Page 4 ey 1981 Cassiar Courier — Weddings Ae Johnston - Kethler On April 4, 1981, at 6:00 p.m. Deborah Ann Johnston and Kenneth Kethler were married at the Cassiar Anglican Church by Revd. Bill Morrison. The Maid-of-honor was ‘Jan Sevin from Prince George and bridesmaids were the bride’s sisters, Katherine and Colleen Johnston. The best man was Carl duManoir and ushers were Phil Prophet from Stewart and Mike Franklin from Edmonton. The bride wore a princess styled white lace gown, a hair piece with yellow roses and carried a bouquet of yellow roses and white baby’s breath. At the neck of her wedding dress she wore her great-grandmother’s gold brooch with Joveknots and doves on it. The groom’s sisters, Mrs. Uher and Mrs. Colley, sang two songs. The reception was held at the Cassiar Lions Room, where . the Mistress of Ceremonies was Jan.Sevin of Prince George Telegrams of congratulations were read from relatives and friends and the groom’s sisters, Sheila and Frankie, sur- prised the newlyweds with another song. The bride sur- prised her two grandmothers, Mrs. Ann Stewart and Mrs. Betsy Sevin by presenting them each with a beautiful cor- sage. Out of town guests for the wedding were Mr. & Mrs. P. Sevin, Mrs. Katherine Crostie, Mr. & Mrs. George Uher and Mrs. Jim Colley, all of Vancouver, Mr. Robert Scott, Rishe Creek and Mrs. Marilyn Ackerman, Burnaby. Deb and Ken left for Vancouver and points south for their two-week honeymoon. Fitzhardinge - Mercer Kathleen Heather Fitzhardinge and Brian John Mercer were married in a civil ceremony on April 3, 1981. Mr. Frank Buckley officiated at Town Administration. A touch of spring was provided by bouquets of daffodils and tulips. Witnesses were Clare Christie and Al Beaton. The bridal couple were entertained following the cere- mony at Clare Christie’s and for dinner at Carmen and Jim Bondesen’s. Numerous friends joined them there for the evening. _ Kathy and Brian are building a cabin at Erickson, where Brian is presently working. Kathy is a regular substitute at AEST School. _ The Red = aad Reel FISHING AND HUNTING LICENSES AVAILABLE NEW STOCK OF FISHING TACKLE AND ACCESSORIES HAS ARRIVED ® NEW HOURS R MONDAY TO FRIDAY. NOON TO 3:00 P.M. § 6:00 TO 8:00 .P.M. 9 y SATURDAY NOON TO 4:00 P.M., ® SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS CLOSED “EVERYTHING FOR THE SPORTSMAN” ; ospital appenings The Easter Bunny stopped by at the hospital and left us a very nice Easter Tree covered with decorated eggs and ornaments. Many thanks to the ‘’Easter Bunny”. OUR WINNING TEAM Congratulations to the Hospital Snowshoe Baseball team. With a little help from some new recruits and a lot of help from the umpire, they were able to squeak through with a first place finish in the Schmoo days event. The hospital has recently received two donations of books and magazines. Your help in updating our limited selection is very much appreciated. Lee has returned from her vacation, where she spent two weeks in Manitoba with her sister and family. Wel- come back, Lee. i Again, thanks to our relief nursing staff for filling in on such short notice. The flu bug is making it’s second visit to the hospital staff. Also, thanks to Patsy for filling in as well. Always a welcome to have you back, Patsy. Congratulations to those of the nursing staff who at- tended and successfully completed the audiometric course which was recently held at the hospital. A goodbye tea was held at the hospital for Helen Reid, our laboratory technician. Helen, lan and family. have left Cassiar to take up residence in Houston, B.C. We wish you all the best for the future in your new home. AERA AA KKK RR KK RK EK Boy Scouts of Canada by Kurt Aregger With only two months to go to the summer holidays, | feel that it is time to take a good look at Cubs and Scouts. While the Cubs became very popular with a large number of boys enrolled, the Scouts have kept their numbers low as we felt that we could only handle a limited number of boys with our limited resources. The number of boys involved in the Scout troop is seven at the moment. Since October we had thirteen boys in- volved, five boys moved away and one left Scouts. The Cubs did much better and they grew from seven boys to over twenty now. However, their future is uncertain. The Cubmaster, Bob Teufel, will be leaving Cassiar soon and it is doubtful if one of the other leaders will be able to take over as Cubmaster. At this moment | would like to extend our thanks to Bob Teufel for all the effort and many hours he dedicated to the Cubs. We were very fortunate to have Bob as the Cub- - master and he'll be missed. The Cubs and Scouts thanks