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oThomas Wells minister of education attended the oThe new year started on turbulent note oAnd water rates going up the headline announced to challenges before Barrie city council which included new mayor and five new aldermen On Jan Alex Arrell chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board hearing into Barries application for 20000 acres of land from three ad joining townships called halt to the proceedings until May olnnisfil Township Council had rocky start to the new year when former deputy reeve Don Koopmans called for recount after discovering 38 ballots had been counted as spoiled and some polls had been incorerectlv phonedin The recount only confirmed Blake Constable as the townships deputyreeve with count of 2061 votes to 1985 oPlows worked around the million OVespra Township was finding out how much its fight against being annexed by Barrie was costing Bills were near the $100000 mark with Barrie tagged with $167522 bill double the amount budgeted according go Barrie Mayor Ross Archer The mayor said on Feb that the costs to attempt to annex 18000 acres of land from Vespra and Innisfil townships was completely out of hand Whlle some were Paying 19 nearly two weeks after it for Barrie which was to include others were collecting pool went through theice everything but the borrowing of Barrie residents shared in charges ona20year loan $100000Wlntari0 Prize oGeorgian College kicked off oThe Simcoe Rescue uad lhecllywa5 geanngupf°r its 10th anniversary found home in the unised annual wmer camwal celebrations early in the moot Cedar View Public School Whle organzers were down with George McCague PC property Midhurst The squad the biy from cheekg the Dufferin Simcoe becoming the nented the property from the condition of the ice after second person in the colleges Simcoe County School Board seven to buudozer went history to receive the for $layear through into 27 feet of water Fellowsmp Georgian oThe Examiner took new Joseph Shulley Ferndale Drive the ogerator got cold 961125 Dglliléavilgs analysis publisher with Elio Agostini dunking int mishap but was 1973 succeeding Robb who otherwise unhurt The ice became publisher and general checked our okay and the 0A price tag of $48 million manager of The Free press in bulldozer was pulled out Feb W35 PUt the new high SChOOl Midland with an increase in water rates oAllan Glassford Reeve of Tecumsetb became the 119th warden of Simcoe County defeating Morris Darby Tiny Township Reeve by 4323 vote everything County rallied to help the family trial days when Ontarios chief minutes Fovmcial judge Frederick 0There is no doubt this is going to be trying year the new reeve told his colleagues He said the government restraints on spending would affect all departments but that they had responsibility to do their best oThere was change in principals at city high schools Ron Mossop of Barrie Central Collegiate is going to Eastview Secondary School with MacHyde principal of East view becoming principal of the clock to free the City from the fourth and newest and yet gip of major snow storm which forced the closure of into the headlines Mayor Ross fliged fourth hgh behoo major highways and schools on said he will meet with Reeve Jan 11 The 20 cm of snow Howard Campbell of Oro 0Consultants workingon which fell did leaveagood base Township to discuss Barries secondary Plan t0 revitalize for the InnisfilWinterama bid to put small airport on Barries downtown core said Olt was about the same time city owned land in the town the study could cost the City as that the Barrie Airport crept ship much as $50000 schedules for more time to hear trials Winter carnival time aPPOInted nouncement by Premier Davis mittee is still in the news This time line frills 40 Flipping out $200000 contract in the summer million in 1975 for major portion of the building into cultural centre dealership when Grandview with rise in the GO transit april oColliiigwood breathed streets before the men left of land from neighboring sigh of relief when Collingwood Dimming and his car behind townships gained support from Shipyards announced the Sign theBarrie Arena the Ontario Divisional Court ing of new contract April pojice combed springwater April 21 The court in an Wlth Algoma Central Ballways Park Midhurst looking for unammous deClSlon by thwe of Sault Ste Marie The dues to the identity of child Supreme Court justices said Shpyard faced the WSSbmy whos skelton remains were annexatlon government gnjiyoffs because of lack of found by children April 17 pnoligyéTgiitlt1élraytbhiealntifiz oWorkers at Canadian ibiht of townshj appeal gnu5 decisiPSn on an ride of his life He ick their jobs the afternoon only to ed man wbg asked high to mtum the next mommg The 11 took five hour session ickpu friend at Lakeview move was to protest prpposed but the $10 95 milin budget not pDai bgfor layofis workers said mated counting education costs over ea mg ngus seniority About 350 workers which City council has no COW He never made it