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ELm Teachers salaries costing heard most The cost of instruction in cluding teachers salaries Will take up 656 per cent of the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Boards $6951394 current operating budget In terms of dollars that amounts to $4562832 and is the largest single item in the budget Transportation will take up $89683 or 99 per cent and plant operation and maintenance will require $663865 or 96 per cent Debt charges on capital borrowing is the fourth largest item in the budget amounting to $594347 or 86 percent The remainder of the budget is divided among business administration 24 per cent capital expen ditures non allocable 17 per cent tuition fes 12 per cent educational services 65 per cent other operating expen ditures 28 per cent and nonoperating expenditures 17 per cent Although the provmcial government has reduced its grant levels it will still assume the major rtion of the$695 millionbu get The local taxpayers share of the budget amounts to $1123859 but because of an overreauisition of $17315 in 1975 the total bill is reduced t0$1106544 Of that amount Barrie will 133s ROSS SAUNDERS pay the largest share $210136 Tiny Township will assume the second largest portion $120767 Orillia the third $91857 and Midland the fourth $83949 Of the townships surroun ding Barrie Innisfil will pay $43674 Essa will pay $30347 Vespra will pay $15442 and um will pay $5518 METSIX TIMES The boards budget com mittee under the chair manship of Ross Saunders of Barrie met six times to prepare the budget The major cut in expen ditures was the deletion of gogésion for reserve working This provided the board with $377000 to use elsewhere and kee the tax rate down but Mr aunders pointed out you might say we are skating on thin ice and guessweare Lloyd LaPlume trustee of Midland replied havent walked on water for long time but guess we are going to this year The only rapital expen diture in the budget is $975000 for the installation water and sewers at Mon signor Clair school now under construction in Barrie There are no provisions for site purchases or additions to existing schools There will be no additional furniture and equipment ur chased for the school fice administration but the com mittee has included $7800 for the purchase of van which will be used to deliver sup plies to schools rather than have staff use their own cars Rev Guy Hamel asked if the committee had included cushion in its budget figures forutilities Mr Saunders said the figures had been increased little but we are hoping these things wont go up too much am always afraid we might run out of money if these big companies start raising their prices Father Hamel said Separate taxes are more than public school rate While the separate school tax rate down to 76 per cent increase in Barrie secon school taxes will boost the separate dary figure higher than the public Taxes on home in Barrie assessed at $20000 will be $14524 for separate school TRAPPING DISPLAY AT MINISCIENCE FAIR Adam Privitera and Irving Kwok the only Grade students at Maple Grove Public School who have entered the schools mini sicence fair They have prepared display and report on humane animal trapping Information and supporters at the elementary level and $14015 for public school supporters When the secondary school re uirement $12905 for both boards is adde separate school ratepayers will have total bill of pay $26920 material for the display was given tne boys by Lloyd Cook trapper who will be at the school Mon day to give trapping demonstration to all the students About 155 Grade and students at Maple $27429 and public school ratepayers will Grove have entered the xience fair Winners at the Maple Grove have entered the science fair Winners at the Maple Grove fair will compete next week in the Barrie North Collegiate fair Examiner Photo Board hoping for trade of old school for preperty This summer when Forest Hill school was extended the board decided to urchase four acres of Ian at the southern end of its property from developer Jack Stollar at cost of $60000 About the same time the board offered its old Huroma school for sale The board by law must first offer the property to sur rounding school boards and the municipality in which it is located The Township of Innisfil in dicated it wished to purchase the property from the board Int sent in notification one month late The Simcoe County Board Education have been leas ing the pro erty to Browndale SC 001 and wished to continue this prac tice as Browndale cares for Simcoe County students Because Innisfil sent notification late the board IS not obliged to sell them the