Page 8 July 1983 Cassiar Courier

dune 12th, 1983

by Muriel

How I love this time of year
when the sun does not go down
finding still at midnight
a blue sky surrounding town.
When the mountains mix their greenery
with tracks of winter snow;
when precious planted seedlings
try defiantly to grow.
When the wind holds back its fury
so that branches may stand still;
when the creeks outgrow their boundaries
and travel on at will.
When the whiskey jacks are teaching
little ones to fly.
When souls smile and reminisce
of the winter days gone by.
When all begin to wonder
what there is to look towards,
Greeting a brand new season
yet searching for rewards.......
of lasting another winter.
Will the darkness leave a scar? —
Reaching for the Trade Winds
beneath the Northern Star.
What special kind of magic
draws these people here
to live in air-tight closets
nine months of the year?
To hold so very briefly
a flower in full bloom.......
To want to move the mountains
to give the rainbow elbow room?
What makes man go through winters?
Where is the answer found?
Perhaps the soul must season
until at last its sun goes down.

NZ NL NL
AS AS AS

In and Around S.D.87

THE EXTRA CURRICULAR SIDE OF SCHOOL

Look what S.D. 87 students are doing in these last weeks.

DEASE LAKE

The secondary students have gone rafting down the
Stikine from Telegraph Creek to Wrangell. Students from
Mr. Fitch’s Grade 3/4 class will spend time at Williams’
Ranch developing an appreciation of horses, wrangling
and packing. Much of the funding for this venture came
from the student sponsored ‘Garbage Drive’.

TELEGRAPH CREEK

A bus trip from Telegraph Creek to Telegraph Creek via
Hudson Hope, Prince George, Jasper and back along High-
way 16 to K’San snd up Highway 37 to home. These stu-
dents built the playground fence to earn part of their trip
money.

SNOW RIDGE

Athletes who trained regularly went to Atlin for an inter-
school track meet. Congratulations to those students who
earned their trip by ‘hangin - in’ on a fairly regular train-
ing schedule.

CASSIAR SECONDARY

Mr. Whittington’s Community Recreation students spent
two days in the magnificent canyon of the Stikine.

ATLIN

The Junior Secondary class have had to pass four stiff
tests to earn the right to tackle the Chilkoot Trail in late-
June. Before the main event they will have had a Foot
wear Test on the Como Lake Trail, a Stove Test on the
Monarch Mountain Trail, a Tent Test at the Campground
and an Overnight Test on the Wilson Creek Trail. Who
said our kids don’t even earn their priviliges?

Those are the main outings to date. There are at least
twenty more one ‘day outings in the planning stage. Great
events to round off a great year!

Mighty Moe's

Place

by Owen Corcoran
DISTRICT JOTTINGS

Plans are well underway to move the school at Lower
Post from the present building to the Residential School
on the Kaska-Dene Reserve. As well next year’s program
offering will cater for Secondary Students in Grades 8 & 9

Doug Kerr has great dreams for Good Hope Lake.
Once the district finalizes the acquisition of a Crown Land
Block adjacent to the school site, Doug will be off and
running with a softball diamond, a cross-country ski trail
and a running trail.

Snowridge grounds will get extra attention this sum-
mer as site improvement works focus on extensive grading
cut and fill, the development of catch basins and culverts;
the spreading of topsoil and seeding of the slopes.

Senior Educational staff have already indicated that
Social Studies and Elementary Science will be the educa-
tional priorities for 1983 - 84. Consideration will be given
to a fuller implementation of the new curricula in the
areas and the coordination of district evaluation of these
programs.

The Board of Trustees has embarked on developing a
policy and a process: for appraising the work of the Sup-
erintendent of Schools. The process will raise more quest-
ions about how well the board performs its own job and
about the overall operations of the district. To date the
analysis and planning process leading to the performance
appraisal has focussed on:

Determining what the board expects the district and

its employees to accomplish.

Determining how the district presently uses its finan-
cial and human resources to pursue the board's goals.

Clarifying the respective roles of the Superintendent
and the trustees in relation to the board’s priorities.

The Compensation Stabilization Commission has returned
the 1983 Compensation Plan as awarded by the arbitrat-
ion board chaired by Mr. K. N. Burnett. The C.S.P. ruling
is that the plan exceeds the Guidelines which apply to
plans established after July 27th, 1982.

Continued on Page 16.

Spend some time with an active Northern Trapper on
beautiful Cotton Lake. Wilderness camping for trailers, tenters,
motorhomes. Boats, canoes for rent. Guaranteed fishing.
Hunting, tackle & craft sales. Guiding. Fishing licenses, snacks,
Log cabin & shanty for rent, Boat launch, Group campsite,
Chopper pad, Float plane base, Limited food sales

The Coffee and Teapot are always on

THE COFFEE’S ON SO — COME AS A STRANGER
AND LEAVE AS A FRIEND FOR HOME IS
WHERE YOU HANG YOUR HAT

MIGHTY MOE on CB Channel 19

READY FOR THE “LOCK — UP”

ARRIVING AT THE SCENE OF THE PROBLEM

The Cassiar Mine Rescue team won the 12th An-
nual Northern B.C. Surface Mine Rescue Compet-
ition held in Smithers on June 3. Cassiar compet-
ed against two other teams in this year’s compet-
ition: Equity Silver, last year’s winner and Quin-
tette Coal, competing for the first time.

Usually six teams compete in the Northern Reg-
ion. Due to the fewer number of teams competing
this year, the Ministry of Mines was able to make
up a larger more complex problem. The problem
was so difficult that the Cassiar team, which drew
straws to compete first, felt somewhat disap-
pointed after their problem was finished. How-
ever watching the other two teams compete, we
felt fairly sure that they had not handled their
patients as well as we had. Nobody on the team
was really prepared to say they thought we had
won, until the announcement was made at the
banquet later that evening.

Prior to announcing the winner of the competit-
ion we were told that only 12 points separated
the winner from second place. A cry of joy, with
a silent sigh of relief, was felt by all of the team
as the announcer said “The winning team, cap-
tained by Danny Harrison......” Congratulations
to Danny, Darren DeCecco, Larry Prince, Jim
Gilpin, Dale Ritter, Bruce Burns and Tim Will-
jams and coach Kinky Borsato.

The three man first aid team competition was
won by Quintette. Our two three person teams:
Bruce, Margaret Puritch, and Christine Normand;
Dale, Tim and Larry competed in a mosquito in-
fested swamp. A special thanks to Margaret and
Christine our ever patient patients who give such
constructive criticism during the training period.

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Mine Rescue Competition

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By Jim Gilpin

THE FIRST AID TEAM PUT: IN.AN EXCELLENT
PERFORMANCE IN SPITE OF ALL THE FLIES.
AND MOSQUITOES

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