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Two outstanding concerts heard by Barrie residents By MURIEL LEEPER harpsichordist opening with 15th century street song entertained large group of young Barrie musi cians and many music lovers with one of the most in teresting and significant solo recitials to be given here Richard Birney Smith Hamilton born organist pianist and haprsichordist played Sunday before more than 150 people at Grove Park Auditorium The Ontario Registered Music Teachers of the Barrie Branch have felt for long time that the young student pursuing musical education in this town is denied the many varied concerts and recitals of an intimate and solo nature This kind of program is available almost daily in metropolitan centre and at least quite frequently in larger centre Now with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council such recitals are within the realm of possibili ty in city such as ours with population under 40000 Mr Smith brought his own ninefoot instrument made by William Post Ross in 1969 The harpsichord is two manual ebony instrument The program was augmented with relevant comments about the music played by the performer Mr Smith has an easy relaxed style both in playing and in speaking Thus he appealed to the youngsters never talk ing down to them He ap pealed too to the many adults there giving them substance in performing Handels Suite No in major and othe works The differences between the various tunings for keyboard instruments was well explained and many per tinent highlights of early composers lives and com positions Yet with all that it was the playing itself that was of the most interest Cou erin Bach Pachelbel an Far naby were approached in the distinctive way conceived by these early composers Mr Smiths harpsichord techni que is brilliant but somehow his approach to the 17th cen tury keyboard instrument seems the right one He made his program seem musical and natural and without certain artificiality that often marks harp sichord recital He evidently loves this cific timearea of music evelopment and transmits this love to his listeners N0 EMPTY SEATS Not an empty seat was available to latecomers for the longawatied per formance of theRequiem by Johannes Brahms Collier Street United Church was filled with musicians and musiclovers to hear The King Edward Choir under the direction of Jean Dobson with Charles Woodrow at the organ perform at the not toofrequently heard master piece LOCAL GENERAL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY The Brereton Field Naturalists will mark special event this month when it celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the clubs founding in 1951 The club bears the name of the late Dr Brereton who encourag ed its formation for the benefit and enjoyment of many nature lovers in the Barrie area On Thursday April 29th at St Georges Anglican Church Burton Ave Barrie at 630 pm the annual meeting and pot luck supper will be held All pre sent and former members will be most welcome 0n the program will Dr Nancy Ironside of Orillia narrating her adventurous trip by canoe down the Nahanni River in the Northwest Ter ritories MEDITATION free introductory lecture on transcendental meditation will be given April 29 at 730 pm in room 146 of the Georgian College business building under the spon sorship of the International Meditation Society For fur ther information call 726 0168 INSTRUCTORS COURSE The Red Cross Royal Life Saving Society will be holding an instructors course at CFB Borden during the last two weeks in May The course will run May 21 22 and 23 and May 28 29 and 30 Swim mers must be 17 years of age or over and must register within the next week Ap plications are available at the high schools or at 12 Cyn thia Court Registration fee is$35 SPRING CONCERT The Eastview Concert Choir Singers and String Or chestra are holding spring concert Tuesday May at pm at the Georgian College Theatre Tickets prices are $2 for adults and 75 cents for students CUBS HOLD SALE The First Barrie beavers cubs and scouts are holding garage sale May 15 at 210 Toronto Street from am to pm All proceeds go towards the organization for young boys ang girls Snow ends record bid As well as causing other problems in Simcoe County snow on the weekend also ended an attempt by four Tollendale girls to spend 50 hours on teetertotters in Tollendale Park in order to raise money for the Cancer Society Linda Shawarski Mary Ann Rumble Sheryl Thorpe and Marjorie Rumble began teetertottering at pm Friday and intended to quit pm Sunday That may seem like hours but clocks were turned ahead an hour on the weekend Sunday morning turned out little to wet and snowy for the girls and they finally gave up around am They were originally sponsored for $200 but were asking for donations during the weekend It is not known how much money they raised The German composer who held to traditionnlism in his writings nevertheless in tegrated spaciousness and gandeur of vision that was completely clear as the Deut ches Requiem unfolded Choir and organ or chestra responded to the writings of the master composer Thre was sincerity about the music last night that made the program one of the great choral concerts ever to be heard here The compexities of the score the essence of the choral work that can be found only after much work had all been discovered and solved after months of endeavour But the result must have been