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\ \ Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, December Y, 1987 CUSO supporting development The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News Is published every W: Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. - Second Class Mailing Permit Number 0867 s Women in the Third World face a double struggle; against poverty - and under development, and against sexual discrimination which denies them an equal place in their society. One way Third World women have responded to this challenge is through forming small-scale production co-operatives. The co-ops provide women with a much-needed source of income and often establish them as income earners for the first time, an impor- tant step in changing the status of women within the society and the family. Through participation in co-operatives, women develop a new sense of their own worth and the ability to contribute and support one anoth- er. The co-ops become a centre for learning, on child care, nutrition, family planning and the development of new skills. Just as important, women discover what they can achieve by work- ing with other women who face the same problems. CUSO is supporting the development of women's production co- operatives in Latin America, Asia, the South Pacific and Africa, by providing start-up capital and assistance in training co-op members in production techniques, co-op management and marketing. One problem facing artisanal co-ops is finding a market for their products. CUSO Manitoba/Northwest Ontario is assisting women's artisanal co-ops in Chile and Bolivia by importing and selling their products here in Canada. We invite you to support the efforts of these women to achieve self- sufficiency by making a donation to CUSO's projects for women and as a consumer by buying products from Third World women's co-oper- atives. CUSO crafts As part of its Christmas celebration, the Schreiber Women's Drop-in Centre will be sponsoring the sale of CUSO crafts. Drop by the Schreiber Public Library; Monday, December 14, from 1:30-3 p.m. These crafts will also be for sale at the Second Annual Children's Christmas Craft Sale at the Terrace Bay Recreation Centre on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 1:30-3 p.m. All donations made will be given to CUSO. For further information, call Donna Mikeluk at 824-3050. Letters to the editor Letters to the editor are encouraged. They can discuss any topic but are subject to alteration, in length and con- tent, at the discretion of the editor. Please send your signed letters to: The News, P.O. Box . 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2WO, or drop them off at the News, located centrally in Simcoe Plaza. Arthur Black--.£@--@. -- ----__.z ne ei ee en ee Ken Lusk i . Julie Wright I es oss. a ee ee Gayle Fournier Step phe EZ EY LZ warren ateet Nancy Parkin Single copies 35 cents Subscription rates per year in town $14.00 out of town $18.00 Member of Ontario Community Newpapers Association and The = Canadian Community Newspapers Association : forrace Bay ; ednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Schreiber ES SOS, ESS Letters to the editor Needs of people suffering from communicative disorders Dear David Peterson, pre- mier: On February 10, 1987, during the estimates of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, you and the former Member for Port Arthur, Jim Foulds, had a comprchensive exchange of views concerning the need for more qualified people in Northern Ontario, to address the acute needs of people suffering America fascinated with our newcasters By Arthur Black Well, 1987 is far from over, but as far as I'm concerned, they might as well roll the eredits, because I've already picked by Greatest Canadian News Story of The Year. No, it wasn't the Deposing of Richard Hatfield or the Buffoonery of Simon Reisman or the Triumph of Team Canada in the Hockey Wars. My nomination for Canadian News Story of the Year is: Peter Mansbridge: The Brain That Didn't Drain. What's that, madame? You claim that you passed the second weck of November trapped by a rock slide at the bottom of a zinc mine near Timmins -- that you missed the gripping "Peter Mansbridge to Stay" drama? No problem. Let us, as they say in the News Biz, recap. It happened during a week that saw deadly skirmishes in the Persian Gulf, hideous yaws and swoops on the world's' stock exchanges, sundry. epidemics of Starvation, drought and disease hither and yon, half a dozen excit- ing football games, one or two African coups and a transit strike in Montreal -- but the story that was on-every Canuck's lips was the story of Peter Mansbridge, CBC News Reader, and his heroic refusal to change studios. You had to be there, madame. At centre stage, doughty little Peter, news script clutched tightly to his breast, and there looming over him, the evil Media Mogul known as CBS Television, lewdly dripping dollars and dangling a contract. Petie could be a rich man, an Amcrican folk hcro -- maybe even get to have lunch with Bawbwa Walters. All he had to do was sign, and he could leave his grotty CBC studio behind for the glitzy grandeur of the CBS palace in New York. CBS beckoned and leered...Peter swayed ana-gri- maced in indccision...A nation of unwashed frostbacks held its col- 'Iective breath. "then suddenly... '< TAH DAHHHHHHH}! Gal- loping over the horizon, looking uncannily like Jeff Chandlef or, Randolph Scott at the fiedd of the U.S. Ninth Cavalry, heré 'comes Canada's most famous news read- er, Knowlton Nash, just in time to scoop Peter from under the véry maw of the American monster. Don't worry, -- Peter, says Knowlton. I will give up my plum of an assignment, reading The National every week night. I shall assume your menial claim to fame, as host of Saturday Report. Greater love hath no talking 'head than this, that he lay down his anchorship for his country. All kidding aside, you have to wonder what. it is about Americans and their fascination with the way Canadians look on the Boob Tube. Consider these names: Lorne Greene, Morley Safer, Peter Jennings, Peter Kent, Keith Morrison.Those are all Canadian newsreaders who did not resist the greenback blandish- ments of Amcrican television, and moved south to ply their trade. Canadians are in dispropor- _ ionate démand even' as game show hosts. Art Linkletter, Alex Trebck and Monte Hall are all transplanted ex-Canucks. Why is it American TV types think Canadians work so well -- particularly as. clectrificd town cricrs? Don Fitzpatrick has a the- ory. Fitzpatrick is president of a California firm of media head hunters that regularly scours the airwaves in search of major tal- ent. They find potential stars lan- guishing at obscure rural telcvi- sion stations in Dubuque or Brandon, sign them up and try to sell them to the big networks. It was Fitzpatrick who stumbled across.a videotape of Mansbridge reading the news and brought it to the attention of CBS. About Canadians on TV, Fitzpatrick says: "Canadian anchors have very, very strong voices, much more so. than Amcrican anchors. And their delivery is much more authorita- tive, as opposed to the laughing and scratching style on American newscasts. Yeah, well, I don't know if you can hang nation's identity on that, - but it's something, I suppose. from communicative disorders. Not only are there long lists of people waiting for assessments in the City of Thunder Bay, but there is only one speech pathologist for see page 9 As for CBS, well I guess they'll quest a little longer until they stumble across some as yct unknown charismatic who's prob- ably reading the Hog Report on some station in-Kansas right now. CBS will find him -or.her-and bestow the. milliosi. dollar contract that Peter Mansbridge didn't accept. = It's interesting though, isn't it? All those apocalyptic prophecies about the decline and fall of the American Empire were obviously premature. You think any socicty on the brink-of collapse could afford to pay some pretty face a million dollars to read it bedtime stories?