Page 4 June 1982 Cassiar Courier

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN — THE ROCK IS
SUPPOSED TO BE HERE?

The Annual Lions Bonspiel held recently proved
to be a real success (if sore heads, lips and bodies
mean anything).

Winners of the ‘A’ Event were Skip Norm Cosnett
Third Lee Coran, Second Brian Beaudry and a
mystery player yet to be named. Winners of the
‘B’ Event were Skip John Colak, Third Ed Duffy,
Second Marg Whalen and Lead Derek Walker.

In a challenge event Lioness versus the Lions, a
valiant attempt by the Lioness proved futile. Af-
ter four ends it was quite evident that the Lions
were much better at moving rocks with their feet
and brooms than the Lioness. The winners of the
challenge wish to thank the Lioness for the wine
donation at the end of the game.

For all those interested in the new line of foot-
wear for curlers, Lion Lothar Kutz has them in
stock — 100% nylon, 5 toes indentation, now
known as “‘Kutzies Tootsies’”’.

The Lions Club wishes to extend its sympathy to
the ice in the Curling Club, for it suffered quite a
beating during this bonspiel. Right, Lothar?

Lion President Richard Rudkowski made an ef-
fort and a half, considering his handicap during
the whole thing. Well done, boys! It shows that
sweeping at home is good practice for when one
gets on the ice, right Derek? Talking to some of
the wives they were quite pleased with their
houses being swept clean as members practiced at
home prior to the Bonspiel.

The Weinie King again made his appearance — this
time with hamburgers — is there no end to his
skills? When is his great grandmother's secret re-
cipe going to be published?

by Ted Krawczyk

I WISH I HAD A BLUE BROOM INSTEAD OF THIS
SILLY RED ONE!

The Lions Club wishes to thank all participants in
this Bonspiel and we hope that next yearit will
again be a great success.

ARE YOU SURE IT’S OURS?

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nglican Church News

Cassiar Courier June 1982 Page 5

by Rev‘d Bill Morrison, Rector

Bishop Ferris visits Cassiar -

Bishop Ron Ferris visited Cassiar on the week-
end of May & - 9. He conducted a workshop on
Saturday afternoon, and presided at the Sunday
morning service.

Four young people made their profession of
faith at the Sunday liturgy. Jackie Brand and
Alexia Jones were baptized and received the
laying-on-of-hands; Pamela King and Tracey Walk-
er, who had been baptized previously, renewed
their baptismal vows and were confirmed. All
four then made their first communion.

Bishop Ferris was able to bring his wife Jan
and their five children with him. It was their first
visit to Cassiar, and the first opportunity most of
us had to meet them.

Richard Barnes, organist at Christ Church
Cathedral, Whitehorse, his wife Doris, and Linda
Kelly, diocesan secretary-treasurer, were also here
for the weekend. Linda, Richard and Jan Ferris
are members of ‘Credo’, a folk-music group at the
Cathedral. They combined forces with organist

~ Lil Kamlah and the All Saints choir to lead the:

singing at the Sunday service.

In honor of the occasion, rector Bill Morrison
held an Open House at the Rectory on Saturday
evening.

Ron Ferris was elected Bishop of Yukon in
the fall of 1980. He is chief pastor of the Diocese,
which includes, in addition to the Yukon Ter-
ritory, the northern quarter of British Columbia,
Tungsten, N.W.T., and Eagle, Alaska. The diocese
has twelve mission parishes with congregations
in 33 communities stretching from Old Crow in
the north to Fort Nelson and Telegraph Creek in
the south. Bishop Ferris has been taking flying
lessons, and hopes soon to be able to minister to
his vast diocese by plane.

After the Sunday service Bishop Ferris and
Bill Morrison drove in to Telegraph Creek. The

__ Bishop spent Monday visiting in the parish with
| rector Jim Speer; and they attended the village
|; supper held to honour Emma Brown on her
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Beginning June 6th, our summer service
schedule takes effect. This year we intend to con-
tinue the 11 o’clock service throughout the sum-

mer; and have, in addition, an 8:30 p.m. service

during the months of June and August. The 11
o'clock service will be geared especially for fam-

. 3 ilies with small children. The evening service will
™ be eucharistic liturgy each week.

ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH

Rector — Rev’d Bill Morrison
SUNDAY SERVICES
JUNE 1982

June6—27 11:00 a.m. Family Service
8:30.p.m. Holy Eucharist

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Camping, camping, camping! seems to be the
thought on a lot of people’s minds — especially
the Brownies. The seven oldest Brownies went
on an overnight camping trip on May 15 and 16
— a first for some of the girls. After preparing
menus, planning activities, making sit-upons,
learning simple first aid and campfire safety - we
were ready to go. The seven youngest Brownies
will experience the same type of weekend on
June 5 and 6.

Other than camping, Brownies and Guides have
been very busy selling Girl Guide cookies, but
because of the amount sent to us from our head-
quarters, there are still cookies left —if you wish
to buy some Girl Guide cookies at $1.25 a box,
please give me a call at 778-7309. For those who
have supported Brownies by buying cookies —
thank you very much!

The Brownie year is quickly coming to an end
with many girls working on nature badges that
are not possible during Cassiar’s winter months.
This year the Mother and Daughter wind-up ban-
quet will be on Sunday, June 13, when Pamela

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Krawezyk, Cassandra Sutherland and Emma
Crawford will walk up to join the Guide Com-
pany. The last regular Brownie meeting will be
on Wednesday previous to the wind-up banquet -
June 9.

had our first ever hike. The week before, we had
spent quite a bit of time discussing the proper
clothing to wear and how to care for yourself
when on a hike. So we had a chance to put it all
together the following week. We had a lot of fun
making our way through the snow which was pret-
ty soft in some places. Later on, we were glad of
the heat from a small fire we built. Some of the
girls attempted to roast apples, oranges and ban-
anas, and we all sang a medley of campfire songs.
Then it was time to head home once again, all
agreeing that we must do much more of this type
of thing. For an outing such as this, another adult
was necessary to abide by the Hiking Rules of
Canada and we were very happy to have Mrs.
Froelich accompany us that evening.

We had a visit from Irene LaPrairie, who was a
student teacher at the school. She is a Pathfinder
Leader in Sydney and was able to give us first
hand information on one of the World Centres of
Guiding - Our Cabana, Mexico. Irene had been for-
tunate enough to be chosen to visit Our Cabana
and was able to tell all the Guides just what it was
like being there and meeting other leaders from
all around the world.

Vicki, Shaleena, Celenka, Cheryl, Ellen, Kate
and Tracy earned their Cook’s Badges after four
weeks spent meeting the requirements of such a
badge. Also. Nicole, Vicki, Ellen and Shaleena
were presented with their Snowshoeing Badges.
Congratulations to all these girls for their efforts
having paid off.

One Saturday recently was spent selling Girl
Guide Cookies around town with the Brownies.
The response was very good, but as we ordered
twice as many boxes as last year, we will be re-
peating this towards the beginning of June.

The girls were pleased to hear that they had
saved a total of 629 pennies with their Thinking
Day displays which now go to the Canadian
World Friendship Fund.

We will be continuing to do as much as we
can from the outdoor section of our program over
the remaining weeks of this Guide year.

by Bill Morrison
Daniel Peters. The Luck of Huemac,Random House, 1981

This is a massive novel, 650 closely-printed pages,
running to better than 400,000 words. It is also massively
researched. Daniel Peters immerses us in the fifteenth-cen-
tury world of the Aztecs, the Mexican city-states that dot-
ted the shores of the great salt lake Texcoco whose waters
covered the area that is now metropolitan Mexico City.

Peters begins his story in 1428, just as the Aztecs are -

approaching the zenith of their power. It ends in 1521,
when Cortez and his Conquistadores subdue the island
city of Tenochtitlan.

The story centres around Quinatzin, son-in-law of the
great king Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco and advisor to the
kings of Tenochtitlan; and his son Huemac, born during
the unluckiest days of the Aztec calendar but destined to
be a master ball-player, sorcerer, and advisor-adversary of
the last of the kings of Tenochtitlan, the megalomaniac
Moteczuma. We follow Huemac from his birth, through
his years of training in the temple schools and in the hill-
country. of the Chichimeca where he becomes an adept at
the ancient psychic arts of the people; on to the military
academy where he is trained in the art of war, to which
his people are viciously addicted; then to the battlefields;
and finally into the corridors of power as he follows his
father into the intrigues and'insanities of the Aztec court.
Huemac develops a second career alongside this first one:
he becomes one of the greatest — perhaps the greatest —
player of tlachtli, which appears to be a precursor of
squash, except that the players use their bodies as rac-
quets.

