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Schreiber Terrace Bay Wednesday, January 29, 1986 Public Lipp TERRACE BAY. ? "One f POT 2W0 C.d.0. Py Vol. 41, No. 4 Serving Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Rossport 35° Terrace Bay may get Chamber of Commerce After an interval of almost 15 years, the township of Terrace Bay may soon have its Chamber of Commerce back. A meeting was held on January 23 to discuss the possibility of reforming the Chamber, which was disbanded in 1972 or 1973, according to former Chamber .member Mike Moore, who attended the meeting along with approx- imately 30 other businessmen and women. Terrace Bay Police Chief Russ Phillips, who organized the meeting, ex- 'plained to the group that some sort of business association for the town is needed for a number of reasons. He said he needs some he was not. sure kind of group that he can bring special police pro- grams to for implementa- tion throughout the community. "T have a robbery prevention program and a fraudulent cheque pro- gram," he said, adding that these proposed procedures "would benefit you, the businesses, and us, the lice< Chief Phillips noted that even without his programs, a Chamber of Commerce would still be good for the town, although he admitted if a Chamber would be preferable over a simpler type of association. '*This is what we have to ~ find out,' he said. "I don't business Businessmen meet know what kind of format you people would want."' Moore was asked for some background, and he explained that. when the Chamber was first formed years ago it had approx- imately 38 paid-up members with regular monthly meetings. "'The Chamber was basically an organization that would approach (township) council with re- quests and suggestions," Moore told the "assemblage. '"*They weren't really involved in making spécific recom- mendations to other gover- ning bodies, be they pro- vincial or federal.' Moore admitted that the Chamber eventually became somewhat weak Approximately 30 businessmen and women from Terrace Bay attended a meeting, shown in progress above, on January 23 to discuss the possibility of forming a town business association or a Chamber of Commerce. A committee was formed at the conclusion of the session. which was held at the Recreation Complex. Historical Society formed in Schreiber The Schreiber Historical Society is now a reality. According to Jeff McCanna, one of the foun- ding members, the Socie- ty was officially organized earlier this month. He said the Society was really the brainchild of Nora McGuire. **About Christmas time last year she approached some people she knew about her idea and asked them if they would like to get together, so we did,"' McCanna explained. McGuire was named the Chairman of the new Society at that initial meeting. Aside from her and McCanna, other foun- ding members include Michael McGuire, Darcy Furlonger, Pat Cook, and Reg Bailey. '**We would like to get together a history of the town," McCanna said. Schreiber celebrated -- its 100th anniversary in 1985. "Our long term goal would be an historical museum for Schreiber, but there's nothing too concrete on that so far," he added. The next meeting of the group is currently schedul- ed for February 12 at 7 p-m. at the Schreiber Public Library. McCanna is hoping that other people who are in- terested in the Society and its goals will attend that meeting. '"We would like them to attend and submit anything they have, like pictures, memorabilia, things along those lines," he told the News. ° and then it was decided to allow the group's Charter to lapse. ""We were told at that time that it would be dif- ficult to reinstitute the Charter, but since then we have. been told that is not the case,' he said. "But do we really want to be that structured a committee?" Chief Phillips agreed that there would probably be little problem in bring- ing the Chamber of Com- merce back to life, and noted that other area com- munities, like Nipigon and Longlac, have Chambers of their own. A number of people, in- cluding Chief Phillips, pointed out that Schreiber town council is asking the business community there to create a Chamber. Terrace Bay township clerk Larry:Simons, who also attended the meeting, said it would be good for the businesses of Terrace Bay to have a single voice, and added that there are many government grams and grants, such as the popular Business Im- provement Area project, which are only available to organized business associations. Chief Phillips said that he sent out 45 letters about the meeting beforehand and even forgot some parties, like the town doctors. He added that these people may wish to help out as well in forming a local group. He suggested that the first step should be the for- continued on page 2 New Year's baby Bonnie and Norman Bottomley of Terrace Bay proudly look down on their daughter Jenna Louise, who was the first baby born in Terrace Bay this year. The Bottomley's first child was delivered on January 12 at 9:37 p.m. and weighed in at six pounds, three ounces (2800 grams). The couple has been married for about four and a half years. Both enjoy crafts and reading as hobbies. Norman works in the machine room at the Terrace Bay Kimberly-Clark mill. pro- . Whoa! Debbie McDougall, 11, seems pretty anxious in executing this particular gymnastic move. She was just one of a number of Superior Tumblers who performed at the McCausland Hospital on January 23. Birchwood Terrace residents and others came out for the event, which took place prior to.a meeting of the North Superior Handicap- ped Action Group. Confusion created over Fire Hall cost Construction at the new Fire Hall in Schreiber is continuing, although there has been some disagree- ment over the actual cost of the project to date, accor- ding to the Fire Chief Peter Doig. Chief Doig told - Schreiber Township Coun- cil at its regular monthly meeting on January 14 that a figure of $320,000 that has been reported in various places is not accurate. He said the real cost to date, excluding land ac- quisition, is approximately $118,000, considering the large donation from the Fire Department and free time labour and material that have been donated by members: of the department. Schreiber Clerk- Treasurer, Aurel Gauthier, told the News that work on the...Fire -- Hall is "on schedule, although a com- pletion date is_ still somewhat vague as that depends on council's at- titude and whether they will want to complete the outside work this year or not. He added that comple- tion of the interior framing, wiring, and other work is proceeding at the Fire Hall. Tenders for the supply of materials to complete the framing . have been advertised. A motion was passed at the council meeting ap- proving a request to pur-_ chase building material for the Hall from Cebrarios Hardware at the quoted price of $8,674.93. Later in the meeting, a second motion was passed which read 'moved ... that interior finishing work at the new Fire Hall be con- tracted up to the amount of $30,000 pending the com- plete allocation of funds in the 1986 Budget."' In other matters brought up at the meeting, council decided to schedule a general public meeting for January 28 after a request was made regarding some possible control over the ever increasing incidents of careless operation of snowmachines in the township and the excessive speed of such vehicles on township streets. Various members of council said they were reluctant to ban snowmobiles from streets completely. The general meeting, council agreed, would bring the problem to the attention of all snowmachine operators. A report on the Jan. 28 meeting will appear in next week's issue of the' News. Later, council decided to continue with the sidewalk maintenance program this year, with a tentative figure of $10,000 for repair and a reserve of $5,000 to be considered. The repainting of the interior of the town arena roof will be in- vestigated and also con- sidered later this year. During. the Police Report, council reviewed the fines now being charg- ed for infractions of the parking by-law, including the fine levied for obstruc- ting snow removal opera- tions. After a brief discus- sion, Gauthier was in- structed to prepare an amendment to the by-law which would increase the fine from $4 to $10. The _amendment will be brought up at a future meeting. A letter from the Ministry of Natural Resources was read. In the continued on page 2