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Le any Coldwater and District parents were given some ad vice on how to cope with their preschoolers when panel who spend lot of their time dealing with children gathered at Coldwater Public School for con gt ference on Effective Paren ting recently Seen here from left to right are con ference organizers Robert Wilson principal Coldwater School Murray Cleland classroom teacher Moon stone School Mr Adrian COUNTY GLIMPSES Make early plans for Stayner Fair STAYNER Staff Early preparations continue to be made here for the 1976 Stayner agriculture and trade fair which is to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday September 14 and 15 President of the board of directors John Craig and colleagues have been busy with plans for the twoday Sep tember event which will feature agricultural displays womens work exhibits com mercial booths and special at tractions Mrs Irvin Perry is head of the ladies division SKATING AWARDS CREEMORE Awards night for the Creemore Figure Skating Club will be held Thur sday April at 730 pm in the Creemore arena MINOR SOCCER STAYNER Registration for minor soccer will take place Thursday April from to 830 pm in Byng elementary school in Stayner DANCE PLANNED BRENTWOOD The Sun nidale Recreational Square Dance Club will hold dance on Saturday April at pm in Brentwood community hall VIOLENCE ORILLIA The Royal Com mission on violence in the com munications industry will hold hearing Wednesday at 730 pm in Orillias United Steel Workers hall 500 Gill Street AMATEUR AUDITIONS ELMVALE Auditions for the Elmvale maple syrup talent showcase will be held Wed nesday at pm in Elmvale District High School The show is scheduled for Friday April LIBERALMEETING GUTHRIE Ray Perrault government leader in the Senate will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Sim coe North Liberal Association on Thursday April at 615 pm in Guthrie community hall five miles northeast of Barrie NEW HOSPITAL NAMED MIDLAND The St An drews Hospital Board here has named the new hospital being built in Tiny Township Huronia District Hospital The $11 million building is to be completed this year AT CAMERA CLUB MIDLAND Budd Watson awardwinning Midland PANEL CONSIDERS PRESCHOOLERS PROBLEMS MacKeigan program super visor Georgian College Orillia Campus who arranged for the speakers Dr Ted Cormode Orillia pediatrician Mrs Vera Bullen teacher in the psychology section of the photographer will conduct seminar on Saturday April for the Toronto Camera Club at the Eaton Auditorium Mr Watson is known for his large color photos of Canadian lan dscapes NEWCIJIRK VICTORIA HARBOUR Donna Thatcher is the new clerk of this Georgian Bay village of 1200 people 35 miles north of Barrie She replaces Neal Rankin who resigned af ter year on the job Nearby Coldwater village has not replaced Arla Miller whose resignation takes effect at the end of March NVCA BUILDING ANGUS Staff The Not tawasaga Valley Conservation Authority board has been meeting at its administration building here for nearly three years Previously meetings were held at the Sunnidale municipal building Official opening of the local building was on August 18 1973 records show ASKS PUBLIC VOTE ORlLLIA Staff Ald Cramp has announced he will ask council to approve nursery school workers program at Georgian College and Mrs Susan Clarke seated who is founder and supervisor of the Sun shine Cooperative Nursery School in Orillia Photo by Cyril Martin public vote on the proposal that new police building be erec ted on Peter street south at an estimated cost of $490000 The present police headquarters is in the old post office building Council gave its approval earlier and tenders are ex pected to be called shortly ELMVALECOUNCILLOR ELMVALE Staff Alex Currie wellknown Elmvale businessman is currently ser ving his 14th year on the village council In his last run for re election he topped the polls with 452 votes EXTENDED TERM WASAGA BEACll Staffr Members of Wasaga Beach council are now serving the third year of their first ex tended term since towrr status was achieved in January 1973 Mayor lair Robertson for mer member of Simcoe County council heads the council with Reeve Duane Patfield and Deputy Reeve Marjory Dyer the current county represen tatives Councillors include Icd Gordon Russell Pogue Walter Borthwick and Carl Mitchell Starting next year council ter rns will revert to two years Stevens assails bureaucracy in handling of gun control Expansion of present facilities to deal with gun con trol rather than building up more bureaucratic machinery would be more constructive approach it was maintained by Sinclair Stevens MP for York Simcoe It is estimated that it wiii take 600 900 civil servants to operate the new provisions said Mr Stevens in referring to the controversy over new gun control legislation in his latest report from Ottawa The government proposed new