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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, January 30, 1985 Terrace Re The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: = pe bh y Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2W0. a Telephone: (807) 825-3747. ry GENERAL/ADVERTISING MANAGER ................. Vivian Ludington COP rs a ee + rege 8 oR ase Kelley Ann Chesley Reunion PRODUCTION MANAGER .... Mary Melo slated for August -- If you began high school in September of 1970 or 1971 or were in grade 12 or 13 in September of 1974, or were one of the graduating class of 1975, we want you! All class of '75 members are invited to take part in a weekend reunion plann- ed for the August long weekend. Yes, it's been ten years and we've got a fun filled weekend planned to celebrate. To kick off the weekend we plan to have registration and a wine and cheese get- together at the Chalet on the Friday evening. Satur- day morning will see a pan- cake breakfast take place from 9 a.m. until noon at the Nipigon Curling Club, followed by an afternoon 'golf tournament. Saturday evening's plans include a dinner and dance. Sunday morning will be given over to rest and a energized, we plan to have a bonfire and sing-a-long. Monday a BBQ Picnic Windup will begin at noon (in case of rain we'll be moving into the curling club). As people head home we're sure they'll take many new memories of old friends and good times. Now that you're as ex- cited as I am about all this you can pick the event you'd like to help out with and let the co-ordinator know about it. Your "Nip- Rock Class of '75 Reunion Committee' consists of: Reunion Co-ordinator - Elizabeth Harvey-Foulds; Reunion Treasurer - Yvonne (Koski) Gill; Pan- cake Breakfast Co- ordinator - Michelle (Bouchard) Sequin; Golf Tournament Co-ordinator Les Dunville; Dance Co- ordinator - Wayne Roy; Family Fun Day Co- chance to recuperate forthe ordinator - Patty Jordan, Family Fun Day slated for © Windup BBQ Co-ordinator the afternoon. Activities - Roma (St. Pierre) will include a water regat- Dupuis. ta, relay races, and games for all ages. Sunday even- ing, for those who still feel All teachers from our high school years are also continued on page 8 2 letters to the Editor Kerosene prices vary: Stokes Anything you can do to --_ greatly appreciated. Yours sincerely, Jack Stokes, MPP Lake Nipigon Riding ~~ Letters to the editor The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News invites readers to write letters to the editor on any subject. It is obvious from the of equity, fairness and pro- y ) above data that distance or _ tection for all consumers explain this wide The Honourable Robert the isolation factor has | wherever they may live in discrepancy in pricing wil] 'January 15, 1985 All letters must be signed, and it Elgie, M.D. nothing to do with the retail the Province of Ontario. be most welcome and g Igie, 8 ---- be helpful to include a telephone Minister of Consumer : f i : Cur din re ues ¥ mort number in case we have to check the and Commercial Price of a gallon o ed veracity of the letter.- However, the Relations kerosene if one compares g a : writer's name may be withheld from publication, if requested. Although there can be no guarantee of | publication, the "News" will attempt to publish all letters, space permitting. All letters are subject to editing for style, taste and length. [he opinions expressed in letters to the editor are strictly the: opinion of the writer, and not necessarily those of the newspaper. Address your ietters to: The Editor, ' Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2wo. 7 555 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario Dear Mr. Elgie: Allow me to quote the \prices that were given to me by various retail dealers of kerosene in selected areas of the province. Armstrong, $14.95 per gallon; Thunder Bay, 6.98 per gallon; Toronto, 3.50 per gallon (malodorous); Toronto, 5.69 per gallon (odour free); Pickle Lake, 51.1 cents per litre (with the price between Arm- strong and Pickle Lake, 'which is even more remote. There would appear t: be no legitimate or tangibl reason for such a wic variation in price even in free market system. Since your Ministry has the mandate for consumer protection, I am sure that you would want this infor- mation brought to your at- tention to ensure that there Mr. A.J. Gauthier Clerk-Treasurer Township of