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Barrie Examiner, 12 Jul 1979, p. 13

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Teaching drawing Muriel Peterman listens as Bea Hogan an art teacher points out the finer aspects of drawing Hogan led an art class at the Simcoe County Museum where senior citizens from Parkview AOn Lake Simcongollution Cabinet studying By STEPHEN NICHOLLS The Examiner report on nutrient pollution in Lake Simcoe should be in the hands of the Ontario cabinet in about two weeks ministry of natural resources official said Tuesday Bill Foster deputyminister for southern Ontario said ministry officials are reviewing the Lake SimcoeCouchiching strategy report submitted earlier this year They will make suggestions on that report before delivering it to the cabinet committee on resource development next week The cabinet will decide what typ of continuing program needed to look after Lake Sini coe The report prepared by committee of municipal politi cians and representatives from South Lake Simcoe Conserva tion Authority and the ministries of the environment and of natural resources The committee submitted the report to the government this spring It deals with the state of water quality and how nutrient pollution solved problems Cabinet will also decide whether there will be special Home of Barrie had chance to draw Hogan herself late starter in the fine arts said that its never too late to learn Examiner Photo watchdog committee oversee environmental work on Lake Simcoe as several strategy committee members have suggested Ministry of ficials have said the lake is effi ciently managed by existing government agencies South Lake Conservation Authority members believe that body should be in charge of the lakes management because that role is part of their official mandate Two charged windshield smashed City police charged two Barrie area men with mischief early today after someone reported seeing two persons smashing the windshield of car parked on Melrose Avenue about235am Charged are Edwin William Hardy 13 of RR Oro Sta tion and John Emmett Kelso 19 of 26 Weldon St lnnisfil passes bylaw governing subdivision BARCLAY The bylaw allowing proper zoning for the controversial estate residential development in Innisfil Township was passed Wediies day Before construction can begin however the bylaw must be circulated approved by the Ontario Municipal Board and the developers TriJ Develop ment Ltd tnust enter into subdivision agreement with the township said Bob Lemon planning coordinator Only minor amendments were made to the bylaw CORCOI ning the development said Lemon The major amendment states no accessory buildings or struc tures can be constructed in front of any principal struc tures in the subdivision It is expected bylaws for future Innisfil subdivisions will also include that amendment In the past council had com plaints about buildings blocklt ing shade or sunlight on neighboring properties Coun Kathe Jans vice chair man of planning and develop ment committee said she favored the amendment Plans for the subdivision were conceived about six years ago Last yer the subdivision received approval from the minister of housing following five yars of controversy Barrie officials said the land on Big Bay Point just outside the limits of the proposed an nexation boundary is valuable agricultural land Innisfil however disagrees The subdivision will have 60 homes Most will be built on two acre lots and will cost at least $100000 TriJ proposes phasing the lots over three year period with this spring as possible construction start date Hy TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner The special education program operated in the Simcoe County Roman Catholic st lutlflit School Board is based on the belief li itiltllls who need help benefit as much mm con HIll their peers as they do it out mm will Ill training it liltllilttl to provide the additional ltcit llil lllililiilllll1 them in normal pinginitt sis litll littlgct tllt boards iltlttlttl liolgci said the board keeps all children iii regular classrooms while offering special help to those need it er program that oould tlsotillou tor children with more serious problctiis to he segregated vitliiti llicscltool With one cachcr for 300 students county wide the boards program is much smaller than that operated by the Simcoe ounty Board oi Education but equal iii terms of service liolger said The special education teachers act as tutors in one to one situations with students in need of remedial work to catch up with the others Bolger said The ma also work with children who have more profound earning problems that stem from an inability to perceive what is being taught WORK WITH SIllHCNlS Special education teachers also work with particular students within the classroom or act as 11 resource to the regular teacher he said Its all education Bolger says of the special program and the regular classroom activities There are just some youngsters who need special assistance Much of the problems children have result from basic inability to cont niutiicatc effectively Bolger said As result we have pound for pound more speech improvement classes than is normal but it is an area we think impor tant Children with generally accommodated in system and Bolger said the separate board relies as does the public board on various community agencies for help in dealing with problems beyond education The size of the board also presents pro blem when attempting to bring several severe problems are Special education based on contact says Bolger the public students with similar problem together in one place Often there are only few kids who ex hibit any one difficulty Bolger said You may just have one youngster who requires very specialized kind of service but it is very difficult to deliver for one Some 10 per cent of the boards $11 million budget is spent on special education he said Ministry grants cut At the same time the province has been cutting back on grants to school boards it is claiming more money will be spent during the next few years on improving special education programs Bob Newman the Simcoe County Board of Educations superintendent of student sercies says the province will have to find another source of revenue to pay for the ex pected expansion Money for special education should not come at the expense of regular board of education programs he said If the trend to cut costs continues we may not decrease service but the local tax payers