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Vol. 19 No. 1, Folio 2 Tuesday, January 7, 1986 16 pages, 40 cents First baby of New Year in North Simcoe at PGH ounce baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Maheu of S.S.1, Site 1 Midland. Later in the day the stork stopped off at Huronia The stork's premier visit to North Simcoe in 1986 was made on Jan. 3 at 11:11 a.m. when he delivered a seven pound, one -Photo by Michele Gouett District Hospital where he delivered a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Bragan of RR 1, Waubaushene at 2:53 p.m. Tiny Township now has its very own taxi service GH "GOUETT For the first time in almost 11 years, the Township of Tiny has their own taxi service. As of Friday morning, David Holding and his fiancee, Ruth Carey, both of Lafontaine, are licenced to operate the service in the township. According to Holding, the 33-year-old en- trepreneur and his 27- year-old partner in the venture, Carey, are starting up the 'Tiny Taxi" business with only one vehicle but are hoping demand will be such that they will have to purchase another cab and hire someone else to drive for them. Holding, who also runs the charter boat service, the "Marie IT", fT. 0) am the Penetanguishene Town Dock during the sum- mer months for scuba divers, says he has already made arrangements with the management at the iow entertainment emceed by Fred oN ill feature the Georgian Bay Belles ST : Mellow Blends, Lions Club Steel Band, Vera -mstrong and Sarah Walker and Robbie Tigwell. Mountainview Mall for a taxi stand to be erected in front of the Dominion Store so they can service shoppers at the mall. Although the pair have been operating the service since' they received their licence on Friday morning from Tiny Township, Holding and Carey are not totally set up, waiting for their radio dispatch equipment to _ be delivered so it can be installed at _ their Lafontaine' base, Dupuis' Groceries. Holding says he saw a need for the service which will encompass the whole township the water turned on in Tiny... by MICHELE GOUETT Tiny Township Council and residents are anxiously awaiting word from the provincial governm- ent's Ministry of the Environment, giving the go-ahead to turn on the water supply from the Perkinsfield wells. Although the Ministry released the results of testing done on the water supply in the fall, at a meeting of the North Simcoe Waste Management ASSOCi- . ation last month, the wells are still inoperative. According to Tiny Township Reeve Morris Darby, since the levels of all _ potentially hazardous chemicals found in the water fell within acceptable limits set by the Ministry, council sees no reason for the water system to be kept off any longer. Darby says, he would like to see work on starting up the system begin shortly since quite a bit of work will have to be completed before the system will be ready for use. Although. it was requested at the Had NSWMA meeting that the results of tests, done by the Ministry and Beaks Labratories in Ottawa, be sent to Simcoe County District Health Office for analysis, Perkinsfield resident Louise Pilot; who was behind the move, says many of the township residents are anxious to have the water turned on even before meeting with the medical officer of health. Pilon says since the test results fell within the acceptable limits, the medical offices report will only help satisfy the people in the community. When the medical report is released a meeting will be held for the local residents, Pilon added, in the hopes of getting back the credibility of Perkinsfield which the resident feels was damaged as a result of the whole problem. Tiny Township Councillor Harry Hunt, who was to be in touch with the MOE, said he hopes to have an answer on the well from the department sometime next week. enough of winter? A total snowfall of 36cen- timetres fell on Huronia from last Friday to early Monday morning. Six centimetres since there are no other licenced taxis in the municipality. With their sign in- stalled on the roof of their car, the radio equipment to _ be delivered later this week, and their business ecards at the printers, the couple are right in business, already making a number of calls over the weekend. Although Holding and Carey's business is delivering people to and from their desired destinations, Holding admitted his first of- ficial call was from a stranded motorist at the Mountainview Mall who had a dead battery and needed a boost. dusted the area on Friday, while four fell on the district, Satur- day, and 26 more Sunday and_ early yesterday. Since Nov. 9, a total of 316.6 centimetres (124.64 inches) of snow has buried North Simcoe. It's interesting to note, by this time last winter, only 97 cen- timetres of snow had blanketed the Gateway to the 30,000 Islands. That works out to just 38.18 inches. During the entire winter of 1984-85, a total of 414 centimetres (162.99 inches) of snow fell on us folks in these parts. The least amount of snow to fall on Midland- Penetanguishene during any year this century was recorded during the winter of 1982-1983 (from Oct. 16-May 8) when just 175 cen- timetres (68.89 inches) was measured. The most amount fell during the winter of 1964-65 when 523.03 centimetres (205.9 in- ches) was recorded.