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Wilma Giffen has been named treasurer of the Township of Vespra moving up from the position of deputy clerktreasurer Earl VESPRA TOWNSHIP NEW TREASURER Richardson former clerk treasurer remains as clerk and deputy treasurer Vespra has the smallest staff of any municipality in the QUNTY GLIMPSES areatwo people but there are plans to hire an assistant to the clerk and the treasurer Examiner Photo Tottenham leads villages TOTENHAM Staff The new 1976 county tax requisition is awaited by Tottenham coun cil as it continues to deal with budget figures for this years property taxes The county requisition on Tottenham last year amounted to $55488 an increase of $11034 over the year before It con tributes the most to county cof fers among its eight village members Port McNicoll in second place was requisitioned for $32912 last year while Beeton was third with $28446 The county requests on other villages in 1975 were Elmvale $27980 Victoria Harbour $21063 Cookstown $20449 Creemore $17718 and Cold water$15003 School board requisitions also are awaited OLD PHOTOS 0R0 STATION Howard Campbell will show historical pictures Thursday night at the Oro Station community centre starting at pm Proceeds will go to the community centre SCHOOL OPENING MIDHURST The official opening of the addition to Forest Hill elementary school here will take place Monday April 5at8pm HISTORY GROUP MIDHURST The Midhurst Historical Society meets on the fourth Monday of each month at pm in Midhurst United Church New members are welcome to attend CUB PACK MIDHURST qualified Cub leader who could run Cub pack in this hamlet is being sought by the Midhurst recreation and hall board Anyone interested should call Percy Degeer at 7208195 NURSERY SCHOOL MIDHURST co operative nursery school is operated each Wednesday mor ning and Thursday morning in the Christian education room of St Pauls Anglican Church Gay Sclater is the instructor AQUATIC TRAINING CFB BORDEN The County of Simcoe will hold an aquatic instructors training course here May 2113 and May 2829 Application forms are available at the county administration of fice in Midhurst LIVESTOCK KILLING MIDHURST The ministry of natural resources will hold workshop on livestock evaluation on Friday at pm in the Midhurst Forest Station Officials who appraise Coldwater WI plans strawberry tea By SHIRLEY JENNETT COLDWATER The C0 dwater Huronia Womens In stitute met March 11 at the home of Mrs Joyce Hall The president Mrs Marg Galbraith presided Correspondence dealt with in cluded thankyou notes pro grams for 4H girl achieve ment Day application forms for new courses and food forum requests for donations to mental health and the Col dwater and District Music Festival Plans were made to hold Strawberry Tea at the Lions March19 to 28 Coliseum Exhibition Place Toronto See Canadas only Indoor Retriever Trials Daily in the Arena no extra charge Sundays Camping Boats Fashion Leisure Home Sporting Goods Fitness Hunting Fishing Travel Aircraft Conservation Wildlife Bowling Motorcycles Recreation Vehicles Associations lee Trout Fishing Over 400 exhibits 12 acres Weekdays N00n t011 pm Adult $3 Saturdays 10 am to 11 pm to pm GO Train and Bathurst streetcar to the door Entire Proceeds in Aid of Conservation All this week til March 28 Riverside Centre on March 30 from to in celebration of the branchs 40th anniversary decision was made to ask $150 for the quilt being made Plans were made to attend the district annual meeting and exhibits for the fall fair In her report from the district direc tors Meeting president Galbraith urged that the members give more dtails on the programs undertaken as they make out their conveners Reports Fifty cents per member will paid to the district to help send the President to the FWIC Conference Youth 13 t017 $2 Child to 12 $1 Senior Citizens $2 livestock killed by dogs and coyotes in Simcoe County have been invited to attend SOCIALCREDIT WASAGA BEACH general meeting of the Duf ferinSimcoe Social Credit League will be held here Friday The meeting will start at 730 pm in the home of Nan cy Arnold Mosley Street at 14th Street Wasaga Beach POWER SKATING CFB BORDEN Registration for Joe Hagels power skating school will be held in the Buell Building Base Borden on Saturday from am to pm and Sunday from lpm to4pm NEWCURTAINS COOKSTOWN Village resident Doris Crawford has agreed to make curtains for the municipal office after council provides the material Council is spending $2100 to renovate the 30yearold municipal building AMBULANCE GRANT COOKSTOWN grant of $100 has been approved by Cookstown council for St John Ambulance The first aid group attends many functions in the village throughout the year OMB hearing set fer April 30 on objections at Cookstown COOKSTOWN In letter to Cookstown resident the minister of housing John Rhodes has refused to with draw draft approval for 92lot housing subdivision in the Village feel that my staff have adequately covered all areas of your concern with this sub