a Page 8 June 1985 Cassiar Courier Recreation Hockey The 1984/85 Cassiar Recreational Hockey League closed out the season with a banquet and dance at the Rec Centre on April 13th. A lot of time and work was involved in organizing this event and the People who help- ed should be thanked for a job well done. The evening progressed from cocktails to dinner, during which the bar staff recruited a bartender who claims he was a hockey player in good standing. Some people wondered whether he could even stand up. The cafeteria put out a very good spread of food which was enjoyed by all. The presentations were then made by the executive and Gary Periard. Team medals and individual awards were presented to the players. The loudest applause came when the ‘West’ team were presented their medals but the “East” players vowed to win next year. There was one “East” player, namely Bruce King, who figured since he had lived and played in western Canada for so many years that he should have been. on the “West”’ team. He some- how snuck into the presentation and received a gold medal which brought both applause and boo’s from the people present. Then the “special awards’ were presented to the various players. A sample of the awards presented were as follows: Barry Slade — “Crying Towel Award’ Graham Overton — ‘‘Most Underated Player” Roger Borsato — ‘Mad Slasher Award” Doug Parton — “Iron Man Award” Charles Molloy — ‘‘Face Imprint Award” Jeff Hum — “Honest Player Award” \ by Bernd Guderjahn Frank Nuyens & ) Richard Knowles _) ‘Bosom Buddies Award” Rick Prosser — “Tiger Williams Award’’ These awards were accompanied by various prizes and a lot of laughter. A special plaque was presented to Daniel Bernard for his dedicated support to Senior Hockey for the past four years. The dance started on time and everyone seemed to have an enjoyable evening. The bar ran out of liquor earlier than anticipated but then hockey players are known to have the odd drink or four. Another special award was presented to Bob Bowen later that week for his work as president for two years and his exceptional support for the league during his residence in Cassiar. It will probably be some time before Cassiar has the whole R.C.M.P. staff playing hockey at the same time. The “Oldtimers” had a private party for themselves at Ray Emperele’s cabin and from the reports received everyone had a good time. Team awards were presented and a lot of food and liquor was consumed, probably because their season was so frustrating. Next season there is a rumour of “imports’’ coming to town so that they can win more than 10 games in a season, The league would like to thank the executive of .Ken Smith, Bernd Guderjahn and Charles Molloy for putting their time into organizing the league and putting . up with the abuse that all executives seem to take. Thank you also to Dennis (Kinky) Anderson for being the league statistician throughout the season. Hope to see more input into the organization of the league early next fall. Library News ........ The Public Library carries a number of magazines which are available for the use of our patrons. This list has just been recently revised and a number of magazines have been dropped and a number have been added which will hopefully be of interest to the wider variety of Cassiar residents. Current issues of all magazines are restricted to just library use but all back issues may be taken out for a three week period. MAGAZINE LIST . Alaska Geographic B.C. Outdoors . Boys Life . Canadian Art . Canadian Business . Canadian Consumer . Canadian Living . Compute 9. Discover 10. Equinox 11. Hands Magazine 12. International Wildlife 13. Life 14. Macleans 15. National Geographic 16. New Yorker People make it happen/ Postal Employees’ Week June 2 10 8,1985: PERN HOUSE at Cassiar Post Office June 6, 1985 | coffee and donuts Please Give To Help Us Raise : Funds For New Equipment In The Lion’s Playground 17. Outdoor Canada 18. Parents 19. Prevention 20. Psychology Today 21. Ranger Rick 27. Time 22. Rock and Gem 28. Young Miss Some recent book acquisitions: FICTION The Sicilian — Mario Puzo Dream of Orchids — Phyllis A. Whitney Nightlines — John Lutz Illusions of Love — Cynthia Freeman 23. Rollingstone 24. Self 25. Sports Illustrated 26. Stereo Review NONFICTION Spoiled Sport: fan’s notes on the troubles of Spectator Sports — John Underwood Fodor’s Europe — 1985 Day One: Before Hiroshima and After — Peter Wyden Emma — June Callwood Seven Ne Trump by Kees van der Po] Once