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\ Vol.18 No. 48 Wednesday, December 14, 1983 Terrace Bay 2 Schreiber Public Library Terrace Bay POT 2WO Ontario GCs Toltenen., It's that time again, when the Brownies are flown-up to Girl Guides. At last week's ly-Up' ceremonies the above girls were promoted: (back row |. - r.) Debbie McDougall, Annadette Clarke, Kim Rennette, Bonnie Simpson, Kelly Wilson, France Bilodeau, Renee Kaizer and Sian MacKay. (front row |. - r.) Kerry Robinson, Sherry Daniels, Treena Burns, Erica Pyhtila and Bonnie Brake. Congratulations girls! ' Deadline extended for "Snowman Contest" Wouldn't you know it. The first time that we at the "NEWS'"' decide to give the kids a contest to look forward to, it doesn't snow enough to have it. But stay calm kids! The "NEWS" is extending the deadline for the "Create a Snowman Contest'. The deadline for ALL entries will now be Friday, December 16th. Judging will take place over the weekend of 17th and 18th. So put those thinking caps on kids, and try to outdo your neighbours' creations. Entry forms may be found in this week's issue of the ""NEWS"' or you may pick one up at our office. * And by the way, IF it still doesn't snow enough to warrant making snowmen, the contest will again be extended for the early part of January. On the morning of Friday, December 2nd, over 40 students of the Holy Angels School in Schreiber were given awards for their parti- cipation in the Terry Fox Run last September. There were over 47 run- ners who took part in this event and the total number of pledges re- ceived were $1,787.32; quite an impressive fig- ure for this number of participants. The adult who receiv- ed in the most pledges was Michael Souliere with a total of $476.00; the child with the most pledges was Jodie Soarinea with a total of $91.25; the youngest participants were Jason Blier and Wendy Mor- rison both aged 4. Presenting the stud- ents with their awards were Roxanne McLel- lan - Campaign Chair- man and Billie Anne Saarinen, President. Congratulations go out to the following stud- ents for their efforts in attempting to fight that dreadful disease cancer: Cindy Alfarano, Julie Alfarano, Chrissie Alfa- rano, Tamara Bilec, Sandra Buso, Marcia Buso, Jason Blier, Lian- ne Bearysarlent, Gino Caccamo, Jason Cacca- mo, Sandy Bourguig- non, Debbie Bourguig- non, Coe Commisso, Nancy Commisso, Rocco Crupi, Dwayne Courtemanche, Christ- ine Courtemanche, Angels' students awarded Christine Costa, Lonnie Connelly, Loralie Dour- nier, Philip Dament, Lynette Gauthier, Nicole Gauthier, Timmy Glad, Deanna Cosgrove, Michelle Henri, Betty Huard, Derek LeBlanc, Candace McLellan, Wendy Morrison, Na- tasha Morrill, Kimara Morrill, Jason Nes- bitt, Tammy Nesbitt, Cory Parent, Curtis Pa- rent, Paul Pellegrino, Janey Pellegrino, Ash- ley Riley, Michael Sou!- iere, Jodie Saarinen, Craig Saarinen, Bobby Spadoni, Graig Spa- doni, Stan Spadoni, Bar- bara Spadoni, John Stor- tini, Tara Tiller and May Valentino. IVIL.N.R. hosts Roger Davison, Unit Forester for Longlac, Open House interested participants during the M.N.R. Open House. On Tuesday, De- cember 6th, the Min- istry of Natural Resour- ces conducted an Open House to present the forest management agreements for the Longlac and Nakina for- ests of the Kimberly- Clark of Canada Ltd. licencing area. The purpose of the Open House was to pro- vide the public with an opportunity to review and comment on. the draft Forest Manage- ment Agreement (F.M.A.) before it was finalized. They openly welcomed anyone's questions and comments and invited the public sector to become more involved in the forest management planning process. Eight steps are nor- mally taken while pre- paring the Forest Man- agement Agreement De- velopment Schedule and these include: 1) a survey of not satisfactorily regenerat- ed lands (N.S.R.) 2) Determining the area to be placed under a F.M.A. 3) Development of the ground rules for the F.M.A. (treatment costs and road specification) 4) Development of work programme fore- casts for a five year term 5) Development of the economic data for the F.M.A. 6) *Public involve- ment in the area to be placed under F.M.A. (*this is now the posi- tion that the M.N.R. is in for this area) 7) Signing of the F.M.A. and 8) Preparation of man- agement and operating plans for the F.M.A. area with appropriate public input. Following an Open House, the Company (in this case Kimberly Clark) has 6 months to come up with a 5 Year Operating Plan and one year to produce a 20 Year Forest Manage- ment Plan. This will in- clude a detailed plan specifying when the allocations will be cut and what types of roads ' will be constructed. Geraldton District Forest Management Supervisor Darko Jo- vic went on to explain the new, agreement which will be put into practice for both the Na- kina and the Longlac areas. Under this new The Modified Manage- ment Areas (M.M.A.) will be areas that re- quire particular man- agement prescriptions in order to maintain or improve resource values such as fish and wild- life habitat, forest gene- tic resources, scenic areas and other rec- reational and tourism values. explains Operating Plans to one of the many M.M.A.'s replace the previously used terms of "forest reserve"- and "'buffer". The M.M.A.'s are dif- ferent from Forest Re- serves in that forest re- serves were often estab- lished in the past to control access and pro- vide environmental pro- tection by leaving a solid no cutting zone or "buf- fer.'" M.M.A.'s repre- sent a more integrated approach to land man- agement where pre- scriptions may _in- clude areas of no cut, selective cut or partial clearcut. M.M.A.'s along shorelines will normally be managed by a two zone concept, where an inner minimal disturb- ance zone is next to the water and generally pre- scribed for no cutting or selective cutting. The outer zone will be an area of more general use, but certain aspects of management will have to be carefully con- trolled. The extent of and prescriptions for each zone will depend on the feature to be protected, degree of slope and soil. material. Although ac- cess restrictions within the M.M.A.'s may be prescribed for environ- mental or wildlife habi- tat protection, access control will be imple- continued on page 3