and good wishes go with you, Bob, and we wish you good luck at your new location. During the past few months the Scouts have been busy raising funds. We shovelled snow and we did coat checks. The boys have spent countless hours working and observ- ing while on the job. And one of the most negative occur- rences that came to their attention was the amount of pot smoking which is happening at every dance. Kids learn from adults. Seeing people smoking pot at a public dance and knowing that they get away with it without anybody raising a question leaves a very negative impression on the kids and. in many cases the kids will take this as an excuse and say: “‘What’s good for them is good for me’. As adults we are responsible for the upbringing of the chil- dren. After all, by the example we set we are molding the ‘young generation and we will be responsible for their fu- ture and for.their well being. Library News by Hilde Guderjahn Snow, rain and mud may be the signs of spring in our _town and green grass, plants and flowers only in our imag- ination or on the 6 o'clock news on television from Van- couver, but a sure way of admiring spring flowers is grow- ing them yourself. — | don’t have a green thumb and never gave a green- house a try or experimented with pots in the porch or basement. A lot of people would like to start some sort of garden and don’t know where to begin. Why not come to the library for advice and help by reading the books avail- able on the subject of gardening. Three books recommend- ed would be: THE GARDEN ANSWER by Robert J. Dingwell, who an- swers 1,600 questions and gives useful information about every phase of gardening. THE GREENHOUSE by Sidney Clapham, discusses how to best cultivate a wide variety of greenhouse plants, with a fully illustrated guide. BEAUTIFUL LEAVED PLANTS by Frances Perry. This book provides a practical, informative and attractive guide for house plants. DISS ZZ by Dan Davioson “7 PAPER STAYS PUT, A COLLECTION OF INUIT WRITING, edited by Robin Gedalof, drawings by Alook- took Ipellie, Hurtig, $12.95. “By ear we forget, but paper stays put,’’ said one Inuk when he was asked why he favoured the funding of community newspapers in the north. What better argu- ment could one make for education and literacy? That the Inuit agree can be seen.by the enthusiasm with which they took to writing when the missionaries introduced it to them. Writing was not part of the Inuit culture. The folk traditions were preserved in the oral fashion common to all the pre-literate cultures. It is an effective means of passing on history, but it seems to be one of the first _ things to be lost whenever these cultures are contaminated by industrial influences. Thus, writing became an essential tool in helping to preserve the Inuit heritage. Community newspapers and northern magazines pro- vided the people with the opportunity to hone their skills. Much of the material in this anthology is drawn from such " sources. That odd phrasing and tone that you hear is prob- ably the result of translation, since most of the material was Originally written in one of the Inuit dialects. The book contains many articles, stories, poems, and even a play. One of my favorite things is a short poem, packed with wry. good humor. It is brief enough to quote here. OUR ENEMY by Alexis Pameok Utatnaq Our enemy : They’re so many Our blood they spill They make us ill Help us, oh God From their piercing rod Our sworn foes Those mosquitos Gregory McDonald: FLETCH’S FORTUNE, Avon Books, 253 p., $1.95. | discovered Fletch just last year and immediately set out to get my hands on the entire series. | was disappointed to discover that it ran to only three books so far. McDon- ald has a deft, humorous touch, lending a dimension of fun to the classic detective story. Fletch is an ex-newspaperman who became very rich at the conclusion of his very first adventure. Since then he has returned to his first love: art criticism. He travels the world and writes only when he really wants to. In this case he is trapped by the C.1.A. and the |.R.S. into doing some undercover work for them at a journalists’ convention. The only problem is that his main target is murdered before he can even make the scene. So Fletch, being naturally curious and in possession of a marvellous machine for the bugging of hotel rooms, uses the tools at ; hand to a) solve a murder, b) get himself off the: hook a, with the six letters mentioned above anes c) solve ae se~ cond murder. Oh, didn’t | mention that one? That’s’Ail right: you can read all about it. One word of caution, ‘not related to the quality of the story: | find that. Avon ‘paperbacks have = the annoying habit of falling apart if- opéned too widely: | : had to glue this one back together:i in. “order: tO finish it. | wish Bey would fix that problem pen ey aes | | | | | Churhnes [ae Saints Angli ane ommunity Church REGULAR SCHEDULE Sunday 11:00 a.m. Family Worship SUMMER SCHEDULE BEGINS JUNE 7 Sunday 8:30 p.m. Evening Worship Ladies Group - 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:30 HOLY BAPTISM is administered only after care- ful preparation of the candidate, parents and'spon- Easter Day and All Saints Day (The first Sunday tify the Rector at least four weeks in advance of these dates. people only after careful preparation in the mean- be given. Rector: the Rev. Bill Morrison 169 Elliot St. 778-7239 Mission MASS Saturday Sunday Wednesday 7:15 p.m. 11:00 a.m. | 7:15 p.m. Catechism Tuesday 7:00 p.m. MASS Sunday Catechism QURORA arts centre The Arts and Crafts Centre: is now in full operation. We have a wide range of equipment and art supplies, from leather craft to weaving and pottery. The Centre is open to members every evening from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and all day Sunday. So come out and make use of the buil— ding and the equipment available. Prospective members and those interested are also invited to visit the Centre, our Executive will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Applications are now being accepted for an art exhibit to be held in May. Please submit your portfolio to Walter Comper at the Aurora Arts and Crafts Centre or call 778- 7261. Because of limited gallery space, artists are asked to limit their number of art-works to 15 pieces. Deadline for applications is May 22, 1981. It is time that the artists of Cassiar unite, so come out of your closet and show Your talent. Sunday School & Nursery | sors. It will normally be ‘administered only on | in November). Persons seeking baptism should no- | HOLY MATRIMONY is celebrated for church { ing of Christian marriage. Thirty days notice must | Our Lady of Lourdes | SERVICES AT GOOD HOPE LAKE | aA Cassiar Courier May 1981 Page 5 Overture Gorcerts _ GILL’S GRENLINS _ The last concert of the 1980—1981 season was performed by the Elmer Gill Duo, renowned jazz artist Elmer Gill on vibes and piano, and pianist Mike Creber. The program was made up mostly of compositions by jazz artists like Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Duke Ellington; and there. were jazz adaptations of music by Richard Rogers, which is hardly surprising, and by Bach and Mozart, which is! It was an evening of easy listening), alternating between vib- raphone—piano duets and piano solo wur.. oy both Gill and Creber. | thought that Creber’s performance of his own composition ‘Smooth Sailing’ was the best thing on the program. Creber was fascinating to watch, as he play- ed his accompaniments off Gill’s improvisations, and got almost literally wrapped up in the piano. Improvisational jazz has always fascinated me. The elabor- ate patterns that jazz performers can weave out of a sim- ple melody make this a form of pure music, created on the spot by the performers in their interaction between each other and with the audience. Gill gave us a demon- stration of the technique in a set of variations on ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star’, a melody simple enough that even someone as unfamiliar with jazz as | am was able to follow the tune through the variations. | can understand how one performer can improvise in this way — it’s a skill that good church organists have to acquire — but I’m always dumbfounded when | see and hear two or more people im- provising together. How they do it mystifies me; but the results can be electrifying. The audience, again, was small. Except for the Stringband, there hasn’t been a good turn—out for any of the concerts since Christmas. This has to worry the Concert Society as they look ahead to another subscription drive in the fall. Why such poor houses? Scheduling is probably the major factor. With only two ‘concerts’ before Christmas, one in by Bill Morrison January and one in February, and then , twice, two con- certs in one week, it was hard to establish a concert rout- ine. This has been largely beyond the Society's control; but perhaps we can hope, now that Frank Buckley is on the board of Overture Concerts, that this kind of problem can be eliminated. The performances themselves must have had something to” do with attendance, too. There was a full house for String- band, a popular folk group; the other performances, which were more ‘exotic’, featured relatively unknown pertormers, and in most cases bore