Page 10 Cassiar Courier January 1987 IN ANDAROUND SNOWRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ACTIVITY AFTERNOONS Starting on February 20th and running for four weeks, Snowridge School will be conducting a series of Activity Afternoons. It is the staff’s hope to present as broad as possible range of choices for the students. We still need volunteers so if you are interested in conducting one of the following sorts of activities, please contact the school before the end of the first week in January model building curling sewing newspaper chess macrame puppet making drama skidoo safety doll making and almost anything one could suggest! PREMIER'S SPORTS AWARDS The Premier’s Sports Awards Program is a physi- cal testing program designed to evaluate the stan- dard of performance of children in a variety of sports. Some of the sports in which students’ skills are assessed are volleyball, basketball, gym- nastics, and soccer. Recently the grade sevens at Snowridge were tested for volleyball. The follow- ing students earned the Orange (second) of the six levels in this program: Billy Carter Shannon Joseph _ Vincent Boyes SCHOOL SERVICE Students can be involved in the life of their school in many different ways. Many older Snowridge students contribute much to the life of their school in various ways. Their assistance to the staff and other students is greatly appre- ciated by everyone at Snowridge. Some of this year’s service leaders are: Kindergarten Helper Kerry Desjardins Library Helpers Janice Coran Kristina John Denise Gay Tricia Liddle Patrick Ryan Chiera Borsato SSSSSSSSSDF SSS SSS SSS special prices. If your heart’s been set on a new Polaris, this sale will get it pounding. Come in and see the new Polaris snowmobiles. If they don't get your pulse racing, their pre-season price tags will. For a limited time, selected 1987 and earlier m-odel sleds are marked at Winter i. just around the corner. And so are we. PesLARiS Hallway Monitors Chiera Borsato Tricia Liddle Kristina John Denise Gay Janice Coran Stefan Bilodeau Patrick Ryan Riki Bilodeau Krista Randell Jose Stump Vincent Boyes Jason Hebert Jason Hardy Billy Carter Audio-Visual Monitors Kerry Desjardins Tannice Carter Stefan Bilodeau Lisa Lanphear Chiera Borsato Tricia Liddle Denise Gay Katherine Lanteigne Jason Hebert Jose Stump Janice Coran Sasha Poitras House Captains Jose Stump Kristina John Patrick Ryan Shannon Joseph CHILD ABUSE PROGRAMS In late November three Snowridge staff members went to a School District 87-sponsored meeting regarding the CARE program. This program was developed by a variety of agencies in order to help children protect themselves from the threat of abuse in general, and sexual abuse in particular. It attempts to accomplish this end by training children to trust their feelings and to say no to things that they don’t feel right about. Based on the staff members’ reports on this subject, Snowridge School has decided to offer the CARE program to children enrolled in Kin- dergarten and Grade One. It will be implemented in the following stages. In late January and early February the program will be presented to the parents of children in the applicable classes. This presentation will provide those parents with an opportunity to learn every- thing they wish to know. about the program before they must decide whether or not they wish SSS SSS SS SSSSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSSS SS SS SSS SS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSNS oease lake she FOR ALL YOUR SNOWMOBILE NEEDS Wenow havea full line of parts, accessories and clothing to go with our snowmobiles. their children to be exposed to it. In February and March, the school will obtain written parental consent for-children. to take part in the program. The end of March will see a decision made by the school as ‘to whether or not there is sufficient parental interest to warrant offering the CARE Program and, if there is, it will be presented in April and May. In June, parents will be surveyed to determine their views of the CARE Program and its implementation with their children. The staff of Snowridge will be communicating directly with the parents of Kindergarten and Grade One children at each stage of the imple- mentation process. In the meantime, any parents having questions about the Program are invited to contact either the Principal or the Kindergar- ten and Grade One teachers at Snowridge. CHRISTMAS CONCERT ‘On December 17th the students of Snowridge presented a Christmas Concert to their friends and parents. It is our hope that you enjoyed it as much as the students enjoyed presenting it. Special thanks to Miss Tricia Liddle who acted as Master of Ceremonies and to Mrs. Vickery who was our pianist and led everyone in the carols during the evening. WRITER'S CORNER A short story by Scott Cameron Last night | dreamt that | was a candy apple red Lamborghini with headlights that went up and down. The only problem was that | was a remote control. | was sitting on the shelf when a kid came in, stuffed me into a Woolco shopping bag (the store was TOYS-R-US) and just walked out. Then he put me out and drove me into the mid- die of the road just when a truck was coming. | quickly sped out of danger. Boy, did | hate this kid! | put on the gas and drove right at him. When | was about 5 feet away | shot a rope out of my winch and tied him up. Then ! pulled him into the store and shot a note that said, “‘He stole me!” The cashier took me and put me back on the shelf and called the boy’s parents. 