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| Cassiar Mine Rescue Team

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R Pictured above are the team members ready for action,
® left to right are Brian Chandler, Lynn Duff, Don Toth, Wayne
| se have Mike Zemenchik, and Gary Smith,

picture is Al Jubenville.—

- "We're number 1,

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Som: we" re number 1", was the ecstatic cry u
"unconscious.

" from the members of the Cassiar Mine
\ Rescue Team as the winners of the 7th
) Annual Mine Rescue and First Aid Comp-
etitions were announced by Brian
Pewsey during the presentations prog-
ram after the banquet on the evening
of May 26, 1978.

The competitions were sponsored
by the B.C. Department of Mines and
Petroleum Resources, and hosted hy
Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd., and
held in an used Asphalt plant on the
outskirts of Smithers, B.C., an ideal
‘setting for the problem designed by
Bert McConachie, Chief Judge and
‘Rescue Coordinator from the Kamloops
Mine Rescue Station.

The Rescue Competition was won
by the Cassiar Team, captained by
Garry Smith with Mike Zemenchik,
Wayne Mayell, Don Toth, Lynn Duff
Brian Chandler, Vice Captain, and Al
Jubenville. Bell Copper from Gran-
isle won the second place position.

Ni Other teams competing were from

Yi Granisle Copper, Endako Mines, and
N: Cyprus Anvil Mines from Faro, Yukon.

This year's competition featured
the first ever entry of a Mine Rescue
team with a woman member. She was
Elaine Wolfson of the Endako team.

Seven judges rated the perform-
ance of the rescue teams during the
problem situation. The problem site
was Called a Crusher and Concentration
Plant.

The rescue teams came upon a
problem situation which had devel-
oped by not following safety pro-
cedures on the jiob.

way to the head pulley of a conveyor
when he noticed smoke coming from

a building that contained oxygen and
propane cylinders. In his haste to
return to ground level to get assist-.

' the power off and get help.

A worker had climbed up the walk-

Wins Competion

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Missing from the

ance, he slipped, was caught by the
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--He has a scalp wound
and a broken left forearm. vee

A second worker on top of the
hopper, heard him scream, and while
trying to locate him, slipped and

, Cassiar’s first Positive

N Parenting Conference, sponsored
Nby the Cassiar Parent Advisory
NCouncil, Cassiar School and ;
N Cassiar Asbestos Corporation,
Nheld ‘on June 2 and 3, was a huge
success, Approximately 50
ipeople were there on Friday
‘evening to hear Dr. Doreen Kil-

Burnaby, as a psychologist
working with emotionally dist-
urbed children, ages 6-14 years,
speak on effective child-raising
She covered many interesting
Ntopics relating to effective
\ child-care and gave the parents
‘present many helpful hints in
this regard.

Starting at 9:00 a.m.
Saturday, Lynn Harris of the
Department of Human Resources
ispoke on the available social
\.services to help in child rais-
Ning. Following a question
period and coffee, the health
‘team of Rudy Gasparelli, Jim
\ Faught and Judy Stringer spoke
Nabout raising healthy children.
A very interesting film on
child-abuse was shown and after
‘lunch a panel discussion, mod-
)erated by Malcolm McMurray,
Special Counsellor for S.D. #87,
Nitook place, Many interesting
y quest ons and ideas were raised
Nand everyone came away from the
’ weekend workshop much better

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fractured his femur when he caught his informed about the raising of

right leg in the hopper structure.
He attracted the attention of an-
other worker and told him to shut
There is
no mention of the worker on the con-
veyor belt at this time.

The rescue team does not know

of this worker until they have reached

and questioned the man on top of the
hopper.

The solution to the problem was
to locate the victims, put out the
fire, lock out all related equipment
apply the necessary first aid and
rescue the victims back down_to
ground level where an ambulance was

standing by to transport them to

a hospital. The Cassiar team per-
formed their duties very well and
as a result won the coveted Depart-
ment of Mines Shield for Open Pit
Mine Rescue work. Each team member
also won a beautiful trophy in
bronze displaying a statue with arms
upraised in victory.
Corporation received a wooden Scroll
that also displays the victory statue.

The shield is located in Garry Smith's!

office in the Equipment Garage and
the Scroll can be seen in the Safety
office where they are looked upon
with pride.

The Cassiar team has won the
honour of advancing to the Provinc-
ial Open Pit Rescue Competiticn to
be held in Bowen Park in Nanaimo, B.C.
on June 17, 1978 where they hope to
repeat their winning performance and
become "number 1 in B.C." and the
Dominion. of Canada.

Cassiar Asbestos

\ children,

Cassi ar Courier

the Voice of Cassiar Country
VOL de NO5 JUNE & JULY 1978 10cents

peti presently at "The Maples”
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, It is hoped another conference
, 411 be held in the fall covering

children*s rights and so on,

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The First Aid Competition was won
by Granisle Copper and Endako lines
placed second. This was the first

‘year that all of the Companies spon-
sored a First Aid team in addition
to a Mine Rescue team. The Cassiar
First Aid team members were Wayne
Mayell, Lynn Duff and.Al Jubenville
and this group is to be commended
for.a job well done.

Cassiar Asbestos Corporation,
Ltd., hosted the competitions and
was represented by Brian Pewsey, our
Mine Manager, whose enthusiasm and
support for the “team very dear to
his heart" was overwhelming.

The Cassiar team traveled with
its own fan club that consisted of
Peter and Kerry Jones, Doreen Pewsey,
Carla Smith, Peggy Tomashewski, Pat
Stewart, Carmen Jubenville and
' Bernice Borsato, our good luck charm.

The first place trophies were
presented to the Cassiar team by
Doctor James Fyles, Deputy Minister

; of Mines, while the second place
trophies were presented to the Bell
Copper team by W.C. Robinson,
Chief Inspector of Mines.

The First Aid trophies were
presented by Ted Williams, St.
John's Ambulance Association from
Prince George.

See page 10 and 11 for more pictures
and*-details.

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