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Page 4, News, Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Single copies 40 cents TERRACE BAY The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Subscription rates per year x2 : Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT-2WO. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. in town $15.00/yr. 3 SCHREIBER Second-Class Mailing Permit Number 0867 $ ¥ two years $25 es : out of town $21.00/yr. =a ' EIROL <ccaccocceessecssscvecsceccscccscnssssenccccesnscssscrensenssenseecenssnavnse Ken Lusk Member of Ontario Community AAVEFtiSIIng .........scsccecsesencsseeeeecenencensenneenee Julie Wright Newspapers Association and The CNA ; CORN a ac eeasistrernerncnesevomeapeieianions = aes Gayle Fournier Canadian Community Newspapers" Production Manage ........-s:ssssssssesssneesessneeeesseeenetenes Saila Young Association The first meeting of the Canada Day Committee was held on February 4th, showing that no time is being wast- ed in getting ready for this year's celebrations. Many things were discussed, the main subject being the planning of a bigger and better celebration with more events that would include more family participation. The committee is looking for input from the public and more importantly, is asking for your help and support. What would you like to see? more of, less of? Would you like to be on the planning committee or perhaps you would like to help out. Your ideas and suggestions are welcome and-encouraged, because you are the reason for the celebration in the first place. Canada Day has proven to be a very successful event in Terrace Bay, and more people are staying in town so they can join in the festivities. Many tourists and visitors are also stopping and enjoying the celebrations. Canada Day falls on a long weekend this year and the committee asks that you don't leave town...you won't be disappointed! Some new events that the committee is hop- ing to include this year are a super stars contest, a family scavenger hunt, a bike decorating and costume contest for children, a youth dance, a Miss Canada Day contest, pony rides and the return of the dunking tank, by popular demand. Come on and take part in your community and your country's celebrations. Join a committee or send along your ideas and suggestions. Only with your support can this year's celebrations be a success. For more informa- tion, you can contact Freda Boucher at 825-9269. The next meeting is on Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in the board room of bp Ce IDET AE 4 ee Aha (en Letters to the editor the recreation centre. Come and join in on the planning. Joke of the Week Question: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change. Resident lashes out at council's actions To the council of Terrace Bay: There is a saying that reads, "You're not getting older, you're just getting better." In the case of the Terrace Bay council, this statement couldn't be further from the truth. I have been a resident of this town for more than 30 years and I have see some great projects com- pleted and some that were white elephants. But the latest to date is the pos- sibility of having an A&W in the rec centre. This is totally ludi- crous, ridiculous, stupid and any other adjective you may wish to throw in. I pay, as do most of the resi- dents in Terrace Bay, a yearly membership to enjoy the complex. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a private enterprise to put in a nationally franchised business and make a living from my tax dollars. see page 5 irthur "Way back in the late '70's' an American newspaper and maga- zine columnist by the name of Bob Greene looked around and realized that North America was being invaded by aliens, The creatures had infiltrated business, politics, the arts and entertain- ment -- and no one but Bob Greene seemed to be aware of them. The columnist knew it was his duty to blow the whistle on the monsters, but he deeded to brand them, to give them a name that would expose them to the rest of the world. He ran down a list of their characteristics. The beings were youthful...they dwelled mostly in cities...they preferred white collar occupations where they wouldn't get their hands dirty... Young. Urban. Professionals. And thus was born the Yuppie. Yuppies came in all sizes and colours, but they could most read- ily be recognized by their slavish Coe ee devotion to one overriding inter- Black very lifeblood that chugged through the veins of Yuppies. They firmly believed they deserved to have the best cars, the best clothes, the best jobs, the best condos and the best drugs. Fine wines were favoured. Small, expensive, impossibly snobby restaurants flourished. "Upscale" was the adjective of the day, BMW's were the voiture of choice (just until you can afford a Porsche) and television game shows -- sort of Basic Training for potential Yuppies -- were never more popular. So was a TV show that would have been laughed off the tube a decade ear- lier: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, hosted by the-toadlike, sycophantic and perfectly mon- ickered Robin Leach. Yuppies had their pop hymns: Material Girl, Gimme Money, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. The celluloid heroes that flourished in the Age of the Yuppie were peo- ple like Dirty Harry, Rocky, Rambo, Bronson, Chuck Norris -- , ee? | --o.e % 9 # 4 ae Te Fe m4 wad brea ag, 5) ple dedicated to the First Principle of Yuppiedom: Me First. Third World Problems? Yawn. That's what you got for not finish- ing in the number one slot. But then...something hap- pened. Maybe it began when Rock Hudson died of AIDS. Perhaps it started when that coke- tooting cartel of Yuppie brokers got nailed and jailed for crooked trading. It could have been Black Monday, when all those Wall Street bulls got gelded and the whole worlds financial fantasy bubble burst. Most likely it was a combina- tion of all of the above and more, but no matter how you cut it, sometime during the past year or so the Me Decade suddenly lost it's crass and shiny driving wheel. Greed isn't In anymore and nei- ther is Yuppichood. That familiar Gucci-shod, Piaget-burdened, red- suspendered, sports-car piloting image is becoming as popular as the Herpes virus. ee % oe ers SES Yee ee are dead.~. Yuppie Power Declining Not by a long shot. But their expensively manicured grip on our times has been broken. Yuppies are on their way to becoming as relevant as hippies. And the Yuppies who are left _ "§ are beginning to turn on their own. A New York movie theatre recently showed an advertisement for an up and coming Rambo flick. The yuppie audience booed and jeered every time the slack- jawed visage of Sylvester Stallone filled the screen. Rambo? Booed? Sacrilege! _ When asked to explain the hostile reaction, the public rela- tions flak for the Rambo movie curled his lip and sneered that the audience was merely "Yuppy Swine". Perfect -- we've got Yuppies and Rambo freaks turning on each other. Now if we could just convince Hollywood to give us one last, absolutely final Rambo movie -- sav. Rambo XXVIIL ---TheFinal - - Chapter. SEE RAMBO ENDURE THE DREADED YUPPIE DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS AS RAZOR SHARP AMERICAN EXPRESS GOLD CARDS SHRED HIS FLESH! THRILL AS RAMBO, ARMED ONLY WITH A ROLLED. UP_COPY2O0F THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CLEANS OUT A SUSHI BAR INFESTED WITH A NEST OF FANATICAL COKE-CRAZED INVESTMENT ANALYSTS! FILMED ON LOCATION IN THE BASEMENT OF BLOOM- INGDALES! COSTUMES BY RALPH LAUREN AND JOHN- SON'S' BABY OIL! ALL SALES FINAL! As they say in Hollywood: "Wotta CONC CRE are cere eee