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showing a grey blazer with gangster’
style pants and completing the effect,

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Careers Day ‘72 took place
last Wednesday, December 6, at.
Caledonia Senior Secondary
‘School and was described by
‘Mrs. Fran Ross ‘‘an_ un-
precedented success”, Mrs.
Ross, Girls Counsellor at the
Senool undertook the
organizalion of the day along
with ‘Rey Prystay also of the
Counselling, Department and
David Lewis, Education-Co-
Ordinator on the Siudents
Council,

_ Fifty-one representatives of

The Santas for grampas appeal

Christmas can be a lonely
time for people in Hospital,
especially if they are isolated
from family and friends,

' , Each year The The Canadian
‘Mental Health Association
brings ils “GIFT OF HOPE”
campaign lo brighten Chritmas

‘in Hospitals and Boarding
the

‘Homes throughout ©"

‘Province.

This year two local children - &

Evelyn Porter and Margie

‘Stokes have decided to take on § 7
the job of supplying CHRIST- §

MAS GIFTS for the 200 AGED
RESIDENTS OF

SKEENAVIEW HOSPITAL and ff

have dubbed their appeal
“SANTAS FOR GRANDPAS”.
The children have placed their
SANTA CLAUS RECEPTACLE
CREATION in the
WOOLWORTH STORE, where
; gilts may be deposited.

Will you help the Children,
help the Patients by con-
tributing a NEW SMALL GIFT
TO BRING CHRISTMAS
CHEER TO THE AGED? | -

mail in gifts or donations may

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Careers ‘72

various firms and professions
took part in the activities during
which information about most
occupations was made
available to interested students.

"Students, during the day were
able to attend five different
career présentations, Hach
period was of forty minutes
duration with a ten minute
break in between.

Representatives of the
various employment sources
spoke generally on their par-
ticular profession outlining the

can give and take this op-
portunity TO WISH YOU ONE
AND ALL A MERRY
CHHISTMAS AND A HAPPY
NEW YEAR.

nature of the work involved: the
qualifications demanded,
training facilities, the op-

‘portunities for employment,

advancement possibilities,
compensation with many of the

speakers making use of pic- .

tures, illustrations, charts and
other visual aids in getting their
own profession across to the
students,

Speakers were generally

from the Terrace area but some

cam from as far as Van-
couver’s University, Simon
Fraser University, Notre Dame
Universily and Victoria.

One last minute cancellation
involving one of the more im-
portant job sources in this
region almost proved
disastrous when the Depart-

ment of Forestry represen-

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Bus donated.
to

handicapped

children.

A Sunshine Coach from
Variety will be provided to the
Skeena Mental Health Centre in.
Terrace early next year for use
in transporting handicapped
children to and from their
places of treatment. and
rehabilitation,

The crew, or executive, of the

'Variely Club of Western

Canada -- which is Tent 47 of
Variely international, an
organization dedicated to
helping children - has ap-
proved expediture of some
$5,000 ta purchse the 15-
passenger bus for the Terrace
organization.

The Sunshine Coach is to be
available for presentation to
representatives of the Skeena
centre in February during the
annual Variety Telethon, an 18-
hour B.C. Television Ltd.
production which is a major
fund-raising vehicle for Tent 47,

Chief Barker Keith Matthews
of Tent 47 said chairman B.
Dickerson of the Skeena cen-
tre’s Lazelle Pre-School
Committee sent the request for
the Sunshine Coach. The
purchase was authorized by the
tent’s crew after Canvasman
Abe Feinstein, Sunshine Coach
Committee chairman admised
that the Skeena centre's need
was real and that the centre had
undertaken to meet insurance,
maintainance and other con-
ditions. for the vehicle’s
operation.

This will be the 10th Sunshine
Coach Tent 47 has put on the
road since 1966, all of them for
organizations to transport
handicapped children to and
trom places of treatment.

YUKON

The newly-formed Northwest
Mounted Police established law
and order in the Yukon territory
in 1894, two years before the
discovery of gold in the Kion-
dike and four years prior to the
famed Klondike gold rush.

lative scheduled to speak on
Industrial Forestry had to
cancel. However, Mrs. Ross
contacted) Skeena . Forest

Well, the line is set out now
and the hard work and
organizing is done, just the day
to running of a line in is much
easier and faster.

There was no fox in the first
set, 1 made a mistake moving it
L suppose - it was frozen in this
time,

The two mink sels dawn in
the swamp have still not
produced, its about time they
were changed. The beaver set is
empty -- the water has dropped
again.

Ah - the wire on the trap
leads to deep water so the day
may be saved. Boy, whatever is
down there is heavy. I see the
beaver has wrapped the wire
around a peice of  driftwocd.
Have to pull hard that ‘stick’ of
wood is fifteen feet long, all
waler soaked and hangs up on
all the snags in the river. There
it comes now -- free al last, And
here’s the prize, a fine beaver
that will stretch to 70". That
will make a fair pack. Thats
three beaver from this house,
I'll have to pull these traps and
the mink sets.

