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Barrie Examiner, 16 Aug 1979, p. 9

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By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Growth in the southun part of Simcoe County and good management means the public school will not ex perience the major enrolment problems occuring throughout Sean Quick gives runnerup Claire Watson who was Wednesday on Farmingdale Crescent Give us kiss Carrie Teeter hand as she congratulates declared Muscular DystrOphy Carnival Queen he beauty contest was one of the carnival activities organized by Mark Diamond and Sean Quick to raise money to fight Muscular Dystrophy Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu Ministry to consider Wintario word change BARCLAY The ministry of culture and recreation will con sider wording change sug gested by lnnisfil Township Council when designing new Wintario contribution plaque says Reuben Baetz minister In letter presented to Coun cils committee of the whole Wednesday Baetz said Coun cils concerns about the wor ding of the plaques would be noted but the plaques were in tended to be displayed alongside local tributes Council wrote the ministry because members thought the plaques designed to acknowledge use of Wintario funds in the construction of community project should also mention major local con tributors Wintario plaques are distributed for display in facility which received Win tario money This allows the community to view the use of Wintario funds and help to ensure that any facility identified as Win tario project remains accessi ble to the general public said Baetz It was our intent that the Though aproblem The rooms at Shanty munitys elementary school week boards stand The vote this month the units ministry town country School rooms on time Bay New Lowell and Medonte South are being built for some $700000 The community of Shanty Bay is paing approximately 40 per cent of the 3300000 total for the larger room being built beside the com The work is being done by Genan Construction Limited Wreckorama Saturday car smashing event to be held for muscular dystrophy will be held Saturday in Barrie at the Texaco station RR The event will run between 1030 am and 530 pm Two old cars will be on exhibit and for 50 cents hit persons will be able to take smash at the vehicles The wreckorama will be one day affair only Opposes French high school Opposition to French language high school in Penetanguishene was voiced by Port McNicholl council last Council voted to endorse Tay Townships resolution in sup port of the Simcoe County Board of Educations decision to veto construction of school because of cost factors Tay council circulated petition last month endorsing the petition was circulated to all municipalities in the county Port McNicholl voted unanimously to support Tay and Midland and Victoria Harbour councils are expected to Seniors want apartments BARCLAY The ministry of housing has received 150 ap plications from senior citizens wanting to live in the new senior citizens apartments under construction in Stroud lnnisfil Councils committee of the whole was told Wednesday the ministry will review the applications when the building is near completion this fall Richard Groh lnnisfil clerkadministrator said the ministry will begin visiting the applicants at that time and will use rating system to determine who will move into pokesman said there should be no problem in filling the units reported Groh Aisv Wintario plaque would be ac companied by some form of dedication provided by the community giving recognition to the substantial contribution made by its members Committee recommended In nisfils recreation director sug gest wording for dedication pla ques in the townships three community centres that were partly funded by Wintario Still no decision on policeinquiry The attomeygenerals office has still not reached decision concerning possible in vestigation into the Barrie Police Commission David Allen with the ministrys office said today there is nothing new on the mat ter He told The Examiner late last week information had been compiled and left in the attomeygenerals office However Roy McMurtry out of the office until late Wednes day and Allen said he hadnt yet been able to speak with him He said he didnt know if he would be able to confer with him today Six Barrie aldermen say there may be conflict of in terest surrounding commission chairman Eldon Greer and an alarm company owned by his son The company Georgian Pro tection Services Ltd operates about 100 alarms out of the Bar rie police station The aldermen also want an investigation into an alleged monopoly by that company The aldermen are Gord Mills Dorian parker Alex Arthur Fred Ruemper Meg Donal and Bill Knowles today By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner Rerouting Willow Creek into its old channel is expected to begin in two weeks Work to improve drainage disruption caused by the meandering creek is awaiting approval by the ministry of natural resources spokesman for the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation area said Wednesday That approval is expected in week or so said White When the work begins it should take two to three weeks to re channel the creek along the path it followed 30 years ago SHARES COST Initial construction will cost about $34000 Vespra Township will pay 37 per cent of the cost The ministry of natural By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner At least one bee keeper af fected by the recent Sevin pesticide spraying of army worms has