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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, July 22, 1987 errace y _The Terrace Bay-Schrelber News Is published every Wedneeday by: Laurentian Publishing Single copies 35 cents Sct ae etber Co. Ltd., Box 679, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 826-3747. - Subscription rates per year , Second Class Mailing Permit Number 0867 in town $14.00 cn Sante ee ee a ee Ken Lusk out of town $18.00- C-- | Member of Ontario Community Newpapers Association and The Canadian Community Newspapers Association Aduerening. 74 a ee 5 Se. Betty St. Amand (Oto tse ee? ha. gtk SS, Se <Le S Gayle Fournier Production Co-ordinator ......................cccceeececeeeneeeneeeees Nancy Parkin Ambulance service Ambulance services across northwestern Ontario will receive additional annual funding totalling $587,000 this year, Health Minister Murray Elston announced. In the districts of Kenora and Rainy River, the new funding amounts to $306,000. It will enable Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora and LaVerendrye Hospital, Fort Frances, to hire up to five additional staff each to provide professional dispatching around the clock. The new funding will also pay the salaries of a full-time ambulance manager at the Margaret Cochenour Hospital in Red Lake and a full-time volunteer ambulance co-ordinator at the hospital's Ear Falls location. In the district of Thunder Bay, the new funding amounts to $281,000. This will allow for the hiring of four additional ambulance officers in the city of Thunder Bay, a part-time ambulance officer at Terrace Bay and Nipigon, and volunteer ambulance co-ordinators at Longlac, Nakina and Upsaia. "The ministry has allocated more than $5.8 million across the province as part of a continuing effort to support a reliable and effective ambulance service, " Mr. Elston said. "The ministry will continue to review individual ambulance services onthe basis of local need." 'It's good to know that one of the most inportant services that a community has, the ambulance service, is obviously thought of and taken care of. The McCausland Hospital Ambulance Service recently received a new ambulance to better-assist it with the much-needed service it provides to the community. (More on the new ambulance in next week's issue). week - nonymous Quote of the Bases | could just choke you."- Arthur Black Letters to the editor School board trustee leaves board- doesn't agee with certain policies Dear Editor: I am requesting that this letter of resignation as trustee on the North of Superior R.C.S.S. Board be placed on the agenda of the next regular meeting of the board. It is with much regret and despair that I submit this request to the board. For the eight years as trustee on our board, I have supported our goals to provide the best Catholic education for our chil- dren of the system, keeping in mind the responsibility to all of our ratepayers. In my mind, this accountabili- ty is not to be taken lightly. For the past two years I have had grave concerns with a num- Coca - Colonization for Canadians? By Arthur Black "Canada is alas, forgetting ' that it is its pioneers who built this country and made it what it was; now it wants to ve like everyone else and~ have autocamps instead of 'trees and Coca-Cola stands. instead 'of human beings." " The writer Malcolm Lowry penned those thoughts 'way back in 1950. It is probadly just as well that Lowry died a few years later. He'd have trouble.believing the unseemly haste with which Canadians are lining up.to leap into the giant American blender. "Coca-colonialism" someone once dubbed : it-- the-process of conditioning people-to crave American goods and vibrate to American sensibilities." Coco- Colonialism is -a_ global phenomenon -- the Brits. watch Dallas while' Muscovites buy black market Levis and 'Chinese line up to buy. bottles. of , yes, Coca-Cola. The whole..world is being Americanized,,but nowhere has the invasion: been more successful, nowhere..is total victory nearer.than here in Canada. We buy our cokes (or Pepsis) at McDonalds then we drive our Chevs and Fords and Chryslers to the Odeon or MGM Cineplex to watch Sylvester Stallone or Clint Eastwood fight for Truth, Justice and The American Way. And when Rambo or Dirty Harry has made the world safe for democracy we head home, crack a Coors or a Miller Lite, flip on the tube and catch a few minutes of Carson or Letterman. In Toronto it's dead easy to rustle up a mob of 35 or 40 thousand people any summer afternoon, jam 'em into a drafty. old football stadium to watch a squad of 20-odd Americans and Dominicans perform in a game of America's Pastime -- baseball. Canadians eat, drink, talk, shop, drive -- even dress like Americans, right down to our Fruit of The Looms -- what's more we've got a Prime Minister flogging a Free Trade package designed to drive us even deeper into the claustrophobic Republican embrace. Well. I don't know about you, but if I wanted to be American, I'd haven't -- which makes it doubly depressing to realize that my staying put is irrelevant -- America's coming to me. Still, it's nice to see that Canadians can still stiffen what's left of their backbone once in awhile. I'm referring to what I cal: the Club Med Kerfuffle. You hadn't heard? Oh, it was a grand little dust up. Club Med is a multinational tourist resort operation that's heavy on the Hedonism. Club Med tries to attract those jaded, lonely (but not indigent) North American citizens who are fed up with the humdrummity of a nine-to-five existence not to mention the unpredictable vagaries of a weather system unduly influenced by Arctic highs and lows. Club Med is pleased, for a hefty financial consideration, to whisk such unfortunates off to one of their many Feel Good spas that dot the tropical climes. There, one encounters sum and sand and cheap wine and moonlight beach parties and ever smiling a Club Med flunkies in quantities sufficient to temporarily erase existence -- say, life in Pittsburgh. _ This past spring, Club Med launched a campaign to attract more Canadians. They did this by running a newspaper ad that showed two pictures. One was of a tumbledown tarpaper shack. Next to it was a photo of a tropical island, palms swaying, surf crashing. the headline read: There's Up North... And There's Down South. The copy in the ad went on to suggest that tourists could choose between the North with its "mosquitoes, hot and cold running mice, and rain..." the carefree splendours of a Club Med vacation. And that, as they say down at the McDonalds Takeout Window, is when the chips hit the fan. Canadians were incensed. They blasted Club Med with letters, telegrams and phone calls. The director of the North Bay Chamber of Commerce called it an offense to all Canadians. A B.C. tourism. official called it an insult. Ontario's minister of tourism John Eakins branded it "a smear". Outraged customers began writing in to cancel bookings. ber of decisions that our board has made. I believe it is extremely important, for the success of the board, that trustees support the corporate decisions of the board. I personally find that I can no longer do this. I question whether the ratepayers I represent would support these same decisions. _ continued on page 5 Club Med knows bad PR when it smells it. The ad was quickly yanked and letters of apology from the Resort Giant began to cover the land like a fine blanket of... you know. Mister Alex El- Kayem, Club Med _ general manager for Canada is still assuring anyone who will listen that his company will never, ever cast aspirations on Canada's "northness" again. Only a minor skirmish in the ongoing Coca-Colonization of Canada, I suppose... but I find it cheering that despite having a leader who sings duets and dances jigs for his supper, there are some Canadians who still refuse to roll over and cry "Uncle".