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Terrace Bay News, 9 Apr 1959, p. 8

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Page 8 HOCKEY CLASSIC (Conta From Page 1) In the meantime the Lunch Pails richly deserve the-S.H. Memorial Trophy??? Thanks are due to Alf Barbini for being responsible for keeping both teams in shape during and after the. game, LIBRARY WEEK AFRIL 12TH TO 19TH Library Week will be. from April 12th to 19th. Specially recommended reading will be set up on a particular shelf each day the library is open, These books will be of a varied nature to, appeal. to a cross-section of readers i.e. horticulture, hobby, travel, fiction, and books of theological nature et cetera, SCHREIBER HOCKEY TEAMS REACH FINALS IN THUNDER BAY PLAY-OFFS, The Bantam, Midget and Juvenile hockey teams recently journeyed. to Fort Frances to compete in the Thunder Bay play-offs, recent- ly. They lost in the finals to the Fort William teams. The Schreiber Bantam, Midget and Juvenile teams won their respective North Shore league to earn the berth in the Thunder Bay Play-off. After their series.to win the North Shore title they were allowed to pick up six play- ers for each team for their trip to Fort Frances, ELeven players from Terrace Bay and seven from Marathon made the trip with the Schreiber teams. TERRACE BAY PRE-WEE HOCKEY TEAM WINS NORTH SHORE TITLE, In the recently concluded North Shore minor hockey play-offs the Terrace Bay Pee-Wees won the title and the: Spadoni Trophy for the second, year. in a row, CHEQUES PRESENTED TO. AID MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC. A cheque, for $451.46 was presented to Mr. Hugh J. Cook, President of the Mental Health Assoc- iation Jast Tuesday. evening, March 3lst,- by Mrs. Betty Cruickshank, President of the North Shore Nurses Group, in the Terrace Bay High School Auditorium. Nurses from Marathon, Schreiber and Terr- ace Bay, who compose this group, had chosen' the Mental Health Association as their pro- ject for the year and planned next year to raise funds for the retarded children's 'school in the Lakehead, Mrs.Cruickshank said. Mr, Cook expressed the appreciation of the Association. for this donation and mentioned the importance of educating girls so they will later. become women who accept responsi- bilities and are of, benefit. to the conmunity at large. A further cheque from the Women of the Moose for. $50.00 was presented. to Mr.Cook by Mrs. M,Duriez, Ritual Chairman and Mr.Cook again expressed the appreciation of the Association, A thought-provoking movie "Stigma" was shown to the audience before Mr.Cook spoke on . the history of mental illnesses going back to Biblical days and tracing it and the vast variety of treatments and attitudes toward it, up till today. He dealt. in particular, with persons of im- portance in. bringing about. the changes in treatment of these ill people; 3Dr. Phillipe Finel of France, Dorothy Dix of the U.S.A. TERRACE BAY NEWS } parents during the vacation, visited her parents in Hornep. kage and also ; ( age 85 Elizabeth Fry of "ngland and, of course, Dr. Sigmund Freud, who was the father.of the science of psychoanalysis. Dr.Cook told of the start of the Cana- dian Mental Health Association in 1918 and the voluntary work done by this group in 'assisting persons in their recovery from mental illnesses, With 70,000 Canadians in mental hospitals and seventy percent . cured and discharged yearly the 'work of 'the. Association could be enlarged to include many more patients. Port Arthur hoped to develop a Centre complete with a matron, cook, occupational therapist to establish . a link between the hospital and civilian life. Saskatchewan had already set an ex- ample and, with their first group of forty patients, which normally would have had thirty percent return for further treat- ment, all of the forty had retained their mental health. Port Arthur was also lack- April 9,1959_ | | | ' i } b } ing a Psychologist to even weed the mentally i disturbed among the school children from those who were just in need of discipline, Someone in this category to assist the teachers would do much to reduce any delin- quency present' in the classes, Mrs,Cruickshank thanked Mr.Cook on be- half of the group present for his most interesting movie and talk, Debbie Lynn Laurenson celebrated her second birthday March 29th with ten little guests accompanied by their mothers, After enjoying a party lunch the children left with their balloons and Easter baskets, } b j { i ' Mrs.Gordon Brown end Doreen of Port Arthur : spent the Easter holidays visiting her daugh- . ter and son-in-law, Virginia and Garry Galvin, Mr.Brown and Don, accompanied by Virginia's Aunt, Miss Phyllis Peckett, followed for the weekend. Michael Sernesky spent the Easter holi- days in Fort William with his grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, P,.Sernesky. Kaye and Alex Sinkins Jr +, with Donald, Tommy and Kelvin of Kenora spent last week with Alex's parents, Mr, and Mrs, A.Sinkins. Mrs, M.McCausland, accompanied by her daughters Molly and Pat travelled to Toronto during the Easter holidays. Molly and Pat remained with relatives while Judy and Susan McCausland, who in Toronto, joined their Mother on her trip to New York for Easter, Judy continued on to Washington with a school friend when the others returned home, Miss Camilla Collins visited in the Lake- head during the 'Easter vacation. Miss Baker spent the holidays at her home in Ft.Willian. Miss Leschuck was home to Jackfish and also visited in the Lakehead. Mrs. Woods visited in Toronto and Miss E, Wood visited her home in Fort Frances, Mr.W.F.Colborne attended the 0.E.A. in Toronto during Easter weeks Miss Yoreen Brady spent her holidays in Ottawa visiting her Mother and: sister; Miss Cathy Smith travelled to.Toronto to.visit her Miss Pat. McCann attend Bishop Strachan School : 4

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