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I... I c/ Appointments MAY f 1976 Divisional: Jim Balleny, supervrsor, analytrcal Gordon Gerrish, protectron supervmsor. servrces, process technooQy Copper Chff Shebandowan mmne copper refrnery Ronald Gilchrist, fmrst ard attendant, Editor, Kjeld Bech, foreman eectrownn mg Copper Chff sme'ter Rudolph Kneer, Copper Cliff Copper Clmff copper refmnery Helen Gordon, employment assmstaflt, Associate Editor, Louis Bernache, general foreman, Port employee relatmons, Sudbury offmces, Les Lewis, Port Colborne Coborne nickel refmnery Gerald Gorman, tankhouse foreman. Marcel Bigras, senior tmmekeeper, Copper Cliff copper refinery. Copper Chff nmckel refinery Gregory Greenough, geological Royce Blackwood, training supervmsor, assistant, Levack West mine. Copper Cliff South mine Wally Gretton, manager, rndustrmal Richard Bontinen, acmd plant foreman, relatmons, Copper Clmff, Copper Clmff copper refinery. Melvin Guse, mine general foreman, Robert Bozzato, industria' relations Levack mine, representative, Port Colborne nickel Bennett Higgins, buyer, purchasmng and refmnery. warehousing, Copper Cliff. Gary Briscoe, accounting system Guy Hunter, safety foreman, Stobie mine, analyst, Copper Cliff. Fred Johannes, project team leader, Ron Brown, assistant to the vice-president, divisional shop project team, Copper mining and milling. Copper Cliff. Cliff. Bernard Cadieux, plant protection offmcer, James Keir, geological assistant, Shebandowan mine. Copper Cliff South mine. Norm Carriere, planner, mines John Kennedy, specialist, engineering, engineering, Creighton No, 5 shaft. Copper Cliff. Debbie Caverson, receptionist, Copper Wayne Kenyon, monthly payroll clerk, ON THE COVER Cliff nickel refinery. division comptrollers office, Copper Cliff. Gordon Chisholm, maintenance foreman, Veteran pflot Len MacTaggart of Roger Kitching, maintenance foreman Copper Cliff copper refinery. Dominion-Pegasus HeUcopters, at the Levack mine. Gloria Cochrane, general accounting John Kramer, assistant safety supervisor, controls of the Jet Ranger, a he clerk, Copper Cliff. Port Colborne nickel refinery. delivers a shipment of lubricants to an Guerrlo Conte, senior draftsman, Robert Lacelle, safety foreman, Levack Inco drill &te along the Spanish River1 engineering, Copper Cliff. mill. some 45 miles west of Sudbuiy. Moving Tom Crowther, senior cost analyst, Donald Levac, crushing plant foreman, drills, allied equipment or crews over smelters and refineries, Copper Cliff. Clarabelle mill, nearty inaccessible Northern Ontario Gordon Cuthbert, section leader, Iron Joseph Loring, safety foreman, Stobie terrain, it's all in a days work. Turn the Ore Recovery Plant, mine. next page and find out more about Edward Davey, coordinator, standards, James MacDonald, superintendent Len and his crew. Cover photo by the Copper Cliff. shearing and shipping yard, Port Colborne editor. Gary Davis, mine engineer, Crean Hill nickel refinery. mine. Jim MacDonald, superintendent, May, 1976 Volume 36. Number 5 Brian Desrossiers, plant protection offmcer. shears, shipping and yard, Port Colborne Shebandowan mine. nickel refinery. Dick Dopson, fire inspector. Copper Clrff Mauno Makela, utilities maintenance Dale Duetta, project leader, Iron Ore foreman, Copper Cliff. PubUshed for employees by the Ontario i Recovery Plant. Robert Maltman, maintenance foreman, Division of Inca Limited. Copper Murray Edward, matermal controller, central shops, Copper Clmff. CIIIf,Qntarlo,POMINO. 682-0631. Copper Cliff. Gaston Marquis, plant personnel Miroslav Ejem, specral assistant, officer, Port Colborne nmckel refmnery. engineering, Copper Cliff smelter. Carl Maslanka, shops estmmator. central I Patrick Elsasser, plant protection officer, shops, Copper Cliff. Prfnt of moet photographu appearing 'I Copper CIff, Derek May, mmne engineer. Cremghton In uThe Triangle" may be wderi Diane Flynn, secretary. dmvmsmon mmne I comptrollers offrce. Copper Ciff, Rick McCabe, mine foreman, Levack 1 roffi 0. DIonne Geoffrey Fong, geoogmst. Garson rnmne mmne 111) Boland Ave., Sudbury. or call John Forsey, accountmng system Robert McDonald, general foreman, 574.0474. Cost: $3.00 each. analyst. Copper CIff safety. Copper Cliff smelter Appointments Don McLeod, superintendent. Stobie mine Robin Ranger, accounting system Gary Whitby, maintenance foreman. Sam Millar, p'ant protection officer. ana'yst. Copper C'iff, CarabeHe miH Shebandowan mine, George Reed, area engineer. Creighton Ronald Wilcocks, section foreman. Ilonka Miscevic, ibrary assistant. fie'd area. Copper C'iff copper refinery. exp'oration, Copper C'iff. Robert Ridley, design engineer, Copper John Wildgoose, spec iaist, Richard Myher, benefits cou nseor, C'iff. engineering, Copper C'iff. Copper C'iff, Graham Ross, manager, Garson