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For recreation culture Master plan proposed to map citys future By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner culture and recreation master plan for Barrie is now almost assured Barrie general committee has recommended the city app ly to the ministry of culture and recreation for funding the pro posed 370000 study The recommendation came after presentation by Bill Paulin chairman of the recrea tion planning committee master plan is necessary to assist in creative growth for the city Paulin told the committee The plan is needed to help guide the future provision of recrea tional opportunities in the area he said The plan would help set overall community recreation goals and provide for future development of programs bas ed on projected needs he said It would help provide con Ministr funds stud tinuity in planning he said To date there has been little con tinuity or interaction between various planning groups look ing for major recreation facilities in the city he said ENSURE PARTICIPATION The plan would act as vehi cle to ensure community par ticipation and involvement and create public awareness of existing culture and recreation opportunities he said The study would emphasize provision of programs and ac tivities then space for them to occur Paulin said brief submitted from the committee says the plan would encompass between five to 10 years The study period would be from July to Jan 31 of next year says the brief The final report will be compiled with an interim report expected in November 1980 Literacy tests planned By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Ontarios ministry of educa tion will help fund study seek ing ways to test the basic academic skills of Grade 13 students entering university The ministry hopes stan dardized system of testing skills wiil help universities determine what basic skills student lacks ministry spokesman told The Examiner While the study is barely underway and the specifics of testing have yet to be deter mined the ministry and the Council of Ontario Universities say the tests would not be used by the universities when reviewing applicants The tests would be diagnostic in nature and help the university determine whether the student needs remedial work in English or mathematics said Grant Clark deputy to the executive director of the COU Its the ministrys present position is that it is prepared to support some developmental work to provide diagnostic tests that will show which students need help and where There is no great support for using these tests for admission purposes Clark said When provincewide ex aminations for Grade 13 students were abolished in the midsixties there was no way of ensuring standards among students entering the university system Clark said This concerned the univer sities and many of them have initiated their own post admission tests of the language skills of new students Clark said no time limit for the study is set Simcoes director of educa tion Jack Ramsay told The Ex aminer he favored some form of testing and acknowledged the difficulty universities have assessing new students Jim Edwards principal at North Collegiate also favored the introduction of the tests pro viding they were diagnostic in nature Mac Hyde principal at In nisdale Secondary School said he favored the use of tests to determine the weaknesses of prospective university students There is an outcry concerning over the declining literacy of high school school students Police inquiry stalled after letter delayed Seven Barrie aldermen are no further ahead in their at tempts to get an inquiry into the Barrie police commission Two weeks ago Ald Gord Mills brought letter seeking the inquiry to the ministry of intergovernmental affairs in Toronto At the time Larry Kent night Flagstone Investments efforts during the convention that area continuing at Ontario Place June organizers Squad getting 50 per cent town country Mills want city opened Ald Gord Mills has asked city council to give Canadian Forces Base Borden the freedom of the city Aug 29 The matter came up at city council meeting Monday The Canadian Forces Base Borden personnel would be given their freedom at special ceremony at city hall Cole says go to OMB Ald Del Cole has recommended the city forward objec tions to proposed minimall development to the Ontario Municipal Bord OMB for hearing Ald Cole told city council Monday that so far two objec tions have been received for the proposed mall setup by Team may be honored The Clifton Hotel Hustlers Ontario Association senior volleyball champions are likely to be recognized by city council for their achievement Ald Dorian Parker suggested to Barrie city council Mon day the group of Hustlers be awarded with trophies for their URW elects executive The United Rubber Workers Union URW wants doctors who have opted out of OHlP legislated back into the health care system by the provincial government Delegates to the recent URW convention in Toronto pass ed motion asking the government to step in immediately and negotiate with the doctors for fee schedule that is fair and in the best interests of the citizens of Ontario Dian Hayden treasurer of URW Local 722 at Plastomer Ltd in Barrie was elected treasurer of the 12man District Six executive board replacing Norma Hass of Kitchener Also elected to the board from Barrie was Jim Sturgess local 536 at General Tire Ron Lawrence local 232 of Good Year in Toronto was elected president Trial run approved City council ratified decision that will likely