Page 4 March 1982 Cassiar Courier BROWNIE NEWS On Saturday February 13th, the Brownie parents hosted(with good cookies and cup cakes) another pleasing ceremony 2s Rach- e/ Laurie, Sheri Zebroff and Stephanie Slana walked over the stepping stones, through an archway of Brownies holding pine branches and candles, into Brownie Land. They -recited the Brownie promise and received their enrolment pin. THROUGH THE ENCHANTED FOREST The next occasion is of course February 22nd, Thinking Day On February 21st the Brownies and Guides will jointly be cele- brating Thinking Day as well as other added features. To repres- ent Thinking Day (Founders Lord and Lady Baden Povwell’s birthday) internationally, the Brownies will have on display a table representing Germany, Yugoslavia and the Phillipines. Guid. ing leaders will be invested, Girl Guides will be enrolled, badges will be presented to some girls, and all Brownies will work on their singing badge. At the end of this, Brownies will have an international ceremony where pennies will be donated to World Friendship Fund. ONS NEWS wien The Cassiar Lions Club had the honor of entertaining Lion Governor Mac MacArthur from District 49B, and Lion President Cotton Rosental from College Lions. Their trip was by car and plane from Fairbanks, Alaska, and they had some great cold weather experiences along the way. Good show, fellows! Our two wandering Lions, Lion President Richard Rudkow- sky and Lion Deputy District Governor Lothar Kutz, got their L calendars mixed up. | mean, after all fellow Lions, who ever heard of leaving Cassiar in 40 below weather and going to Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, where it was 50 below weather!!! They visited the Clubs there and it’s still undecided whether it was a good trip or not, but Lion Deputy District Governor Lothar Kutz is still figuring it out. The Cassiar Lions Club is now selling Lotto, Provincial and Western Express tickets, which may be obtained from the Cas- siar Lounge or from various Lions members. There will be a Lions Monte Carlo night in the near future and advertising posters will be posted when the date is set. We — look forward to seeing you all there, helping support our com- munity. -bioress News... On Sunday, February 14, the Lioness Club held their annual Skate-a-thon. Approximately 50 people participated and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came out to skate and lend support. The money we collect will be sent to the Tiny Tim Crippled Children’s Hospital. The pledges received amount to approximately $3,000.00 and a special thank you has to go to Brian Glements who alone received pledges of $1,373.00. Awards will be given to the adult who collected the most money, and to the boy and girl who collected the most money. These will be announced in the next issue. See you all there again next year. BRIAN CLEMENTS | IN CASSIAR - LEE CORAN | 205 SMITH STREET PHONE 778-7456 WED & THURS 6.30 - 9p.m. OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT ONE THE KEY | TO YOUR INCOME TAX PROBLEMS - | AT THE END OF IT ALL GIRL GUIDES By liz Maguire Since our meetings started again in January, most of our time has been spent concentrating on plans for the Enrolment Ceremony at which time it is expected that seven new recruits will be enrolled as Guides, As Thinking Day was on February 22nd, it was decided : that we would combine the two celebrations and, at the same time join forces with the Brovmies which should prove.to be an interests ing afternoon for all present. This was eventually fixed for Sun~ day February 21st. We adopted the theme “The Wide World of Guiding” and through the inclusion of songs, displays and descriptions each girl was given a small part to play in helping to make our guests aware of the fact that guiding exists in every corner of the world, For those unfamiliar with the term “Thinking Day”, it is the birthday of our Founder, Robert Baden-Povwell, and when Guides and Brown- jes, etc. decided to choose a day to remember other Guides, etc. all over the world, they decided on Lord Baden-Powell’s birth- day, February 22. By the time this article is printed, | am con- fident all our girls will have been enrolled and our joint celeb- rations enjoyed by everyone present. The Guides have now also sold all their calendars, one third of the proceeds of which go to the Company here in Cassiar and the dis- tribution of the other two thirds is decided upon by the Provincial Council. The peace and quiet of the Library on a Monday evening recently may have