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piece of History Almost 150 year ago Bnusn soldiers passed regularly hm the Barrie dIstrict using the Ninahide Portage an Ih vi to the MidlandP221213 rushed area to reinforce gar mans there again possble American listanion Some never made it And for cdmcst loo years tree has marked their graves They were victims at snail pox it came trading down white oak the via tim or liming old age and Ni It side is Split rail held by misting squareheaded nails part of cross marking the widiurs grave on the Sandy kne cottage propertyoi George Johnston Mrs Prod Dallimure San dy Gave area resident mnem bers when the cross was com plcte and tho namcsci the dead carved In the bark oi the oak was sill Vise mum ON the stump of tree that once marked bit cutting Down child her father Cork be to see the tree Tm were seten collapsed graves mound it then she said But the years 5531 dam the linag warms Bob Giby oi IAkesida Tree Experts chain saw nd low minutes later Lb WM tree toppled The bark quit open most the interior ol the tree bad rotted may AM the tree was nne five feet In drnm etuaxthsbaseonlyalnall part was silt living tlr Giby said he hated to cut down such an old tree but it was dying and had become dangerous lie estimates Lhe tree wu 50 years old when the British mp ed inside it ltd buried tbdr dead little bit if history now desm cdfordladumpmwood that has not lled will probably timm left Ken Guest lakeside Tim Emm Fred Daubmm Sandy Owe of Simeon Countys history are The Parks and Recreation Commission has Voted to grant the Royal Canadian Air Force Association No Wing $300 to support its hockey league or teen ago boys Ohm CONVENTION Parks and Recreation Commls lion chairman Len Pledgcr hud director Gary sinner and recrca tion supervisor Sid Armitugc will ltteud tho annual Ontario Mun icipkl Recreation Association conference May 13 to is in Ho ntiltoo RHDHURST SWIIIIMERS The Parks and Recreation Commission chncsduy gave permission for the Midhurst Recreation committee to use Johnson Street boath Ior swim tngs from August 10 to at Burton Avonuo Kevin Atkinson has been on Examiner carrier buy or sev eral months He delivers 51 papers on Burton Avenue the sttcet ho lives on is Is Grade student at King Edlt ward school Kevin is sav lng to buy bicycle ills ambition is to be doctor who pa reipotod ho prosont to offer we swer any questions Bl member Wally Carruthers viLhI ming lessons during the morn NOTICE Former Employees of COPACO Area resident and Bob Gllroy also of Lakeside Tree Experts The no nroeumod to old PARKS RECREATION COMMISSION RCAFA HoCkey Voted Grant WORM CONCESSION William Wright of Midland has been given the worm picking concession on Sunnidsle Park the former Barrie Country Club property for $150 He will be 31 towed to pick worms from April 15 to July GET LIGHTS Outdoor lighting for baseball diamond once used at the Bar rlo Fair Grounds will be moved to Shear Park The Allandale Mens Roaming House ionnorly the Altandale YMCA which don ITth the lighting has granted permission to the Parlu and Re emotion Commission to move the lights The commission has budgeted $600 to install the lights in their new home But the com mission will check the reaction of residents in the area of the par first through Aid Dorian Par or KNOW YOUR CARRIER KEVIN ATKINSON in the Pension Plan run by the Company There will be mooring on SUNDAY APRIL I2IIT 1970 or Em in Tim Labour Hall ovor Tho STORE on Dunlap Street East Barrie Ontario Mr Potor Whyta our Coniultunt onPonslon wlll gnlons on the various op tions open to certain Individuals at well asro and We Iuggosl that you make every alien to attend Frotornnlly LL FALLS Deputy Administrator MINESING SWIllMERS The Mlnesing Recreation Com mittee has been granted permis sion to use the Lions Pool or swimming lessons from July to Aug during the mornin nus cormnilice will be chatgod $400 pcrpemn From to to no children are expected to take swimming lessons at tho pooL TREE BID The Parks and re tan Commission Wednesday It accepted bid of $1697 deliver ed in Barrlet for trees for mo from Bmokdnle Klngswuy Nur sery in Bowmanvillo provided it meets specications The bid or 325 trees was one of live submlt ted Three did not meet specii ications The other from Braun Nursery wan or $1062 FOUNTAIN READY Parks and Recreation