that odious label ‘class- ical’, failed to draw people out. And, for the members of the Concert Society who are reading this to see if | noticed — THERE WERE NO ICE CUBES! But Cassiar people are nothing if not resourceful; and they. handled this hardship with true frontier spirit, improvising with the plastic cups alone, and managing, by dropping them on the floor, knocking them over, and let- ting them roll down the slope, to make it seem as though we hadn't been deprived of the rocks at all. Other concert halls don’t allow drinks in the auditorium. Why do we have to have it here? Most of us, it seems, are better at criticizing than we are at commending. From time to time in this column I’ve been critical of various things; but | want to end this series of articles on a positive note. The members of the Concert Society work hard throughout the year’ to bring us the fine entertainment we have enjoyed. They entertain the visiting artists, staff the bar, make intermission snacks; and then they put on the fund-raising events like the auct- ion and the pub night that help finance the concerts — to “say nothing of the annual thankless task of pushing sub- . scriptions. For the concerts, and for all that the Concert Society does, we are grateful. Thanks to you all. Keep up the good work. 5 ~ CONCERT SOCIETY REPORT The second season of the Cassiar Concert Society has now come to a close and with it the need to inform the public ofa few facts concerning the Society. In its first year the Concert Society spent approximately $21,000 on theatre improvements. Even though we had a very successful fund raising year the balance owing at the end of the season was still in excess of $9,000. This debt had to be cleared before we could start any further im- provements. In the fall of last year, two very successful fund-raising events were held However, since the start of the year, a general apathy seems to be in evidence and our fund-raising efforts have been fruitless. The second season promised to be even better than the first. Eight concerts were booked at a total cost of $16,260. The memberships and the Government Grant came to $14,400. This means that the balance of $1,860 was paid by the Concert Society. This brought the total outlay to approximately $11,000. It is unfortunate that we did not raise enough to complete the improvements. After all outstanding bills have been paid the Society - the auction/bazaar and Klondike Nite. - will have approximately $4,000: towards these improve- ments. However, with the high interest rates and difficult- ies encountered with this years fund-raising it was felt that it would be unwise to proceed with the improvements un- til we have enough money to cover the costs. The apathy seemed to carry over to the concerts and at- tendance was considerably less this year in spite of the fact that we sold more memberships. Maybe eight con- certs are too many - or maybe they are not the type of ‘concerts the public wishes to see. The executive does not know what the problem is as they don’t receive much feedback. In order to see if we can improve matters a general meet- ing of the Concert Society will be held at the theatre on Wednesday, May 20 at 8.00 p.m. If you have any suggest- ions Or concerns about the Concert Society PLEASE come out and voice your opinion. We can only give the public what it wants if we are made aware of what that is. The lack of attendance at the concerts does show adefin- _ ate need for some changes. Hopefully the meeting will — determine what those changes should be. The meeting is open to all interested members of the community. A complete schedule of courses will be offered starting May 1, 1981. Please watch for posters as to the type of courses offered and times or call the Centre for more in- formation at 778-7261, Also, anyone interested in teach- ing courses or doing volunteer work on the building is more than welcome. - Membership is $50.00 per person for a 12 month period. Mere Travel Service Lid 164 ELLIOT STREET CASSIAR 778:7220 ian ( Trailer next to Curling Rink ) = DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL = BUDGET CHARTERS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SUMMER TRAVEL WE LOOK AFTER HOTEL RESERVATIONS AND CAR RENTALS WE ARE UNDERWRITERS FOR VOYAGEUR AND.M.S.A. TRAVEL INSURANCE WE HAVE A TELEX FOR GREATEREFFICIENCY NOTICE WATCH FOR "WINE AND CHEESE , OPEN HOUSE coming up at _ MARVEL TRAVEL SERVICE LTD. peek ggasi TO CELEBRATE THE MOVE TO NEW PREMISES NEW HOURS: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS, 9:30 ‘@:m! ‘to 1:00 p.m. SATURDAYS ( OPEN DURING LUNCH HOURS ) CLOSED°ALL-DAY SUNDAY ~