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Barrie Examiner, 7 Jun 1976, p. 9

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600 donors needed at Red Cross clinic At least 600 Barrie residents must give blood tonight and Tuesday if the local Red Cross is to do its share toward replenishing depleted blood supplies at the blood bank in Toronto from which emergency blood is distributed to Barrie and othercentres The blood bank is very low Gwyneth MacLaren of the Red Cross said today In es ailly short su ply she sai are type bood which only 40 units available in district which includes Don Critton president of Band Association Don Critton has been elected president of the Bar rie Collegiate Band Associa tion The association is the parents advistory group which sponsors the annual Collegiate Band Concert Series Revenue from this and other projects is used to support the extra curricular activities of the Barrie Col legiate Band from Central Collegiate At the annual meeting held recently astpresident Katherine Nixon noted the fine accomplishments of Morely Calvert band direc tor and the student musi cians who brought honors to Central and the city during the Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto She gave special thanks to those executives members and the Band Mothers Assoc headed by Madie Clark whose dediation and hard work resulted in another suc cessful season Others elected to the new executive are Howard Hamilton vicepresident Don Maxwell treasurer Morely Calvert band direc tor Doreen McConnel not only all the hospitals in Toronto but also Barrie and as far north as North Bay and type with only 132 The vast majority of Can dians have blood of one of these twot The clinic will be held from to 830 tonight at Trinity lican Church parish hall an again from to pm and to 830 pm Tuesday Last year at this time record 644 turned out to give blood Mrs MacLaren said Blood may be given by those in good health aged 18 secretary Betty McNiven director of ticket sales and historian and Andrea Cohen series programer Mr Critton was also elected director of publicity and series manager while Joyce Langford was voted his assistant Band parent representa tives are David Kaye and Don Hesser Grade 13 Fred Buckland and Vera Conroy Grade 12 Betty Mcevoy and Harry Hadden Grade 11 Evelyn Walden and Bruce Owen Grade 10 Harry Traffic was to 65 In addition 17yearold boys may give with the writ ten permission of their parents Certain helath conditions and use of certain medica tions disqualify donors Among these are aspirin or ASA if taken within the last 48 hours or allergy shots complete list of condi tions and medications will be posted outside the clinic so that tential donors need not stan in line only to learn they have been disqualified Holdcroft Doug Garroway and Edith Tikkala Grade Mr Critton pointed out that the annual concert series is the chief source of revenue for the band He also noted that the next seasons series of Shevchenko Musical Ensemble London Sym phony Orchestra Canadian Opera Company and the Bar rie Collegiate Band is un matched anywhere in music value Tickets for the four concert series cost $12 for adults and $6 for students heavy no serious accidents Ontario Provincial Police across Simcoe County de scribe traffic as bein heavy on the weekend ut no detachments reported serious accidents As an Elmvale OPP officer said There was lots of traf fic but it was all going too slow to get into trouble There were six accidents in the Barrie OPP area in cluding two single car ac cidents which caused minor injuries One of ths accidents occured on Highway 400 but it did not tie up traffic Wasaga Beach OPP report quiet weekend despite peo ple flocking to the lakeshore There were no difficulties with mortorcycle clubs this weekend Parents teachers and students at Angus Public School got together Satur day to assemble adventure playgrounds at the Simcoe ADVENTURE PLAYGRO Street shown and Coulson Street schoolyards Cost of the playgrounds which feature tire domes tire tunnels graduated climb ing poles and other outlan dish structures is esti mated at $1000 all for materials since all labor was provided by volun UNDS ASSEMBLED teers Students have so far raised about $700 toward the cost and another $150 has been donated Ex aminer Photo Rewarding satisfying organ program Sunday by students of Lloyd Tufford By MURIEL LEEPER Sunday afternoon mu sicales are becoming an im portant way of life in the cultural scene here It is heartening develop ment and one that will pro duce musicians from within thecommunity Sunday the feature was organ and cello at Collier Street United Church MaryAnne Stepulaitis and Stephen Komar two young Area weekly newspaper baron makes bid for city FM licence Simcoe County weekly newspapers