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SNOWRIDGE NEWS cont'd from Page 7
VACATION PLANNING

Listed below is a listing of school closures during the up-
coming school year. We encourage you to consult this list-
ing when planning trips which involve your children. The
staff of Snowridge believes the instruction we provide to
your children is valuable. When children are withdrawn
from school for optional travel they often miss valuable
learning experiences which cannot be replaced by work-
sheets and ‘extra work’ on the holiday, despite the best ef-
forts of concerned parents. When planning trips with your
children during the school term please weigh the con-
sequences of their absences against their attendance and
participation in class activities very carefully.

ATTENDANCE PROCEDURES AT SNOWRIDGE

Snowridge School expects students to attend school regul-
arly. Unfortunately, children do suffer from colds, etc.
and must sometimes stay home. Parents are requested to
phone prior to class to advise the school of a child’s ab-
sence. In the event that the school is not advised regarding
a child’s absence, the parents will be telephoned to estab-
lish the child’s whereabouts. While this telephoning is time
consuming, especially in this time of restraint-when sup-
port staff is being cut back, we at the school feel it is an
essential practice to ensure that younger children do not
get lost in the darker and colder winter months. Your con-
tinuing co-operation is appreciated.

Parent Advisory
Council

Public Meeting On the
GARE PROGRAM

This program deals with the sexual abuse
of children. The presentation will be given
by Sue Henderson. Parents will be asked to
yoice their opinions on whether or not this
program should be used in Cassiar.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1985 at 7:45 p.m.
AT SNOWRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

So you want to bea
Schoo! Trustee?

Elections for school Trustees in Cassiar, Atlin and
Telegraph Creek will be held on November 5, 1985. A
Trustee for Lower Post will be elected at a general meet-

' ing in that community at a date to be announced.

School Trustees are the people who make the dec-
isions about how our schools operate. They decide how
the money allocated by the provincial government is
spent; they hire‘school personnel, including the super-
intendent and all teachers; they set policies on student
education and discipline; following consultation with
the Ministry of Education they determine what schools
will be opened or closed (as in the case of the Good Hope
Lake School) and whether additional grades will be added
to a school (as in the case of Dease Lake where the
addition of grades 11 and 12 is now under study).

There are seven elected trustees' on the Stikine
District School Board. These include two from Cassiar,

- and one each from Atlin, Dease Lake, Telegraph Creek,

Good Hope Lake and Lower Post.

Trustees attend at least eight formal meetings of the
Board each year. Because of the size of the Stikine district
five of these meetings are held outside Cassiar, so trustees
are expected to travel.

In addition to the board meetings one trustee will
serve as the Stikine delegate to the B.C. School Trustee
Association, the Northern Interior Branch of the B.C.
S.T.A., the Union Board of Health or one of the district’s
standing committees.

Anyone interested in running for school trustee

‘should file nomination papers at the school board office

by October 28, 1985.
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BRINCO CHANGES _ cont’d. from Page 1

The exchange of the Series A and Series C Preferred
shares of Brinco, together with the elimination of the ac-
crued and unpaid dividends of these shares and the trans-
fer of Dorset’s oil and gas assets to Brinco will significant-
ly strengthen the financial position of Brinco.

Woody Gundy Inc. will be providing a fairness opin-
ion to the common and preferred shareholders of Brinco
on the plan of arrangement.

It is anticipated that an information circular will be
mailed to all shareholders of Brinco and Dorset shortly
and that meeting of the shareholders will take place in
October 1985.

_ School Board Continued from Page 1

superintendent didn’t use his points for the benefit ot
the district instead of saving them and taking them with
him when he left.

The C P Air bonus points are issued in one person’s
name and are non-transferrable. - ;

Mrs. Walters also wanted to know how many school
board meetings there are each year and how much the
trustees are paid.

The board meets approximately 10 times per year;
four of these will be in Cassiar this year. Trustees are paid
$4000 per year. The chairman receives $6000. If a trustee
does not attend a meeting and does not have an accept-

able reason for his or her absence, $400 is deducted from ~

their pay.

Several questions were directed at the manner in
which contracts for fuel and work done throughout the
district are awarded. Chairperson Sherry Sethen said in
some cases contracts are put up for tender. In other
cases, for example, the recent contract awarded to K & D
Contractors to repair the school board office roof, are not

put out for tender. In the latter case, Mrs. Sethen said —

it was important to have the work completed quickly
because of the possible damage leaks could do to the
board’s expensive computer equipment. ©

The gas for school board vehicles is supplied by R &
S Services. Mrs. Sethen said R & S offered their key-
lock service to the school board, just as it has been offered
to other local companies. At the time the offer was
accepted R & S could provide gas at a cheaper rate than

,the local gas station. Mrs. Sethen did not know if the rate

is still cheaper.

Following some discussion about contracts Mrs.
Sethen directed Supt. Keith Lanphear to draw up a
policy on contracts. Mrs. Sethen told the citizens, “I
think I’m hearing you say nothing is too small to go out
to tender.”

In other business at the meeting the board approved
the expenditure of $1,225 for minor renovations to the
Tahltan School in Telegraph Creek.

The board also defeated a motion to purchase a word
processor for the district staff office. Trustee Dave Pewsey
said the machine could eliminate repetitious work, allev-
iate secretarial time and help strengthen the staff in areas
of weakness. The processor would cost $6000.

Speaking against the motion Chairperson Sethen said
the board office staff has the opportunity to use a word
processor on a temporary basis and she would like to

"see how effective it is before the office considers purchas-

ing one of its own.
The next meeting of the Stikine District School
Board will be held in Lower Post in November.

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4545 Lakelse Ave., Terrace, B.C.