again, it is time to see how all the duplicate bridge players are doing. This month I have five games to report. On April 16 we had a 5-table game and after the score was corrected, much to the chagrin of the originally- announced winners, Mario Gimmi/Kelly McPhail came out on top with 50% points. The average was 42. Carol Mackin/Marvel Nitti were second with 49, Jay Lee/ Fiona Carew were % point behind, and Ed Craft/Phil Hansman rounded out the top scorers with 46% points. The following week we had the same turnout. Diane Zebroff/Claudia Huber were the winners with 55 points, seven points ahead of Ed and Phil. Frank Buckley/Claire Redmond were third with 47 points and Pat Borsato/ Lee Coran came fourth with 43. Only four tables played on April 30 and the average dropped to 31%. Frank and Claire did well again and came in first with 40 points. Jasman Yee/Bev Nesgaard came second with 36 points and Sherry Sethen/Marlene Hogg were third with 3244, In the first week in May there were 4% tables. Even though I set up the game the wrong way, thus allowing two pairs to play more hands than the others, every- thing still computed correctly on my trusty Apple (though I had to do some hand factoring beforehand). Because of the factoring Ed and Phil had a top score of 40.57. Second place went to Bev and Jasman with 35.43 points. There was a third-place tie between Claudia/ Diane and Jay/Fiona with 33.71 and 33.50 points res- pectively. Note: there was not enough of a point spread (officially) to separate the two pairs. Our record turnout occurred on May 14 when 24 people showed up to play a 6-table game having an average of 60. It is hard to believe, though, that our guests, Jack and Lynda, came all the way from Van- couver just to help us break our old record. Kelly and Mario again were on top — this time with a whopping 79 points. Carol and Marvel were second with 72%, and Lynda and Claire were third with 66 points. Finally, Mayumi and | are back in the running, coming in fourth with 63. For the overall standings the following are the “top >» ten’: Ed Craft 102.5 Mario Gimmi 85.5 Phil Hansman 95.5 Kelly McPhail 84.5 Kees vander Pol 89,5 Frank Buckley 84 ‘Mayumi van der Pol 89.5. +=‘ Fiona Carew 83.5 Claire Redmond 86 Carol Mackin 82 Los) uoianpy Lg 010Yd FOXY LADY LOOKING GOOD Popular local red fox pauses for a photo outside Marion’s window. MORROW ENGINEERING LTD. © VANCOUVER, B.C. Mosquito control is being carried out in your area this summer with the most environmentally compatible and effective methods. If you: e are a beekeeper e desire more information e have a mosquito problem this season Please call CASSIAR ENVIRONMENTAL 778-7431 It hardly seems like school has started again after the Easter vacation and we’re almost to the end of the year. The staff and students have been concentrating on their studies in their final efforts to consolidate the many new things students have studied in the past months. In a few short weeks most of the snow will have disappeared from our grounds and the playing fields around town and classes will move outdoors to participate in the many school activities that are put off while we’re snow bound during Cassiar’s long winter, Periodically, classes, individually or the school as a whole, participate in functions at school or around the town site. Feel free to stop by and join in! GRADE FOUR ASSEMBLY On April 16th, Mr, Waldera’s grade 4 class presented an assembly to their parents and fellow students. Some of their acts included folk dancing and a mime of a popular rock and roll song. Judging by their audience’s reactions the assembly was a great success. During the assembly a Good Show Draw was held. Over sixty students were nominated for the Award which consisted of an all expenses paid trip to the cookery. The winners were Melanie Hawker and Lianne Muir. After the assembly, the grade 4 students practiced one of their acts and submitted a video tape of it to a student Video Contest. We all wish them well! KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION Registration for children who will be in Kindergarten next year was held at Snowridge between May 21st and May 24th. : Children who will be five years old during 1985 are eligible for enrollment in Kindergarten, Parents who missed the May registration may register their children at the school any time during school hours. Parents are requested to confirm their child’s age by presenting a copy of the child’s birth certificate at the time