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Terrace Ba 'Vol. 28, No. 19 public Library terrace Bay pot 2wo LOA = Ontario C.CeTeFeNe y | Wednesday, May 18, 1983 Tony Hogervorst of the Ministry plants a'tree on Simcoe Plaza to commemorate the Annual Convention of the Horticultural Society, held Monks, this year in Terrace Bay. Looking on are Peter Joanne Hogervorst and District Director Dorothy Dove. Horticultural Society hosts Annual Convention The Terrace Bay Hor- ticultural Society host- ed the Annual District 14 Convention over the weekend. Thirty-seven delegates registered for the two day event which included a Social Fri- day evening and the regular business meet- ing on Saturday. Representatives of the Society and the Minis- try of Rural Organiza- tions (formerly Food and Agriculture) planted a tree on Simcoe Plaza on Saturday afternoon. The Royalty Crab is the sec- ond tree that the So- ciety has planted on the Plaza and a_ spokes- man said that the group would be trying to plant a new tree each year. Representatives from eight towns including Thunder Bay, Nipigon, Red Rock, Rainy River, Emo and Dryden _at- tended the Convention. In addition to the regu- lar meeting, local gard- ener Duncan MacKay gave a talk on his area of agricultural specialty and hosted a tour of his garden. Diving accident prevention seminar The North Shore Dive Club sponsored the lar- gest diving safety semi- nar ever held in the area last Saturday. The seminar featured guest speakers Dr. George Harpur and Dr. Lorne Kuehn. Dr. Har- pur is one of North America's leading div- ing medicine research- ers and is working with the Tovermory Hyper- baric facility in Tober- mory, Ontario. Dr. Kuehn is one of the foremost experts in hypothermia. He has spent twenty years in biophysical research. Dr. Kuehn was for- merly with the Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental medi- cine in Toronto and is now Director for Science and Technology (Hu- man Performance) at the National Defence Head- quarters in Ottawa. Over fifty people in- terested in diving at- tended the Seminar in the Schreiber Recreation Centre. Co-chairman Ryan LeBlanc said that the seminar had taken just about one year to organize. Other speakers at the seminar included Gerry Buchanan, an ardent underwater photo- grapher, and diving in- structor from Duluth; and Christina Mikoski representing the On- tario Heart Foundation. Mikoski is actively in- volved in nursing in- struction at Confedera- tion College and brought twenty years of experi- ence in the field to the Seminar. The topics examined during the seminar covered the entire field of diving accidents. Dr. Harpur spoke to ses- sions on Diving Emer- gencies, Cold Injury and its treatment, and Drowning management. Christina Mikoski spoke on 'cardio-pulmonary resuscitation' while Gerry Buchanan led a session on Marcosis; what is it, symptoms and treatment.' Dr. Kuehn took the group through an in-depth look at the Theories of Hypo- thermia. It must be Spring, they 're playing soccer. Fans cheer on the local team during the Invitational Soccer Tournament held in Terrace Bay over the weekend. The Tournament started at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and' saw play between two teams from Geraldton, two teams from Terrace Bay, one team from Manitouwadge and one team from Nipigon. Terrace Bay Council. The new Chip Stand in Town. The subject of a major debate at the Terrace Bay Council Taxes to be lower than expected The Terrace Bay Council met twice last week in public session to deal with the items on its Agenda. In the first session on Monday the Council received a dele- gation of concerned property owners from Timbergrove Court who wanted to discuss prob- lems relating to the operation of the nearby (Chip Stand. Last Fri- day the Council approv- ed a surprisingly low tax increase of under five jper cent and split on motions relating to the Library and the sale of jet fuel at the Airport. Monday, May 9 The Council met for a half an hour before the _tegular public session with the Dog Control Officer to discuss the dog control situation in town. 5 Reeve Dave Speer presided at the regular meeting with Council- lors Ollie Chapman, Bill Houston and Joe Ken- nedy present, and Coun- cillor George Ramsay absent. Reeve Speer said that he would like the Coun- cil's permission to alter the Agenda to allow the Council to hear a dele- gation of citizens from Terrace Heights. The Council agreed to the change. = Doughnuts may be cheaper by the dozen, but will Terrace Bay be selling ¥ Frank Doyle told the Council that several of the residents of Timber- grove Court are concern- ed about garbage blow- ing into their yards from the Chip Stand now op- erating on the Shell Ser- vice Station property. He said that in addition they were concerned about children and adults crossing their property to get to the Chip Stand and about the stability of the 40 foot embankment that the Chip Stand is built on which abuts the rear of their property. Doyle said, "We are all concerned about the continued on page 5 jet fuel cheaper by the truck load? The answer was 'Yes' by 4 to 1.