Cumming was robbed and his car taken were owed thealk°m°n trol containedonly two per cent increase in tax rate for He was forced to endure high Apr 20 Barrie OBarries bid for annexation munictpal purpose oAnnexation ruled the headlines of early May one day adjournment was granted by hearing chairman Alex Arrell after fourmonth in terruption oOn May The Examiner carried the heading Annexation appeal bid on court ruling denied The Ontario Court of Appeal refused to allow op ponents of the Barries an nexation plans to appeal an Ontario Division court ruling Mayor Ross Archer was pleased with the ruling saying then that it quashed any other attempted appeal No more costs in this regard are going to be accrued by any of the municipalities he said oStephen Lewis leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party took verbal swing at Barries annexation proposal me wee sayiiigitwasaclassic example tothe SimcoeCentreseatin the OWhat is black and white of the unnecessary loss of legislature iLiberal Jim and feeding all over Simcoe agricultural land brneau Conservative George Countytentcaterpillarstbats olna move aimed at cutting Taylor and NDP Paul what Caterpillars of the operating losses at city arenas Wessenger eastern tent and forest tent city councils general com Olhc 160 workers at variety were munching their mittee voted to increase most Plastomcr Ltd set up picket way through the county with arena rental rates by 20 per lines in frontofthe John Street Orillia area apparently the cent on Maylo Both arenas ran plant at midnight May 18 hardest hit combined deficit of 3151327 in Union officials were predicting OCity Council took the tiger tbeyearbefore long strike the first in the by the tail and voted 76 to oAnncxation was big issue 15 year history at the plant to grant $30000 toward at the meetthecandidates protestcostofliving clauseand restoration of the controversial meeting for the three aspirants union security Collier Street Fireball august Olhc Baseball Blue Jays from the citys Public werent able to shake the lltilitiesCommission blues that pitcher Vida Blue OThe fireball was in and subjected them to however out of the news but the and Oakland triumphed 62 building seemed fated never Aug 22 two men and to be an arts centre after my lost for 26 hours in me rejection of tenders for the Mmegmg swamp are found first phase of restoration by pew Rasmussen 31 of council and the voting down Montreal and Leonard by general Committee motion to sendevidcnce of yogf$ofighfondhf$Kg the buildings historical and on foot trek to Willow Lan Chllwuralmem C0 ding Found by volunteers servation rCViewboard they were ushered from the swamp by OPP helicopter exhausted but otherwise unscathed OThe Examiner publishes Ontario voters went to the which council filed pollsihe didnt get it but his Progressive Conservative still in the news Party did get resounding vote nexation Dufferin Simcoe Simcoe Cen Septembei tre and Simcoe East were last year The vote June did nothing to change that olncumbents George Mc Cague Dufferin Simcoe Gordon Smith Simcoe East and newcomer George Taylor Simcoe Centre won with comfortable margins oFour Barrie businessmen paid $600000 and $700000 early in the month for the former Canadian Tire Store and property on Dunlop Street West Plans called for an indoor mall for downtown Barrie olhe fireball issue stayed in the news this month with an antifireball petition now circulating which called for city residents to reverse their support for the restoration of thc disused Collier Street Fireball oJune 13 was the day city council reaffirmed its support for the controversial OAugust was month of coups in Barrie and area The highlights included the success of Barrics Kempen lest the 12th annual Old Time Pioneer Show in mkstown at the first of the month 23 steam engines par ticipated record totali and the splendid spectacle that was the Alliston Potato chival attendance estimated at 30000 OActor Peter OToole and the remainder of the cast and crew of motion picture Cou DEtat invaded Canadian Forces Base Borden in mid month for some onthescenc shooting The $2 million film about military coup in an major twopart story on unnamed Central European lélke Slmtoe Simcoe IS country is being sponsored Sle say most CXpCFtS jointly by the Canadian Film raids the headline and the Development Corp Rank extent of her sickness is then Film Distributors of England Otltllhed and private Canadian in vcstors OBarric reSIdcnts did some invading of their own toward the end of the month Over 1000 attended Barrie Day at CNE Stadium in Toronto The event organiz ed by The Examiner and Greater Barrie Chamber of kimmerce with proceeds go ing to United Appeal smwballcd throughout the month Early estimates were that 500 would attend OJuly opened in less than holiday mood with four persons dead and 14 others injured in area auto accidents over the holiday weekend oFrank Taylor was busy July it was his last day at Jacksons Grill Taylor 64 had been behind the counter of the store since 1943 43 years and he had