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Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 9, 1983, page 5 Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor are always welcome. If you have an opinion on any subject of public importance, we would like to give you an op- portunity to express it. Just write to The Editor, The News, Terrace Bay, Ontario. Dear reader: last week I tried in all seriousness to present to new citizens as well as long-time residents a sketch of Terrace Bay's worth. Somebody blew it. In the very first sentence a ridiculous typographi- cal error slapped a daub of whimsy on my canvas - "knocked down by the fly" indeed! The immediate react- ion of course was an- noyance - I do put a lot of work into 'these arti- cles. But then a second look at the stupid thing suggested that it might generate a chuckle in the reader, and a good laugh never hurt any- one, especially some- one: recovering from the flu. I mean, we're all 'So he blew ... painfully. aware of the wollop of the fly that attacks in Northern On- tario - '"'blackfly" is almost as ominous a word as "blacklist" or 'black death". But in a Northern Ontario win- ter? No one here could "*fly"" possibly belive for "flu"! This mistaken refer- ence to the little beast actually enhances the theme of the good life in Terrace Bay - the ac- cents of pain and suffer- ing give a richer glow to the picture, no? But (she whimpered) did that person have to make that particular error - couldn't he or she have boo-booed "the" into "thb" or "and" into "anz" or some- thing? Anything but "flu" into "fly - I'll never live it down! PIRTICIPACTIONF Hi-tech research for home furnace One might not expect Atomic Energy of Cana- da Limited to be dab- bling about with the heating ducts of family homes, but that is exact- ly what the company's engineers are doing at Deep River, Ontario, 180 kilometers north- west of Ottawa. A series of experi- ments in 50 company- owned Deep River homes has shown that mixing electric heat with conventional oil fur- nace heat in a hybrid heating system can slash up to 80 per cent from the volume of fur- nace oil it takes to keep a house comfy in the rug- ged winters of northern Ontario. Householders are sav- ing up to 25 per cent on their annual heating bill by using electrical ener- gy for heat on all but the coldest days. More ex- pensive oil energy is saved for those surges of furnace warmth you want quickly on a cold morning, or for those days when the thermo- meter does a real nose- dive. Here's how it works. If a house has a CSA approved oil furnace, an electric heating element is inserted in a box into the hot air duct just above the furnace fire- box. When low tempera- tures in the house trig- ger the thermostat, the electric element is switched on automatic- ally, and the furnace fan spreads electric heat through the house. When heating demands are too great for electric heat to supply, the oil fire cuts in to supply ad- ditional warmth. The electric can be over- ridden to get instant heat from an oil fire, which has the capabil- ity of raising the tem- perature of a house more quickly. If the house is heated with hot water, a similar hybrid system can be designed, with electric heat on the water coils. Oil, natural gas, or wood aren't nearly as efficient as electricity for heating, because all three dissipate up to SO per cent of their heat energy up the chimney. Electric heat needs no 'chimney, so the energy stays in the house. Engineering experi- ments at Deep River have shown a mixed system of oi! and electric heat can warm a house more cheaply than straight oil in every ma- jor Canadian city, ex- cept in Prince Edward {sland and Nova Sco- tia, where electricity costs are high. Supplementing oil heat with cheap and abundant electrical energy means a saving for every Canadian, be- cause each drop of the 170,000 barrels of foreign oil we import daily costs tax dollars and valuable foreign ex- change. In 1982, Canada will spend an estimated $2.6 billion for foreign oil imports, or $107 for each Canadian. Engineers at Deep River are performing a two-year scientific study of hybrid oil-electric heating to discover the best combination of heating element power and control for maxi- mum efficiency. Electric heating ele- ments for hybrid heat- ing systems cost be- tween $800 and $1,500. If a system is installed replacing more than half of normal oil heating consumption, the fed- eral government's oil- saving program will re- fund up to $800 of the cost. There are also similar parallel. pro- grams in some provin- ces. Ron Elliott, an engi- neer supervising the hybrid heating tests, cautions potential hy- brid heating converts to check the market for the electric heating ele- ment combination best suited to the individual home and to make sure only qualified experts perform installation. Frankly, | am getting tired To the Editor, The letter from Mrs. Todesco in Terrace Bay News Feb. 2 prompted me to write this one. Frankly, I am getting tired, and I am sure many other people are also,..of reading about the tax issue of White Sand Lake and Selim. Before anybody writes a letter to a newspaper, they should make sure they have their facts straight, and not com-- plain about something they heard from some- body else. Of course I cannot speak for everybody who owns a cottage at White Sand Lake or Selim, but the owners I have talked to, are not against pay- ing school taxes. The by WINNIE CAMPBELL Mrs. Retta Pearson has returned from St. Thomas after visiting relations. Our sympathy to Mrs. George Martin on the death of her husband in Thunder Bay. Mrs. Ida Krause has returned from Winnipeg after attending the wed- ding of Joanne Winters to Perry Oakman. Also attending were Mr. and Mrs. Jack.Winters. Congratulations to Mr. Jack Rummery on his retirement from the CPR. Bonny Bourguignon and George Miller from Brandon, Manitoba are visiting relations. complaint they do have is the way they found out about it, just where the boundaries are go- ing to be, and the ser- vices they can expect for the children. If the former school board who made the suggestion would have bothered to find out the opinion of the owners, it would have been very easy. After all most of us are only a phone call away. Sincerely, Inge Ellacott TERRACE BAY The Community Church Serving all Protestants Sunday Service - 11:15 a.m. with Sunday School at the same time Rev. Brian Bigelow, Minister Terrace Bay Gospel Assembly Sunday School 9:50 a.m. Sunday Service - 11:00 Sunday Evening Ser- vice - 7:00 p.m. Pastor Barry Fellinger St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church .Mass Saturday - 7:00 p-m. Mass Sunday - 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Confessions Saturday 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Father Kenneth Pottie Lutheran Mission Sunday Service 7:30 p.m. Birchwood Terrace Chapel Richard Klein - Pastor SCHREIBER Holy Angel's Catholic Church Mass Saturday - 7:15 p.m. Mass Sunday - Schreiber 12:00 - Rossport 12:00 Pays Plat, first Sunday of every month. Roman 10:00 St. Andrew's United Church Sunday Service - 9:45 a.m. with Sunday School 'Church Directory at the same time Rev. Brian Bigelow, Minister Grace Baptist Church Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sunday Service 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Ser- vice 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting - 7:00 p.m. Rev. Jim Johnson, Pastor -- St. John's Anglican Church Sunday - 9:30 Holy Com- munion and Sunday School 11:00 Parish Eucharist 7:00 Evening Prayer Monday - 2:00 p.m. Birchwood, Holy Eucharist Wednesday - 10:00 a.m.. Prayer Eucharist Father Timothy Delaney, Rector The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints meets at 60 East Grove Crescent, Ter- race Bay 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning "An Ecumenical Ser- vice celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be held on Thursday, Janu- ary 27 at 7:00 p.m. in St. Martin of Tours Church in Terrace Bay. All de- nominations welcome. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall." A AREN'T TT TUT eee MEN UNDER STR Come out & Learn some new ways to take charge & be in control of your moods, activities & well being. WITH GENE QUINN: dynamic workshop leader & family crisis worker from Sault Ste. Marie Friday, Feb. 25, 1:00 to 10:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, 9:30°to 5:00 p.m. Registration $10.00 (Includes Lunch & Coffee) Registration limited -- phone the Community Resource Office at 824-2867 = Wse YO