bis 4 Cassiar Courier arts crafts centre By C. Cousins LIBRARY by Patricia Raabe: N EW S We, the Cassiar Public Library, are a member of the Peace River and Stikine Area Associated Li- braries. This library system will be called by its _ initials (PRAL) after this. The PRAL has its headquarters in Dawson Creek. It is officially called the Regional Office of the Library Services Branch. The Library Services Branch is an organization set up to by the Library Development Commission to help with the starting up of these library sue “throughout the province. The Library Development Commission works with the provincial government on behalf of all the libraries and library systems in the province. PRAL consists of member libraries in Chetwynd, Pouce Coupe, Dawson Creek, Ft. St. John, Fort: ‘Nelson and Cassiar. Rural areas are also represent- ed and PRAL has contact with Pee Lake and ‘other small towns. PRAL works as follows; headquarters, being a regional office, is the responsibility of the Prov- incial Government, who also pays the staff work- ing there. Each member Library receives from the govern- ment, a yearly book grant. This grant is based on a census of the area that the specific library serves (last census taken was in 1976). This grant may - be used only for aie buying of books and book materials. Each library also receives locally, grants which pay for salaries of the staff and other expenses in the library. : The body that looks after the communications and co-operation between the member libraries is the POLICY COMMITTEE. The policy commit- tee consists of one delegate from each of the mem. ‘ber libraries and two representatives from the rur- al areas. They meet regularly in Dawson Creek - and the Cassiar Public Library is represented phere Last October the Hon. Minister Bawlf, who is responsible for the libraries, rejected the pro- gram of the Library Development Commission. He wanted to have the REGIONAL OFFICES phased out by a certain time. For our Library system this would mean that our headquarters would close down. Since all our member libraries depend so heavily upon the knowledge and services of the staff at headquar- ters, this would mean a disaster. 24-09-79 The Arts and Crafts Centre Building is in the process of becoming a reality at last! After some slow periods when there was no car- penter, and no direction the project is once again on the way. The roof construction has been con- tracted out to the Surface Department and should, in fact be completed by the time you read this. Winterizing of the building has been the priority of the project carpenter and crew. This involves skirting the trailers as well as closing in the hall- way which turns the building from a “horseshoe” of trailers to a square building. Plumbing, Heating and Electrical work are still major unsolved problems. These things will have to be dealt with soon in order that the interior work can be com- pleted after the snow falls. It is hoped that all the work will be completed by the time the CANADA WORKS project expires in mid- November. Some of the services that we received from head- quarters are: the buying of our ordered books, the processing and the cataloguing. It is the cen- tre of our _inter-library loans system through which you have access to the collections in all the member libraries. The resource centre for all of us - they store books, have a film maintenance and repair department and store the collection of audio books. The newest service they are busy ' with is that of connecting PRAL with Union Cat- aloguing, of which the largest library systems in British Columbia are already members.’ _ If the headquarters of PRAL dissolves, all the member libraries will have to perform these ser- vices themselves. This will mean more staff, more space to store books, a much higher budget, and we would lose the close contact we now have with the other libraries. And this at a time when we will have to totally depend on locally received grants to keep us operating. If they don’t increase we will have to close down. This also goes for most of the other member libraries, since they _-face the same problems. Ever since the Policy Committee heard of Minis- ter Bawlf’s plan — that is to phase out the Re- gional Offices (our headquarters), we have been © working on a proposal. Now, the minister has . changed, and we do our dealing with the Hon. Minister Hugh Curtis and his Deputy-Minister Allen Turner. This spring the Policy Committee sent a large delegation to the meeting which the British Col- umbia Libary Association held in conjunction | with the British Columbia Trustee Association. Our delegation had