Schreiber Dear Mr. Gauthier: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 4, 1984 regar- ding your request for infor- mation on funds available for the construction of a new fire hall. The Speech from the Throne of March 20, 1984 addressed this subject. There will be an interval of time before policy issues are settled and strategies' formulated to implement this assistance program; hence, we are certainly not in a position to provide fun- ding to a maximum of Bay. $25,000.00. Your request,, however, has been noted. While I am unable to give you an exact date of commencement for this in- itiative, there will be a fur- ther announcement in due course. Yours truly, George W. Taylor, Q.C. Solicitor General Arthur Black Let's hear it for Andy Brown of Chicago. Mister Brown is a man with an idea whose time has come. he is the manager of the E-Z Parkade -- a ten-level parking garage in downtown Windy City. Now I don't know about you, but I can lose my car in the Pizza Hut parking lot. Can you imagine how long I might wander the catacombs of a ten-level parking garage? That's where Andy Brown's great idea comes in. He decided last year that the conventional method of designating parking levels -- 4A...6B -- was, to quote Andy "Real bor- ing." So.he came up with a whole new scheme. He gave each floor the name of a city. Instead of one, two, three, four, Andy Brown's Parking Emporium has Dallas, Phoenix, St. Louis, and so on. Own container). is at least some semblance That's Phase One. What makes the scheme work is that each floor also has its own, particular song wafting over the public address system. On the "Dallas" floor you hear "Big D". On "St. Louis", what you get is "Meet Me in St. Louis". On the floor called "Phoenix", the strains of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" percolate with the exhaust fumes. Get it? Dopey drivers like me don't have to remember meaningless snat- ches of hieroglyphics such as Seven- C or Eight-K. All we have to keep in mind is Pearl Bailey singing "April in Paris" or Old Blue Eyes crooning '*My Kind of Town, Chicago is..." Smart, huh? Reminds me of a deliciously dirty trick a Southern Ontario editor friend of mine once played on a public rela- tions man I'll call Fred Blank. Fred Auto mania shilled for the local Chrysler dealer and he was always badgering, houn- ding and wheedling my editor friend to give him some free publicity in the paper. Fred would .woo junior reporters with free drinks and lun- ches. He'd show up at the office with glossy eight-by-tens of scantily-clad women draped over Chrysler hoods. He'd phone in fake news stories that always managed to mention the loca- tion of the Chrysler showroom. One day Fred pushed my editor friend too hard. "You want some ink for your cars Fred?" said my normal- ly docile editor. "I'll give you some damned ink for your cars." This is the story that appeared in the next edition: There will be a Hornet's nest of ac- tivity downtown this weekend. It's a promotion thought up by Fred Blank, a Mercurial Gremlin whose Meteoric rise to the top ranks of the Public Relations game has 'branded him the El Dorado of publicity gimmicks. Mister Blank swears his latest scheme is neither a shameless Dodge or a mere Lark. 'At first we thought we'd have an exotic animal show' explained Mister Blank, 'But then we reasoned that if folks really wanted to see Cougars, Lynxes, Bobcats and Jaguars, they could just go to the zoo. We decided against a bird show too. Imean, how far would you go just to see a Falcon or an Eagle? Besides, what if the weather turned bad? You get two in- ches of snow on a weekend and wild horses -- even Mustangs or Broncos -- wouldn't bring out the crowds. 'We tried to get a big name emcee for the event', explained Mister Blank, 'dressed in a three-piece suit of Lincoln green. 'We called up Chevy Chase and even ex-president Gerald Ford. But Chevy was already booked for a Civic function at Plymouth Rock. Mister Ford said he was getting too Olds for live promo- tions and that he planned to spend the weekend hunting Rabbits on his Pony ranch outside of Pontiac, Michigan.' Mister Blank is director of public relations for a large local automobile franchise. And that was it. A whole story about cars that mentioned just about every make but the one Fred sold for a living. You know, it's a funny thing -- my editor friend-never heard from the Chrysler guy again.