director Gary Stonor told commission Inc oating fountain in Centennial Park would be ready or instal lation by tho Iiist or second week in May RESCHEDULE MEETING The regular meeting of tho Parks and Recreation Commis sion scheduled or May iii has been rescheduled for May to use and rot Examiner Pho to allow members and staii to at tned the annual Ontario Muni cipnl Recreation Association can icrcnco in Hamilton ltloy 13 to 16 LACROSSE AKSOUIAIION The Parks and re lion Commlssion has granted permis sion to the Barrie Lacrosse As sociation to use commission pro perty out to Eustviow second ary school and hockey boards or box lacrosse this year provided there is no cost to tho commis sIon MARCH ACNUNTS Accounts totalling $967 or parks and $261 for recreation were approved or payment by the Parks and Recreation Com mission Wednesday nlght SCHOOL AND POOL Elementary and It ary schools will be allowed to use the Lions Pool tree this year The schools however must pay three dollars per hour for at least one Parks and Recreation Commis sion lifeguard if the school can provide lifeguard oi its own Schools can use tho pool after the expected June opening un til school closing April 13 17 736 Monday April IS MChrist Bridges the Generation Gap Audience will have talkbuck privileges CHRIST FOR TODAYS CRISIS Five ThirryMinuro Lectures GROVE PARK CHURCH Grove Cook Sts 7261003 Caro Provided For Small Children Lynn Andcison Lecturer Kclowua no BOB artnor Strain its he works chain saw cutting down 200 year old oak tree In Sandy Cove The tree marked the graves of British soldiers who died of smallpox during the win of 1m ii iExnmlncr Photo Anglicans To Study Their Committees The Anglican church in Ontar Io will milks study of Its pro vineial committees Recommendations from tho study are to be presented in 19 The study mu examine as set out by the synod consi iutinn bad the type of comml tee membership needed The motion for the study was presented by Bishop Snell He uLso prcscntcd motion calling for committee to be set up to study co ordination ot the work of various synod offices of in the province The object the committee Will be to make recommendations for greater eIlt iicicncy Both motions were accepted by the synod res ponsibilities for the Committees Last Winter Storm Paints Simcoe County storm moving across LTe northern pm the province extends you enough soul to stdme County with in out taste Winter The tmbanco is expected to be out oi the area by evening law tonight tor Barrio is or pcceedwbezldegreu within high Saturday in the lot 485 Cloud and new shower lb company the cold ow p3nlclt ularly to Lhe north and to tho mm wlu continue dunng the my then slack off by evening High presume now across the central prairies will move one the bringing clearing Conditions Lake St Clair Lake Erie Ni agarn Valuable WILL tew brief flurries Clear ce of the lake Ihu Circula Great Lakes Saturday Forecasts Toronto Hamilton Windsor lake Ontario regions cloudiness and cool CITY NEWS THE BARR EXAMINER FRIDAY APRIL to mo Grace United Church To Help 12 Trainees Ioin Community special program in help mildly retarded people join in the life of the Community will be summer project Sponsored by Grace United Church in Barrie Nellie trainees will be selcet cd trom the Adult pccupution tentre ut Edgar All Will have been at the centre for one year at least and all will be prepar ing to take their place in soc icty as working Clilltns We are only helping them bclt come orientated in tho commun ity says Rev Arthur Storey The project operation do but will be held during JuLv Six volunteers to help the train no will bt chosen from the Unit cd Churchs Caravan program which instructs students wanting to tnke part In urban and rural projccts oi the church Such projects include da Camps drop in centres and specials like the old for Edgar trainees The major problem the project Young lire Not Taking Interest The Anglican church will wet come particunilon of people in church affairs but the young are not inking an Interest young themselves acts said hlr Storey ls lind ing Barrie families willing to let the volunteers and trainees Six homes ill be rcqulrld with one volunteer and um trainucsi ussigncd to ouch Grucc United will provide the planning and supervision of this program with the help oi soc ial worker from Edgar Stole From