division and am not prepared to withdraw draft approval in this instance Mr Rhodes said in letter to Michael Stone 26 King Street South The letter read at council meeting this week was dated March Since the letter was written the Ontario Municipal Board OMB has held discussions in Toronto and scheduled public hearing April 30 to hear ob jections to rezoning for the sub division FARMLAND Mr Stone has criticized the 50acre plan because it involves good agricultural land In his letter Mr Rhodes said that objection was one of many concerns resolved before the issuance of draft approval in August last year He said the ministry of agriculture is aware that most of the development land is class one farmland But the ministry indicated that it would not likely have significant effect on production in the area except for the land taken out of production He said because of its proximity to other residential areas the ministry of agriculture and food did not op pose this proposal While admitting that Cookstown is in slow growth region of the Toronto Centred Region Concept Mr Rhodes said the village council Zoning bylaw work delayed COOKSTOWN The village council here has decided not to start work on new zoning bylaw An official plan for the village is to be completed by Dillon Ltd later this year zoning bylaw is detailed document that regulates land use in municipality im plementing the more general policy statements in an official plan Reeve Norman Cook cited the $5000 cost of zoning bylaw in questioning whether it could be paid for this year Dillon is to be paid $8700 for the official plan Clerk Ted Underwood said the village has an old zoning bylaw and he said it may not be in great conflict with the new official plan obviously did not feel that this subdivision contradicted the Toronto Centred Region Plan FIGURES DIFFER Mr Rhodes disagreed with Mr Stones suggestion that the subdivision would increase the village population by 600 He said the increase would be about 300 people an amount which the technical committee of the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force said was consistent with the strategy of the task force report Because of the task force suggestions Mr Rhodes said condition was applied to the draft approval requiring that this draft plan be given final approval by the minister in stages Final approval of stages two and three would be given only after 70 per cent of the lots in the previous stage had been built on and sold Mr Rhodes said In this manner deevelopment of this plan is directly related to demand and it is very likely that it will be several years before the property is com pletely developed Mr Stone had pointed out that the village is considering the major housing development before completion of an official landuse plan While it might have been advantageous to consider this plan only within the context of an official plan Mr Rhodes said councils position as well as the location and scale of the proposal did not preclude our further consideration of this plan Had council not endorsed this plan our position would probably have been different Mr Rhodes said AGENCIES CONSULTED He noted that several agen cies have had chance to com ment on all development proposals including the ministry of environment ministry of transportation and local school boards The adequacy of social ser vices commercial facilities fire and police protection are generally left up to council and planning board to decide and include in their comments to us on the suitability of the development proposal in question The subdivision would have 92 residential lots and com mercial block LITTLE NHL ELMVALE This villages annual Little NHL tournament will have 48 teams competing over six days from Monday un til Saturday Grand champion ship games are to be played on Ctilile afternoon of Saturday Mar 27 Orillia oldtime hockey players praise hospitality in Holland ORILLIA Staff Holland hospitality received high praise from veteran hockey players with Orillia Oldtimers on their return home after participating in an international tournament It was trip well never forget said Whitney Mousseau onetime Barrie hockey performer after step ping off the bus in Orillia They had us playing plenty of hockey and treated us royally Waving cane which he was given after suffering an ankle injury in game the pintsized forward who is now 48 com mented can get along without the cane but it was nice of them to help LOTS OF ACTION In six hockey games in cluding one divisional semi final the rillia team won two tied one and lost three We played more hockey than the pros do remarked Whit referring to the six contests all being played within six teams That was enough to test the endurance of younger players Tournament rules required players to be at least 75 years old to be eligible to compete We didnt mind the six games said Tom Curran of Warminster who just qualified at 35 It kept us busy every day We liked it in Holland said veteran player George Ford who rated as one of the rillia teams top