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Cassiar Courier —
the Voice of Cassiar Country

MAY 1983 10 cents |

Highway 37 gets ; | ; aoe
Tnaradine Safety award presented to Gassiar =

A spokesman for the Dept. of Highways, Dease Lake,
says several day labor programs are planned for this dis-
trict in 1983. The road from Blue River to Mud Hill will
be rebuilt and they will revise the horizontal and vertical
alignment on the Cassiar access road. A similar day labor
project will take place-at Atlin from the townsite to the
Ath of July Creek Bridge. The Highways Department will
also be putting in a multi-plate at the Oweegee Creek,

_ south of Bob Quinn Lake and replacing the Hitchcock
Creek bridge on the Atlin Highway with a multi-plate.

A contract has been let to put in the Cottonwood
River Bridge this year. Also, a contract to complete the
unfinished section of the highway between Meziadin
and Kitwanga has been let to Dawson Construction for
8.8 million dollars. Paving contracts for this section have
been let as well, totalling approximately 8 million dollars.

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Child dies in fire
On April 1, 1983, three year old Shawn Olson of
Telegraph Creek, died in a house fire at Telegraph

Creek.

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His sister and an adult, who were in the house at

se time ey ae breescaned withlOus tnt yes UE Mr. Lorne Sivertson, Asst. Deputy Minister, Mineral Resources Division, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Re-
vestigations indicate the fire was probably started

. = t sources, presented the ‘B’ Trophy to Peter Jones, Mine Manager, and Paul Brohman, Union Safety Committee Chair-
. by a cigarette in the chesterfield. The house was man, at a banquet in the Hotel Vancouver on April 6. :
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First Hospital Board elected —s_

On Wednesday, March 23, 1983, the Cassiar Hospital Society held a meeting, attended by approximately 50 peo- 2
ple. Elections were held and the nine directors pictured below were elected. In addition to the nine members elected, ‘
the following people stood. for election to the Board: Jim Bondesen, Rita Brown, Jim Callow, Fiona Carew, Maria
Cvetkovich, Crystal Daum, Stan Deyo, Louise Hara, Marvel Nitti and Lee Patton. ‘

Prior to the election, 61 memberships to The Cassiar Hospital Society were sold and 41 ballots were cast at the a
election. The nine elected members, plus one government appointed director — not yet named — will be responsible
for all policies regarding the Cassiar Hospital.

A spokesman for the Board advised that a meeting will be held shortly to elect an executive. He also advised that
Mr. Peter Snell has been hired as Hospital Administrator—Director and will be assuming those duties May 1. 2 4

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AL BEATON — 3 YEAR DIRECTOR
Manager, Erickson Gold Mine

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SANDY CRAWFORD — 2 YEAR DIRECTOR
Employment Supervisor, Cassiar Resources

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DOUG KERR — 1 YEAR DIRECTOR
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FRANK BUCKLEY — 3 YEAR DIRECTOR
Town Administrator, Cassiar Resources

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DON BEST — 1 YEAR DIRECTOR
Secretary-treasurer — Stikine School District

OWEN CORCORAN — 2 YEAR DIRECTOR
Superintendent, Stikine Schoo! District

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