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BELLUZ Realty Ltd. Box 715 Terrace Bay ~" Ontario -- | POT-2WO Juris Zdanovskis Broker : 1-807-824-2933 Simcoe Plaza TERRACE BAY -- > a ean Vol. 43, No. 2 " SUPERIOR SHORELINE INSURANCE LTD. 825-9492 825-9646 __--Elleen Belliveau The North Shore Insurance Specialists! 40 cents The Terrace Bay branch of the Royal Canadian Legion has donated money to the McCausland Hospital. Belliveau, middle, president of the legion's Women's Auxiliary, is shown presenting 'a cheque for $1,000 to John Smrke, left, chairman of the public relations committee for the McCausland Hospital. Standing at the right is Clem Legion donation Lillian donation. Fewer, chief executive officer for the hospital. The money is going to be used to purchase an EKG machine with a treadmill for the hospital. Special note: the Women's Auxiliary to the Legion had the honour of lighting the top of the.Christmas tree this year for having given the largest (Ken Lusk photo), Spee, TOP Se a gt € pit ee eS Re tem i eats doing business. $21. at noon. Ne .spaper price and deadline changes The price of a single copy of the Terrace Bay-Schreiber News has increased from 35 cents to 40 cents effective with this issue. The extra five cents for a single copy of the News will be added to the commission the News dealers receive for selling the paper. As well, subscription rates have been modest- ly increased to reflect the increasing cost of A subscription for one "year in town is $15; for two years, $25; out-of-town for one year is 'Deadline- in order to have your advertisement appear in a Wednesday paper, the deadline for advertising copy has now changed to ts ermaie in lg SOP ec aes? 8 Hearing into transfer facility set By Ken Lusk The News Schreiber residents Rose Marie Renaud and Neil and Ethel Nesbitt attended the Schreiber . Council meeting on January 12 and again voiced their concerns about the new CP Rail mine con- centrate transfer facility. Renaud and several hundred other residents appealed a bylaw that would have allowed CP Rail to operate its newly-constructed mine concentrate transfer facility in Schreiber. This appeal necessitated an Ontario Municipal Board Hearing which has been scheduled for April: 12 (and 13th if necessary) at 1 p.m. in the Schreiber council _ chambers. Rose Marie Renaud told Reeve Mike Cosgrove and Councillors Ed Borutski, Bob Krause, Gerry Godin and Tom Quinton that she is still concerned about harmful contaminants blowing in the air and spilling to the ground at the concentrate site. Renaud told council-she wants to know what plans CP Rail has to. clean up any spills that may occur and also what hours CP plans to run its transfer facility. Is CP "allowed to transfer (the concentrate) before the hearing?," Renaud asked council. If CP Rail starts-to use the transfer facility before the hear-- ing, it is not permitted use, Schreiber Clerk-Treasurer Aurel Gauthier told Renaud. Renaud also told council she is concerned that if in time is it learned there is a hazard to the air and ground, it will be too late at that time to do anything. But CP Bar has. "MIC (Ministry of Transportation and Communications) and. MOE (Ministry of the Environment) approval (to operate the facility)," Counc. Tom Quinton reminded Renaud. A letter from MOE to CP states, "This Ministry agrees with your proposal..." The letter also states, "...no Certificate of Approval will be required either under the Environmental Protection Act or the Ontario Water Resources Act for your facility. "Your are reminded, however, that the facility is to be operated _ in an environmentally conscien- tious manner at all times." Counc. Quinton told Renaud . that he believes that as a munici- pality, he and his fellow council members are powerless in this sit- uation. "My objection is to (any) dumping before the Ontario Municipal Board hearing," said 'Renaud. "CP has asked it (the hearing) to be advanced. It is unfortunate the hearing is set in April," said Schreiber Clerk Gauthier. "That facility is not going to stop the start of that mine," inter- jected Counc. Quinton. "They're going to do something with it (the concentrate)." Traffic problem Renaud is also concerned there will be an increased traffic hazard' in the area where an access road leads to the transfer facility. Her main complaint is that there already is a problem where two lanes merge into one. With the addition of the access road, it can only get worse, Renaud believes. The additional noise and increased traffic resulting from the transfer of the concentrate from the mine to the facility also worries Renaud. But Counc. Bob Krause 'reminded her that the township cannot delegate where any large trucks drive in the township. "Our streets are the highways," he said. "Three groups of traffic (will be) trying to merge in one spot," Renaud said. End of January Minnova Inc. Winston Lake Mine Manager Tom Dickson told the News plans are for mine.con- centrate to be made for the first time last weekend. He added the concentrate will not actually leave the mine site until the end of January. Dickson said that due to the fact that the transfer facility is not being used, the concentrate could be directly loaded onto rail cars at the end of this month. Superintendent. of Employee Relations for Minnova Inc. John Smrke corroborated Dickson's story and added that because the transfer facility cannot be used at present, the concentrate could be shipped to Quebec by truck for refining. This is one way the concen- trate could get to Quebec, Smrke said, until the hearing into the - matter is settled. It is Smrke's understanding that CP Rail does not intend to use the transfer facility until the. issue is settled. Smrke said CP Rail is not interested in doing anything out- side of the law and that the rail company only has good inten- tions for all concerned. The problem will not cause a hold up as far as the mine starting ' up goes, Smrke said. Because the mine will be start- ing up for the first time, Smrke told the News there will be very little concentrate made in this, the primary stage. The company expects more concentrate to be made as time goes by, with more being turned out toward the end of this month. CP's Regional Manager for Public Relations, John Cox, was contacted by the News and was asked what CP plans to do with the concentrate in light of the fact the facility cannot be used. "We'll see what happens," is what Cox told the News. continued on page 3