been shattered by the shrill sounds of a whistle. This was due to the fact that we have been practising our Hand. and Whistle signals which were part of the Tenderfoot test for girls to be en- rolled but which were worthwhile recapping for the Guides al- - ready enrolled. Things have quietened down again lately as we have started working our way through the observation game, call- ed Kim's Game. It is a game which has the object of sharpening the girls’ five senses. So. far we have concentrated on sight and touch and will be doing the same for smell, taste and hearing. When we have done all five, that will be another part of the Adventure Challenge completed. | did order Guide Programs for the girls who wanted to have their own but have been notified that they are again out of stock but will be sent when available. Mean- ‘time | do keep a note of each girl's participation in the Guide _ Program. Mrs. Elhorn has been busy making arrangements for the Guides who are interested in doing their Baker’s Badge. In order to com- plete this they have to bake four completely different items from scratch at home, and then be tested at the school on one by Miss Tavener who has very kindly agreed to give us her time in this re- spect. Also, recently, Celenka was presented with ‘her Hostess Badge and | expect that with the Enrolment and Thinking Day ceremonies taking place, we will have a few more Hostess Badges to present as this.would be an ideal opportunity for any Guide interested in this badge. - We hope by this time that the guests invited by the Guides and Brownies on February 22nd. will have spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon and will have become a little bit more aware of what Guiding is all about. CUB SCOU TS by Mary Ryan The 1st Cassiar Cubs have been extremely busy the past few _ weeks, working on their badges and stars. Working on badges is one of the eight elements of the Wolf Cub program which pro- vide a great many activities in which Cubs may satisfy a need for recognition, achievement and new experiences, as well as hav- ing a good time. For the past few weeks we have been very fortunate to be able to use the Rec Centre gym, and the boys have had some great games of floor hockey. If you’re around the Rec Centre on Thursday nights, feel free to drop in and watch. We're sure you'll find it very entertaining. Looking into the future, we are hoping to go out cross- country skiing, skating and, in the spring, out to do some camp- ing. LIBRARY NEWS by Bill Morrison LIBRARY HOURS The Library is now open on Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4, in addition to its regular open hours. Some parents expressed the need for a time when they could take their children with them to the Library and the regular hours didn’t allow for that. In response the Library Board decided to add two hours a week to provide a Sunday afternoon opening. The Sunday afternoon ‘family time’ _ will continue until the end of April, provided there is sufficient in- terest to warrant it LARGE STOCK OF NEW BOOKS In early February more than 300 new books arrived in the Library. First, a new temporary loan selection of 150 books arriv- ed. These books come from the main library in Dawson Creek, and will be available to Cassiar readers for four months. Then 90 _ hardcover and 75 paperback books were added to our permanent collection, There are so many excellent and interesting titles among these new books that it’s difficult to pick just a few for special mention. !n the Temporary Loan Collection: Jean Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear. a fictional reconstruc- tion of life in prehistoric times when two species of pre-human anthropoids struggled for survival against a hostile environment and against each other, is a tour-de-force of imagination and scientific research that brings to life the way things were in the pre-dawn of human history, Robert Elegant, Manchu, is another historical novel, set in a much later, but perhaps not less foreign, setting - 17th century China, Elegant, an American who now lives and works in Ireland, was formerly the Hong Kong bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and lived on the edge of China for 25 years. He has written several non-fiction works on China; and out of his deep knowledge of that land he has written an engrossing tale of the Ming Dynasty at the point in time when it wes giving way_to the Manchu, and being stabbed from various directions by European adventurers, one of whom is the protagonist of this