property and is now in vestigating the possibility of exchanging the property The Simcoe County Board of Education is hoping to trade its old Huronia school property in Innisfil for four acres of land adjacent to Forest Hill public school in Midhurst If the trade goes through as it is proposed the Browndale School will be assured of use of the Huronia school for at least five vears Warnica pupils attend special art classes PAINSWICK An age dif ference of six decades made no difference at all this week as senior citizens gave art in struction at Warnica elemen tary school in Painswick Twenty people from the Sandycove Acres Palette Club and 40 elderly crafts ex perts spent two ays at the schools annual art fair This is the broadest ex rience to the media the kids ve had said school prin cipal Lorne McEvoy Bv the end of the two lays 500 students had each spent two hours on art and crafts such as macrame woodwork ing and rug hooking Jose hine Koenig 72 was coor inator of the San dycover Acres group work ing with parent volunteer Pat Montague and Grade teacher Maureen Andrew believe very strongly in teaching the young the role of art The rapport between the seniors and juniors is tremen dous Miss Koenig said One singer in Steele St Public School choir gave song just little extra ef fort Wednesday as students Weekend of Canadian poetry GIVING THE SONG JUST LITTLE EXTRA EFFORT presented their annual con cert at Georgian College theatre Students sang danced and played in struments during the per formance Examiner Photo to be held atBlue Mountain The worlds largest poem six workshops and 26 Cana dian poets including Irving Layton and Dorothy Livesay will be featured next month as Blue Mountain Resorts west of Collingwood offers the Great Canadian Poetry Eh 18mm Examiner CITYNEWS TheBorrie Examiner Thursday May 1976 Midland pianist tops Wednesday By MURIELLEEPER Piano competitions con tinue through the week at the Orillia Kiwanis Music Festival High mark of Wednesdays classes was 88 awarded to Frank Ehmcke of Midland in the Bach class 14 yea rs and under Results Wednesday were Piano Solo 10 yrs and under Lisa Ritchie Elmvale 82 Kate Gleason Barrie 80 Michele Mad dison Mclier 79 Solo 11 yrs and under Gregory Clarke Orillia 85 Lisa Perry Thornton 82 Dennis Purdon MacTier 81 Solo 12 yrs and under Sonatina Gr Michele Maddison MacTier 84 Carolynne Varney Thornton 82 Pauline Regnault Cookstown 81 Solo 15 yrs and under Chopin up to and including Gr Lynn Langford Bar rie 83 Lisa Perry Thornton 82 Kathy Tapscott Orillia 79 Solo 14 yrs and under Bach Gr or Frank Ehmcke Midland 88 Brent Farquhar Midland 87 Mary Anne Stepulitis Barrie 85 Solo 12 yrs and under Contemporary Lisa Marie Perr Thornton 87 Brunela Perri Orillia and Sandra Joanne Evans Bar rie tied 85 Bethany Hunt rtosemont and Kelly Allen Orillia tied 84 Solo Open Own choice of Gr 10 Paul Baughen Gravenhurst 86 Janice Hewson Thornton 85 Thornton first with skating THORNTON The Thorn ton arena will be the first of Innisfil townships three com munity centres to offer roller skating this summer The arena will be open for business Friday from to 10 pm with an admission charge of $1 and boot rental 25cents Foller skating will be of fered at the Stroud Innisfil Recreation Centre on Satur day night and Sunday and at the South Innisfil community wntre Lefroy on Saturday night Following is the schedule at the three locations effective this weekend Stroud Friday to 10 pm Saturday to 10 pm Sunday to pm and to 10 pm Thornton Friday and Sunday to 10 pm Lefroy Thursday and Sunday to 10pm LOCAL GENERAL MEETS TONIGHT The city housing advisory committee meets tonight at pm The meeting will be in the public works committee room at City Hall ELECTIONS STUDENTS OF Eastview Secondary School have com pleted the first part of student council elections and the campaign for part two will be underway soon The students have elected Paul Lepsoe president Joanne Walsh vicepresident Tim Mur hy treasurer and Carol Co fe secretary All are current Grade 11 students The school must now select senior and junior house leaders TREATED AT HOSPITAL Kevin Sedore 63 Queen St was treated at Royal Victoria Hospital Wednesda after his bicycle was in col ision with car driven by Barbara Groh 15 Bowman Ave His in ries were not serious and was quickly released The accident occurred on Penetang Street ANNUAL SHOW Barrie City Police will be holding their annual variety night at Central Collegiate tonight with shows at and 930 pm Admission for the show which started in 1959 IS $2 person and the variety willeinclude skits music and magic MEL BLENDS The Mello Blends under the direction of Marge Drever will join with two