and CKVRTV are well represented in ap plications for an FM radio station licence for Barrie The Canadian Radio Tel evision Commission CRTC will hear two plications for the licenceTue ay Applications for the FM broadcasting licence have been made Andrew Mar kle of Markle Community Newspapers and Ralph Snelgrove of Barrie Broad castinthd The newspaper com any is the major owner Wed nesday Publishing Ltd with 100 per cent of the common and preferred shares Lau rentian Publishing Ltd 60 per cent of the common and preferred shares and Bayweb 50 per cent of the common shares Mr Markle is the principal owner with khis wife of Markle Community Newspapers owning 741 per cent of the common shares He is also listed as part onwer of Northern Life Publishing Company Ltd with 30 per cent of the com mon shares and Bayweb Ltd with 278 per cent of the preferred shares The newspaper com any IS the major owner Wed nesday Publishing Ltd with 100 per cent of the common and preferred shares Laurentian Publishing Ltd 60 per cent of the common and preferred shares and Bayweb 50 per cent of the common shares Mr Markle is the publisher of the Orillia Wednesday Nighter CollingWOod Times Midland Times Penetan guishene Citizen Elmvale Lance Wasaga Beach Times and Lakehead Living Thunder Bay All are weekly newspapers OTHER SHAREHOLDERS Other SHAY shareholders include Ron Tyler and William Linton coowners of Barries Own Newspaper Ltd publishers of The Barrie Banner freedistribution twiceaweek newspaper Mr Tyler who owns 50 per cent of Barries Own News paper Ltd will buy five per cent of the common shares and 538 per cent of the preferred shares in SHAY Mr Lonton who owns the other 50 per cent of Barries Own Newspaper Ltd will have eight per cent of the preferred shares of CHAY CHAY shareholders in cludes Arch Brown owner operator of the Barrie Cana dian Tire 10 per cent of the common shares and 1075 per cent of the preferred shares Dr Peter Savage of Coll ingWOod 10 per cent common and 1075 per cent preferred shares and Walter Bor thwick of Wasaga Beach five per cent of the common shares and 538 per cent of the preferred Other companies involved in the application are and Noble Holdings Ltd owned by John Howard and John Noble 10 per cent com mon and 1075 per cent preferred and Vonlock In vestments Ltd owned by Roger Yvonne and Mildred Lockhart 10 and 1075 per cent the Loftwood Restaurant Ltd Coll ingwood owns 10 and 1075 percent Shares are also owned by Char Holdings Ltd of Elmvale with five per cent and 538 per cent Semp Holdings Ltd Elmvale five and 538 per cent and ViDi Communications Ltd of Toronto seven per cent of the common shares and 538 per cent of the preferred shares DEBT HOLDERS Debt holders of CHAYFM are the Traders Group Ltd of Toronto with term loan of $175000 with due date of 1984 and the Canadian Im perial Bank of Commerce Toronto with $30000 operatingline of credit The station intends to hire 21 fulltime employees and 105 parttime employees Included in the parttime employees are 60 writers and 20 news and public affairs people The station has writ ten agreements with some weekly news apers in the area inclu ing Markles papers Tylers paper and the Innisfil Scope Bradford Witness and Topic ma azine The reporters an editors for the newspapers would be paid bonus for any program contribution made to CHAY During typical week with 126 operating hours 4529 hours will be used for general popular music 173 hours for advertising and station con tests 935 hours for hobbies and crafts 755 hours pro duction 657 hours back grounding 62 hours each of rock country folk and jazz music with assorted minor time for classical music religion and 45 minutes for sports The station would operate out of 49 Morrow Rd to be leased for $180 square foot 3500 uare feet of space for acosto $6300 Television station CKVR has given tentative permis sion to CHAYFM to put an antenna and equipment on its property for $30000 year CHUMowned Barrie television station owns half of second FM radio station Two shareholders are in volved in Simcoe Countys second FM radio station ap plication CKVR television and Barrie Broadcasting Corp Ltd Both companies will own 50 per cent of the common and preferred shares in the station with provision to sell the nine directors 20 per cent of the stocklater Les Cooke former Barrie mayor and chairman of the board of Cooke Cartage and Storage Ltd heads the direc tors President of the board will be Ralph Snelgrove who is the chairman of Barrie Broad casting Corp Ltd with Allan Waters president of CHUM Ltd the vicepresident and secretarytreasurer Other directors include George Harper city alderman and general sales manager of Paul Sadlon Motors Ltd David White lawyer with Stewart Esten John Mat tenley general manager of CK VRTV Robert Hunter