rewarding to choir members too The underlying melancholy of the Requiem was exposed with the frequent sottovoce work and the controlled tonal volume Then the highlights burst forth with accelerating energy and volume to heights of grandeur Most of the credit for the noteworthy performance must be given to Jean Dobson with an appropriate amount to Charles Woodrow The score could easily have become unsteady and literal ly fallen apart However both musicians had the music firmly within their grasp and the people of this community owe them debt of thanks for bringing the work to them Soloists for the per formance soprano Susan Ford Ricketts and Baritone John Wilkins had difficult task Brahms solos are demanding technically and vocally with internal subtleties that requiremuch musicianship With all this both soloists helped to round out the choral work adding the color and solo lines to the contrasting rich harmonies of the total choir They too brought deep and inner sincerity to the Requiem to help make the performance memorable occasion The Requiem will be repeated May iii Orillia at St Pauls United Church at 730pm downtown area However most of activity con cerning the Lions took lace at the Armory on Park Stree There the different regions represented in the District A12 convention held their own rallies and elected their new officers for the comin Saturday afternoon Also day rade eens ark The governors banquet and ball Saturday eveninglwas gala 600 Lions at the convention and their wives affair with most afternoon the York Steel Band which took part in the ut on free concert in at convention parade on Dunlop Street in Barrie was the most noticeable as ect of Lions Club Convention hed over the weekend The parade Saturday morning took over an hour to pass tracted many youngsters to the and at business two weeks year atur Parr attendin Things got underway little be ind time with the ban pplet not starting until after pm ball lasted until am Sunday morning was devoted to with elections for district executives held As well the district public speaking win ners were heard prior to their trip to Lachute Que for the Canadian championships next weekend The district Winners were decided The last otgficialgatherin of the Lions was at luncheon at he Ar mory about pm Sunday The Lions attending the convention covered Simcoe County and some of the surrounding area District A12 includes the east shore of Lake Simcoe Georgian Bay as far north as Sound and has limits of Sun rid in the north and Newmar et in the south the shore of Six alterations suggested to Bowron library report By JOIIN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter Members of the Georgian Bay Regional Library System Board suggested six alterations to the Bowron report on re organization of library boards in Ontario The report came out several months ago and recommended sweeping changes in the organization of library boards in Ontario Saturday regional library boards met across the province to discuss the report and make recommen dations The afternoon was spent with provincewide telephone linkup so the dif ferent boards could exchange views and make recommen dations known to other boards One of the recommenda tions of the Bowron report was the formation of an 0n tario Library Board and the Georgian Bay board en dorsed this However it reserved judgment on the composition of the board because the report recom mendation implied re drawing the regional map of the province said the members The members also en Police charge seven with being impaired Barrie City Police charged seven people with impaired driving on the weekend Friday night James Robert Gillis 23 of Base Borden and David Sills 22 of Pointe Tremblay Que were charged Sills was also charged with possession of narcotic for the purppse of trafficking Both will appear in provincial court May 11 Early Saturday evening Dennis Nelson Slack 35 RR Barrie was charged with being impaired after an acci dent on Anne Street Another accident on Bayfield Street about 1020 pm resulted in Allan McDougall 50 of Minesing being charged with impaired driving Both will appear in court May 18 Sunday morning Samuel Kane 24 of 340 Little Aye in Barrie Edward Ray Plowright 27 of Stroud and Dome Robert Free 48 of Vespra Township were all charged with impaired driv ing in separate incidents Plowright will appear in court May and Free and Kane May 25 On Sunday lice charged Robert Char es BrOWn Sophia St With dangerous driving after an incident April 18 He will appear in provincial court May 11 car stolen from Lloyd Square 129 Collier St early Saturday morning was found by police Sunday morning The 1969 car had been aban doned behind Corah Ltd on Bell Farm Road in Barrie dorsed recommendation that municipalities con tribute at least one and half times the provincial grant to board and even felt that the provincial grant must relate to the standards set by the board In turn these stan dards must relate to the size of the municipality and its ability to pay COUNCILS INCLUDED Municipal councils were in cluded in two recommenda tions of the board The report had recommended excluding council members from library boards but the members felt the council should have the right to decide if it wanted to be represented on the board and maximum of three coun cillors should be ermitted While oppose to the pay ment of board members the members felt that it could be problem if councillors serv ved