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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, July 27, 1983 & > ites ed The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2W0. sl E Telephone: (807) 825-3747. EDITOR AND MANAGER......................----0000: Karen E. Park Shad ADVERTISING MANAGER......................2-20005- Diane Matson ss RECEPTIONIST. ............-ccccccccccccccccccusceutecs Sharon Mark PRODUCTION MANAGER................ ee ee Mary Melo New Editor for = DEADLINE: Friday NOON cy Subscription syne coms amg -- -- genie G@gu . 2 ; com | per annum out-of-town). Secon ass ai z Terrace Bay-Schreiber News | Registration No. 0867. : _ Please let me introduce myself to you. My name is Karen Park (no (s) please). I hail from the small community of Dorion. For those of you who are unsure of the locality of this busy little town, please refer to your road maps (a newer map if possible). I come to this paper with knowledge of running a newspaper - that No.1 "The Hole in the_ | Fence" eS oa _PUSHY RADISH SHY BEET 'BULLY CUCUMBER know-how gained from employment by the Nipigon Gazette for the past few years. When a new Editor arrives in town, not only is she/he apprehensive about their new job and surroundings - but so are the readers. I assure you that I will try my darndest to make this paper into what I call a "community newspaper". That includes all forms of community news, school news and general interest topics. I tend to be a very community oriented individual and fully intend to carry a wide variety of this coverage in future issues of the '"'News". And with a total of three communities claiming this to be their newspaper I shouldn't have any problems with obtaining community news, photos or what have you. ; ' I propose to donate space every week to all the clubs, organizations and general interest groups. We will call the page "Community News" or '*Around Town"' or whatever is suitable to the types of copy that you bring into our office for publication. The page can be used for notice of - or minutes of club monthly meetings - or upcoming events (to the extent that you aren't placing an advertisement) - or guest speakers who are paying a visit to your organization - special church events - any copy that would be of interest to the public. The column will be available to you - so please use it to its fullest. : I have also had several people approach me about having a regular weekly column that would carry comments, views or every day thoughts from our local and area church ministers. I hope that our church officials will also support this venture. A regular feature of our Nipigon paper was titled "Profile This Week". Each and every week, a "'profile" was done on an interesting individual from the surrounding communities - or an intriguing organization - or just an unusual person who the people would be interested in reading about. If you know of someone who fits this bill, please give me a call at the News office and I'll try my best to give this person credit for all that they have On the back page of this week's "News", is a Readers' Questionnaire. I would greatly appreciate it if all of you took a few minutes out of your busy schedules to look it over and fill it out and give it to us at the office. Without your views and comments, I won't know what you, the readers would like to see or what you don't wish to see in future issues of this newspaper. I can't guarantee an overnight success, but together we can design the paper to fit your wants and your needs. Just remember to be patient with me. I'm new to the area. I forget names, but I remember faces. I can't promise you the best little paper on the North Shore, but I can sure try, as long as I have your help and support along the way. There will be the unavoidable typographical. errors. There will be incorrect spelling of names. There will be peculiarities of the English language. But I am consistent and hopefully - it will all work out - one day - maybe in the near future. For all advertisers and all persons bringing news into the office, please be aware that the advertising and copy deadline will now be Friday noon. This will become effective immediately and involves everybody. . So - there was my big introduction. And remember! Please - oh please ... - - whatever! Just let me know what you need and -- This isn't just my paper. This is your paper. And WE NEED YOU! I look forward to meeting each and every one of you. So if you just happen to be walking by the "NEWS"' office - pop in - introduce yourself - and share a cup of coffee with us. Arthur Black -- Living like a voyageur | "BRUSSELS" "BEAN SPROUT They all run off to the hole in the fence Draw a line from the name to the matching vegetable. In today's story, the younger Vegetables have a secret from the grown-ups. Carrot wakes and yawns loudly. "Good day, sunshine. Good day, Garden." : This is going te be an-exciting day. Mushroom is coming. Everyone is meeting him: secretly by the hole in the fence. Mushroom has told them he does not want + ig rh la "I wonder what he is going to tell us that is so secret," thinks Carrot. "Well, never mind! I must get ready. | want to look my dest." Carrot always likes to be admired. Radish always wants to be the first one to get up. That way, he never misses out on anything. But this time, his clock has not tung. It is Potato who breaks into Radish's dreams. "Hey, watch out, clumsy Potato. Watch where you're going." "Sorry, did I wake you?" Potato apologizes. "No, no," says Radish. "I've been up for hours." Radish does not want Potato to know he has overslept. Potato always seems to upset things. He feels he can never do things right. Radish is angry because he is late and Carrot might beat him to the hole in the fence. He kicks his clock and runs off. Potato follows. "Let's.not wait for him anyone," says fomato. "I think we should wait," says Beet uncertainly. "But | don't want to-miss the fun," says Tomato, thinking only of herself. "Poor Onion. Nobody waits for Onion," whispers Beet. "He's always left out of things. 