Page 4 September 1982 Cassiar Courier IN THE Swim swimming 00l, 3 The Cassiar Clippers travelled to Watson Lake on August 14, 1982 to participate in a swim meet The team placed third overall and there were some excellent individual achievements. GIRLS 8 and Under Krista Randell - 2nd Backstroke GIRLS 9 - 10 Tracy Farrell Ist Breaststroke Ist - Butterfly 2nd - Backstroke 2nd - Free Style BOYS 9-10 Stephen Ryan Ist - Backstroke Ist - Free Style 2nd - Butterfly GIRLS 11-12 Trina Radford Tammy Farrell lst - Backstroke 2nd - Backstroke 2nd - Breaststroke 2nd Free Style 2nd - Butterfly Joy McLeod performed well coming 3rd in a couple of events but only Ist and 2nd place count+ ed for points. BOYS 11-12 Kevin Radford - 2nd - Butterfly BOYS 13 - 14 Preston Radford Ist - Butterfly 2nd - Backstroke 2nd - Free Style Who's News? THE DENTIST Dr. Ted Bradley is the new resident dentist in Cassiar. He and his wife Betty (who will be help- ing out on a part time basis) came to Cassiar in early August. The Bradleys are not new to Cassiar country as Dr. Bradley has worked here on a locum basis on several occasions. They hail from Nanaimo, B.C. ; Dr. Bradley is interested in skiing, golf and bridge while Betty is a music enthusiast and loves to cook. We heard that Ted is looking for lumin- ous golf balls although we’re not sure where he plans to use them should he find some. COURIER STAFF - Lee Coran, Kerry Jones, Pat Riddle. Deadline for articles for the October issue of the Cassiar Courier is September 7, 1982. Please try to get your articles in early. Helping You, Helping Them For more information contact Susan Borden 778-7566 SNACK BAR RE-OPENS On the 5th of August the Snack Bar re- opened under new management. As was announc- _ ed in the last issue of the Courier, Terry Farrell. was successful in his bid to operate the facility. After just two weeks in operation, it would ap- pear that the Community Club executive made an excellent choice in awarding the tender. The improvement is already apparent. At the present time Terry and his wife Gwen have not made too many changes to the menu but the quality of the food is greatly improved and if all the comments heard around town are anything to go by — greatly appreciated. Each day there is home made soup as well as a “Daily Special’? such as a hot beef sandwich or beef ribs. Once Terry has ironed out all the ‘kinks’ in the operation he would like to expand slightly. He hopes to operate the facility as a Snack Bar in the day time and as a Bistro in the evening and hopes to get a Wine and Beer licence for the latter, Something else we can look forward to in th future will be a Take-Out Service. : We would like to wish Terry and Gwen the best of luck in their new endeavor. THANK A special thank you is extended to everyone who contributed to the gift and/or prepared the BBQ held for me in June prior to my leaving. Farewells are never pleasant but this one was particularly difficult because Cassiar and its people have a very unique character rarely found anymore anywhere. . Thank you for five rewarding years! My new home is always open should you pass through. Eileen McKay BROWNIE & GUIDE REGISTRATION Brownie and Guide Registration will take place in the Upper Leisure Room on September 22, 1982 at 7:30 p.m. The fee for both is $15.00. Brownies must be 6 years old to enroll and Guides must be 9 years old. Parents must accom- pany their child to registration. Warwick Sets Congratulations to Warwick Elhorn who won three medals at the regional swim meet held in Prince George August 7 & 8. Warwick came Ist in the Boys Division 2 fifty metres breast stroke setting a new record of 51.97 seconds. He also placed third in two events and fourth in one. and came second in aggregate points. Warwick was eligible to go to the Provincial Meet but de- clined the invitation. N.B. The record set in 1979 by Laurie Malcolm — for the 100 metre Breast stroke, was broken at the same meet. FIGURE SKATING The Blue Valley Figure Skating Club will begin its 1982-83 season on October 4, 1982. Unfortunately be- cause the ice rental has increased substantially per hour, the fees have also been increased. They are: Pre-Juniors $ 60.00 Juniors $ 72.00 Intermediate $120.00 Seniors $168.00 » Ice times will be: Tues., Wed. & Fri. 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Thursday 3:30 - 7:15 p.m. Saturday- 8:00 a.m. - 12 Noon Registration will take place on Saturday, September 11th at 10:00 a.m. at the Community Centre. It is import- ant your child is registered at that time. During September there will be a public meeting to elect a new executive. — IT’S BINGO TIME AGAIN The regular monthly Bingos sponsored by the Figure Skating Club will commence on Wednesday, September 22nd at 7:30 p.m. Please note the change in starting time. ee ON AE eT 8 —oae Te goes on behind those scenes, is excellent. He has an ear for ~ AUl Saints Anglican - September 19 11:00a.m. PENTECOST 16 by Bill Morrison William Deverell, High Crimes (McClelland and Stewart, 1981, 391 p.) In his second novel, William Deverell has written a sec- ond gripping crime thriller. Like his first novel, Needles (which won the Seal First Novel Award in 1979), this book deals with the illicit drug trade. The setting has moved from Vancouver to New- foundland and the east coast, and instead of heroin from the Orient the drug in question is high grade marijuana from Colombia; but again we meet a fascinating collection of pushers, junkies, narcs, lawyers and judges. The central character in High Crimes is Peter Kerrivan Kerrivan’s roots go back first to another Peter Kerrivan, an 18th century Newfoundland Robin Hood who, with his ‘Masterless Men’, lived in the forests, raiding rich mer- chants in the towns and