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Vol. 18, No. 19, Folio 37, N Penetanguishene Wednesday, May 8, 1985 Liberals led again in Penetang voting by PETER SPOHN Voter turnout in Simcoe Centre riding in last Thursday's provincial election was up slightly from the last provincial election, held in March, 1981. Of 66,952 eligible voters, 40,695 cast ballots in the election last week. That's about 60.8 percent. Four vears ago, the voter turnout was just over 59 percent. The official totals for the four Simcoe Centre candidates in last Thursday's vote were: Earl Rowe (PC) 15,379; Ross Whiteside (Liberal) 14,845); Paul Wessenger (NDP) 9,639; Steven Kaasgaard (Independent Green) 566. As in 1981, the Liberal candidate in last Thur- ee sday's vote won the Town of Penetanguishene. With a strong swing to the Liberals province-wide his time, the Liberal candidate in the town's 14 polls fared much better than the Liberal candidate fared in 1981. In Penetang, the Liberals' Whiteside took 1,002 votes, the NDP's Wessenger followed with 662 votes, the Conservatives' Rowe took 507, and the Green's Kaasgaard took 47. In '81 in Penetanguishene, Liberal Bruce Owen took 1,048, the Conservatives' George Taylor took 713, and the NDP's Gaye Lamb took 448. All figures were provided by Simcoe Centre returning officer Cliff Goodhead. Their handiwork Grade five and six students at St. Louis school in Penetanguishene started making « patchwork quill a couple of weeks ago to uelp celebrate Education. The quilt is finished now and some of the students who had a hand in making it pose with their handiwork. The quil! is to hang in the school's sick room. -photo by Cathy Dupuis Recycling manager confident of no delays in implementation PPO TOTAL 47 PeG62. !own office has been notified of the decision and Poll by poll results in Penetanguishene for the by PETER SPOHN fully funded by the the Citizen that it would study advises _ tenders are to go out 1985 provincial election are as follows: Ted Walker, the ministry for the first probably be a month municipalities that shortly, Walker said. Poll Kaasgrd.. Rowe. .Wessger. .Whiteside manager of North three years of their © before an application spring and fall are the ; 122 6 58 64 122 Simcoe's waste operation. would be ready,for the best times of year to The recycling (Knights of recycling program is Adam Cuilini, {he ministry. start up recycling Prégram will involve a Columbus) confident there will be WORE waste : programs.) monthly curbside 123 i 29 88 84 no delays in getting the management _ branch Yesterday Walker collection of cans, (K of C) program started now official who handles said Cuilini. has studied Walker said Cuilini bottles and newspapers 124 2 34 55 82 'hat members of the recycling applications, the association's needs a budget in the waste (Legion) North Simcoe Waste had informed NSWMA_ recycling feasibility projection from the @SSOClalion s six 125 - 38 46 85 Management Associ- he spring start-up date Study and suggested recycling committee MEMBER municipalities. (Legion) ation's recycling ¢oyld not be met since Cuilini may be able to and 'hat a contractor The feasibility study 126 3 41 54 80 committee have met he required time to handle the application needs to be hired for the also advises inclusion of (Legion) with the Ministry of the assess the application. more quickly than collection of wastes for local industries in the S127. 5 45 62 54 Environment official [ast week, Walker told originally thought. (The recycling. Notices for program. (Burkevale P.S.) who. is processing the , 128A 2 36 42 97 associalion's applic- (Burkevale) ation for funding of the Do to lot to be fe ced off 128B = 6 1 12 program. ; wn wn n mia Lodge) Las! week il appeare' oo as 5 36 61 44 the program, originally By the end of this week or early next week, no that the fence should be up by the end of the week. (Burkevale) scheduled to get un- longer will il be possible to park a car in the vacant Peet noted the owners have not found anyone 130 ' 48 39 54 derway this month, lo! beside Centre D'activites Francaises on Main interested in buying the lot and that ongoing (Burkevale) would be delayed until 5!reet in Penetanguishene. : negotiations with the town have failed to produce 131 5 35 45 83 September because the ' The owners of the lot are erecting a chainlink any purchase offers. Peet said he has "some (Corpus association's applic- fence from Main Street to Peel Street down the hope" the town may be interested in buying the lot Christi P.S.) ation for funding hadn't side of the lot. I will run parallel to the road right sometime. 132 8 56 43 79 been sent yet to the of way which links the (wo streets. ; : i : ; : (CCPS.) ministry. It usually One of the partners in the numbered Ontario _ Parking authority ehairman Brian Murrant said 133 3 39 57 95 takes a minimum of one corporation that the lot is registered under said No Comment"' when asked questions specifically month for the ministry Monday the fence is being put up to prevent cars dealing with the impending closure of the lot. He (C.CPS.) {0 process the ap- from using the lot. Drummond Peet said the said a study of downtown parking problems should 134 ] 10 5 31 plication and to go over partners are concerned about the liability aspect be ready for the next town council meeting May 27, (Georgian Manor) items listed in it. of having the lot open to public use. He said the but that i! focuses more on the parking picture last summer than on the impart of a fenced lot. Recycling programs are 1,002 yelling Prog OSSTF sees 'vigorous' debate of school funding question with election of minority government by PETER SPOHN It didn't take long for Conservatives to start laying the blame for their poor showing in last Thursday's provincial election squarely on the issue of extending public funding to separate schools. On election night, Simcoe East MPP Al McLean said the issue dogged the Tories from day one of the campaign. Premier Frank Miller said much the same thing the morning after the election during his campaign post mortem. Political commentators have said the same thing since. The separate funding question lurked in the background during the early part of the campaign. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF), which op- poses the funding extension, ran a few newspaper ads in the first weeks of the campaign, but waited until April 20 before taking out 60 second TV spots. Then, an Anglican archbishop likened former premier Bill Davis's pronouncement last June of the funding extension to the way in which Hitler announced decrees. OSSTF Simcoe district president Gail Kingsley said yesterday she is not sure how much of an impact the issue had on voters but believes the funding question will finally be the subject of "good vigorous debate" once the legislature is recalled. OSSTF believes all three Ontario party leaders have dealt with the funding question unsatisfactorily, particularly the Con- servatives. The federation also is on record as saying it believes minority government offers the best opportunity for the funding issue to be dealt with to its satisfaction. "We believe that with a minority govern- ment, the issue will definitely be brought forward and discussed," Kingsley said. If it had been a majority government? Kingsley said she isn't sure the issue would have been dealt with adequately by a majority Conservative government. 'Up until then (the day the election was called) it had been a decree,"' she said. ; Kingsley said OSSTF wants the legislature to "honour committments made by Bill Davis"' concerning non-discriminatory im- plementation of public separate school fun- ding. OSSTF says if separate schools are publicly funded, non-Catholic teachers must have free access to Catholic schools. But at the same time, Kingsley noted, OSSTF seeks a so-called constitutional referral "of the question of the legality of the funding ex- tension." "Tt must be made abundantly clear that any extension legislation is not in conflict with the equality and non-discriminatory provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,"' says OSSTF. Kingsley said that during the campaign, the local OSSTF office in Barrie had at least one OSSTF member at the all-candidates meetings in Simcoe Centre and Simcoe East io ask the candidates their views on the funding extension. Their party leaders were graded on their stand on the issue by OSSTF, and all leaders stands were deemed "most unsatisfactory."'