With the frost last week I
don’t hold much hope for a good
fox catch, See? This set is
frozen in too. Rebait the set for
it will thaw out next week. I
hope.

The connibear that held the
big marten is emply today, it is
beginning to show the makings
of a poor day. It is funny that
there are no mink along this
creck. or perhaps there is and J
just can’t catch them. .

The next set is a small con-
nibear too, set along the banks
of the next creek. I t was in-
tended for mink but that stream
isn't noled for being a good fish
slream, so mink there are
rather scarce. But, something
has been here and has been
caught. Its a small but nice
marten killed quite cleanly by
‘the connibear, This sets seems
worth leaving here so I'll re-bait
it and move along tomy next set
- one for fox.

Froze in again -- I'll loosen it
up and try covering it with
leaves, that should lock
natural, as there are leaves
everywhere else at this spot.

This set is a connibear-in-a-
box, set for mink along a creek.
[know there are mink here but
the trap remains emply. I have,

“some. smelly -and ‘very.“rotten

Products and” Twin: River “oolichan paste with me and this

Timber Ltd, and these firms
came up with representatives
despite the last minute nature
of the call.

The students indicated that
they were completely satisfied
with the exposition. They in
turn were complemented by
many of the visitors for the keen
interest they demonstrated,
their intelligent questions and
their general good behaviour,

The all round success of the —

day has encouraged the
Counselling Department to see
that the day is held at ieast
every two years to allow
students to properly evaluate
possible careers,

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isa gooda place as any to use it.
Phew! What a smell. Have to
wait until next time around and
see whal that will produce,

There is a good and well

travelled otter-way near nere. I
have been watching several
spots, and will have to make

sets in them shortly, but otter .

become prime very late so I’d
best wait a whileyet. I like what
Jim Riehmond said about otter
pelts — Catch them before
Christmas, the buyers class
them as ‘early’ yet take them
afler Christmas the buyers
classify them as ‘late’, |

The set here was for fox and
it, too is frozen in. That is the
hardest part of catching fox, or
any other furbearer in this

_country, the weather is .so

variable and the snow in winter
is very bad. All sets must be
made as weather proof as
possible,

Have lunch at the cabin agai n
today. The lake is down some
and out on the lake is a flock of
ducks, mallards, too. by the
way they flay and spooky as sin
to fly so soon. Where where they
when I came duck hunting four
weeks ago?

Here is a trio of sets ] have --
beaver, mink, fox. I added the
beaver set last week, but the
pond is frozen over today. The
mink set is empty but I must be
patient and wait-for a mink to
come. But look, there is a small
beaver in the connibear. I'll set
again and hope for mild
weather.

This trap is frozen solid for it
was nol set at a spillway where
running water keeps ice from
forming. 1 see that the beavers
have kepta hole open at the foot
of the spillway over there, so I'll
move the trap and try it there.
The ice is % of an inch thick
here but he beavers broke

‘through anyway. Seek the

broken bits of ice laying about
on top of the old ice?

The fox set is the same as the
rest - frozen. and empty. I'm
giad my partner is across the
lake working on his own,

This beaver pond has the
‘killer ’ trap set in a run, plus a
connibear for beaver and a
mink set, But what's this? The
water is down almost 16". Was
the beaver dam breached by
some freak accident or did it
CLL, type of accident, for the
beaver in this pondarenotorious
culvert pluggers. I'd best walk
down to the lower dam and

check, Weil, everything seems: is.

OK hets, its"just thatthe-dam fs"
leaking because the little

beasties have feglected: to:

plaster it:
Back to the killer trap, it is

bigh and dry sitting right where

_ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 131972 §

I left it and I can ade th co
nibear is the same, way, “Oh
well, I'll take the ‘killer’ home

and leave the connibear. The
mink sets er not score either. -

What a da

Tsaid last week I'd have fox
- here for sure -- but there is the

sel the same as belore and. now
frozen in,

This setin the sand pile is the
last one for fox and I can see

they are too froze nin. The only «
' thing to do is dig them out and

reset them using leaves as a
covering. They aren’t as good
as earth but better than
nothing,

On my way to the upper
marten line, 1 see my. partners
pick-up across the lake. I
wonder how he is doing. Can't
be worse than me. A person

gains so much experience in -

this game over the years, and

still thinks he knows nothing. ©
But when you watch a beginner.

trying to skin a marten or Mesh
a beaver you realize that you

have picked up some knowledge

won’t travel. where: Tek con- fg :

ditions don't exist.

. There is not much moose sign Wm
around. With no snow ‘yet, they ¥
will‘ still be in high. country ¢

and the-back- valleys. .There

Should ‘be a good: herding.
- population left: this year, and

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the stock willhave a chance to jn

build up,
Thats the end of another day,
one not too successful at that.

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from. .the Indian word §
“Yakakat” which means Big 4

River. Bell wrote the name as g .

“Youcon”.

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