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Terrace Bay News, 24 Mar 1992, p. 1

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BELLUZ Realty Ltd. Simcoe Plaza = Box 715 The Terrace Bay-Schreiber Terrace Bay Ontario is POT 2Wo JURIS ZDANOVSKIS Office - 825-9393 BROKER/MVA Home - 824-2933 To lease this space please contact Cheryl at The Terrace Bay- Schreiber News | 825-3747 Volume 46 No. 12 News Tuesday March 24, 1992 Stand «= 0 cents incl. G.S.T. SUPERIOR SHORELINE INSURANCE LTD. We represent 8 different insurance companies so that we can get the best rates for you: *Home *Auto *Business *Air Craft *Mobile Home 825-9492 Liz Boutilier Broker by Monica Wenzlaff Special Two year ago light flyweight | boxer Dominic Filane put Schreiber on the Common- / wealth map with a bronze | medal win at the Games in Aukland, New Zeland. Now he hopes to put his hometown on a bigger map by qualifying to compete at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. » -- "You feel like you're carry- ing the weight of the town on j your shoulders," said the 23- ] year-old Canadian boxing | champion. Filane only has one obstacle 1 left. Next week he must place || amongst the top four in his weight class at the North American qualification trials in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Dominic Filane trains in Etobicoke earlier this month. Filane hopes to be | Barcelona bound after boxing trials "I'm excited and nervous because it could all end," he said. In the past, the Canadian boxing team automatically qualified to compete at the Olympics. But because the field was getting too large, quo- tas have been set for this sum- mer's games. "You get.the feeling some- one's trying to make it harder on you," said Filane, although he said he refuses to think any way except positively. "I'm training hard," he said. He sees the April 1-5 tourna- ment as a "fork in the road" to the Olympic dream. For months, Filane has been training six days a week, run- ning every morning and work- ing on his technical skills continued on page 2 Inside Community by Darren MacDonald they remember," he says. "And says Eva Gordon, who went on F The News once they make a trip through the tour. Gordon headed up a brief--Schreiber Schreiber Reeve Bob it, their opinions change." delegation that attended oat Roads Bud- Krause says he understands the Krause says he led a group cil earlier this month to voice Seti .08s 2 reasons why some people in of people on a their desire to town want to preserve the old tour of the ééThat wa s the Se the building Larry Sanders Town Hall. Hall last week. centre of all our remain. "People who haven't beenin When they "But I'm activities before the Recreation Centre complex.?? Eva Gordon on Municipali- ties and the constitution....5 kind of senti- mental. When we went into the hall that day, I could have sat in the middle of the floor and cried. That was the centre of all our activities before the Recreation Centre complex. Wedding receptions, dances and plays saw the condi- tion of the building, he says they changed their minds about whether or not it should be saved. "It's just not feasible to try and fix it," says Krause. "I guess it's a losing battle," the building lately remember as it used to be," he says. "They remember 'well, I had my first date in here' or 'I had my first haircut in here.' A lot of people have a lot of firsts (in the Town Hall)." However, he says they change their minds once they see the building as it is now. "It's no longer the building Pet Talk..........6 5 Market- place........14-15 Town Hall way beyond repair, Reeve says were all held there." But Krause says that keep- ing the hall open isn't realistic. "In 1988, it would have cost $1.2 million (to renovate) and now it's probably up close to $1.5 million in 1992 dollars," he said. "It's deteriorated that much." Krause says that the prob- lems with the building include windows, floors, the roof and the basement all need to be replaced; no insulation exists in the walls; the stairs aren't up to the building code standard and would have to be replaced; the wall is cracking; the base continued on page 2 New Revised Auto & Property Rates We offer Mature Owners Discounts, Claims Free Discounts, Non Smokers Discounts & Alarm Credits SIMCOE PLAZA TERRACE BAY 825-3246 TERRACE BAY INSURANCE LTD. * Home * Business * Auto * Cottages * Recreational Vehicles * Etc.

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