are going to have to pay for it says Bill Bolger director of the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board The ministry is going to eventually get the message Bolger said The ministry of educations special education branch is currently studying the question of funding but boards have been told they will receive grants up to 90 per cent of the total special education expen diture in the case of the Simcoe County board Yet since 1977 the province has trimmed grants to the board by some three per cent or approximately $24 million The separate school board has suffered similar loses that were in proportion to its $11 million budget Special education spen ding has increased substantially since 1974 and changes in the Education Act goveniing such programs are in the offing report If no legislation is required cabinet may announce deci sion to determine which pro blems will take priority can be made by cabinet said Foster If cabinet wants to act without making regulation under an existing act deci sion will be left until fall when the Ontario Legislature re opens he said th axamlner Weldvva 121010 13 Vandals worry OPP village as incidents increaSing here By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Ontario Provincial Police and municipal officials in the villages of Port McNicoll Vic toria Harbour and Coldwater are becoming increasingly con cerned about the growing pro blem of vandalism in these communities And while elected represen tatives from these municipalities in Tay Township have established committee to try and pinpoint the reasons police say lack of manpower is their handicap in dealing effec tively with the problem Since 1964 the number of oc currences handled by the OPPs 41member detachment in Midland has quadrupled says Corporal Bill Bailey while the forces size has remained static since 1972 Cpl Bailey says the detach ment is responsible for cover ing an area of about 780 square kilometres including almost 1800 kilometres of roads and in the summer the population grows from 30000 to about 100000H In addition the detachment has five men tied up in boat patrols alont the resort areas lakeshore and have to lend some others to Wasaga Beach The majority of incidents says Cpl Bailey occur in Port McNicoll and Victoria Harbour KEPT BUSY Officers with the OPP wers kept busy Wednesday in Port McNicoll for example with suspected case of arson in va cant house two break and enters and the uprooting of four new stop signs at major in tersection Such examples of senseless destruction are by no means rare says Cpl Bailey few weeks ago gangs of teenagers celebrating their high school graduation just about destroyed an area of beach between Roundtree and Balm Beaches in Tiny Township he says They tore down fences drove through cot tage properties and dumped garbage into three weels The mess they left for others to clean up included more than 1200 empty bottles and large quantities of broken glass he adds We no sooner step on one case than another one pops up Police would like to institute program whereby they could become more visible on the streets and patrolling the beat outside of their cruisers he says But we simply dont have the manpower Cpl Bailey says the number of juvenile offenders is high These kids dont seem to know what to do with themselves and they cant create their own entertainment he says It seems to be sign of the times PROBLEM ATTRIBUTED Douglas Jackson Reeve of Victoria Harbour attributes the problem not only to kids having too much free time on their hands but also to the breakdown of the family Parents dont seem to care anymore where their kids are he says Reeve Jackson says there will always be fringe group in society that will do what they can to disrupt it But here we are talking about the bulk of the kids Any night in Victoria Har bour teenagers can be seen milling around the main in tersections he says looking for something to do Basically they are good kids but they are bored to tears and have no restraint Reeve Jackson says the com mercial sector of the communi ty is going through some pret ty hard times right now which makes summer jobs scarce and the village cannot afford facilities such as com munity centre The need for additional police protection is recognized by the three villages which have formed committee made up of one member from each municipality together with Tay Township representatives to take this matter up with the provincial government One of the things am hop ing the committee will do is come up with an offer to help pay for this says Reeve Jackson The committee is also at tempting to identify whatever social problems may be caus ing the vandalsim increase he says but whether it can suc cessfully pinpoint solution as well as uncertain There is something wrong with the social fabric and am not even sure we can fix it Relations course draft finished given to board By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Simcoe County Board of Education trustees have been given an outline of the human relations program that says specifically what information should be presented to students The confidential document was mailed last week and is the result Jack Ramsay said board director of the revision Describing hearing aids Amita Small describes the various ways with which the hearing impaired can cope with daily life living Listening is Amber Ray one of the many who stopped at Bayfield Mall Wednesday to have their hearing tested Ex aminer Photo Fatal fire probe results not known for week OPP By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner Results of laboratory tests are expected in about week in the investigation of the deaths of four Creemore boys whose burned bodies were found after fir that destroyed the cedar pole hut where they were camp ing Laboratory test results are expected in week in the in vestigation of the death of four Creemore boys whose burned bodies were found after fire destroyed the shelter where they were camping Police said the Centre of Forensic Pathology is continu ing its tests to determine what caused the deaths of Stephen Price 14 Calvin Hare 12 John Grabriel 12 and Stephen McLeod 11 Band gets grant smallirequest By NANCY FIGUEHOA Of The Examiner BARCLAY The Sons of Scotland will be given $300 by the municipality to be used for Simcoe Day Celebrations voted council Wednesday Although the planning and development committee recommended to council the group reimburse the township Group visits MPP Sweeney John