Page 4 Cassiar Courier January 1984 Py “George Holman THIRTY SEVEN NORTH Skilled operators work throughout the long winter in some very adverse weather conditions keeping Highway Thirty-seven North open, Snowplowing and sanding operations require skill and care. As the snow funnels off the plow the operator must be alert as visibility is poor from the flying snow. The hid- den shoulder of the road can cause the snowplow to be pulled into the ditch if the plow shoe hooks over the edge. Plowing shoulders give one the feeling of walking a tight rope. The snow condition such as depth, texture, weight and temperature all govern the type of application the op- erator will use to move it off the highway surface. Driving snow, whiteouts and glare all add to the operators eye strain and discomfort as he keeps watch on the plow and traffic. The snow plows are only a few inches narrower than the bailey bridges that the operator must carefully maneuver across. Snowplowing causes icing problems on the equipment and braking can sometimes become treacherous. Sanding operations require skill in the right applica- tion in the proper places, with temperature and winds playing a big part in the sand application working. ry YY YYYYV Yi iii ry B.C. PHOTOS FOR ALL YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGEMENTS CUSTOM FRAMING OR PHOTOS, PRINTS OR OILS METAL OR WOODEN FRAMES MOUNTING BOARD, MAT BOARDS, NON GLARE GLASS BILL & CECILE PRATT 297 Carmacks St. Phone 778-7568 IF WERE HOME, WE'RE OPEN NEW GO 00 0000000000 S 09 6OOOOOOOOOOH ©0000 00 000000000000 08 00000008 Both snowplowing and sanding operations require a lot of care in traffic as the plows and other attachments protrude out beyond the normal length and width of the vehicles they are mounted on. Plows may catch on uneven or frozen ground causing the truck to swerve. Sanding, the operator must be ever alert for traffic so as to not spray the vehicle with sand and salt. The biggest hindrance to snowplowing and sanding Operations are vehicles that are left parked on the high- way. Motorists are asked to please park off the highway during winter snowplow and sanding operations. Steaming out frozen culverts is another winter opera- tion that is carried out to prevent the build up of glaciers on the highways. Motorists should exercise caution and travel slow when passing a steamer crew in operation. Watch for water and ice on the road in these areas and of course workers and equipment. There is a lot of maintenance on equipment as the cold. temperatures and fatigue on the equipment pounding on the frozen surface wears and breaks snowplow blades and shoes. This added to the general maintenance of the vehicles keeps the crews busy. Motorists are asked to exercise caution when meeting and overtaking winter maintenance equipment while en- gaged in the operation of keeping THIRTY-SEVEN NORTH open. Thank you from the crews for your co-operation. DRIVE DEFENSIVELY AND BUCKLE UP ere UA Moccassin. Telegraph... HEE Rocky arrived at the camp during the full moon. He reported hearing strange sounds coming from the bunkhouse. No one is sure what made these sounds, but a good guess Rocky claims could be that known to him as the Kelowna Coyote Yodel. *** Nice job the boys did cleaning off a skating area on Good Hope Lake. Big enough for an N.H.L, game. Look out Hockey Night in Canada. *** Cold weather causes a lot of folks around here to move into smaller quarters, right, Stuart? *** Pam and Mark find the Love Boat just doesn’t hold enough heat so have taken up temporary residence in camp. *** Wonder if Rocky went down to work at the Bob Quinn Lake Camp to beat the cold weather. *** It was tough going but Santa made his rounds at Good Hope Lake. *** Bob told us it was so cold in-his cabin the other morning, when he woke up he found a lump in bed with him. When he carried it over to the heat of the stove, it went ‘‘POOF”. HH Did you hear about the lonely Mountie who got cabin fever? He kept trying to feed ALPO to his skidoo and kick start his dog team. orn to: Mike and Carol Danielson are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Joseph Wayne. Born November 16, 1983 at Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace, 8 Ibs. Mike, Carol and little Joseph have moved into their new home at the highway camp, Good Hope Lake, where Mike is employed as a machine operator. NOTICE Persons cutting firewood along the highways right of way, please clean up your tops and branches when finished. Thank You. TOWN COUNCIL SAFETY RECORD IN B.C. MINING ee TUG ae a elie a Pekar ete CaSSUd BS Special plaque marking