'Onion arrives all. out of breath. "I'm late. I'm sorry I'm late." Tomato just glares. They all run off Radish and Carrot are both eager to reach the hole in the fence first, but * ~ Cucumber is 'the first to arrive. He has pulled B: along with him. "Now you wait here," orders Cucumber, * ~ "while { find the best place to sit." Brussels Sprout obeys. But he thinks to "himself, "He wouldn't push me around like that if | were Mr. Cabbage." Mr. Cabbage is the leader of the Garden. He is big and strong and kind. Mr. Cabbage knows about a lot of things and everyone likes and respects him. Pea and Bean have also come to meet Mushroom. They do everything together. Pea and Bean are best friends. "Hey, watch out. There's Bully Cucum- ber," says Pea. "Come, let's go and sit with oc gas We can hide behind him, he's so * Soon everyone is there, except for Carrot. "Where is Carrot,"" says Tomato. annoyed. 3 "Here he comes now," says Beet. At that moment, Carrot arrives doing _ his favourite trick. He jumps head over heels, knocking Tomato over. Everyone laughs. "Can't you see where you're going?" says Tomato angrily. "Be quiet!" orders Radish. "We must not let Mr. Cabbage catch us." v sits still. Every waits for Mushroom to arrive. Well, we're half-way through - the summer holidays, more or less, and if you're a parent of school-age types, it's a safe bet you're spending half your waking hours with one refrain echoing through your aching head: "'Aw jeez Mom..there's nothing to doooooo0000. "Is that what you're hearing from those short, unemployed, blood-relations slouched in front of Happy Days reruns in the rec room? Boy, do I have a comeback for you. All you have to do is round up a half a dozen or more of these teenage malcontents - raid a video arcade if you have to - then pick up the phone and dial 577-8461. That's the number of Old Fort William. Tell °em you've got some kids who want to take the Overnight Adventure. What's the Overnight Adven- ture? It's a chance to spend 24 hours living like a voyageur. I know. I've been there. Last - week I spent Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday night and the early hours of Wednesday morning dressed in mocassins, corduroy pants, an Errol Flynn-style blouse and a bright woven sash that held it all together. Along with 15 girl guides. At ease, madame. Their super- visors were present too. Even the supervisors were supervised - by four skilled Fort interpreters who did their best to whisk us all back a couple of centuries in time. And their best was formidable. We toured the whole fort with them. We divided into teams and played "shinny" - an Ojibway ' form of field hockey that features a leather ball and golf club - like sticks made of exceedingly hard wood. (I've got the shin welts to prove it.) We sang voyageur songs and danced voyageur dances and paddled voyageur canoes The food? That wasn't quite as authentic. We devoured steaming bowls of delicious stew and Fort-baked bread and melt-in- your-mouth, buttered scones. Real voyageurs got aiong on gobs of grain wadded up in lard. And when the sun was down 'and the songs were sung around the campfire and the odd Girl Guide eyelid was beginning to droop, we called it a day and climed into our authentic Voya- geur "tents" - a piece of canvas thrown over a couple of bent poplars - no steel poles, zippers or . Mosquito netting. - and tried to sleep. That's where another slice of _ Voyageur authenticity crept into | the program. Guess what feature -of Voyageur life hasn't changed and iota in the last 200 years. A couple of hints: It's small, -- noisy, likes blood and travels in 4 groups. se Of up to 200-thousand. Yup. Mosquitos. This is a bumper year for the whiney little beggars right across North America, and Northern Ontario - as always - has more than it's share. As a matter of fact I can now reveal that last Tuesday night, North American mosquitos held a kind of Woodstock festival around the voyageur encamp- ment on the wharf of Old Fort William. They were...... unbe- lievable. But bear in mind that you're listening to a pretty creaky, long-in-the-tooth pseudo-voya- geur right now. I'm sure the mosquitos in the Girl Guides tents were just as bloodthirsty as the ones I "hosted", but I didn't hear a complaint from them in the morning. On the contrary. The ' kids were spunky and cheerful, and they went home with a solid appreciation of just how hardy the real voyageurs were. There was one aspect of Voya- geur life that was sadly lacking in the Overnight Adventure pro- gram. Rum. The voyageurs liked their tot of rum of an evening ... and you don't get any booze on the Overnight Adventure. Of course, in our case it would hardly do to have 15 Girl Guides imbibing spirits. But I'm flexible. ' Td've been glad to help out. With 16 tots of rum under my sash I wouldn't even have noticed the mosquitos.