of registration. During the last two weeks of June, Ms. Redmond will be conducting home visits to meet the new kindergarten students and their parents. TESTING The grade 3—7 students in Snowridge School have just finished writing the Canadian Tests of Basic Skills. These tests are a general battery of achievement tests used across Canada to measure the performance of students in several general areas such as Reading compre- hension, language usage, understanding math concepts, etc. These tests which are written each spring, allow us to monitor the development of students in general terms. During the week of May 21-24th selected students in schools across B.C. wrote a Math test as part of the provincial Learning Assessment Program (PLAP). This test is designed to measure the performance and attitudes of students at the grade 4 as well as 7 and 10 levels across B.C. Interpretation of the results of this testing process is used by the Ministry and individual districts to improve In and Around Cassiar Secondary School The term three Honor Roll is: GOLD Jacqueline Molan 90% Mary Molan 87% Dyonne Zubek 86% Amarjit Athwal 86% SILVER Jennifer Pewsey 82% Shawn Penno 82% Asha Lekhi 81% Silvie Girardin 79% Sonia Girardin 79% Kevin Craft 77% Joe Gowan 77% Sonja Adams : 77% David Madore 75% Carla Litke 75% Corrina Boyes 75% Lenora Moth 74% Paul Guarducci 73% Tammy McDougall 73% Shelly Billingsley 2 73% Joann King 73% BRONZE Derek Andrews : 71% John Sethen 2 ‘71% Trina Bartel 69% Danny Walters 69% in Marie Duffy 69% Julie Walters _ 69% Pamela King 68% David Andrews 67% Andy Gowan 67% The above students are to be commended for setting high standards for themselves. instruction in the curricular area. In addition to Provincial and District testing, indiv- idual teachers also conduct assessments of their students’ progress. This takes the form of monitoring and evalu- ating daily work, regular quizzes and tests. All these forms of evaluation culminate at the end of the year when promotions or assignments for each child are considered. As you can see, the life of your child at school is quite busy! — YEAR END ACTIVITIES The Snowridge Staff has decided to condense many of the customary year end activities into the last week of school and where possible try to adhere to a unifying theme that recognizes that this is the anniversary year for Canada’s National Parks. Our tentative schedule of activities for the last week includes: Monday, June 24: Primary and Intermediate Sports Day Tuesday, June 25: Class outings and year end parties Wednesday, June 26: A talent show in which indiv- idual students have a choice to demonstrate special projects they’ve> completed during the year or special performances. As well Mr. Waldera hopes to pre- . sent a slide/tape review of the year at Snowridge. Thursday, June 27: In the morning the classes will view a motion picture and con- duct their final clean ups. In the afternoon, the year end awards assembly will be held. We hope that you will be able to. attend these func- tions as an observer or volunteer. They should be fun for all. SPORTS DAY AND HELP!! ; As mentioned. above the Sports Day will be held on Monday, June 25th. The staff would appreciate the assistance. of any parents who would be able to assist us in carrying off the sports day. Such volunteer help could take the form of helping run events, manning a first aide station, or helping with a hot dog lunch. If you're interested please contact meat 778-7410 or 778- 7411. YEAR END ASSEMBLY AND LAST DAY The year end assembly will consist of a presentation ceremony in which students are awarded school certif- icates in recognition of service to the school ard its citizens. While all parents are invited’ to the assembly, the parents of grade seven students are especially in- vited to attend their child(ren)’s last elementary assembly. Dismissal for students on this last day of school will be shortly after 2:00 p.m. U.B.C. — CONNECT David Madore and Joe Gowan have been selected to participate in U.B.C. — Connect. This is a seminar for gifted and talented students. The six day. program features — academic seminars in a number of faculties and activities in art, drama, music and recreation. The keynote address will be given by Dr. David Suzuki. The boys will bring back their experiences and share them with their peers both formally and informally. U.S.S.R. The Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading (U.S. S.R.) pilot program was completed