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FROM THE SCHOOL . .. .the
Casstar School held Open
House and one of the events
was an Oratorical Contest.
The winners were

Grade 1 & 2 Barbara

BILLINGSLEY
Grade 3 & 4 Betsy ROE
Grade 5 & 6 Stewart ORPEN
Grade 7 & 8 Dant MICHAEL
Grade 9 & 10 Gudrun MAXSON

The following ts a copy
of Goody Maxson's winning
SPEECH. ..eeceeeess

All the Gory Details of
Our Trip to Fort Nelson.... -

Friday morning we all started
out in the best of spirits as we
climbed on the S & J bus. The
first. thing I did after sitting
down was bend over to pick up my
case from the floor. While I was
doing this I very professionaly
rammed my nose in to the back of
the seat ahead of me. I was sure
I had broken it but it turned out
that it was alright just stayed.
sore all weekend.

Our first stop was when our bus
driver, Ted Howe stopped to check
the tires, it was at this point
that the boys flooded the road
behind the bus, as they relieved
themselves, of their daily liquids
It was all very unfair to the
girls who had to wait until the
bus got to Watson. At Watson, Ted
took the bus to fill it up while
most of us waited at the Sport-
sman where we bought candy and
junk, Here Julie and some others
went to the store and Julie got
herself some runners.

Our means of entertainment on
the trip so far had been eating,
_sleeping, and singing. Everybody
would combine their voices and
sing évery song they knew. We
also had a star show where
Dwanne and Sandy sang for us.
They both put on a star perform-
ance and we all gave them a big
hand.

The other occupation of sleep-
ing was very interesting indeed.
Its hard to believe and really
surprising how innocent, Tim
looks when he's sleeping.

Scenery was beautiful and in-
teresting for those who cared to
look at it. We saw some horses,

a moose, two cariboo, and Mrs.
Olson's wolf turned out to be
just another horse. Oh well can't
say she didn't try.

Lower Post was supposed to have
our lunch ready but we ended up
waiting just over an hour and a
half for what turned out to be
not worth the waiting. I made my
lunch out of Mr. Olsons french
fries. My order didn't come
through.

We safely made it to Summit
without anyone barfing, and here,
as usual it was a mad rush to the
bathroom.

Here they had supper all ready
for us and so the service was
much faster. We had a choice of
hamburgers, soup or french fries.
Dani decided to have soup. As
she sat down at the table she
started exclaiming about some
funny squigglly things in her
soup. I don't know what the
matter was, maybe she got more
squiggly things in her soup at
home.

As you would finish eating you
would trail out to the bus. Here

,you would find everyone including

yourself stumbling around because
by now it was pitch black outside.
and the bus lights were off.
Finally we all got packed into
the bus and started on our way.
We rose the roof of the bus
shouting the Cassiar Cheers and
all the songs we could think of.
Jokes were getting passed around
and on the whole we were raising
Kindameome. The bus driver fin-
ally put in a tape as a hint for
us to shut up and Mr. Olson
announced that if we didn't want
to spend the night in the snow-
bank we were to settle down.
About now it was really snowing
and was getting hard to drive.

Our seat changing system was
really interesting. At each stop
the ones who sat in the front
would sit in the back, and those
who sat in the back, sat in the
front. There were three reasons
for this. (1) the front was

about 60 above (2) the back was
about 60 below (3) and the ones
who sat in the back had the ad-
vantage of throwing around any of
the luggage that falls on their
heads.

We began to get closer to Fort
Nelson, our singing began again.
We gave cheers for the Olsons,
Mr. Handfield, the students and
the bus driver. We even gave one
for Fort Nelson but it turned out
half boo's. Mr. Olson told us
that there was to be no booing
on our side so we gave them a
chinese cheer. "Foo, Foo, Foo"

11 o'clock came and the long
ride was over. We had made it to
Fort Nelson.

As we drove in to their school
yard we were all singing "We're
from Cassiar and we know it".

At the school we were all
given to our billets. I think
everyone got good billets except
Mr. & Mrs. Olson. Poor people.
Jutta and I were billetted to-
gether and we got some weird ones
but they were nice and well, we
lived through it. I guess Chris
and James went to some real rich
peoples place. James slept on a
water bed. Too bad it didn't
spring a leak. Chris fell in love
with water beds and decided he
wanted to buy himself one. I can
just see Chris come floating out
of his room.

On the whole everyone got good
billets.

The first game on Saturday
was boys volleyball. The net
so loose that the ball could
be played off it at all. But
won all the first three games
anyway. The scores were 15-7
first game, 15-3 second game and,
the next game was real close with
a score of 16-14 for Cassiar.

They tightened the net up for
the girls game as we lost the
first three games. With scores
of 8-15, 14-16 and 10-15. They
played a 4th game just for fun
and we won with a score of 15
to 5. By the fourth game Christ-
en was mad and with first serve
she rammed 11 points right off

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