start trial bus service at Bayview Drive Big Bay Point Road and the Welham Industrial Park area Barrie council decided Monday Manufacturers Association Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce and Barrie and District Association for the Men tally Retarded that it is desirous to start trial service in The public works committee intends to meet with the youps to work out details and starting dates for the project After the first month of operation council will review the status of the service to determine whether or not it is worth Choir singing in Toronto Codrington Street Public Schools Junior choir is singing The students are taking part in public school choirs day and the cost of transporting the singers is being borne by the Walkathon date changed walkathon sponsored by Allandale Heights Public School that was scheduled for Saturday has been re scheduled for this Saturday June Themoney earned by the walkers will be divided with the school keeping 50 per cent and the Simcoe County Rescue ministry representative refer red the matter to the solicitor general who would then for ward the matter to the Ontario Police Commission But the letter has sat in the ministry office since that time Kent told The Examiner today It was finally mailed Monday to the commission said Kent to advise the Barrie Its what usually happens in this office said Kent The minister has thousands of let ters to sign each day Gordon Hampson executive assistant to the solicitor general was likely to have received the letter today said Kent But Hampson was not ex pected to get to his mail until this afternoon spokesman at the office said today The letter sent by the aldermen asked for in inquiry into closed local police commis sion meetings and the possibility of monopoly of local alarm company Farmers warned Simcoe County farmers should be on the lookout for alfalfa weevil The weevil which can lessen the value of crop from 20 to 50 per cent will hatch in the next two to three weeks says the Ontario ministry of agriculture and food If you see weevils in your field cut the field early says Chuck Kingsbury soils and crops branch of the South Sim coe Agricultural Office They dont thrive on cut plants Kingsbury says if the field is cut early second crop can be sown The weevil blackbrown beetle less than onequarter of an inch in length lays its eggs on the stem of the alfalfa plant Eventually the weevil pro gresses from the stem to the top of the plant devouring the top prime part of the plant Women attacked here Two elderly Barrie women were knocked to the ground Monday night by two youths who attempted to snatch their purses The women were walking on Toronto Street at about 1030 pm when the incident oc curred said Chief Earl Snider The wouldberobbers were unsuccessful in their attempts but one woman was taken to the hospital suffering cuts to the nose and hands scrapes to the knee and severely bruised shoulder and arm The women said the youths two boys with long hair looked to be about 14 to 16 years of age Women walking late at night should walk in well lighted areas and should not carry any great sums of money cautions Chief Snider The incident is investigation under Ramsay said the students skills have not dimished as much as the growth of the system as created more students who are average or below in language skills Hyde agrees and suggests that top students today speak and write more effective ly than top students of years past There should also be some public participation in the plan says the committee There should be public survey as well as public meeting on the scheme the brief says Although Ald Jim Shirley said study was badly need ed he questioned the $70000 cost cant see it should cost that much he said Paulin said the $70000 figure was an upper limit estimate only He said that by tendering he hoped the cost would be lower OTHER STUDIES He said similar studies had been conducted in Kitchener limmins Peterborough and Orillia at costs of $125000 $76000 $43000 and $30000 Ald Del Cole and Ald Gord Mills spoke in favor of the con cept see nothing wrong with thinking positive said Ald Mills Without the study were out in the boondocks Ald Cole said the study would give the city track in the future Ald Bill Knowles said the ci ty was getting pushed for decision on the same night and that the matter should be brought back to the committee next week Ald Dorian Parker said she didnt think taxpayers would accept proposed civic centre with money being proposed for other projects The recreational steering committee recently completed study on centre and recom mended downtown for it Going up up up Barrie North Collegiate grade physics student John Adams watches gleefully at his successful rocket launch His triplestaged rocket can reach 3600 ft before floating to earth on parachute Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu ln Simcoe South vote Little difference in totals between official unofficial Its official now But theres little difference following the recount in the Simcoe South returning office Monday on Bayfield Street In fact difference of just 38 votes has been recorded from the unofficial total announced Tuesday by Allan Froom chief returning officer Ron Stewart victorious Pro gressive Conservative can didate increased his vote total t025483 Ray Ramsay who lagged far behind in second place added one to bring the total to 12687 Gaye Lamb NDP candidate lost 10 votes in the deal to lessen her total to 8607 The situation wasnt really all that bad Froom said Five persons either phoned in the