licensing provisions for all types of firearms as well as aummunition with various penalties for misuse of guns in cluded It is the registration sections which have caused the most criticism Better results could come by using machinery already in existence such as hunters safety courses and recognized gun clubs said the wellknown Aurora area lawyer REDTAPE Competency tests for hand guns could easily be conducted by gun clubs as it is in the hun ters safety courses he stated making the comment With 10 million guns in the country owned by three million Canadians the governments proposal to register the gun owners and possibly the guns themselves appear to be tremendous amount of red tape This is particularly so when one remembers that there were only 272 murders com mitted with firearms in 1974 and of that number only 19 were fired by person during commission of crime Prac tically all the murders in which guns were used involved domestic quarrels or disputes between neighbors or one timefriend Mr Stevens added Surely whether gun is registered in family or not will not materially alter its use if crime is to be committed withing the family RESTRICTIONS Clause 1062 deals with registration certificates for restricted weapons he pointed out Only the registrar of firear ms may issue these Such certificates may be issued only where needed by the applicant to protect life for we in his lawful profession or occupation for target practice within an approved club or un deruspecific conditions Cer tificates may also be issued for guns forming genuine collec tion Applicants also require licence Certificates will be for up to five years specifying where the weapons may be used and under what con ditions Mr Stevens further pointed out if person having registration certificate under section 1062 wishes to be able to have the restricted weapon at place other than that specified in the certificate or to transport it he must apply for permit under 1063 1063 also governs all aspects of the weapons business by providing for permit system under the control of the RCMP Com missioner Persons under 18 years may be issued permit to possess firearms if they live in an area designated by the cabinet in cluding areas where hunting and trapping are way of life and if the local registrar is satisifed the permit is needed to hunt game for food or family support TARGET PRACTICE Persons 14 to 18 living elsewhere may have permit to allow them to target prac tice hunt game or receive in struction Guarantors and parents are required and con ditions may be attached Those under 18 years living within the designated areas do not require the declarations by guarantors or parents While acknowledging the public has been genuinely disturbed with what they regard as breakdown in law and order Mr Stevens felt the federal government responded in the case of gun control in way that he said seems to at Wood meeting at Coldwater COLDWATER general meeting of Huronia Woodland Owners Association will be held tonight in Coldwater elemen tary school Guest speaker will be Van derdrift who works at Pioneer Handicraft Ltd in Washago Ont He will talk about the use of white pine in the making of furniture The woodland owners association has 100 members lack the responsible element more than the criminal element They fail to lif ferentiate between responsible owners and criminal owners he argued Personally hope the gover nment will alter their approach with respect to the registration of guns he said suggesting sliffcrrirrg of laws for the wrongful use of guns would be more appropriate than subr jecting millions of lawabiding citizens to regulations unnecessary MIDHURST Staff Sim coe County council will be making decisions at its delayed March sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday which are expected to settle 1976 county levies on its 33member municipalities After reviewing budget requests for some two months the finance and general ad ministration committec headed by Reeve Bill Gibbins of lnnisfil will be making recom mendations for the general membership to consider The 53 councillors then have the authority to accept or reject the recommendations or make any amendments they feel are justified The original budget requests were said to amount to an irr creasc of about 10 per cent in county tax spending if all were approved With stress given the general concern of ratepayers over this years propertytax outlook the members of the committee made what was described careful study of the figures ANOTHER LOOK The Simcoe County coun cillors at large also are said likely to give another close look at the figures before corr sidering final approval Dif ferent councillors have talked about costtrimming suggestions which could hold the levies well down from the 10 per cent restraint proposed Warden Orville Hughes said members of the finance com mittee have been conscientious in going over the budgets