Record Claimed For Town May Be Unique In World Twins KATHY (left) and KAREN, daughters of Mr, and Mrs. J. P. Guina of Schrebier, enjoy thè way their twin status is so casually accepted in their home town. They are likely to excite more curious looks in Thunder Bay, where twins are not such a common occurence. Both girls have chosen to pursue the same professional goal, and are enrolled in the nursing science course at Lakehead University, in their first year. Staff Photo SCHREIBER (Special) — The recurring incidence of twins in Schreiber is, first of all a màtter of great local pride; secondly it's so far unchallenged — as far as district records to — and it's also apparently a mèdical mystery! For not only are an unusual number of twins born here, but twins are also adopted, and brought by their parents who move here, and there are countless cases where 'halves' of a set of twins have come to live in the community. In Schreiber, the mother of twin babies is fortunate in that the babies are blessed with an adoring host of relations and freinds, wanting to assist in baths, feedings, and, (it's now back in style) rocking and walking them. Three United Church Manse families in Schreiber have been the parents of twins — REv. and Mrs. Russell Crook, whose son and daughter were born heré; Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Prinselaar, brought twin sons to the community, and Rev. and Mrs. Chris Mather who also brought twins when they came. Schreiber residents recall that thè Prinselaar twins, who previous to living in Schreiber, had found themselves objects of public curious ity, made a particularly telling comment after a first exploratory jaunt through the town, after a short look around, dashed pell-mell home again, both talking at the same time . . . "This town is full of twins." This meant of course, that they could at last go about small boys' mormal affairs or mischief without anyone paying them other than normal attention. Among the names given to twins in Schreiber, possibly those arousing the most interest among residents were, Gordon and Douglas, given to the Ross twins. I The Ross family, now into the second generation, has supplied some of the town's best hockey plàyers and Borden Ross, their dad, maintained his twin boys were named after Gordie How and/Doug Harvey. Rena Ross, the boys' mother's only com-ment to this remark was to offer a smile. "Seeing Double" is Schreiber is not a matter of faulty vision: it has something to do with meeting identical twins over and ovèr again! The local Separate School has no less than eight sets of twins enrolled at one time. This coming fall, that school will have another two sets — this time two brother ànd sister teams. Marking time from around the turn of the century, Schreiber has had 27 sets of twins born in thè town, with the possibility that some might have been forgotten. Not in chronological order, but in order of memory these have included. Betty and Annie Robinson (parents Mr. and Mrs, J à m e s Robinson); twin daughters to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross; Henry and Odin Paske (parents Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Paske); Dorothy and Gwen Brewitt (parents Mr. and Mrs. Chris Brewitt);Bill and Charlie Kelly (parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kelly); Peter and Margaret Geary (parents Mr. and Mrs. Otis Geary); Sulo Pelto and sister (parents Mr. and Mrs. John Pelto); Earl and Earline McCouan (parents Mrr. and Mrs. Manuel McCouan); Coghlan and Lochlan Giddings (parents Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Gauthier); Catherine and Carol O'Brien (parents Mr. and Mrs. Leonard O'Brien ; and Alex and Paul Gauthier (parents Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Gauthier). The following list with dates is believed to be correct: Josephine and Peter Trichilo, born June 1955 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Trichilo); Craig and Willa Condie, bornnMay 1956 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Murray Condie); Gordon and Douglas Ross, born May 1958 (parents Mr- and Mrs. Borden Ross); , Norah and Nancy McGuire, born June 1958 (parents Mr. and Mrs,. D'Arcy McGuire) ; Michelle arid Michael Stortini, born August 1958 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Stortini); Norma and Lorna Aho, born summer ofl958 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Reino Aho); Danny and Donna Gellert, born October 1958); (parents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gellert); Patrick and Michael Mulligan, born February 1959; (parents Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mulligan); Paul and Michael Fournier, born February 1959 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fournier); Shirley and Dale Ross, the first babies to arrive in Schrieber in 19600, making them the New Year's Babies (parents Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ross): Lisa and Roddy Crook, born May 1960 (parents Rev. and Mrs. Russell Crook); Jimmy and Joanne Winters, born February 1961 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Winters); Larry and Linda Ross, born December 1962 (second twins born to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ross); Connie and Cecile McGuire. born December 1962 (second twins born to Mr. and Mrs. D'Arcy McGuire); Tracy and Trevor Speck, born June 1970 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Gary Speck); Donald and Donna Bortuski, born November 1970 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bortuski); Derek and Jennifer Martin, born November 1973 (parents Mr. and Mrs. Justin Martin); And the story of Schreiber's affinity with twins does not end here, for among those coming to live in this Lake Superiior North Shore community of around 2,200 people within recent years, are: Leo and Pius Potvin; Kathy and Karen Guina; Hans and Peter Prinselaar; Linda and Donna Keating; Joyce and Janice Cluett; Stephen and Staceyy BBoon, and the very latest, Rick and Mike Miller and Sheila and Jennifer Mather. And such is the alchemy of Schreiber that half-sets too are attracted to this town to make their homes, and these include: Mrs. Margaret Nelson; Mrs. Marjorie Gawley: Archie Gleason; Ray Sisson: Peter Ukrainec and Orville Sainsburv. This pehenomenon was both interesting professionally, and startling to Schreiber's new Doctor Spacek, who ovserved that he had never heard of aanother such record of twins in the population of one centre, and noted that statistics recorded that twin births occurred one in every 80 births. Schreiber can boast to ten times that incidence- And . .. this includes a record of 400 births in one of the years of many twins ! This, in a population of just over 2,000 where on the average, half the citizens are children . . . Impossible? Schrieber DID it!