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Page 2, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, September 3, 1986 Many may take retiremen continued from page t of information with a grant from the government. "It will be important to do this even if it doesn't save a single job," he add- ed. "We don't know what the impact will be here... it's an impogfant piece of work."' "Right now Terrace Bay is in the limelight...we should get what we need now," Lavigne said. "For "example, we would want to get UIC (Unemployment Insurance Commission) counsellors here. I can't see 355 people going to Thunder Bay." '*We as Council should put on the pressure for this,' Councillor Chris Joubert agreed. '*We should ask UIC to establish a temporary office here once we have a list of those that are going to be laid off," Councillor Peter Romanuk said. The lay-off process will take up to three months, a company official noted last week. "'T certainly support you, but it's up to both govern- ments to get off their butts and do something," Rom- anuk added. "It's difficult to adjust to this," Councillor George Ramsay said. He pointed out that at least there are 1,500 people still working for the company. "An absolute disaster would be if they were to close the mill entirely," he added. "They are talking about setting up a labour pool which would be called in on a day-to-day basis,"' Lavigne noted. But he add- ed that there is little to look at on the positive side. '*A lot of the temporary (workers) are established here with houses and mort- gages," Lavigne said. A FOLLOW THE ROAD TO SAVINGS, SELECTION AND GREAT PRIZES} SAVE $300 LENNOX: Lennox G14 series. while quanti fiast PULSE FURNACE The Lennox high efficiency pulse furnace is the end resu of years of extensive researc and testing. Reliable, efficien and inexpensive to install the Lennox Pulse furnace is 96% to 98% fuel efficient. 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When contacted by the News. on Monday, K-C Director of Industrial Rel- ations Al Chisholm said it is still too "premature" to discuss how many have de- cided to take the retire- ment option being offered "Nobody fights the high cost of heating your home better than Superior Propane. Come into Superior today because the time to buy i is now. We've reduced the price of Lennox : Pulse Furnaces by hundreds of dollars; we've reduced all our wall heaters as well as every : in-stock space heater. Just for coming in, you could win one of 20 deluxe Wait Bar-B-Ques : oranall-expense paid vacation for a family of four to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Come in : stoday and buy now while the selection i is at its best. SAVESSO. a ON ALL SPACE HEATERS | quantities last Superior Propane carries a SAVE 50 on all in-stock space heaters. while by the company. 'We must also get feed- back from the business community ," Reeve Chap- man told Lavigne. "Some- thing will be done, but we are still in a state of shock." The ad hoc committee suggestion will be dis- cussed at a future meeting, Chapman promised. When contacted for his own reaction, Schreiber Reeve Mike Cosgrove said that things could be worse t option at K-C Mill and that it's not really all "*gloom and doom." He added that he and Council will continue to observe the Situation. offs catastrophic In a telegram sent to the Premier of Ontario on August 25, Lake Nipigon MPP Gilles Pouliot called for the Premier, David Peterson, to intervene in the "catastrophic nature of the dilemma" faced by the 355 workers laid off that same day in the Terrace Bay area. Pouliot sent the tele- gram, a copy of which was sent to the News last week, on the day that Kimberly Clark of Canada announc- ed that 255 permanent and 100 temporary employees WIN A DELUXE BAR-B-QUE Bar-B-Ques, Model #B5C. All you do is to fill out a ballot, deposit it and keep your DO IT ALL WITH PROPANE Come in today. 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Prize includes return airfare, one week's accommodations, $1000 spending money and all the ood times you can handle. Full details and ballots atall --; esata branches. Contest closes December 15th, 1986. : Manitouwadge, Ont. ; that Peterson use his off- icials to examine the poss- ibility of supplementing the early retirement package offered to some eligible employees of 'Kimberly- Clark, confirming a story which appeared in_ last week's issue of the News. "In addition, incentives must be designed to foster the expansion of industrial activity in the area," the MPP said. "For example, the reduction of Hydro rates could be an effective .tool for stimulating both consumer and_ industrial demand for goods and services."" Pouliot also felt gasoline prices should be equalized throughout the province to eliminate an additional dis- incentive to economic act- ivity in Northern Ontario. "*A program to abrogate provincial sales tax on goods which are produced, assembled or manufactured in the northern part of the - province would compen- sate for some of the natural and legislated impediments to commercial and indus- trial activity in my riding,"' he added. Peterson was also urged to immediately establish what Pouliot called a '"To- morrow Fund" to offer some degree of protection for those who have been laid-off, like those at the K-C pulp mill in Terrace Bay. "I would, finally, re- quest that you give your assurance that a program for job retraining and placement is established as expeditiously as possible for laid-off employees of Kimberly-Clark," Pouliot concluded. *"Your immed- iate attention to this matter would be deeply appreciat- ed and is merited by the catastrophic nature of the dilemma faced by our con- stituents."" Copies of the telegrain were 'also sent to Vince : Kerrio, the Minister of Natural Resources, as well the Minister of Treasury and Economics, Robert Nixon, and George Tough, the Deputy Minister of Northern Development and Mines. Whoops In a recent issue of the News, the Deadheads Slo- Pitch team was credited with the Schreiber League Championship. The team actually finished first in the league, but did not win in the subsequent champion- ship tournament. The top team was Heinz 57s. FOLLOW YOUR HEART HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO GIVE WITH YOUR HEAD Give to the research that saves more lives. Keep Canada WA J Beautiful BSSETBACU Let's see you do it! oes ~. a wp oa 'Parnaracnion