
humorous anecodotes of his exper-
jences underlined the need to
encourage youngsters to think
creatively and to develop inter-
ests. lie felt that sciciice at this
level was an ideal subject to draw
out stucents.

tir. Rou Jarman, district music
co-ordinator for the Kelowna School
District presented a program for
elementary teachers based on teach-
ers developing their own clas Sroon
music program with little or no'
musical background. With a wide
variety of materials, Mr. Jarman
gave an intensive and valuable
Monon.

Both visitors expressed delight

at being able to see some of our
Cassiar country and vowed to return

with tneir families, They were very

impressed with their tour of the

mine, arranged for them just prior
to their departure,

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continued from page 1

Of concern to school
authorities is the low
enrollment in the Grades
11 and 12 programs. The
enrollments in these
grades were not high to
begin with and student
drop-outs contributed
further to very small
enrollments. Principal,
Jack Grant has indicated
that a careful look at
next year's enrollment
will be taken before a
commitment is made for
next year, This comes in
the third year and second
year of the Grades 11 and
12 program respectively
and as Mr. Grant pointed
out, it is disturbing be-
cause the programs are
coming into their own in
terms of development. With
the hoped for inprovement in
facilities, the senior secon—
dary program should be equal

Valentine’s — continued from page 4

The custom of sending Valentines was
not begun until about the 17th century.
At first these valentines were all made by the
sender’s own hand and decorated by various
processes from water colors to penwork, to
pinpricks and cutouts. There were also rebuses,
acrostics and other styles of puzzles and
cryptograms.

The verses for those handmade valentines
were the easiest part, for if the writer found
himself unable to compose an original poem,
he could consult a book of sentimental verse
especially prepared for his assistance, such as
the GENTLEMEN'S NEW VALENTINE
WRITER, CUPID’S ANNUAL: CHARTER or
LADIES’ POLITE VALENTINE WRITER’

It was a 20 year old girl of Worcester,
Massachusetts, Ester Howland, who was the
first to produce the English type of hand-
decorated valentine in quantity, commercial-
ly. Miss Howland, who herself never married,
furthered the courtship of millions of couples
through a paper valentine business which she
started in 1849 and built up to a $100,000
a - year enterprise.

In the days when career women were
neither fashionable nor popular, Ester Howland
cornered the American valentine market, selling
vast quantities to New York dealers, Her valen-
tines were produced in her own home by young
ladies to whom she taught the art. Each girl was
assigned a special task, one cut pictures and
kept them ggsorted in boxes. Another, with
models to work from, made the backgrounds,
the next girl added the embelleshments. So the
cards went from hand to hand down the table,
It was progressive assemblage sixty years before
Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly
line to the manufacturing world.

Ester Howland’s valentines were intricate
paper-lace motifs built up in elaborate tiers
until they almost collapsed from their own
weight. It was said that gentlemen thought
nothing of paying five or ten dollars for some
of Howland’s creations,

Thus it was a spinster who started the val-
entine greeting card business in this part of the
world, and a Roman priest far whom the lover’s

Cassiar Courier February 1978 I5

to most provincial small-
scale senior secondary pro-

IS LOVE TRUE?

Love is something everyone says
Can be found in anyone,

Is) itimeally ‘true?

Does a murderer love?

Does a politician love ane
Besides himself? :
Can a baby, just being born,
Love. anyone?

Or is it true when they say:
"Love is for the birds?"

Barbara Guderjalhin

Pilot Injured

PLANE CRASHES AT DEASE LAKE

Quentin Robbins, 42, of Smithers, B. C.
crashed his super-cub aircraft into the Dease
Lake airstrip on January 20, 1978. Robbins, -
who was alone in the craft at the time of the
crash, had to be cut out of the plane by torch
due to the extremely damaged condition of
the aircraft. He suffered multiple cuts and.
bruises, fractures in both legs, and a severely ©

_ burned back. While being rushed to Cassiar .

hospital; the injured man was met enroute:
by Dr. J. Faught and Tony Coran in the
Cassiar ambulance. Dr. Faught immediately

‘began treatment. Mr. Robbins, who was in

severe shock would probably not be alive
today were it not for Dr. Faught’s timely
attention. The injured pilot was treated in
Cassiar Private Hospital for several hours
and then transported to Watson Lake by am-: ~
bulance to be flown to Prince George.
Josette Zemenchik accompanied Mr. Robbins .
to Prince George. At press time it was
established that the Patient remains in satis- .
factory condition in Prince George.

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NDP NEWS CLIPS

... NDP leader Ed Broadbent expressed

great concern over the present govern-
ment’s policies to provide work for
Canadians. He said the actual number
of new jobs created in 1977 amounted
to 182,000 jobs, a figure lower than
the 292,000 jobs which’ the goverf-
ment has been claiming, and that
this number falls short of the 308 090
new job seekers last year.

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as Broadbent also expressed concern over

the forthcoming pipeline legislation
which does not yet contain a clauge
guaranteeing that the pipe for the
Canadian section of the Alcan pipe:
line will come from Canadian mils é

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4:00 pm last Friday. Members of the contact Jack Grant, school
school staff as well as volunteers, principal.

Doreen Pewsey, Natalie Olson, Susan :
Geddes, Kerry Jones, Veronica Hutson,
Mickey Overton, Diane Forbes and Ann
Wright took these classes.

From every indication the first day
of the program was highly successful.
The first phase of the program will |
continue every two weeks until spring

He pointed out that in the absencé
of explicit guarantees, Canada cout
lose as much as $600,000,000, worth
‘of pipeline business.

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The missioner was warning his congre-
“gation about the dangers of drinking.
‘If you put a worm in water,’ he said,

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dies.’

A few days later he met O’Guaille

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break, in the village street and asked him if
The school would appreciate more vol-} he had been impressed with the sermon
on drink,

‘Indeed I was, Father,’ said O’Guaille,
‘and I was terrible interested to know
that if you drink Irish _ whiskey you
won't suffer from worms.’

unteer help in the next phase of the
program. If you have an interest area
that you think would be worth sharing
with students, please contact John
Olson or Jack Grant at the school.

UNION MEETINGS
3rd Tuesday of the Month
1: :00PM and 7:00PM

Casiar Conintty Center

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