NORTHERN
LIGHTS
COLELRGE

CORE stands for Conservation
and Outdoor Recreation Education.
This is a provincial course which
covers survival, game laws, wild
life identification, and firearm
safety. Successful candidates
receive a hunter number, which is
necessary to get a hunting lic-—
ense. Passing this course is
compulsory for all hunters 18
years and under and for all hun-—

ters applying for their first
license. Minimum age is 14.

Date: Week of June 1 Eo ia 7A
evenings.

Cost: $50.00 for course Plus

$11.00 for text.

INSTRUCTOR:

Gord Kamlah

GASFITTING

This iS a course targeted
for those who want to write the
B.C. provincial "B" licence gas
examination. It will be inten-
Sive instruction, using a newly
developed mobile gas trailer,
out—fitted with the most modern
gas appliances and equipment.
The course is 90 hours, starting
on a Saturday and continuing for
9 days. The provincial examina-—
tion will be held within a day or
two of the course completion.
The program is limited to the
first 12 people who are prepared
for 9 days of intensive instruc—
tion.

Date: June 23, 1990 (tentative)

Location: Cassiar, B.C.

Cost: $690.00 + $75.00 for book
— non refundable payment
required 10 days before
course starts.

Limit: 12 students

Exam Fee: 26.00

Prerequisites: Previous experi-—

ence and qualifications approved
by the B.C. Gas Safety Branch.

Accommodation is available.
Please call and reserve ASAP.

For further information and to
register please contact Northern
Lights College, Sandra Sandvik
C.E. Programmer (604) 778-7878
(FAX) 778-7850.

NLC Dease Centre

CARPENTRY LEVEL IV

INSTRUCTOR: WAYNE WESCOTT

This carpentry apprentice—
ship program was held in Iskut
from March Sth to April iith.
The six week course includes:
The care and use of toaals, read-

ing blueprints & specifications,
use of trigonometry & transit to

layout building, building con-
crete forms, house framing, in-
stalling steel framing, drywall &
suspended ceilings and interior
finishing. Proud graduates were:
Glen Adsit, Henry Carlick, Edward
Dennis, Frank Dennis, Joe Dennis,
Murray Dennis, Eugene Edzerza,
Patrick Louie, Loretta Neilson,
Doyle Nole, Gilbert Quock,
Wilburn Quock, Gilbert Tashoots
and Herman Wilson.

CAMP COOK TRAINING PROGRAM
INSTRUCTOR: - BETTINA ATLEY

An exciting new 18 week Camp
Cook Training program, well suit-—
ed for any isolated area. De-
signed as a job re-entry program
students began the course with
two weeks covering Life Skills,
Job Analysis and Self Esteem.
They then traveled out to an
actual road camp for the cocking

segment of the course, which
included: Menu planning, order-—
ing supplies, cooking for 1 to

20, W.C.B. Safety in the work-—
Place, food storage, meal prepar—
ation and first aid. Proud grad-
uates were: Verna Callbreath,

Cindy Creyke, Kathy Dennis,
Heather Louie, Pamela Moon, Glen
Mostad, Naomi Nikkel and Carol

Ann Johnny.

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INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID

INSTRUCTOR: ROGER CLOUTIER
This intensive two week
first aid course was held in

Dease Lake from April 30th toa May
1ith. Students successful in
passing a two hour theory exam
and a two hour practical exam
will receive their Workers Com—
pensation board certificate, as
first aid attendants. Pr oud
Graduates were: Alice Tinsley,

Kellie O’Brien, Clara Jack, Dawn
Loverin, Keith Marian and-~ Ann
Fraser.

It’s that time of the year
now that the good weather is upon
us and everyone is out and about

trying to enjoy the out-doors
while they can. Unfortunately
Pts | aloo thes time rot year

motorists feel they can go that
much faster or
what their vehicles are capable
of doing.

