ee — from throughout B.C. j i Provincial licensed Travel Agent For All Your Travel Needs ‘Page 12 Cassiar Courier : SCHOOL, NEWS Mr. George Millar, currently a teacher in Pentic- ton will be the Vice-Principal of Cassiar Elemen- tary-Secondary School, commencing September Ist. One of fifteen applicants for the job, Mr. Millar has had twelve years of teaching exper- ' ience in such fields as Social Studies, Counselling. Physical Education and French, and he has been very involved with working with students in both school and the community. As well, Mr. Millar has found time to obtain ‘his Master’s degree in Educational Administration. The Mil- lars have a daughter who will be entering Grade Six and a son who will be in Grade Three when they arrive in Cassiar. STUDENT TO ATTEND SPORTS CAMP Cassiar student, Chad Pilon, has been chosen as one of sixrepresentatives of northwestern B.C. to attend.a badminton sports camp sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Schools Athletic As- sociation. As such, he will attend a camp of ap- proximately sixty junior secondary students in July in Vancouver. SECONDARY STUDENT COURSE SELEC— TION COMMENCING | -Work has begun with the secondary students in preparing them for a wise selection of courses for next school year. Students have already been polled on their initial preferences for next year, and using this as a basis, a timetable will be built, It is anticipated that by mid-June students and parents will be asked to confirm and approve final course selection for next year. Any parents ‘or students wishing to discuss alternatives for next year are urged to contact Mr. Chambers. It is expected that three new courses will be taught next year: French. 11, Physics 11 and ray Il. LOST AND FOUND If your son or daughter has returned home from school without shoes, boots, or other articles of clothing, there is a possibility that it is in the school’s lost and found. The school has two _ large boxes of clothing and three boxes of foot- _ wear accumulated over the course of the year. ~ Come in and see if you can find that missing piece of OeunE: PHILLIPS ‘nave Ltd, Mrs. Vi. Nitti, = 190 Zimmerman St. 778-7220 4 Local Domestic & International Reservations & Tickets. ALL TYPES OF CHARTERS TO BOTH CANADA AND EUROPE ie ~ Holiday Packages Hawaii, Bahamas, Caribbean HOURS Mon, Wed, Thurs 3 Friday i 10 am - 5:30 pm $ Saturday — 10am - 4 pmo -3Closed Tussdey afternoon & all day Sunday 10am- 6 pm SeacoLasebhs ieee THE CHINOOK TOURING THEATRE The ‘Chinook Touring Theatre's Marks on Paper The Chinook Touring Theatre brought a new, exciting experience to the school. Other than the welcome break from the classroom, the touring theatre provided a theatrical experi-~ ence that a large number of students have never been exposed to. Being is- Olated up north one tends to disregard the Enthusiasm and entertainment that the drama of the theatre brings forth. The company itself consists of five talented actors who have all grad- uated from an arts program in University or College. For three of the actors this is their first time with the Chinook I will: deal primarily Touring Theatre. with the play Marks on Paper, written ‘by John Lazarus. This characteristic modern play is about adult illiteracy. It is quite a shocking fact to realize that one million Canadians cannot read or write at all. Through several humorous and momentous acts this fact was put across to the students very successfully. The aud- ience learned to have a sympathetic ear towards those who are illiterate and realized that although illiteracy is rarely ever mentioned it is a serious problem in this country. One should also feel privileged to have the ability The Pas son. Ls cast out si and skill to read and write. illiterate per play Marks on Paper discouraged this and prouaiye out the idea of helping atau 4 27 _ oa slivterats} Ou 1 vari G ap ee precious skills of Ree ee ha. and writing. Life may have no sense of meaning or may be very dull without yee ability to Function in sociez Ye his thers Jas portrayed a eidanoce the play and came through each original character. by Suzette Pinto NATIONAL BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS From May 15th to May 24th, 4 young badmin- ton players from Cassiar represented the Yukon zone at the Pepsi National Team Badminton Chabtmonstips: sg Atul and Anil Kaul, and Ghislaine and Dorine Berube travelled to Moncton, New Brunswick, to play at the University of Moncton. Their op- ponents were the top teams from the prone: all across Canada. - today's society leaving him isolated in his own cage with no guidelines to follow. The sivery .dsanacacaily “Humphrey's bedroom anc. the The touring theatre came to Cassiar on the thirty first of April and put on three one-act plays, the ~ First of which was put on for the grades one through three. This play was called The Unicorn - 4 very well executed play in all, even though the magician's wand did not work as plan- nec. The make-up was original and added a touch of reality to the play. The cast all nlayed their Parts ex= tremely well as they have cone the play thirty times to different aud- iences. The second play done by the sane group was called Mark's on Paper, It was shown to the older students of grades eight to twelve and This play Gsealt vith adult i. literacy, This play or I should say series of -short skits, were confusing tc some of © the students pecauee af the quick