vice president and general manager of Cooper Tool Group Ltd and John Wood vicepresident of sales for CHUM Group Television The station CJIQFM Huronia FM Ltd will operate from Barrie at 89 Collier Street with 1200 square feet of space rented for $6 foot year Equipment for broadcasting will be located at CKVRTV property with yearly rental of $12000 CKVRTV was formerly owned by Ral Snelgrove Television Ltd ut is wholly owned subsidiary of CHUM Ltd Shareholders of CHUM in clude life insurance companies assurance companies retirement funds and Allan Waters Enterprises Ltd DIRECTORS INCLUDE The directors of CKVRTV in clude Ralph Snelgrove Allan Waters Forbes of Toron to John Mattenley John Wood and Fred Sherratt of Don Mills The Waters shares in CHUM are owned by Allan Waters Family Trust Allan Waters Enterprises Ltd Amplus Ltd and Mr Waters He has 901023 of the common shares or 819 per cent and LES COOKE 499935 of the class shares or 2324 per cent The CHUM corporation owns shares in number of radio television and other companies including CFRA radio 100 per cent CJCH 920 Ltd radio 100 per cent common CJCH Ltd TV 507 per cent common Cape Breton Broad casting Ltd TV 507 per cent common Moncton Broad casting Ltd TV 507 per cent common Radio CKPT 1420 Ltd 100 per cent non voting preferred and 80 per cent common CKVR Chan nel Ltd 100 cent com mon and HU HM Produc tion Ltd film 100 per cent common Other companies which CHUM has holdings in are Major Market Broadcasts 10 per cent of the common shares Associated Broadcasting Corp Ltd 100 per cent of the preferred National Security Systems Ltd 100 per cent com mon and 100 per cent nonvoting preferred National Security Systems Toronto Ltd 100 per cent common and Goldfarb Ltd research 100 per cent of the common ALSOOWNED Also owned are Associated Broadcasting Corp West ern Ltd 100 per cent com mon and 100 per cent referr ed Associated Broa casting British Columbia Ltd 100 per cent common and 100 per cent preferred CHUM Manitoba Radio 100 per cent common and AccuTab Computers Ser vice Ltd 60 per cent common Barrie Broadcasting Cor poration Ltd is owned by Ralph Snelgrove 05 per cent of the common shares Elsie Snelgrove 2525 per cent of the common and 100 er cent of the second preferr shares Her bert Snelgrove 32 per cent common Harold Snelgrove 05 per cent of the common and Teevlyn Holdings Ltd 7035 per cent of the common Teevlyn Holdings is owned by Ralph Snel rove 01 of the common an 100 per cent of the preferred Elsie Snelgrove 1667 of the common Lyn Creelman nee Snelgrove 1666 per cent of the common Timothy Snelgrove 1666 per cent common Norman Snelgrove 1666 Elizabeth Voight nee Snelgrove 1666 Eloise Snelgrove 1666 and Van Wych 01 per cent of the common Staff requirements for the CJIQFM station are 13 full time and three part timeworkers The program lineup is headed by rockorientated music 7013 hours with general popular second at 2117 hours The station will provide 14 hours of advertising and station cdntests during the week 34 hours of human interest 306 hours of community services 234 hours of country music 237 hours of news 122 hours of sports and 115 hours of folk and jazz music each musicians of this city study ing organ with Lloyd Tufford performed on the splendid Keates Organ They were assisted by Stephen McNie Barrie cellist now com pleting his first year at University of Toronto About 50 people turned out to hear these young artists and they were rewarded by satisfying and musical pro gram Handels Fugue in minor opened the program played by MaryAnne Stepulaitis and played surprisingly well The young artist is only 13 years old and handles the in strument competently One of the best of Chorale Preludes on Aliein Gott in der Hon sei Ehr was the Allegro by Zachau It es tablished the organists technique as competent but sensitive to the demands of the composer Two Hymn Tunes were interesting and stimulating An excellent beginning for such young organist Stephen Komar took over the console of the Collier Street United Church organ and played program con sisting of Prelude and Fugue in minor by Bach Suite of Charale Preludes by Bach Walther Buxtehude and Pachelbel and Hymn Tune by Vaughan Williams The Collegiate student musician is progressing steadily under his instructor He knows the organ and is developing his own distinctivestyle Both young musicians ap peared again This time MaryAnne Stepulaitis played chariming Musical Clock by Haydn Stephen Komar concluded the concert with Trumpet Tune and Air Purcell BachGounods famous Ave Maria and Prelude and Fugue in by Bach The trio of organ pieces Eh 173mm Examiner CITYNEWS The Barrie Examiner Monday June 19769 Rexdale girl killed in Innisfil accident Rexdale teenager died Saturday evening when the van she was riding in went out of