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Feb 19 to March was work session for students at Georgian College in Barrie Three students studying promotion advertising graphics and newspaper advertising sales spent the work session wtl an qusm IV Allx titAs Practical training for Georgian students senior advertising rep Examiner Photo Kathy Monks i8 completes crime report with help from Sgt Mei Gat tie Miss Monks Georgian College student from Aliiston spent this week working at the Barrie OPP station as practical training for the colleges Legal Secretary program The week of filling out reports typing letters and police forms was valuable experience she said Examiner Photo quse of higher inflationhigher taxes lllil ibtatti Local lrancopliones say they re not an ethnic group and want more than two hour weekly French language program on the local radtostatton ltoland licsrochcs president of the tcntre l1ll Fran caises said proposal by litliilllflltllllittlfl Broad casting Ltd for Sunday even an French language program on 1lll radio is Iinachpta liii the proposi was stilitiiitctl to llt liilttllll Radio ltim ision and ieltconi tiiiinnatioir oiiiinissioii tliis wetL itoiig 1lll aii applicaon for renewal of lllt liloitlii1111£ lttttlttliiltlel dont toiisider ouisclus llt11lll anadianst an ethnic gionp and we want to be on equal ground with lanltsh anadians ltistiid at The Examiner Left to right are Steve Skinner advertising rep Wayne Hay student Jamie Alphonse student Karen Jollow stu dent Julie Franks advertising rep and Aden Smith seated liesrochcs said putting French anadian programnr ing into two hour slot on Sun day evenings when everyone is taking snooze after dinner is step backwards for the community The radio station has duty to the people it serves he said The music should reflect the area its played in Fifteen per cent of the people in Midland are French speaking and fif teen per cent of the music on the radio should be French Bill Stuntham managing director oi KMB said French music is already being played on the radio but he feels there would be some interest in hav ing more The station is licensed to an nonncc in English only except during weekly German language program special Project completion expected The downtown iiiipiovtnicnt ittiittl will lllLtl be coin plctcd until the Middle oi ltiti ways ltiik litlllw director iii planninganddeytlopiiiciit lliccitj llllltlllttl litti page document to tlic proyincc on Wednesday it disinssis tlic illtritil iiisign hanging land uses traiispoitaiioii and public mettings lllt city held on the matter iatcssairlllinrsday liic 1i1litt will now icview tlic itiiaiittal pait oi the sclicivic said ltatis it it ap Iiliil the deal ll will send the plan to thc tintario lniiicipal lloird Iiirioiapproyal llit pitiitct may he held up by in iiNli litring iiito the pro Jeri ll ciiotigli letters are sent by i982 otit by objecting residents he said it is now up to the developer to sittll negotiations with pro sptctiyc tenants Bates said Negotiations will likely be com plctcd between now and August he said At the same time the city Will also work towards entering into an agreement with the provmce and the developer Bates said An 0MB hearing will then likely be called in early fall said Bates The decision would then not likely be handed down tint It the end of ltiTti onstruction would then like ly begin to late ltititi and will take about year and half to complete he said Liberals have tripled debt says Stevens Since its election in 1968 the Liberal government has more than triplul the federal debt Sinclair Stevens iltrYorkr Simcoei said recently Stevens said when lierre Trudeau became prime minster the government debt was $20 billion It is now about $75 billion and growing Stevens said and will approach $100 billion by 14 next fiscal year The tf finance critic said the increase will mean higher in flaton and higher taxes as the government must pay for this borrowed money either from tax revenues or by printing more devalued dollars ice fishing in Lake Simcoe ends next week but its been good season says ministry of natural resources spokesman Ron Desjardine fisherSies biologist said the lake trout catch this year has been good Average trout taken weighed about six pounds with some 29 pounds of Stevens said linring the com ing 1ti7ti8ti fiscal year llit federal government will spend Sit btllioii in interest or servici charges on the debt This represents 16 per cent of the total budget oi 334 it billion he said This is serious tncreasc compared to debt charges of $13 billion in Itititt representing 13 per cent of that years Slit billion budget Stevens said Stevens said experts ptttlltl the government will need fur ther $55 billion by ltitti to finance debt charges it spcn ding increases at the rate ll claims This figure is more than don heaVIer he said lake Most of the trout caught however