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LES: Call me Chief Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre director Roger Jackson gave Midland's mayor a present during his appearance before the council last week. Mayor Al HDH passed by in giveaway Hospitals in Barrie and Orillia are receiving $60 million and $30 million respectively, Minister of Health Murray Elston an- nounced last week. Huronia District Hospital hasn't received notice of a Waters are still OK for area's Swimmers No news is good news when it comes to testing for pollution in Little Lake, as well as other area swim- ming spots. Simcoe County Health Inspector Don Morrow says recent tests done on water from Little Lake and the Tiny beaches areas have come up okay. Despite blistering heat- waves which caused peo- ple to flock to the beaches, Morrow says the readings "have been coming up pretty good." Tests on Little Lake are done weekly, and at the Tiny Township beaches on a less frequent basis. Little Lake has been clos- ed to swimmers in the past because of pollution, resulting from storm water runoff. OPEN THROUGHOUT YEAR We have a Good Selection of CRAFTS & TROPICAL HANGING BASKETS SHRUBS & TREES A complete line of Cedar Furniture including Picnic Tables Roach jokingly advised a reporter to call him Chief Roach in future. The Town council granted Jackson's request to declare Aug. grant. The capital fundraising campaign under way at HDH is for the purpose of buying trauma centre equipment, expanding the emergency department, thcoming from the provin- cial government. More than $1.3 million of the minimum $2 million goal has been raised. The HDH board has committed an additional $500,000 from its reserve fund. Royal Victoria Hospital, THE.DARDANELLA Barrie, is receiving $60 million to pay most of the cost of a new acute care hospital building, and of and opening a vacant wing. The hospital board decided to raise the money since money was not for- renovation and expansion of the existing hospital, for chronic care patients. The community will raise another $30 million. Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Orillia, is receiv- ing $30 million for renova- tion and expansion. That Presents BIG BAND DANCE Wednesday, Aug. 12th, 8 p.m. WILD BLUEBERRIES CORN Our Fabulous Corn is now Ready Please phone in advance for corn roast orders Holt's Greenhouses and Garden Centre Hwy. No. 27, 4 miles South of Elmvale 322-2389 Page 4, Tuesday, August 4, 1987 ® THE DARDANELLA "Hotter Than Ever" WASAGA BEACH, ONTARIO on the Beach at Ist Street (705) 429-2211 Featuring special Benny Goodman Alumni guests Butch Miles (Drums), Abe Most (Clarinet) Bucky Pizzarelli (Guitar) and Slam Stewart (Bass). The Dardanella will be jumping with the sounds of Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ell- ington and other great bands of the swing era. "In The Mood", "String of Pearis", "Sen- timental Journey", "Memories of You", "Moonlight Serenade" are among the favorites to be heard. TICKETS - $21°° per person including a light buffet Tickets and Reservations 4 (705) 429-2211 ° o 24-29 Native Awareness Days in Midland. Aug. 29 will be official opening day of the Native Friendship Centre. community will raise another $15 million. Both projects had the the support of the Simcoe County District Health Council. The health coun- cil so far has not recom- mended funding for HDH. Harsh words on sidewalks at meeting An argument during the July 27 council meeting about the way Midland's public works department budget is spent, led to the mayor ordering the chair- man of public works to take his seat. The chair- man's reponse after he sat was, "Who the hell do you think you are?"' During the July 27 coun- cil meeting, Mayor Al Roach was upset that more than $100,000 was being spent on equipment, and "not $5 on sidewalk repairs." Money for equipment was kept in the public works budget this year. However, the money for sidewalks was cut in an ef- fort to keep the 1987 Town budget increase to a set limit, Councillor Fred Pilon responded. The council determines how money is spent, the mayor said, "and we can't find even $5 for sidewalk repairs. Something is out of kilter."' Members of council are being 'snowed.' Counc. Pilon suggested to the mayor his job as the representative of all Midlanders is to argue for sidewalks. As chairman of public works, his job is to argue for public works. "T have the floor," the mayor said, "'I didn't inter- rupt you." Mayor Roach accused the councillor of "belittleing" the position of mayor. "Who the hell do you think you are?,"' Councillor Pilon replied, quietly, as he took his seat. ""You are the mayor." He said he was not trying to belittle or argue with the mayor. Money for sidewalks was removed from the 1987 budget because "some members" of council wanted an increase of a maximum four or five per cent. "I have only one vote,"' the mayor said. All members of the coun- cil are responsible for the structure of the budget, Councillor Buzz Brown said. The mayor and Coun- cillor Carolyn White asked why a $13,000 vacuum leaf loader was being purchas- ed, when the Town owns a machine costing-more th $100,000 which can be adapted for the work. The mayor asked why an extra $4,000 is being spent so that a new pickup truck to be driven around town will have a diesel engine. "Where are our priorities?" The public works com- mittee is considering im- proving sidewalks on Dominion Avenue bet- ween Lindsay Street and George Street, and on Elizabeth Street between William Street and Olive Street. After the meeting Pilon invited a reporter standing nearby to sit in the "'hot seat"- his chair. 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