Page 12 April 1980 Cassiar Courier C.A.F.C. (Soccer) Hello Readers! At last the N.A.S.L. are demanding at least three North Americans must be on the field of play for each N.A.S.L. team and hopefully next season it will be each team al- lowed three imported players. Then, and only then, will soccer really flourish and the side that will astound the soccer world will be the Whitecaps. In Waiters and McNab they have two of the best coaches to come out of England and in Bolitho and Kerr, both Vancouver-born, they have two gems and against Tampa Bay they alone stood out amongst so-called ‘’superior players’. The Whitecaps are not going to win any big’ trophies this year but watch out America — they are going to become the Real Madrid of the N.A.S.L. On the European scene, West Germany has all four teams in the E,U.F.A. Cup semi-finals and Hamburg in the Euro- pean Cup semi-finals, their opponent being the Mighty Real Madrid. The other semi is between Ajax of Amster- dam, who won the trophy in 1971, 72 and 73 and last year’s winners Nottingham Forest. On the local scene the five-a-side teams are really excelling and the Schmoo Daze Tournament is going to be another huge success. Tuesday is coaching night and with Big Georgie Miller at the helm we can’t go wrong, KOP THAT | was pleasantly surprised by the response from last month and in future we will print the names of all cor- rect entries, Answers to last month’s quiz- 1. South America’6 times to Europe’s 5 2. Jules Rimet Trophy 3. Pele was 17 years old. The country was Sweden, the ’ score was Brazil 5, Sweden 2, and Pele scored two goals. t 4. A ‘Goal assiar Snowmobile Club The Snowmobile Club racing season ended the weekend of March 29 — 30 and trophies were presented at a banquet held on Sunday evening in the Community Centre, Except where otherwise specified, all trophies were donated by the Snowmobile Club. DRAGS 250 STOCK TROPHY POWDER PUFF DRAGS OPEN CLASS TROPHY 440 FAN COOLED OVAL TROPHY 1st Peggy Toth 1st S. Sethen Ist R. Storie 2nd Barb Maki 2nd C. McKenzie Donated by S & J Transport 3rd Peggy Toth ist R. Storie DRAGS 340 STOCK TROPHY POWDER PUFF OVAL 440 UP TROPHY 2nd S. Hanley 1st Bill Carter . 1st S. Sethen 3rd _ V. Isidoro 2nd Peggy Toth 2nd J. Lister B. Carter 440 FREE AIR TROPHY 3rd Betty Carter 3rd DRAGS 340 SUPER STOCK TROPHY Donated by Cassiar Community Club Ist E, Hardy Ist T. Sethen 2nd G. R. Patry (Stewart) 2nd P, Toth 3rd B. Carter 3rd B, Carter POWDER PUFF OPEN CLASS DRAGS 340 MODIFIED TROPHY ? iST S. Sethen Donated by Robelix Electronics 2nd R. Gay 1st B. Spracklin 2nd R. Gay 2nd __sE.. Hardy : 3rd P, Toth 3rd _ G. R. Patry (Stewart) 340-400 DRAGS TROPHY T. Sethen Donated by Cassiar Lions Club POWDER PUFF OVAL 340 DOWN TROPHY Donated by Carlene’s Coiffures KIDS OVAL 10 - 16 TROPHY WINNER — 1st. R. Storie 2nd S. Hanley 3rd D. Toth 440 SUPER STOCK TROPHY Donated by Royal Bank 1st B. Riddle 2nd G. R, Patry 3rd_ B. Spracklin 440 MODIFIED OVAL TROPHY Donated by Finning Tractor 1st B. Riddle 2nd D. Bibby 3rd S. Hanley KIDS DRAGS 10 - 16 TROPHY 1st Peggy Toth 2nd G. R. Patry (Stewart) 1st T. Sethen OPEN CLASS OVAL TROPHY 3rd Bill Carter 2nd D. D, DeCecco Donated by Cassiar Asbestos Corp. 1st B. Spracklin = 440 FAN COOLED TROPHY Donated by Cassiar Fire Department 1st S. Hanley 2nd D, Toth 3rd R. Storie 440 FREE AIR TROPHY Donated by Goldstar Enterprises 1st S. Hanley 2nd D, Toth 3rd R. Storie DRAGS 440 SUPER STOCK TROPHY Donated by R & S Services 1st E, Hardy 2nd B. Spracklin 3rd S. Hanley 440 MODIFIED TROPHY Donated by W.S.T.V. 1st B. Spracklin 2nd E. Hardy 3rd S, Hanley OPEN CLASS TROPHY Donated by Major Security 1st E. Hardy 2nd B. Spracklin 3rd S. Hanley POWDER PUFF DRAGS 340 DOWN TROPHY ist Peggy Toth 2nd B. Carter 3rd S. Sethen POWDER PUFF DRAGS 340 UP TROPHY Ist Peggy Toth - 2nd Barb Maki 3rd M., Pierson CROSS COUNTRY 340 DOWN TROPHY 1st G, Steen 2nd G, R, Patry 3rd S. Hanley CROSS COUNTRY 440 UP TROPHY 1st G. R. Patry (33% minutes) 2nd D. Toth 3rd J. Pierson 250 STOCK OVAL TROPHY 1st ’ Peggy Toth 2nd Murray Boyes 340 STOCK OVAL TROPHY Donated by Kal:Tire 1st D. Toth 2nd G. Steen 3rd A, Bisson 340 SUPER STOCK OVAL TROPHY Donated by Ciro’s Photo Studio 1st Bill Riddle 2nd G. R. Patry 3rd G. Steen 340 MODIFIED TROPHY ist B. Riddle 2nd B. Spracklin 3rd G. R. Patry tame ames eae Se 340 - 400 OVAL TROPHY Donated by B.X.L. Explosives Ist V. Isidoro 2nd G. G. Patry 3rd_ OD. Lister 2nd S. Hanley 3rd R. Storie HILL CLIMBER WINNER D. Bibby # FASTEST SNOWMOBILE D. Bibby (126 km.) MENS BEST POINTS D. Toth WOMENS BEST POINTS P. Toth KIDS BEST POINTS — Donated by Ericksen Gold Mine T. Sethen MOST SPORTSMANLIKE 1980 John Knapton WOMENS TOUGH LUCK 1980 Pat Farrell MENS TOUGH’LUCK 1980 John Knapton THANKS TO All the sponsors of the trophies All the racers — Cassiar Asbestos Corp. for the loader and grader Eldon, Valdemar Bill and everyone for their help. Cassiar Lioness for the concession stand Garth Thrush and Fred Cousins for their buses The Patry’s for comming from Stewart for the races All the committees — Racing, Cross Country, and Executive. A special thanks to Peter Jones for help- ing out, by Tom Farrell, President Cassiar Snowmobile Club QUESTION TIME - 1. The World Cup was played in France just before World War 2. Who were the finalists and what was the score? ira 2. What country has played in three European Cham- pionship Finals and has never been a winner? 