Cassiar Courier October 1980, Page by George Holman It’s that time of year again, Folks...... PLEASE watch for snow- plows, sandtruck and culvert steaming crews. : Slow down when you meet or overtake a snowplow or sand truck. Keep your head- lights on, so operator will notice you. The operator will slow. down in order not to spray your vehicle with sand or block your vision with flying snow. Wighway #37 and the Cassiar Road will be given seven day a week coverage this winter, including night shifts. Please do not leave your vehicle parked or abandoned on streets and roads where it may interfere with snow removal. = I Fie 77 | THE YOUNG AND THE OLD ARE CLOSEST TO- LIFE. THEY LOVE EVERY MINUTE DEARLY. CHIEF DAN Ne eq. Fi NN GEORGE Moceassin Telegraph Says..... % That "Green Machine" flying araund Good Hope Lake is none other than "Roddy The Hillbilly" with his "Ozark Jigger" he calls the "Humpback Lizzy". She ain't much but she sure do beat walking this here hilly . country. x Heather had a bumpy time out at Joe Reid's hill - it happens to: the best of us, Heather! ¥ SMILE.... The trouble with getting something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how hard it was. % Fred and Ilene are back again with "Kids Cab" (the blue and white van) after an extended holiday, Senor Stan finds the porcupines in Cassiar very large compared to those found in Mexico. .%% Ferne found our roads quite differ- ent to those smooth, flat straight roads in the East. Hope you had a bumpy good time. HOME RAZED +x: A fire broke out in Lillian Davidson's home at approximately 10:40 a.m. on: Friday, September 19, 1980. Everyone was rescued from the home but the home and most contents were lost in the fire. The fire is believed to have been caused by two pre-school children playing with matches in an upstairs bedroom. This fire brings to date a total of eight homes and two lives lost to fires since January 1979 =n Good Hope Lake. Two other homes of identical construc- ' tion to that of Lillian Davidson's have burned down in the same short time span. Each of these fires lasted just under three hours, with these homes to- tally burned. An investigation-is under- way to find if hazardous materials have been used in the construction of these large homes at Good Hope Lake. Volunteer fire crew from Good Hope Lake responded to. the fire but it was al- ready out of control. IN: AND AROUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL Chanksgioing For thousands of years people from a- round the world have given thanks at harvest time. Peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome gave their thanks to their Gods: for plentiful crops. The Ancient Jews celebrated harvest with their Feast of Booths at which time they gave thanks to God for their winter supply of food, Today many people still give thanks, sometimes during fall, for a successful year. The following are cele- brations from some places around the world. CANADIAN THANKSGIVING by Pat Moth In Canada a day. is set aside each year as a Thanksgiving. day. On this day- ' people give thanks by feasting. The } first Thanksgiving day was made so peo- ple could thank God for giving them good crops. For thousands of years peo- ple have held harvest festivals. The Canadian Thanksgiving day is much the same as in the United States of America. The first celebrations were on the last Monday of October but in 1957 the Can- adian Government declared the holiday would be held on a different date. This date was the second Monday in October. Thanksgiving is also a time for reli- gious thinking, church services. One of the first thanksgiving observances was mostly religious and didn't have feast- ing. TOOHOS HHL GNQNOYY GNY NI TOOHOS FHL ANNOY aN NI TOOHOS ZHL ANNOY ANY NI TIOOHOS FHL aNnnody THANKSGIVING IN ENGLAND by Jakaline Clements In England Thanksgiving is called Har- vest Home. A lot of people like to spend Thanksgiving with their families or close friends. What basically hap- pens is that everybody makes some food and takes it to the ceremony at the Church. We have a special service about Thanksgiving and how it first be- gan and also about the poor which is what it is based on. Then we have a blessing in which he gives us water and bread - then we begin to start a feast and pray. UNITED STATES by Jerry O'Neal In the United States Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 26th of November. It marks the success of the Pilgrims, who gave thanks a long time ago. Today the people give thanks for business as well as other things. THANKSGIVING IN FINLAND by Michelle Korhonen Figland celebrates an Octoberfest. In Finland that is their religious cele- bration. They welcome God the Lord into their home. They celebrate it on the first of October. They eat turkey, chicken, sardines in vinegar, cucum- bers in vinegar