This is just a reminder to
all motorists that we have a lot
of young children in this town
who are also out and about walk—
ing, running or riding their
bikes and materists must use more
caution now than even before.

I can see na reason why any—
one has to be speeding on the
roads in Cassiar, mainly because
af their poor condition but most—
ly where the hell are you going
to go in tawn that would take
mare than a minute anyway!

I can only appeal ts, your
cammon sense to slow down and
drive carefully so that we don’t
have any serious incidents where
a child or pedestrian is hit and
injured or killed. :

maybe show off -

CASSIAR R.C.M.P.

As citizens of this commun—
ity I would also appeal to you to
report anyone you find driving in
a dangerous manner. If we deal
with it right away we may pos—
sibly prevent an incident from
happening.

I realize this is a small
community, however, if you see
someone driving like an idiot and
don’t report it, nothing is done

about it and it just continues
on.

By reporting this driver
even if charges aren’t laid at

least the offender will be dealt
with and will realize people in
the community won’t put up with
this nonsense.

Lets all try to work to-
gether to make sure this is a
Safe place on the roads_ for

everyone and that we have no
serious incidents because of
someone’s faclish driving.

G.F. Martin, Cpl.

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Lassiar Courier

June 1990 Page 9

L’ANGLAIS-FRENCH CONNECTION

Submitted by Eric Verret

The year is 1987. I live on

Chemin de la Colline, Thetford
Mines, Quebec. School is OQ.K.,
except for English. Having spo-
ken French all my life, it was

difficult for me to learn another
language, even though I always
wanted to. I knew it was a great
deal better to know English than
French in Canada, United States
and even the -rest of the world,
because English is the Universal

Language. But I was born in a
family who spoke French.
I promised myself I would

learn English before getting out
of University. I did not care
how or where I would learn it,
but I would.

The year is 1988. I still
live on Chemin de la Colline, but
not for long. Some people from
the other end of Canada (Cassiar)?)

asked my dad to work in a mine
for them for a minimum of three
years. At first, there was no
way he was going. I did not know
what to think. I had the chance
of my life to learn English, but
on the other hand, I would lose
friends and I would have to stay
to that small town for at least
THREE years. At that time, I was
rather used to the city.

The people from Cassiar in-—
vited my dad to go over and see
for himself the town and where he
would work, etc. When he came
back home, he still did not want
to leave Thetford Mines. On my
side, I made my mind and was try-—
ing to convince him to go work
for them, because we would have
the chance to be bilingual.

by Leslie Dendy

I KNEW IT WOULD BE AN OUTRAGEOUS
FIELD TRIP WHEN MR. HERRERA TOLD
ZACK THE MANIAC TO BE MY HIKING
PARTNER. ©

The school bus was parked in
the lot near the mountain. Our
teacher, Mr. Herrera, stood near
the driver’s seat. (We call him
weve) b Eictee) He was giving us the
usual lecture about not picking
flowers, mot kicking rocks down—-
hill,.and never leaving our part-—
ner.

We all knew that if Mr. H
had let “Zack the Maniac” have
one of his buddies as a partner,
they’d probably have started an

avaldnche. So Mr. H announced,
"Maria will be . your partner,
Zack." (Why me?)

When Zack heard that, he

rolled his eyes up, fell sideways
into the aisle, and played dead.
His blond bangs dragged on the
floor. His fingernails looked
dead, because he’d painted them
white during art class yesterday.

"We’ll be hiking to the Sto-—
ne Arch and studying nature on
the way,” Mr. H said. He passed
out clipboards and pencils.

"Can we go to the Golden Ar—-

-was pretty

The next step was to find
out the Pro’s and Con’s. My dad
was tired to work for L.A.B.
Chrysotile in Thetford Mines and
he would also get a better salary
in Cassiar. Finally there was
more weight on the Pro’s and we
decided to start a new.and dif-
ferent life 6,000 km from home.

We came here with a car, so
that we would get a chance to see
most of Canada on the way.