owned the popular stop ping place since 1910 oThe largest rcnt review hearing since the provincial program was held took place in the cafeteria at Eastview Secondary School July 12 caetween 750 and 300 per sons objected to Sandy Cove Acres Ltd decision to raise lot rents 10 to 15 per cent The residents represented 637 mobile homes at Sandy Tove Acres oThc second major elec trical storm to lash Barrie in month caused damage and power interruptions of up to two hours on July 15 OThe storm had sufficient forde to toss the verandah of lmyearold house belonging to Gervan Sawyer Fennells Corners over the house and into the backyard OThen there was the fireball only two firms both from out of town tendered on the restoration project of the Collier Street Fireball and both came in over budget estimates within hours of one of On smission tower tarios major weekend traffic holiday Tottenham oSept an 18yearold murder in connection with the hearing beating death of an 86yearltold wasa waste of time woman in her Blake Street arrested at about am operated by Bad BOy Ap outlet in Barrie Price Waterhouse Ltd of oOntario Hydro was in the Toronto receivers of the Candian news first in the early days of the month when brutal tinnderstorm lashed the city knocking trees down and into power lines ttbree major transmission lines were also hit by lightning then again at the end With an expression of optimism that black outs are not likely to occur in Barrie this winter The blackout warning had gone out to Barrie industries merchandise air disaster in Simcoe County school formerly Four top and their pilot died at about OProvincial Taking aim Summer sunshine october OMajor stories during OC The OMB decision would give Stephen Ler5 said they WOUId tobcr related to the financial Barrie about 15000 acres of ask the Ontario cabinet to november township and residents in Barries north end The 230 kilovolt station will cost $57 November began with warnings by professional engineer Frank Theakston 0A Barrie chiropractor Dr Dale MacGillivray early in January concerns of the Simcoe Rescue Innisfil and Vespra Townshi reverse the OMB decision accused the Simcoe Coumy that Highway 400 would be million and Will send 70 per medical rofession of havin Squad Barnes annexation bid by Jan 1978 IndUdmg fie OOn Oct 12 Collingwood subect to hundreds of cent of its ower to Barrie mom Hg mlnlSter npu ea and the murder of Highway 227 commercial demanded Collingwood policeman strip oOn Oct Barrie Fire Chief By jet Liberal leader Jack McAllisler said he would Stuart Smith and NDP leader not call the Simcoe Rescue Squad to emergencies in Barrie until questions of legal liability for mishaps involving the Squad were resolved Barrie city councils general com mittee then refused to give the squad its endorsement and 30 per cent to Vespra oOn Nov 22 coroner Dr John Hicks set Dec 14 as date for the inquest into the plane crash at the CKVR tower Sept which took five lives The crash caused an estimated $1 million loss to the station and by Nov 30 $2 million damages suit had been filed for CKVR against Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd the estate of the dead pilot and the federal govern ment as em loyers of air traffic control ers in Toronto OAnd on Nov 30 Barries city council turned to the pro vincial government for money for Dunlop Street shopping mall and promptly got its knuckles rapped by several organizations Councils move which came before completion of whiteouts again this winter Oln Barrie the news swirl ed around Barries old fireball with $25000 boost from the Ontario Heritage Foundation and news that the firehalls roof could need structural support to withs tand the weight of snow this winter 0A1 Canadian Armed Forces Base Borden hunters in Lisle were up in arms over hunt they werent invited to Nov while in Barrie some residents were upset over news Nov that $40000 was being spent on artwork at the new Barrie courthouse OAnd Barrie citizen disturbed over Quebec premier Rene Levesque began petition to bring Classaction Sllll against penalty tighter gun control lkVeSque 30b Benuey laws and abolition of tem wanted Levesque tried on the porary leave for prisoners grounds his se aratist beliefs oOn Nov 15 the Essa care The accusation arose out of scoliosis program ad ministered to public school students by the Simcoe County Public Health Unit in which Dr MacGillivrays request for participation in the program was turned down by Dr Peter Watson at we director of the Simcoe County Public Health Unit OBarrie and Collingwood were among 14 small Ontario communities that were scheduled to lose their downtown Marks and Spencer stores begining in January 1978 OThe Kloosterman family of Stroud lost all their the Supreme possessions in fire but Canada were helped by community campaign oBarries annexation will not take place Jan oThree Ontario Supreme policeman was slain and three suspects arrested Sgt McKean an 11year veteran with the force was making routine check at downtown hotel when he was shot at close range by man