were hatcheryraised fish liesjar dine estimated about it per cent were artifically raised Natural lake trout popiila tions are not reprtxluciiig successfully he said Perch fishing has been fair this year stidiesjar Me the debt the goVerniiitiit has iianrrtd lit the past im yvais llt£iltl Stevens said the debt charges were being increased by high ttlltltl payments owned on foreign innds borrowed by lltt Ltitllllilttll taiiada as nation spends more than it earns because lls scivices ltlllll exceeds its trade surplus he said Stevens said the country is caught in yicions and tin necessary circli tapital is borrowed abroad to balance the countrys interiia tioiiai payments and the ill tcrcst paid on the borrowed capital swells the service dine and herring catches in most parts of the lake have been lower than in recent years Heavy herring catches were reported this year in the Snake and Fox island areas he said surprise for fishermen and ministry officials was this seasons Whitefish catch The catches were llllll iiesaid this is the vicious circle which hat forced 111i pct cent titaluaton in our dollar in the past twoycars Stevens said the govern inciiis own tciitrc tor the Study of Inflaton and Prodnc tivity recently revealed the falling dollar is to blame for one third of the inflaton during the same period In lti7tt an inflation rate of time per cent meant loss of real income of more than $400 for the average anadian worker Stevens said Curricula wont change much trustees llINlllANGlilSllllNll linctangnislieiie Secondary Sc Turricula offered at boot tlSSi will only change slightly it separate French language facility is built there Students should be able to take the same subjects offered now decided the Simcoe ounty Board of lilducation Wednesday Several committees recommended separate French high school tor lcnctangushenc Good fishing season reported noticeably better winter said lesjarliiic tinly older whitclish were caught however meaning the species still appears to be dying out he said Ministry officials have not determined the reason for in this creased whitefish catches this year Maybe the1 quality of angling has improved jok ed Desjardiiie Lake trout and Whitefish seasons close March 15 Fish huts must also be removed then said Desjardine This year midvseason survey revealed about 2200 huts on Lake Simcoe 1esjar dine said this figure is typical of the past few years the examiner Saturday Mar 1979 today Support staff strike vote follows contract impasse The people who clean and care for public schools in Sim coe County take strike vote to day Contract talks broke off Thursday afternoon between support staff Local 1310 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees lUPEi and the Simcoe founty Board of Educa tion Bruce Land fUtE national representative said Friday his bargaining committee recom mends the 35imember support staff including maintenance and caretaker workers strike He said support staff in Simcoe Tounty have never been on strike Weve done everything humanly possible to avert it Land said The support staff has had enough At our last meeting they were feeling very very militant He said if majority of the support staff who attend Satur days meeting vote in favor of strike it could take place within month NEXT STEP Joe Whelan chairman of the boards negotiating committee said Friday the next step in the contract dispute is the intervon Francophones not happy with radio allotment licence would be required for the French language program Rather than having separate program Dcsrochcs would like to hear more Fretich music as part of the stations regular programming and to have the radio station and the French con unity work together He said he and others met with directors of the broad casting company twice and were promised more French content He said the idea of weekly program was refused The tentre dActivites Fran caises has charter from the provincial government to set up French language radio sta tion and research into the idea is being conducted Wc approached the ltl las summer and air time is reserved for us if we want it he said ltight now we want to work with KMP he said We may never even need our own radiostation tion of provincial mediator the usual procedure Of course we hope there wont be strike Whelan said Were always worried about the care of children in the schools Negotiatons between the board and CUPE began in December 1978 Support staff have been working without contract since Jan Land said the board is bargainingin badfaith He said the union cut its demands in half and asked for 75 ccntanhour increase for all support staff regardless of their present wage Land said the union is asking for the same increase for all workers rather than percen tage increase in an attempt to narrow the salary gap between support staff and higher uppers such as teachers and administrators CUT HACKS The board