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Page 2; News, Tuesday, November 20; 1990. BOY SCOUTS. Tavistock Cheese Anyone in Schreiber, Jackfish or _ Rossport wishing to order 'cheese or anyone in Terrace Bay who has not been con- hee by the Scouts, please contact one of the ollowing: SCOUTS CANADA Warren Pearen 825-3547 ' Dave Kaizer 825-3689 Karen Ramsay 825-9469 Proceeds to White Sand Lake Camp. All the World's continued from page 5 top, I rushed to what sounded like a punch line, any punch line and ~ then waited for his hyena-like screams. Contagiously the laugh- ter carried to the back of the room, and' up to the front again as Claude's head hit the table. Claude, upright and wiping away" tears was my cue to start another. Me (to the audience): "Yes, it's true I live in Wainfleet on Lake Erie and we get some pretty severe storms. Why just last Frank (stuttering to Claude): "Ok-k-kkay....cu...cu...cu...cut'er loose!" Me (rushing through a full page of material when Claude grabs his hair as his head starts its descent): "WHITE CAPS IN THE TOILET BOWL!" Claude (caterwauling to the heavens): ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hay, hay, hay, ho, ho, ho. (Audience roars with laughter ~ as Claude's head hits the table). Me (when order is restored): Yeah Wainfleet's a real small town, why when the circus comes to Wainfleet the fat lady.... Frank (to Claude): ...because the sound of the zipper scares the sheep!" Claude (hands to head, head begins to drop). : Me (rushing to a punch line) " AS ONLY 140 POUNDS!" (Audience roars as Claude's head lands in the baked Alaska a INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE [The Ministry of Natural Resources and James River-Marathon, Ltd., have initiated the Timber Management Planning process for the Big Pic Management Unit. The timber Management Plan will address new road locations, other users/uses of the forest, harvesting, regeneration, and maintenance to be carried out onthe forest for the 1992-1997 planning period. Production of the draft Timber Management Plan will occur during the winter of 1990/91 and into the spring of 1991. On February 13, 1991, anOpen House will be held in Manitouwadge to introduce the public to the planning team, Timber Management Stakeholders Committee, and plan author. Background information will be available for review will be held in Manitouwadge and Marathon )respectively), where all proposed activites will be displayed for public review and comment. The draft Timber Management Plan will be available for public review and comment on October 23, 1991, and the approved Timber Management also on February 23, 1992. Public involvement is encouraged early in the planning process. This is an invitation for all interested persons/groups to participate in themanagement planning process by providing information on the Big Pic Management Unit. Examples of useful information includes the following: any background information for the area, identification of specific area containing natural resource features, land uses or values that might be affeted by timber management activities, and any issues or concerns which need to be addressed during the planning process. All comments or conerns should be submitted by December 27, 1990, to Mr. R.G. Running, District Manager (address provided below) "= a ; : es PAGWACHUAN u. An Open HOuse will be held as follows: "we February 13, 1991 15:00 to 19:00 hours MANITOUWADGE RECREATION CENTRE (Conference Room) - MANITOUWADGE The purpose for the Open House is as follows: - to provide an opportunity for interested persons to comment on or add to background information assembled to date for the Big Pic Management Unit; - to introduce members of the Timber Management Stakeholders Committee, a public advisory body : representing a range and balance of interests, and the o Sie al = Chairperson of this committee (to be elected by pe 'BIG PIC MANAGEMENT UNIT, members); sss sd --, : - to introduce the plan author, Mr. R.D. Fry, Chief Forester of 686860 Ontario Limited, and to the planning team. Further information abour the timber management planning process and known natural resource features, land uses, values for the Big Pic Management Unit, which must be considered in timber management plan preparation, is available on request from the District Office. NOTE: The Open House occurs prior to the coat Information Centre and provides an additional early opportunity for public participation in the planning process. Interested persons are encouraged to state issues or concerns by attending the Open House or providing comments to the District Manager. For more information, please contact: NOTICE OF. OPEN HOUSE \ Py S a, - * LEGEND é i Ay unir souNopaRY 5 ---------- RAILWAYS t+ BXIsTING ROADS dato ROADS Td Se CONSTRUCTED pias Written responses may be submitted to: Wendy J. LeClair Mr. R. G. Running Ministry of Natural Resources District Manger P.O.Box 309 Ministry of Natural Resources Manitouwadge, Ontario POT 2CO P.O. Box 280 Telephone (807) 826-3225 Fax (807) 826-4631 Terrace Bay, Ontario POT 2W0 Telephone (807) 825-3205 Fax (807) 825-9318 Please note that opinions expressed become public record unless privacy is requested. Renseignements offerts en francais a l'adresse suivante: Ministere des Richesses naturelles i C.P. 309 Manitouwadge, Ontario POT 2C0 ages Telephone (807) 826-3225 Wee ae tee cond Tg AR Wee and comments and/or-concerns from the public are encouraged. On April 17 and 18, 1991 Purblic Information Centres }) a Circus 'waitress has just put in front of him). Me: "Thank you very much. You've been a great audience. Goodnight." Timing is everything. Later as Claude, Frank and Daniel (all good ol' garcons from Montreal) and myself made a his- toric pub crawl of downtown Ottawa, the subject of Quebec separatism reared its ugly head. Oddly enough it was three against Claude with me being the key spokesperson for Canadian nationalism because I was pour- ing the draft. The debate continued until closing time and as we walked up the steps to the entrance of the Chateau Laurier, (honest, this actually happened) I heard Claude say to me: "We'll settle this in the hall!" I thought, well in Ontario we use the phrase "settle this in the alley" but this is the beauty of bilingualism eh? I took two steps, got grabbed from behind and was thrown into the back of a taxi squeezed between three large Montrealers, all of us badly in _ need of a mint. I guess I misunderstood Claude. We were going to settle this in HULL! where the bars stay open until breakfast. And we did. Seated around a stage of strippers (see, I told you about guys claiming to work for "Procurement Services") we set- tled the whole damn problem of confederation. The good news is, Quebec is coming back into the fold. The bad news is, Alberta's history. They're out. Nobody like red- necks in either language. And my career as an after din- ner speaker is really taking off. As a result of the Ottawa engage- ment I have however purchased a helmet, one with a sneeze guard and a food shield. It's not for me, it's for Claude. We're a team now. Northern Insights continued from page 5 what's needed is a change in mindset, and if we can get a dif- ferent mindset so we can think differently, then the actions and the structures that we need to address these new issues will emerge from people's new think- ing. And that's really the purpose of the Forum." Given this design, it's impossi- ble to measure how effective the Forum was in achieving its objec- tives, since the inside of the par- ticipants' brains would have to be measured to gauge success. Nonetheless, the Forum left the participants with the feeling that economic and social changes don't have to take control of us - we can take charge of enough information to shape change in our own interest. If THAT method of thinking spreads beyond northwestern Ontario to the population at large, forecasters like Vermeeren will have a new deck of cards to shuf- fle, every time they sit down to write their predictions. That deck will contain fewer wild cards, and be'laid out before a much more activist, creative breed of card players - people who take the information they need and act on it, rather than being overwhelmed by it. In this "Golden Age of Information", I hope it works. If it does, then northwestern Ontario can-chalk up on¢.more, confribu- - tHan'ta a ranidlv chanoine world. =