on boards The members also recommended that the present act forbidding pay ment of trustees be enforced if the report wasnt adopted since some municipalities alread pay their trustees In eir recommendation the members approved of the concept of housing com munit the pu lic library as long as it was understood that the in formation centre was strictly referral service and would not be involved in counsell mg LEFT HOMELESS About 100000 persons were left homeless by the great Chi cago fire which destroyed most of the city in October 1871 About dozen prospective motorcyclists took tests Friday for their licences The tests take place at the Dunlop Street Arena park ing lot and are usually well attended at this time of year The tests involve TESTS HELD FOR WOULD BE MOTORCYCLISTS demonstration of motorcy cle control over pylon course then practical section of several blocks on the street Examiner Photo information centre in Wont pay taxes will pay penalty STROUD Minets Point resident who is withholding 10 per cent of his property tax will have to pay penalty Innisfil council says Peter Moran said in letter to council he has deducted 10 3112 Earth Examiner CITYNEWS The Barrie Examiner Monday April 26 19769 Only one house on lOt says Innisfil council STROUD Sticking to the letter of Innisfil townships new official plan Innisfil council wont allow construc tion of second house on 200 acre farm two miles east of Cookstown Meeting in committeeof thewhole council agreed with recommendation of planning board coordinator Robert Lemon He said Mr and Mrs George Moir of RR Cookstown want to erect second house in connection with racehorse operation on thefarmlot6Con The official plan allows on ly one dwelling on each lot or parcel of land Mr Lemon said regardless of the number or combination of permitted uses occuring on the lot lessstrict interpretation would allow onedwelling for each different operation on 8115 farm he said nly Coun John Cowan spoke in favor of allowing second dwelling Its maddening to be led bwn the garden path when you own 200 acres of land he said dont know why we have to be so restrictive The rule of one dwelling per lot is aimed at preventing strip development and en courageing planned subdivi Local firms Win contracts From The Ottawa Bueau Of The Examiner Allandale Lumber Co of Barrie has been awarded major federal contract valued at $95000 to provide the defence ue artment with plywood the epartment of supply and serVices has an nounced Two other defence con tracts were given to Irwin of Barrie the canadian agent for Richard Tost Flugzeug irstebau who has agreed to liver double drum winch valued at $12305 and Barrie Plumbing and Electrical Sup ply Co Ltd which will pro vide the department with pipe and hose fittings worth $10335 At the same time the supp ly and services department announced the award of $35000 contract to Trailways of Canada Ltd of Thornhill which has agreed to provide bus maintenance serVices for CFB Borden They were among 457 unclassified contracts worth $10000 or more that were awarded by the department to Canadian com anies dur ing the week en ed April sions that are easier to ser vice Reeve Bill Gibbinssaid the Moirs may still be able to build second house by severing the farm in two or by saying the house will be the retirement home of the property owner per cent from his tax bill and he wont pay it until the legitimate grievances of residents are heard Saying council is insen sitive to local problems Mr Moran said he will pay the 10 per cent only when we are treated as firstclass citizens to match our firstclass taxes Coun Grant Andrade said Mr Moran will have to pay penalty of one per cent per month for late payment Mr Moran complained about poor road conditions fish huts left lying around in Minets Point park dumping permitted in the area and silting of streams Council decided to ask the ministry of natural resources about controls on dumping And the bylaw enforcement officer Roy Bridge will be asked to order removal of the fish huts Grandmother winner grandson pinchruns How many one dollar bills can 71yearold grand mother heist from bank vault in five minutes Sterling Trust came close to finding out when Mrs An netta Palmer retired nurse from Barrie won the Great Sterling Vault Caper However Mrs Palmer felt that the rheumatism in her knees would hinder her run so she chose to have her grandson 18yearold Shane Pearsall member of the Ot tawa 67s run in her place The Great Sterling Vault Caper was promotion spon sored by Sterling to increase deposits in saving and chequ SAIURIMY at pm wellwishers will be on hand at the Barrie branch of the Sterling lrust Corp to cheer on Mrs Aiinetta almer and her grandson 18 yearold Shane Pearsall member of the Ottawa 67s as they see how many ing accouts For every $5 customer deposited in his account at any of the eight Sterling bran ches he received an op portunity to win five minutes alone in Sterlings Barrie vault with 5000 one dollar bills Mrs Palmer widow who has dealt with Sterlings Bar rie branch for over 20 years will get to keep all the one dollar bills Shane can get out of the vault and into Brinks truck parked in front of the branch Mrs Palmers winning coupon was drawn from over half million entries of the 5000 onedollar bills he can get out of the bran chs vault and into waiting Brinks truck Mrs Palmer who celebrates her 7ist birthday today was the winner of The Great Sterling Vault Caper