and beer, wine and milk coffee with pulla (a special cof- fee bread). Then they go to a market square ind get “together with their fel- low Finns. ‘a feast’is held, and there is dancing. THANKSGIVING ALL OVER EUROPE by Dana Constable In Czechoslovakia, when the crops are in, the farm workers make a Thanks- giving wreath of wheat or rye decorated with flowers and then it is placed onto the prettiest girl. After this event The food is usually roast pig or goose, and square cakes filled with plum jam. In Germany there is a church and field celebration. The last day of the har- vest is given over to feasting and dan- cing, particularly barn and square dancing A feast follows, at which gin- gerbread .cookies made in the shapes of animals, hearts and men, are dis- tributed to the people. . THE VIRGIN ISLANDS by Shelly Billingsley ~ The people on the Virgin Islands cele- brate two times. They celebrate one on the day set aside in the United States, but they also celebrate one of their own, the date of this is October 25. At this time the Islanders give thanks if there have been no hurricanes for .one year. They pray that there will not be any the following year. NY NI TOOHODS aH UNOOWY ANY NI 1 TOOUOS Bid GNAOUY GNW NI TOOHOS FHL GNAOUY AINW NI TIOOHOS 3HL GNOONY ANY: NI pe AROUND ne ee pas e2,* - \ October 1980 Cacia Counter vse Toy dN and Around the School... SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS The week-end of September 19 and 20th saw the first ever gathering of re- presentatives of each of the Stikine communities. One representative from the Parent Advisory Committees from Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, Cassiar, Lower Post and Atlin gathered in Cas- siar to discuss the plans for the JD AROUND THE SCHOOL I topic of discussion centered around a time line put forth from the Ministry of Education. ing plan. Oct. 1, 1980 - appointment of Stikine Superintendent Jan. 1, 1981 - appointment of Stikine Secretary-treasurer November 1981 - election of a School Board for the Stikine During the period October 1, 1980 to November 1981, an official trustee wil be appointed who will use the District Advisory Board as community contacts. ent of the Stikine and will not be an ‘educator. Cassiar's representative on ‘the District Advisory Board is Mel Taylor, who is president of Cassiar's Parent Advisory Committee. HOLIDAYS The following dates for holidays or District Professional Development Days have been set: OUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUND SCHOOL IN AND AROUND SCHOOL IN Ab a Thanksgiving - Monday, Oct. 13, 1980 Q Teachers Convention - Wed. afternoon, ms Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22, 23 & 24, Remembrance Day — Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1980 = S Christmas Holidays - Sat., Dec. 20, = 1980 to Sunday, January 4, 1981 ® Spring Vacation - Sat. April 11, 1981 fy to Monday, April 20, 1981 : & Year End - Friday, June 26, 1981. School Population The ‘school's population is up, once oa new school facility. Currently three 4 hundred and twenty students are regis- future of the school district. The main First House - Boys Gordie Rowe This outlines the follow- 1 are: This Official Trustee will be a resid-~ INTRAMURALS Kindergarten by Bettina Martschin' Due to a combination of equipment and The team names for this year's School approval delays, and the fact that the Intramurals are: House #1 Tazmanian ‘school is overcrowded, kindergarten was’ Devils, House #2 The Vultures and House pot able to start on time. Finally, on #3 the Ogopogos. The students chose their own names and voted on. them. team captains for the Intermediates this year are: Wednesday, September 10, the kindergar- ten room in the Aurora Arts & Crafts center was ready for action and so were the children. Our thanks to the parents for their understanding and patience, ‘to the Arts and Crafts voluriteers for their hard work, and to Miss Redmond and Mrs. Brand for all the phone calls. The Lee Callow Girls Shelly Billingsley Jakaline Clements Second House- Boys Szilard Fricska Siam Millar s r : Girls Dana Constable : Dp Latcooning _ Louise Larocque ; é Third House - Boys Manley Guarducci Shawn Penno Girls Tanya Radulovic Sasha Millar This year we are trying something new with students in grades four to seven. We call it "platooning" because stu- dents as a grade move from teacher to teacher in the afternoons. The school is fortunate to have among its inter- mediate teachers, teachers with specific skills beyond what would normally be ex- pected of the "generalist" teacher. In #3 order to capitalize on these skills, the» students move to a different teacher for’ a variety of subject areas. — For the primary students the captains TO SOHOS HHL GNNOYY AGNY NI TIOOHOS HHL GNAOUY ANY NI TOOHOS First House -— Boys Danny Watson Girls Shana Marshall Second House -Boys Tarun Lekhi Girls Alyssa Tschritter - Boys Shawn Liddle . Girls Nicole Deyo Third House Ou Each week the students receive two hours.