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By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Writer There are mermaids in Collingwood Hard to believe Just ask Ralph West of Creemore He coaches them The mermaids are Mr Wests daughters Sandy 12 and Terry They represent the total membership of the newlyfounded Huronia Mermaids swim club which Mr West describes as maybe the smallest in Canada The clubs current base of operations is the 50foot pool of the Collingwood Holiday Inn It has secured permission to use the pool from ms am and ms pm daily We try to make it all afternoons and good number of the mornings said Mr West They average 12 to 14 hours week That may seem like lot of time in the water for two young girls but their coach ex plains that their development as swimmers inges upon an intesive training program The top swimmers in their age bracket are swimming 15 to 20 hours week he said Tote swimmers is what he wants his charges to The Mermaids emphasizes Mr West is not recreational swimming club Its dedicated to hardcore competitive swimming The girls travel to topcalibre events such as in Windsor last week where both bettered their peak times from last season against in ternational competition It was the first meet of the season for the Mermiads Theyve been in training five weeks If you go to the first meet and do better than at your peak last year its very good said Mr West The girls travel to topcalibre events such as in Windsor last week where both bettered their peak times from last season against in ternational competition It was the first meet of the season for the Mermaids Theyve been in training five weeks If you go to the first meet and do better than at your peak last year its very good said Mr West To him the calibre of the competition is allimportant In Windsor only six of 25 clubs were from Ootario Many were from the United States Placing in swim meets is deceiving thing Until they reach top times are im portant and not the placing The placings will come they have to he said He is hopeful that both girls will eventually crack the international swimming circuit At their current stage of development they rate very close to the top in the region he said Each has been swimming for four years Sandy has swum Kempenfelt Bay on several occasions the first time at age She Notice of Public Hearing Ottawa October 12 1976 ISSUE NO OTTAWA ONTARIO NOVEMBER l6 I976 900 AM The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications C0m CREEMORES HURON IA SWIM CLUB Ralph Wests swim team has well two members was the second to finish this years Kempenfest crossing July 31 Terry the ytgupgest swimmer in the event finished Mr West founded the Huronia Mermaids club after parting with the Barrie Nep tunes which he coached for two years The leaving was due to combination of problems among them not enough pool time and not seeing any chance of improving on it expenses and general philosophy of recrea tional versus competitive swimming GOOD TERMS felt majority of longstanding members wanted to pursue swimming in much more relaxed recreational manner But we parted on good terms Mr West After leaving Barrie he had the choice of coaching another club or starting his own He opted for the latter and Mermaids is now af filiated with the Canadian Amateur Swimm ing Association While conceding that its not recrea tional club by any means Mr West em phasizes that Its no torture chamber You cant achieve anything unless the children enjoy themselves The pleasure comes from achieving new level of ex cellence Mr West real estate broker resides in Creemore He owns 50metre pool four miles from his home but its uncovered and can only be used about four months year THANKS HOLIDAY Im extremely pleased with the co operation of management here the Holiday Inn They saw my predicament and allowed me to use their pool he said The ideal of course would be 50metre not sotoot pool But Mr West says that size of facility probably isnt an absolute necessity until and if the girls become swimmers of national or international calibre Thats minimum of three or four years away They can become top notch swimmers here in the Holiday Inn pool Will and abili ty are the number one thing The facilities are second And ingenuity can help We can do the things we have to do to get better here withou outside interference If our program fails to produce the results were looking for either they as swimmers didnt have it or as coach didnt achieve what thought could be achieved he says Despite its small membership the club is not seekingto expand atthistime Present pool facilities do not allow to enlarge the membership althou this could be possibility says the coac and presi dent Mr West concedes that theres another unknown factor should Sandy and Terry HLRONIA MERMAHLS swim club coach Ralph West makes point to daughters Terry at left and Sandy 12 during practice session this week at the Collingwood mature 21$ SWlmlTlClS lll Illf manner he CUVISgt ions If we progress were going to outgrow these facilities Whether can keep my club