control struck hydro pole and burned in Innisfil Township Cathy Mann was passenger in van driven by Gary Styles 21 that was travelling south on the 25th sideroad near Gelnwood Beach About 835 pm while attempting to pass car driven by David Boyd 18 of Big Bay Point Styles lost control of the van according to Innisfil Township Police Police say the van hit the rear of the Boyd behicle causing $1500 damage swerved across the road and rolled over in the ditch where it hit the hydro pole The van valued at $5000 was des troyed There were seven people in the van and two are in se rious condition in Toronto General Hospital Tony Loveridge 18 and Ra Lang 20 both of Rexda were transferred to Toronto Loveridge with head in juries and Lang with spinal injuries The others in the van were treated at Royal Vic toria Hospital in Barrie and released ONE BLAZES IN Pitcher Dean Edwards blazes one in to Randy Bob bette during Saturdays tryouts for an Ontario Amateur Softball Associa tion team sponsored by Mikes Milk The team coached by John McCann will carry 15 players and will begin competition in two weeks Examiner Photo was fine conclusion to splendid musicale Bravo For technically fine pedal cadenza in the Bach Assisting artist Stephen McNie contributed by offer ing change of color and style to the recital Stephen McNie known in town having already established uite reputation for himsel as competent cellist He began his section of the concert with two movements from Corelli Sonata The cello sound is particularly ef fective in the Collier Street United Church Acoustically the church is splendid and shomehow the deep sounds of this instrument was musially appealing The artist has assurance of style and draws good sound from his instru ment McNie finished with the wellknown La Cinquitaine by Gabriel Marie charming melody that delighted the listeners Lloyd Tufford commented on various aspects of the Keates Organ throughout the recital He explained the special attributes of the splendid Positiv section which is so complete His ex planations added special dimension to the Sunday Musicale is well here Blaze destroys tree plantation fire Sunday near Spr ingwater Park in Vespra Township destroyed two acres of 50foot tall red pine trees according to Groves superintendent of the Forest Tree Nursery at Mid hurst The fire started about pm and was put out in about 45 minutes by members of the Vespra Fire Department and ministry of natural resources crews About 24 men worked onthefire The area burned was on nursery property and was part of buffer zone between Springwater Park and the Canadian Pacific Railway line The trees were original ly planted as aprt of massive reforestration pro ject in the 19205 Mr Groves says the fire probably killed the trees and the land will likely be cleared and replanted There was no nursery stock damaged in the blaze He said the fire must have been deliberately set or the result of careless use of fire or smoking Thre could be no chance of lightning causing it he said 4Mr Groves said there was some evidence that the fire was planned LOCAL GENERAL BURGAR IS GUEST Barrie lawyer John Burgar is the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Barrie Kiwanis Club tonight His topic My Profession Following the dinner meeting at the Holiday Inn club directors will hold business meeting PEANUTBLITZ The Barrie Kiwanis Clubs annual peanut blitz gets under way June 14 and 15 The blitz is to raise funds fo the clubs welfare Work Each Kiwanis members is being asked to recruit three volunteers for the doorto doorcanvass PLAYGROUND REGISTRATION Registration for the citys playgrounds is scheduled Tuesday June 15 from to pm at the nine locations Johnson Street School Codr ington Street School Steele Street School Maple Grove School Cundles Heights School Hillcrest School Prince of Wales School King Edward School and Allandale Heights School The summer trogram at the playgrounds are opened to tots 57 years old juniors 810 years old and seniors 1114 years old The cost is $10 for each child or $30 for family for the Simmer CRAFTS SALE There will be an Arts and Crafts sale June 12 in the Beeton arena from 11 am to pm The sale is organized by the Beeton Figure Skating Club and the Beeton Arena management committee and is to raise money for the arena Admission is 50 cents and there will be macrame ceramics leather crafts and other crafts for sale Anyone wishing further information can call Mrs Helen Coburn at 416 7292227 MARTYRS SIIRINE MIDLAND The Jesuit community of the Martyrs Shrine here will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foun ding of the present shrine June 26 with concelebrated Mass at 230 pm followed by reception The ceremony will also mark the 350th an niversary of the arrival in Huronia of St Jean de Brebeuf