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Page 4, News, Tuesday, August 27 1991 Editorial The Terrace Bay - Schreiber News is published every Tuesday by Laurentian Publishing Ltd, Box 579, 13 Simcoe Plaza, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT 2W0 Tel.: 807-825-3747. Publisher's Mail Registration No. 2264. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspaper Association School starts next week The temperature is dropping and the clouds are taking on that steely grey look that can only mean Fall is on its way to the Northshore. If these signs aren't enough, the kids are headed back to school next Tuesday, September 3. After a summer of playing, swimming, camping, fishing, and for some, working, Terrace Bay and Schreiber students will be returning to school to pursue a more formal kind of education. Some will be going to school for the first time, while others will be making the big jump from public school to high school or leaving home to attend college or university. Let's all wish them them the best of luck and remember - the Big Yellow School Buses will be on the road again and the School Crossing Guards will be helping children cross the roads. Stay alert and watch for children walking to and from school. Robert A. Cotton Northcare at odds with Arthur Black Dear Editor; Re: Arthur Black on Northern Community Advocates (North- care) Arthur Black's recent column [What's in a name, Aug 13,], suggested that he had been in Northcare offices. In fact, Mr. Black saw another article and copied from it, getting a few things mixed up. He has never been here or spoken to us to check his facts, even though he wrote an article about us. Articles like Arthur Black's, that poke sarcasm and cynicism at the Northern Ontario community lifestyle, make it very difficult for our tiny organization. Community life is especially difficult in Northern Ontario right now. Northcare is classified by the government as an environment organization, the only one representing Northern Ontario munici- palities and municipal resolutions to promote Crown land multi- ple-use and our Northern Ontario lifestyle. Northcare is tiny compared to other environment organiza- tions that operate with millions of dollars. Northem Community Advocates for Resource Equity, Northcare for short, gets funding from memberships and groups across Northern Ontario. With less than 10 per cent of Ontario's population in Northern Ontario it is very difficult to raise funds compared to southern Ontario environmental groups. Northcare spends its time working for responsible land and water resource management plans for Northern Ontario. Judy Skidmore, Executive Vice-President, Northcare Editors note; While reading this letter from Judy Skidmore I expected cor- rections to the few things Mr. Black got mixed up concerning Northcare. However, corrections and clarifications of issues do not appear. Does Northcare want to see more protected forest lands opened up to chain saws and logging trucks (as Mr. Black sug- gested) or not? Does Northcare believe in Ontario Hydro's plans for more nuclear reactors along the Lake Huron shoreline or not? Does Northcare accept cash donations from resource based companies or not? Rather than reacting to Mr. Black's comments head on by clearly explaining its position on these issues, Northcare has singled Mr. Black out as someone who is poking "sarcasm and cynicism at the Northern Ontario community lifestyle." I, for one, see no evidence of this in his article. Northcare is simply trying to divert attention away from itself and make Mr. Black the bad guy. It is , after all, easier to tarnish someone else's image than nolish vour own. : Publishet..................000 Sandy Harbinson Singl 50 cents incl. : : Ger. Submcretion rates: Advertising Mov............... Linda Harbinson CNA $18 per year/seniors $12 ECUBOM............cceeeseeeesereeeeeseees Robert Cotton cS (local); $29 per year (outof Sales Representative.............. Lisa LeClair cn pach epee beneath eg ee ee Gayle Fournier = Add GST to yearly subs. TYPOSOtSl, ......nscicssecesstecesenensts Kelly Moore \ _s Yo SEs. "5 LA yy " FaTHERS SURE ARE DUMB/ MINE SAYS WE'RE LUCKY JO BE CALLED BACK 10 WoRK J " os - Black hat on the cow Old MacDonald had a farm EEyiii Eeeeyiii Oo000000 I always used to envy old MacDonald and his perfect farm. There I'd be, trapped in some sweatshop of an office downtown, telephones ringing, editors ranting, doors slamming, typewriters yammering like Gatling guns...and I would imagine Old MacDonald, a shaft of wheat between his two front teeth, standing on his front porch and hitching at his overall straps as he surveyed his agrarian Kingdom. With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo... Cows were what made me really : envy Old MacDonald. Chickens | were okay. Sheep and goats weren't : bad. I could even stand pigs if th wind was right, but cows -- ahhhh, : cows. What more could a man ask from life than the task of looking after a herd of cows? Milk 'em in the moming, put 'em out to pasture, bring 'em in and milk 'em again as the sun settles down for the night. It's a rhythm as old as the tides and as peaceful and non-violent as life gets on this planet. Yep, Old MacDonald sure had it soft. Or so I thought. Truth is, times have changed for Old MacDonald and his herd of Jerseys. For one thing, it's hard to find a Jersey cow anymore. Most far -- sorry, most "milk producers" raise Holsteins now. The milk's not as tasty but there's more of it, and when she's finally milked out, the Holstein gives you more meat than the Jersey. Mind you, the meat department of Old MacDonalds operation has changed tog. Trendy consumers are turning up their noses at 'red meat' now -- too high in fat and cholesterol. They're opting for turkey, halibut and other biological exotica that never spent a day in Old MacDonalds barnyard. Then there's the Rainforest Syndrome. Somehow, poor old Bossy has been fingered as the culprit responsible for the disappearing Amazonian rainforest. The argument (and a tortured one it is) goes that greedy Brazilians cut Anum tha rainfaract tr erraata nacturalandA tn arava Arthur Black cattle to turn into hamburger patties to sell to greedy North American customers lined up in front of that other, more modern Macdonalds -- , the one with the Golden Eyebrows. Beats me how the hapless cow turns out to be the bad guy in that equation. Seems to me she's the fall girl, if anything. Some environmentalists are claiming that bovine ecological irresponsibility extends beyond ; the mere planet. According to these alarmists, Old MacDonalds cows -- those, sweet-natured, wouldn't- harm-a-fly, cud-chewing, tail- twitching cows -- are in fact tooting out enough methane gas to punch huge ragged holes in the earths precious = ozone layer. And to add insult to injury, cows face yet another attack from a wholly unexpected quarter. Would you believe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? There's a booklet put out by Random House called ABC's for a Better Planet in which those psychotic terrapins Michaelangelo, Raphael et al., dispense environmental advice to kiddies. They tell the kids, among other things, that our cattle are injected with cancer-causing hormones and that they eat grain that could be fed to starving people. Bizarre news indeed from a quartet of chemically imbalanced mutants who gorge exclusively on pizza. Not surprisingly, Old MacDonald's descendants, which is to say the cattlé producers of Canada, are a little upset over the anti-beef propaganda from the Heroes on the Half Shell. I think they're taking the whole thing too seriously. I recommend the cattlemen adopt another cartoon character and his philosophy on life. I refer of course to Bart Simpson and his immortal maxim. - MYAn't hawa a cnu man!"