novel. Dynastic novels are all the rage these days: the catalogues are full of multi-generational sagas hoping to capitalize on the popu- larity of books like Hailey’s Roots and Irwin Shaw’s Rich Man, Man, Poor Poor Man and its sequels, which in turn are decendants of Gals- worthy’s Forsythe Saqa and Delderfield’s trilogy on the Swann’s of England, Janna Harris has written a dynastic novel of the York family, which will interest readers mostly for its depiction of the geography and turbulent history of Alaska, from the time of the Russian occupation to the Aleyaska Pipeline. For devotees of rom. ance there is Janet Dailey’s extremely successful This Calder Sky, set in the larger-than-life setting of Montana ranchland. The non-fiction part of the temporary loan collection in- cludes five books on the second World War, a subject that contin- ues to interest many readers. Prairie Boys Afloat is an anecdotal memoir of men from the Canadian prairie provinces who served in the Royal Canadian Navy. /t is written by George Zarn, whom you may know by the nom- deé-plume under which he used to write articles for various maga- zines and newspapers — ‘The Hired Hand at Idlewood Farm’. Zarn now lives in Sicamous. Cassiar Courier March 1982 Page 5 1n 1940, Dunkirk was a shining victory for the British and Commonvealth forces because it had to be: the morale of the English people would have been destroyed at a crucial point in history if the truth of this terrible defeat had been acknowledged. Nicholas Harman tells the true story in his book Dunkirk: The Patriotic Myth. Eighteen months after Dunkirk, the Commonwealth forces suffered another defeat at Hong Kong. Desperate Seige: the Battle of Hong Kong is Ted Ferguson’s story of that battle, based on in- terviews with survivors of the battle and the four-and-one- half years’ internment in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. Ferguson, who lives in Edmonton, tells the story of the two Canadian units ‘which fought at Hong Kong - the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles. << Kenneth Macksey has written an authoritative biography of Albert _Kesselring, the man who created the Luftwaffe; and Leonard and Renate Heston have searched the archives to piece to- gether The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler, which shows that he had immense quantities of drugs administered to him, and that for the last three years he suffered from organic brain disease that occasionally left him incapacitated. Was it a diseased constitution that unleased the deadly sickness that gripped the world for 13 years and killed upwards of a hundred million people? Finally, Rosemary Hawley Jarman has written an account of a great English victory—but one a little before World War II. She reconstructs the day when King Henry (once more into the breach, dear friends’) and his English army defeated the French at Agincourt on Crispin’s Day, October 25, 1415. Richly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates, this is a fascinating book. Anglican Church News All Saints Church had its Annual Congregational Meeting on February 7. The meeting was held in the context of the Sunday Liturgy. In his reoort the Rector, Bill Morrison, said that it was the many enthusiastic lay people who devoted their time and talents _to the church’s program that made it a joy to be pastor of this: parish, He expressed his thanks to Sunday School teachers, Nur- sery helpers, Ladies’ Group, Wardens, Choirs, Organists and Lay- readers, He also spoke about Cassiar Resources and its generosity to the parish, saying, ‘each year there has been a cash donation to the church, and in addition all our utilities are provided free of charge. This year the heating system in the church was entirely re- done, and the rectory. was rewired - all without charge. We are fortunate indeed to have this kind of support’. The financial statement for 1981, presented by treasurer, ~ Verna Knowles, showed a total income for the year of $23,787.70 and expenditures of $21,919.06. Sunday offerings came to more than $11,000 in 1981; and the Ladies’ Group contributed $2400 to the church's operating budget. All Saints was able to pay all its own expenses, and in addition to contribute $1800, or nearly 10% of its budget, to the work of the ‘larger church’. A budget calling for expenses of $21,570 in 1982 was accepted. This is a 13% in- crease over 1981. The parish officers for 1982 are: Rector’s Warden, Peter Cart- wright; People’s Warden, Lothar Tischler; Treasurer, Verna Knowles; Vestrypersons