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The curling season in Barrie is in full swing Recently the Barrie Country Club ladies section held TriClub Bonsplel with the Barrie Curling Club and the Stroud Curling Club par ticipating Front from left are Kay Flower from the Barrie Curling Club Marilyn Deline of the Barrie Curling Club and Susan Shipman of Stroud Standing in back is Betty Bartko of Barrie Flower and Deline were part of the ring that won the single high game Shipman and Bartko were part of the rink that won the twogame high points title Absent are Lynn Hart Iris Adie Joyce Rotman and Sonya Callaghan Examiner Photo notebook today Bingo at the Tottenham Community Centre beginning at 730 pm Jackpot is $250 OCanadian Forces Long Service Pensioners Association Elsie Raikes of Shanty Bay active in the For 45 years work with party ongtime NDP worker still party listens to provincial leadership didates Michael Cassidy left Mike Breaugh and lan can IF Deans The three spoke at banquet Saturday honoring Miss Raikes 44 years of service to the party Miss Raikes said she was most impressed by Breaugh because of his human touch Examiner Photo break Ontario must turn around its attitude to small businesses High Park MPP Ed Ziemba told New Democratic Party economic conference here Saturday At present Ziemba said the provincial government isnt really interested in fair marketplace for small firms He said provincial tax reform proposals will mean heft property tax increase for sma retailers while wholesale firms and financial institutions get sizeable cut The little guy is going to be subsidizing the wholesaler and the bank he said Branch plants of American firmstheyre here to get around our tariff wallscan get money more easily at pre sent then small Canadian firms Ziemba said Ziemba called for governmentguaranteed loan insurance provincewide uniform store hours tax penalty for exporting Canadian raw materials for processing abroad more government pur chases from small businesses an income tax cut and an in crease in the minimum wage The NDPs call for $4 an hour minimum wage com pared to the present $265 was used as major weapon against the party in this years provin cial election campaign But Ziemba said he is proud of the partys stand and expects the $4 wage to be votegetter in the next provincial election He said the proposal did no harm in areas where it was ex at44A Ziem ba lained doortodoor and can sold as valid part of the NDPs overall economic policy He also said the extra money minimum wage increase would put into the economy would compensate small businesses for the hardship of increasing employees pay Ziemba said store hours shouldbelimited rovincewide to keep small businessmans overhead costs down Paul Wessenger former NDP candidate for Simcoe Centre said small businesses also suf fer from needless complexi ty of government regulations because they cannot afford to hire lawyers accountants and other ex rts to guide them through maze Roll of NDP headliners It was Cassidy Breaugh Deans in poll of New Democratic Party headliners in Barrie Sunday High Park MPP Ed Ziemba and former Waffle movement leader James Laxer both said they support Cassidy NDP treasury critic and Ottawa Cen tre MPP in the threescornered race to succeed Stephen Lewis as party leader in Ontario Elsie Raikes of Shanty Bay honored at banquet Saturday for 45 years work with the par ty said she leans toward Mike Better Breaugh housing critic and Oshawa MPP after listening to all three ak at her banquet None those polled picked Ian Deans party house leader and Wentworth MPP Also polled were former Sim coe Centre candidate Paul Wessenger party research economist Hugh McKenzie and Gordon Wilson education director for the United Auto Workers All said they have not yet come out in favor of can didate Laxer Ziemba McKenzie Wilson and Wessenger were panelists at an NDP economic conference at Georgian College Saturday Ziemba said he supports Cassidy because he has sense of what were talking about here at the economic conference He said the NDP will have to prove its grasp of economic issues as well as social issues and Cassidys ormance as treasury critic shows heisthe best man for the ob JLaxer said Cassidy has very able grasp of the struc tural problems of the economy of Ontario and can give the pro Vince strategic approach to the economy Miss Raikes said she was im pressed by Breaughs human touch is holding its last quarterly meeting for 1977 pm Blue Flame Room Consumers Gas Building Ferris Lane OTheres