Page 10 Cassiar Courier Visit by lona Campagnolo On September Sth, our M.L.A., , Iona Campagnolo, paid a visit to Cassiar. Shortly after her arrival she had lunch at the Recreation Hall, followed by a tour of the town. A cocktail party, hosted by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation, was held at House 130 on the evening of the 5th. This was to enable Mrs. Campagnolo to meet a cross-section of our community. During the evening Mr. Peter Jones, on behalf of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation, presented Mrs. Campagnolo with a jade clock as a memento of Cassiar. At 9:00 p.m., following the cocktail party, an open meeting was held at the Recreation Hall in the Old Lions Room. Mrs. Campagnolo outlined some of the aims of the present government which she felt to be of specific importance. These included: Revitalizing the economy Our Constitution and the need to update it Our energy resources Improving the efficiency and productiveness - of the Federal Civil Service Reforming critical institutions that directly affect the people There was a question and answer period during which many questions were asked and answered, especially pertaining to our own area. On Sept. 6th Mrs. Campagnolo received a conducted tour of the mine, followed by lunch at the Cafeteria, before leaving Cassiar at 12:30 p.m. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE6 ooking over Cassiar from the minesite i TTT Sy | gee eames RET SETAE MRT TL you notice? If you were a regular visitor to the pool this summer you. may have noticed another new face around. His name is Eric Glyn-Jones, and he joined the C.C.C. staff in June as an assistant to Carl. Eric, a graduate of Kitsilano High School - is nineteen years old, He is a qualified lifeguard, having earned the Red Cross Award of Merit, and his instructors certificate. He swam com- petitively for 4 years with the Canadian Dolphin Swim Club. He has also played hockey for five years. His interests and hobbies are: skiing, canoeing, horseback riding; and reading a good book. Now that the swimming season is over, Eric will be working around the Arena with Carl and Debbie. Carl and Eric should be aan ed for the fan- tastic job they did at the pool this year. Keep up the good work! Swimming Pool And Arena News The Cassiar Swimming Pool closed Sept. 16th with one last ““Fun Day” of aqua-nonsense. The pool had been opened since May 22nd and despite the delays, Cassiarites enjoyed their longest swimming season ever. Along with a new paint job, new diving board, new water-safety equipment, there were new attendance figures for the pool. Over 1700 people per month visit- ed the pool in. spite of the not so hot summer. Water Safety played a large part in the pool’s program this year. Along with the two sessions of Red Cross swimming lessons there was a Bronze Medallion Course offered for the first time in Cassiar. Porti Nitti and Karen Brockle- _ bank both successfully completed this hard 6 week course, Congratulations! During the Red Cross Water Safety Week, the two Instructors Provided a clinic on Hypothermia and Self- Rescue techniques to an appreciat ive crowd of kids from the Playground Program. Another highlight of this summer was the effort the Cassiar Clippers came up with at the Swim.- meet in Whitehorse. The team produced a res- © pectable 61 points and let everyone know who Cassiar was! This years pool program was quite varied, giving at different times, all age groups a chance to enjoy the water. Some classes caught on more than others. One of these was the Be- ginner Adult class given by Eric Glyn-Jones. Converting landlubbers to water- babies is difficult, but Eric made it fun for everyone. Turning our thoughts to next season, the pool will open May Ist and close Sept. Ist. The im- portant factor here is to continue along the lines of operation that already have prove successful. Hopefully we will be able to avoid the mechanical problems which inconvenienced the patrons. Next season we wish to surpass our attendance records and increase the family membership from the fifty-five we had this summer. Carl and Eric, the two Instructors at the pool, intend to stay on for the next season but first have to get throught the winter while working at the Arena. They joined