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gym When is house not home After its renovated and converted to office space instead of being demolished for new development Planning board sent re zoning application to its zon ing committee for recom mendation Tuesday for five residential buildings on the northwest corner of Bayfield and Wellington Streets David White representin Barcor Ltd the owner tol the board the existing homes will be renovated and con verted for restricted com mercial use especially office space Mr White said this is better for the city than having the buildings demolished and new apartment or multiple family development built Theres lots of fine ex amples of restoration in the city he said citing Arm strong Real Estate building on the southest corner as prime example Armstrong should be thoroughly com mended for his actions he set the tone for development on Bayfield Street Mr White said there is lot of commercial space in the ci ty but it is not being used He said several people have in dicated desire to move into the houses after the conver sion This is the type of develop ment Id like to see in Bar rie he said But not every house is worthy of restoration and not every site is suitable for commercial develop ment EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7266537 ll2yearNo 100 Clip Neighbors on the south side of Wellington and on Maple Street are enthusiastic about the restoration program he said adding they say this is the answer for the corner and its whatthey want Mr White said the plan in cludes 46 parking spaces which exceeds the required rumber in the citys zoning bylaw The parking would be located at the rear of the buildings with entraces and exits frqm Wellington and Maple streets Barrie 315sz An ei tfootwide buffer strip wi separate the park in lot from the rear of the Jo Steele residence on MapleStreet The buildings he said could not be renovated at the same time because of the cost The first building if the rezoning is approved would be 1012 We lington Street West The second building would be 52 Bayfield Street The total project he said could take two years to com plete Were comtemplating starting this summer with some of the exterior wor he said The interiors will be renovated for office use but the city should have very strict regulations on the ex terior elevations Mr White said Barcor Ltd is not prepared to for commercial nee stud because of the cost involv He said no one takes an old building and puts in $30000 in renovations if hes not sure hes going to rent it In January 1976 planning board held public hearing to discuss pro osals in the BayfieldWe lin ton study area which inclu ed the five houses Residents in the area said they would rather see the houses restored and used for commercial business restricted to offices rather than have new apartment building or multiplefamily use Firm sees renovation best m0Ve for city buildings The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday April 28 I976 miner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly Cloud and WEATHER FORECAST Frost warning sun today Mostly sunn Thursday Low tonight 1C igh Thursday 13 Pages Fitness clinic subject There will be public clinic Thursday at 730 pm at Eastview Secondary School in Barrie to explain the Canadian Home Fitness Test The test sponsored by the federal department of health and welfare and Recreation Canada is designed to be med at the home to deter mine the physical condition of people leaders clinic has already been held to train people to run other clinics on the subject Those attending the clinic Thursday can be tested for fictisééeisneéflaad ITS SPRING FANTASTIC physical fitness by the in structors City seeks site report Slope stability at residen tial development site is worrying the city planning board enough to ask for detailed engineering report before construction The board is asking Joslyn Construction Ltd developer to provide reports and re rading map for the Allan da Green site opposite the Barrie Raceway on Essa Road The plan on 405 acre site has 49 townhouse units including 12 twostorey three bedroom 37 splitlevel three bedroom units The plan has density of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh are two of the myriad of stars taking part in Angus public schools Spring Fantastic 76 The program involves all grades at the Simcoe Barrie planning board sent plans for street townhouse