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Page 12, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, April 29, 1987 Terrace Bay News' head office also moved By Michael R. Atkins, president, Laurentian Publishing, Sudbury I'm being kicked upstairs this week. Not that I didn't long ago retire from doing real work, but this week represents a psychological departure I'm not sure I like.... It started out innocently enough....Norm said he needed more space for his increasing Nor- thern Ontario Business staff and that it would also be nice if the ma- jority of his people could have telephones because that was how they made their living. We have now turfed out the pay- ing customers upstairs, installed new phones, spent thousands of dollars fixing walls and building of- fices for people who thought they wouldn't see one until the turn of the century. And, of course, as I. said earlier, I no longer have my office or my fireplace. Admitted- ly, the fireplace was extravagant, but I am now being made to pay for those frivolous years of my youth. All this activity runs deeper than simple home renovations and sprucing up the old building. The key change is that we now have a separate floor for administration. The folks who sell ads and write stories and draw pictures and paste up pages and deliver the result work on other floors. I already miss them and I don't move until tomorrow! Although having shared an office with many of them in the | Major Appliance Repairs Servicing done in your own home to ranges, washers, dryers, dishwashers, fridges, electric hot water tanks and electric heating units. Parts on hand for most makes and models. Bill Campbell Electric 824-2743 or 824-2574 Servicing Jackfish, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Rossport and Pays Plat. 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Canada Manpower, in the Thunder Bay District and the Algoma District, also residents of Sudbury and Members of the Robinson Superior Treaty Maintains, repairs, installs and services high voltage underground electrical distribution systems, electrical generators, equipment installations and wir- ing as well as water supply, distribution, treatment and plumbing systems, sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems and heating and ven- tilating systems including oil and propane fire burners and hot water heaters. Must possess Journeyman certification in the elctrical trade and acceptable training and/or experience in the plumbing and heating trades. Knowledge of the English language is essential for this position. Must possess a valid Ontario Driver's Licence Class "G'. Must possess Journeymen Certification in the electrical trade. The successful candidate must pass a medical examination. last. few weeks (as we renovate), I'll miss them less than I thought I would a week ago. I swore I would never let this happen (the segregation of ad- ministration from other operating departments), but it sneaks up on you... Unless we are careful those of us upstairs might begin to think we are in the administration business. The administration business means that we talk to bankers about our lines of credit; that we talk to our employees about the dental plan; that we converse with our com- puter suppliers about software; and that we discuss with printing com- panies the incremental cost of newsprint. None of this, of course, creates wealth. It neither creates wealth nor demand. ..it merely gets things organized. Now that we are upstairs we'll miss the driving good cheer of Peter as his sales pitch is hurled across the long distance phone lines of Northern Ontario, entertaining clients and modest observers alike. Peter is our sales manager. We won't witness the less engaging sounds of an irate classified adver- tiser blasting our receptionist for a missed phone number. We won't be around when one of our sales people marches into the production department to beg for an extra ad to be placed in the paper long after deadlines have passed. We won't witness the anguish of a junior reporter who had just had to make his or her first decision on the ethics of journalism...on the dividing line between the public's right to know and the subject's right to privacy and fairness. We certainly won't be catching the banter in the newsroom about the latest passion at city council or up- to-date speculation on who's run- ning in the provincial election. At various times in my life, I have appropriated the title of manager of almost all departments in our newspapers, doing so generally in the early years when I could find no one willing to do the job. The only position I wisely avoided was that of production manager because I refused to learn how the machines worked. I knew I would be enslaved to them for the rest of my life if I did. As I move upstairs I do not take the title of manager of administra- tion (note the sighs of relief on the third floor). I go under protest and comply because there is a certain bureaucratic logic in organizing ourselves so that the people who sell ads and write stories, and run in and out of the building, and talk to one another, need to be there more than I do. I retire to my corner office upstairs, overlooking the scenic CP railyards because Marlene had agreed to come upstairs with me (Norm wouldn't leave his Nobbers) and, frankly, there was nowhere else to go unless I wanted to go back to work. I suppose walking upstairs will be good for my aging body, but it is no replacement for the excite- ment of selling a new advertiser in- to the newspaper or writing a story that will inform, entertain, or pro- voke a reader to think. I'm lucky that after nearly 14 years I have a bunch of people who do all of the above better than I ever imagined possible, and they seem to enjoy doing it. Last week I had an application from a journalism garduate who was born after the Beatles came to North America. What's next...a revolving restaurant? CHIROPRACTOR Nor-Shore Chiropractor - Clinic MOUNTAIN VIEW PLAZA STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: A 'Statement of Qualifications' is available upon request. FAIRE PARVENIR SA DEMANDE A L'ADRESSE SUIVANTE ENO YOUR APPLICATION TO Superintendent Pukaskwa National Park Bag Service #5 MARATHON, Ontario Contact Tieiephone Telephone TCiearane | Amasanan TANS SADA Sharon Otiquam 229-0801 406358183 POT 2E0 @ The Public Service of Canade @ an equal onporunty emoloyer @ Ls Foncoon pubhnw cu Canada offre des chances ogaies domenica sta | © Refer 0 the puster 'Staffing intormasan tor Frpiovers © Consumer bathche Hensmanements us ia doianon piss tes emminves | 824-3336 SCHREIBER WEDNESDAY 12 to 8:00 p.m. or Sportsworld 824-2506 Thank-you to everyone who par- ticipated in our Easter Bake and Craft Sale. Thank-you Costa's staff for the use of your store and your help. Thanks to Faye Figliomeni and Lise Hnatuk for the beautiful cakes which were won by Christopher Ballentine and Helen Pelto. Girl Guide District Council.