3, Canada played an important game in December of 1976, Who were their opponents and what was the score? 4. Rules — The Centre Back takes a throw in and from the throw in the ball goes SN in the opponent's goal, is it (a) a goal (b) a goal kick or (c) as the last person to-touch the balldid so with his hands is it a free kick, Send answers to: Ardent Koppite, c/o The Editor, Cassiar Courier, Cassiar, B.C. PUBLIC HEALTH by Helen Read After thoughtful deliberation | have decided to resign my position as Community Nurse 2 with the Peace River Dis- trict Center in Cassiar. | have thoroughly enjoyed my association with the people of Cassiar, Dease Lake and Good Hope Lake and | will indeed miss you all. As my last day will be May 15th and my replacement will likely not be in Cassiar until the summer, | would like to stress the importance of having your children up-to-date in their immunizations as soon as possible. The Clinic will be held in Cassiar on Thursday, MAY 1st and MAY 15th from 9 a.m, to 5 p.m, both days. For those in Dease Lake | will be holding a Clinic at the School -on ‘Wednesday, MAY 14th from 1 — 4 p.m. My thanks to the many people who have been so helpful and who have made my job easier. Being so far from su- pervision has made me rely on many folks in this area. Special thanks to the hospital, Dr. Bob Trollen, John and Sheri from Human Resources and the great principals and teachers at the schools for all your help and co-operation. | could go on and on! Thank you, everyone — it has been LIONS NEWS MONTE CARLO NIGHT will be held on May 10, 1980 in the Community Centre. There will be: fun and games for all ages and refreshments will be available. Come and try your luck (Las Vegas Cassiar style). The Lions Club Convention will be held in Whitehorse on May 15 and 16th, bringing Lions together from all over.. Cassiar is trying to make a good turn-out with its members Hopefully all members attending will come back with a great amount of knowledge. We would like to welcome our new Lion member, Garth Thrush, who was sworn in by Lion President Lothar Kutz on March 25. (Watch those big words; Lotta LIONESS NEWS The Lioness Club would like to welcome two new mem- bers, Ida Walters and Judy Walker. The Lioness Club has been busy catering to the Snow- mobile races over the past month. We would like to thank the people for participating.- : KEYS 9 SiRosctix WE NOW OFFER A FULL LOCKSMITH SERVICE 3 AT 656 BATEMAN STREET THE ART OF DOG-SLEDDING This story was submitted to the 14th Annual B.C.Human- ities and Science Symposium, University of Victoria. There are some things concerning living in the North about which the average person knows very little. | always had images of deep snow, moose and beaver running wild (if beaver run!) and of that mystical Northern pastime, dog-sledding, performed, | thought, only by Eskimos with a team of a dozen Huskies or Malamutes because it was their only means of transportation, | have lived in Northern British Columbia for three years now and have gone against all reason and created for my- self a first-class dog-sledding team of two “Old English Sheepdogs”! (Anyone who knows Old English Sheepdogs can imagine why it goes against all reason........) “However | would like to say that this was no easy task, Here | was with two Sheepdog puppies that my father bought to train into sled-dogs when someone kindly in- formed us that it would be useless because we would nev- er find one dog out of only two that would make a natur- al lead dog. A dog apparently cannot be taught to lead - they just naturally follow. Well, | was lucky because the male dog, ‘‘Banjo’’, turned out to be a natural lead dog. | have some suspicions that a lead dog has to be the least intelligent of all dogs.... this dog | could not teach to sit (and still haven‘t)! He does not shake a paw, roll over or beg. The female, “Clementine’’, is the smart one. It is she, not Banjo, who will growl at other dogs and bark at strangers. It was after we had found that we had a natural lead dog when someone hit