wrong results or got the ballots turned around in some other way he said Donating blood Holly anxiously waits while her mother Bren da Fitzsimmons gives blood at the Red Cross clinic at 24 Collier St in Barrie Monday Assisting is With Collingwood Police settle contract By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner COLLINGWOOD Town council has signed two year The results were to be sent this morning to the main retur ning office in Ottawa The ballots will be kept for six days in case recount is re quested Froom said Froom said because of the wide spread of votes between candidates he can see no reason for recount The recounting job took about 14 hours to complete contract with Collingwoods 16 police officers four police sta tion employees and 11 firefighters First class constables will receive $20000 year in the first year and $20650 in the se cond year Their salary is cur rently $18219 Life insurance benefits will be raised to $30000 from $20000 and the uniform clean ing allowance will be raised $50 annually to $200 The contract is retroactive to Jan 1979 and the examiner Tuoschy May 29 1979 av nurse Sonia Smyrdell Because of the acute shor tage of blood in Toronto major surgery is being cancelled the Red Cross said Today is the last day for the Red Cross clinic Examiner Photo ends Dec 31 1980 Clerk stenographers and sta tion operator typists at the police station signed oneyear agreement The clerks will earn $10010 annually or $550 an hour after three years ser vice while the typists will earn $7826 annually or $430 an hour after the same period Clerks now earn $487 an hour typists $407 Their vacation schedule has been brought into line with other municipal employees They are now entitled to four weeks vacation after 12 years service instead of the current 15 year regulation Tim Sandell chairman of councils police committee says the contract is fair and reasonable settlement in light of the good performance of the police and considering all economic factors Members of the Collingwood Police Associations bargaining committee were unavailable for comment this morning Director tells parents to be wary of expansion Faced with decline in enrol ment the Simcoe County Board of Education must be wary of expanding any of its programs or adding new ones says its director We feel we have to con solidate programs at this par ticular stage Jack Ramsay told The Examiner There will be 2400 less students in the countys school system within four years says Ramsay Ramsay told group of parents whose children attend lnnisdale Secondary School last week that an instrumental music program could not be in troduced at that school because of the expected decline in the student population We are protecting the in strumental music at Central and North and vocal at Eastview and lnnisdale Ram say said To create an instrumental program at lnnisdale and vocal at Central for example Clinic continues after good start The Barrie branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society collected 336 pints of blood Monday during the first day of clinic that continues today at Trinity Parish Hall Collier Street People turned out Ethel Turnbull of the Barrie branch told The Examiner If the same amount comes out today we should be all right Were hoping to get upwards of 600pints she said The first of todays two ses sions began at pm and went until pm Doors of the Parish Hall at 24 Collier St will open again at pm for the second session that will run through to 830 pm Anyone in good health bet ween the ages of 18 and 65 may donate blood Seventeenyear olds with permission of parent may also donate Turnbull also asks recent suf ferers of chicken pox and shingles to give blood pro Teachers principals negotiate The Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board and the 300 teachers and prin cipals who staff its 26 schools are in the process of negotiating new collective agreement To this point the two sides have met some six times with the latest session coming Mon day The teachers current two year pace expires August 31 and Jerry Goodiell head of the Simcoe wing of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Federation said settlement would not likely be reached before school starts again in the fall Salaries for the teachers range from $13000 to $26000 depending on the individuals experience and educational qualifications Goodiell said The majority of Simcoes separate school teachers are lumped in the middle of the scale he added viding they have been free of tfie disease for at least six mon She also says anyone who has had polio vaccination in the last week cannot give blood Parthound Snoopy the adptables is oneyearold spayed female She is black and tan in colour Snoopy is housebroken and will have her distemper needle before leaving shelter at 9i Patterson Rd She loves home with children would be duplication the board could not afford it enrolment drops drastically he said Its an overall problem of expanding courses in time of shrinking enrolment and over the next few years it will affect many courses Ramsay said today ADDED CONCERN Our concern is that we could tigerextend ourselves he add There are about 43000 elementary and secondary school students in Simcoe Coun ty While other school boards have been hard hit by declining enrolment Simcoes has had few problems to this point rapid decline in student toals in the north end of Simcoe has been largely offset by growth in the countys south end There will be some drop in enrolment in the Barrie area over the next few years Ram say said