He shoots! He scores! The North Shore Midget Hockey Championship was decided with a two game, total goals scored series, and the Terrace Bay-Schreiber Commodores emerged victorious over the Marathon club, despite a Marathon goal as: shown in the photograph above. The Commodores won the first game on Feb. 20 with a 7-4 score, and then hung on to tie Marathon 4-4 in the second match in Terrace Bay on Feb. 25 to win the championship and the Wm. T. Quarrell Jr. Midget Trophy. Terrace Bay Schreiber Wednesday, March 5, 1986 Publi ic Lip TERRACE Bay." Y POT 2Wo af ber. Vol. 41, No. 9 Serving Terrace Bay, Schreiber and Rossport a Council's request for access turned down by MTC official The Ministry -- of Transportation and Com- munciations has turned down Terrace Bay Coun- cil's request for considera- tion of a secondary access point to the expanding Ter- race Heights subdivision, and that has Reeve Ollie Chapman and some Coun- cillors fuming. 'I am very displeased with this," Councillor Jim Ziegler said after reading a letter from the Ministry's Northwestern Reigion Director, William Neilipovitz, which was sent to the township's engineer, Doug Baker, on February 21. In the letter, Neilipovitz said he cannot accede to the request because the sug- gested second exit and en- trance at the opening of Ridgewood Drive would be too close to the current ac- cess point of the subdivi- sion, Terrace Heights Drive. According to a recent Terrace Bay Council mo- tion, a safety hazard exists to motorists because Ter- race Heights Drive is the only present exit and en- trance to the entire area. 'This letter doesn't end it,' Ziegler said in an in- terview last week. "It's not over yet."' "We are certainly not going to let this die.*" Reeve Chapman said. She added that she still hopes to meet with MTC officials on the matter, though the decision to actually ask for such a meeting still lies with the entire Council. "'Our control of access on Provincial highways is intended to protect the operating integrity of our highways and ensure the safety of the travelling public," Neilipovitz ex- plained in his letter. Leave islands alone, concerned citizens say by Conrad Felber © A delegation of four concerned citizens ap- parently representing hun- dreds of others appeared before - Terrace Bay Township Council on February 24 and spoke out against any further changes at the Slate Islands Provin- clal Park, located in Lake Superior southeast of the township. The four people in the delegation -- Joan Clark, Ken Johnson, Joe Desaulniers, and John Pedersen -- expressed their anxiety about the Ministry of Natural Resources and its Slate Islands Background Infdormation and Optional Plans, which was released earlier this year. 'The Slates have to stay exactly the way they are now,' Clark told Council. She went on to explain that changes would be possible under all three of the Ministry's proposed land use plan options. '*They would still allow mining, even in Option One," she added. The Op- tions increase in potential development, from a low Status quo situation in Op- tion One to a high intensi- ty state of affairs with Op-, tion Three. "*We feel our input is going to fall on deaf ears (with the Ministry),"' Johnson said. "We are asking Council to write a letter to the Minister to ask him to look into this." Councillor Jim Ziegler agreed, for the most part, with the objections raised by the members of the delegation. "I would like to see the islands stay the way they are now too,"' he told the assemblage, adding that it might not be right to trust the Ministry as "those guys are like snakes... .they will just sneak in there on you." Councillor George Ram- Say pointed out that no one can say for sure what the MNR officials will or will back...again. Schreiber may get C. of Commerce Schreiber may soon have its Chamber of Commerce A meeting of the township's Economic Development Groups was held on February 24 to discuss the possibili- ty of resurrecting the Chamber, which hasn't existed in the community for decades. Township clerk Aurel Gauthier explained that an agenda was prepared at the meeting, and the possibility of a new Chamber was just one of the points discussed. A town beautification program was also suggested. He said a member of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Com- merce will be attending a future meeting to give the group some assistance. Gauthier added that he knew of a Chamber in 1958, and there was also one organized ap- proximately 50 years ago, but all of them folded due to lack of interest. not do. '"'We could get them to come here and allay your fears," he said. "'We could also let them know we did have a delegation here."' "'T personally am against (changing) the provincial park, but I am speaking for myself here,' Reeve Ollie Chapman explained. "But we all seem to want the Slates to stay the way they are, in their natural state.' "*T look upon the Slate Islands as something uni- que," Ramsay responded. "I'm not too sure they are going to change them. Those islands are priceless." Reeve Chapmansaid that it might be best to react fur- ther after the results of the Ministry's public input become available. The deadline for input on the Background Information and Optional Plans package is March 7, 1986. Johnson told Council that the delegation was speaking on behalf of 200 people. Reeve Chapman thanked the group for discussing the matter with Council. Terrace Bay _ resident Willikam Smilsky also ap- peared before the Reeve and Councillors: to ask them why his severance ap- plication was turned down recently. 'The consensus of Council two or three meetings ago was that we didn't agree with your re- quest," Councillor Peter Romanuk explained. continued on page 2. **To accommodate (the) mix of traffic (on Highway 17), it is important to limit the number of access points to the highway and provide a greater spacing of interes- tions than on local streets,"' he added. "'In this regard, the desirable spacing of public road intersections is in the range of 1,000 feet," he said. However, opening Ridgewood Drive, also known as Pumphouse Road, would mean a spac- ing of less than 400 feet with Terrace Heights Drive. "We do not feel the opening of Riidgewood Drive is desirable from either the local or Provin- cial perspective of protec- ting the as-built capacity of the highway," he explained: "I had an idea that this would be his excuse," Ziegler said. He intends to send a copy of the letter to Lake Nipigon MLA Gilles Pouliot, and he also hopes to bring up the matter at the next public Council meeting, .scheduled for March 10. Chapman was under the impression that an MTC representative would meet with Council before a final decision would be made on the request. Annual parade All ages and grades at the Terrace Bay Public School, including the youngest of all, shown above, took part in the school's annual Winter Carnival and Parade, held this year on February 14. There were a number of floats again in the parade, and some of them receiv- ed awards. Terrace Bay-Schreiber News editor Con- rad Felber was one of the judges.