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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, January 23, 1985 Ferrace Be The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: -- er y Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2WO. a ) Telephone: (807) 825-3747. ---" } GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER .............---- Vivian Ludington : OFFICE ss ee i ee Kelley Ann Chesley Gg PRODUCTION MANAGER.............---- sees e eter etree Mary Melo discipline needs review If you belong to the Terrace Bay Rec Centre or if you are think- ing of joining there is a discipline policy in effect that you may be interested in, the story on page one will explain it all to you. This policy is very unfair and it goes against Canada's constitu- tional rights. The Rec Committee should not have the right to say who is allowed to go into the rec center and who will be out for a year, six months or whatever they think is "fair". Terrace Bay is a small community_and limited in places where our kids can go and be off the streets. This column was originally too strong. It mentioned something about our fathers, grandfathers, war and a dictatorship. This issue has nothing to do with war as we are not at war with our children. Mr. Kettle the Chairman of the Rec Committee on the other hand said that they should see how people in the army are punished. The rec policy says that the punishment for misdeeds is the same for adults as it is for children. However with the seven suspensions in the past Stokes upset at Post Office edI was required to pay the year not one of the suspensions has been given to anyone over twen- ty years of age. There is apparently drinking done in the change rooms by adult team members after nine o'clock at night. There has to be some kind of punishment but it has to be looked at and given out accordingly. You cannot give the same punishment to an adult as you do to a child. There is a big difference as to being accountable for your actions. At the present time the town seems to be divided as to whether the policy is fair or unjust. This is only one problem that has come out of the Rec Center. There have apparently been other problems that 'should be looked into. Reeve Speer's investigation into the issue is welcomed as we are dealing with children here and not common criminals. A Wisecracking Rabbi will ride again The Marx Brothers. George Burns. Myron Cohen. Jack Benny. . Mel Brooks. Henny Youngman. Woody Allen. I wonder why so many people who are skilled at making us laugh turn out to be Jewish. Is it because the Jew has a better sense of humour than the stiff, solemn goyim? I don't think so. I'll bet Clif- ford Cohen doesn't think so either. Mister Cohen is an out-of-work com- edian presently drawing unemploy- ment insurance in London, England. He hasn't always been unemployed, mind you. Up until last week he worked in the London community of Southgate. As a Rabbi. rk. y ae ee Wise Bae sks 'Open letter to Mr. Michael Warren, Presi- dent and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Post: Dear Mr. Warren: On January 5, 1985, I received a letter from Mr. Don Lucky, President of The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, inviting me to their 20th annual meeting on Tuesday, January 22, 1985. On January Sth I receiv- ed a notice from our Post Office in Schreiber that I owed your Crown Cor- poration 96 cents as a charge against me for postage due. I paid the 96 cents so that I could claim the envelope, from the above organization. I was advised that the regular postage for this envelope was 48 cents and since there was no postage affix- 96 cents. I want to know by what authority Canada Post is able to charge an innocent party a double penalty for mail sent to the addressee without postage. Since there was a return address on the envelope one wonders why I should be the victim rather than the person or organization who inadvertently neglected to affix the proper postage. Was this an arbitrary deci- sion imposed by Canada Post? Do you have some legislative authority for ac- ting in this high handed manner? I have a receipt for the 96 cents and hereby request a refund for a charge over which I have no control and for which I played no part. Please may I hear from you at your earliest convenience? Yours sincerely, Jack Stokes, M.P.P. Lake Nipigon Riding Old Age Security letters The Honourable Jack Epp Minister of Health and Welfare and The Honourable David Crombie Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Dear Mr. Ministers: I am writing to both of you to see if you can help resolve an ongoing and frustrating ordeal that I have been working on since 1983. It concerns establishing and proving dates of birth for the purpose of receiv- ing Old Age Security. Enclosed is a Band Coun- cil resolution together with an application for Old Age Security for Mrs. Mary Frogg of Big Trout Lake, Ontario, wife of Henry Frogg. Also enclosed are applications for Old Age Security on behalf of Mr. Rory Chapman of Big Trout Lake and his wife Rubina Chapman, together with Declaration of Under- taking and Declaration of Witness. continued on page 7 Synagogue Council -- the group Rab- bi Cohen answered to -- gave the guy his pink slip. His crime? Rabbi Cohen was too funny. Or rather the Coun- cil felt that he failed to conduct himself with the solemnity and digni- ty that befits a rabbi. To give the Council its due, Rab- bi Cohen was just a tad ... unor- thodox. His wardrobe might have been described as Neo Lumberjack -- plaid shirts, T-shirts, and a bush jacket that was ripped and out at the elbows. But it wasn't the way he dressed that got the rabbit in hot water; it was the way he talked. Rabbi Cohen was a wisecracker. And nobody was too anouet to escane the sharp edge of his tongue. He once told the people who fired : him (members of the Southgate Pro- gressive Synagogue Council) that they represented 'tone of the best pro- ofs that there is death after life,"' At a bar mitzvah, the Rabbi pro- mised the youth of the hour that in years to come he would learn all about "this, that and the other. | Especially the other."' During a synagogue service, a young girl carrying a vessel of sacramental wine stumblcd slightly. The Rabbi quipped: "One drink and she's anybody's"'. Then too, it could have been Clif- ford Cohen's extra-rabbinnical ac- tivities that acted like a bee under the Council members' yarmulkas. You see, when he wasn't in the synagogue, Rabbi Cohen could often be found filling out one-half of a two member, non-profit comedy team that billed itself as (what else?) -- Mazel and Tov. The Rabbi and his pianist partner specialized in satirical songs which they performed at bar mitz- vahs, rummage sales and B'nai Brith dinners. It was all too much for the Rabbis superiors. They fired him, and last week a British government tribunal upheld the dismissal. Well, I think it's a shame. As the Rabbi said in his own defence: *'The Sabbath is something to be celebrated ...there is a tendency to treat every religious activity as if it were a memorial meeting."" At least some members of the Rab- bi's ex-flock agree. Many of them ob- viously enjoyed Rabbi Cohen's uninflated, earthy approach to wor- ship. One of them said: **I sensed a subdued swelling of mirth throughout the synagogue ... I don't think many other people took offence either ..."" Unfortunately the Rabbi's bosses did. He's out of a job -- and that's no joke. Still, Rabbi Cohen sounds like a cheerful. resilient sort of fellow. He'll bounce back. He can take com- fort in the knowledge that, though he may have bombed in Britain, down in the Catskills he woulda knocked @