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Po pve Bay Vol. 28, No. 4 Mrs. Christine Handy, Ne President of The McCausland Hospital Auxiliary, presented a cheque totalling $8,000.00 to Mr. Dick Mannisto, President of the Board of Governors, at a Christmas Tea for hospital patients, held Tuesday, December 14th, 1982. These hard earned funds raised by volunteer Wednesday, January 26, 1983 Auxiliary Members will be utilized by the hospital to assist in purchasing capital equip- ment such as new ultrasound scanning equip- ment. Mr. Mannisto expressed on behalf of the Board, their appreciation for the efforts and the hard work of all volunteer Hospital Auxiliary Members. Narcotics Anonymous offers help Everyone is familiar with the immense suc- cess of the Alcoholics Anonymous program in maintaining sobriety for countless thousands of persons. Not so well known, but equally suc- cessful, is the program of Narcotics Anony- mous, a recovery group for persons addicted to drugs. The Narcotics Anonymous program is now available to peo- ple in Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Rossport who wish to stop using drugs. N.A. is a non-profit fellowship or society of men and women who find drugs a major prob- lem in their lives and are now committed to the principle of abstinence. The program is model- led on the 12 Steps of A.A., with recovered ad- dicts offering help and support to those. still recovering. Meetings follow the A.A. model, with discussion groups and guaranteed anony- mity at all times. N.A. is not affiliated with any other organizations, has no initiation fees or dues and is unconnected with any political, religious or law enforcement groups and is under no. sur- veillance at any time. In the Narcotics Anonymous introduction booklet, the author des- cribes the meaning of N.A. as follows: "Be- fore coming to the fel- lowship of N.A. we could not manage our own lives, we could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something dif- ferent. and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the wel- fare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm but most of all we harmed oursel- ves. Through our in- ability to accept person- al responsibility we were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms. Most of us realiz- ed, that in our addict- ions, we were slowly committing suicide, but such cunning enemies of life are narcotics and sedation that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Jail did not help us at all. Medi- cine, religion, and psychiatry seemed to have no answers for us that we could use. All these methods having failed for us, in desper- ation, we sought help from each other in Nar- cotics Anonymous. After coming to N.A. we real- ized we were sick people who suffered from a dis- ease like Alcoholism, Diabetes or Tuberculo- sis. There is no known "'Cure" for these - all however, can be arrest- ed at some point and Recovery is then pos- sible."' Anyone interested in the program of Nar- cotics Anonymous may call Paul at 825-3382 or Frank at 825-9347. Schreiber Council meets The Schreiber Coun- cil held its regular meet- ing on Tuesday. January 11 in the Council cham- bers. Councillors Mike Cosgrove, Larry Dun- woody, and Burton Phil- lips were present. Reeve Harold Fischer and Clerk Aurel Gauthier were attending a public meeting in Marathon called by Reeve Bill Springer to discuss the problems of the Lake Superior Board of Edu- cation. Town Engineer Larry Davis, Roads Superintendent Ron Harris and By-law En- forcement Officer Jack Whitton were also in at- tendance. Mrs. Phillis Luke and Mrs. Rose Halonen spoke with the Council on behalf of the Schrei- ber Figure Skating Club. They said that the Club was experiencing finan- cial difficulties and re- quested either free use or reduced rent on the town hall basement for the twice monthly Bingos held by the Club. The request was re- ferred to the Property Committee to discuss and forward a recom- mendation. Under questions aris- ing from the Minutes, the Council was inform- ed that the installation of insulation at the Township's garage is partially completed. The Roads Committee reported that three com- plaints of damage to fences during snow clearing operations had been received. A deci- sion was made to pay for continued on page 6 , Mrs. Charles Kneipp presents petition to School Board Chairman Mike Reid. New board moves to solve old problem The Lake Superior Board of Education de- cided at its meeting last week to set up a Com- mittee of Trustees and citizens to study propo- sed changes in its boun- daries. Attending the Mon- day night meeting was a delegation of Jackfish residents and_ Terrace Bay residents Marjorie Hamilton, Bill. Hanley and Cyril Brassard. Mrs. Charles Kneipp spoke for the Jackfish residents and said that school taxes had been seen as a major prob- lem by the people of Jackfish ever since the Lake Superior Board was set-up fourteen years ago. Mrs. Kneipp presented a petition with sixty-four names. The petition asked "for relief from the payment of educational taxes based on the fact that other similar proper- ties in the area are exempt from payment of educational taxes."' Board Chairman Mike Reid said that the re- quest was understand- able, but was beyond the Board's powers to do. After discussion the Board voted to set up an Ad Hoc Committee to examine the question of the Board's boundaries. Mrs. Kneipp was ap- pointed by the Board to sit on the Committee. The Committee will be holding a- general meeting of everyone in- terested in the question in Marathon on Febru- ary 14. Local Trustees will be canvassing their constituents to inform them of the proposed changes and to collect their views. Trustee rep- resentatives on the Committee are Father Tim Delaney: of Schreib- er, Gerry Armour of Terrace Bay, Bob Cheet- am of Marathon and Margaret Cole of Mani- touwadge. The Com- mittee will report back to the Board at its regu- lar meeting on February 21. There was a mixed reaction from the Jack- fish delegation after the meeting. A _ resident said, "We may have made some _ progress. After ten years we may be getting something done." Another resi- dent commented, "It has to happen because the Board just can't afford to lose the gold mining property. We We have to pay, why shouldn't they have to pay. We have tried for thirteen years and have never gotten any- where. I think the old™ Board was just doing nothing. I don't want to wait any longer. We should have questioned it a long time ago."' The Lake Superior Board has been con- sidering expanding its boundaries for the last two months. The areas suggested for annexa- tion are the Hemlo gold mining claims, the min- ing claims around Win- ston Lake and the cot- tages between Schreiber and Rossport. In-November, at the last meeting of the for- mer Board, Terrace Bay Trustee Joan Nugent put through a Motion annexing the areas of Whitesand, Selem and Hemlo. The Motion was forwarded to the Minis- try of Education for act- ion. However, in De- cember at the first meet- ing of the new Board Schreiber Trustee Father Tim Delaney questioned the terms of the motion and said that it was inadequate be- cause it did not say what the new boundaries would be. Trustee Nu- gent replied to the critic- ism of the earlier motion by saying that it was the job of the Ministry to make those decisions. At that same Decem- ber meeting Terrace Bay Trustee Jim Figlio- meni moved that "we hold any action in ex- tending the Board's continued on page 3 From left to right - Cy Brassard, Trustee Gerry Armour, Bill Hanley, Trustee Bob Cheetam and Trustee Joan Nugent.