us with yet another supposed dog-sled . fact. A lead dog does not pull, he just leads! Oh great, | thought, one little female to do all the pulling! Not to be discouraged, | put. the two little puppies in their small harnesses and started taking, them for walk after walk. One thing | never attempted to teach them (I doubt | could have anyway) was to heel. Most dogs will walk ahead of you unless you order them to do otherwise but — when training a sled dog it is best to let them walk as far ahead of you as possible and pull as hard as they can on their leads. They must be pulling with their chests and not their necks - that is why a harness with a long lead is es- sential. & Another thing | discovered from watching other people trying to make pullers out of their dogs was that a dog who is constantly tied up will not make a good sled-dog. As soon as he is asked to pull he feels the resistance and relates this to his chain and will often give up trying right away. The best thing for a sled-dog, or‘any dog, is to have - a large pen in the back yard, The puppies did not pull people their first winter, They pulled a small sled with some weight to keep them in shape and slowly get them used to the business. A slight ‘flaw came in this so-far-perfect plan when Banjo became ill. He recovered slowly so when the veterinarian came to ELEMENT — fire. Aries the Ram PLANET — Mars. ATTRIBUTE — leadership. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and if you were born under this sign you might understand why. You enjoy being in the front of activity, leading or directing. People with sun in Aries are known as the PIONEERS of the zod- iac, FEARLESSLY breaking,new ground and FORGING ahead with an almost reckless DETERMINATION. As a matter of fact this is where you could find yourself in trouble, if you don’t learn to control some of your reck- less IMPULSES, you may find yourself forging ahead into CATASTROPHE! -Life for you is an EXTROVERTED activity full of adventure and VIGOUR, by being able to TEMPER this with MODERATION you are bound to be ee Pook for close friends in the -other ‘fire’ signs, Leo and ©. Sagittarius, they often share a similar ENTHUSIASM for life. The three air signs Gemini, Libra and Aquarius AU offer another UNIQUE blend of companionship. town we had him examined. He told us that Banjo had had pneumonia and then he imparted some more wonder- ful news; he was practically blind in both eyes! We had ‘noticed Banjo’s clumsiness, but thought that it was due to the fact that he was 30 pounds overweight and had too much hair in front of his eyes. Two eye operations later and Banjo was back to his slightly less clumsy self. When their second winter rolled around we had bought a top grade Teslin dog-sled and two padded leather harness- es. It was time to try them pulling people! It took us a ' while to figure out exactly how to hook them up - should they be side by side? No, Clem always fought with Banjo when they were that close. Should we put Clem in front? No, she just turned round and fought with Banjo, Put Banjo in front! That’s good but the way the ropes are ar- ranged Clem does all the pulling, (It doesn’t matter that Banjo is not supposed to pull --he is going to!) Put the two ropes from the sled, one to each dog? That’s better but Clem keeps getting tangled in them. Believe it or not a system was worked out! Clem was hooked up by a short rope to her harness; Banjo was hook- ed up by. a longer rope through Clem’s harness - to keep the rope off the-ground and fairly straight - to his harn- ess. Each rope was attached to the front of the sleigh sep- arately. We figured that Clem having a shorter rope, could not catch up to Banjo and fight with him. Wrong again! Clem, it turned out, was a much better puller than we had bargained for; Banjo must have overheard someone saying that lead dogs were not supposed to pull. _ It was then that | came up with a few dog-sledding facts of my own - yaur sled can only go as fast as the slowest dog! | suppose | should have figured that out sooner! Now the problem was how to keep Clem slowed down - she knew the command ‘‘Whooah’’, but | could not keep yell- ing “Whooah” to slow her down and at the same time yell . “Mush” to keep Banjo going! Fortunately the answer was : easy. Dad constructed a brake for the sled. This meant ~ that every time | saw: Banjo’s rope slackening or it looked like Clem would catch up to him | could step on the brake and since each of their ropes was attached separately, it would ’slow down Clem without stopping Banjo. Clem learned quickly. | just have to step on the brake for a sec- ond and she knows | am telling her to slow down. One thing | have not been able to teach Banjo in his duty