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bef Le Vol. 28, No. 7 The Terrace Bay Winter Carnival teed-off over the Weekend. Terry O'Neil takes a wing ublic 7, lerrace OT 2No FE bra ry at the Sirst ball in the snow golf tournament. Carnival weekend in Terrace Bay The Terrace Bay Win- ter Carnival kicked off over the weekend. The Carnival spanned three days and began Friday night with a Barrel Jumping contest and Skating races at the arena. The winners in the Barrel Jumping were Martin Saaranpaa, first, Denis Jean, sec- ond, and Greg Lang, third. : On Saturday the Catholic Women's League put on a pan- cake breakfast in St. Martin's Church base- ment followed by the Parade at 12:00. The Parade was led by the Terrace Bay Volunteer Fire Department and in- cluded entries by the Birchwood Senior Citi- zens, the Terrace Bay Figure Skaters who won NHL Oldtimers to The NHL Old Timers hockey team will be playing in Schreiber on Saturday, March 12. The game is part of a five town North Shore tour which will take the team of retired NHL hockey greats to Horne- ee Sie the prize for the best entry, and the Kins- men. The Snow Golf Tour- nament took place on Saturday afternoon and was won by Barry Woods for the men with a low gross of 39 and by Cheryl Cosman with~a low gross of 33. The prize for the best Cos- tume Group was won by Denise and Regan Doyle, Corinne Bouchie _ and Adam Moore. The -Ladies of the Moose sponsored the Carnival Valentine's Day Dance on_ Satur- day evening and a Spaghetti Sipper on Sunday. The Order of the Moose also ran a Fish Derby through- out the weekend. The winner of the Snow Sculpture Contest Marathon, and Nipigon. Schreiber The Old Timers will face off against a local All Star Team. Schrei- ber Recreation Director Kevin Duguay said, "I would bill this as the pet was Miriam Chaisson with her entry "The Smurf'. Second prize went to Pam Jones for 'Garfield', and third prize went to David So- daro for "E.T.". Hon- ourable mention for Snowmen went to Son- ja and Tina Snofel, Mandy Nathan and Garth Hnatuk, and to Dick Mannisto and family. The Lion's Club spon- sored Children's Races, Cross Country Ski Poker, the log nailing contest and the cross cut saw contest on Sunday afternoon. The Longlac Team won the Hockey Tourna- ment taking four out of four games. Terrace Bay placed second with a record of 2-2. Thunder Bay was third with 1-2 and Ignace placed fourth with a 0-3 record. A close observer of Terrace Bay teams for many years said, "They played super. The best I've ever seen these guys play." Joey Caran- ci of Terrace Bay won the award as the Most Sportsmanlike Player and Joey Figliomeni won the award for Best Goaltender. The winner of the Moose Fishing Derby in the Lake Trout category was A. Kaari with a four Ib. three ounce fish. J.C. Durham won the Speck- led Trout prize with a 2 Ib. 9 oz: fish and Alain Gervais won the kids category with a 71% oz. fish. The largest Walleye was landed by Garry -- continued on page 3 play in Schreiber area hockey fans. This is the only time this NHL team will appear in Schreiber for the next two years."' Details of the roster for the Old Timers and for the local All Star next week. The game will be used as a fundraiser for local recreation projects and will start at 7 p.m. A dinner and beer gar- dens will be run in conjunction with the game. More details next = -- Ontario SS C. a3 F.N, Drop a note to: Community Billboard, The News, Terrace Bay. wv you have an event or meeting you want people to know about? We have the answer for you. Schreiber Atom Tourney The Current River Rockets won the Atom's Invitational Tourna- ment in Schreiber last week. Terrace Bay and ~ Schreiber played out the closest game of the Tournament. The game was tied 4-4 at the end of regulation play. It took five minutes of overtime and two rounds of a shoot out to finally de- _ cide the game in Ter- race Bay's favour. The two day Tourna- ment attracted six teams from Marathon, Red Rock, the Current River Rockets, Nipigon, Schreiber and Terrace Bay. The teams were di- vided into two divisions and Saturday morning play say Nipigon place first in the 'A' division with a 2-0 record, the Astros second with 1-1, and Terrace Bay third with 0-2. On Sunday the Cur- rent River Rockets won the