& of social studies from Mr. Kroeker or Miss Tavener, two hours of science from We will be playing a variety of games Mrs. Vickery, ninety minutes of physic~— this year. For Intermediates: baseball, al education from Mrs. Chambers or Mr. ~ soccer, murder ball, medicine ball, Millar, ninety minutes of French from floor hockey and football. For Elemen- Mrs. Buckler or Mr. Millar and ninety tary: pin ball and minor games. The “minutes of music from Miss MacLean, Al- Intermediates play from 8:15 a.m, to though the program seems to. be a great 8:45 a.m. and the Primary students play deal of work for the teachers, from the >» All these people were chosen by voting. NI IOOHDS AHL aN from 12:20 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. So far turnouts have been very good and the teams have had a lot of fun playing. i WRITERS CORNER THE STOWAWAY ON A SHIP by Alexia Jones Just as my legs began to get cramped the ship began to move and I knew my adventure had begun. I was laying und- erneath the lifeboat peeking out of a crack. Everyone was moving, putting —@ again; thus adding fuel to the fire for more sails up and shuffling to their cabins. I knew this was going to be great since I was only supposed to be Q tered, whereas last year the population going camping - you see I always want— mwas in the 290's most of the year. The Q largest potential graduating class of fy 18 students is one of the /highlights: ed to go around the world but my par- ents wouldn't let me go. They said "When you're going Gamera you ‘re ‘1 of the school's population. On the other somewhere. " Qend of the scale there are 31 kinder- ‘R garten and 39 grade one Students. Marathon of Slope A cheque for $80 was sent to the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope Fund on behalf of the Cassiar Elementary students. Te. was suggested to the students from kindergarten thru grade seven that. they may wish to donate one week's pocket money to the fund and this was the result of the appeal. ‘It is certainly gratifying to see that even children of this age care enough about the circumstances to contribute. GRADUATION Thinking of inviting someone to gradu- ation who has to make travel plans? Graduation for the class of 1980 will take place on Friday, June 19, 1981. SCHOOL IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL IN AND AROUN. I was going all right for about bo weeks. Until the captain said "Jack, you'd better check that lifeboat again. - I thought I saw a crack in it." I was ‘in terror when I heard that. When he , | lifted. up the lifeboat he stared at me and said to -o the captain, ii Took what I have here, Cap," The captain looked at me and said, "Where do you come from?" I said "I came from the harbour." After, I explained why I was here and what I came for. We radioed home and the captain and my parents had a long talk. The captain said that I was al- lowed to stay but however I had to work in the morning 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon and then have lunch and 1:00 Dedan to 4:00 p.m. I had school lessons with the captain. I was paid $5.00 a week. We travelled all over the world and that is what I wanted. looks of it so far the students seem to § be fortunate in receiving such ah eee nstruction. aHL aiao THE STRANGE 100 DOLLAR BILL '. by Edo Carin It all happened when my uncle gave me a 100 dollar bill. When I went to~- school I saw a dog. At lunch time I saw it again. When I went back to school it was still there. I went to- ward the dog and it just stood there. I touched it and it felt like it was frozen. So I went to school. When I was going home I saw lots of footprints where the dog was standing so I went on home. When I got in my house I went to see my hundred dollars. It was there all right with the same dog holding it. When. I grabbed the hundred dollars the dog was stunned. I put it back in his mouth and he was normal again. Then “my uncle came in; He said "If you burn it something very special will happen." I’ went to John's place fast. I told him everything that my uncle said. John said "Burn it quick." So we went down the hill and burned it. Nothing happened. The next day my dad came home with a plane on a trailer. I ran outside. The plane was a jet. My dad said it was mine. I took it for a test flight. When I got 50 miles from home it ran out of gas. I went for a glide, then I pulled the ejection seat cord. I went out the plane and was parachut- - ing down. I said in my mand RINT shel 2! ‘very special would happen.’ 4HL GNQOU GNY NI TOOHDS AHL ANAOX GNY NI IOOHOS dHd GNOQOUW ANY NI TOOHOS AHL GNNOYY ANY NI IOOHOS AHL GNAOYY ANY, NI TOOHOD