a twenty minute private talk with Deputy Minister Mr. Allen Turner, and invit- ed him to a meeting with the Policy Committee this October. For the Cassiar Public Library, Mrs. P. Raabe attended as the delegate to the Policy Committee and Mr. C. Lefebvre as chairperson of the Cassiar Library Board. Our delegation stressed ' the need for our headquarters to stay open and ‘for us to exist since we cover 43% of our province with PRAL. if, when the minister comes to our meeting, he fails to keep things as they are, we have a Bees al prepared to present to him. We, as a Library Board, are sure that the town of Cassiar needs a library. If you agree with this, _ please write a letter to your local MLA, and tell him of your concern. We can*use all the support . you can give us, so please write and tell him that | you want the Cassiar Library to remain open, and Dawson Creek to remain as our headquarters. — ‘It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; ‘through sickness we recognize the value of health : through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion the value of' rest. _ Greek Saying THE LAST ENCHANTMENT by Mary Stewart Dame Stewart, in her usual impeccable, enthrall- ing style, has done it again. Six years in coming, “The Last Enchantment” concludes the narration © of Merlin’s life begun in ““The Crystal Cave” and continued through “The Hollow Hills”, Before the reader’s eyes Merlin the magician comes to life. ‘Tracing hae life ‘through. all, three. polar Stewart depicts the enchanter as a very human person who suffers even as we do, despite his powers of foresight and farseeing, mind manipul- ation and more. “The last Enchantment” deals with Merlin’s lat- ter years, after Arthur ascends the throne of Bri- tain during the Celtic era, prior to the Saxon in-. vasion which over-ran England once and for all.- through the eyes of Myrddin She leads one, Emrys (Merlin)* through Arthur’s early years as king, up to and slightly beyond the marriage of the King to Gweneviere. At the conclusion, Mer- lin, now an old man, minus most of his powers, watches the beginning of the end of Arthur’s rule and Britain’s first kingdom. : For those who enjoy Artuurian history and leg- ends, this work is a must. *(author’s note - The ‘dd’ in Celtic is pronounced as a soft ‘th’, thus Myrddin Emrys is pronounced: mer thin em ris). Reviewed by c. a. bucar. K RoR CLM te HOBBY ELECTRONICS © We monitor CHANNEL 7 on CB. 676 -BROWN STREET APPLIANCES OF ANY KIND SALES and INSTALLATION OF CAR SOUND- EQUIPMENT and CB RADIOS Mobile - Base and TV Antennae Accessories - Kits - Wires - Parts - Tubes and Transistors REPAIR OF ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT AND: : ES Anglican parish church in n England. to be All Saints Let me introduce our church to you. Who are we? L ir nity Church. Shortly after the Cassiar townsite was established, a small group of Christians from a variety of den- ominational backgrounds met to discuss the pos- sibility of building a church. They envisaged one community church, with an ordained pastor in charge, that would be the place of worship for all Christians of the Protestant traditions, and that would provide pastoral ministry to the whole community, without concern for denominational barriers, That original vision of one community-Protestant church is still our constitutional root. We exist to minister to, and to provide the opportunity to worship for, Christians of any and all denomina- tional backgrounds who find themselves in Cassiar. é 2. Then. we are an Anglican Church, That small group of Christians who met back in Cassiar’s early days to found a community church ~ knew that they could not do it alone. They would need to tie into a denominational structure to get funding, and to provide for ordained pastors. So they approached several of the major Canadian denominations, saying, ‘“‘Here’s an opportunity for you to establish a pastoral ministry in an ecu- -menical context in a new mining town in north- ern Canada. Will you take us under your wing?”’ Only the Anglican Church of Canada said “‘Yes’’; and so we are All Saints Anglican, Community Church, even though most of that initial group were Baptists and Presbyterians, -and when the Rev'd Douglas” Hambidge arrived fresh from the - ~~ Fools take to themselves the respect that 1s given to their office. AESOP : (ASsIOR concert society will hold a BAKE, SALE HANDICRAFT SALE og eer THE REC. HALL a November 2pm-4pm Saturday All donations welcome. Nirmal: claims to be: Ist Bingo Prize winner so the _ for this position? (see notice in this issue. Ed.) ' Ts that right, Merle? A - Sandy is back from her holiday at Vines Lake. HO) TAR YD gan4 - assiar Courier Page 5 Anglican Community Cider: Cassiar’s first pastor, he found that he and his ‘wife were the only Anglicans in the place. The Anglican tie-first with the Diocese of Cale- donia based in’ Prince Rupert (of which Douglas Hambidge is now bishop), and since 1968 with _ the Diocese of Yukon—has been vital. We are a ‘mission parish, and, like other mission parishes, we are unable to pay all our expenses; in that situ- ation, it is the Anglican Church of Canada, through its mission and outreach budget, that picks up the tab. And it is through our diocesan affiliation that we have had the continuing pre- sence of an ordained clergyman in our midst. 3. Ap Anglican-Community Church? We are an anomaly, rather like a ‘“denominational non-denominational church”. (But maybe we’re not all that strange, because most “‘non-deno- minational” churches have a tie somewhere—we just don’t try to hide ours.)-There are tensions involved in our situation to be sure; and as a con- gregation of people drawn from many _ back- grounds we are usually very aware of them. As an institution we live under obedience to the Bishop of Yukon, and to the Canons and Consti- _tution of the Anglican Church of Canada. And yet, many of us—Presbyterians, Baptists, Pente- costals, Alliance, Salvation Army, United Church- are under no such obedience and have no such allegiance. The pastor functions only with the Bis- hop’s License, and must remain faithful to the An- glican tradition of worship, doctrine and spiritual- ity he has sworn to uphold. But he must interpret that ‘‘faithfulness” in such a way that his Angli- canism does not become a stumbling-block to the people in his care whose worship and spiritu- ality have Cant roots in the Christian at tradition. : "So that’s us, a community of Christians of many backgrounds gathered together in fellowship ospital appenings Tish Trollen was out to Whitehorse to have her. appendix removed. We see she’s out and around again and hope she’s feeling better. - Lee is away on holidays in Manitoba. Ann is in the Emeral Isles. hospital really is No. 1. Are there any challengers Laurie and Joe.are at Logan Lake and Joe is busy watching the welder working, He has quit his job as fresh air inspector. We have word that the Cafeteria Manager may have a baseball player on his hands in November. ~ Jane has lost her heart to the Canary Islands and — Marthe is off again to the Black Forest. Wer sure — - hope she brings us back some cake. It looks like we must be the most. travelled hos-- pital staff in Town! “While everyone is out vacationing Hine is keeping things SENS In the meantime, if you are not feeling too well, drop in and see ust _ For pick-ups contact: _ PO RaES ah 22 het eae ae hi “gesccccecosccooconcoosooscoseossenseeeeeeesoeteeeeeeees with one another, supported and enabled by the Anglican Church, open to all who desire to be- come members of’our community—of which we hope you will be one. 4, A Parish, A parish is a community of people learning what it means to be the People of God in a particular place. It does so by worshiping, teaching and learning, caring, supporting, evangelizing. Let me close by giving you some particular in- formation abour our parish life. Worship Sunday at - 11:00 a.m. Family Worship 8:30 p.m. Evening Worship ~ Wednesday at- 7:30 p.m. Holy Communion Teaching. Sunday School: ~ . Sunday at 11:00 a.m. - Classes for children of all ages 3-5 6-9 Confirmation Class for ages 10-12 to be arranged. Youth Group (teens): Sundays, 12:30 p.m. Women’s Group meets the second Tuesday of the month. For more information contact Wendy Zabot at 778-7249. The Pastor, Bill Morrison, lives at 169 Elliot St. His phone number is 778-7239. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be visited, give him a call. : There will be a RUMMAGE SALE held in the CHURCH HALL, OCTOBER 20 at 2: P.M. Ph. 778-7486 Ph. 778-7249 Betty Cartwright or Wendy Zabot Followed by Bible Study and Prayer Meeting. Religious Education 6:30 P.M. to eee erry SERVICES AT GOOD HOPE LAKE MASS: SUN da yea reese ah ni 5:00 P.M. Father O. Pauwels Ph. 778-7388 Our Lady of Lourdes ANNUAL CHRISTMAS , TEA, BAKE SALE and BAZAAR will be held SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 at 1:00 P.M. in- the RECREATION CENTRE’ MY FRIENDS Trees are my friends. | Their leaves are a place to hide my sorrows and when the Sun shines their leaves reflect the beauty of life. When | walk with you beneath them | am happy. And when | walk alone they try and ease my pain. My heart reaches out to them, and- they reach : out to me. You are a tree. by Gale Fugere (15 yrs.)