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Barrie Examiner, 21 May 1976, p. 2

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At rabies clinic in Angus Dr Brian Westgarth Taylor administers vac cine to dog held by its owner Agriculture Canada has been holding clinics in Innisfil township this week Examiner Photo by Mary Poole Alliston church to mark centennial By MARGARET STOLTZ ALLISTON The parish of St Pauls Roman Catholic Church Alliston is cel ebrating their centennial dur ing 1976 with various proects and events which began ack in January when centennial calendars were made available The CWL ladies have been busy quilting there was centennial dance spiritual renewals and centennial book has been compiled and published Joseph McCarroll is chairman of the centennial committee which has worked hard to promote this impor tant time in the life of the church with the work shared by subcommittees looking after specific projects and the publishing of the history The cornerstone was laid on the 28 of May 1876 and centennial celebration is planned for Sunday May 39 The Most Rev Philip Pocock DD JCD Ar chibishop of Toronto will conduct concelebrated mass at 1100 am and everyone is invited to recep tion in St Pauls School bet ween 100 pm and 400 pm when historic data pictures and artifacts will be on display This coming Sunday May 23 will be another spiritual renewal The committee has an at tractive display in store window on Victoria Street which includes the handiwork the ladies in the beautiful quilts and wall hanging Many will welcome the op portunity to share in this im portant milestone at St Pauls plaque with names of all the priests who have served the parish through the years will be dedicated in the morn ing and tree will be planted in the afternoon com memorating the occasion NOTED LTHORS The public is invited to an evening at the Alliston Public library at pm on Tuesday May 25 when two Canadian authors will be present Phyllis Gotlieb and Ted Plan tos Mrs Gotlieb is novelist short story writer and poet and perhaps best known for her science fiction Her stories have appeared in magazines and her novel Sunburst was Gold Medal Fawcett book in 1964 She is also the author of Why Should have All The Grief and her latest work Master Caliban will be published this year As poet Phyllis Gotlieb has received recogni tion since the 1950s Drama is the special strength of Ted Plantos poetry Sound he maintains is the most essential element in verse if poem cannot be performed orally any value it has on the page is purely mechanical Although best known as performing rather than publishing poet Mr Plantos has healthy list of book credits The Seasons Are My Sacraments She Wore Streetcar To The Wedding All the Easy Oils of Enerby and Vigil as well numerous magazines and four anthologies have printed his work This event is sponsored by the Georgian Bay Regional Library System with the assistance of the Outreach Ontario program of the Ministry of Culture and Recreation Admission is free and everyone is welcome BACHELGAR SINGERS Despite inclement weather many interested in good choral singing came from disatance to hear the Bach Elgar singers in concert at St Johns United Church on Sun day evening Conductor Donald Kendrick also ac companied the singers on the organ for the rendition of Jubilate Deo to open the pro gram but the other numbers were acappella or sung to ac companiment on organ or piano by Dona Jean Clary Perhaps because they were more familiar but this cor respondent especially en joyed the three numbers of Allan Behold Her Fair in Face and Rise Up My Love The program concluded with Liebeslieder Walzer Love Song WaltzeS by Brahms sung in German and to piano accompaniment and the en cores were in ligher vein The BachElgarsingersisa Trail club elects officers DUNTROON Bill Bateman has been elected president of the Blue Moun tains Bruce Trail club for the new term with past president Betty Carter director Vicepresident for the new term will be Jack Poste with Charles Grant secretary treasurer Lorne Fischer will continue as trail coordinator and campsite chairman To mark the 10th anniver sar of the club it was decuied to have committee write club history Despite rain there was good turnout of hikers on the traditional Ontario Hiking Day One group went on sixmile hike to Devils lien and another group of bird watchers checked on birds in the area Other groups went eiit hikes IAx INSIALMIINIS MlllllllltSl Stall First instalment payments on Simcoe County tax reqiiisi tions on municipalities are due by liiiie th Willi the se mud on September 30 and third on December penalty will be added after hie lilies RICELECTED ORILLIA Staff Mrs Alexander has been re elected president of the Womens Christian Temp erance Union of Orillia for second term of office THORNTON WI THORNTON Staff Thornton Womens Institute is marking its 74th anniver sary this month First meeting of the branch was held in what was then known as the Temperance hall which was located on the site the present Essa fire hall