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¢ ea Public Library Terrace Bay POT 2WO ESTERASE a Vol. 28, No. 13 The winners of the Easter Colouring Contest were: Eric Jean, 5 years old, Beverley Borsa age 7, and Karen Fournier age 13 (who unfortunatley was not available for the Ontario C.C.TeFNe 5 REA REESE TT I TEE, Wednesday, April 6, 1983 picture.) Special thanks to judges Linda Olavsson (pictured above) and Mrs. Knauff for their help, and to Schreiber Foodmarket and Costa's for their donations. Allan Report recommends "'Keep Schreiber School Open" The long awaited Allan Report was made public last week and it had good news for Schrei- her. The message was, Keep the High School Open.' The first recommend- ation in the sixty page Report was that, "The Board maintain the two campus organization for the Lake Superior High School." "It is in the best interests of stu- dents, staff and the two communities to maintain the status quo."' The Report was the final stage in the work of a one man Commission of Inquiry into Small Secondary Schools in Northern Ontario. The Commission was set up by the Minister of Edu- cation in the midst of the controversy surround- ing the Lake Super- ior Board's decision to close down secondary education in Schreiber. 'On May 26, 1982 the Minister of Education appointed G. Rodger Allan as a one man commission to investi- gate the provision of secondary education in small northern Ontario secondary schools. The Commissioner was ask- ed to "examine the pro- vision of secondary school programs by the Lake Superior Board and other related matters such as the financing of small secondary schools, the governance of edu- cation in northern Ont- ario and the support services available for se- condary school stu- dents."' In the nine months since his appointment Commissioner Allan has looked at the situation in the Lake Superior Board, held public hear- ings in Schreiber, Mara- thon, Terrace Bay, and Manitouwadge and tra- velled across northern Ontario to take a first hand look at the prob- lems that exist. Allan says in his re- port that, "Many of the communities in northern Ontario and certainly the ones that are con- sidered in this report, have similar character- istics. They are built on economies based on natural, either minerals or forest products. As such, they are, for the most part single indus- try communities and their well being is com- pletely related to the market conditions that affect their products. They are in some cases living with the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, namely, the depletion of the resource itself. It is a boom or bust economy."' "The various Minis- tries of the Ontario Gov- ernment have made sig- nificant improvements in the health services, including a back-up sys- tem of air ambulances, environmental services in water and sewage treatment systems, transportation with the service of Norontair, and other modern neces- sities such as commun- ity cable systems and family support ser- vices have made a tre- mendous difference in terms of reducing iso- lation and improving the kind of family life in the North."' 'The bad news is that the same improvement have not been made in the secondary school programs. Indeed the gap between the pro- grams in the schools in the study, and those in larger communities in the North or South is becoming wider. The reasons have to do with the fact that expecta- tions for society for the school causes the elim- ination of programs or courses because there is no other way to reduce costs proportionately. In larger schools you may reduce the number of sections of Grade 9 mathematics or Grade 10 English. In small schools there is often just one section of these courses available. It is difficult to schedule the required number of cre- dits in five years, it becomes almost impos- sible to do it in four years."' Dealing with the Board of Education's problems and the target- ing of the Schreiber Campus the Report says, "It is very tempt- ing to compare the area in the jurisdiction of the Lake Superior Board of Education with that of a medium sized state, or indicate that it is twice the size of Prince Ed- ward Island. Actually it is really four townships strung together with 150 miles of highway. It is, as one brief put it, four islands in a sea of trees. The total population is 10,246 and there are 850 students in three high continued on page 10 Astrid Kneipp and Rick Alloi display the awards they collected after being named Lakehead University's male and female athletes of the year. Kneipp wins LU athletic award Nor' Wester basket- ball. player Astrid Kneipp and wrestler Rick Alloi were honour- ed as Lakehead Univer- sity's top male and fe- male athletes of the year at the recent Awards Banquet. Kneipp, a third year physical education stu- dent, was also named Most Valuable Player of the women's basketball team. She finished sev- enth in GPAC rebound- ing and was named all- star in the Guekph tour- nament. Her overall sta- tistics in 25 games in- clude being first in re- bounding and scoring for LU and being named to the second GPAC team. Project Mayday gets attention Project Mayday was a major item of discussion at the Terrace Bay Council Meeting held on Monday, March 28. The Meeting was Chaired by Reeve Dave Speer with Councillors Ollie Chap- man, George Ramsay, Joe Kennedy and Bill Houston in attendance. Project Mayday is a study being funded by the Federal Government to determine the inci- dence of wife beating along the North Shore and the need for alter- nate housing to be used by women if they are forced to leave their homes. The Terrace Bay Council was invited by the Project's organizers to comment on the stu- dy. Reeve Speer said that he had drafted a letter containing his personal comments and if the Council concurred with the letter he would submit it on their be- half also. In his comments Speer said, "Wife bat- tering in North Amer- ica is becoming increa- singly more common. It is no longer an isolated incident that is covered up but a crime which because of pressure of women's groups is now talked about and being prosecuted more active- ly by Police forces throughout not only the provinces by the count- ry. The new ammend- ments to the criminal code have enabled pol- ice to lay charges more easily than before."' "I would however, exercise caution and give a great deal of thought as to the need for a facility in the north shore communities. I would like to see the ser- vices offered by the other agencies, Child- ren's. and Family Ser- vices, Ontario Legal Aid, Doctor's, Hospit- als, North Shore Mental Health Centres as well as community services in these areas, investi- gated to see if any or all of these existing facili- ties fill the need and have one agency res- ponsible for all Social, Economic and Health needs rather than over- lap of programs which does not really meet all the needs of the peo- ple." In his remarks the Reeve said that he wanted to stress that he was in favour of the study being made, but that he was concerned that new facilities or programs might then be established that would duplicate already ex- isting services. The Reeve said that he was also concerned that if new programs were es- tablished, the Muni- cipalities might be re- quired by the provin- cial government to pro- vide financial support as they do for other Boards and Council's. | Councillor Ollie Chap- man said that she did not think that the Coun- cil would have to pro- vide any funds. "It is an attempt to find out just how significant the problem is."' Councillor Bill Hous- ton said that he shared the Reeve's concern about duplication of ser- vices and the possibility of compulsory municipal contributions to a new program. '"'There cer- tainly has been a move afoot to get everything under one umbrella. There has to be some coming together. How- ever, I agree with Ollie that something has to be done about this now."' Councillor George Ramsay said, "No one can possibly condone someone beating some- one else whether it is the husband beating the wife or anything else. We can't sweep it under the rug. I know it hap- pens but I have a hard time believing it. But you're right, there has to be a price tag on it and we will have to look at that." Lorraine Seppala sent a letter to the Council on behalf of the Rossport Fish Derby requesting that the Council provide a prize or a cash contri- bution for this year's Derby. The Council con- tributed $100 to the Derby last year, and on a motion by Ollie Chap- man, seconded by Bill Houston, decided to contribute the same amount this year. In reviewing the Min- utes the Reeve said, "We dealt with the problem of hydro metre disputes. You remember the difficulty it was get- ting to be a real prob- lem for our staff." "Well, some new infor- mation has come to our attention. In a nutshell we set out to discourage frivolous or nuisance disputes by putting a re- fundable charge on the metre examination. We now find that it is not in our power to dictate the continued on page 3