the only members of the Mer maids club which is dedicated to the development of top competitive swim mers Examiner Photoi Holiday Inn pool The girls who attend Creemore Public School journey to Coll ingwood daily for the ses sions which are part of their training program They are as such in this area or be forced to put them into another club is something dont know But for now the Mermaids are still swim ming daily in Tollingwood Coldwater United Church ySHlRLEYJENNETT The lights will hardly have time to dim in Coldwater United Church the week of Oct 2428 as the long planned for Evangelical Week gets underway mission will hold public hearing beginning on November 16 1976 at the Government Conference Centre Rideau Street Ottawa Ontario to consider the following BARRIE CABLE TV LIMITED 67 COLLIER STREET BARRIE ONTARIO LAM lG7 Barrie Ontario 761027200 Application to amend its cable television broadcasting licence for Barrie Ontario as follows plans evangelical week Guest speaker for the will be Rev James Somerville and guest soloist Norm Hare both members of ompassion Canada liristiaii organiur tion dedicated to aiding children in ulidcrdeveloped Fees Present Proposed lnstallationfee $1000 $1000 Monthlyfee 525 600 The above are maximum fees However the applicant has or proposes special fees and these are detailed in the application To join the Northern Microwave Limited cable television net work To receive WGRTV and WBENTV via microwave from the Northern Microwave Limited cable television network instead of by offair pickup Location where the application may be examined 67 Collier Street Barrie Ontario NORTHERN MICROWAVE LIMITEDC UNIT 33 705 PROGRESS AVENUE SCARBOROUGH ONTARIO Barrie Orillia Parry Sound Gravenhurst Bracebridge and Huntsville Ontario 761047000 Application to amend its broadcasting licence for its cable television network as follows To ioin the cable television undertakings of Barrie Orillia Parry Sound Gravenhurst Bracebridge and Huntsville Ontario to the cable television network To add the reception of WGRTV Buffalo New York at the distant headend at Hornby Ontario for relay via microwave to the cable television undertakings at Barrie and Orillia Ontario To receive CKGNTV22 Uxbridge Ontario offair at Orillia Ontario on temporary basis until the proposed distant head end at Foymount Ontario is approved and operational The foregoing station will then be discontinued and CKGNTV2 Ban croft will be received offair at the Foymount headend To relay WGRTV via microwave to the cable television un dertakings at Huntsville Ontario when CKGNTV22 is no longer received offair at Orillia Ontario To change the proposed offair reception location of CFVO TV Hull Quebec from Pembroke Ontario to the proposed head end at Foymount Ontario Locations where the application may be examined 67 Collier Street Barrie Ontario 505 Memorial Avenue Orillia Ontario 100 Parry Sound Rood Parry Sound Ontario Gravenhurst Cable System Ltd Jones Road Gravenhurst Ontario Banks Brothers TV Bracebridge Ontario 45 Main Street Huntsville Ontario GENERAL INFORMATION Rules of Procedure Anyone wishing to make his views known to the Commission may refer to the Commissions Rules of Procedure wherein com plaints and representations interventions service and filing comments by community groups or individuals are defined These Rules which also define how and where to submit such documentation are available from Publishing Centre Printing and Publishing Department of Supply and Services 270 Albert Street Ottawa Ontario Deadline for receipt of Interventions November I976 To be sent to Applicant and CRTC with proof of service Examination of Documents At local address given in this notice and at Commission l00 Metcalfe Street Room l60l Ottawa Ontario information Write to CRTC or phone 6i39962294 or 9956957 Guy Lefebvre Secretary General CRTC Public Notice I976 85 Consell de la radlodlttuslon et des telecommunications canadiennes Canadian Radiotelevision and 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they support municipal control of farmland within provincial guidelines whethcr they support com prehensive land use controls on all Class 12 and farmland based on local official plans and zoning bylaws whether they favor strict severance policy allowing lots to be severed from farms only for the farmerss retirement or for son or duaghter working on the farm whether they favor form of property taxation which en courages continued use of farmland forfarming whether they support pro vincial proposals which would tax farm houses on the same basis as other houses shift the responsibility for payment of municipal property taxes on farm land and farm buildings from the owner to the provin cial government and provide for recovery of these tax payments if the farm changes use and whether they support the proposed income stabilization program which would set sup port levels at 90 per cent of average market prices for various commodities over the previous five years adjusted for increases in 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