Tournament, de- feating Nipigon with a score of 5-2. The Con- solation Champions were Terrace Bay with Runner-up Schreiber. Their score was 5-4 with the game decided by the shoot-out. Terrace Bay Coach Mark Hara said that his team fielded 19 players and one alternate. Hara said he was very pleas- ed with the team's per- formance and with their leading scorers Michael Duhaime, Jamie Speer and Dale Wilson. Du- haime played an espe- cially strong game in the match off against Schreiber for the Con- solation Champion- ship. Hara shares the coaching of the Terrace Bay team with Jimmy Charlton. Cos Filane and Coe Commisso coached the Schreiber team. Com- misso said, "The kids played very well. They played five games in two days so they were pretty tired."' As for the Sun- day game against Ter- race Bay Commisso said, "Terrace Bay had an excellent goal tend- er and they should be commended for that. Mark Tremblay, Joey Figliomeni and Michael Speziale all played a strong game for Schrei- ber. It was a good tour- nament."' Schreiber Recreation Director Kevin Duguay helped. organize the tournament and he said, "It was a hell of a tournament. I think everyone there enjoyed themselves." Mike Cos- grove, and Peter Spe- ziale should be con- gratulated as well as the Schreiber coaching staff Cos Filane, Harold 'Shack and Coe Commis- _ so. Marathon mill faces possible shutdown Uncertainty about the future of the mill in Marathon continues to hold local attention: The sale of American Can's pulp mill and woodlands operations in Terrace Bay's sister community continues to remain in doubt. American Can an- nounced last week that if a sale is not made the company will close down its operations. In a state- ment to its employees the company _ said, "American Can Cana- da's head office in To- ronto announced that it is in the process of negotiating with James River Corporation for the possible sale of its Marathon pulp opera- tions. It stated that if the sale is not consummated on a timely basis, it faces the possibility of the complete termina- tion of these opera- tions. _ The steps required to phase out the opera- tions of the Marathon Mill and Woodlands have already begun and a number of employees have been laid off or terminated. Appropria- te notices for the bal- ance of the 800 em- ployees are now being sent. American Can Ca- nada stated that it will be continuing the steps required to cease oper- ations by July 31, 1983 in the event a sale is not completed. These steps are being taken with great reluc- tance as the Corpora- tion is fully aware of the serious effects that they will have on its em- ployees and the resi- dents of Marathon. Every effort is being made by the Corpora- tion to find an accept- able alternative. Ameri- 'can Can had announced in April 1981 that it in- tended to divest its fiber based assets. The ma- jority of its pulp and paper holdings in the US were sold to James River in 1982. On January 17, American Can _indefi- nitely laid off 250 of its woodlands workers, about 60 paperworkers and S office employees. Noranda announces details of Hemlo mines Pyramids built of rough-cut wooden stakes tied together with bright orange ribbon continue to sprout up in the area. They can be seen on both sides of Terrace Bay and mark some of the 16,000 min- ing claims that have been staked between Terrace Bay and Wawa. The Northern Miner says that, 'Anything bearing even a remote resemblance to the Hemlo geology in the vast area is now cur- posts."' Noranda Mines has announced the details of the mining develop- ment it intends to build at Hemlo. The earlier announcement that the company would be going ahead with the con- struction of a mine led to speculation that as many as 5,000 to 10,000 jobs would be created at the site. The proposal re- leased by the company - shows its intentions to be fare more modest. is ae Mechta. seeeOl: wcater- worth of gold a year at present market prices. John Soganich, the Fi- nancial Post's mining analyst says that the mine is a major develop- ment and that Noranda "has a tight schedule. It wants the Golden Giant No. 1 in deposit by December 1984." The company's pro- posal says, "Noranda Mines Limited pro- poses to develop a gold mine and mill complex to mine 'and treat gold , eee ay ee -