snipers The former pro who once played for Barrie said it was stormy when the players boarded the plane at Toronto airport and it was windy and cold when they lan ded But the weather was good in Holland he remarked referring to sunny days We couldnt speak Dutch but it was no handicapwc were well treated wherever we went said Johnny Ryckman defence stalwart who lives at Forest Home just outside of Orillia LIKIJCANADIANS Trainer Merv McDonald was equally enthusiastic They like Canadians in Holland he remarked That was ob vious Merv said he would have en joyed it better if Orillia ld timers had won their division But the players arent as Tory meeting at Churchill CHURCHILL The lnnisfil Progressive Conservative Association will hold its annual meeting and election of officers on Thursday at pm in hur chill community hall Prospective candidates for the Simcoe Centre nomination are expected to be in at tendance according to PC spokesman MPP Art Evans has said he will not seek the nomination again after 16 years in the Legislature Barrie lawyer George Taylor has announced his desire to be nominated young as they used to be and did very well in winning two and getting tie We could have taken the playoff game against Nova Scotia with little more luck We only lost to and we had beaten the same team earlier We are glad we went because we certainly enjoyed the trip said goalie Bob Shropshire speaking for him self and his brother Jim an aggressive forward Brian Chapman altcrna ted in goal with Rob and both made crcditablc showings Bill Hurtch anrl tarry Ken nedy were commended by the players for their aggressive rushes lhcy led the Orillia of fensivc along with Ford MEMORABLE IRll it was vacation well remember for long time said licrlyn Valley one of the teams sponsors and executive members There was little delay in the plane leaving County seeks new treasurer MIDHURST The County of Simcoe is advertising for new treasurer to replace John ODonnell who resigned in January Applications will be received until Tuesday April 20 with duties to begin June 15 Mr ODonnell cited only personal reasons when he handed in his resignation Holland but everything else went fine Blake Uren was coach of the Orillia team with Walter Varty and Terry Gordon assisting him Bill Barrett defence veteran was another former Barrie player with the Orillia team Creemore Star 90 years old CREEMORE Staff One of the older papers in Simcoe County the Creemore Star published by Reginald Westbrooke is celebrating its 90th birthday Mr Westbrooke who has been publisher since January 1954 has been receiving congratula tions from business associates and other friends The well known curler was noted hockey goaltender for Coil ingwood teams in his youth Since moving to Creemore he has been keen community booster onetime school teacher at Beaver Valley Richard Ball founded the paper in March 1886 Other publishers through the years were Spurr ll Watson James Carleton Kenneth Carleton Smith and the incumbent His son John Westbrooke is associate editor The first issue of the paper appeared in the horse and buggy era of 1886 which was five years before Creemore became an incorporated village Report ready soon on DufferinSimcoe TORONTO special report on the DufferinSimcoe provincial election last September should be ready by the end of March says Warren Baillie assistant chief election officer in Ontario The election was won by Pro gessive Conservative George McCague defeating Liberal Bob Beattie by 1700 votes The Liberal party raised 33 questions about voting pro cedure prompting the special probe The party said some peo pie from another riding voted in DufferinSimcoe and enumeration slips were ex changed for ballots Mr Baillie said his study is taking longer than he thought it would He said it would be up to chief election officer Roderick Lewis to decide whether there were infractions or mistakes and whether the report will be made ublic Eare Williams of Angus DufferinSimcoe returning ofv ficer has taken leave of absence until the matter is cleared up RULED BY MILITIA Starting in 1861 Maryland was under military rule during the war between the states DISTRICT NE WS 2The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 24 I976 Cookstown council favors severance COOKSTOWN The village council here is prepared to en dorse severence of five acres from 12acre farm in con travention of the Simcoe Georgian Area Task report Council agreed to tell the Simcoe County land division it would be willing to allow severance of the property of Frank Mumberson in the nor theast corner of the village The severed lot is to be sold to neighbor Cookstowns zoning bylaw at present requires minimum of 10 acres in any farm parcel In supporting the severance Reeve Norman Cook said cant see any harm in it myself often wonder why man cant sell part of his land if he wants to Its his property The Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force report calls for maximum severance 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