development in Allandale back for redrawing 1209 units to an acre which exceeds the citys guidelines for townhousing The board said the plan should be drawn to city standards of 12 units to the acre Rick Jones city planner said the developer is trying to meet the requirements for the Assisted Home Owner ship Plan AHOP Guidelines for the develop ment include maximum selling price of $39000 unit with maximum area of 1100 square feet Wayman Fairweather director of planning and development said the topography or slopes on the site is severe constraint to development Andrew Schlesinger and Kenneth Demick were fined $750 each in provincial court Tuesday for contraventions of the Combines Investigation Act Schlesinger of Frankland Mich and Demick of Kit chener pleaded quilty to charge of making misleading representation in advertising Cpl Bob Fenske of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the two men were selling sevenpiece cookware sets from truck parked at the corner of Dunlop and Ec cles Streets last week The set was advertised as having regular price of $6950 CAPSULE NE WS Association elects head TORONTO CP George Saracuse of Waterford has been elected president of the Ontario Hotel and Motel Association at the groups annual meeting which ended today first for Rhodesia SALISBURY CP Four tribal chiefs were sworn in today as Rhodesias first black members of the cabinet Coalitions fate unknown LISBON Reuter The fate of Portugals centreleft coalition was in the balance today after the countrys secondlargest party offered to resign following the first free parliamentary elections in 50 years Oil price budget factor TORONTO CP If the price of oil increases by $2 barrel July as sought by the federal Alberta and Saskat chewan governments municipal budgets throughout On tario will be disputed say the executive committees to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario Sombre note in economy WASHINGTON AP The United States government said today its index designed to indicate future economic trends declined in March for the first time in five months adding sombre note to upbeat economic reports of recent weeks House fire claims life CARDINAL Ont CP One person was killed three in jured and several are missing in house fire this morning on the main street of this community 19 miles east of Brockville Street and Coulson Street schools The first of two dif ferent performances was given Tuesday night and the show will conclude tonight Proceeds will go The board members in an attempt to preserve the character of Fitzroy Terrace sent back the plans asking for Two fined $750 each for con travening act Schlesinger and Emick were sellingit for$19 Cpl Fenske said he deter mined that the true value of the cookware set was not near the advertised regular rice He said his detachment ad compared prices of similar articles in Barrie and found them less ex pensive The sale had originally been going on from the Barrie arena parking lot but the men moved their truck to gaivate property nearby after sinessmen in the downtown area complained As well the mens vendors permit was revoked by the city when it was found that the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union was not totally behind the sale According to union spokesman the sale had been organized by the union to benefit its members The unionwas not getting any percentage of the profit and simply distributed the flyers to the members The vendors printed the advertising towards the schools creative playground Above students of the primary division present the story of Christopher Robin Examiner Photo Housing development plans are sent back single and semidetached housing along the street The plan included two single family four semi detached and 18 street town save this building as fitzroy Terrace The remainder of the street which is already built contains only singlefamily detached housing motion to have only single family detached housing on Fitzroy Terrace was defeated by planning board in favor of the mixture at singles and semidetached Ald Jim Perri said he could not support the mixture because it would change the characteristics of an established neighborhood The total plan on the north east corner of Little and Bayview avenues has 106 units 100 of these are street townhouses Mayor Dorian Parker in troduced the motion for mixture of singles and semi detached after the original motion for on single family