safety achievement of Cassiar workforce is presented to Peter Jones, general manager of Cassiar, (left), by Tex Enemark, president of The Mining Association of British Columbia. On July 31, 1983, the employees of Cassiar mine reached a new milestone in B.C. mining — one million man-hours worked without a single time-loss injury. The last reported compensable injury was May 25, 1982. As of mid-November, that record had been extended to 1,312,471 man-hours of work without a single day lost through accidents on the job. The Mining Association of British Columbia struck a special plaque to honor the achievement of the Cassiar workforce. Peter Jones, general manager of Cassiar, said all employees are to be congratulated on their successful effort to make the mine a safer place to work. Cassiar is a division of Brinco Mining Limited and produces asbestos at its CO auaS in northwestern British Columbia. BRINCO MINING LIMITED (Cassiar Division) There seems to be a lull right now—have the ‘Christmas Doldrums’ hit us? Anyhow~—as dull as our meetings can be—| would like to liven things up by asking for:— 1. our sidewalks ‘chairman’ has found the task too demanding of him so he left for Port Hardy. He says the sidewalks are washed from the heavens most of the year there. (Believe me Hans you'll miss the —40 Degree weather after awhile). We want public input for sidewalk ren- ovations for 1984. | know you can’t really re- member where they are—but think hard—NOW is when we need the recommendations—not in May when it is too late to ask for bids and get the job done before the frost is back! 2. We have an opening on Town Council for an- other councillor—at the last elections there didn't need to be a vote—because there were only the required number of people willing to run. Is this a sign of apathy—or is it a sign of your un- happiness with the present members of Town Council? I'll bet that 75% of the Town don’t even know what sort of decisions the Council makes. I'll also bet that 75% of the remainder have lots of ‘beefs’ but never make them known. What | personally would like to see is a representative from the ‘Bunkhouses’ present themselves for Town Council seeing as how they are part. ot ‘Our Town’. At our most re- cent meeting, prior to Courier publishing time we had only two imputs from the townspeople —a) was the congregation of dogs in the elemen- tary. school area just before school starts, ie. 9 a.m. and after lunch at 1 p.m. Seems the friendly critters like to follow their ‘brother, or sister’ to*school. (Can’t blame them—they’re trained to look over them)—but when they get in the yard there is lo and behold—a heaven-- sent number of children to protect—from ‘everyone elses dog.’ Let me put it in perspect- tive—the dog does what is natural—defends its family and territory—the problem is—when they all get together in a confined yard and it is filled with all kinds of kids that need protecting —they start fighting amongst themselves—this leads to injury to dogs—but more serious— people! As a civilized race we cannot put up with this—so they must be destroyed. This is the biggest crime of all—destroy a dog—because the owner doesn’t understand it. BE WARNED —the school yards are being patrolled and if your dog is in a people-oriented fight—it’s too bad—the dog suffers for your lack of responsi- bility. As a personal note: it is remarkable how people can spend so much money on a vehicle and give it so much love and care—and pound for pound pay more for a dog and/or cat and don’t Partic- ‘ularly (other than shots and breeding) give a good ‘GULP’ as to where it goes or what it does at certain times of the day. As many people have said for many, many years—look at a dog for awhile and you will see the personality of the owner. b) kids walking down the middle of Maloze- moff. My first reaction is—they‘re less than the dogs in item (a). They know better—they’re covered by B.C. Medical—they‘re not protecting anyone but their own senslessness. So what is the answer? Brinco has forewarned them about road clearing—so they only look for graders and loaders. (1 once saw the snow from an eight foot wide snow blower turn red then pink— then us kids running in front of it found out it was only two dogs—so we happily continued running in front of it). Maybe this is the answer to the dog problem? Anyway—Town Council, School Teachers or no one has any responsibil- ity over the kids as they walk home. If you care about your kids—teach them roads are for ve- hicles. I’d hate to read about “‘Ex Cassiar 10 Year Old Walks Down Middle Of Kingsway— Dead On Arrival—Parents