keeping in mind the need to maintain expected services in an efficient way as well as the problems faced by ratepayers While the major concern was over prospects for school tax irr creases faced it was em phasized the county could help by holding down its share of costs Former wrden Edgar Currie said earlier with an increase in assessment due to new con struction to help cushion the higher budgets levies should be held to within five per cent or possibly lower of last years requisitions Social services which in cludes welfare will cost more but preliminary figures also showed increased revenues The total estimated cost of social services submitted earlier but subject to review amounted to $2471134 of which $1825194 was for welfare The latter represented an increase of some $425000 over last year The countys three county homes for the aged also were included in the social services figures preliminary budget for Georgian Manor at Penetanguishene showed 1976 costs estimated at $719253 in comparison to $634043 last year Estimated revenues showed $304896 from residents payments up from $279323 $348786 provincial subsidy up from $301041 and sundry estimates at $4420 up $200 This would make the county levys share $61151 instead of the $49459 amount of last year For Simcoe Manor at Beeton the preliminary budget was shown at $908057 in place of $826430 last year Estimated revenues showed $403768 ex pected from residents paymen ts up from $315441 last year $451773 provincial subsidy in place of $486321 and $21045 sundry up from $14500 This left the countys share as $31471 down from the $60168 required last year IIIGIIESTBUDGET The highest preliminary budget was submitted for Sun set Manor at Collingwood where first estimates were shown at $1158961 in corn parison to $976382 last year Residents payments are ex pected to increase substantially according to the tables sub mitted to council earlier provincial subsidy also will help meet the costs with the countys share shown at $65838 The finance committees mconrrnerrdalions will be rrrade to the county council to con sider DISTRICT NE WS 2MThe Barrie Examiner Monday March 29 I976 Noted fiddler to play at Orillia festival RllllA tStaffr Rudy Meeks threetirne North American oldtime fiddle champion will be featured at country lance which will corr clude Orillia maple syrup festival at the community cen tre on Saturday April The syrup festival itself will start at am and continue to pm An expanded arts and crafts show will be held at the centre and bus tours will be made to sugar bushes in the area Pancakes and sausages with pure maple syrup will be ser ved all lay said Geoff Ilewett chairman The country dance will be held in the evening with the Mariposa show band providing the music along with Rudy who livesinOrillra Organized in recent years the Orillia festival attracts many people from ro Medun tc Mara and other surrounding townships lhe Elrrrvale maple syrup festival will be held the following week and usually at tracts many frorrr the Orillia area The roads department budget was shown at $2829000 of which the countys share was placed at $1511000 and the On tario ministry of transportation at$l318000 The figure included $832000 for maintenance with the coun tys share $416000 $440000 for road construction with each paying half $140000 for new pavement construction $284000 for overhead and ad ministration and also $140000 nosubsidizable The latter in cluded deficit from last year office rental and interest The property committee proposed budget of $171600 up from $156250 of last year due largely to increased fuel and hydro costs and salary ad justments The county library budget request to the county amounted to $80029 out of an estimated total expenditure of $11029 Last year the figure amounted to $9542259 The sum of $33380 was asked for agriculture mostly for grants to fall fairs weed con trol and different farm groups The figure last year amounted to$30580 For reforestation the budget request of $76000 was the same as last year WARDEN ORVIILE IIUGIIES conscientious review Amendment to Bail Act is explained by Milne By ROSS MILNE MP tPeelDufferinSimcoe Everyone would agree that an essential and inviolable tenet of our justice system is that person is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty But when do the rights of an accused person to due process in order to determine his guilt or innocence give way to societys right to be shielded from dangerous offenders Many people express concern to me that our bail laws are not doing proper job of protecting society lot of misun derstanding arises when the subject is discussed Its unfortunate that few people other than lawyersand policemen are fully aware of what our bail provisions demand DISCRIIVIINATORY The bail reform act came into force in 1972 Prior to its passage the process of ob taining bail was highly discriminatory People were unnecessarily