Sweeney LKit chener education critic in the provincial legislature will be visited today by several members of the Simcoe Tax payers Organization Researching Education group opposed to the human relations program being in troduced locally Bill Gowanlock member of STOREs executive said those going to Toronto to protest the Simcoe County Board of Educa tions plan and provincial policy that allows for it are not going with the blessing of the organization An agenda item dealing with the visit was not discussed dur ing the organizations last meeting he said if profit is made Reeve William Gibbins said the recommendation made the township look very small Thats ridiculous he said They The Sons of Scotland are doing lot of work for this and its to our benefit Coun Kathe Jans agreed with him and said $300 was very very small request for the celebrations plannedby the group Grant Andrade deputy reeve said however it was the Sons of Scotland who originally suggested reimbursing the township They made the offer and think we should accept it said Coun Jack Young The program scheduled for the evening of August at In nisfil Park includes Scottish music from 630 to 730 official welcoming of the Simcoe Day procession toast to the Queen and to Canada highland danc ing and pipe music from the ANAF Barrie and District Pipe and Drum Band and din ner for 100 people The dinner free to people dressed in period costumes will include an authentic Scot tish meal of haggis potatoes and ground meat scones and jam and tea Officials are trying to find out if the boys died from asphyxia tion caused by smoke inhala tion or from other causes The laboratory tests will take at least week said police spokesman today Ontario Fire Marshals Office investigators are also continu ing laboratory tests to deter mine what caused the fire process that has been ongoing during the past few months He told trustees Wednesday during regular session of the board that much of the revised material will be available by August and also of plans to have the writing team begin within 10 days making further changes called for by trustees two weeks ago We hope that these changes will meet the re quirements of the board so that fieldtesting may be resumed in September Ramsay said Georgian graduates found work Figures show that 966 per cent of the students who were graduated from Georgian Col lege in 1978 found work in fields related to their course of study In total 475 students or 97 per cent of the class of 1978 are employed according to the col leges placement office Figures for Georgian grads are higher than the provincial average summary by the ministry of education using figures com piled until Nov 15 1978 show that 85 per cent of those graduated from one year pro gram found work Of twoyear program grads 84 percent found work and 90 per cent of those graduated from three year program were employed by November 1978 Of the some 12000 communi ty college students province wide who found work after be ing graduated year ago some 10 per cent are not working in field related to their course of study Between 90 and 95 per cent of those attending Georgian are from the Georgian Bay region Some 80 per cent of the col leges graduates stay in the area after completing their studies Bruce Hill director of recruitment and placement says figures on those who were graduated in the year just end ed are tentative but suggest an improvement over last years student employment totals Skylab the errant US space station that fell to earth Wednesday wouldnt have caught Stacey Mandley l2 or Matt Wilson i3 unprepared had It fallen in Barrie Mandley left and Wilson created To very large extent its the revisions done he told The Examiner later Ramsy said preamble designed to set the tone of the program may yet be written He also said some changes that would allow parents to pull their children from certain por tions of the program have not yet been made special meeting may be called sometime in August to allow trustees an opportunity to town said ministry of treasury and $5 million capacity June bail hearing Friday Wednesday the couples home said court officials will be displayed supplied $10000 la pmmt anticiat Skylab helmets just in meeting Orillia Midland get funds Provincial funds have been allotted for projects in Midland and Orillia to allow both centres to improve their ability to attract industry Frank Miller Ontario treasurer Miller announced commitment of $2 million by the Midlands sewage treatment plant which is expected to cost Industrial development in Midland has been constrained by the inadequate capacity in the existing gallons per day plant Midland wants to double the plant Local parking meters stolen 19yearold Barrie man has been charged with stealing four parking meters from downtown parking lots in late Charged with four counts of theft over $200 is Terry Keith Knicer of 48 Worsley St Knicer is in custody awaiting Police said four parking meters were removed from their posts and stolen from the parking lots Murder trial postponed Aubrey Phillip Rolfe charged with murdering his wife April was remanded to Tuesday in Barrie provincial court Rolfe 30 was charged with firstdegree murder after Alicia Rolfe 33 was found shot to death with shotgun in Rolfe was scheduled to begin preliminary hearing into the charge but his lawyer failed to appear at the courtroom Date for another preliminary hearing will be set Tuesday Innisfil open house Saturday The Innisfil Historical and Archeological Society will have an open house Saturday to pm at the library in the Stroud Innisfil Recreation Centre Photographs from the collection in their Document Centre Board allots more for playground The Simcoe County Board of Education decided Wednes day to allot an additional $2500 toward completion of the Forest Hill Public School playground project The upgrading was to cost some $35000 of which the board review the material he said During the boards June 27 trustees voted to postpone full implementation of the program initially schedul ed for the fall and cancel field testing pending revision and review Simcoe Countys has both app citizenry lauded and criticized the program that deals with the emotional and sexual relationships of human beings during the past year country economics for expansion of 125 million case falling debris came down in the vicinity The space stations and came off the coast of Australia causing no damage Ex aminer Photo

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