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NORHSHORE SENTINEL Keeping Watch on the Great North Shore VOLUME 1 NO 1 NORSHORE SENTINEL NIPIGON, ONTARIO THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1960 NOT OVER 10c DON’T MISS Page Editorial ................ 4 Entertainment ............ 6 Women's Pages .......... 8, 9 Sports ............ 12, 13, 15 Comics .................. 16 Mill News ................ 3 SWEEP FOR RED ROCK Not satisfied with winning the first two tests in the three-lap North Shore Swimming championships, Red Rock swimmers went out and made it a clean sweep Saturday in the final event at Marathon. The team of 36 swimmers scored 119 points, 30 more than the host Marathon club, to easily win the first of what will be an annual event. Red Rock scored 139 points at home, and 87 in Terrace Bay for a total of 345 points. Marathon, the runner-up scored 225 while Terrace Bay, without a pool, amassed 104. Nine-year-old Elaine Stewart and Gladwyn Young both gathered three firsts to lead the Red Rock team effort while Carol and Josephine Kadzielawa added eight points each on two firsts and a second. Red Rock swimmers placed in 38 of the 40 events, winning all the relays and diving events. Although this is the first year of the North Shore championship Marathon and Red Rock have been competing against each other for five years. Terrace Bay came into the competition last year and have shown great progress despite the fact they do not have the facilities that are available at Red Rock and Marathon. Outstanding swimmers for Terrace Bay were Cliff Wood and J. Anderson. These young swimmers led the Red Rock team to a sweep in the North Shore Swimming championships Saturday in the third meet at Marathon. From left to right, back row: Carol Kadzielawa, Gladwyn Young, Stephanie Kadzielawa, Linda Stewart; front row: Vic Seagris, David Morrow, Elaine Stewart and Paul Sigurdson. CIRCLE ROUTE PIONEER HURT A young United States motorcyclist with a zest for "pioneering" was removed from the critical list at Port Arthur General Hospital over the weekend, the first accident victim of the soon-to-be-opened Great Circle Route around Lake Superior. One of a party of five Tecumseh, Michigan motorcycle club enthusiasts, Troy Harris, 30, accidentally ran into the back of one of his partners motorcycles at 7:30 p.m. last Wednesday on Highway 17 and 18 miles east of Nipigon. A passing motorist waved at the cavalcade causing the lead cyclist to slow down and stop. Ken Barncard, second in line also slowed down and Harris, father of three children, plowed into the rear of Barncard's cycle. He flipped over his handlebars and landed on his head resulting in a fractured skull and lacerations to his face and body. Damage to the Barncard machine was estimated at $150. Having heard about the route, the dust-covered "cycling pioneers" had come up through Sault Ste. Marie, camping out at night, in hopes of being the first to follow its course by motorcycle. The highway is not open to the general public. Opening date is set for Sept. 16. Speed at the time of the accident was said to be 40 to 45 m.p.h. None of the men were wearing helmets. Constables Allan Armstrong and Clint Arthur of the Nipigon detachment investigated. EXPANSION at RED ROCK Stead and Lindstrom Ltd. have been awarded the contract for a $200,000 addition to the St. Lawrence Corporation Mill at Red Rock. Work is already underway. This addition will be 160 ft. by 190 ft. with a truck loading shed 60 ft. by 35 ft. This new building will be of steel construction with 8 in. monumental concrete block walls and pre cast concrete slab roof. The project involves leveling off the side of the hill at the parking lot, closing off the road down the hill and moving the existing railroad tracks. This will allow beautification of this area in front of the main office in the near future. The new building will provide, much needed storage for Kraft paper and will facilitate shipping by rail, truck and water. It is expected that the project will be completed by December or early 1961. LESS FISH ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) â€" The Newfoundland Federation of Fisheries predicts a sharp drop this season in production of shore fish. Ice bergs have caused havoc with fishing operations. "Dedicated to the Great North Shore" I am a newspaper, born today to the people of the North Shore of Lake Superior. Like all first arrivals I was unpredictable, dropping from the stork's bundle one week after the due date. But, again like all first arrivals, the date is insignificant. The fact that the arrival has taken place is the important thing. The fast-growing population of the North Shore, or Great North Shore as I refer to it in my masthead, has long deserved a news medium of its own. The daily newspapers of East and West cannot give that' personal touch to home-town happenings that a local weekly newspaper can and I hope to be accepted by every reader as "his" own newspaper" for that reason. My aims and principals are set forth on the editorial page where they should be. This isn't an editorial. In fact you'll never see one on my front page. This is just a friendly greeting, a "hello" from me to you. I'm going to be visiting your house next week and every week after, if you become a Sentinel subscriber so we might just as well get acquainted right now. Oh, we'll have our differences. There'll probably be editorials you don't agree with, sports comments you can't stand and even a mistake or two here and there throughout the pages. But even the best of friends could never agree on everything and even the most clever mind must make his share of mistakes. All I ask is that you read editorials with an open mind and remember, in regard to mistakes, that a newspaper is created by humans with human frailties. But I won't keep you now. You're probably anxious to see just what is inside this first edition. There are many changes, many additions and many improvements to make in the next few months but this is the start. If you like something don't hesitate to tell us. If you don't like something be just as quick with your comments. My address is Box 279, Nipigon, Ont. But above all, remember, I am your newspaper, a publication dedicated to serving this area and this area alone. With your help and support I can mature into a strong voice for the area and a product of which you can be justly pleased and proud. I ask for that help. See you next Wednesday and every Wednesday after that, I hope.