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Terrace Bay News, 31 Oct 1973, p. 1

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Yol. I6 No. 43 October 3I, 1973 I5¢ Per Copy TERRACE BAY COUNCIL QUOTES . Before the actual meeting procedure of Township Council on October 23rd, Mrs. Linda Wills and Mrs. Leslie Samp verbally expressed their views to Council concerning a large 'hole that has been dug next to the Wills residence. Their main concern was with the children playing in this area and to try and avoid a serious accident before it occurred, especial- ly with the winter season shortly upon us. Mrs. Wills stated she had been in touch with Kimberly-Clark about this problem and felt she was just getting "the run around", which is why she brought the problem to the town. The minutes of the previous council meet- ing were then approved as submitted. Business arising from these minutes concerned the con- flicting letters received from the Ministry of the Environment and Council will ask for an. extension of time tc upgrade the land fill area. ' Correspondence was read, beginning with a letter from the Treasurer of Economics. This department reported that By-law 260 would be- come effective 30 days after being received by the Ministry. A letter from the Ministry of Community and Social Services stated there were no funds available for outdoor pools left. Questioning this Council learned that if projects are sub- mitted before the deadline funds are granted and they can submit this years expense on next years prcject. Barnett McQueen wrote informing Council that nc steam will be available in the heating change over for the coffee urns in the arena. Prices will be sought on electric urns. continued page 2 T ONTARIO YOUNG TRAVELLERS Northern Ontario students will find it easier to visit Toronto under a new travel program announced last week by Education Minister Thomas Wells. Under the program, called Ontario Young Travellers, grade 7 and 8 classes can apply for cash subsidies that will assist students, teachers and adult chaperones to spend at least two days in the provincial capital. To qualify, schools must be north of a line running from Mattawa through Callander and along the French River. The subsidies are for transportation only; visiting classes will have to pay for accommodation, meals and admissions. Mr. Wells said that Toronto was selected not only because it is the provincial capital, but also because it offers the greatest con- centration of educational and cultural facil- ities in Ontario. "About 8C percent of Ontario pupils have relatively easy access to these resources," Mr. Wells said. "The Young Travellers program is for the 20 percent who don't." 2 The subsidies are kased orn the estimated bus transportatior costs from the schocl to Toror.to. As an example, & Thunder Bay class of 32 and three adults visitirg Torontc, a I,700 mile round trip, would receive a suk- sidy of akout $I,800. The same size group visiting. from Kapuskas- ing, a I,070 mile round trip, would receive about $800.00. Mr. Wells said that last year 5C,00C stu- dents visited the Ontario Legislature, 300,000 toured the Ontario Science Centre, 165,000 continued page 3

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