asked George Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre for help Andy Whyte Barrie keeper who says his bees are dropping dead by the thousands told The Examiner today he had ap proached George Taylor on the matter last week Whyte one of the bee keepers asking the province for com pensation said Taylor had no promises He hasnt promised anything but he said hell see what he can do said Whyte Taylor was unavailable for comment today Whyte who has also con tacted the agriculture office in Elmvale said he has lost considerable amount of money in the aftermath of the spraying Its situation worse than hes ever seen said Whyte who $210000 revitalization OWEN SOUND The main street revitalization project in construction began late the contractor putting up three general purpose rooms adjacent to schools in Simcoe County has assured the school board that all will be com pleted on schedule says the boards director Some individuals trustees are concerned about the tim ing Jack Ramsay said today But the contractor is assur ing our plant people that he is right on target so we dont see Owen Sound will soon be under way after city council authoriz ed the borrowing of $150000 from the ministry of housing last week The project is aimed at mak gt ing cosmetic improvements to Barrie PUC billing lnnisfil for work BARCLAY Barries public utilities commission has sent bill for $11787 to lnnisfils PUC for work done six years ago on water lines along Huronia Road lnnisfils Councils commit tee of the whole presented with the bill Wednesday referred it to the townships commission and asked lnnisfils treasurer to submit report on it The debt to Barries commis sion arises from 1973 when lnnisfils Koiak to get red light BARCLAY If lnnisfil residents think they spot TVs detective Kojak speeding down the road they should take closer look its probably ln nisfils fire chief on his way to fire lnnisfil Councils committee of the whole recommended Wednesday Council approve the chief portable flashing red light whic he places on his cars roof to identify his car as an emergency vehicle The magnetic light powered from the cars cigarette lighter project for Owen Sound the downtown core and will cost total of $210000 Phase one involving improvements to parking facilities and walkway accesses tree planting and construction of islands with benches plantings waste con tainers and display boards will cost $110000 water lines were installed along the street in the north end of In nisfil Deputy reeve Grant Andrade said lnnisfil was not satisfied with the size of the pipes pro posed for the job Barries PUC was asked to install large lines and three fire hydrants Township officials will ex amine the costs to determine how much is owed by the township and how much should be paid directly by the PUC is the personal property of Chief Doug Rose committee wastold Several committee members compared the light to the one used by the television police detective but they agreed it would be useful in travelling to afire The chief has to get there said Coun ans special bylaw must be pass ed to rmit the chief to use the porta le roof light committee was told SN Ontario says the boards direc tor This is not crisis situation at all Jack Ramsay told The Examiner today It was all quite predictable Since 1972 when the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa resources will pay the balance Secondary work such as fen cing and seeding along the creek will be done at later date but no cost figures are available for that work Drainage problems in the area about four km south of Minesing started with Hur ricane Hazel in 1954 Durin that storm water nished own the swollen creek eroding banks and washing soil dOWnstream Silt deposited in the area filled in the old creek channel and caused the stream to alter its path Each spring since then meltwater turns the area into swamp and water from the creek pours into the nearby Swaley municipal drain renderinithat drain useless for draining orderingfarms Lost thousands of bees owner seeks MPs help has been in the bee keeping end of things for 12 years Each year keepers do expect some damage from raying he said Whyte said at so far he and others dont seem to be get ting too far in their requests for assistance In an earlier Examiner story another beekeeper in the coun ty Edward Woods estimated he would lose about $25000 this year as result of the spray ing The Hillsdale keeper said dead bees were stacking up out side many of his $1300 bee hives The pesticide kills mainly the field workers those bees who gather pollen to make the honey Woods said earlier School decrease mana eable Enro ment problem tion OISE first issued future enrolment figures school boards have known the crisis was at hand Ramsay said LOSES SIX PER CENT While many school boards are predicting decreases in enrolment of 12 per cent such As result farmers say por tions of their fields are unusable throughout the year The authority will dig five km channel 20 to 30 metres wide with gradually sloping banks designed to prevent ero sion Later stages of the project call for seeding along the banks to help stablilize the soil and for fencing to keep livestock from trampling the earth into the water That work was estimated to cost an additional $22000 by DisherFarrand Ltd the com pany hired to reconstruct Willow Creek Authority members thought the work could be done more cheaply and decided to have fencing and seeding done under separate contract GEORGE TAYLOR asked to help Friendly discussion ended up in tussle friendly discussion on politics and law