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THERE IS NO BLUEPRINT:

The future of Canada is somethin: ‘-r calm
consideration by thoughtful persons, .-: rammell-
ed hy foregone conclusions, unpledse: ::- shore’

up tottering dogmas, and anxious only t:: know
what is for the true betterment of their
country.

There is no blue-print to foltow, but only
guiding ideas. This country did not prow up
by slavishly following a rule hook, but by
the process of sensible people trying to do the
best they could under the conditions in which
they lived, and experimenting with new ideas
and making adaptations of old ones. But from
the beginning they realized that true union is
not people marching in lock-step. It is more
like the harmonious performance by an orchestra,
in which individuality in the instruments
contributes to the melody of the music.

There is no system of government yet devised
that will guarantee that perfection in the socia
order will-be established.

The Canadian way of live provides a system
for putting the intelligence and good will and
effort of individual citizens to work on the
solution of problems. Success depends on this:
that the average citizen can be relied upon to
measure up to his best knowledge: to do his
duty, and to use good sense in doing it. Then,
as they ‘say along our ocean coasts, the rising
tide will lift all the boats.

CENTFNNIAL COMMITTEE NEWS:

The first grant - for administration purposes
has been received by the Centennial Committee.

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THINK!
DON'T
SINK!
BE WATER
WISE!

If by spotlighting the causes of water
accidents, we can save a life or help people to
‘be prepared, we will make no apologies for
using the space.

The space vour paper gives

to water safety each month is
well justified.
recent drowning statistics

Cross Society, British
Columbia has one of the
highest drowning rates of all
the provinces.

LIFE JACKETS

Buy an approved life jacket.
Make sure it fits above the waist.
Practice with it in the water, especially
with children.

Make sure the life jacket is in good
condition.

FOR SAFETY SAKE - WEAR A LIFE .JACKET.

According to

They are avid readers
at Cassiar

Our province's northernmost public library is

_at remote Cassiar, a town of about 1,000 people
‘some 90 miles south of the Yukon boundary in

Northern British Columbia.

Cassiar is a company town ringed by high bare
mountains, one of which has an open-face asbestos
mine on its bleak top. Overhead cables bring
buckets of ore to the Cassiar townsite mill
thousands of feet below.

Do residents use their library? Yes, according
to reports and statistics which show that about
402% of the population are members and they borrow-
ed some 9,000 books in 1969.

Cassiar's library problems are mainly distance
and inaccessibility. Whereas the various Peace
libraries supplied by the Library Development
Commission are relatively close to the Dawson
Creek headquarters, the Cassiar library is 734
road miles distant.

Consequently its librarian, Mrs. Pat Flanagan,
does not come to the commission branch for book
exchanges and only once a year does the commission
van travel the long dustry road to Cassiar.

But the mountain library manages to get by. It
receives $1,900 from the Cassiar community club
and a similar amount from the provincial govern-
ment. The library was incorporated in 1960,
having been merely a collection of books until
then.

Should the present Peace River Associated
Libraries become a regional district library,
service would be extended to the isolated Cassiar
on a contract basis because it is not in the
regional district.

The Cassiar library board chairman is Rupert
McKenzie, veteran asbestos miner who has been
active with the library for may years. Other
executives are secretary-treasurer William Akey,
and directors John Shaw, Mrs. Nona Navin and

published by the Canadian Red|miss Pat Garrett.

Taken from the Alaska Highway News,
Wednesday, July 15, 1970.

We have a new agent for "SWIPE' in town,

Mrs. Teresa McKiernan,
264 Hunt Street,
Telephone 778-7313.

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