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New sestgts It TERRY lll2ll if The Examiner The sad fact of the mat ter says the newly elected chairman of the Simcoe County Board of Education is that the system rtins on the money avilable and now that times are tough it will be tough for the board Theres gotng to be at zv least three year period of problems says Moonstone representative ltoy Ed wards trustee for 30 years to with the county board Edwards was elected chairman Dec lie sue ceeded tiro trustee Lloyd Fletcher While school boards have been promised they will receive no less grant money for ititititil than they did this year there is concern in the offices ot the llllt£t tion entre With iiillatioii charging along at between eight and to per cent annually Iero increase If operating grants would result in let him ii the llltllll ltll is iwlfu Iii iiziiiiiiiiHi xiii force reduction in the per eaptta graiit ltttthtl by the board And everybody is painfully aware Edwards says that losing one slit lent and the grant that goes with him does not mean the board is automatically able to reduce its total cost for the year by that amount Government acting just like Scrooge time it Rle EDWARDS tough times My hope is that we can maintain the level oi service and maybe improve it Ed wards says But the cm phasis is clearly on the maintenance ot the existing standard of education equipment buildings teaching stall and so on substantial increase in property taxes could be one result ot the economic woes llut lni gil tinI giltiv lrliiir llttli asked to pa laigei share ot the total with grants troin the province steadily decreasing liven in the face of budget cuts llduards believes the board can answer the call of any communin in the couii ty that has education needs want to see the board continue upgrading facilities tim at the smaller schools he says In the recent past the board has at its own ex pense built allpurpose rooms in several villages and rural school buildings including Shanty Bay in the Barrie area Edwards says the small schools have been to degree the forgotten men of No money problems board tin Budget value shrinks the system and he adds the board should undertake at least one project per year until the remaining five schools have been ac commodated Beyond the ledger Ed wards says things will stay the same in the system He does not forsee any change in the boards structure on the horizon except for seen for separat Funding problems could plague the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board but its chair man is not predicting any at this time We may have some trou ble says Gabriel Mar chand who is the trustee for Tiny Township All boards are facing financial pro hienis Marchand has served with the board since its first year 1969 He was elected chairman in December 1978 and reelected during the in augural meeting of the board Wednesday Theres no question the ministry is cutting back on grants and costs are going up every year However Marchand adds projections show enrolment in the countys separate system will increase through the 19805 which means per student grants to the boarf will increase realignment that could become necessary if the BarrieInnisfil annexation debate is resolved in favor oftheciiv Edwards is lifelong farmer He first became in volved in the education system in 1949 when he was elected trustee for the Moonstone area board Still slight increase in the mill rate will likelyi result for separate schoo supporters as result of the boards 198081 budget he says All in all think our board will be in pretty good shape for the next few years Before becoming chair man Marchand served as vicechairman for two ff years Chairmen and vice chairmen can sit for max imum of two years but e1ec tions are held each fall Beyond finance there are few issues affecting the separate board he says For the most part it will be business as usual Marchand adds on escarpment lands environmentalists TORONTO Scrooge has nothing on the Ontario govern ment when it comes to penny pinching over funding of the Niagara Escarpment group or environmentalists told Queens Park press conference recently TONE Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment sup ports many of the recommen dations made by the Niagara Escarpment Commission in its proposed plan But the group had strong words for the Ontario govern ment ONE Chairman livn Mac know your coung Joan McAuley 201 Rose St Barrie co Your County picture as the pioneer memorial cairn at St James Millan says this government has been outscrooging Scrooge on funding for escarpment lands it is nothing less than hypocrisy to repeatedly assure the public of your commit ment while at the same time chopping the necessary funds from the escarpment pro gram she said She says government ac quisition of property has com pleter dried up and grants provided to conservation authorities have been cut off CONE