Church Two Are Sentenced Willi1m Garfield King 20 of Newfoundland was sentenced to two months In jail and Donald Dee Wells 18 of noJchd ad dress was scnienccd to is days for stealing more than $50 worth of goods rum Barrie church two weeks ngil Judge Foster of pro vincial court said he took into account thut Ilicy had spent in days in custody awaiting trial King his previous convictions for llrcnk enlcr Lind thcit and posseion of housabrcaking tools Thcy went to the Barrie pol ice sacking food and shelter before the offence and were re icrrcd to the Salvation Army The cltzldel was closed when they went to nppcnl to the Sal vation Army lag wrugh Saturday mostly sunny and hide warmer Trusts northwest is in be coming 11 tonight Sudbury North Bay Imdurs lake Huron liaiiburton amp Jill Bay Temagarni Cochran Western James Bay regions Mostly Cloudy and Cold with snowiiurrlcs tapering all this ercrdng Silurday sunny with CW Cloudy intervals and mild er Winds northwest 15 to 25 decreasing tenicht White IV Algnma ro ginns iitmb sunny with low cloudi periods Clear and cold tonight Saturday sunny milder winds northwest 157m 20 becoming light tonight Ottawa hiontroal Cloudy with some clear pcrinds and iew shuncm or urrles today Saturday sunny min cloudy pe nods and continuing cool VIfld westerly 20 with gule Becoming light tonight Fortcast Temperatures but tonight Illgh Saturday Winiixor SJ Si Ihinnus so London 25 45 Kitchener is iioum Furect 2n so Vlngllam 20 40 Hamilton 45 St Cothnrmcs Toronto lt5 Polurbnrnugh 20 Ml llnxmin 20 45 van Sound 20 to Trenton 4S Killuloc is in Rlusknka IS rth I3 l3 Sudhury I5 35 Eurlton as Sautt Stu uurle is Kapuska 15 Whitt Rnur 45 Moosnme Tlmmins 33 35 MANY BATTLES iorc han 400 battles and skirmishes were taught in Ken tule during the United States Civil War LEONE and DeMARlA General Contractan TEEIliad House and Cottage Rais CommunityUse Meeting Date Prince of Wales School has changed the date of It meeting on Community use of schools from April 15 to April 16 The meeting will be family night to assess the recreational nceds oi the local community The evening will include pilot projects in the Iorm of activities for all age groups cartoons and arts and craft or children III ncss or men and women teen centre and card gnmcs for old er people Tho meeting will start at 6lo so people with youngsters can attend STARTED IN 1306 Noah Webster wrote his first dictionary in moo IN TOWN TironkdnlkThc Sugar Canes ContinentalDoreen Brennan WellingtonThe Rondells representative telephoning LOUNGES Bayshnanhnny Guy and Sugar and Spice ilolidny InnBobby Parks and Company NottnwnsngnMnlion and Hamilton QaecnnBriget Curtis Rusty Walker nIo THEATRES ImperialBob Carol Ted and Alice RoxyWorld Safari FINANCING fOR BUSINESS MR STOOF of the Industrial Development Bank will be at The Heidelberg Inn 461 Home Street Colllngwocd On Friday April l7lh Thousands of Canadian enterprises have obtained loans from IDB to acquire land buildings or machinery to supplement working capital or to start new business You are invited to discuss term financing with the IDB An appointment for an Interview can be arranged by COLLINGWOOD 4454280 or in advance by writing to INDUSTRIAL DEELPMENT BANK lliidantario Branch 250 University Avenue Toronto the young wanted to take greater interest they could take over by coming to vcstry meet lugs and voting themselves Into ofce said tnc prolocutor of the provincial synod Dr Eroadwcll He was speaking at the provincial synod meeting held this week hope the day never comes however when have to listen to the youth just because they are the youth hope 111 have to listen because they have something to soy he said We need to go to the youth and ask them to help commun icate with us said Canon Standish of Niagara Falls Joy Kennedy youth observ er irom Trinity College in Tut onto said that the youth in tho church laced problem of pat ornalism from adults We need to share the ministry We need honest communication and inter nciion between adults and youth She said TONIGHT They broke into Central United Church to get food and stole clothing and other items as they Icit lhy were caught nItcr being chased by police tor several miles north oi Barrie log Basement Digging Recreation Rooms riroplncos eto Youcnn snvo on packages of 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