were credited with saving the main arena building, that had opened only two years earlier. With no insurance or funds available to rebuild, a fundraising committee was set up and within a few short weeks the arena was able to reopen and

complete the season schedule. In 1971 a disas—

trous fire at North Cape, destroyed a large acreage of woodland. It took the Tignish fire de— partment and de- partment of forestry a week to bring the fire under control. Heavy equipment from Northern

Enterprise Of This elderly gentleman was left with very little Christopher cross after a fire distroyed his family home in

was successful in NOFVVaY-

building firewalls to

save homes from being destroyed. Again the Red Cross and EMO set up a feeding station at the home of Melvin and Emily Hackett

to help feed the many volunteers who turned out to help. In January of 1979 a bulk gasoline carrier had a spill at the

Co-Op service station that resulted in a scary situation for a while. This was the first experience of it’s kind for the firemen,

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