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Premier promises Terrace funds to assist Terrace Bay By Conrad Felber At a meeting in Terrace Bay on Sept. 12 with town politicians, community leaders, and Kimberly- Clark mill managers, Ont- ario Premier David Peter- son promised to contribute approximately $100,000 to a fund which would create a problem-solving group which would address the recent K-C layoffs in the area. Peterson also hinted that the provincial government might also help to fund a training program for some of the 255 permanent and 100 temporary employees who lost their jobs on August 25. "*This is extremely high priority for us," Peterson told the group. "'The object of today's meeting is to go out and pick up the pieces ...1 would recommend that we ail throw some dough into a pot and get working on this."' He admitted that the lay- offs created a "highly emo- tional situation" in Terrace Bay, and accused K-C of not doing a good job in- volving the community in its survival plan, designed to keep the pulp mill open. "T have talked to a lot of people-about this, and at the moment there is an en- ormous amount of distrust (with) the company," he explained. "You're deal- ing with people who have invested their lives here."' Peterson then added that he didn't really wish to cast blame on any one party, and felt that all involved should now stop worrying about the past and concen- trate on the future instead. "In my view, there is a sense of realism today which there may not have been three or four years ago,"' he explained. "You didn't have to be too bright to anticipate this happen- ing, but we didn't ant- icipate it...It was a sense of complacency."' The Premier said his government will now have to bring "a little more stability' to the affected communities. He said ex- panding the local tourist trade might be one idea. "'What you need now is aggressive local leadership here," he noted. "'There are positive ways to app- roach these things. I have a sense of optimism...the problems are soluble." He told the audience that the government will be there to help, but that it cannot impose a plan, as the solutions should come from area residents. At that point he added that his government would be prepared to make a large contribution to a problem- solving group. After the meeting, he told the News in an ex- clusive interview that the $100,000 amount he had mentioned as a possible contribution was merely a random figure, an idea of 'what his government is prepared to do. "*There will be that com- mitment here,"' he added. "We all have to work to- gether on this."' Gov't approves grant A grant of $60,000 from the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation for the Terrace Bay Rec- reation Centre's heating system project was the largest single grant among 38 approved on September 10 for North- western Ontario. A total of- $565,000 under the -Ministry's Capital Conservation Program will be made available to improve ex- isting recreational facilities in the area, a news release noted. The Terrace Bay grant will pay for almost half of the cost for the heating system, which is to be ex- pected to be in operation by the first week in ae December. The grant approval was mentioned at the Sept. 8 meeting of Town- ship Council, but there was little comment aside from a general sense of relief from most present that the grant application had gone through. The Ministry has alloc- ated $5 million for new commitments during the 1986/87 fiscal year under its Capital Conservation program. Other grant recipients in the area include Nip- igon, Upsala, Kenora, Longlac, and Confedera- tion College. The City of Thunder Bay received the second-largest grant, $57,539, for its Canada Games Complex. Notice Due to technical dif- ficulties with our typeset- ting computer, a number of stories were unavailable for publication this week, in- cluding those relating to the Sept. 8 meeting of Terrace Bay Township Council, and the Sept. 15 press con- ference held by Kimberly- Clark in Terrace Bay. These articles will appear in next week's issue of the News. Terrace Bay -- Schreiber News News booth chreibc, | Wednesday, September 17, 1986 Vol. 41, No. 37 Serving Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Rossport 35° Soccer playoffs in the 5 to 8 years old division. These teams tied for The championship tournament for the team in the Ter- race Bay Recreation Office's Minor Soccer program was held on Sept. 13. Shown here are members of the Blue Thunder team and the Eagles squad playing Plan working with union"s help A spirit of co-operation between Kimberly-Clark management and Local 665 For the first time since the Terrace Bay Fall Fair began five years ago, the Terrace Bay. -- Schreiber News had a booth at which subscriptions were sold at a special in-town rate of $10 each. Shown here at the booth at the Sept. 14 fair is the new advertising manager at the News, Betty St. Amand. She has liv- ed in the Terrace Bay area for all of.her life. Betty is married to Holy Angels schoolteacher John, and the - couple has two.children, 14-year-old Danielle and John Junior, 10. of the United Paperworkers International Union was evident at a meeting held on September 12 between company and_ union representatives attended by Ontario Premier David Peterson. 'Progress has been made,' Union Local Presi- dent Don Lavigne said in response to a question regarding the union's rela- tionship with the company. He used the union's recent vote to accept a one-year contract extension as an ex- ample of the union's efforts to work with the company. A total of 336 unionized workers voted in favour of the contract extension, which did not allow for any increase in wages. There was one spoiled ballot, and 75 against. The contract, which was to expire next - year, is now extended un- til April 30, 1988. K-C_ Director of In- dustrial Relations Al Chisholm stressed at the meeting in Terrace Bay that the company has treated its employees fair- ly in the wake of K-C's re- cent layoff of 255 perma- nent and 100 temporary - workers in the area. 'The press have jumped on the fact that we've eliminated 355 jobs,' he said. 'But we've saved first place with a 3-3 final. The Canadians won the 9 to 16 years old division. 1,500 jobs. Jack Lavallet, K-C of Canada President, agreed and added that the main goal of the company's 'sur- vival plan' is to keep the mill open and operating. 'Never lose sight of the fact that none of us have a guaranteed job,' he said. He explained that if the plan fails, 'we could all be out of a job... the plan is not an option.' When ask- ed by Mike Moore, a town businessman, about a time frame for the plan, Lavallet replied that 'so far you've seen about 25 per cent of the plan.' ; Lavallet added that any specific details about any time frame may not be pro- per to be discussed, but he did say that the union 'has certainly pitched in' since the layoff announcement on August 25. Terrace Bay Reeve Ollie Chapman, also present at the session, accused the company of not answering questions in the past and of not being a good corporate citizen since the company's economic difficulties were made public by K-C Chair- man of the Board Darwin E. Smith earlier this year. 'We've communicated as. openly as_ possible,' Lavallet answered. Chisholm added that. 'we don't see ourselves as be- ing poor corporate citizens... we're proud of what we've done.' 'I defy anyone to say that you have been the same corporate citizen as you have been before,' Reeve Chapman responded. 'Your stocks are going up... if you're part of K-C family, aren't they going to help you out?' 'This branch has been helped out a lot, over the year,' Chisholm replied, pointing out that the K-C mill in Terrace Bay has lost $78 million since 1978. "Why did you lose this money?' Reeve Chapman then asked. 'Is it the peo- ple you brought in who didn't know what they were doing?' 'I wouldn't touch that with a_ten-foot-pole,' Lavallet responded. 'I'm here as a Terrace Bay per- son. I'm part of this com- munity. My kids go to school here.' He added that the mill has not been sold, nor is it in the process of being sold, to the best of his knowledge. There was a bright side to the session, however. John Smrke, Employee Relations Supervisor for the Winston Lake zinc continued on page 2