has talked about budget cutbacks he said The workers feel if theres go ing to be any belttightening it should be at the administrative level for change With the high cost of living increases the workers are struggling just to buy groceries and pay off mortgages Whelan said the unions demands arent realistic We asked them to be realistic and wed be realistic he said He said the bargaining com mittee will report to the board before considering changing its position of oneyear contract increasing salaries by seven per cent Whelan said the Simcoe County school board has fewer administrators than most in Ontario which means lower cost to taxpayers Salaries for support staff range from $358 an hour for beginning cleaners to $542 for custodians with more than two years experience French school decision narrows to two choices At the centre of the con troversy about building Frenchlanguage high school in Penetanguishene is the high school already there Penetanguishenc Secondary School tPSSi The final decision now in the hands of the minister of educa tion has narrowed to two choices Education officials have said they are worried about the changes either decision will mean for the 967 students at P88 The lirenchlanguagt ad visory committee tFLACi has asked the minister for separate school not connected with 85 The Simcoe County Board of Education rejected that request but proposed French language annex be built to P88 on Dunlap Street Three years ago PSS was mostly English institution says Gilles inqMars principal That has changed During the 197677 school year officials undertook an in tensive campaign designed to make the only high school in town of 5000 people bilingual Now most services and some subjects at PSS are offered in French says CinqMars Letters memos posters year books school calendars and directional signs are in French and English Services in the main office and at the reception desk are bilingual as are guidance ser vices Students now hear public ad dress announcements assemblies and the scores of athletic events in two languages Nine Frenchspeaking teachers have been hired to teach five subjects that are of fered in French and English history and geography from Grades to 12 and French from Grades to 13 inqMars says 341 students are enrolled in at least one French subject REQUESTS The changes are all part of list of 23 requests presented to the board in 1977 Seventeen have been granted to date Requests not fulfilled in clude that English students be obliged to further their studies in French wthat department heads be encouraged to become bilingual by taking immersion courses that francophone be hired to serve as an animator to build up the French fact CinqMars says plans for the 197980 school year include the designaton of group of rooms for French subjects and the allocation of lockers in that same area for Francophone students The principal says long range planning depends largely on what decision is made by the minister of education Gas creates potential danger for subdivisions says official high enough concentra tion of methane gas from land fill sites could cause adjacent buildings to explode says ministry of environment of ficial Martin Wood waste manage ment branch in Toronto said town country Maple syrup season starts Starting March 17 local residents can watch maple syrup being made at Tiffin onservation Are near Angus The public may attend demonstrations there each weekend until April ti Theres no charge say Nottawasaga Valley onservation Authority officials and the area is open from 10a to in on those days Tiffin onservation area is on Essa Township onccssion about two mils south of Highway 90 Motorists issued tickets About dozen Barrie motorists were issued tickets Thurs day for not displaying 1979 licence stickers Police said motorists convicted arc fined $28 Power blackout in Allendale burned out underground cable on Woodcrest Road resulted in power blackout Thursday night in southeast Allandale The affected area fell between Little Avenue and Gowan Street public utilities spokesman said Friday Power was out for about an hour in most areas said the spokesman Power may have been out for longer periods of time in isolated areas the spokesman said Leo club welcomes new members ANGUS Eleven new members were welcomed into the Angus Leo clttbduring recent certification night Master of ceremonies for the event which was also the clubs fifth birthday celebration was Terry Binns who gave each new Leo glass of his Leo Punch Plaques of appreciation were presented to Leo advisor Gord Mclfidwards and his wife Ann and Phil and Alec Thomson of Thomson Turntables who played at two Leo dance athons to raise money for the Essa Township Arena Leo Campbell district Leo chairman commended the Angus club for its past performance and plans for the future Leo clubs go long way towards solving some of the pro bleins of outh