detained in custody before trial of their cases simply because they did not have the means to raise bail Quite furor arose in the press and elsewhere that ability to pay is not welcome factor in dispensing justice That act was changed to put the onus on the crown to per suade the court that an accused should be detained before his trial Otherwise the arrested person must be left free The prosecutor must con vince the judge of one of three things that the accused is likely to commit criminal of fence involving serious harm or that an interference with the administration of justice will occur or that the accused will not show up for his trial Having all the onus on the Crown to ensure that dangerous persons are not released has created problems Often it is difficult to prove that an arrested person will commit second offence involving serious harngwhile out on bail AMENDMENTS To correct the problem the House of Commons recently passed series of amendments modifying our bail laws Now awaiting Senate ap proval the new law reinforces the general rule that when person is arrested and brought before the judge he must be released on bail unless the crown satisifes the judge that grounds for detenl ion exist But in certain cases the ac cused rather than the Crown will have to bear the onus of showing that it is not necessary to the public interest that he be detained pending trial This situation will occur when an accused is waiting trial for previous indicatable offence and is brought back to the court for committing another offence while on bail Much publicity has been given to cases of persons released on bail on successive occasions while awaiting trial on as many as four or five charges The onus is also on the ac cuscd to show why he should not be detained pending trial if he has previously abused the liberal release provisions of the bail reform act At the present time this does not occur This change to the law keeps in mind the general principles of the Bail Reform Act of 1972 NONRESIDENTS Another provision of the Bail Bang BangYoure dead ilre lloyal Conrnussrorr on Vrolonoo in tin Corn munications Industry lbl Bloor Street West llnonr 310 lurrrnlo Untano MbS 7V5 Commissioners The Hon Judy LaMarsh His Honour Judge Beaulieu Scott Young Call us tollfree anytime at 18002617091 Reform Act that will be changed involves the cir cumstance where foreign or nonresident of Canada is ac cused and dealt with in the same way as an accused domiciled or ordinarily resident in Canada The judge may on release pending trial require cash deposit But in some cases the deposit has been treated as licence to obscond It then becomes unlikely that the offender will be ap prehended and brought to trial To meet this problem the amendment shifts the onus to the nonresident accused to show why he should not be detained It was earlier men tioned that the Crown attorney had to prove that an accused person would cause serious harm if released on bail The basic test is whether detention is necessary in the public in terest The likelihood of serious harm is only one of the factors to be considered This reference however to serious harm may influence the court into giving too narrow construction to the main test Thus in the new Act the words involving serious harm will be deleted The onus is then on the Crown to show that there is sub starrtial likelihood of the com mission of criminal offence These amendments should do much to restore the balance to our bail laws If our police and Crown at torneys continue to do their job of explaining to the court why it would be against the public in terest to release dangerous of fender then we should be assured of minimizing abuses to our bail laws Some say the violence In our media makes usand our childrenreact to the world in violent way If thats true werejntrouhle Theres been very little research in Canada and none about all the media The Royal Commission on Violence in the Communi cations Industry is trying to find an answer Mlrat does violence mean Doesit reflect the real world Or can it create different more violent world in which we all have to live What is the ommission doing Were reviewing the current research lolding public hearings for everyone And well be recommending appropriate action for all levels of qovernrrrent to the industry and to the public What on you do You can start by thinking about the ellect that violence in the media hasgood or badon your lite Your family And that includes violence in radiolV comic books newspapers popular music movies bookseven rock concerts Then tell us what you think Send us yourideas Come to the bearings And when the time comes to make recommendations there11 be things you can do in your own home your own neighbourhood With your own children Its import out for all of us to know more about media violence and how it affects us We will if you help The Royal Commission onVlolence is holding hearings in