as the lead dog (and | always wish | could have) is to turn right or left when | tell him to. It sometimes takes a great deal of coaxing to get him to go in one direction when he has decided he would rather go in another! One little trait of his that sometimes gets us in trouble is his desire to go into the most inconvenient places. If we are going down the side of the road and there is a truck parked by the snowbank, Banjo will inevitably head straight for the space between the truck and the snowbank! | have to stop him and tell.him ‘‘You have to go around the truck, Banjo You will not get through it!’” He never listens........, Every year in Cassiar there is a winter carnival with var- Ay Come EXTEN NEY mow £Y Teese Cone: April 1980 bac 13 Gale Marie Fugere. Grade Eleven. ious contests such as cross. country skiing, baseball on snowshoes, skating events and dog races and dog- weight pulling contests, We decided to enter our dogs in the one- dog weight pull, | thought Clem would be our best chance because she does all the pulling, but | forgot that she was the smart one! She knew there was something not right a- bout pulling with all these people and the dogs standing a- round; and what was Banjo doing down at the other end of the track? She would not pull.... it was just all too strange. So, for no particular reason we still thought we might as well give Banjo a chance; he probably wouldn't even notice the other dogs. He didn’t. He went down that stretch with 250 pounds at a run! Another dog pulled 300 pounds - so did Banjo! In the end Banjo won with a total of 400 pounds and that at a trot! | got the ribbon and Banjo won two bags of dog food .... He must have known what the prize was. Having raised dogs; trained dogs; and raced dogs | now know some facts about dog-sledding. One such fact; wea- ther plays a very significant part in this sport. When the weather is warm, the trails become soft and the dogs sink through the melted crust and cannot pull. If the weather is too cold, not only will the driver end up with frost- bitten ears and nose, it is hard on the dogs’ lungs pumping ‘in the freezing air. The ideal temperature is between —5* Celcius to -25" Celsius, which seems like a pretty large range but we often get -30° Celsius to —40* Celsius wea- -ther, The warm spells are less frequent! _ Another thing to remember in dog-sledding, is how often to run the dogs. Personally, | just run mine whenever | have the chance because | can never tell when the weather will be good or if | will have the time. Usually | take them’ ‘out on an average of three to four times a week, which is about right. The ratio of running is supposed to be about three days off for every three days of running. | have been running my dogs since November and have seen a marked improvement. Banjo is pulling more and Clem is. fighting less. They like to go long distances and _keep a fairly steady ‘pace. Banjo still likes to squeeze by those snowbanks and | guess | will never cure him of that! | have also improved. | am more confident on the runners; can balance the sled easier; and take corners better (with- out falling off!) | have got the handling of the brake down to an art, and | can harness up the dogs to the sleigh in a matter of minutes. It helps, of course, when your dogs love to pull and practically jump into their harnesses (ex- cept Banjo, who takes a bit of squeezing to get into his!) | will be leaving the North in another year to go out for University, and may never get another chance to spend a full winter in the North. However, | will always remem- ber my dog-sledding days as some of the best in my life. Travelling along a trail, deep in the trees with white mou- ntains on either side. and’breathing the cold, fresh air, is something like a fairytale come to life. | have lived: this fairytale to the fullest and it will always be a part of me. P.S. This is only a “‘Sheepdog” training “Manual”. “STUFF ‘NN’ SUCH --~ The Planet_Mars Mars is the fourth planet out from the sun. Known as the Red Planet, it is easily recognised in the sky. at night by its dull orange - red glow, It has been the subject of much SPECULATION in the world of astronomy. The MYST— ERIOUS canals seen on Mars have been thought to be man-made and also. its two moons Phobos and Diemos were believed by many of our finest astronomers and s PHYSICISTS to actually be space cities. Today, -with more SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT, THEORIES con- cerning the Red Planet are being tested and REVISED. Hopefully, in the near future we will know the truth about our neighbour, and whether or not we are as ‘alone’ as we have always thought! an ne : DON‘T FORGET TO LOOK UP ALL THE WORDS IN BOLD PRINT.