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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 6, 1985 Terrace Bay Schreiber Anchor _ The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2WO. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER .... Vivian Ludington REPORTER ........ ee ee se ee Sandra Sebestyen OFFICE....... Sg See eene we erieeee sre Kelley Ann Chesley PRODUCTION MANAGER.......................---.00e0e: Mary Melo 2) =] Feeling guilty By Sharyl Marriott Lowry Do you ever feel guilty? Do you ever feel-uncom- fortable because you have so much, and others so lit- tle? I do. If you don't - turn to the next page. This arti- cle's not for you. When I look at the TV and newspapers and I hear of famine in Africa, gassing in India and war in South America, when I go to bed warm and safe, I feel guil- ty. Why should I, dear Lord, be so blessed? I do not work harder than the woman who earns 36 cents a week to keep her family alive. Nor do you love me any more than the man who stuffs newspaper in his jacket so he can keep warm while sleeping on the street. Sometimes I get so caught up in trying to figure out this mystery of suffering I forget to be grateful and do something. Guilt is a-trap if it doesn't lead anywhere. A viscious circle that tires you out. Guilt loses a lot of its meaning if that's all there is, and it can cause mental illness. The ancients believed that guilt was a strong warrior figure who, in myth, 'would awaken a sleeper and challenge them to a fight. In many ways this is true. To awaken sometimes is to feel guilty and wonder. The challenge comes when we seek a resolution to the suilt. And the fight (not all fights, you notice, we are not Christ) is where we feel the most challenged, the most nudg- ed by conscience on some issue we want to do something about. And the important thing is not the winning of a fight so much as the trying in the first place, especially since most Arthur Black Tales of the big apple fights against famine and disaster are not our fightse alone. The trying, the do- ing, is so important that even for a glass of water Christ would give us heaven itself. Now I am not saying that guilt should or ~ is the only motivator. Love is much stronger, as our 'Lord proved. But for myself it is sometimes too powerful to ignore, too persistent, and a useful place to begin and not to be trapped. 'Think about it. Be honest. Where does your challenge come from to- day, the heart or your con- science being woke up by a warrior with a challenge. Lewis thanks students Money was collected for the Ethiopian relief by the Terrace Bay public school children in the sum of $1628.09. Mr. Stephen Lewis sent the responding letter. Mr. -- D.L. Principal Terrace Bay -Public School Davey Dear Mr. Davey, Thank you for your re- cent letter with its extraor- dinary contribution to Ethiopia Relief. I have turned the bank draft directly over to Mr. David MacDonald, the co- ordinator of Canada's emergency aid program in Ethiopia. He joins with me in saluting all of the students and staff and parents of Terrace Bay Public School who under- took so many thoughtful and unselfish projects in the cause of raising funds for Ethiopia. I cannot imnagine a more worthwhile Christmas gift. I cannot imagine a more compas- sionate and useful response to:such desperate human tragedy. You should especizally tell the students of your school that the money they sent will actually save lives - probably the lives of youngsters of their own age. Your students can carry through their lifetimes the knowledge that when Ehtiopian children cried out for help, Canadian children answered. That is truly something to be proud of. Thank you again. Yours sincerely, Stephen Lewis Ambassador and Permanent Representative The Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations In the interest of fair play Dear Editor: The present controversy over the Recreation Com- mittee's policy of suspen- ding people from the privilege of using the facilities certainly seems to have some people pretty worked up. So in the interest of in- jecting a little humour into a tense situation, I would like to suggest that the Recreation Committee ex- pand its policy of suspen- ding people for one year for misusing the town's recreational facilities. For instance, it could be made to apply to people who illegally park red automobiles in front of the Rec. Centre. Or to people who habitually and very un- skillfully put golfballs into a certain sand trap on a cer- tain fairway on the golf course. But then, perhaps, that isn't a very good idea. After all, the Rec. Com- mittee would have to move its meetings out of the Rec. Centre if the two