jumps from one skit to the next. The skits were funny ane Sy Scriven day situations. Some stucent comments were "It was more of a talk show", and ".It had no plot to the whole thing." These were the only two comments that were bac, however the rest of the ~ students came away from the show think- ing of how real the situation is and of many reasons to be thankful for the skills of reading and writing. ; The third play was called Humph= rey’s Island. This play was very ; clearly executed but it also lacked any real plot. There was Jittts lit -in the play other than it's theme of children's rights. Yumphrey was ta write an essay or children's rights. jhe play took place in tus pla-eas- classract. I&' seemed to.be confusince as Humphrey. never left his bedroot and it was his Gesk in, school time as well; The acting and the play in general was pretty good, and it helped many students to see what, careers in drama might be like, ‘by Grant Bvertton FEI III III TOTTI TT IOI II III II III III III IIS AAAIN The Cassiar contingent placed 7th -a good show- ing against Canada’s best. The team scored vic- tories against Alberta, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In addition, they lost narrow 3-2 decisions against Manitoba, B.C., Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. All matches were “‘best of 52 affairs. _ Special mention must be made of Dorine Berube In her first ever badminton tournament, she won a decisive match against the representative from _ Alberta, in a girl’s singles match. Congratulations! the parents. by V. Hunter 1 Once upon a time, in the mountains of British Columbia, there lived a wild looking little girl with a mop of curly black hair, and round - black eyes, named Mela Moonbeam. She lived in the northern forests by a river in a little log cabin with Mama and Pappy, who were her par- ents, Brutus; Popsin, Sundance and Wally, who were their sled dogs, Atties the cat, six hens, two roosters, and not to forget Mela’s best friend, Casey, a floppy, dancy, faded old rag doll. One day Mela and Casey were playing in the sandbox when they noticed a canoe landing by the river shore at the bottom of the path that leads up to their cabin. “Mama, Pappy, it’s Uncle Sean and Monster”. That wasn’t really Monster’s name but he always pretended to be one so Mela started to call him that and soon everyone else did too. They had come. to the river for a little fishing trip and all afternoon all Mela heard about was FISH! FISH! FISH! and WHOPPERS! WHOPPERS! WHOPPERS! Pappy used to take Mela along with him when he’d go fishing and he’d always drag in whop- pers too. But not Mela. She’d be lucky if she caught some weeds. She wasn’t too worried though cause at that time she was only two and she knew her birthday was on July 21 and that was pretty soon - as soon as-all the fireweed had flowers; and their buds were already start- — ing to bulge. By the time she hit three she’ d be able to catch whoppers too.. 2 It was a bright sunny morning @hen Mela woke up feeling all excited. It took her a little while to figure out why she felt especially good, when all of a sudden she remembered “Hey, today is my birthday - I’m three now!” She got dressed and climbed down the ladder from the loft where she slept. There was Mama cooking blueberry pancakes with a big smile on her When she saw Mela she said “‘Good morning; honey - Happy pure Behind Mama on the kitchen table there was a big stack of bright colourful boxes, and Mela’s eyes got very big when Mama said “Those are your birthday presents. This after- noon all your friends are coming over and you can open your presents and we’ll have a wiener roast, and cake and ice cream. So after break- fast you go out and play ’til lunch time. Then when the kids get here we'll have-a party.” So Mela sat down at the table with all the bright boxes on it and stared at all the differ- ent colours while she stuffed her mouth full of blueberry pancakes. Then she grabbed up Ca- sey and ran outside to oe “Now, what shall we do. ’til lunch time?” she asked her old pal: Then she remembered “Hey, I’m three! Now I could catch my own whoppets. C’mon Casey, we’re going fishin’.’’ As they went ~ 5 4 to the shed to get her fishing rod she remember- ed Mama telling her she wasn’t allowed to go to the river without her or Pappy - but that was when she was only two. “Now I’m three,”’ she said out loud “‘and smarter,” Besides, she thought, Mama and Pappy are too busy right now. She could hear the chainsaw roaring away off in the woods. She thengrabbed the rod and a rope. Casey didn’t exactly know what the rope was for but she figured she’d find out soon en- ough so she didn’t bother asking. uv Carrying the rod and rope in one arm, and Casey in the other, Mela ran down the narrow path- ‘way to the river. Her legs were still pretty short and it took her a while but they finally arrived and shé was out of breath from excitement. “Casey, I’m gonna tie us to that tree so that: when we catch that whopper, she doesn’t pull us in.” Casey thought it sounded like a good idea so she sat on a big: rock while Mela wrapped ~ and tied the middle of the rope around the tree. and one end around her waist. She made two very good tight knots. Then she was ready to tie. Casey carefully to the other end. of the rope n she stepped on a stick which jumped at the other end and knocked Casey into the cold deep river. ‘Oh, no! Oh, dear!Casey! Casey! Mama, Pappy, Casey