guest quartets and one other chorus to present Bring Back the Good Old Days May 15 at pm at Barrie Central Col legiate PROGRAMS APPROVED Two Experience 76 pro grams proposed by the Sim coe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board have received approval from the provincial government The programs to cost $4000 each will involve actiVity playground rograms at Angus and Mi land The pro grams will be financed by the ovince and administered the local board SENIORS TOURNAMENT The 12th annual senior citizens bowlin tournament will be held tis Saturday from 10 am to noon and from 130 pm on at the Kempview Bowl on Blake Street Weekend June 11 through 13 Participants will have the opportunity to help the poets build the worlds largest poem on the side of the moun tain let their own verse float away in helium balloon or lie in the grass and mutter with Canadian poet during the mountain exchanges workshop The event will also feature workshops on beginning poetry creative motivations of the participating poets teaching poetry to reluctant students and explorations in to concrete sound and found poems Participating poets will read their works during four readingsessions and new poets Will get chance to read during three minutes tosing Special events will also be held for children in the crowd and recreational ac tivities will include swimm ing hiking tennis and horseback riding Participating poets will be Susan Musgrave David McFadden Al Purdy Milton Acorn Gary Geddes George Johnston George Amabile Ralph Gustafson Jones Page Fred Cogswell Elizabeth Brewster Tom Wayman Joe Rosenblatt Douglas LePan Michael Ondaatje Gwen dolyn MacEwen Eli Mandel Smith Fred Candelaria George Jones Ir ving Layton Dorothy Livesay and The Horsemen Steve McCaf frey Rafael BarretoRivera and Paul Dutton Cost of the weekend is $50 including meals workshops and all other sessions but ex cluding accommodation $25 deposit is required by May 20 Reservations should be sent to the Great Canadian Poetry Weekend Blue Moun tain RR Collinwood Ont L9Y 3Z2 if JOHN ST AMAND of Penetanguishene seated was chosen president of the newlyformed Simcoe Barrie and Oro councils had pleasant cordial discussion over the citys bid to annex 1500 acres Wednesday but failed to reach any reement Ald JimPerrisai The citys annexation bid which also includes 13500 acres from Innisfil and 4500 from Vespra will be settled by an Ontario Municipal Board hearing later this year The meeting was held in pivate in the city council chambers and followed on the heels of similar meeting with Innisfil Township the day before The meeting with Innisfil was open to the press and public but the public was not allowed to question the Barrie politicians on aspects of the annexation proposal You kind of get the feeling its not Barries idea to an nex Oro Reeve Wallace Key said today Its the pro vinces They want to get the Cordial discussion held on annexation growth out of Toronto Mr Key said the meeting was for information on Public meetings can be he now but no dates have yet been set He added he expects coun cil will meet with the Shanty Bay Ratepayers Association next week to discuss the an nexation bid Both Mr Perri and Ald Paul Wessenger said city council anticipated opposi tion to the annexation pro posal from Oro They feel they have to pro test Mr Wessenger said They have to look after their own interests Both sides were pretty cautious Mr Key said Nobodys giving any secrets away He added the Simcoe Georgian Task Force report designated Barrie as major growth centre Weve all had hand in it WALLACE KEY but we hoped the day wouldnt come when they would take land from us New Liberal group founded in riding Two Barrie youths were among those elected to the executive Wednesday as 16 young Simcoe North Liberals met in Barrie to found New Liberal association for the riding The association is the first ever for the Simcoe North federal riding and the 49th in Ontario since the Ontario New Liberals ONL were formed in 1974 from the On tario Student Liberals and the partys Youth Committee Trevor Owen Shanty Bay resident who attends ninth grade at Barrie Central Col legiate was elected treasurer while John Aikins Grade 12 student at Barrie North Collegiate was named one of three directors John St Amant of Penetanguishene was chosen president Other officers are Cathy Fletcher of Oro Township vice resident Beth Woloski Midland secretary and Liz Bingham and Stuart Forrest both of Orillia directors Simcoe North Liberal Association president Bruce Owen who presided over the meeting to the youngsters there have been organiza tions for young Liberals on the community level in Sim coe North but