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RECREATION FLYER (Cont.) .. v..ul HOPS TEEN TOWN : Progran Committee - Judy Holford » + Phil Miller Our first meeting proved very inter- esting and it was decided to have Tuesday night for physical activities and Thursday nights for social activities. The opening date is Tuesday,.June 28th,. Schreiber people are going to be asked to: join in our teen town. TENNIS CLUB : We see that our ternis courts are really in use this summer, We ask the co-operation of the parents . and children to stand by this ruling "No One Plays Tennis Without Running. Shoes On", Too many younger people ~ are -wearing-shoes with heels digging up our courts, We maintain them to try to give you good ayarts so keep the above in mind, ROLLER SKATERS it looks to us*that this aeélvety is really good and the people like it; Commencing next week the time of starting will be 8:30 not 9:00 p.m. «Your night will be from 8:30 - 10:30, One week from this Saturday that is, on the 2th there will be roller skating for the children. Their admission will be 25¢ SER: from 2:00-4:00 p.m. o~0-0 CONSERVATION CORNER Advanced spring weather and early breakup of ice on the northern lakes brought Ontario's forest fire protection services into full-scale. operation this year at least two weeks ahead of normal schedule. The Hon. Clare E, Mepledoram, Minister of Lands end Forests, announced that all forces, on the ground and*in the air, were in action earlier than in years in face of a mounting fire threat presented. by unseasonably warm weather, fast dis- appearance of snow in the bush and rapid drying out of vegetation. The tinder box proportions of the fire hazard brought some 1,200 rangers and other protection personnel to their (Cont. on next col.) Posed CONSERVATION CORNER (Cont. posts-across the: Province, the -manning- of 311 fire towers and the placing of the Department's full air patrol fleet 'on station. Usually the 40 or more Beavers and other aircraft begin to leave 'the Division of Air Service headquarters at Sault Ste, Marie on May Ist and the exodus to patrol areas continues for several weeks as the planes follow the receding ice line to hinterland assignments. This year, all were on post by May 3rd, consider- ably ahead of schedule. The pilots and the keen-eyed observers in the 279 steel and 32 wooden fire towers which rise 80 to 100 feet above the forests on commanding hilltops, will keep constant vigil for warning "smokes" until the official closing of the forest fire season on October 31st. April, first month of the fire' sea on, saw some 50 fires which burned about 500 acres--mostly small fires, quickly con- trolled, The alarming feature about them, however, is that almost all were caused by human carelessness--two-thirds of them by campers, smokers and settlers. Carelessness in handling small. fires or smoking materials started most of the fires which, though quickly subdued, still were 4 threat to dry forests and surround - ing property as well as serious detriment to all the potentialities of the areas burned over. Neglect of safety rules was evident, officials say, in all fire | districts affected. For cxample, campers caused the biggest April forest. fire which swept over 100 acres in the Sudbury area on April 27th, Settlers caused a fire which burned 85 acres in the same district the same day, Railway operations caused a.25-acre fire in Kenora district; campers were res- ponsible for a 20-acre blaze in Lindsay district and smokers in the North Bay area are blamed for burning 50 acres. Smokers also burned 25 acres in the Port Arthur area, and the R.C.M.P. ere investigating this' one, as well as two incendiary fires, one near Lindsay and the other in the Sudbury district, Near Sault Ste, Marie, 35 acres were set ablaze by care~ less smokers, 0-0-0