May 10th. Parents, students, and teachers were surveyed as to whether the program will continue in the fall. The results of the survey were not known at the time of this writing. EXAMS Students will be writing year end exams during the “week of June 17th - 21st. Grade 12 provincial exams begin on Friday, June 14th. Students are expected to be punctual for these exams. The exam schedule will be posted in the school. SUMMER SCHOOL Summer schools for high school students are being offered in Prince George, Fort St. John, and Dawson Creek this summer. Courses will run from early July to early August (four weeks), at a cost of $100.00 per course. We recommend that this option be considered if your son or daughter fails a compulsory course. Further details are available at the high school. GRAD ‘85 Grad ‘85 is on schedule. The Graduation Ceremony and Dinner will be held Friday, June 21st. Cassiar Courier June 1985 Page 9 ____Inand Around Snowridge Elementary School SWIMMING The Cassiar Community Club and School District No. 87 have again made swimming lessons possible for Snowridge students. Classes began Tuesday, May 21st and run until Monday, June 17th, following the schedule listed below. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 10:30-11:00 Kgn. Kgn. 11:00-11:30 Gr. 1 Gr. 1 11:30-12:00 Gr. 3 Gr. 3 1:15-1:45 Gr. 2 Gr. 2 1:45-2:15 Gr. 5 Gr. 6 Gr. 7 Gr. 4 2:15-2:45 Gr. 7 Gr. 4 PLAYGROUND Our playground has survived the winter and is general- ly dry and mudless this spring. We still lack playground equipment beyond our two tetherball stands. It is my un- derstanding that the District is actively considering as- signing Snowridge a portion of the District’s locally raised capital to fund the purchase and/or construction of play equipment; Additionally, I have been assured that the old equipment beside the high school will be moved up to Snowridge and repaired. Beyond the possibility of immediately funding the pur- chase of playground equipment with the district funds, S. D. 87 has requested Capital Funding from the province for general development of Snowridge’s grounds. Perhaps this request will be granted some day. CALENDAR OF EVENTS June 24 Primary and Intermediate Sports Day June 26 Talent Show - Assembly June 27 __ Awards assembly in afternoon School dismisses at 2:00 p.m. Last day of school for students June 28 Teachers in attendance at school and ‘available to meet with parents VACATION September 3 First day of school: classes in session from 9:00 - 11:00 only. MM MM SPRING — by Cheryl Kwan, Grade 2 Spring is one of the seasons. Winter comes before spring. Spring-is warmer than winter. Plants and flowers grow in spring. Animals don’t have to hibernate any more. Snow melts in spring. It rains in spring. There is not that much mud in spring. Spring comes before summer. | like spring because I can do many things. Birds come from the south. You can go for summer holidays after spring. Baby animals are born in spring. The days get longer; spring is a fun time. by David Hogg ~ GRANDPARENTS — by Marie Duffy Grandparents are loving and understanding, and are also lots of fun to have around while you are growing UDeeien Because of the fact that often both parents work, it’s good to know there is always semeone around who will listen to you and try to help you with your prob- ~ lems. Grandparents will always be there — night or day, rain or shine! When you are in a bad mood the only people you can't hide it from are your grandparents, or anyone’s grandparents for that matter. They always know when something has happened that you are not pleased and are willing to help you with whatever it is. On a cold winter’s night it’s nice to have your grand- parents around to tell you stories about when they were younger, and how without a T.V. they got through life without fighting over which channel to watch as people do today. Grandparents are such good company to have around that sometimes you think there is no one in the world as nice as they are. For me, my grandparents are my best friends. Not even my parents come before my grandparents. | could never love anyone more. When | think of what life would have been like if | never had any grandparents, | want to cry because it would have been so lonely. The only people who never forget: my birthday or that a special holiday is coming are my grandparents. ¢ | hope when I’m a grandparent that | will be as good at it as my grandparents and make my grandchild- ren as happy as mine make me.