not on the riding level He said transportation pro blems for young people make it difficult to keep riding association going in so large riding as Simcoe North doubt if you will be able to have many meetings he said PICK DELEGATES But he noted that riding association would be able to pick its own delegates to Liberal conventions rather than having young delegates picked by the adult associa tion and that only riding association can send voting delegates to ONI conven tions He said riding association would also be better able to keep youngsters involved in party politics during non election years task he said isdifficultforall parties Wefe always able to get young Liberals involved in our area at election time he said ONL president Howie Brown 23yearold Ryerson journalism student was on hand to help manage the elec tion of officers and to tell the New Liberals the party needs the ideas they can contribute for policy decisions Fund raising social events and group discussions are other activities to which the association can direct itself be said He said New Liberal activi ty is valuable preparation for later political action If we can learn to express ourselves in groups of our own peers it becomes easier as we get older he said Mr Brown said young Liberals are being en couraged to stay in the New Liberal organization even after high school or universi ty Upper age limit is 25 New association president John St Amant said after the meeting his first concern will be to let more people know about the newlyformed organization He also said the associa tions ability to send voting delegates to conventions will be of major importance for its future Grits disagree with MPP on not raising drinking age MPP Alf Stong LYork Centre told the newly formed Simcoe North New Liberal riding association Wednesday he does not believe the drinking age should be raised but half his audience disagreed with him Two association members including president John St Amant told Mr Stong of student support for an in creased age limit that would keep drinking out of high schools and an Examiner poll after the meeting found eight of the 16 New Liberals present thought the age should be raised Mr Stong said 18yearolds can vote enter contract join the armed forces and function as adults in other respects and it would be un fair to penalize those who can handle drink because of those who cant If we expect you to vote for us when were 18 surely we should expect you to con trol yourselves and drink in moderation he said He said the 18year drinking age has not been given fair trial and the solution to problems lies in stronger enforcement of laws North New Liberal associa tion Wednesday Other of ficers are Liz Bingham left of Orillia director against impaired driving and underage drinking Once theres breach of the Liquor Control Act the person should be zonked he said He suggested identity cards for proof of majority an idea he said most young people support and revocation of drivers licen ces for young impaired drivers MAY RECONSIDER However he noted that the party which has voted again st supporting drinking age hike has come under tremendous amount of pressure from teachers organizations to reverse its stand and because of that and the opinions of young people may reconsider its position If youve been following the papers at all you know we change our mind when were wrong he said referring to provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smiths change of heart on bringing about spring election this year Mr Stong also told the group the family 15 the back Beth Woloski Midland secretary Stuart Forrest killia and John Aikens Barrie directors Trevor bone of this nation and must be preserved and protected He said family breakdowns lead to host of other ills and noted that of 187 offenders aged 1418 he defended in 1972 in his criminal law practice only two had two parents who were interested enough to come to his office or into court with the youngster He called for young of fenders convicted of non violent crimes the elderly and the mildly mentally retarded to be dealt with in family setting After the meeting he said families should be given tax in centive to keep elderly relatives at home rather than send them to homes for the aged and family life courses Should be mandatory at all levels of schooling in Ontario Mr Stong said declining birth rate and medical ad vances which keep people alive longer will place heavy burden on the generation from which todays New Liberals are taken Theres going to be ume when theres more old peo le than young people he sai Owen Barrie treasurer and Cathy Fletcher Oro Township vicepresident Examiner Photo