Debbie Hawkey in Sep- tember, and the ice was ready by the 18th for a very early start into the hockey season. Presently the skating program runs from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. giving both the hockey players and skaters ample time to exercise. There has been a Disco on Ice already which was very successful, Another activity which attracts big and small alike is ‘‘Broomball’”’ each Sunday. Anyone wish- ing to join a team is asked simply to come -down any Sunday evening at 7 p.m. and join in the fray. More ‘Discos’ and Broomball Tourneys are planned for the near future as well as other special events. If you have a suggestion, ideas, or would like to help out in some way, please call the staff at 778-7529. ; In closing the entire C.C.C. staff would ‘like to thank the following people for their help at the pool this summer: Tony and Lee Coran, Peter Brown, Bob Barks, Rejean Doucet and Jim Doucet. Thanks ae by Carl Lefebvre OPEN HOUSE ; A large group of parents attended Open House at Cassiar Elementary-Secondary School, T. hurs- day evening, October 12th. Following a short assembly, parents toured the school and talked to teachers. Excellent refresh- ments were made and served by the Home- Economics students under the direction of Miss Taverner. The Open House, held for the second _ year, featured student displays and a description of course programmes. It is hoped that a number of class displays will be held from time to time’ during the year. HALLOWEEN PARTY TIME _ A Halloween party— Hip-hip-hooray! We’ve longed and we’ve waited For this happy day. There’ll be lots of games, Pinning on donkey’s tail And dripping wet faces ‘Bobbing apples from a pail, © A ghost walk for certain To frighten and scare, With witches and goblins Hid round everywehere, Have you tried eating apples From a long piece of string? The onlookers’ laughter Will make the roof ring. After the games Are all over once more, Hot Chocolate and doughnuts To eat by the score! Panne aoe rcote pence heavily. . “T still think this whole trip is a waste of time. What does he think it?ll achieve?” STUFF 'N SUCH M-m-m_ What's The Opposite for each of these words peels with the letter ““M” ISsintemperate ay wire. cstesecnteceessceesesessacttyenass LESSENS SSR [ST eS are ceerrocs 14: Generousy disiuisssreacteri ais aes hee 2. 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She was new to this, not as in condition for such work. She puffed as she drew level with him and looked down into the ong valley with its neat little town of geometrically laid out streets, its buildings and jobsight and the massive mound that was a minor mountain in its own right to their left. She bent over her knees and he waited until she was breathing more easily before jerking his head. “Shall we go?” The last part of their hike was the easiest, a sharp incline to be sure, but cleared for the most part of scrub brush that ‘had impeded their progress until now. They dug their heels into the rocky but softish earth as they descended to the valley floor. Scarcely anyone spared them more than a passing glance as they started down the sidewalk towards the stores, passing fon and sighed “Information on the general reaction to a visit by us as a group, ” replied Trae, as they came level with the cafe and paused before tuming to climb the steps and go in, “Just keep quiet unless it’s absolutely necessary and follow my lead if you have to speak at all.” Bett nodded and shucked her pack into a chair at a table halfway back in the room near the windows, cringing at the level of noise assaulting her ears. Trae brought two cups and placed them on the table. She Fe down, her legs trembling from the unaccustomed her “Well, that’s a relief, at least.” She stretched her legs beneath the table and sipped the steaming liquid slowly. coming to rest at last on the tight gathering at the back of the room, several extra chairs drawn up to those two: back to back tables. Someone laughed and added a rejoinder that neither Trae nor Bett could catch, but the group at the table were all smiles and laughter. a majority of the people filling the cafe rose and left, some carrying books and complaining of classes they didn’t particularly want to attend. Trae kept. his eyes-on the four who