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| Cassiar Lions Summer Festival

The Lions of Cassiar held their THIRD ANNUAL SUMMER
FESTIVAL on July 20, 1975. After the wet weather on the
preceding days of Friday and Saturday, it was doubtful
if they should carry on with the Festival, but as it
turned out the weather cleared up and the sun came out.
Of course there was a fairly brisk breeze blowing but at
least the breeze kept the mosquitoes away.

A good crowd turned up to take part in all the
festivities as you can see by the pictures.

The Barbecue of beef with salads and baked potatoes
was all devoured before the end of the day, along with
hot dogs, doughnuts, coffee and pop. There was sure a
hungry crowd; I guess all that fresh air and sunshine

make everyone hungry and of course all that beer had some:

thing to do with it also.

The games of chance added some colour to the day
and the large plush dolls were a great attraction for the
milk bottle throw. There are always a few gamblers for -
the crown § anchor and bingo games.

There were alot of contestants for the novelty races
of throwing raw eggs and the nail driving contest for
ladies. The pillow fights were hilarious, especially at
one point when the log the: two men were. sitting on broke
in half, leaving the 2 men in a bewildered daze. The
log was quickly replaced and the pillow fights went on,
with the girls putting on a good show too. I don't know

where they get this idea of women being the weaker sex.
The tug of war was quite popular, infact it was so

popular that each team wound up with 25 pullers and Ed

finally gave up and disqualified the whole crew.

The big event of the day was the canoe race with
four teams entered and it involved a team of 6 poeple, 2
girls and 4 men. One of the girls had to run from the
park down to the lake where the 4 men had to take off
with the canoe on a 2 mile course around the lake, then
the second girl had to run back up the hill to the park.

The giant raffle for the canoe was held and the
lucky winner of the first prize was Mr. Brian Murdoch.
Second prize - liquid refreshments was won by Mr. V.
Fiorella and the third prize - fishing rod & tackle was
won by Mr. J.L. Mugridge. As none of the three winners
were at the festival, we do not have a picture, but
congratulations fellows!

The novelties closed off with the pie eating contest
This was not one of those delicate affairs where you use
a fork and one piece of pie. For this affair you had a
whole cream pie with lots of topping and you ate it with
your face alone, 'Look Mom - no hands'. Needless to say
the participants had whipped cream from the top of their
head to half way down their chest, but from the looks. on
their faces, the pie must have been good.

Thanks to the girls from the Arena Committee for
their help in operating the hot dog and coffee stand.
We would also like to thank Mr. Schneeberger of W.S.
Electronics for the use of his loud speaker and walkie
talkie and to Lion Bill Rattray for the use of his
trucks.

Thanks to all the Lions for their efforts and
particularly the Chairman of the Festival, Lion Hans
Bilger.