euchre at the Oro Station Community Centre beginning at 815 pm Cost is 50 cents Lunch is served OCounterweight classes at the Lakelands Community Hall beginning at 730 pm OThe Best Memorial School Home and School Association meets tonight at pm On the agenda is the in stallation of the 197778 executive with guest speaker Lloyd Fletcher member of the Simcoe County Board of Educa tion NDP honors Elsie Raikes Saturday night was Elsie Raikes night for local New Democrats Nearly 100 friends and party workers turned out to honor the 77yearold Shanty Bay resident for her 44 years work for the NDP and its predecessor the CoOperative Commonwealth Federation Fionce as candidate many times as cam paign worker and organizer Federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and provincial leader Stephen Lewis sent telegrams of congratulations and Lewis noted whimsically that Miss Raikes had canvassed only two rural polls in this years provincial election Really Elsie youll have to pull up your socks Lewis said Miss Raikes told The Examiner she once canvassed all of Oro Township but it was too hard on my car Shanty Bay native Miss Raikes joined the socialist League for Social Reconstruction at the University of Toronto in the earl 19205 and the newlyformed CCF in 1933 She was CCF can idate in the 1943 provincial election In private life she was teacher at Barries Ovendon College private school she had attended in her own youth and later public health nurse in Millbrook south of Peterborough Bar rie and Bowmanville retiring in 1968 Life wasnt entirely rivate though She told the audience wasteland political work because was told people would think was If you build better in communist dustrial wasteland will the Band Smith of Barrie longtime friend and fellow party voters beat path to your par member told of Miss Raikes contributions to the party and ty Frank Maley another longtime friend compiled biography probany not NDP leader for theoccaSIon ship hopeful Michael Cassidy Fayne Bullen of Orillia former Simcoe North federal can decided Saturday following didate and Simcoe East provincial riding vicepresident slip of the tongue during his presented life membership in his riding association and Paul third acandjdates meeting of Wessenger of Barrie Simcoe Centre candidate in the last two the day provincial elections described her as an inspiration to us in The Tories are making an the Past arid the Present industrial wasteland of this pro Broadbents telegram praised Miss Raikes work for every Vince he charged and we humanitarian cause and the three candidates to succeed can d5 better Lewis as provincial leader at the banquet for speeches and BARRIE DENTURE CLINIC COLELLA DT Complete Denture Service 726472 149A Dunlop St Member Deniurisi Society of Ontario tuesday some OThe Canadian Forces Base Borden Art Club meets at 730 pm in Room 201 at the Billy Bishop Centre OPreschool story hour at the Barrie Public Libra French Story hour at pm The program for children to five years of age begins at 10 am No registration is re quired for this class Blighty Bingo at the Wyevale Orange Hall beginning at pm OTheres euchre at the Bell Ewart Community Centre beginning at pm questionandanswer session made frequent references to Miss Raikes and her work If we all did just half as much think of the victories we would win candidate lan Deans said Miss Raikes told The Examiner improvements in human life are her happiest memory of her years of service in brief address to the audience she spoke of the partys tremendous battles for such programs as pensions and she once had her art ass make election posters As nurse medicare she told The Examiner she had to be discreet about her ItSJiretty hard today to imagine life Without those things she sai Petition helped by 700 names Buoyed by their success Fri day night the Collingwood police wives who are cir culating petition callin for reinstatement of the eath penalty returned to Georgian Mall Saturday afternoon and picked up another 700 signatures Ann Chevers spokesman for the wives said today her group decided to go back to Georgian Mall Saturday after picking up 400 signatures there Friday night along with 300 at Bayfield Mall With the signatures gathered in Barrie last weekend Mrs Chevers said the wives have at least 10000 signatures on the petition But she does not have an exact total because weve had so many petitions coming in at once that havent had chance to sit down and total ASK MOM DAD TO BRING YOU TO THE 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