agrees with much of the new plan its protection rrectly identifiedlas of natural areas from urban development the comprehen sive parkland plan and management policies and its call for renewed funding at $5 million year for five years but the group says policies to control pits and quarries are seriously inadequate Spokesman Ron Reid says the plan makes no recommen dations for relocating existing quarries even where outstan ding ecological areas are directly threatened The commission appears to have swallowed the myths perpetuated by the aggregate our one weeks Know industry and the ministy of natural resources that ex isting licensed areas no mat ter how massive or how damaging cannot be touched Reidsaid Generally Reid says the plan is much simpler than preliminary proposals Because of its simplicity he says the commission has ig nored number of areas which are an integral part of escarpment development in cluding agriculture scenic drives utility corridors heritage protection and the BruceTrail But clearly CONE believes the success or failure of Niagara Escarpment develop ment lies squarely with the provincial government The escarpment has had no shortage of plans in the past what has been lacking is strong consistent support from the province to make those plans work MacMillan said Queens Park stalls TORONTO The Ontario government is using the Niagara Escarpment commis sion as an excuse for stalling land acquisition along the 430 mile Bruce trail says Ray Lowes Lowes is both member of the Escarpment commission and secretary of the Bruce Trail Association Following Queens Park press conference Tuesday Lowes said the government has used the commission as an excuse t1 to putchase land or right of yaiong the trail they will continue withrthis policy and it will be another two years before permanent trail is approved The association is in pro cess of reorganization and soon will be working on its own if need be toward establishing trail through toms appear disease $30 it tO $3303 Santa pays visit via red fire truck buying Bruce Trail the escarpment Lowes says the association willsoon appoint an executive director whose main respon sibility will be to deal with landowners along the trail We will have an executive director to talk with lan downers but no money to spend The ministry of natural resources has promised $20000 to the association to help with reorganization until March 1980 says Lowes The associa tion will receive another $50000 year for three years The money is to be used for internal use not land purchase Last week the Niagara Escarpment Commission recommended that the association work with the On tario government landowners and municipalities to establish the trail simcoe update Distemper outbreak PORT MCNICOLI An outbreak of canine distemper here has veterinarians concerned Canine distemper affects dogs foxes wolves skunks ot ters and raccoons The first symptom is temperature elevation which drops then reappears after two weeks Dtiring the second temperature elevation other symp conjunctivitis sneezing coughing and aversion to some foods The disease poses no tlirets to humans Veterinarians say vaccination is the only answer to the gastro intestinal upsets Hydro rates increasing ELMVALE Elmvale hydro customers will pay more for hydro beginning March 1980 For residential use home that now pays $2675 for 1000 kilowatt hours will pay $30 For general use 1000 kilowatt hours will rise from STAYNER Santa Claus arrived in Stayner Saturday His first stop was on inain street next to Bobs Bakery Following treats for the children free skating and movies were provided compliments of the chamber of commerce Beardgrowing contest the examiner fjugsday Dec 1979 Angela Camp secretary and wife of curator displays model headdress used in the recent shooting of film entitled ights saunds srneLsL Hurons live in Midland By BRIAN BAKER Of The Examiner MIDLAND This is not the only Indian village reconstruc tion in the world says Andy Camp interim curator of Midlands Huron Indian Village but can tell you one thing it is the only place of its kind in the world dedicated to the former occupants of Huronia the Huron Indians At Huron Indian Village you can really experience how the Hurons lived in realistic way that the best books cannot con vey We are getting an increas ing number of school tours and for this reason from the usual 24th of May weekend to Labor Day to continue open though weekdays until December Children love it The village was constructed as service project of Midland Ys Men Club under the direc tion of Dr Wilfrid Jury To ward off evil spirits and intimidate wouldbe enemies group of four falsefaces with weird facial features gay col ors and black hair greet the modern visitor to the village protectively surrounded by palisade of tall cedar posts fif teen or more feet high WINDING PASSAGE The village itself is entered by winding passage so made to impede