one of the most famous of the martyrs who was tortured to death nearby by the Iroquois and lies buried across the road at Ste Marie Among the Hurons SAFETY BANQUET The general manager of the Ontario Safety League will be guest speaker at the Barrie Safety Associations final banquet June 14 at the Bayshore Motel An drunyk will speak at the din ner which begins at 630 pm Lillian Jones secretary of the Association would like to hear from all members re garding attendance before June 10 OPEN HOUSES Open Houses will be held each Monday this month at the Allandale Lawn Bowling Club for those interested in learning about the sport Free instruction will be pro vided at the open houses which start at 130 pm Flat soled shoes are necessary The club is located on Essa Road Further information is available by phoning 7286012 SCHOOL MEETING Midhurst parents are try ing to start second nursery school in their community The existing one Midhurst Cooperative is filled to capacity and has long waiting list says Bonnie Smith one of the organizers Anyone interested in form ing halfday nursery school is asked to come to meeting Wednesday at her home For more information or directions call 7288678 NEWS QUIZ ANSWERS PART 1a 2lndia 3b Lockheed5c PART II 1b 2e 3a 4d 5c PART III lc 2a 3e 4b 5d PICTURE QUIZ William Bennett British Columbia Constance Hardy retires as citys chief librarian When Constance Hardy took job with the Barrie Public Library 20 years ago she had no idea her career would turn out the way it did thought was not going to stay when came here recalls Miss Hardy who retires this month as chief librarian But it was only few mon ths after she started work that the chief librarians post became available and she was named to fill it Times have changed since then Barries population was 17000 half of todays figure the library had staff of four not counting pages com pared to more than 20 today and only 22500 books lined the shelves far cry from the current figure of 95000 It wasnt as complicated as it is now Miss Hardy recalls though she notes that the small staff meant that you did everything For example cataloguing books was an important chore for Miss Hardy in her early days in Barrie but she was later able to delegate the job to subordinates and more recently books have begun coming precatalogued But increasing complexity has kept pace with increased specialization In 1956 the library had only books new5papers pamphlets and magazines in addition to which the Barrie and District Film Council made 20 films available to patrons each month Now we have films and records and video and talk ing books and cassettes she notss along with large print books shutin service art exhibits coinoperated duplicating machine an in creasing variety of activities and teletype link to an interlibrary loan system which stretches from sea to sea Theres more systems growing up all the time she says The physical setting has changed too In 1956 the library was housed in what is now the north wing but the south wing was added in 1964 and last year the childrens and film departments were moved to an annex on Mul caster Street Wed been hlmting madly for space for seveal years before the latest addition Miss Hardy recalls Even now she says space isnt what it might be Were still hoping that as soon as possible the city can afford new library she says Through all the change one fact has remained constant Miss Hardy notes Molly Brown was childrens li brarian in 1956 and she still is today Miss Hardy Toronto native spent part of her school years in Barrie before heading off to the University ofToronto After completing her studies she did secretarial work then taught high school in Northern Ontario where three years as teacher librarian led her to enrol in library science at her alma mater She resumed her career as librarian in Windsor where she spent somewhat more than year before coming to Barrie Miss Hardy says she has found her job extremely in teresting over the years You have to keep up with events so you can be knowledgeable about whats going on and what people are asking about she says Working with both books and peoplenot only patrons and staff but also members of organizations cooperating with the library in various programshave been enjoy able experiences she say Away from the library Miss Hardy has been in terested in music art travel swimming and sailing And she notes do lot of things connected with libraries out side of library hours Miss Hardy says she has no firm plans for how to spend her retirement and does not yet know whether she will stay in Barrie have to think about it theres lots of things you could do aret there she says would like to be ac tive dont want to just sit around CONSTAN CE HARDY

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