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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, April 17, 1985 ceba ferreseer = The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: : Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2WO. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER .... Vivian Ludington PRIOR 5. Sn es as ee Kelley Ann Chesley OPRGE a ee oS a ee Irene Folz PRODUCTION MANAGER...................... eee eeeee Mary Melo Let's Co-operate It is most interesting to live in a city and observe the different cultures, hear the different languages and realize that although we are all Canadians, or Westerners or live in Northern Ontario, we are in fact very different. Why and what is it that makes us choose where we live? I'd like to believe that no matter where we are liv- ing, we give our best to make it a good place to be; as we take from a community or city what we need and want to make us happy. A city offers many choices. A person can live in a very quiet residential area, or closer to shops and downtown, in the "snob hill" districts or the east end, which is usually the lower income area. The places we chose to live in and are happy living in, says something about us, yet we are contented and involved with that city as a whole and share in it's prosperity and reputation. The same can be said of this area. We are spread apart, but we feel the same effects, share the same potential growth, prosperity and achievement with others living along Lake Superior's North Shore. There is a strong commitment by North Shore towns to work and learn together, through our Education System, our Health Care and our Social Services. It has and is proving that it works and it pro- bably works the best. These strong willed, intermunicipal organiza- tion, committes and associations are getting positive and affirmative responses from the Government, since they are good representation as to the real needs and concerns of our area. They shorten the path to fulfilling community needs, necessities and desires and it is only by working together, fairly, objectively and in the interest of all, that we will reach our full potential. A Thought for the Week ABILITY IS A POOR MAN'S WEALTH. -- M. WREN Dear Editor: I was intrigued and highly concerned to read in the March 27 issue of the NEWS about the proposal to bring a laundry mat into Terrace Bay. Is the editor not aware that there are already several laundry mats in Terrace Bay. Even Schreiber has laundry mats. I myself have two, so that when one is dirty, I can use the other. Perhaps I am being un- fair. Maybe town council really is bringing in an OF- Arthur Black FICIAL laundry mat. This still leaves a few questions unanswered. Does the land have to be rezoned just for a laundry mat? Who is go- ing to shovel the laundry mat in winter? How big is this new laundry mat? Why do we need a mat on the street? Will dogs desecrating the laundry mat be suspended from _ it? From what height? Is the town crest going to be in the middle of the mat? Why don't we have a contest to design the mat? Or does the editor just want to sweep 'OK, BUT YOUR TEDDY STAYS ON YOUR SIDE OF JHE BED!" dirt under the mat? What about disadvantag- ed citizens who don't have their own laundry mat? Can they borrow the town's? Will the library be responsible for signing out the mat? What about park- ing areas in front of the mat? Or on the mat? Does this mean more work for our over-burdened town crew? It strikes me that there is really only one good reason to have an official town laundry mat - to be able to trade it with Taiwan. Will The joys of snud kickin At the risk of having this edition of your friendly neighbourhood newspaper suddenly crushed into a ball and overarmed fireplacewards ... I have a confession to make. I hope it snows. Just one more time, Lord! Then I promise to sit back and let what passes for spring in these parts wash over me. But I would like one last moderately heavy snowfall -- six in- ches say -- before the robins and nudists and Winnebagoes take over. It's my snud quotient, you see. It is seriously depleted. Snud? Oh that's just a combination of snow and mud. It's that crud that builds behind the wheel wells. During winter, I mean -- and only the right conditions. If it's 40 below or 40 above, snud buildups range from pitiful to non-existent. Optimum snud-growing conditions occur right around the freezing mark, when there are a few inches of thick, soft, fluffy snow on the ground. If your stars are in the correct con- figuration and you've been living a good, true, just and moral life -- but mostly if you're lucky as hell -- such a snud incubation situation will be followed by a quick freeze. That will render the snuds on your car rock hard. ___ For a snud connaisseur that's like Pees xT s Official Laundromat | it be ready to send over with the students going this summer? Surely town council could be spending it's time more wisely. For example, I think they would do well to try to attract some businesses into town. The car wash idea sounds pro- mising, but surely there are other possibilities. Maybe a laundromat would wash well. Sincerely, Dale S. Cooper discovering a bottle of Dom Perignon 54 in the remainders bin at the LCBO. There are few sensual pleasures in life (well, in Northern life, anyway) to compare with snud kicking. I mean when you go up to, say, your left front fender, discover a beautifully formed, prime condition snud -- a twenty pounder maybe -- and then, with one well-placed kick of your bush boot, you send that snud scut- tering along the roadway. Mind you, there are hazards. Sometimes those snuds really are rock hard -- and virtually welded to the car frame. Which explains, I think, the rise in bruised bunions and fractured toes reported by our hospital emergency wards each winter. Then too, there's the treacherous soft snud. You wind up to do a Zenon Andrusyshn from the 40 yard line ... really get your boot into it, only to discover that your snud has the con- sistency of room temperature chocolate mousse. More foot injuries. Not to mention auto body work. Several snud affictionados have written to me asking about the classic dilemma of snud protocol. Simply put: is it okay to kick the snuds off somebody else's car? This is an exasperatingly grey area of snudology. I don't think you can make a hard and fast rule about it. It's really a judgement call that depends on the circumstances. As for me, I try to restrict myself to snud kicking on my own vehicle, plus those of a few close friends. But I confess that I have, in the past, usually after a couple of drinks, kick- ed the snuds off strange cars late at night on deserted streets. I make it an iron rule never to molest snuds on Harley Davidsons or on Half Ton pickups featuring rifle racks. Anyway, it's almost spring and the: snud kicking seasons pretty well over for the year. But a guy can dreamm, right? See you next week. In the meantime ... Think snud.