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Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy today
announced that her ministry will be extending the Christ-
mas Supplementary Allowance to three additional client
groups: those receiving GAIN for Handicappped benefits,
couples aged 60 to 64 years, and residents of institutions
and care facilities who qualify for Comforts Allowance
payments from the Ministry of Human Resources.

The Ministry of Human Resources pays a Christmas
bonus of $20.00 for an individual or $50.00 for a family
at the beginning of December each year. The supplement-
ary payment formerly went to individuals and families
receiving basic income assistance.

“For many years my ministry has provided this add-
tional payment in December to help recipients of income
assistance with the extra costs associated with the Christ-
mas season. I am pleased to announce that we are now
extending this Christmas bonus to other client groups that
did not previously receive it.

“In addition, we are for the first time paying a Christ-
mas Supplementary Allowance to the residents of Glen-
dale and Woodlands and to residents under 65 in extended
care and long term care facilities who qualify for assis-
tance from the Ministry of Human Resources. This al-
lowance will provide additional help at Christmas time to
these other client groups so they may enjoy those little
extras that make for a happy holiday season.” Mrs.
McCarthy said. (

An estimated 23,000 additional individuals or famil-
ies will receive the Christmas Supplementary payment this
year, at a cost to the ministry of about $600,000.
KIDS!! KIDS!!

KIDS!! KIDS!!

CONTEST!! CONTEST!! CONTEST!!

The Cassiar Courier is sponsoring a children’s
Christmas writing contest and all children in Grades |
through 7 are invited to participate.

There will be two categories: grades 1 - 4 and 5 - 7.
Topics are: What Christmas Means to Me; Santa’s Long
Journey; and Christmas in Other Lands. Entries may

be either short stories or poems. _

All entries should be neatly written or printed.
Don’t forget to include your name and grade. Please
deliver to the Cassiar Courier, Box 100, Cassiar, B.C.,
VOC 1E0 by November 15,1985.

The winning entries will be published in the Dec-
ember issue of the Courier and there will be prizes for
the winners.

We’re looking forward to lots of entries - so come
on, kids! Have funvand let us know how you feel about
Christmas!

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The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation presents
two tax-free cash prizes annually to Canadians to recog-
nize and encourage innovative technical discoveries. This
year the $75,000 Principal Award went to Jean-Marc La-
lancette, a consulting chemist and president of Inotel
Inc. of Sherbrooke, Quebec. He developed a chemical
treatment for asbestos that makes it safe for workers and
consumers to handle. This will almost certainly give the
asbestos industry a new lease on life. Lalancette feels that
technically asbestos is much superior than its substitutes
and that there is a real future in asbestos.

The $25,000 Award of Merit was awarded to Hans Kiv-
isild, a Calgary engineer and vice-president of Lavalin Off-
‘shore Inc., for his discovery of a method of creating ice 1s-

lands in the Artic strong enough to support heavy oil rigs.
Prospectors’ Licences Lifted

For the first time in B.C.’s long and colorful mining
history, the province has lifted the licences of three
‘naper-staking’ prospectors -- prospectors who file claims

- without setting up the necessary posts or blazing boundar- .

ies, as required by law. ‘Paper stakers are the bane of the
industry. They tie up land illegally for purely speculative
motives...,"". said Mines. Minister Stephen Rogers. In

‘the past, the ministry merely cancelled paper claims.

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“Cave the Stikine” effort still underway

After 8 days of meetings, August 3] through Sept-
ember 8, from the high alpine meadows of the Stein
where 500 people gathered, to the conference halls of
the Banff Centre, conservationists, native people,
politicians, government workers and concerned citizens

_ from across Canada agreed that the Stikine is one of the
two most important major wilderness areas needing
protection today.