Say She Used To Do my It In Cassiar’’! Please pass on all your comments to Cassiar Town Council c/o Town Administraion. By Dave Brocklebank COMMUNITY CLUB NEWS | Happy New Year Come January the Recreation Department is gearing up for the busy months ahead. Northern B.C. Winter Games is just around the corn- er. This is a reminder for all the athletes to check with the Rec. Co-ordinator for details of the games. Also if you have not handed in your registration form together with the $50 deposit, you are not guaranteed a place for the trip. Since the Games will be held during the first week of February all athletes should check their registrations as soon as possible. The Cassiar Community Club is calling an organiza- tional meeting for Schmoo Daze ‘84. The success of the winter carnival depends on your participation to help with organizing and planning of the events. The meeting will be held at the Arena Lounge on Monday, January 9th, at 7:00 p.m. The Cassiar Senior Hockey Association will be host- ing an old timers tournament on January 28, 29, and 30 in Cassiar. For more details; please watch for the C.C.C. * Newsletter. The squash league will be restarting the week of Janu- ary 23. Check with Dick Chambers on your standings and which league you will be playing in in January. Also a squash tournament is being planned for all calibre players. It will be divided into different categories. The tourna- ment will be the weekend of January 13, 14 and 15. lf you are interested please contact the Rec. Centre. The ladies morning keep fit class will resume on Mon- day January 2nd. The Rec Centre and Arena programs will also resume the week starting January 2nd. Mah a a PERSONAL LIFESTYLE SEMINAR By Bubs Crossley A longtime project of John Wong’s was launched during _ the fall when he presented a five week seminar on Person- al Lifestyle. Almost three years was spent organizing the seminar and finding the qualified personnel willing to lecture on five subjects in “‘Personal Lifestyle” - namely Alcohol, Obesity and Nutrition, Physical Fitness, Sports Injury and Stress Management. From the time this idea was formed in John’s mind to the time it was launched this fall he sought the voluntary assistance from a number of well informed people within our community. Our thanks to Tony de la Mare, Denys Tavener, Paul Sevier, Dick Chambers, Glen Whittington, Owen Corcoran, Peter Snell, Sue Omura and Jan Dale for the considerable time and effort spent to prepare their lectures. Each lecture was interesting and informative, usually supplememted by a film and allowing plenty of time for a question and answer period. Those people who chose not to attend missed a well organized seminar from which we gained valuable knowledge on many different aspects of our daily lifestyle. Again thanks to the teachers, the staff of the Community Club and Hospital and to Owen and Dick for their enthus- iastic participation. Where would our community be with out this group of willing workers? ines Hours: Sunday 2-4and6-8 Monday 6-8 Tuesday 1-4 Wednesday 6-8 _ Thursday 1-4 Friday 6-8 Travelling to warmer climes this winter? The Li- brary has several tourist guides and travel books on Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Am- erica, and Hawaii. Evin Macdonald’s RAINBOW CHASERS is a fas- cinating adventure story. It is the biography of his Father, who grew up in the Ottawa Valley in the latter years of the nineteenth century, and came west to find his fortune, chasing various rainbows that took him to Colorado, Washington, Alberta, and the Caribou. Reading this book will make you think that perhaps we should not think about ‘tall tales’ but ‘tall men’ of immense physical stamina and spiritual strength. Highly recom- mended. All Saints Anglican Community Church January 1] THE NAME OF JESUS ’ 11:00 a.m. Family Eucharist THE EPIPHANY 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist January 4 January 8 THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD 11:00 a.m. Baptism Festival Sunday School January I5 EPIPHANY 2 11:00.a.m. Family Eucharist Sunday School January 22 EPIPHANY 3 11:00 a.m. Family Service Sunday School January 29 EPIPHANY 4 11:00 a.m. Family Eucharist Annual Congregational Meeting Sunday School On December 3 the Church was once again the setting for the annual Ladies’ Christmas Tea. The large number of women who attended enjoyed the festive evening and the carol singing led by Lil Kamlah at the organ. Marian Craft gave an ad- dress, speaking about ‘Gifts’. The special program for the four Sundays of Ad- - vent included a series of plays connected