, Cassiar Courier

the Voice of Cassiar Country

MAY 1980 10 cents

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defeating Fairbanks 9-3

The Easter week-end minor hockey tournament held in
Whitehorse was very exciting and thoroughly enjoyed by
all the minor hockey players, their coaches and parents. It ;
does not happen every year they play an International
game and win 9 — 3! It showed that you do not necessar-
ily have to pick the best players out of 200 to win a tour-
nament, The 11 children on the Cassiar Pee Wee team
worked hard and achieved their goal, The Cassiar Pups
placed 4th i in their division,

The teams participating in this tournament were:

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BACK ROW. Bob Sethan (coach), R. McCauley, R. Repolusk, A, Nuyens, L. Callow, G. Rowe, S. Fricska,
D.Terris (Coach). FRONT ROW. D. Forbes, P. Moth, M. Guarducci, E. Lekhi, J. Forbes

Kelly Douglas, Whitehorse

Meteorites, Whitehorse

Hougen’s Heroes, Whitehorse

‘Riverdale, Whitehorse basic 3
_ Candy North, Whitehorse.
; Fairbanks, Alaska

Watson Lake, Yukon

Yellowknife, N.W.T.

Fort Nelson, B.C.

Cassiar, B.C. continued on Page 13.

NORTHERN RECREATION CONFERENCE

Our-town finally got the opportunity to host a recrea-
tion conference and it all took place from April 24 to
April 27, Recreation directors attended from Elsa, Faro,
Whitehorse, Yukon Native Brotherhood, Yukon Ter-
ritorial Government, and Canadian Hosteling Associ-
ation, The Cultural Consultant with the Yukon Ter-
ritorial Government and the Recreation Consultant,
Fitness and Amateur Sports, Prince George. Local peo-
ple attending were Dick Chambers, Connie Cousins,
Garry Periard and the recreation students from the Cas-
siar School. Atlin MLA, Al Passarell also attended the
sessions which commenced Friday morning in the upper
Leisure Room of the Recreation Centre.

Topics ranged from government granting, vandalism,
clinics, role of company towns, to recreation assistance
programs and the feasibility of a Northern B.C./Yukon
Games.

The final outcome was as follows:

1. Concern with present government funding pol-
cies —

(a) facilities — Elsa, Yukon and Cassiar, B.C.

(b) funding and services to Northern communi-
ties not reaching here from Sports Govern-
ing bodies.

(c)cutbacks in recreation budgets should not
have repercussions in North.

Recommendations:

1. A clarification on government policy will be re-'

quested re government funding for capital ex-
pense to company towns.
2. Concern re equal opportunity to northern com-

munities regarding recreation clinics/workshops
from National/Provincial sports governing bodies.
Better communication between B.C. Sports Gov-
erning bodies and Yukon Sports Govérning
bodies in order that northern communities can
have better access to all clinics/workshops pro-
vided by both bodies.

3. Concern expressed that money for development
of people resources ,
increasing rather than receiving cutbacks.

4. Jointly explore all avenues of co-operation when
undertaking Northern. B.C./Yukon recreation

tours — ae

(a) Sport as per No. 2
(b) Culture - co-ordinate concert tours and Cas-
siar make requests known to Yukon, Yukon
- auditions extended to Cassiar. Yukon recom-
mend that Yukon Arts.Council send minutes
of their meetings to Cassiar.

5. Recommendation that Canadian Parks and Re-
creation Association be invited to do Seminar.

6. Recommendation that interaction of Recreation
Administrators (N.B.C. and Yukon),
Government, be continued:

including

— Quarterly meetings

— Annual Recreation Administrator’s Seminar
Responsible for development, ©

— Cassiar to host due to being central to both
Yukon and Northern B.C.

— April date set each year

— Set up for annual to be done at Seminar in
fall at Whitehorse

i.e. sports/culture, should be *

by Garry Periard
— Topics to be sent to Cassiar Recreation De-
partment by all recreation administrators
— professional development
-— recreation students to be invited

7. Recommendation that Faro Recreation Adminis-
trator outline and research a Yukon Parks and
Recreation Association:

— Presentation of concept to be done at Re-
creation Board seminar :

— Recreation Boards to be approached prior to
the September seminar re concept.

_= Thursday prior to September session to be

open for Recreation Administrator’s seminar

8. Concern that Northern B.C. be able to combine
with Yukon for Northern B.C./Yukon Games:

— Sessions at Yukon seminar pertaining to
Games

— Recommendations to be written to Yukon
and B.C. governments for presentation to
Games Management Council, to include cult-
ural and sports,

9. Concern about not enough awareness in the
South pertaining to Northern Region-

— Model for border towns to be developed
— Invitation to southern politicians, provincial
and federal representatives to seminar in
. September 1980
— Articles on recreation in the north to B.C,
Recreation Reporter — Recreation Canada
— Make efforts to attend conferences (National
and Provincial) to make presentation. = ~-
Recreation in the north

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