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TERRACE BAY/SCHREIBER NEWS "* Wednesday, April 19, 1989 SL # = Editorial Page: General Managev.......Paul Marcon The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by Editor...........+.++- .......David Chmara Single copies 40 cents. Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Admin. Asst........... Gayle Fournier Subscription rates: $15 per Tel.: 807-825-3747. Second class mailing permit 0867. Member of the Production Asst....carmen Dinner year / $25 two years (local) Ontario Community Newspaper Assn. and the Canadian Community ro uc ion ASSL....Larme and $21 per year (out of Newspaper Assn. Editorial Asst......... Connie Sodaro town). Bikers beware The snow's melting fast and that means summer activities will soon be taking place. Already people are out riding their bicycles, enjoying the warmer air and the arrival of spring. Biking is a fun and healthy exercise - not to mention it saves gas. In a small town you can bike from one end to the other in a matter of minutes. I do have one complaint about biking though - people who insist on riding their bikes along the sidewalk, especially in front of Simcoe Plaza. I can't understand why people do it. It's not only foolish, it can be downright dangerous at times. People walking along the Plaza have to watch out for bikers, especially when exiting a store. This is a hazard to both pedestrians and bikers alike. It could be even more hazardous if somebody is leaving a store and a biker doesn't notice. Flying through a glass door is no laughing matter and could lead to serious consequences. It's not like the Simcoe Plaza sidewalk is the only route a cyclist has to take to get from point A to point B. There's Radisson Avenue right behind the Plaza and a street just in front that bikers can use as alternate routes instead of the sidewalk. It's unfortunate that the sidewalk in question is private, and not public property. Because of this the Terrace Bay Council cannot pass a by-law forbidding the riding of bikes on the sidewalk (except for in front of the township office). So it's up to bikers to be responsible and stay off the sidewalk. Maybe it should be noted at this time that bikers are controlled by the same regulations that govern automobile users. They're supposed to have a warning device (horn or bell), a light if driven during darkness and be kept in proper operating condition (i.e. brakes should be working properly). And because they're subject to the same regulations as cars, they're also subject to the same fines. a So keep this in mind when you're out biking this summer. Follow the rules and you won't get slapped with fines for failing to stop, making improper turns, and failing to signal a turn, to mention a few of the more common mistakes bikers make. Is the King Letters to the Editor are always welcome. Please address your letter to: Editor Terrace Bay/Schreiber News Box 579 Terrace Bay, Ont. POT 2W0 In order that we may verify authorship, please include your name and phone number. Feel free to use this forum to express comments, appreciation, inform, criti- cize,. or debate issues on anything of public interest. _ "ALL THOSE TANKERS ~ CRUISIN' OUR WEST COAST . SURE $CARE THE HELL OUTA YA, EH?" dead or isn't he? It's just as well that I wasn't born in Britain, Holland, Denmark or any other monarchy, - because I've never really been comfortable with the concept of Royal People. My introduction to the bluebloods came when I was watching a stage play -- Shakespeare maybe -- back when I was just a little tadpole of nine or 10. I can still remember the funny-looking guy dressed in bloomers, tights and a ruffed collar, a long skinny pikestaff in his hand, standing on the stage and croaking to the audience "THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!" That threw me. I never really got into the play after that. I kept saying to myself, well, wait a minute -- is the Kind dead or isn't he? I think I've been a little spooked by the whole idea of royalty ever since. Royalty in all- its forms. I was spooked by those on-the-street reports from in front of that King's castle last August. startled to learn that the King's castle was in Memphis, Tennessee. Then there were all those people milling around, some of them crying. And the flowers. Tons of flowers, from all over the world. Bouquets shaped like hearts. . . bouquets shaped like guitars. . . bouquets that spelled out, in carnations and gardenias and roses, messages like ELVIS IS KING and WE LOVE YOU ELVIS. The castle in question was the much-fabled Graceland, pleasure pit and final resting place of Elvis Aron Presley, 1935-1977. The people milling around were Elvis fans from all over the world who . made the pilgrimage to Memphis to observe the anniversary of their saint's death. Spooky. The guy's been dead for nearly 12 years, but every August 16th this clot of faithful followers washes up against the gates of Graceland. Did I say clot? Amend that to "multitude". They come by the - oe D8 ee x. pe Og ART Beet Se ee ey one afternoon alone, more than 5,000 disciples lined up and waited for hours in 95-degree heat, just to pay their respects. Lots of other rock stars died untimely deaths -- John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Buddy Holly -- but each passing year makes their legends a little hazier. Which is the way it's supposed to work -- time heals all wounds and et ee eee ee ee ee oy, ee getting bigger in death. Some of his staunchest fans couldn't have been more than grade schoolers when Elvis was an actual breathing human. In a few years there will be fans carrying candles at Graceland who weren't even alive when Elvis was around. The Elvis revival is not just a downtown Memphis phenomenon. Last year a radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio decided to play Elvis records. Just Elvis records. Twenty-four hours a day. Can a radio station make money doing that? You bet your blue suede shoes they can. Two weeks after WCVG switched to the all-Elvis format, advertising revenue had soared _a pelvis- rattling 700 per cent. And there's no fear of running out of programming. Elvis left behind 652 singles and 90 albums before he went to that Last Big Audition in the Sky. That's if. . . Elvis did shuffle off his moral coil. . ahhhh, in fact The out-and-out spookiest aspect of the whole Elvis cult is the growing number of Presley devotees who don't care about any Elvis Revival because they don't think Elvis needs to be revived. They contend that Elvis ... lives. -- : These folks believe that Elvis faked his death in that Graceland bathroom back in 1977 to escape the pressures of fame, and that he's been kind of gliding around the world incognito ever since, just waiting for the right moment to reveal himself and reclaim the throne of the King of Rock and Roll. Well, if I learned anything from the Salman Rushdie affair, it's not to make fun of religious fanatics and zealous nutballs, so I'll just say no comment... beyond noting that if Elvis is alive, he's closing in on sixty years of age. . . and probably still a binge eater, which is to say, obese, I'm not sure anybody would want to see him wiggle his pelvis one more time. ]