and those less fortunate members of com munity he said New club members are Shari Bowman Boger Buchanan Sandy Greenhill Kelly eurgis Gary Harris Grant Harris Tommy llill Debbie Horne Dave McDonald Bick Wintes and Edward Zaba The club executive is heryl Bij first vice president Totn Fry secretary Terry Binns treasurer Handy Adamson Leo Tamer Sherry Adainson Tail lwistcr Tommy Horne Soybean workshop scheduled ALLISTON For the benefit of new growers the South Simcoe Soil and Crop Improvement Association Will hold soybean workshop March 19 at the Nottawasaga inn in Alliston Bob McLaughlin of the Ontario Agricultural ollege will discuss variety selection seed quality and plantingtmhni ques Glen Anderson of the college will deal with weed con trol There will be presentation on planting and harvesting equipment by Pat Lynch soils and crops specialist from Perth tounty Growers considering soybeans as livestock crop can listen to Gord McLeod of the University of Guelph discuss feeding soybeans Programs for selling soybeans will be discussed by George roneiL of Maple Leaf Mills Those we miss the Alliston workshop can hear the same in fortnaton March 21 at the ministry of agriculture and food office in Elmvalc city planners should examine land around the Barrie landfill site before allowing two sub divisions to proceed Chieftain Developments Ltd and hertkoff Summers Levitt Kronis and Prattas Ltd propose building combin ed 179 house subdivision next to the Barrie landfill site Methane gas is an odorless gas produced by an accumula tion of garbage and solid waste matrials wood said Friday Normally the gas goes up into the atmosphere without harm he says In unusual circumstances however the gas can escape horizontally This can happen during the winter if top layer of landfill site freezes over causing the gas to escape sideways he said ENOUGH GAS If there is enough gas it can kill the vegetation in the sur rounding soil he said high enough concentration of the gas can cause it to become explosive said Wood Wood said there was an inci dent recently in London where house adjacent to landfill site was pretty well Rationing to limit gas Gasoline rationing would be last measure employed by the Canadian governmentsays MP Ross Milne tLPeel DufferinSimcoci Concern over the shortage of gasoline produced bill last week to establish the Energy Supplies Emergency Act Milne says in press release The bill gives the government authority to divide supplies within Canada No one province will be able to build up large reserves while other areas go without says Milne Alberta could be directed to ship some of its oil supply from the west coast to eastern refineries There is concern about Canadas oil supply because of political upheaval in Iran says Milne About 20 per cent of destroyed by an explosion caused by methane gas Mechanical devices can be in stalled at landfill sites to in tercept gases that emerge horizontally said Wood These devices have been tried successfully at site in Lon don and Kitchener said Wood The ministry can regulate the building of houses on previously used landfill sites but cant regulate the building of subdivi sions on adjacent territory he said Of course the ministry would make every effort to make sure the planners were aware of the possible danger he said But little is known on the sub ject he says The ministry is in the process of conducting three year study on landfill sites to deter mine the effects of methane gas says Wood The subdivision proposals in Barrie came before planning board Tuesday The board will wait for opi nions from the local ministry and hydrology consultant before giving final approval to the scheme last resort says MP Canadas oil imports come from 1ranhe says in early February the govern ment arranged additional crude oil exports to the US in return for oil imports from the US to eastern Canadian refineries Iranian oil can be replaced with oil from Mexico and in creased production within Canada he says If deal could not be completed with Mexico or another supplier there could be rationing next year Milne says Milne says that during the past few year he has urged the government to take measures to make Canada as self suffi ctent in energy as possible am glad have been fairly suc cessful he says Patrollers win awards Two fourteenyearold Kathy mitts BB Stayner Stayner area safety patrollers also received an award March were commended by OFF 1978 on Mosley Street recently for preventing ac Wasaga Beach while waiting cidents Gail Leakey Bit Stayner stopped sevenyearold girl from crossing into the path of an ambulance and kept control of five other students enabling the ambulance on emergency run to pass it for wo boys the bus driver turn ed off his signals to allow several cars to pass Police said sevenyearold bov tried to run across the street in front of the cars but Kathy grabbed hint and prevented wagedy