area. Jack Wylie, mine engineer, Frood mine. Donald Nadorozny, chief maintenance Peter Ryan, manager, process techno'ogy, Dave Veomans, benefits counseHor, p'anner, Levack mine. Copper C'iff. Copper Cuff. Martin Neva, supervisor, cost contro', Bob Zadow, mine foreman, Creighton Linda Schmidt, emp'oyment assistant, Copper C'iff smeUer. mine. emp'oyee re'ations. Sudbury offices. Tom Newburn, assistant division comptroUer, budgets and cost contro', Ken Smith, assistant division inco Limited: capita' expenditures and sa'es tax, comptroUer, payrolls and genera' Malcolm Bell, director, J. Roy Gordon Copper Cliff. accounting, Copper Cliff. Research Laboratory, Sheridan Park. St John Blakely, manager, research Barry Nicholson, mine foreman, Levack Frank Sorochinsky, manager, personnel, services, J. Roy Gordon Research mine. Copper Cliff. John O'Shaughnessy, division supervisor, Volker Stark, tankhouse foreman, Laboratory, Sheridan Park. general superintendent, mines engineering, Frood mine. Copper Cliff copper refinery. John Blanco, Paul Parker, manager, Creighton William Stevens, senior cost ana'yst, research stations, Port Colborne. area. mines and miHs, Copper Cflff. Haydon Davies, superintendent, No. 2 research station, Port Colborne. Gerhard Ptlug, geoogica assistant, Bill Stevens, senior cost analyst, Copper M.D. director, Creighton No. 5 shaft. Cliff, Ernest Mastromatteo, occupationa' heaUh, Toronto. Peter Phipps, designer, engineering, Henry Szymanski, mine foreman, Frood Stuart Warner, assistant vice-president Copper C'iff, mine. Toronto. Claude Piette, mine engineer, Co'eman Fred Teed, p'anner, mines engineering, mine. Levack West mine. Others: Irene Poirier, stenographer, Copper Joseph Van Oort, plant protection officer, Robert Boone, manager, corporate affairs C'iff nickel refinery. Copper C'iff. and secretary, Exmibal. Robert Pula, design engineer, Copper C'iff Peter Venus, mine genera' foreman, Harold Kristjanson, vice-president. specia' smelter. Creighton. No. 5 shaft. projects, Exmibal. Pilot Len MacTaggart, left, and resident flight engineer, Gary Gorigichuk, are getting ieady for an early morning test flight. The $250,000 Jet Ranger comes equipped with floats for easy access to Northern Ontario terrain. Len Maclaggart, Helicopter Pilot: "Golden Sunshine h Chances are, when Len MacTaggart is Along with pilot Jim Lyons and With the advent of spring and improved not at home, he is flying hs 206 Jet resident flight engineer Gary Gorigichuk, weather conditions, both Len and Jim Ranger helicopter. The resident manager Len is responsible for the operation of are getting ready for their busy season. of Dominion-Pegasus Helicopter two Jet Rangers. During spring breakup, many hours are Services, Len operates out of his base spent on flood control, checking possible on Sudbury's Algonquin Road and is Whether it's relocating a diamond drill trouble spots along rivers, dams and perhaps more familiar with the Sudbury back of Lake Agnew, conducting a wild- valleys. Then there is the weekend district than anyone in the area. life count in the Massey area or flying Hydro line patrol, where spot checks are over far Northern Ontario terrain on carried out on existing power lines. With over 12,800 hours of flying time magnetometer readings, it's all in a day's to his credit, Len knows just about every work. nook and cranny in Northern Ontario. "We're getting into our busy season "When it comes to pertinent landmarks, "I've always enjoyed flying, whether all right," says Len. "As a matter of fact, says Len, "I just about know them all," it's fixedwing or helicopter", says Len, it's nothing for us to spend 10 hours a pointing out that his many years of its a great feeling being up there, but day in the air during the sjmmer flying in the Sudbury district have made when you have a clear blue sky, along months." Len vividly recal Is last summer him familiar with most of the district's with golden sunshine, that's the icing on when the two machines wore kept busy markings. the cake." fighting forest fires. A stringent pre-f light check includes visual inspection of all major components. Here Len and Gary test the connection of hydraulic hoses in the engine compartment. It is interesting to note that the engine itself weighs less than 170 pounds. Icing On The Cake" We were going from sun-up to sun- as driving a car on an uncrowded simply lighting a fire. You can easily down", he says, adding that negotiating highway." detect smoke for miles", he adds, 'so the chopper just above tree level on it's a good thing to keep this in mind if many occasions made for a tired pilot at It is interesting to note that Len is you ever get lost." the end of the day's run. currently working with the Sudbury Fire Department to design a program which According to Len, the