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es a Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, April 24, 1985 rac Bay ine Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by. a Tehratices Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. OQ | Telephone: (807) 825-3747. Se y GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER......... Vivian Ludington = NO Se ed st PSE ee Kelley Ann Chesley : haste see SEED Oe pee mR ean yaar ORI a te Irene Folz ; Gua ' PRODUCTION MANAGER.............. Mary Melo © Older youth's need programs by KELLEY ANN CHESLEY If you don't know by now, 1985 is International Youth Year. It encompasses a wide range of programs to salute and encourage Canada's Youth, through "Summer Expeience '85", Ontario's "Challenge 85", local ""Employment Development Branches", ""SEED"", "'Ontario Youth Opportunities" and "Enterprise Ontario", a co-ordinated economic and social program announced by Premier Frank Miller, March 22nd. A program that will inject 1.3 billion dollars over a three-year period into four key sectors of Ontario life, one is Training for Employment which will offer a new Ministry of Skills Development, Equal access to training through 22 million dollars worth of new child care facilities and new work-oriented pro- grams in high school. It all sounds so promising and brilliant. With all these programs and more, the youth certainly have a future of opportunity. Does the government regard a youth to be a teenager, a minor, a student, or will all these programs reach out to the non-student 23 or 26 year old? A 25 year old, who has worked at minimum wage or slightly higher wage for a few years, who has been supporting themselves, who does not have the academic skills to obtain a scholarship, can feel it im- possible to return to school, especially if Manpower Employment and Training Centers are out of the area. I don't want to knock Premier Miller or the Honorable Flora McDonald's programs, but I do hope they make all the Youth Op- portunity packages available to those youths already trying to sur- vive in the work world. TRYING JO FIND THE ON suizcH ~~ OF ANOTHER LIFELESS PATELLITE eS Le To the town fathers of Schreiber To the Town Fathers of Schreiber: I was recently disap- pointed at the treatment of Dom and Gerry Filane. These two kids did a lot for ity pride. They iepeeditias Wires at A Thought for the Week ALWAYS BEHAVE AS IF NOTHING HAS HAPPENED NO MATTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED. -- ARNOLD BENNETT the recent Ontario Winter Games, fought their hearts out and won gold medals. A few public words of congratulations would have been nice. Many times they were introduced over the loudspeaker as represen- ting Thunder Bay, many times the fights were held up as the MC was told "'Schreiber", not Thunder Bay. They showed a lot of pride in their community, more so, then you, our elected officials do. Be it boxing, hockey, figure skating, whatever, you, our elected town of- ficials should show a little consideration and show your, our appreciation for the efforts of our citizens, whatever their age. Running a town is more than just attending meetings. Community pride and spirit mean a lot, to which none of you seem to practice. Next time some Schreiber citizens make our people proud, show a little class and considera- tion. Congratulate them! Kevin Cocks Music Room Dear Editor: In response to the article written on "Our. Music Room"? in last week's Ter- Trace Bay-Schreiber NEWS we found it lacking in substance and fairness of facts. Up until this time we understood the music room was to be located at the Schreiber campus. Upon reading the letter of last week, we realized once again, Schreiber residents have got to con- tinue to justify any new courses that the Schreiber campus is to offer to students of both com- munities. It's) our understanding the principal has recommended the in- strumental music room be placed at the Schreiber campus for two reasons. (1) Being that Terrace Bay already offers eight specialized courses with only six classrooms available, while Schreiber only offers two specialized courses at this time. To en- Arthur Black Say goodbye to Batgirl sure the growth of this music program, it only makes sense to place the music course at the Schreiber campus, as the room is available, and the student timetable makes it feasible for it's survival. (2) The 1985-86 school year brings a compulsion of an art credit to graduate. As the Terrace Bay campus already offers an industrial arts credit, it only makes continued on page 5 I have two humiliating confessions to make. Number one: I love comic books. Have since I was a kid -- and that's an embarassing admission to make in a world full of folks who nat- ter about James Joyce, Ingmar Bergman and the Personalized In- come Tax form as if they really understood them. My second confession is even: more degrading: comic books -- a lot of them anyway -- have become too complicated for me. Haven't understood them for years. I mean, I go back to Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. Daffy Duck. Little Lulu. Know how many characters there were in Little Lulu's universe? Lulu, her mom and pop, Tubby, Alvin, Witch Hazel and one or two I've forgotten. A dozen characters, tops. Compare this with a 1980's comic shelf. In one series -- Justice League of America -- there are five superheroes. Each one comes with his/her/its private .entourage of stooges, sidekicks, girl friends, boy friends, arch enemies and best bud- dies. And that's just one group of do- gooders! There are dozens of others -- Alpha Flight, Atari Force, Avengers, the Micronauts to name but a few. Confused? Wait, there's more. Not only do these guys trip over each other in stories set in the Here and Now ... they also travel through Space and Time. This means that a Batman of the future can team up with a Superman from the past to defeat a villain from another dimension. Get it? Of course you don't. The comic world is seriously over- populated. The good news is, some of the Gods on Cartoon Olympus have recognized the problem. That's why in the near future, DC Comics is indulging in a brief and bloody bout of Mass Genocide. The DC pantheon of heroes has mushroomed over the years to take ina mind-numbing bliz- zard of characters who inhabit a whole series of planets -- Earths 1, 2, 3, 4, not to mention Earth X and Earth S. It's become too much for even the cartoonists to keep track of, never mind the poor beleaguered reader. Well, it won't last much longer. By this time next year, most of those planets and all of the fantasy folk who inhabit them will be destroyed. DC Comics has decided to 'simplify its universe'. It's all go- ing to happen in a brand new, 12-part comic series (natch) called Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crisis indeed. When it's over, what's left of DC characters will have just one planet -- Earth -- to mess around on. The DC overlords promise to be ruthless. Supergirl dies this July. Batgirl is going to suffer a what's-it- all-about-anyway mid-career crisis and give up the Superhero business entirely to settle down as a nice mid- dle class suburban housewife with suspicious humps on her shoulders. Superman One (Yep, the old guy is still around -- doddering about on Earth 2, as a matter of fact) -- he will grab his good grey woman and legal (at last) wife Lois Lane and take off on an extended intergalactic retire- ment vacation. From which, say the DC Decisionmakers, neither one will PVver refieren Why the massive purge? For the very reason I gave up reading com- ics about the time wierdos like Firestorm, Wolverine, Iron Fist and Power Man began to appear. DC has realized that any reader without ac- cess to a computer hasn't got a prayer of following the Menageries of characters they've spawned. DC hopes that by thinning out their stable of heroes and villains until they're down to a recognizable (and memorable) few, they'll pick up more readers. Well, they won't pick up this reader. I'm holding out 'til they bring back , | eT oe os