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M OE testing Perkinsfield school's water-Page 3 Community Newspaper Vol. 7, No. 2, Folio 4 Friday, January 14, 1983 Penetanguishene, Ontario pd) Up from the ashes - A new building is rising on the grounds of _ for the old dining lounge which was gutted another major construction project late Bay Moorings Dining Lounge on Fox by fire, is expected to be finished by late this year when the first stage of a Street. The new building, a replacement spring. Fox Street will be the scene of municipal sewer expansion project starts. Thumbs downon request Lack of interest by working at Ecole kant not discussed by the Penetanguishene Midland Secondary a majority of Secondaire Penet- board, said that the council meeting Jan. School. In that case, trustees present at anguishene _Secon- shops in Lafontaine 24 to answer ESPSS_ students Wednesday's Simcoe dary School. can be used at no questions about a would have to be County Board _of Board members extra cost to the board study bused to Midland for Education meeting present at Wed- board, whereas recommendation those courses. The resulted in no nesday's meeting money would have to that some technical study has not been discussion of. . "a voted 10-9 against be spent if Le Caron courses be moved accepted by the controversial rec- reviving the subject. students are to take from ESPSS_ to board. ; eas on ad ue A board policy says woodworking at Fs e rene that a matter once ESPSS. pa Al t d Language Advisory discussed by the FLAC would like Be arm IQgGere oe Committee. board cannot be woodworking cour- Tye enanantriree Penetanguishene firefighters answered a agal Ss " told SCBE the Ecole det ree SF he ciacine call to the Mental Health Centre yesterday Secondair Le Caron unless a majority See tmOnthe cme 7 i] students refuse to go supports addressing Bay ay Al a ' eee ts call was a false alarm the --_ Penetanguish- the question again. Education secretary triggere y an activated detector in a ene's other high The E-LAAce Irving Harris is storage shed at MHC. school to take recommendation, attending a There was no fire. woodworking. FLAC wants the board to te ac: WVants more on at night available in ime Lafontaine. by MURRAY MOORE recommended that suicidal patients be Last ee ae An increase in the number of ward placed closer to qualified staff; that Instruction Com. attendants working on the midnight access to each ward be made easier; ee cd the shift in the Oak Ridge division of the and that the system of locking doors to matter of location of Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre rooms in wards be changed so that doors woodworking -- cour- is one of four recommendations made can be opened faster in an emergency. ses cor Le Caron, in by a coroner's jury, Wednesday, in Carson's body was found hanging sapiics arivinally Midland. from the inside of the door of room 30 in understood, and The jury, at the end of the half-day- H Ward at 3:25 a.m. on Aug. 22 by the agreed, that Le long inquest into the suicide by hanging 'Caron' students of Stanley Carson, 32, also eCont. on Page 2 would take wood- Citizen Briefly Out-of-pocket expenses totalled $138,000 Province of Ontario has received claims for out-of-pocket expenses totalling $138,000 from last year's (Feb. 28) train derailment in Medonte Township. Since then, most of the above has been paid out after railway company officials and Queen's Park examined the details of the claims along with supporting documentation. The largest claim came from Medonte, $89,230.02, since the township incurred the heaviest expenditures during the emergency. 155 crashes probed by town policemen During 1982, Penetanguishene police, ac- cording to Police Chief Dennis Player in- vestigated a total of 155 motor-vehicle ac- cidents on town streets. As a result of some of those mishaps a total of 29 persons suffered assorted injuries. Name game ends in week's time Next weekend Dock Lunch owner Nick Boudouris will start sifting through the hundreds of names suggested for his dining lounge on Penetanguishene's Main Street. The lounge is to open during Winterama. Boudouris estimates that already 1,500 names have been entered in the contest. The prize is $100 and a dinner for four in the dining lounge. -- Boudouris says that he is gratified at the number of entries incorporating either the Dock Lunch or his name, or both. He is looking for a name that has a connection with the town. Council meets on Mon, Jan. 24 Next regular meeting of Penetanguishene council is slated for Monday, Jan. 24 com- mencing at 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers on Robert Street West. Police force kept very busy in '82 A total of 3,012 complaints were probed during 1982 in Penetanguishene, says Police Chief Dennis Player. He also noted this week, his force laid 623 charged under the Highway Traffic Act as well as issued 540 warnings under the same provincial legislation. During 1982, town police charged 65 people with being impaired. They also laid 28 charges under the Narcotics Control Act, Chief Player added. Another busy seven days for our OPP Chalk up another busy seven days for members of the Midland OPP. During the week ending Jan. 10, policemen handled a total of 72 general occurrences. Included in their investigations were the probes of five break-ins, five thefts, two cases of wilful damage, one assault and five other cases under the Criminal Code of Canada. It was c-c-cold! If yesterday morning's frost and chill took your breath away there was very good reason. With the mercury at -20C and the winds gusting to 16 km_h, the wind chill factor turned out to be -32C! And that frineds was cecold! !! Penetanguishene chamber election postponed A second attempt to elect a president and executive for 1983 of the Penetanguishene Chamber of Commerce will be made on Jan. 25. Not enough members attended this week's meeting to allow the holding of an election. , The chamber has been without a president since last October, when John O'Hara resigned to run, successfully, for the position of town councillor.