Coun- cillors who sit on it weren't allowed on the property for a year. Yours in the interest of fair play. Harry Huskins The good old day Dear Reader, Images of Port Morien: Gowrie School, dances in the Orange Hall, telephone party lines, the old stores, the Hobo, coasting down Peter's Hill, Billy Murphy and Johnny Murrant Or- chestras, the old row and the Watford shipwreck. Former residents and friends who have any im- ages of Port Morien are in- vited to relive their memories during a reunion being held this year from August 2-5. This gathering will especially honour our community's . senior citizens who naturally store the most memories. A complete program 'centered on the theme "'The Good Old Days"' is being planned by the Port Morien Reunion Commit- tee in cooperation with the Warden of Cape Breton County, Joseph Wadden. Many preparations will be made to guarantee a good time for. all Port Morieners, past and present. If you are interested in the Port Morien reunion and would like to help en- sure its success, please tell former residents of Port Morien, now residing in your area, about this big gathering. To remember past days: chatting with a neighbour in front of Mary Williams' store (or was it Joe Owen's, Irwin's or Leslie's?), attending the competitive Auburn- Gowrie hockey games, having telephone operator Marjorie Orr connect your continued on page 5 Somehow, the garbage story seems to say it all. You haven't heard? A few weeks ago, a Hollywood crew was filming some scenes in downtown Toronto. Toronto's been acting as standin for any number of anonymous American cities in various Hollywood movies of late. In this case, Toronto was supposed to look like it was New York. Big pro- blem. Toronto was too clean to pass for New York. So the producer ordered a huge pile of garbage from ' Special Effects. The garbage arriv- ed and set directors spread it around. to achieve that special New York am- bience. When the garbage was well and truly strewn, everybody knock- ed off for a coffee break. When they came back to start shooting...no garbage. A Toronto ci- ty works crew had cleaned up the mess and the location was spic and span. *&$9-ing hick towns! Give ema sophisticated concept and they'll screw it up every time! It makes me chuckle to think of all the sneers and jibes Toronto-indeed all of Canada-takes from all those cool, with-it outsiders. All because we are, let's face it, more than a touch bland and unexciting and predictable. New York. Now that's exciting! If you don't believe me, ask Dick Cavett's wife. She is actress Carrie Nye. And she's not your typical New Yorker. For one thing, she fights back when she's mugged. She was mugged just a couple of weeks ago by some thug who knocked her down, grabbed her purse and took off. Carrie Nye took off after him, roaring, "Stop, thief!"' No one did try to stop the thief of course, because there were only native New Yorkers around, and they're way too smart to get involv- ed. Finally the thief stopped, punch- ed Carrie Nye in the face, then step- ped into his car and drove away. The investigating officer looked at Carrie Nye. in disbelief and asked: "'Lady, wadidja expect? You from outta town or sumpin?" The most pathetic New York mug- ging story I know occurred last week. Remember that other actress who got stabbed to death in her own New York apartment building a few months back? She was resisting a mugger/rapist. Well, last week the theatre company she worked for tried to hold a benefit performance for her grieving family...but they had to cancel. The male and female stars were mugged on their way to the performance. Some town, New York. You know the latest crime to hit the Big Apple? The Gotham cops even have an of- ficial name for it. They call it: ""Grand Larceny: Rocks." New Yorkers are stealing...the cob- blestones from beneath their own feet. Yep. They are dismantling the very street corners and roadways of their own city. Some of the better-looking 'cobblestones fetch as much as three ~ bucks apiece from unscrupulous land- scapers and architects. You realize what that means? It means that any modestly ambitious New Yorker with a crowbar, a rental truck and the morals of a cockroach can make enough in one night to take a weeks' holiday from purse snatching. Wouldn't happen in Toronto, of course. Hogtown may be grey and boring and lack a Broadway or a Times Square, but it does have large, no-nonsense policemen who do not waste a lot of niceties on muggers or rapists or amateur demolition experts- they just take them out. Which, when you get right down to it, is the fundamental difference between Toronto and New York. In Toronto, they still take out the garbage.