Search & Rescue The Cassiar RCMP have started to organize a Pro- vincial Emergency Program Rescue Service. The aim of this group is to be able to find lost persons and performing rescue operations under any Cir- cumstances. The first meeting was held on December 6th 1981 and a good cross section of the community attended. As this is a volunteer organization there is still a great need for more members. ; Early in the new year regular meetings will be held for instruction in basic rescue training, first aid and casualty handling; map reading and navi- gation and plotting; practical exercises conducted in local terrain during the four seasons of the year; practice raising and lowering casualties; films when available; search patterns - land and water etc. Organization cannot wait until the first call for help arrives - then it is too late. Time and thought must be given to organizing such a rescue service prior to any calls on its services. If this is done, then total energy can be devoted entirely to the job of rescue. For any further information contact the local RCMP. Stikine Schoo! Board Holds its Inaugural Meeting by Owen Corcoran The government office in Cassiar was the scene of the first - ever meeting of The Board of School Trustees for S.D. No. 87 (Stikine). For all seven members it was a busy two days as they wrestled with the District’s Provisional Budget, nominating the Board’s Standing Committees, - preparing for the New Trustee Seminar in Van- couver, finalizing contracts with the Superintend- ent and Assistant Superintendent, formalizing draft policy, catching up with the District’s cur- rent building projects and approving the propos- ed building program for 1982. Future meetings have been planned on a monthly basis and consideration was given tc meeting in each of the School Attendance Areas. For this year the Board has elected Mrs. S. Sethan as Chairperson and Mr. W. Wood as Vice- Chairman. At a social function held on the Friday evening, the Superintendent, Mr. O. Corcoran, presented the Chairperson with a gavel bearing the names of Mrs. S. Sethan, the last official Trustee, Mr. G. Roth, the last District Superin- tendent - Official Trustee, and Mr. Q. Corcoran, the District Superintendent during the transition period. RS “€€O€e On December 6, the James Hardie Community - Award was presented to Tony Coran for his continued — and untiring activity for the betterment and arlvance- ment of community life in Cassiar. During the seventeen years that Tony has lived in Cassiar he has always been available to help in almost any community project. Tony has been a volunteer fireman for sixteen years and is presently Deputy Fire Chief He was a member of the Arena Artificial Ice Fund Committee He has been a memher of the Lions Club for thirteen years Hotel Update In a recent conversation with Max Lentz, who was in Cassiar earlier this year, regarding a hotel-motel office complex, we were told that the building has been designed and the financial arrangements had almost been completed prior to the federal budget being handed down, but that now some changes had to be made in that area. The complex will have approximately 50 rooms, restaurant, dining lounge, cocktail lounge | or bar facilities and retail and office space. It is not definite how. much office and retail space would be available because the pre-leasing pro- gram has not been completed. Mr. Lentz indicated that much of- the ground work regarding construction details, fin- ancing, pre-leasing, etc., would be completed early in the new year and that he hoped con- struction of this complex, located beyond the Government Building on Connell Drive, would begin in the spring. HAPPY WEW YEAR 10 cents For the past four years he has been an executive _ member of the Cassiar Concert Society Whether Tony has been a member of a committee or not he has always willingly helped various groups with their projects. This includes fixing ice plants in the Curl- ing Club and Arena, furnaces in the theatre and plumb- ing in the Recreation Centr. This is the first year that James Hardie has sponsor- ed the Community Award in Casiar. it was previously sponsored by Raybestos Manhattan. Tony‘s name will be engraved on the trophy, which will hand in the Adminis- . tration building. Stabbing at Good Hope Lake On Friday, December 11, 1981, Larson Johnny was stabbed, receiving wounds to his arm and hand, which required stitches. He was treated at the Cassiar Hospital and released. : Charges have been laid and the man charged will ap- pear in court on January 21, 1982. The next Court will be heid in Cassar on January 20 and 21, 1982. San Antonio Mill Starts Up Activities continue at a hectic pace at the Bissett, Manitoba location of the San Antonio Joint Venture. : The Mine had the ore bins filled on schedule. The Milf started up on Saturday, December 5, and the flot- ation circuits operated without any major problems. Shipments of concentrate to Flin Flon are schedul- ed to commence before year-end. 22», >> > Cassiar aie the Voice of Cassiar Country JANUARY 1982 ~ JAMES HARDIE COMMUNITY AWARD