Lil Kamlah, Jim Callow, Wally Cameron, Pat Ridhlle, Derek Walker, Ina Pennock, Kathleen King, Melvin All Saints Anglican Community Church The Revd Bill Morrison, Rector SERVICES LENT 2 MARCH 7 11:00am Liturgy Sunday School & Nursery LENT3 MARCH 14 11:00 a.m. Liturgy: Holy Communion Sunday School & Nursery LENT4 MARCH 27 11:00am. Liturgy Sunday School & Nursery LENT 5 MARCH 28 11:00am. Liturgy Sunday School & Nursery COOOL EEE L EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EERE REEL ~~? Taylor, Brenda Tooke, Irma Tischler, Phyllis Hardy. The delegates to Diocesan Synod are Rose Quash and Verna Knowles: ANGLICANS TO RAISE $9 MILLION FOR NORTH The Anglican Church of Canada has embarked on a year of mission study that will end in early 1983 with a major financial campaign to fund the mission work of the Church for the rest of the ‘80's and into the ‘90's. Of the $20 million national goal, $9 million will go to fund- ing the work of the Church in the assisted dioceses of Northern Canada, including the Diocese of Yukon, of which Cassiar is part. It is expected that this ull fund northern mission work until 1991 and allow itnot merely to survive, but to expand. Another $6 mil- lion will go to the work of the Anglican Church of Canada.over- seas, in the South Pacific, South America and the Far East The Canadian church supports the churches in these areas mainly through contributions of money and personne! to theological education. The remaining $5 million will be used to provide adequate pensions to clergy and their widows who retired before the Church had a proper pension plan and who live in dire straits. This is in every way an extraordinary campaign: i.e. its admin- istration and structure is entirely beyond the normal structure and administration of the Church. In the Diocese of Yukon the Anglic- ans in Mission team are: Bishop Ronald Ferris; Mr. Colin Hoath, station manager of CBC Whitehorse, who is the Diocesan Director; Our Lady of Lourdes JIhission Fr. O. Pauvels MARCH SCHEDULE — LENTEN SEASON SUNDAY MASS Saturday — 7:15 p.m. Sunday — 11:00 a.m. WEEKDAYS MASS Friday — 7:15 p.m Other days as announced or as requested, World Day of Prayer for a Christian dimension to the FRIDAY, MARCH 5 concerns of our world, our country, our community Feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary, principal patron of Canada Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord. Mass at 7:15 p.m jeeeeeerrerorereeereeerererreecese & FRIDAY, MARCH 19 THURSDAY, MARCH 25 Canon John Watts of Haines Junction, Mission Study Director; Mr. Charlie Taylor, Area Director for the region north of White- horse; Mr. Bob Guest, Area Director for Whitehorse and vicinity; and Rev. Bill Morrison, Area Director for the region south of Whitehorse. These people will be increasingly involved in the Ang- licans in Mission program until the end of the financial campaign in May 1983. The mission study and financial carnpaign is called “Anglicans in Mission’, and it airrs first of all to help church people to under- stand what ‘mission’ means in the 1980’s, and then to lead them to share personally in making a special pledge to Anglicans in Mission above and beyond their normal giving to their church. A total of $20 million is the national target, to be gathered by don- ations and pledges over three years, 1983 - 1985. In addition to the $20 million national goal, each of the 31 dioceses in Canada is encouraged to develgo its own ‘case’ and set a financial target that can be as much as their share in the national goal, so that the final figure could come close to $40 million. Never has the Church embarked on such an ambitious financial project. NMA NE SN“ ZS AS “Ais Hotel - Cont’d from Page 1 They plan to be back in Cassiar with more definite plans in approximately 30 days and if anyone would like an appointment with them at this time they can leave a message at the Newspaper oftice 778-7456. Mr. Melnik can be reached at 403-266-5886 and Mr. Lentz can be reached at 604-374-2812 Questionnaire /n order to offer facilities particularly needed in the area the investors in the project would like a public response as to what facilities you would like to see in the different areas of the complex. 1. HOTEL - 2... SHOPPING CENTRE 3. SERVICES ACCOMMODATIONS i.e. apartments, etc. AS /f there are any other services you would like to see offered, please don’t hesitate to make suggestions. Your views can be sent to the Courier Office, Box 100, Cas- siar, B.C. or drop them off at the Town Admin. Office. ts SR —