with shotgun Gerald Cbater and William Frederick both 21 were later charged with firstdegree murder in the shooting death Sgt McKeans funeral was attended by about 3000 people including police officers from across Canada and rqiresentatives of the US Federal Bureau of In vestigation and the Michigan State Police All took part in milelong funeral procession trom church to cemetery twohour riot The squad reported it was turning to the public for support after being turned down by Barrie and Simcoe County councils in its appeal for financial backing story Oct reported the squad was angry over the treatment it received from Barrie city councils general committee Jack Wallace resident of the Squads board of directors said his anger was focused on Ald Gord Mills continues his Remembrance Day OOct 31 petition signed by 350 property owners living in the area of Innisfil slated to become part of Barrie called on the Ontario cabinet to order Barrie wins annexation an nounced the decision of the two member Ontario Municipal board anel two weeks after the final ray of the 49day hearing spread over almost 11 months OMBs decision had been based on planning evidence not in troduced at the hearing and that Ontario Treasurer Darc McKeougb bad interfered wit thebearing ingwood Nov 15 in reaction to the shooting death of Sgt Ron McKean Oct 13 col lccted an estimated 60000 names 11 called for reinstatement of the death application for provincial mistance The mall which will cost $4 million for com pletion of its first phase is planned for the site of the old Canadian Tire store nexation decision of Oct said they need more time to sift through the mountain of evidence received in the fourday hearing earlier this malt month OEarly in Angus while in Vespra Township sites were being considered for another new facility hydro transformer station to serve Midhurst surrounding areas of the march oMarch came in like lion fares ride to Toronto from animals and their habitat oAnnexation already 25 Barrie and area residents that opening ceremonies of the new days in progress was coii itwas going to cost them little Bradford High School on Feb and stayed that war Barrie went to $195 form $180 Sidered one Of the mam more to keep clean after March which had price tag of $25 fumace beneath the MarCh was the month that mobile home of Mr and Mrs Jaws came to Barrie not the William Rowen 56 Shamrock movie but the $8000 Hurst Place exploded destorying Hydraulic jaws for the Simcoe residents Rescue Squad These Jaws of Life are capable of removing oSimcoe County got more the top of car in eight OMarch was also the month Hayes ordered criminal court that the county school taxes provincial went up the Simcoe County criminal court to give judges Board of Education approved spending nearly $70 million for oGeorge McCague was its 77 operating budget and parliamentary that the Simcoe County Roman assistant for Ontario treasurer Catholic Separate School Board Darcy McKeough in an an approved what budget com chairman OThe Collier Street Fireball Uplume alng was gin Friends of the Fireball needed EStimatEd téxmnditure for 1977 some in local funding for was $78 million up from $71 on was about midmonth restoration of the disused that the Huronia District of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources learned that it had Barne 105 or been named winner of the Ontario Tra rs Association Ford med for bankruptcy Jules Berrgge Conservation olt was early in the month award as the provinces out when commuters were hit standing contributor to the conservation of fur bearing lune oPremier William Davis restoration project by 76 was asking for majority voteThevotewastakeninface government June when of3402 signatures onapetition 00f course annexation was The an which hearing of confidence in Simcoe County already had cost the city over OThe three local ridings of $200000 was adjourned oBarrie was in the grip of represented by the PC party dr SW Wthh had the CltYS OThe Simcoe Resuce Squad plane crashed into wasoffiCIallyin operationSept Televisions 1000foot CKVR and radio jams as vacationers took to the CHAYltFM were knocked off the roads for the Labor Day air and the cost of repairs could run as high as $1 million OCrews of six men will keep OBy the following day 24hour watch in the main CKVR wasalready planning for squad station in Midhurst its 400foot temporary tower backed by branch station in CHAY expected to be operating reduced power Sept oOn Sept the Residential Utopia man is arrested and Premises Rent Review Board charged with first degree ruled the largest rent review in Ontarios history But local rent review officer home Bob Bentley said the fight over Daniel William Fannon was rent increasts for 637 Sandy Cove Acres mobile home park oSept all 38 stores residents may not be over In test case involving one pliances and Furniture Ltd resident the board had been closed including the Bentley had no jurisdiction to review the increases oTbe amalgamation of two training con Forces bankrupt company said Bad schools was formally