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Schreiber man drowns A 66-year-old Schreiber resident died on June 22 at Cook's Lake in a what has been called a drowning accident, according to an Ontario Provincial Police spokesman. Vincenzo DeLeo of 311 Manitoba Street had been fishing at the lake just north of Schreiber earlier that day. When the local OPP detachment received a report that he was overdue at home, a search of the surrounding area was started. A dragging opera- tion of the lake bed had to be conducted when no sign of the man was found in the initial surface search. The body of the popular town barber was eventually located : and later sent to Thunder Bay for an autopsy. Corp. Don Burton explained that the results of the post-mortem were not available as of late last week. He added, though, that there was no suspicion of foul play and Wednesday, July 2, 1986 that at the moment the incident is a suspected drowning. Further details were unavailable at press time. = Parade float The Terrace Bay Public Library entered a "Bookworm" float in the town's annual Canada Day parade, held this year on June 28. The parade also included floats from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Public Works Department as well as the traditional assort- ment of clowns. Special parade features this year were the Fraser Girls Pipe Band from Thunder Bay, the Shrine Clown Unit, and the Shrine Drill Patrol. Rec Centre heat supply to be terminated in '87 It seems Terrace Bay Reeve and Councillors made the right decision earlier this year when they decided to go ahead with a costly independent heating system for the town's Rec- reation Centre, because last month Council learned that the current heating source for the Centre will be gone a year from now. According to a letter from Pinewood Court read at the June 23 meeting of council, Pinewood's Board of Management passed a resolution on May 30 to give a one-year notice to the township that the Board intends to terminate the provision of its heating ser- vice from Birchwood Terr- ace to the Recreation Cen- tre on May 31, 1987. Tom C. Gash, Pinewood Court's administrator, add- ed in the letter that "from what I understand, a con- certed effort has been put forth by the town to devel- op of self-sufficient heat- ing capacity for the Centre by year end." Reeve Ollie Chapman, at the Council meeting, said the possibility of such a termination was one of the main reasons behind the decision to put in a heating system at the Centre. Council made its dec- ision regarding the heating system at its May 12 meet- ing. The projected cost for the system is $110,000. A grant has been applied for which, if approved, will cover a large portion of the town's expenses. Doug Baker, the town's engineer, was on hand at the June 23 meeting to dis- cuss the heating system. He told Council that its con- sultant has selected the boilers and electrical dis- tribution centre which will be used in the system. All that is really left to select are the necessary hydro transformers, he explained. Baker added that the two boilers will cost $17,162 each. Council had origin- ally budgeted $25,000 for each boiler. The distribut- ion centre will cost $8,920. He admitted that he is "'very concerned" about the hydro transformers, and hopes they can be ob- tained in time. The heating system is scheduled to go into operation in December of this year. "*Maybe we'll put in the purchase orders (for the boilers and centre) and wait until we get some word on the grant before we start on the work," Reeve Chap- man suggested. A motion to that effect was then voted on and passed. She later explained that the government has said it will make a final decision on the township's grant ap- plication within the next two months. The township will not have its application disqualified if work begins on the project before the grant is either approved or rejected, Reeve Chapman pointed out. Council also noted the recent passing of Curly Hale, a former Councillor for Terrace Bay Township. School is out The month of June has come to an end, which means school for stud-ents in the area is also over, and Lake Superior High School » graduates ended their year as al-ways, with a tradi- tional graduation ceremony on June 24. Ten Grade 13 students and 53 from Grade 12 of the Schreiber and Terr-ace Bay campuses of the school received diplomas, while a few lucky grad-uates received the 27 available awards. This year, Daryl. J. Payette of the Kimberly- Clark mill in Terrace Bay was the guest speaker. Tamalea Meister gave the valedictory address to the large crowd on hand at the Schreiber campus. Vol. 41, No. 26 Serving Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Rossport 35° Area Chamber formed By Conrad Felber A little thing like a name did not deter those at a June 26 meeting in Terrace Bay from forming, at long last, a Chamber of Commerce for the town and maybe for the entire North Shore dis- trict as well. A group of about 20 people, including those selected to an interim com- mittee at a previous meet- ing of the Terrace Bay bus- iness community, voted in favour of adopting the set of by-laws prepared by the committee. In Article 1 of the by- laws, the organization is called the Terrace Bay Chamber of Commerce. However, that may.change . before the end of the year, as there was a general con- sensus at the meeting to allow Schreiber businesses to join the Chamber as well, which would necess- itate a name change. Mike Moore explained at the meeting that he has been informed there are not enough business people in Schreiber for them to form a Chamber of their own, as had been the original plan earlier this year. Instead, Moore suggested it might be a good idea to allow Schreiber residents to join the Terrace Bay Chamber. "We in the committee feel quite strongly that it would be appropriate to have the Schreiber busin- essmen participate," he added. There were no rep- resentatives from Schreiber at the June 26 session, which was held at the Rec- feation Centre in Terrace Bay. Moore also said an area Chamber might be the best route to take if Schreiber is allowed to join. Such an organization would also in- Award winner Tamalea Meister, a Grade 13 graduate of Lake Superior High School, besides acting as the valedictorian at the school's June 24 graduation ceremony, also picked up a number of awards and scholarships during the evening. She is shown here walking up the ramp to the stage to accept the W.W. Rowsome Trophy, presented each year to the graduate who has made an outstanding contribution to school life and school spirit throughout his or her high school years. clude both Rossport to the west and Jackfish to the east and might be called the Aguasabon District, North Shore District, or Terrace Bay and District Chamber of Commerce. "There are people in Schreiber who are interest- ed in joining," Moore said. "'There's not much in a name anyway.' It was de- cided that a final name for the Chamber can always be looked at later on. A motion was then made to extend an official in- vitation to the business communities of Schreiber, Rossport, and Jackfish, and this was passed, as was an earlier motion to incorpor- ate the Chamber. Bryon Cassie, also of the organizing committee, told the group about incorporat- ion and admitted that the initial cost is "pretty steep" but also worth it in the end. 'In order to supply re- ceipts you should be in- corporated," he explained. '*But the main thing is the legal aspect." Incorporat- ion would remove legal lia- bility for debts from the in- dividual members of the Chamber, he pointed out. Incorporation will cost the Chamber a one-time fee of approximately $1,000. To pay for such expens- es, Chamber members will pay an annual fee. A fee structure was'prepared, re- viewed, and generally app- roved at the meeting. Membership fees will range from $55 for comp- anies with one to 10 em- continued on page 3 Grant given A grant of $593 from the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture has been awarded to the Schreiber Public Library Board, according to a June 26 news release from the Ministry's office in Toronto. The money, the release added, will allow members of the Board to attend the Ontario Library Associat- ion Conference. The award was just one of 36 grants totalling $506,917. The largest single grant of $55,423 went to the On- tario Library Service in Ot- tawa to develop multi-ling- ual and audio-visual coll- ections and to set up a French Outreach program.