In unravelling the lives of his fictional characters, and
having them move in and out amongst historical person-
ages, Peters recreates in massive detail every facet of the
strange life of these Aztecs. The home life, the food and
agriculture, the urban planning, the educational system,

social structures, and the public and private rituals of the
worship of the Aztec pantheon, with the sun-god at the
centre — all these emerge from Peters’ pages with a vivid-
ness and clarity that convince us we are there seeing all
these things.

It is a picture full of color, from the sun-drenched
landscape of Lake Texcoco lying beneath the mountains,
to the exotic feathers and precious stones of the warriors’
uniforms. But the dominant color is red — the red of the
sun, the red of the blood of the warrior captives sacrificed
to nourish the sun god in his ongoing battle against the
powers of darkness. The social and religious customs of
the Aztec are not-a subject for the squeamish.

Peters takes seriously the psychic powers of the de-
votees of the gods, especially Quetzalcoatl, the wind god.
In a cave in the hills, Huemac eats the Flesh of the Gods
(hallucenogenic mushrooms), and is granted visions of the
future. His daughter becomes a priestess of Quetzalcoatl,
and is able to see the future in dreams. The legends said
that Quetzalcoatl would return in the year One—Reed
(1521), and, like many other amerindian psychics, Heu-
mac’s daughter had visions of the Conquistadores before
they arrived, and welcomed them as the god.himself. The
reader's credulity may be strained a bit by this aspect of
Peters’ portrait of the Aztec, especially when Huemac
coalesces with his animal double, his nuhalli, and trans-
forms himself from man to hawk at will, manifesting the
highest powers granted by the god. But it is authentic
belief, if not authentic fact.

This is a fascinating book, an intricate and detailed
portrait of a people and a world long gone, a gripping
story full of human interest and memorable characters set
against the events of history.

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LIBRARY HOURS

Beginning May 16th, evening hours end at 8:00 p.m.
rather than 9:00 p.m. All other hours remain the same.

Sunday 2 p.m. — 4 p.m.

6 p.m. — 8 p.m.
Monday 6 p.m. — 8 p.m.
Tuesday 1 p.m. — 4 p.m..
Wednesday Closed
Thursday 1 p.m. — 4 p.m.
Friday 6 p.m. — 8 p.m.
Saturday Closed

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NEW
ARRIVALS

REFERENCE

The new Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 volumes
Canada Year Book 1980 — 81

. NON-FICTION

Pierre Berton. Flames across the border. The second
volume. of his history of the War of 1812.

Peter C. Newman. The acquisitors, The second volume of
his ‘Canadian Establishment’.

Michael Maclear. The ten thousand day war: Vietnam

1945 — 1975. This was a 13 week CBC series.

Teresa Bloomingdale. Up a family tree. Family honor by
the author of “I should have seen it coming when the
rabbit died.’

Michael Freedland. Maurice Chevalier, Biography.

FICTION

Doris Anderson. Rough layout. A novel about Ottawa
that stays just on the windy side of libel, by the former
editor of Chatelaine and the controversial chairperson of
the Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

Robertson Davies. The rebel angels. The witty and wicked
Mr. Davies has at academe and its denizens.

Vladimir Volkoff: The turn around. Espionage novel first
published in French by this man of Russian parentage.
Howard Engel. The ransom game. Murder mystery.

Ted Allbeury. The other side of silence, A fictionalized
account of the real-life Philby espionage conspiracy.
Oswald Wynd. The blazing air. World War II fiction set in
Malaya and Singapore.

Bernard and Marvin Alk. The last ambassador. A novel of
the last days of America’s involvement in Vietnam by two
veteran diplomatic correspondents for NBC news. ;
Michael Moorcock. The war hound and the world’s pain.
A marvelous combination of fantasy, science fiction,
historical fiction and the occult set in the all-too-real days
of the Thirty Years’ war.

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