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Terrace Bay News, 19 Mar 1970, p. 1

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ape MR, E, PERSSU € BOX 375 TERRACE B/ Y Vol. 13 No. 11 COUNCIL QUOTES Town Council met in regular session last Tuesday evening. Correspondence included a suggestion from Ontario Hydro to sponsor a meeting with Terrace Bay Hydro to discuss with merchants facing elinination of the present heating system, the possibility of using elec- tric heating. The Hydro Electric Power Commission provided the committee with a statement of adjustment of 1969 cost of power. A refund in the amount of $605. was given the Township Hydro System. The Department of Social and Family Services, Child Welfare Budget Board held a meeting February 28th in Thunder Bay South, to elect five members from area municipalities to this board. Mr. Al Allen of Terrace Bay was one of those elected. Mrs. Marg Simmer sent Council a note of thanks for the message of.sympathy she had recently received The Schreiber-Terrace Bay Roman Catholic School Board submitted a request to Council for the levying and collection of taxes on their behalf. : The Lake Superior Board of Education subnitted a request for quarterly payment of Educational levy, due March 31st. A seminar on Government at District levels will be held at Quetico Centre on April 3,4, and 5th, Reeve Cavanaugh, Clerk, Bill Hanley and any councillors who are able will attend. The Lake: Superior Board of Education acknowledged receipt of a letter requesting arbitration on 1970 apportionment of costs for school purposes. Pinewood Court District Home for the Aged Board of Management presented the budget for annual maintenance costs. The Fire Department were happy to report there continued page 2...... . Serving the District March 19, 1970 ST. MARTIN'S "JAMAICA WINTER CARNIVAL" GREAT SUCCESS The "Jamaica Winter Carnival" held on the St. Martin's School Pleyground and in the basement of St. Martin's Church on Friday, March 13th was a complete success, netting a sum of $210, to be sent to a school in Stewart Town, Jamaica. A former members of the staff of St. Martin's School, Miss Sheila Hughes, is presently teaching at the Stewart Town school and the money raised will be used to buy supplies for this poorly-equip- ped Jamaican school . The afternoon's events got underway when a team of fashionably attired mothers took the field against the school's Girls' Broomball Team. Dressed in their most becoming aprons, hats and matching hockey equipment, the mothers over= powered the girls 2- 1. Mrs. Mary Claire Kennedy, wearing a lovely flowered hat fashioned by Mrs. Rita Corrigan, captained the Mothers to their victory. The referee, Mr. Ed McAdam, was kept in line during the game through the pugilistic prowess of Mrs. Mary Dashkewytch whose "hockey mitts" were said to bear an un- common resemblance to boxing gloves. Next came the tovoggan races and the snowshoe races. A great deal of previously unrealized ability was demonstrated as pupils and parents went 'all - out to compete for the top places. Here is ' a list of the winners in all these -events: - Toboggan Races: - Grade 1 - Ist Patrick Moher, Greg Adamo, Eileen Belliveau; 2nd Barbara Chur- ney, Paul Dashkewytch, Nanette McDonald; 3rd Sylvia Landry, Donna DePaola, David McBride. Grade 2 - Ist - Gilda Pedersen, Pamela Calder, Danny Fournier; 2nd Cathy Dakin , Peter Santerre, continued page 5 ...-.

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