in the spring of 1902 with the COOKSIOWH Womens Institute thesponsors TO HOLD DANCE COLDWATER Plans have been made by Col dwater and District Figure Skating club for dance to be held at the local community centre on Saturday July 24 draw is planned for new car SlltOl ll DANCE SlHOllD Staff lurid riasiiig dance and buffet featuring the Alpine show band will be held at the Stroiid complex on Saturday night Draws will be held for three motor vehicles ALARM SYSIIIM MOONSIONII Staff Medoute council has auth diamber choir drawn from the 130 voice BachElgar choir of Hamilton and the 30 voice ensemble was founded in 1969 and maintains full concert season of tours workshops broadcasts and performances They have ap peared in concert throughout the province and also with members of the Hamilton milharmonic orchestra This past month the BachElgar Singers were selected by the CBC as one of the finest choirs in Ontario and they are now competing with choirs on the national level Mr Ken drick is also conductor of the BachElgar choir of Hamilton the Hamilton childrens choir and is organistchoirmaster of Christs Church Cathedral in Hamilton This famous group ap peared in Alliston sponsored by the Choir and Organist choirmaster Kenneth Inkster dStJohns United Church BOWLING TROPHY Members of the Alliston Golden Age Club Bowling League participated in the 12th annual senior citizens Simcoe County Bowling Tour nament in Barrie and came home with trophy for first place in Section the over 65 class ages of Alliston team averaged 71 Local bowlers who won over the other teams participating were Simone Cauthers Con nie Stephenson Marje Johnson Vic Graham Harold Robinson and Ken Stephenson Mrs Stephenson also won the prize for high score in games The trophy is presently on display at the TorontoDominion bank Stevenson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary conducted successful Tag Day recent ly and were pleased with the generous response from the public collecting $74200 for hospital projects The local Anglican Church Womens organization of St Andrews church was well represented at the 60th an niversry of the Tecumseth Deanery held in Everett at St Davids Anglican Church Bishop Allan Read of the Toronto diocese participated rized Fire Chief Burt to start procedure to install fire alarm system with the pur chase of five fire phones for each fire hall fire siren also is to be purchased Fire halls are located at Moonstone Warminster and Hillsdale RURAL FASIBALL PORT McNICOLL Staff Elmvale softballers will play at Port McNicoll dia mond in Simcoe Rural fastball league game on Mon day evening May 24 with game time arranged for oclock BALLTOURNEY HILLSDALE Staff An nual spring softball tourna ment at Hillsdale community park will be held on Sunday May 23 NEARLY ENIURY LI SlAYNER Staff Ihe Stayner Sun weekly news paper will mark its 100th an niversary next year The first issue of the paper with II Harcourt the publisher car ried the datolinc August 28 ltl77 David Phillips has been publisher for 29 years arriv ing in Stayncr in the spring of 1047 Mr Phillips succeeded Bill Ross and following the noon lun cheon Mrs Ida Tonks of Bar rie presented slides and most interesting talk on Trinidad and Tobago The presentation entitled Landed Immigrant from the Caribbean ex ressed im pressions share by her hus band as immigrants to Canada from the Caribbean with differing culture tradi tions and customs Fifteen members of the Alliston Womens Institute at tended the 74th annual meeting for Simcoe South held in Tottenham and en joyed the allday sessions Alliston Golden Age Club was represented at the senior citizens executive training seminar held at the Sunnidalc Centre Barrie on Friday The club also chartered the second bus for Front Page Challenge broadcast and this group went last Monday evening LLH MEETING An interesting program was arranged for the regular meeting of the Golden Age club held in the Alliston arena hall Monday after noon Introduced by Mrs Charles Morrow Mrs Erikson of Tottenham enter tained on piano accordian and with Mrs Kouri of Alliston contributed lovely vocal duets Mrs McKeown member of the club conducted the worship period and entertainment which created some fun was the staging of the Skit Sad Satire of Bonny Bonnets with commentary by Mrs Bessie Gardner of Sutton assisted by Club members Mesdames Rutledge Hawes Perason Johnson Stoltz and Latimer Earle Magee and Mrs Allan Corrigan reported briefly on the officers Seminar held in Barrie recently and two new members were received President Harold Pearson reported as chairman for the summer project Museum supervision and Sam Johnson District Director concerning the formation of new Club in Everett Alliston will entertain other Clubs in the area at their June meeting Members will par ticipate in Church Services xcial evean and bus tours ringSenior Citizens Week Mr and Mrs Harold Pear son and Mr and Mrs Sam Johnson represented the club at the official opening of the Senior Citizens Club Rooms in Bradford on Sunday after noon Ihe Sunshine Club