dispensing largesse to the poor. Like his namesake, Kerrivan:has rejected the conventional- ities of ‘making an honest living’, and he cultivates a swash- buckling image, knowing that he is becoming a folk-hero. Kerrivan’s more immediate roots can be traced to the gen- erations of Newfoundland rum-runners who smuggled liq- uor from the French islands of St, Pierre and Miquelon in- to the outports, and from there to the major eastern cities of the United States, Now it’s no longer the French is- lands, but Colombia; no longer rum, but sinsemilla, The stakes are immeasurably higher; the dangers much the same: weather, the treacherous Newfoundland coastline, and the RCMP, This is a fast-paced novel, full of action and peopled by a cast of by-and-large likeable rogues. Deverell is a law- yer,and his recreation of courtroom scenes as well as what Community Church September 12 11:00a.m. PENTECOST 15 The Liturgy 3 SUNDAY SCHOOL BEGINS The Liturgy, Holy Eucharist Sunday School & Nursery. September 26 11:00a.m. PENTECOST 17 The Liturgy, Chancel Drama Sunday School & Nursery The Ladies’ Group has operated a very successful thrift shop in the Parish Hall on Wednesday nights during the summer months. On Sunday, September 12th, Sunday School classes will begin again. There will be a class for preschoolers and another for children 6 to 8. There is also a possibility of a class for older children, if there is sufficient enrollment. There will also be nursery facilities provided during the service. Adult choir practices will resume on Thursday, Sep- tember 9th, at 8:00p.m.; and Junior Choir on Friday, Sep- tember 10th, after school. The Ladies Group will have its monthly meeting on Monday, September 13th, at 7:30p.m. ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN COMMUNITY CHURCH PLATES, SPOONS AND MUGS The 25th Anniversary spoons for All Saints Anglican Community Church, and church and mine plates and mugs are available from the Cassiar Retail Store or contact Betty Cartwright of Sue Borden a speech and dialect, and his characters speak more like ‘real people’ than most fictional characters do. There are con- stant twists and turns in the plot, frequently with results that are not easily predictable; the one thing a reader of this book never is bored. And it’s not just a superficial story either. Running throughout the book is a darker sub-theme that has to do with the tactics used by the officers of the law in the pur- suit of criminals. Is it legitimate, in the pursuit of law- breakers, for law-enforcement officers to break the law? Deverell, a president of the B.C.Civil Liberties Association and a criminal lawyer, suggests that it is not. Inspector Michell of the RCMP, the man heading the investigation a- gainst Kerrivan, obviously thinks otherwise, and comes a- cropper as a result. This, of course, is a question that has been much in the public eye recently, and has consumed the time and efforts of two Royal Commissions into the activities of the RCMP, It is an important question. The courts of the United States have answered ‘No’, and crim- inal investigations in that country, unable to use tactics like entrapment and wiretap, have been hampered, unduly hampered according to many law enforcement officers. Unless they can use the criminals’ tactics against them, so the argument goes, then the law can never hope to gain anything even faintly resembling the upper hand in the fight against crime. Canadian law enforcement officers, Deverell reminds us do not suffer from the same restraints as their American counterparts; and, as we have often heard in the press, their answer to the question tends to be ‘Yes’. But to give such an affirmative answer is tanta- mount to saying that there is no longer something which can be identified as a ‘criminal act’: whether an act is ‘criminal’ or not--be it extortion or blackmail or assault- no longer depends on the nature of the act itself, but only on who does it. If it's done by a criminal, it’s a criminal . act; if it’s done by a law enforcement officer, it isn’t. This is a highly questionable basis for morality or law enforce- ment; and it is a principle that Deverell questions in this novel. This book, to quote the old cliche, is the kind that you can’t put down. And Deverell, in both of his novels, writes opening chapters that grip the reader like nothing I've read since the first chapter of John Wyndham’s [he Day of the Triffids. It’s a terrific book. - July and Augusta my only good months. to go any time of year is a breeze. When you Rnow me like your travel agent knows me, deciding where Cassiar Courier September 1982 Page 5 After the severely curtailed hours of the shut-down, the Library is now back to its regular schedule, We are still closing at eight in the evenings, rather than nine; those hours will likely be extended in September. The new selection of temporary loan books from the Library Service Branch in Dawson Creek should be on the shelves by the end of August. This book exchange de- pends on whether or not the LSB, whose employees are part of the B.C.G.E.U., go on strike. Three times a year the Cassiar Library gets 150 books from LSB to supple- ment its own permanent collection. Last year at this time there were several requests for books on mushrooms, and, unfortunately, we had none then. That situation has been rectified. We now have two excellent field guides to mushrooms, both with colour il- lustrations. The Library also has calendars from several universities and community colleges, as well as information on cor- respondence courses. Now's the time to do some thinking about improving your mind during the coming winter. Come in and look at what's available. 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