Once we were here, it “was
12 and the school was almost
over. I was determined to learn
English more than ever. I went
ta school and the first student I
met was Vlado. He he:ped me a
whole lot to learn English.
Thanks to you, Vlado, because if
I would have had a bad teacher, I
would have learned it wrong. And
once you learn something wrong,
sometimes it is very hard ta
change it into right. Chad also
kind to me in July.
toa.

June

He was a good teacher,

Those were the two persons
that really got me started with
my English. Then when school
started, I knew more English, but
not enough to understand every—
thing. That is when Mr. Van der
Pol came to rescue. He was my
Learning Assistance teacher, and
he did an awesome job, giving me
learning techniques that were
very helpful.

I finally realized one of my
biggest goals in life just becau—

se I came here. I realized it
faster only because there were
people here that were ready to

help another person hava diffi-
culties.

ches for burgers instead?” asked
Zack, climbing back
— feet first.

“Think of this as a test,
Mr. H said. "If this trip goes
well, the principal will approve
our pool party. If not,...no
party.”

“Terrific,” I thought. “How
do I babysit this dodo? I’1l1 be
murdered if the class doesn’t get
its party."

The trail was flat and nar-—
yow, like a dirt road for forest
mice. Mr. H was leading and Nat—
han’s dad was last, chaperoning.
Zack was behind me, sticking Bene
needles into my pony-tail.

After 30 minutes Mr. H said,
"Most of the trees on this moun—
tain are Ponderosa pines. Every-—
one hug one and see what you no—

- tice."
“No way,” said Zack.
I said, "It'll smell like
Vanilla."
So he smelled one. "Yum!

When’s lunch?" he asked.

"In an hour, Zack," said Mr.
H, “but something’s eating your
tree already." He pointed to a
strange yellow-green plant on a
branch. It had teeny leaves and
flexible stalks. "This plant
grows "’roots’ into the branch and

inte his seat

In Thetford Mines, there
were a lot of exchanges of stu-
dents from other parts of Canada
with Quebec in order to promote
bilingualism. I saw English stu-
dents coming from Ontario going
to our school, doing what I did,
and the young Quebecers were try-
ing to help them learn French
just like the people of Cassiar
helped me learn English.

The point is that there are
a lot of people in Canada that
would help another having diffi-—
culties even though ‘they do not
speak the same language. What
you see on the News is not always
accurate: when you see a bunch
of people from Quebec walking in
a line and protesting against
English, you probably think, "I

will never go over to Quebec, I

would get killed because I dao not
speak their language.”

But I am telling you from
experience living in both Quebec
and B.C., that there is only a
small part of the population that
think this way. Personally, I
think that what they show on the
News is not that bad in real life
and I hope that you will not get
influenced the wrong way by the
News.

We have been a bilingual
country for over a 100 years and
I think that if everybody were
Vlados, Chads, and etc., we could
continue to be a bilingual coun—

try for another century or even.
longer.
After all, this is what Can—

and hopefully will
An English—

ada was, 15,
be in the future:
French Cannection.

sucks food out of the tree. It’s
dwarf mistletoe - a relative of
the kind. that people kiss under
at Christmas."

Zack jumped away. "No kiss-—
ing!" he shouted at me. I rell-
ed my eyes.

"What a doofus!" I thought.

"Now write down three obser—
vations about these Ponderosa
Pines,” Mr. H told us.

I wrote down that no two
trees were alike. There were cu-
te, babies, skinny teenagers, and
tall gr eat—grandparents. One
young tree had dark grey bark

cracked into big stripes. An—
other big, old tree had flaky
yeddish bark like peeling, sun-

burned skin. Some trees had nee-
dies up to 28 centimetres long.
What monsters!

Zack fiddied with his pencil
until the point broke. Then he
looked at what I had written.
“Maria, you nerd!" he said with
a sharp grin. He read my paper
out loud.

Everybody giggled.

I wanted to escape down a
snake hole.

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