enter tained at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home last Thursday afternoon with Mrs Austin Rutledge and Mrs Coreen Dunn as hostesses The residents enjoyed most in teresting program presented by Mrs Gwen Dawson Mrs Elton Hall Mrs Owen Moyle and Mrs Victor Brett of the Rosemont district with Mrs Marjorie Jamieson as their pianist Auctioneer Ernie Severn conducted successful Auc tion Sale for St Johns United Church on Monday evening Arranged by the Committee of Stewards the sale was planned to dis se of fur niture stained ass windows bnd equipment from the Sun day School Hall which is to be replaced with new building under contract with Allan dale Construction Ltd of Bar rie at cost of $124750 with work expected to commence sometime in June Members of the congregation donated items for the sale which grossed over $4000 gt Wasaga ratepayers plan rally WASAGA BEACH Staff Members of Wasaga Beach Ratepayers Association have arranged an rally for taxpayers whic is to be held at Oakview community cen tre on Sunday afternoon at oclock We must encourage group of citizens to run for election who will have as their main objective to curb spending said Langevin association presi dent and former reeve rapp ing todays hugh tax trend In calling for change in civic policies Mr Langevin criticized the present council and and management whom he charged seemed to have an aim to spend spend spend to the limit of the towns credit If three million is the limit council believes they should spend to that limit he said referring to guide lines What philosophy FULL REPORT Mr Langevin who headed the council for some six years also said full report will be given of the associa tions efforts in obtaining hearing by the Ontario Municipal Board about the arena purchase We were successful in bringing to complete halt the purchase by council of Hockey Stars Arena Limited at sum of $685000 he said In detailing what he termed wild spending habits of the council Mr Langevin pointed to the arena situation and also referred to the purchase of the Ontario Hydro accounts servicing the annexed portion of Wasaga Beach We expect to have full report by meeting time on this matter he said of the latter Reference also was made to water and sewers and other planned major expen ditures which were talked about and dropped In spite of this blocking of council spending Wasaga taxes for 1976 will be the highest ever at time when our neighbor Sunnidale township is able to reduce their taxes he said DISTRICT NE WS 2The Barrie Examiner Friday May 21 I976 New Legion officers elected at New Lowell By BEULAH TOMPKINS NEW LOWELL Ed Lynn has been elected president of the New Lowell branch of the Royal Canadian Legion for the new 197677 term with Beulah Tompkins reelected for third term as head of the ladies Auxiliary The immediate past presi dent of the Legion Evan McDougall continues on the executive with Bill Schull Bill Casey and Al Gonneau vicepresidents Ted Hannon secreta rytreasurer and Jack McCarthy sergeant at arms Executive members also include Bill Tompkins Reg Green and Bud Mercier Vicepresidents of the Aux iliary are Doris Buchanan and Helen Rawn Nora Snow was president before Mrs Tompkins was elected Ann Cook is secretary for the new term May Blenkin treasurer Betty Van Severn sergeant at arms and Rita Hirleliey Kay Schneider and Marian Zaba other members of the executive The Legion Auxiliary is planning bazaar bake and horticultural sale at the legion hall on Saturday May 25tartingat130pm Winners of the Legion euchre last week were Betty Snow Irene Waldrum Ann Cook Jim Waldrum Blen Snow and Pat Waldrum Pauline and Bruce Berry were lone hands winners while the carrying prize was won by Rita Hirlehey and Larry Hiltz Deena Verstraten and Bill Waldrum won the draw 134 at Duff reunion By HIIULAH IOMIKINS NEW LOWELL lhe Iqu reunion held at the New Lowell community centre was well attended with 134 resent Harold Fockner of Mission City Stan Fockner and Michael Johnstone of Ottawa and Mr and Mrs Wes Kee of Fort Lauderdale Fla were among the visitors Others were present from Hamilton Toronto Dundas Aurora Downsvicw West Hill Mississauga Braccbridge Barrie Not tawa Collingwood Stayner Minesing Wasaga Beach Elmvale Utopia and sur roundingareas Mr Ev Mumberson of Sunset Manor Collingwood spent Monday with Mrs Marj Clark and also called on friends in this area Mr and Mrs Chuck McNabb and children of Angus spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Charlie McNabb andboys Congratulations to Sherilt Lee Monkhouse who on Sun day celebrated her first Com munion at Brentwood Church Mr and Mrs Hason of Scarborough Mrs County Centre roof checked MIDHURST Staff roofin problem at the Coun ty ministration centre building which resulted in some leakage earlier is receiving attention Simcoe County councillors were ad vised yesterday Chairman of the property committee Deputy Reeve Don Hennessy of Not tawasaga reported progress in committee report In another report Deputy Reeve Hennessy committee gave figures to show building