“It is an entire watershed, 400 miles long, that can
be preserved in its natural free-flowing state,” said Lynne
Thunderstorm, from Telegraph Creek, a Director of
Residents For A Free-Flowing Stikine (RFFFS). “We’re
the last generation to be able to do this. It would be a
fitting gesture during this centennial year to show the
world that Canada really cares.”

Concern focused on the three major threats the
pristine watershed now faces - the Klappan coal project
in the headwaters, B.C. Hydro’s dam megaproject in the
Grand Canyon of the Stikine, and clear cut logging on
the lower river.

“It could be called Canada’s Serengeti,” said Peter
Rowlands of Vancouver - based Friends of the Stikine.
“Instead, an open pit anthracite mine is in the works,
a 3000 person townsite is forecast, and, as usual, the
cariboo, the stone sheep, the grizzly sears and the
headwaters of the mighty Stikine will be sacrificed for a
few very costly - to - create jobs, all subsidized by the
taxpayer.”

The 60 mile long Grand Canyon of the Stikine,
unsurpassed in all of Canada and home to a healthy pop-
ulation of mountain goats, will be lost if B.C. Hydro
gets the go ahead to build its dams. ‘“We’re worried,”
said Thunderstorm, “‘because now that Bennett has sold
all of the Revelstoke power to the U.S., he’s planning
to build. the Peace dam. And the Stikine comes next.
What people don’t realize is that this project will cost
ten times what Revelstoke did. We stand to lose some -
thing priceless.” =

The third danger facing the great river is the clearcut

logging on the lower Stikine. “John Muir called this part
of the river ‘a Yosemite 100 miles long’ ”, said Grant
Copeland from the Valhalla Wilderness Society. “The
Stikine deserves better treatment than shaving of its
forest cover and shipping the logs, whole, to China.”
“We see the logging as the precedent-setting wedge
that could rip this watershed wide open,” said Thunder-
storm. ““They are not going to plant any trees, and they
are leaving a mess and damaging the salmon fishery.”

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The Resolution drawn up by the B.C. Caucus and
passed at the Canadian Assembly drew a standing ovation.
It reads:

“Be it resolved by this Assembly that the Stikine

National Park Reserve be established along the entire

Canadian portion of the Stikine River from the north

and south boundaries of the U.S. Stikine - le Conte

Wilderness Area at the U.S. border to the headwaters

of the Stikine, Little Klappan and Spatsizi Rivers.

Be it also resolved that the establishment of a

Stikine National Park Reserve be subject to the resol-
ution of the land claim of the Tahtan Tribal Council,
that the traditional activities of native hunting,
trapping and fishing be allowed to continue, and that
the Tahltan people be fully involved in the planning
and management of the national park.”

“We're asking for such a small area of land,” said
Copeland. “If all the park proposals in B.C. were accept-
ed, it would only add up to another one percent. That
leaves over 90% of the rest of the province for resources
extraction.”

The Canadian has already recognized two National
Areas of Canadian Significance (NACS) and one National
Site of Canadian Significance (NSCS), yet these important
designations offer no protection. Boundaries can be shif-
ted by whims of the province to accommodate industry’s
desires. The U.S. portion of the river is protected as the
Stikine le Conte Wilderness Area.

“All we’re trying to do is pull the whole thing to-
gether under one name - the Stikine National Park
Reserve,” said Thunderstorm. “We see it as a holding
operation, as a vehicle for halting destruction now, before
there is nothing left. It could be the first major inter-
national river protected from headwaters to estuary.
There’s no place left in the world that has-as much to
offer as the Stikine does.”

The proposals were met with enthusiasm at all the
forums. In the Stein, under cold starry. skies, people
chanted, “We will save the Stikine.” And at the Canadian
Assemble in Banff, people marked their approval with
load and long applause.

“The new Minister of Environment, Tom McMillan,
knows the issues new,” said Thunderstorm. ‘‘So does his
staff. They know where the Stikine is and what are the
threats. The next step is to educate the public and all
the rest of the political world. We feel pretty darned

hopeful.”

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