with the lighting of the candles on the Advent Wreath. Taking part in these performances were the mem- bers of the Junior Choir: Stephanie Price, Kelly Huber, Pamela King, Sian Jones, Tracey Walker and Lisa Lanphear; and Normand, Kelly and Hol- ly Rivet. - > ©» © © © @~ © © © © oo Our Lady of Lourdes Shission — January 8 FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist January 15, 22, 29th SUNDAYS IN ORDINARY TIME - Saturday at 7:15 p.m. _ Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Good Hope Lake at 5:00 m. Mass during the week, Monday to day at 11:00 a.m. In 1984, our Church celebrates the 25th anniver- sary of the blessing of its building. This will be held on February 2nd to the Sth, with our Bishop Hubert O'Connor, O.M.I. He will also administer the sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday the 4th. The parish was started in 1953 by Father Henk Huyeers, O.M.I., who is now at Elsa, Mayo. The present church was built in 1959 while Father Pierre Poullet, O.M.I. was pastor. He is now in Fort Nelson. He was followed by Father Sean McAllister, O.M.1., from 1967 to. 1975. All these priests belong to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a religious missionary order, whose members have worked in this part of the North since 1900.. PORTRAITS, PASSPORT PICTURES MORTIFEE MUNSHAW DEALER FOR COLOR & ENLARGEMENTS, FILMS, CAMERAS & ACCESSORIES FOR SALE, CAMERA REPAIRS, WEDDINGS & SPECIAL EVENTS, B.& W DARKROOM FINISHING 715 Malozemoff 778-7345 January 1984 Cassiar Counter Page 5 Parent dvisory The Provincial exams are an ongoing concern to the Secondary School and correspondence is continuing with the Ministry of Education on this matter. There has been some concern about the elec- trical hookup. to Snowridge. Although the hook- up meets building and electrical standards it has been felt that it may not be childproof to anyone climbing to the roof} This condition is being dis- cussed by the School Board and another arrange- ment will be made. The dog catcher has been at the school during lunch periods and before school attempting to re- solve the canine problem. Brinco Resources are.very aware of the prob- lem of children getting to and from school while snow removal equipment is in operation. Path- ways through the windrows will facilitate in this problem. The Safety Department Personnel were able to show some of the heavy equipment to the younger children. No reflective tape for clothing has been sold to date. The School Board is aware of the lack of play- ground area and activities afforded the children at Snowridge and the potential hazards of the steep bank at the side of the school. It is to be hoped that funding is available for improved conditions next summer or the swings etc. will be moved from the Secondary School area. Next meeting January | 1th. By Mary Elhorn LIONS CLUB NEWS By Dave Brocklebank Unfortunately, at press time the picture of the $4000 Skidoo Package Winner — Jim Hardy — was not back from the Photo Company. He was not at the draw (Fireman’s Ball) but had his picture taken the next morning while the Riot Police held back the 249 unhappy “‘no’’ winners. Such is life! For all those beer mug collectors who missed “1983” Oktoberfest beer mugs — to complete your collection — and because it is our 20th year of service to Cassiar, we have ordered a very limited number of crystal beer steins with etched glass logo (dishwasher safe) —’’Cassiar Lions- 1963 — 1983”. Place your order with any Lions member. The cost is not yet know, but it will be in the $8 — $10 — range. They are crystal and a 20 year souvenir. _ We ‘all Know that the frigid weather will go away to who knows where. We all know the Annual Wind-Up Bon- spiel will evolve (wear flippers, if it’s early spring). We all know Schmoo Daze will grace our calendar. Within this - gentle structure there will be the Cassiar Lions Monte Carlo Nite, with the corresponding children’s day — dates - as yet unknown. We have come up with some new ideas to ‘freshen’ up Las Vegas North, but if you, the public, have any suggestions, please feel free to let us know. The Lions sponsored basketball league (minor) is going strong and with the level of competition it looks like these teams could be ‘watered’ down to provide the nucleus of a good spring league. WE SUPPORT CASSIAR — CASSIAR SUPPORTS US > : RW Services HOURS —EFFECTIVE NOV. 1, 1983 9:00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. Mon. to Sat ( 10:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. Sundays i Les Prosser & Rita Wylie ESSO DEALERS Cassiar, B.C. Ph. 778-7383 Ge Gir <>