0 Trusmp Since December’s issue of the Courier, the Cassiar Duplicate Bridge Club has met five times. Excitement is high over the prospect of having more people in the com- munity and from Erickson Gold joining the bridge club in the New Year. This excitement arose.from our annual Christmas game which was held at Sherry Sethen’s house on December 16. Thanks must go to Tracy, John and Bob for helping us decorate the basement and-succeed in creating a festive atmosphere, Twenty people showed up to eat a fantastic dinner and to play 21 boards. Thanks must go to Marlene Hogg for coming at the last-minute to complete the last table. Kerry Moffat, Lorraine Lanteigne and Karen Taplin, all newcomers to duplicate bridge, also.enjoyed the evening. All the final scores were quite close. Frank Buckley and. Claire Redmond managed to find their way into first place with 48 points. Sherry and Claudia Huber were second with 46%, Ed Craft and Pat Borsato were third with 45, and Kees and Mayumi van der Pol rounded off the top finishers with 44% points. Players who have more than 30 overall points so far in the season are as follows (regular attendance is a strong factor in determining overall points): NAME POINTS Kees van der Pol 61 Mayumi van der Pol 46 Claudia Huber 41% Mario Gimmi 38 Sherry Sethen 37% Brock Taplin 37 Ed Craft 34% Bridge will start up again at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6, 1987 in the Upper Leaisure Room as the Rec- reation Centre. Curling News by Stan Deyo A busy beginning to the season has had approximate- ly 100 curlers very busy and the pace will not slow very ~ much over the next couple of months. Our first bonspiel was held Grey Cup weekend and the winners were: “A” EVENT Bill Pratt Ethel Songhurst Paul MacRae Betty Carter “B” EVENT Robert L'Heureux Margaret Voss Marlene Shipley Andre McCutcheon “C” EVENT Ciril Habjan Gord Becket Lee Coran Pat Dimsdale Many thanks to Ross Harper.and friends for provid- ing an excellent dinner on the Saturday night. By the time this report comes out, the Family Bon- spiel will have been played. In early January the annual Inter-Departmental Bonspiel will see the brooms sweeping busily to defend honor. Watch for more news regarding this and other upcoming events. THE THEATRE Cont. from Page 7 “The answer of whether or not the community needs to re-open the theatre lies with the community,” said Gary Periard. “It is expensive to operate and even short- term opening is costly.” Winterizing and de-winterizing are the most impor- tant jobs involved in the maintenance of the building, and this costs money. The budget at present for the theatre is $1,000 per year. “The C.C.C. uses this for general maintenance,” noted C.C.C. President, Walter Comper. If you would like to see the theatre used, or if you have any ideas for it, drop a note to Gary Periard at the Rec Centre. The theatre is a community building that can only become alive if the community itself wishes it and is prepared to support an Arts and Cultural Centre in Cassiar. Cassiar Courier January 1987 Page 11 FIGURE SKATING by Gayleen Connolly After a slow start we are finally off and running. In October Lorraine Drzimotta went out for training and was certified. The October bingo went well although no one won the diamond Seiko watches. November found us deep in practise and busy planning a Christmas party. The toy bingo was a’ big success. with Jackie Roblin winning the grand prize of a ghetto blaster. On December 20 we held our Christmas party. After afew games a little show was put on by the Canskate and Canfigureskate groups, followed by a visit from Santa and then it. was upstairs for the celebration of a job well done. Two skaters in the Canskate group received badges: Jenny-Marie Storie was given her Elementary badge, as was Brenda Joseph. The new. year finds us planning our. next figure ska- ting meeting for January 8, 1987. A trip to Terrace is also being worked on as we are trying to arrange transporta- tion. The competition in that centre is scheduled for January 31 and February 1. There will be a test day in February with more skaters hoping to receive badges at that time. In closing, we hope that everyone had a good Christ- mas and that 1987 is a good year for all! NORTHERN OFF-ROAD 4 x 4 Service WE INSTALL WHAT WE SELL PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Vince 778-7724 Brian 778-7534 ee ee ee eS Se ee eS eS a A MARVEL TRAVEL SERVICE LTD Got the after-holiday blahs! 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