remained, one woman and three men, A second woman emerged from the wash- room facilities and plunked herself down on a seat, Trae’s eyes were flitting from table to table, There was a general shuffling of seats and pulling a half full cup towards herself and sipping it listening to the conversation at the same time. “J don’t care what you say,” woman, ‘“There’s got to be life out there. We'd be pretty stuck up to consider ourselves the only ones around,” — remarked the first _“And_ there’s definitely more to all those sightings than people who've had one too many or are on drugs,” commented one of the three men. Another coe but remained silent. - up to a space vehicle and say hi, were you,;?” he the Opposite. Answers on page 16 SHORT STORY by C. A. Bucar HUOVANGNUOUADOOOGAAAALOGGUORSOOUGODOOUAARUOUOONEONDONOEOOOUEOOUNGOSELOEUOGEOAOOSEAEAONENGENOGEDEGOUOOAODOUOOLOONOOOOUSOSNOQGOCONAOOEOSOONOEONOEOOUOOQUNE? “And just what would you do if one of them landed = out there,” quipped the third man, waving his hand in = the general direction of the field just outside the = building. “I don’t know,” replied the first woman lightly, laughter evident in her voice, “I’d probably walk up to them and say, “Hi. Welcome to Earth. Can I go for a ride?” ;Someone snorted but Trae was looking at Bett. His partner‘s eyes mirrored disbelief at that statement. Trae rose and went over. “I'm sorry, but I couldn’t help overhearing your Sas about: auntie: Were you referring to 3? “Yeah,” acknowledged the youngest of that group, sitting sandwiched up against the wall. Trae sat down, hovering on the edge of a chair, “You weren’t serious when you said you’d walk right directed himself to the woman. “F don’t know,” she. replied, “TI suppose no one really = knows how they're going to react to any situation = until it actually occurs. But I’m a science fiction nut = and that helps me qualify, I guess-” “For the nut house,” sniped the second woman jokingly, her eyes twinkling with humor, “You watch it,” shot back the first. “What about the fest of you,” queried Trae. “T think ['d just as soon keep as far away from any- thing like that as I could,” said one. “Who knows,” said a second, The third man just shrugged and remained leaning up against the wall. Trae was both thrilled and puzzled by their responses. He slipped them off the subject and exchanged polite conversation with them for a few more minutes before retuming to Bett and picking up his pack. They shouldered their knap- seek as they left the coffee shop and Bett looked at hi ‘Well?’ “Tf all our “I don’t know,”, he replied slowly, reports are like this one ...”” They began their retum hike up the bare flank of the hill and over its shoulder into the neighboring valley. Late that evening a bright streamer of light rose from the valley behind the McDame Ski Hill, shooting up into the night sky. Very few eyes noted its passing, but among them was a young woman. who had just come off afternoon shift at the mill a half hour earlier, MUM Cassiar Courier Page 11 continued from page Tis Grade Eight: Kato Schneeberger, Donna Taylor : Grade Nine: Kathy Johnston, Karen Taylor, Gale Fugere Ghislaine Berube. ? Grade Ten: Xavier Nitti Grade Eleven: Rick Prosser Grade Twelve: Estelle Berube Sportsmanship: ; Xavier Nitti, Leslie Kurian, Bettina’ ’ Sollbock, Irene Anderson Athletics: Tina Tischler, Leslie Kurian, Carole Joudrey, Xavier Nitti, Richard Knowles, David Quash, Ellen Knowles, John Mc Lelland, Gordon Rowe, Dean Roseneau Intra Mural Trophy: Midgets Service Awards Grant Overton, Graham Overton, Anne- Marie Santos, Debbie Johnston,’ Karen Taylor, Dorine Berube, Ghislaine Berube, Kato Schneeberger, David Shuffler Academic Awards - Most Improved | Grade 4 Catherine Pewsey Grade 5 Teresa Bartel Grade 6 Steven Genn Grade 6/7 Richard Knowles Grade 9 Ken Cook Grade 10 EXvice Nitti Grade 11 Susette Pinto Academic Awards in each grade. - Outstanding Students | Grade 4 Elizabeth Grant, Brian Grant Grade 5 Gerald Watson Grade 6 Steven Genn Grade 6/7 Gabor Friska, Uschi Froelich Grade 8 Donna Taylor Grade9 Karen Taylor | /Grade 11 Deborah Johnston Students receiving recognition for Perfect AG NEELNES Grade 4: Elizabeth Grant, qcane le Molan, any Thompson Grade 5: Deanna Shuffler Grade 7: Dorine Berube Grade 9: David Shuffler