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Page 3, News, Tuesday, February 19, 1991 Continued from page 1 A new Crime will be posted each month or if the posted crime is solved before the month is over. Rewards are still paid for committed in this area: Darryl Wilson, regional co- ordinator for the Thunder Bay District Crimestoppers, said the key to a successful Crime- stoppers program is to convince and assure people who are considering phoning in that their identities are protected. "The people answering the phone when people make calls from Terrace Bay or Schreiber are police officers in Thunder Bay," he said, "They are not local people." People calling in will not be asked their name but will be given a code number, he explained, and if an arrest is made based on _ their | information they will receive a cash award. A caller who provides information will be asked to call back in several weeks. Ifa cash reward is made the caller will choose the place it is to be picked up. "They must realize that they don't have to pick up their cash in Schreiber or Terrace Bay but could choose any town," Wilson said. Assistance from the community is essential in preventing and solving crimes, he continued, and Crimestoppers is one of many community based programs that _ encourages such involvement. information on other crimes |,. New crime of the month posters Crimestoppers offers citizens the opportunity to pass information about crime on to the police in an anonymous manner. At the same time the caller becomes eligible for a cash reward which is paid without, police contact. A group of concerned citizens make up the Board of Directors of a community's Crimestoppers organization. Each' Board builds a reward fund through fund- raising in the community and has absolute control of the fund and payments made from Its There were 12 calls made to the Crimestoppers number 1- Pat Dingwell, chairman of the Schreiber- Terrace Bay Crimestoppers Board, and Cons. Bert Logan, OPP liason officer, install the new poster at the Schreiber Post Office. a 800-465-6844 from the Schreiber-Terrace Bay area last year: One case was solved and the caller received a cash reward from the Schreiber - Terrace Bay Crimestoppers Board for the information. Schreiber -Terrace Bay Crimestoppers has raised money through casino nights in the past and will be doing so again this year at the Recreation/Crimestoppers Casino night on Saturday, Feb 23 during the Schreiber winter Carnival. The Casino night will be held at the Schreiber Re-creation Complex. Tickets are available at the Recreation offices in both communities. Increase in conditional and unconditional grants Continued from page 1 to assist those municipalities that were restructured as of Jan 1,991, Payments made under the program are in addition to grants from other provincial ministries for specific services such as roads, transit, water and sewage treatment and social services. "Many municipalities have received no increases in unconditional grants over the past couple of years," Cooke said. "I am very pleased that the provincial government is able to provide an across-the-board increase that is slightly more than the rate of inflation." The Ontario Transportation Minister Ed Philip also announced a 5.5 per cent increase in municipal roads transfer payments over the 1990 allocation. Municipalities will receive $793.4 million. to help them build and maintain their roads, Philips said. "It helps strengthen municipal road systems and supports regional economic and social development, \" he added. Cooke said that both the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the Minister's Advisory Committee on the Provincial-Municipal Financing Relationship supported the decision to provide uniform increases. Cooke said these municipal representatives prefer the uniform increase over the formulas followed in previous years. : He said the province and municipalities agree on the need for a fundamental re- evaluation of the roles and responsibilities of each level of government. In the future, this review may result in changes to grant programs. att THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 223 TERRACE BAY Monthly General Meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of each month. : Next meeting will be held February 20, 1991. Please plan to attend, your support is urgently needed. Many items of interest are on the agenda. THE EXECUTIVE | _ CAP call 824-3345 Community Against Pushers ONTARIO -- CANADA DUTY PAID -- Ontario is there to assure you that the taxes you pay are accounted for. For information call ¢ Metro Toronto Ministry ¢ All Other Areas ¢ French Language Enquiries . Y) of ¢ Telephone Device for the Deaf Revenue the Ministry toll-free: 965-8470 1-800-263-7965 1-800-668-5821 1-800-263-7776 Pour de plus amples renseignements en frangais, veuillez ~ appeler sans frais le ministére au 1-800-668-5821.