Boy management had filed to sumated at Canadian Forces produce definite plan of re Base Borden with the official organization and some sup opening of the Canadian Forces pliers were refusmg to ship LeadershipAcademySept 12 The academy integrated the oIn the early evening of CFB Borden junior Sept five men died in worst school and the warrant officers located executives of British Columbia and Canadian Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd Forces Base Es uimalt lt tightening 630 pm when their company wont keep Barrie december 0A decision is expected corrections Frank Drea substantial punishment for the inmates involved in the riot that broke out in the 134yearold Barrie Jail An estimated $10000 damage was done to three corridors during the Barrie should get to work 60 00 renovations of the old Collier Street fireball as an arts centre said report from architectplanner Diamond of Toronto oBob Bentley of Barrie campaign attempts to unseat Quebec Premier Rene through class action suit to Court oThe second phase of proposed $20 downtown shopping centre was cancelled because of disclosure in the city council deCrlpthfl of the Squad as new 0MB hearing on Barbies clashed With is oath of of Township Recreational Cen the $60000 core area Court justices who heard of me plan The four local amateurish annexation CC he was open and pulling in reVitalization study was at lnnisfils Townships requost developers of ihe man oThe Oct stor headlined Anmhgr palm qrganlz Skaters our acres or and weked as remature and for leaVe appeal the 0n roject cancelled Phase Two The Petition argued the ed by police Wives in Coll donated by the town of council finaly withdrew its tam Municipal Board an Eecause of the increase in land speculation prices that would result in the Toronto MaryDunlop Street areas encompassing the proposed Lloyd The election trail CKVR tran station ruled leaders from Jack Levesque million the month oThere were other winners this month as well big winners Clare Charlton of Barrie had his pockets lined by $10000 simply by investing buck in Wintario ticket oSt Patricks Day and the mood was green money green for John and Mary Eloos of Barrie after winning $100000 in Wintario draw oThere were other fires in March large diary barn owned by Jack and Marie Korevaar RRl Thornton went up in flames One of the Korevaars children noticed the fire and the warning helped get more than 70 head of cattle loose and driven to an unused barn half mile away Some 2000 bales of hay were detroyed with 20 to 25 tons of grain lost oMarch 28 was the day The Examiner introduced theme pages to its reading public The newlook paper took on new format with page one easier to read after the switch from nine column format to six columns water system working at record levels during peak hours but there was no indication that residents would be asked to conserve water as had been asked in part of Toronto oThe dry spell ended June 28 with twohour storm which lashed the city uprooted trees and caused minor accidents and flooding breathing next year Gerry Tamblyn city administrator said Sept 16 Ontario treasuerer Darcy McKeough had announced that morning that overall provincial funding for municipalities and school boards would only in crease by 83 per cent not the 113 per cent expected oAbout 75 friends from Ottawa London Hamilton and Prince Albert Sask gathered at the Barrie Country Club to honor Ralph Snelgroves 40 years in radio Snelgrove 63 started radio station CKBB in 1949 ln1955 he started television station CKVR which be sold seven years later toAllan Waters of CHUM Ltd oOn Sept 20 at 830 pm CKVR Television resumed broadcasting Jack Mattenly general manager delivered an opening statement expressing the stations regrets and extending sympathy to the families of the five men who died Sept when plane struck the stations transmission tower OBarries annexation hearing finally ground to halt Sept 21 with the Ontario Municipal Board reserving judgement on the citys plans You can start looking for it the judgment within month Alex Arrell panel chairman told reporters storms dropped an estimated 45 cm 17 inches of snow on Barrie disrupting tran sportation business and in some cases forcing the closing of schools 0A fire in an eighth floor apartment unit on Dunlop Street West caused an estimated $110000 damage Barrie Fire Chief Jack McAllister said it was the first time he and his firefighters had to go up such high distance to fight fire 0A ninemonth 125th birthday party for Barrie next year won approval and with it $65000 financial commitment from city councils general committee The committee action still requires confirmation by formal council vote in January OWeathcr was cited as main cause of the crash Sept of light airplane into the transmission tower of CKVR television The jury at the coroners uest into the crash which kil ed all five men on board recommended change in the lighting systems used on freestanding tower struc tures Another recom mendation was weather reporting station for the Barricarea