detached omes was defeated Mayor Parker said she would like to see some promotion of 40 foot lots with smaller homes in the city The city she said 15 proposing too many townhouses in the Little and Bayviewarea Barrie budget comes up Monday Monday is the day of judgment for Barrie tax payers when city council sits down to pass the proposed 1976 current budget Ald Alex Arthur finance committee chairman said the budget will be presented to council at pm during special meeting The budget about $105 milllion means about seven to eight per cent increase in taxes for municipal purposes This does not include in creases caused by the Simcoe County Board of Education and Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board budgets Ald Arthur said the in crease is below the 1976 rate of inflation of about 10 per cent He said the committee tried to stay below the rate of inflation as much as possible The budget he said will be presented in its original form with list of possible cuts or deletions for council to review The citys parks and recreation department is asked to out about $80000 from its budget this year Most other departments were unscathed in the finance committees annual review of the proposed budget City council met earlier this year to discuss the public works and parks and recreation budget These are the two largest single depart ment budgets in the city suggestions to delete any items Monday is the regular meeting day for councils three standing committees finance public works and city develo ment Ald Art ur said his com mittee finance will begin meeting at pm to discuss the items on its agenda The public works and city development committees have also indicated they will meet early Monday The public is permitted to attend the budget meeting but cannot make any presen tations Task forces growth strategy cited in OMB rejection of housing proposal BRENTWOOD The On tario Municipal Board has cited the growth strategy of the SimcoeGeorgian Area Task orce in rejecting as premature housing sub division proposed 12 miles westofBarrie The 94lot development was planned for 56 acres south west of Brentwood in Sun nidale township The OMB denied Sunnidale councils application to amend the townships official an upholding an objection the ministry of housmg An OMB hearing was held Feb 16 this year In their written report OMB members McGuire and Ebers cited parts of the Simcoe Georgian Task Force and Sunnidales official plan regarding development Band show on tonight The Barrie Collegiate Band headlines the fourth and final presentation of the current Collegiate Concert Series The prizewinnin band under the direction Morley Calvert performs tonight at 830 pm at Central Collegiate auditorium The band will play com positions which won it top honors at the recent Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto as well as some new additions to its musical repertoire highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the Major Brian McCool trophy to Central Collegiate DRILLIA KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL strategy And they said the sub division could result in con tamination of the Minesing Swamp wildlife reserve The 94lot Brentwood Estates subdivision was proposed in 1974 by Lou Biffis and Rocco Cappuccitti ovxners of the Nottawasaga Inn near Alliston Sunnidale council gave approval in prin ci leJune111974 he amendment would have redesignated land to hamlet from rural in the official plan clearing the way for rezoning The OMB officials said the subdivision could have in creased population by bet ween 300 and 350 Brentwood now has population of less than 200 REVIEWING DEVELOPMENT PLANS drawing of the proposed Bayclub condominium apartment tower is on display in the citys plan ning and development department on the third floor at city hall The drawing is revised from earlier drawings which showed rectangular building The citys com mittee of adjustment is reviewing the plans and drawings for the estimated $5 million development on property bordered by Albert Collier Dunlop and Blake streets The developer has applied for number of minor variances on the site Banting High School is tops in Strings category By MURIEI LEEIER Tuesdays classes at the Kiwanis rillia Festival in cluded choirs vocal solos strings and guitar Highest marks in the strings were awarded to Ban ting Memorial High School Strmg Ensemble Burgin from Alliston Adjudicator David Karrg