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Professional Development Days Are for Kids Terrace Bay Public School was the site of a very interesting P.D. Day for several teachers in this area on March 29, 1985. Mary Jane Kekes, a classroom teacher with the Oxford County Board of Education presented a very practical workshop on the production of Learning Games. Learning Games are us- ed by classroom teachers to meet individual needs, reinforce skills, provide enrichment, provide remedial activities, build self-confidence, accom- modate the affective, cognitive psychomotor areas and many other pur- poses. Ms. __ Kekes demonstrated methods and materials which teachers could employ to make lear- ning. games to meet the par- ticular needs of their own students and classes. She also had an impressive display of the many dozens of games and teaching aids which she has made for use in her classroom. The teachers present were stimulated and enthusiastic about applying these ideas in their own classes. This Learning Games "Health NDP Candidate Gilles Pouliot said Thursday that the people of the Lake Nipigon Riding are being forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars every year to reach medical ser- vices they can't get in the Riding. Pouliot said, ""This is an unfair burden that Nor- therners are being forced to pay only because they are guilty of not living in southern Ontario. We all pay the same OHIP fees but in the North we can't take the subway to reach specialized medicine. Repeated trips into Thunder Bay or flights to Toronto can be crippling to a family that needs this kind of treatment'. '*Too many people have been forced deep into debt too often for this to be im. dodick R.O. optometrist 1119 Victoria Ave. THUNDER BAY Phone 622-7726 allowed to continue. It's not fair and the Conser- vative government could have solved the problem a long time ago if it had in- cluded, the costs of necessary physician refer- rals of over 200 miles under OHIP. Replying to the govern- ment's position that the costs would be too much and to the statement that the Conservatives would rather put the money into building new facilities in the north. Pouliot said, "We can do this for $10 million a year, that's one six hundredth of the health budget. As for building new facilities, we are all for it. We have been telling them they should be doing it for years." "But it's no help to tell the family whose child has cancer, or the bushworker with the injured back that everything is all right. We Workshop was developed by Ms. Kekes and is spon- sored by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (FWTAO). All expenses for Ms. Kekes' travel and- accommodation were paid by FWTAO. FWTAO has an extensive selection of Professional Development Programmes which can be used in schools throughout the province. Mrs. Sandi Taylor, local WTA presi- dent, arranged for this workshop. Teachers from Manitouwadge, Terrace Bay, and Schreiber were in attendance. Local teachers participate in P.D. at Terrace Bay Public School. care not fair' will have a new facility built for you in five or ten years."" Pouliot went.on to say, "The only realistic and cost effective way of deal- ing with the problem is to expand OHIP now to cover these cases. But realistical- ly we are never going to have relliable specialized medical services in the North until we start train- ing the doctors here."' The 'Lake Nipigon can- didate called for the establishment of a medical facility at Lakehead University to train more doctors and para-medical professionals. "Students from the North who can get 'their education in the North are the ones who are going to go to under-serviced areas and stay there." Turning the tables Pouliot quoted Dr. Peter Neelands, campaign manager for Fort William Conservative MPP Mickey Hennessey. "No matter what the Tories in Toron- to are saying, the Tories up here know we?are right. Even Peter Neelands said in February that medical students who come from the North don't return here once they go to southern schools. But those who study here might because doctors tend to cluster in the area in which they were trained."" Pouliot closed his remarks by saying the government had ignored an NDP resolution which members of all political parties had voted in favour of in the legislature last year. "Only the threat of an election has made the Conservatives sit up and listen, but they are not in- terested in dealing serious- ly with the problem. They are prepared to make a political gesture, but we Penner opposes Bill Keith Penner, M.P. for Cochrane-Superior op- poses Bill C-24 (an act to amend the Oil Substitution and Conservation Act and the Canada Home Insula- THE THUNDER BAY BiG BROTHER- BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION Presents "In Concert' Mick MAY ----_ FORT WILLIAM GARDENS Special Guest: Sylvia Tyson é Tickets available at Fort William Gardens, | Dist nate & bnncerio and AA Records. | tion Program Act). Ihe Canadian Oil Substitution and Conservation Act (COSP) and the Canadian Home Insulation Program Act (CHIP) began in 1980 and were scheduled to con- tinue until 1990 and 1987 respectively. The two programs have achieved two goals: en- couragement of Canadians to utilize alternate energy sources, and to conserve oil. In the latter case, COSP has displaced 32,000 barrels of oil per day, while CHIP has displaced 28,000 barrels per day. These programs have been very successful, and could continue to be useful over the next few years. It is very confusing to see the Conservative government cancelling such valuable programs before their full potential has been realized. The Government of Canada is being unfair to the residents of Northern Ontario; says Penner. On two occasions in the House of Commons, he spoke out against the cancellation of these programs. In a letter to the honourable Pat Carney, Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Mr. Penner asked for an extension of at least six months. While the original termination date would be preferable, six months would provide time for the residents of Nor- thern Ontario to take ad- vantage of the program after the frost disappears. The cancellation date of March 31, 1985 is clearly discrimination against nor- thern Canadians and the longer winters which they endure. Phone Lines Open Commencing Monday April 22nd to April 30th the telephone lines at Revenue Canada will re- main open until 9:00 p.m. The office hours are 8:15 If you have any ques- tions or need help filing your: income tax, do not hesitate to call them at this toll free number, 1_2M)_ABS_46OR 1 must stop making gestures about this and treat it as the serious problem that it is. We can't wait for the Con- servatives in Toronto, we are going to have to send members to the legislature who are going to work to protect us."' INCOME TAX SERVICE Belliveau Accounting 432 Fort Garry Rd. Terrace Bay, Ont: 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Phone: 825-3504 OUCH! The tax bite hurts. You need all the help you can get to protect your hard-earned income. I can help. Call me today. Patrick G. Smith 345-6363 Thunder Bay POWER believes in "© payment for neccessary medical travel outside north ® a tax credit you can see for Northern residents * greater allocation of funds for Norther. roads ¢ Northern resources should generate dollars in the north * equalization of gasoline and home heating fuel costs across Ontario ¢ establishment of Ministry of Mines separate from forestry While serving as Geraldton's Mayor for 7 years, Power has fought provincially for all northern people