the entrance of enemies into the main com pound of this prehistoric Indian village reconstruction visit to the new theatre sets the appropriate atmosphere with the viewing of movie showing everyday life of the Hurons filmed right in the village The accent is on winter the Hurons most difficult season The movie shows Huron Women struggling through deep snow burdened down with heavy loads of firewood the frantic dancing at medicineman longhouse living and occupations and even the mild torturing of captive by means of smoldering fire brands waved close in frontal him to determine his bravery brave captives were frequent ly adopted into the tribe In one scene one of the villages own men was caught outside of the village unarmed cardinal sin and he was chas ed back to the village as Squaw Man by his own peo ple firing arrows at him The theatre exits into the villageitself One communal longhouse is partly completed to show how two rows of saplings dug into the ground were bent over and tied together to form an arch Side poles were then secured with vine and hemp ropes at two foot spacing up the sides and over the roof to which heavy sheets of elm bark could be attached like giant pliable rogfingshingleslm Blackbirds destroycorn difficult to control By RICHARD THOMAS COZY LONGIIOLSE The completed longhouse is quite cozy place some forty feet long and eighteen feet wide with four smoldering wood fires down the centre Two families lived and slept on opposite sides of each fire sleeping on furs on the floor in winter and in bunks along the outer walls in sum mer Smoke escaped through footlong slots in the roof Corn cobs tobacco sunflowers and various herbs hang from the rafters and hollowed treestump mortar and wooden post pestle are located beside the leanto for pounding corn acorns and fruits and nuts into coarse Brebeuf and the lndians presented later to Huron lndian Village flour Nearby is natural disti shaped rock and twentyiive pound round stone used also for crushing corn into meal Real fish and real meat cures on wooden racks over slowly smoldering fires ne fire is called the smouldering fire where the Hurons would burn poles through instead of laboriously hacking them through with crude stone knives Covered with sods and hides and located half underground the sweat bath would have been used by the Huron for medicinal and ceremonial pur poses rather than for cleanliness Jesuit and Huron Indians of Huronia Of The Examiner Large flocks of redwing blackbirds which have become destructive pests to farmers by feeding on corn crops in North Simcoe County have proven very difficult to con trol zoologist from the University of Guelph told gr0up of farmers in Elmvale Friday Dr Jim Sommers who attended the annual meeting of provincial government field teams from the universitys zoology and biology departments tried several chemicals to repel the birds as well as Itecollect missionaries to Huronia in the early 16005 said they could locate the villages by the putrid smell of fish and meat from miles awav Children visiting Huron Village love to try their hand at rolling stone bowling balls down the Huron bowling alley Broken bones often resulted when Hurons played this game and lacrosse game they originated In intertribal games it was even considered an honor to be injured or even die for ones team Hurons were very superstitious people remarks Mr Camp Onemol lndian lalselaces displayed at entrance to Huron Indian Village Little Lake Park Midland which recreate the way of life pursued by the an anesthetic compound to kill them but none proved to be total solution he said Dr Sommers told The Examiner farmers can continue to use chemicals as part of whatever control program they have but there is not total solution to the blackbird pro blem Cemetery Stroud Mrs McAuley will receive two free steaks from and Discount Store in Barrie Angus or Alliston ll you can identify this weeks photo send your answer along with your name address and phone number to Know Your County Contest The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Winners are notified by mail IV 77 OWEN SOUND They are looking for the thickest most colorful greyest curliest longest beard that is for the Owen Sound beard growing contest The contest is held in conjunction with the Owen Sound Winter Carnival Winners will be chosen Jan 23 For fur ther information contact the Owen Sound Recreation Department the North Simcoe Soil and Crop Association to bring members up to date on blackbird research project in the Coldwater and Wye Marsh areas indicated during his presentation that chemical control methods to reduce the number of birds had enjoyed limited success During the threeyear project which wasfunded bv the The birds are not like weeds or other pests such as in sects which can be eradicated he said Dr Summers estimated there are about 100000 roosting area during blackbirds using the Wye Marsh as the summer