awarded the string ensem le85 marks Results in the String Classes were Violin Solo 14 yrs and un der Lynn Langford Barrie and Gillian Daniels Midland tied 82 Joan McRuer Alliston78 Violin Solo 16 yrs and un der Gillian Daniels Midland 83 Lynn Langford Barrie 80 Julie Strachan Cookstown78 Violin Solo 18 yrs and un der Jane Mabey Willowdale 80 Cello Solo 16 yrs and un der Karen Dakus Barrie 80 Cello Solo 15 yrs and un der Karen Dakus Barrie 81 String Bass Solo 15 yrs and under Janice Lay Alliston81 String Quartette Lori Power Angela Davis Carolyn Cameron Karen Urquhart Eastview School Miller Barrie 81 School String Ensemble Banting Memorial High School String Ensemble Burgin Alliston 85 Guitar Competitions were also adjudicated by David Karry Results are as follows Guitar Solo 10 yrs and un der Maureen Martyn Orillia 80 Julia Schultz Collingwood 78 Todd David son Collingwood 77 Solo 12 yrs and under Dan Carson Orillia 81 San dy Whittaker Orillia 80 Becky Hass Coldwater 79 Solo 14 yrs and under John Williams Orillia 80 Carla Ostertag 79 Crawford Brandon Coldwa ter 78 Duet 12 yrs and under Lynn Roberts Derek Veistra Minets Point Thornton 80 Solo 16 yrs and under Jenny Kanis Orillia 81 Carla Ostertag Coldwater 79 Earl Wright Orillia 78 Duet 18 yrs and under Bill and David Harvey Orillia8l Solo 18 yrs and under Bill Harvey Orillia 80 Andy Harasymczuk Alliston 79 Solo Open Amateur Bill Harvey 80 Andy Harasymc zuk79 School choirs competed all day as well as vocal soloists Adjudicator Garfield Ben der awarded the highest marks of the day to the Orillia Vocalaires with 88 and 90 for their two selections Intermediate Choral Speaking Choir Maple Grove School Room 12 Bray 113 Junior Choral eakin Choir Cumberlan Beac School Mr Thompson Cumberland Beach 85 Or chard Park School Brenda Vivian Orillia 84 Primary Choral Speaking Choir Couchiching Heights School Helga Rmneard Orillia 85 Cumberland Beach School 84 Central Public School Lili Mc Murray Orillia 84 Kindergarten Choir and Rhythm Band David Church School Doreen Tur ner Orillia 86 Hillcrest Public School Laurene Hor ne Orillia 84 Central Public School Susan Stanton Orillia81 School Choir and In strument Mount Slaven School Mrs Hunter Orillia 87 Hillcrest Public School Orillia 86 Maple Grove School Ingrid Cooper Barrie 85 Recorder Ensemble Oakley Park School Mr Law Junior Barrie 84 Alliston Union Public School Dearham Alliston 82 VOCAL SOLOS Girls Solo 21 yrs and un der Mary Jo Masterson Orillia88 Sacred Solo Any voice open and under Pauline Rideout Orillia 87 Janette Labombarda Toronto 85 Mari Colwill Barrie 84 La ies Double Trio 15 yrs and under Pauline Cole Cynda McArthur Stephanie Trites Krista Attwell Kristine Taylor Allyson Cole Orillia 86 Susan Adam Kim White Dawn Callan Susan Secker Margaret Snider Nancy Wilkins Parry Sound 84 LadiesDouble Trio 17 yrs and under Cathy Tapscott Sheila McLean Kim Tour neau Lynn Slater Laurie Graham Gail Hurlburt Orillia87 Ladies Double Trio 21 yrs and under Debbie Bell Ann Ritchie Bonnie Colum bus Anita Stone Ann Colum bus Julie Stone Elmvale 84 and 86 Ladies Double Trio Open Vocalaires Nori Mills Shirley Thomson Kitt Bur nett Maryllis Donge ans Fran Richardson Stefanie Montgomery Shirley Dunlop Orillia 88 and 90 Girls Solo Low Voice 14 yrs and under Ste hanie Trites Orillia 87 olleen Skinner Hawkestone 86 Kathy Capscott Orillia 85 Girls Solo Low Voice 16 yrs and under Laurie Graham Orillia 84 Girls Solo Low Voice 18 yrs and under Christine Hotson Orillia 87 Gilliam Ison Orillia 86 Girls Solo Special 16 years and under Colleen Skinner Hawkestone 87 Laurie Graham Orillia 85 Girls Solo Special 12 yrs and under Ellen Russell Orillia and Kristine Ta lor Orillia tied 86 Pauline ole Orillia84 Boys Solo Special 14 yrs and under Andrew Chevalier Orillia 83 Mark Reid Orillia 81 Girls Solo Special 21 yrs and under Susan Leach Alliston 85 Mary Hewitt Orillia 84 Kathy Brennan Orillia83 Girls Sacred Solo 14 yrs and under Stephanie Trites Orillia 87 Lynn Slater Orillia 86 Colleen Skinner Hawkestone 85 Girls Sacred Solo 18 yrs and under Cecilia Williams Orillia 87 Mary Hewitt rillia 85 Christine Hotson Orillia86 Girls Sacred Solo 16 yrs and under Sheila McLean Orillia 85 Janice Leach Alliston 83 Maureen Moloney Parry Sound 82 Boys Sacred Solo 18 yrs and under Bill Towns Bracebridge 87 Charles Rachar 80 Choir Boys Solo 14 yrs and under Edward Goss Coldwater 86 Craig Hudgins Alliston 85 David McLean Orillia 83