fell- in the river...” She jumped up and down but couldn’t run home to get help cause she was tied to the tree and her knots were so good and tight she couldn’t get them undone. “Mama, Mama, Pappy, Mama, HELP Pappy - Casey fell into the river. HELP, HELP, HELP!” Finally Mama came running down the path. Her face looked really white. Then she saw Mela was okay and her face started to change. It got red and then redder. Mela was still jumping up and down and crying and point- ing down the river. Boy, Mama looked mad. “Mela, what are you doing down here?” Then Pappy came too - his face was also white and he said the same thing. “I’m three now, Mama, I’m thgee now, Pappy, and I was gonna get me a ‘whopper to show ya’ ‘cause I’m three now but Casey fell into the river and she’s gone now and I’m never gonna see her again and I wish I was just two.’ Then she started crying and crying so Pappy untied her and carried her home. a 4 Mela sat in a kitchen chair for the rest of the morning and watched Mama while she made her birthday cake. It really was very beautiful with pink and yellow and blue flowers on it and three striped candles, but Casey wasn’t there to see it and she just got sad every time she thought about it. Mama told her to take her tee-shirt and blue jeans off and she washed her face and combed her hair and put a clean blue dress on but she still felt down in the dumps. ‘““Cheer up Mela - here come the kids.” She look- ed out the window and sure ’nuf they were com- ing up the path laughing and chatting and every- Cassiar Courier Page 13 one had a present for her. When they came into the kitchen they all shouted “Happy Birthday, Mela” and she couldn’t help smiling. Pappy had the barbecue fire going and they all stuffed themselves full of hotdogs and marshmallows and cake and ice cream. Then she opened all her presents and got some pretty neat stuff. A little china tea set, a handmade doll, some books, a ‘beautiful wooden truck pained bright red, str- ped socks, a hand knitted sweater and lots more. Then the games started - hide and seek, blind- man’s bluff, pin-the-tail- on- the-donkey. Mela thought it was a pretty good party. It would . have been perfect if only Casey had been there. She started getting really sad again thinking about it but didn’t want Mama and Pappy and all the kids to think that she didn’t like the par- tv so she tried to smile a lot. 5 All the kids had gone home and Mela told her parents she was tired and wanted to go to bed. So ‘she got her pyjamas on and brushed her teeth. ‘Thanks for the party and-the cake and all the presents, Mama and Pappy. I sure wish Casey were here for it.”” That made her want to cry-so she did. She cried so hard that she fell asleep in .Pappy’s arms and he had to carry her up the ladder to*bed. When he came down he said “Ma - I got an idea” Then-he called Brutus, the head of the dog team. “Brutus, c’mere boy. Ma, hand me one of Casey’s dresses. Now Brutus, here smell this, re- member Casey? Take Wally and Sundance and Popsin down river and find her. Smell again - ya got it? Okay, now go!” Brutus kicked the screen door open and took off to round up the others. “Gruf, Gerrrrruff, gruff, gruff, gruff,’’ And off they went. Wally and Brutus swam to the other side of the river. Sundance and Popsin stayed and they ran and sniffed and barked to each other. “Gruff, ruff, ruff’? (smell anything yet?) “Arf, arf” (not yet) It got later and later. The moon started to rise above the mountain _ tops and the answers were still “Arf, arf.” Mama and Pappy stayed up quite late waiting, . ‘but they got tired and went to bed. The next morning the sun was shining, the birds were singing, dew drops were glistening on the grass and flowers. Mela got up very early. Her eyes were puffy and red from crying herself to sleep. She get dressed and thought she’d go down and look at all her new presents. They certainly were nice. She touched them all and looked them over carefully. Then she picked up the new wooden truck that was painted red and decided to build a road for it in the sandbox, She held it under her arm, resting it on her hip, and pushed the screen door open. She stepped out but Wally was in the way and she tripped over his paw. Boy, that made her mad. She was about to yell at him for tripping her when he lifted his head up and looked at her with that silly grin, and between his paws was... could she believe her eyes??? There was Casey, all wet and muddy. Well, needless to say, Mela’s face lit up like a Christmas tree and-she let go the wooden truck. and egrabbed Casey and hugged and kissed her and_told her how much she missed her and was. so sorry for losing her in the river. Casey smiled back, ‘“‘Oh Casey, you missed my birthday party. We had lots of fun ’cept you weren’t there. I got lots of neat stuff - C’mon, Ill show ya.” So she took Casey into the cabin, but ran out again to — get the truck. She was so excited she had ie Re gotten it. Mama and Pappy got up when they heard all the ~ excited chatter and were very glad to see Mela'so happy and Casey safely back again. Mela looked up and said ‘‘Mama, I’m three now but I’m not gonna go down to the river alone with Casey ’til I’m four and even smarter.” And Mama said “Mela, you’re not to. go down to the river alone with Casey ’til you’re a whole lot older than four and a whole lot smarter than now.’ Mela didn’ t ¢ care. She just hugged Casey and was glad to be three.