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Court acquits school bus driver Justice of the Peace Don Pahl acquitted the driver of a school bus involved in a fatal acci- dent last October of a charge of careless dri- ving at a trial in Schrei- ber last week. The charge was laid after the school bus carrying about twenty- five students from Ter- race Bay to Schreiber left the highway and overturned in the ditch on Hydro Hill. Following the acci- dent local police "con- sulted Crown Attorney Leon Nicol and he in turn consulted with senior Crown Attorn- ey C.B. Devlin, follow- ing which they directed Public Terrace that the driver be char- ged with careless dri- ving under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act." The charge was the lightest that could be laid and was tried in JP Court rather than in the regular Criminal Divi- sion Court which would have handled the mat- ter if a more severe charge had been laid. Terrace Ba Schre? ibrar Library ontario 2. C Vol. 28, No. 5 Crown Prosecutor John Clarke presented the case against the school bus driver Mrs. Lorrain Lauzon. Wit- nesses for the prosecu- tion included the con- stable who first arrived on the scene, a Ministry of Transportation and Communications In- spector and several of the students. who were y Wednesday, February 2, 1983 Pay TV for local cable The number of pro- grams available locally and the quality of re- ception for some of them should undergo a mark- ed improvement in the coming months. Lakeshore commun- ity TV in Terrace Bay will begin picking up its TV Ontario signal off the new Anik C satellite next month. In addition both the cable opera- tors in Terrace Bay and in Schreiber have ap- plied to the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission for permis- sion to begin a Pay- TV Service off the new satellite. The CRTC will be holding hearings in Hull, Quebec on March 1 at which it will consid- er the applications by the local companies to carry Pay TV. Both com- panies have applied for a renewal of their broad- casting licences which expire on September 30, 1983. If the renewal ap- plications are approved the new service will be added to the list of the channels the companies are allowed to carry. In Schreiber TV On-- tario will continue to be received off-air from Thunder Bay, but in Terrace Bay Lakeshore Community TV will be switching, its reception from the satellite it is now using to the new Anik C3. The provincial Minis- try of Northern Affairs is providing Lakeshore with the new satellite re- ception equipment needed to make the switch. The equipment in Terrace Bay is being provided as part of a $110,000 grant from the Ministry to TV On- tario to allow the educa- tional television net- work to maintain satel- lite reception in 18 northern Ontario com=~ munities, serving some 60,000 people. The grant will per- mit TV Ontario to up- grade and maintain existing satellite re- ceiving dishes as well as purchase new ones., The dishes were part of a federal government field study began in 1979 to test the capabilities of direct broadcast satel- lite communications. Federal involvement in the experiment ended last September and the provincial grant will be used to continue the cable system service now in place. The money will enable TVO to re- place approximately ten of the original 20 dishes used by cable opera- tors, and refit the re- mainder with equip- ment compatible with ANIK C. * Until January 23 northern cable compa- nies will be able to con- tinue using the Anik B satellite to receive TVO's signals, but after that they will need re- ceiving equipment for Anik C3. If the equip- ment is not in place by that date there may be some disruption of the service. Anik means "Little Brother' in Eskimo. The "C" designates the continued on page 9 Corrections Program expanded The Community Cor- rections Committee has received an expanded budget which will al- low Corrections Co- ordinator Judie Cooper to offer full time ser- vices to probationers and to the community. "This is an exciting step toward improving the probation and pa- role services for Ter- race Bay, Schreiber, Rossport and _ Pays Plat," said Mrs. Coop- er. "In the past, our program has dealt with just one portion of a probationer's supervi- sion .. namely, the com- munity service order in- volving volunteer work to be done for the com- munity ... whereas now, I will be supervising the full terms of proba- tion which could include such things as addiction education and/or treat- ment, restitution, cur- fews and any other con- ditions imposed by the Courts. This means that I will have an opportu- nity to work more closely with each probationer, offering him or her the best possible programs to enhance rehabilita- tion, and offering the community the assur- ance of a well-supervi- sed probation period." The special funding which has made the expansion of the local Corrections program possible may be of a temporary nature and is only assured until March 31st of 1983. The Corrections Committee has submitted a pro- posal to the Ministry of Corrections to continue the program on a full time basis during all of 1983 to April 1984, but is still awaiting word on whether or not the pro- posal has been accept- ed. Community Correct- ions began as a grass- roots organization in September of 1981 when concerned persons from Terrace Bay and Schrei- ber got together to con- sider ways of enhanc- ing the communities' in- put into the correctional system. There was a general dissatisfaction with the community ser- vice order program and a feeling of powerless- ness in so far as chang- ing anything in the pro- bation or parole sys- tem. This was all com- pounded by the fact that the probation officer res- ponsible for the Schrei- ber - Terrace Bay area was located in Nipigon with responsibilities stretching from Nipigon to Manitouwadge and Heron Bay. Therefore, the officer could spend only.one or at best two days per month in our communities. When ap- proached with the con- cerns of the local group, Mrs. Huovinen respond- ed enthusiastically and assisted the group in preparing a proposal for a local corrections work- er to be based in Sud- bury and in Terrace Bay. The Co-ordinator was hired in April of 1982 and has been working out of the former town hall in Schreiber since that time. The Correct- ions Committee's Board of Advisors remains a strong and active voice and performs a vital role according to Mgrs. Cooper. "The role of the Board is absolutely es- sential to community - based programmes such continued on page 10 % on the bus. Testimony showed that just prior to the accident the driver had glanced down and shuffled her feet in an attempt to move a cas- sette tape that was in the area of the foot pedals. Following the pre- sentation of the Crown's case defence attorney Ron Poirier moved that the evidence presented did not substantiate a case of careless driving. Poirier specifically cit- ed an earlier case in which the courts had ruled that "momentary inattention does not con- stitute careless dri- ving." In rebuttal to Poirier's motion, Crown Prosecutor Clarke said that there was indeed enough evidence to justify the charge and that the defence's mo- tion should not be granted. Justice of the Peace Pahl retired for about an hour to consider the motion and returned to find Mrs. Lauzon not guilty of the charge. Skaters Compete Skaters from the Terrace Bay and participated in the North Shore Inter- Schreiber Figure Skating Clubs Club competition in Red Rock, January 28th and 29th. Watch for full results in next week's NEWS. Skating in the Intermediate Ladies Interpretive event were (bac. row -r), Carrie Pytyck, Tracey Clark and Jennifer Kodila and (front I-r) Candace oo Candace McLellan, Tammy McParland and Andrea Stortini warm up for the ladies solo events. : Competing in novice la ies interpretive were (I-r, McLellan, Sandy Cooper and Petrina Taylor. Glad, Lynette Gauthier and Kellina Cooper. All competitions require lots of practice time. Hard at work in the Terrace Bay arena, young skaters hone their skills for the competition.