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Page 6, News, Tuesday, August 14, 1990 Letter to the Editor continued from page 4 trail and the trail we take is the public walkway. Signed, The teenagers of Terrace Bay and Schreiber. Dear local teenagers, The article to which you were referring (Rock Pond) wasn't aimed at all kids and teenagers. Not all youths are putting rocks in their pockets and jump- ing off - just a few. It's unfortunate that a few have to make the rest of you look bad. | Chris Joubert was only con- cerned about safety. I'm sure he doesn't object to people using the rock pond for swimming because Recreation aquatic accidents account for over 1,200 fatalities annually in Canada. This is more than the number of fatalities asso- ciated with air disasters, commer- cial shipping tragedies and rail disasters combined. Highest at risk are males-- accounting for 85% of the total. 4 Id The Terrace Bay Rec Centre offers open swimming from 2:00 = 4:30 every afternoon and 7:00 - 8:00 during the evening for open swimming. For those of you 16 and over, the time from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. is also available. These times (except adult swimming) include everyone. One of the employees at the Rec Centre told me that they are keep- ing the pool open for an extra week this year and possibly will have a time set. aside for the as you mentioned, his kids also teenage age group. use it. Angie Saunders "ST. MARTIN SCHOOL SCHOOL OPENING Sr. Kindergarten New Registrations: 10:00 a.m. - C. Commisso Chairperson TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1990 - A.M. ONLY WEDNESDAY - REGULAR FULL DAY BEGINS JR. Kindergarten & Gr. 1-8 classes begin 8:55 a.m. on Tues. September 4th Classes begin at 12:55 on Wednesday September Sth 3:00 p.m. on Monday August 27th and on school opening Tuesday September 4th BUSING: for St. Martin School and Ecole St-Martin will begin on Tuesday September 4th and will fol- low previous schedule until otherwise informed. G.J. Matys : Director of Education Avis features GM cars. Weekends! Rr Lat ANAS OE We try harder AEPTTeTTS LE SAREE SOROS O LE EOP AOR BO HS fi oe gies: tna group, nine out of ten drowning victims are male. One-third of drownings involve power boats, usually small craft under 18 feet in length with flat or rounded bottom and, tragically, more than 50% of all boating fatalities involve alcohol. Don't become a drowning Statistic. Be water smart and lis- ten to the Royal Life Saving Society Canada Water Smart advice: -Wear you lifejacket or PFD. PFDs are now stylish, comfort- able and practical, and are available for all ages and various aquatic activities. Your PFD is the best "life insurance" policy afloat. Remember, when boating, PFD's have to be Department of Transport approved in orange, yellow or red. -Learn to swim. There is no substitute for swimming skills. Learn how. Don't exceed your ability and whatever you do, supervise youngsters around the water. -Think before you drink. Too much alcohol impairs your ability to think. Watch out. You could end up in the drink. -Be water smart...and play safe in, on, and near the water this summer. Hypothermia, caused by cold water, is an insidious killer thought to be responsible for one quarter of all boating deaths. Hypothermia, which is a decrease in body temperature, kills people in cold water by reducing their ability to swim or stay afloat. A person in cold water can eventu- ally die of cardiac arrest if he is Don't become a drowning statistic not rescued and rewarmed. Cold water kills 25 times faster than cold air. To minimize the effects of hypothermia, The Royal Life Saving Society of Canada (RLSSC) advises people to attempt immediately to get back into the boat or climb onto the overturned boat. They should not remove their clothes. Clothing, even while wet, will hold in body heat somewhat as a diver's wetsuit will. If a person in the water can't get back in the boat, but he is wearing a lifejacket, he should assume the heat escape lessening posture (H.E.L.P.). The arms are crossed over the chest, ankles crossed, knees drawn up to the chest, hands kept high on the shoulders or the neck. All the world's a circus- cont'd from 5 in fashion freedom - city council is about to inherit the problem on August 13th when the protesters will deliver their message in chambers. This is a very prudent move. I've always. maintained that in any controversy involving the human ass, - get the expert opinion - take it to a politician. Mrs: G. also told me, that her husband is secking a lawyer. Good luck! Where are you going to find a lawyer, even in Port Colborne, who will take on a client incapable of carrying a big, fat wallet. Those who want the thong thrown out of Port Colborne keep claiming that it's already been banned in Florida. Florida banned the thong on its state- owned beaches. But Florida only owns 30 miles of its beaches, while 780 miles of beaches exist around the state. Two American manufacturers of the thong claim four out of every ten bikini-type bathing suits sold are thongs and they will not stop making the garment because of Florida's outlawry. Yet somehow I can't imagine the thong becoming the bathing suit of choice of most Port Colborne men. The boys whose job it is to hold up the bar at the Belmont Hotel probably won't go with the thong no matter how hot it gets. I can just see Belmont Bob slowly circling his drinking buddy wearing a hot pink thong and admiring him from behind, "Gee Ferdie, I had no idea you were So...SO...untanned." "Well that's about to change Bob, because when I got up this morning I said to myself, it's so nice out today, I think I'll leave it out! That's when I put on my thong." Randy Lewis, a state bureau- crat drafted the new obscenity law in Florida which "specifically prohibits the exposure of male and female genitalia, pubic area, the buttocks and _ female breasts..." And folks (I'm not making this up) Randy Lewis works for the Department of National Resources!!! I'm going to leave that one lie right there. See you at city hall, the place where any old exposed butt can feel right at home. - Northern Insights- continued from page 5 That soubled soul is Joshim Kakegamic, messed up on drugs and alcohol on skid row in south- ern Ontario. The transformed soul is Joshim Kakegamic today. Take Off This Weekend! fro T Q % M@ daily rate Birch Motors Lid. =a Hwy. 17, Box 280 schreiber, Ontario 7 "I haven't touched a drug, I haven't touched a drink for over five years. And that's what my pictures depict. I have a man who's burdened down - tears, and AVIS Rent-A-Car he has sweat, and he has his eyes closed, and there is a load on his back, and he was just barely on his feet, trying to hold himself up on the ground with his two arm. And then on the other picture, I have a dove, representing a dove. And what better way to transform yourself but into a dove." The entire community of Sandy Lake is going through a process of rebirth, just like Joshim Kakegamic. As Sandy Lake struggles with the constant tension between the old ways, and outside influences like satel- lite TV, the artists have been teaching their art to children at the Sandy Lake School. Lloyd Kakekapetum, one of the eight painters, says the work in the schools is very important, in the current atmosphere of cultural conflict. "Everything changes I guess, but to me, I would like things to be like before. I want to go back to hunting and all that. Maybe we lost a little along the way, but I want to go back to it, at least in my art." As I was speaking to Kakekapetum, his telephone interrupted us, and our conversa- tion had to end. All too quickly, I had to leave, and return to the urbanized outside world. At first, I left frustrated, wondering if an outsider could ever completely understand the artists of Muzinihbeegey. But later, on reflection, I realized I was wrong. We are all on a voyage of discov- ery - gaining deeper cognizance of our roots as the world changes around us - just like Muzinihbeegey.