Phone 638-1312

Beef Sides
Hinds

Fronts
Side of pork

(All meats Al Grade)

‘ Contact our agent~- Nancy Gleason
: 505 Malozemoff, Phone 778-7722

for prices on sides, quarters, and
freezer packs, also regular cuts of
meat and chicken, etc.

Nancy will co-ordinate your orders for minimum freight rates.

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Northern Lights College Continued from Page 1.

coming into Cassiar for use this winter with the Intro-
duction to Computer course.

O’Connor said Dease Lake has been awarded the
$30,000 grant following a very successful year in that
community. He said that the people there really want the
college courses and had done very well in 1984/85. At
the time of writing this article, a meeting was being
planned in Dease Lake to determine what courses the
people most want.

Meanwhile, Atlin has received $53,600 from the
employment development branch in Whitehorse to fin-
ance adult basic education and business training courses.
The funding will be used to finance two full time instruc-
tors, to purchase equipment and to pay clean up fees and
other program expenses. The courses will be offered from
October 28 to May 3 on a six hour per day, five day per
week basis. The college will be renting the old Atlin
School at $500 per month from the Stikine School
District Number 87.

O’Connor said Lower Post, Telegraph Creek, Gocd
Hope Lake and Iskut were denied funding from the
employment development branch. He added that the
application from Atlin went to the agency’s Whitehorse
office while the other four applications went to a B.C.
district office. Therefore the basic adult education courses
in the four B.C. communities will operate through the
$5,000 grants from Northern Lights College on a short
term, guided study basis with part time instructors,
coaches and tutors.

In Cassiar most courses will be starting in early to
mid-October. The college will be sending flyers to every
mailbox with a written schedule of courses to be offered.
Some of the courses are: trapper education, typing and
basic accounting, introduction to computers, and a
paper making workshop from the Emily Carr College of
Art. All courses are subject to adequate enrollment and
instructor availability.

The college will be expanding its Suzuki violin
‘program to weekly lessons and group lessons in Cassiar
and Dease Lake. Interested persons should contact Susan
O’Connor at 771-5500 in Dease Lake.

Anyone interested in teaching a course or wishing
to see other courses offered should contact Cassiar pro-
grammer Julie MacRae at 778-7834.

The Director of Student Services for Northern
Lights College at the Fort St. John campus will be in
Cassiar October 22nd and 23rd. David Walker will be here

to counsel people on post secondary education and to |

make people aware of the assistance available from the
college in terms of: financial aid, preparation for courses,
transferability of courses, etc. —

Anyone with questions concerning Northern Lights
College should contact Julie MacRae at the above number,
Tom O’Connor at 771-5500 or Frank Buckley, the
Stikine’s representative on the college board.

Phone: (403) 668 — 4400

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For Your Truck
and Car Needs

} Call Collect 847-2237

Hoskins Ford Sales Ltd.

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Cassiar Courier October 1985 Page 15

Woman runs airport business

Jan Sevin, who lived in Cassiar “s » RR.
for a number of years, now OWNS Pease, 7 a
and operates Jan’s Airport Esso Ser-
vice in Prince George. According to
pilots who fly the area, Jan is prob-
ably the only women owner/operat-® 3
or of an aviation gas agency in Wes- #%
tern Canada. Her contracts are with
major airlines like CP Air, and priv-
ate planes belonging to companies
like B.C. Tel, Forest Products and
Northwood Pulp and Timber, but
she also serves any other customers
who happen along. Jan now has one
full-time and one part-time employ-%
ee.

Before buying the business she §
worked as a refueller for the pre-
vious owner for five years. Jan says @
she was always mechanically mind-
ed and has always landed jobs usual-

ly considered male-oriented. She has managed a glass company, worked as a batchman — a driver for a cement com-
pany and in Cassiar Jan drove a truck for a transport company and worked as a loader operator at the Cassiar mine.

Jan’s sister and her husband, Jacqueline and George Johnston, reside in Cassiar.

Gymnastics

by Pat Beaton

The Jade Mountain Gymnastics Club has begun its
1985/86 season. Seniors practice on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and juniors practice
Saturday mornings between 10:00 and noon. Juniors
will practice for 45 minutes in two groups depending
on level of ability.

All practices will be held in the secondary school

gym. This will enable. all of the gymnasts to use the -

new equipment which the club purchased this year

-and which has arrived in town. Coach Pauline Snell

is enthusiastic about the coming season and looks for-
ward to using the new equipment which includes a new
vault, balance beam, beater board and more mats.

Part-Time
Employment Opportunity

We require an ambitious, self-motivated
individual, __ willing to learn, preferably
bilingual, for junior position in the local
travel agency... Some computer knowledge
and/or experience in the insurance field,
would be an asset. Typing essential. Apply
in writing only to P.O. Box 220 Cassiar, B.C.
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Marvel T

4 The Canadian National Institute for the Blind
depends greatly upon donations in order to
continue their services to the blind and visually
impaired persons in your community.

To help meet the many challenges and continually
rising costs, we ask that you please donate
generously to the CNIB eye appeal campaign
when a canvasser calls during October,

The need of your support is as great as ever.

MORE THAN
MEETS THE EYE

"Thus Campaign ts in NON United Way areas

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ravel Services Ltd.

is pleased to announce that

SANDRA JONES
has joined our staff.

She will be here to help you
with your travel plans,

insurance, etc.

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cats

Side of Beef $1.69]b.
Front $1.39 lb.

Hind $2.15 lb.
Side of Pork $1.49 lb.

Price includes cutting, wrapping and freezing

WE ALSO HAVE HOMEMADE SAUSAGE, BACON AND HAM

R.R.4, 1720 Laurel St. Terrace, B.C.
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