maintenance and rental re venue was within its budget stimates for the first three months of the year The report listed expen ditures of $4604751 out of cars budget of $184000 eaving balance of $13795249 for the remaining nine months Besides the chairman members of the property committee include Reeve Peter Cameron of Alliston Reeve Sheridan McGinty of Beeton Reeve Gordon Priestman of Matchedash Deput Reeve Charles Simp son Oro and the warden Reeve Orville Hughes of West Gwillimbury Maureen Hason of Waterloo Mr and Mrs John Rainey and family of Barrie Mrs Lee Monkhouse Mrs Linda Richardson and Liza all spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Paul Monkhouse and family PERSONALS Mr and Mrs Charlie Tam bouriie spent Saturday even ing with Mrs Flynn in Co irigwtxxi Mr Andy McPherson of Aurora called on Mr and Mrs Tambourne on Wed nesday Mr and Mrs Bill Duff daughter rid friend of Barrie spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Don Duff Mr and Mrs Allen Gon neau spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Alex Landry in killingwood Mr and Mrs Doug Carter of Barrie spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Harry Pro sser and attended the Legate Walker wedding on Satur day Nanci White of Toronto spent the weekend at her homeherc Bob Martin of Collingwood called on many people in the area on Sunday Mr and Mrs Larry Hiltz attended the LegateWalker wedding dance on Saturday night Mr and Mrs Maurice McArtliur and Krista of Stayner spent Sunday Even ing with Mr and Mrs Bruce Thomas and girls Mr Ken Gibson of Toronto spent the weekend with Mrs Lizzie Darden Mr and Mrs Harry Hope Toronto spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Norris Hope Mr and Mrs Martin lainers of Midland spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Lainers Mr Iheo Peters of Holland is vacationing with his sister Mrs Lamers Mr and Mrs Jim ONeil and family nt the weekend with Mr an Mrs BillK rluk at Clarkson and atten ed nephews wedding there Mr Ed Legate of Victoria 80 is vacationing with nelatives in the area and also attended the Legate Walker wedding on Saturday Mr and Mrs Eddie Regan Mr and Mrs Connie Pridham and Kim Mr and Mrs Bill Frew and family all of Angus spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Harry Mans bridge Mr and Mrs Reeves Snow spent the weekend with Mrs Helen Holmes in Tolsonburg Cindy Dtiff and Bev Scott spent the weekend in Quebec with their school French Class Wasaga Beach council which is headed by Mayor Clair Robertson is now serv ing the third year of three year term as the first council since town status was achieved in January 1974 Reeve Duane Patfield and Deputy Reeve Marjorie Dyer are the county represen Tottenham dam repairs tatives while councillors in clude Ted Gordon Carl Mit chell Russell Pogue and Walter Borthwick The extended term was authorized to enable Wasaga terms to coincide with that of county school boards They will revert to two years star tingin January given board approval ANGUS Repairs to the Tottenham Dam in the amount of $59520 will be started this month the Not tawasaga Valley Conserva tion Authority board decided at meeting here The repairs expected to be completed by July include rebuilding of the millrace structure and installation of new stoplog mechanism for better control of the pond level The Village of Tottenham gave the mill pond the dam and the surrounding land to the NVCA several years ago The Ontario ministry of natural resources will give grants for 75 per cent of the cost with the remaining 25 per cent or $16400 to be paid by all member municipalities the NVCA Actual repairs will cost $42600 with engineering and contingency costs making up the total The project was approved by vote of 12 to with some members arguing that the Village of Tottenham should be designated benefitting municipality and pay 50 per cent of the NVCAs cost Auctioneers get licences MIDHURST Staff Five applications for auctioneer licences were approved by Simcoe County council at its May meeting yesterday The approval was given after report was presented from the finance committee headed by Reeve Bill Gibbins of Innisnil It said all five ap plicants fulfilled re quirements of the county bylaw and were issued tem porary 60day licences pen ding councils decision The applicants were Mrs Kathleen Hamelin of RR Midland Homer Stephens of Mississauga Rudy Enz mann of Calgary Alberta Merlin Jutzi of Kitchener and Paul Lean of RR Roseneath yo ure 0f over 611 more free on anlsing deposits semces Pay less on cheques Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation WCTORM and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 MANAGER BENVENUTI ACCOUNTANT MIRTIISCH SIDE OF BEEF HIND OUARTER BEEF LOIN 35 DUNLOP ST 7371411 CUSTOM CUT DOUBLE WRAPPED AND FAST FROZEN AT NO EXTRA COST CHICKENS PORK CHOPS WE ALSO CARRY COLD MEATS MILK SAUSAGE WIENERS BREAD ETC Open SunlMon May 23 24 FREDS QUAllTY MEATS an Ytthil SI iiwi lAlNSWItiix PHONE 72mm =lll Milli Halli

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