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Terrace Bay News, 9 Jun 1955, p. 8

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Strawberry 2:30-4:00 Softball Softball Roller Bridge Roller Shift #3 Salary vs. Skating Skating vs. Shift Shift #3 8:30 pm. --- Hi School #2 - 6:30 Pete Public and 1:30 p.m, sok ia ee S330 p.m Separate --- Roller School --- Roller Skating Roller Skating mo Skating 1:30-3:30 Rane Old Men vs. 8230 Pem. ne Young Men ey Softball hs Game Cancelled eee sa) sa: Shift #1 ae a v vs. Shift : 3# - 6:30 eS) PeMe | NOTICE ) Young woman would like room and board for her two year old daughter, Contact L, Arsenault at Dominion Catering, 0-0-0 WHAT FOREST FIRES DOsceseccveetO YOU! Every year, in Canada and the U.S.A., forest, woods, range and grass fires kill billions of young trees---to-morrow's timber---and destroy enough to build a quarter- million homes; wood enough to make 7 or § million tons of pulp and paper products, The Trans-Canada Highway, from coast to coast, could be maintained with the labour required to fight forest fires, Indirect damage, by the quarter-million forest and range fires (annual average north of the Rio Grande to the timberline) is even greater. It cannot be measured definitely, but includes:-- Marring the Nations! Beauty; by disfiguring landscapes and recreational areas that give pleasure and inspiration to people who need vacations from monotonous routines, They cannot enjoy forests of charred, blackened snags. Wildlife Destruction; birds and animals need ground cover for nesting and shelter; they need food trees bearing fruits, nuts and new shoots, Much wildlife is killed when forests and grasslands burn. Denied food, the surviving birds and animals _move away, Moose and Deer subsist largely on the tender parts of shrubs and trees, and cattle on grass and other browse, Destroy their range and you destroy the animals. Farm Buildings and Homes, fences and crops, hydro and telephone poles are often burned by forest and grass fires---a great waste of wood, money and labour, Floods and Soil Erosion; fire destroys watershed vegetation, and leaves the good earth exposed to ravage by wind and water. Snows melt quickly, and water runs off rapidly from bared land, instead of soaking in to be stored for growing-season use, causes destructive floods, and\ carried vital topsoil into the streams and lakes where no farmer can use it, Human Lives; of which forest and grass fires too often take a ghastly toll,

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