that turned into fight between two men resulted in an assault convic tion and $50 fine for Barrie man Guy Cole 19 was convicted of assaulting Scott Macwha in provincial court Wednesday arising out an incident that oc cured May 12 at Macwhas residence on Toronto Street in Barrie Macwha testified he and Cole Colin Russell from Cundles Heights School in Barrie sneers only long enough before wet sponge hits him during the Carnival revelries at Farmingdale Crescent were talking about political issues and what they con sidered stupid laws when they disagreed and began to fight Cole said he asked Mac wha to leave and when he did not comply the fighting con tinued Cole told court he did not wish to press charges although he did immediately after the inci dent The crown attomey said it was up to the court to deter mine if an assault had taken place as Peterborough and higher the Simcoe County Board of Education will lose some 2500 of 44000 or six per cent Yet by 1984 slight increases in elementary school in enrol ment will force the secondary enrolment the trouble spot Ramsay says to rise again In the predictable future OISE figures go to 1990 we dont see problem and no one can say beyond that Ramsay said BARCLAY lnnisfil Township Council wants to ban roadside signs on township road allowances Councils committee of the whole on Wednesday re quested lnnisfils bylaw of ficer draft an amendment to add special sign section to the townships existing bylaw Deputy Reeve Grant An drade said Council was con cerned with the increasing number of signs along township roadways Many of these signs are placed at in Roadside sign hazard to motorists We believe that we have built into the system safeguards that will allow us to get through the next few years he said INCLUDES CLAUSE One of those is clause in the contract of secondary school teachers which allows flexibili ty in dealing with any teacher declared surplus to the system Reductions in teaching staff will likely be the result of nor tersections and block tne vi sion of motorists BECOMING HAZARD Theyre becoming hazard the deputy reeve told The Examiner Some new businesses are putting up large plywood signs four feet by four feet in size And there are number of signs going up at intersec tions One of our greatest con cerns is real estate signs Theyre very garish theyre designed to attract your attention They put The lineup Bill Yetman of Barrie heads lineup of motorcycles waiting driving test out side ministry ol transportation and communications office at Duckworth and Grove Yetman said he was finally getting around to getting motorcycle licence after 26 years Examiner photo by Pat Conroy scaHed averted here mal attrition allowed by the clause Ramsay said In some parts of the province jobsharing has been suggested as an alternative to teacher layoffs Jobsharing involves having teachers work half days or one semester yearly OSIEs figures confirmed the trends we have been predic ting Ramsay said Its good situation as compared with other centres in the pro vince them up all over the place and they never take them down RECOMMENDS Committee recommended Roy Bridge bylaw officer draw up special section specifically banning road side signs on township road allowances We dont want any signs within the township road rightofways said Deputy Reeve Andrade Anyone who wants to put signs there will have to ask permission SN +gt No annexation appeal likely until autumn BARCLAY lnnisfil Townships annexation appeal before the Supreme Court of Canada will probably be heard this fall says lnnisfils annexa tion lawyer Richard Groh lnnisfil clerk administration told Councils committee of the whole Wednesday he spoke to lawyer John Sopinka last week lnnisfil is appealing an On tario Supreme Court decision granting Barrie annexation of 15000 acres of the township to reopen the annexation hearing before the Ontario Municipal Board That board decided in 1977 to allow Barrie to annex 15000 acres of land from lnnisfil and Vespra Townships lnnisfil appealed the OMB decision and the ruling was overthrown by the Ontario Division Court of Appeal Barrie in turn tried to have that decision thrown out but the appeal court decided to reopen the original hearing to permit lnnisfil to argue against Bar ries projected population figures Groh told The Examinerlhe has no idea when Supreme Court date will be announced SN lnnisfil taking legal action against resident lnnisfil Township has taken legal steps to prevent resident on lnnisfil Concession from further building onto her house in contravention of the zoning bylaw Roy Bridge township bylaw enforcement officer said the municipality had come to an agreement with the residents lawyer which was the equivalent of an injunction Council recently agreed unanimously with recommen dation from the committee of adjustment to apply to the Supreme Court of Ontario for an injunction to prohibit Norma Katzman owner of the house from further building Mrs Katzman had been serv ed with stop work orders on several occasions but disregarded them She planned to add three bedrooms kit chen living room and washroom to the existing home The additions would con stitute two residences on single residence lot said Bridge and contravene the townships zoning bylaw and theBuildingCode Act Any further building now by Mrs Katzman will be contempt of court Bridge said Wednesday The Carnival organized by student Mark Dia mond and Sean Quick helped to raise about $25 for the fight against muscular Dystrophy Examiner photos by Peter Hsu

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