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Hearing goes on By JIM DALZIEL Examiner Staff Reporter 0R0 STATION hand shake deal has been made for establishment of pool pro ducts factory at Guthrie the Ontario Municipal Board 0MB was told here Wednesday Douglas Young president of Convertible Pool Products In ternational Ltd said he would like to build 50000 squarefoot factory in the industrial park proposed by Ray Campbell Enterprises At public hearing the OMB is considering an emendment to Oro townships official plan and rezoning which would allow the 113acre industrial park eight miles northeast of Guthrie Convertible Pools Ltd would occupy the largest lot in the park covering 35 acres The hearing entered its fourth day today with public participation scheduled to start at 1030 am Argument is ex pected to continue Friday Mr Young said his company has also offered to build 50 metre swimming pool for dis play and public use on the fac tory lot NOT CARROT That is genuine sincere effort as an industrial member of the community Its not to be construed as carrot he said The company is selling its main plant in Scarborough but there are plans to continue us ing it until new and expan dable site is found Producing 2500 plastic pool units per year the Convertible Pools factory could be expected to generate traffic including 350 trucks carrying finished pro ducts Later in the hearing traffic engineer Grant Bacchus said the industrial park could add 2000 vehicles day to the traf fic on Highway 11 representing an increase of 10 to 12 per cent Mr Youngs criticism of AFTER THE FOURTH day of an Ontario Municipal in Oro engineer Board hearing township hall Scarboroughs tight bylaw regulations brought rise from lawyer Lloyd May represen ting objectors Ross Bradley and Stephen Davie While he criticized the boroughs fire regulations Mr Young said the Guthrie plant would have good system of sprinklers and fire ex tinguishers The plant would operate 24 hours day Monday to Friday with shipping from am to pm No fire protection is to be pro vided by the developer said Doug Skelton engineer with Skelton Brumwell and As sociates Ltd He said fire hydrants would require water at rate of 500 gallons per minute but the in dustrial park is to be served by well giving only 100 gallons per minute an an Doug Skelton describes 113acre industrial park pro posed at Guthrie Rezoning and an official plan amende If someone had dangerous industry he would locate it in an area with fire protection Mr Skelton said Questioned by Mr May he said fire in the industrial park in unlikely to read because of the large lots or each of 30 in dustries N0 PROBLEMS Traffic engineer Grant Bac chus said he anticipates no traf ic problems with the industrial development noting the over passes and median barrier planned for Highway 11 He discounted heavy use of ment are required for the development Objectors have expressed concern about in creased traffic along the scenic Shanty Bay Road south of Highway 11 along the lakeshore but he said workers who settle in Shant Bay could beexpected to uset atroad During crossexamination Mr May noted that trucks leav ing the 4th Line would not reach the speed limit of 50 miles per hour before turning off Highway 11 to use the overpass planned at the 5th Line Construction of highway im provements could begin next spring Mr Bacchus said Alfred Sobanski of Hydrology Consultants Ltd said there the Therm Examiner The Barrie Examiner Thursday Sept l6 1976 LOCAL AND GENERAL BAHAIS MEET The Bahai community of Bar rie plans public meeting featuring Bahai speaker Friday at pm at the Mu nicipal Savings community room 20wen St EVENING COURSES Registrations are now being accepted by the Continuing Education Division of Georgian College for its fall program of evening and parttime courses More than 100 careeroriented credit and special interest courses are being offered in the Barrie area For brochures and further information call the college at 7284951 or drop in to the College Services building at the Barrie Campus Evening registration for parttime fall courses will be held Sept 20 21 and 22 from to 10 pm at the college Most courses start early in October SQUARE DANCING The Borden Squaretimers start their season of square dancing Monday at 830 pm at Joseph Kaeble School Cana dian Forces Base Borden Al Calhoun has given special in vitation to new dancers For more information contact Roy Yorke 7289614 Dr Ray Bowls 7261967 COFFEE BREAK Bay International Com munications CB radio club is holding coffee break Sept 18 and 19 at Molsons Park Any member of the public whether radio operator or not is in vited Proceeds go to the muscular dystrophy and dia betic associations Admission is $150 per adult with children under 12 admitted free Camp ing is available though there are no hookups HIKE PLANNED The Blue Mountain Bruce Trail Club will hold ninemile hike along the Bruce Trail south of Collingwood Sept 18 The hike will begin at Pine Tree Sideroad and lead through farmland hardwood forest high rock faces and the Noisy River Valley to Lavender Hikers should meet at 10 am at Duntroon and bring lunch All are welcome For further information call Bill Bateman at 7269508 DIABETIC ASSOCIATION After the hospital what then will be the topic of panel discussion at meeting of the Huronia and district branch of the Canadian Diabetic Association Sept 22 at pm in the 3C lecture room at Barrie Royal Victoria Hospital doc tor nurse dietitian and diabetics will discuss various aspects of posthospital care of diabetics Panel chairman will be Esther Hermosa nursing director of home care service CHRISTIAN MOVIE The film Stranger in my Forest featuring adventure with spiritual message will be shown from to pm Sept 24 at Georgian College Theatre PWP CONFERENCE The annual Canadian zone conference of Parents Without Partners will be held Sept 24 to 26 at the Continental Inn at Bar rie About 400 delegates from across Canada are expected GOSPEL CONCERTS Dave Chapman and Sweet Spirit will appear at Georgian College Theatre Friday in two Gospel music concerts at 630 and 930 pm Tickets are $350 in advance $450 at the door and are available at the Good News Book Store in Bayfield Mall and at Steingard Photo Studios at 11 Clapperton St as well as the Gospe Book Store in Collingwood Bonthron Book store in Orillia and from Lloyd Brillinger 4282622 in Stayner VESPRA MEETING MIDHURST public meeting on the effects of annex ation on Vespra Township will be held Monday at pm in Midhurst Community Centre ANGUS PLAN ANGUS Essa Twonships planning board will hold public open house Sept 23 to present the revised draft of the secondary land use plan for the Angus area Public comments on the plan are invited The open house will be held at Lions Hall on Highway 90 in Angus ART SHOW The Sandycove Acres Palette Club will hold its third annual exhibit of paintings and sket chesSept 23 from230to7pm at the Hub Sand cove Acres Teaandcoffeewil beserved SQUARE DANCING square dance club with Mac Marcellus as caller will begin sessions Monday at Chur chill Hall frOm to 1030 pm Beginning and secondyear dancers are welcome For more information call 7263570 LEADERS NEEDED Male or female leaders are needed to help with the Cubs of new Scout group being for Steepness of roads slope considered by city planners How steep should sl0pe be on major road in the city This is one of the questions facing the Barrie Planning Board with the Deerwood Developments Ltd draft plan of subdivision The board put off any deci sion on the plan for the area north of Edgehill Drive and west of First Street until after members make an onsite in spection Rick Jones city planner said the 38acre plan has 275 housing units including 86 semi detached units 49 street townhouses and 140 block or condominium townhouses The major collector road proposed for Residential District splits the plan in the middle and is needed to provide access to larger developments south of Cundles Road exten sion Mr Jones said the parkland dedication includes five percent of the 38 acres and ravine watercourse area of five acres Charlie Wilson member of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce questioned the lo cation of the major road say ing it should continue along the half lot line of the property In plans prepared for District the road curves just north of Edgehill Drive because of steep slopes Mr Jones said if the road continued straight the slope would be considerably steeper than the present proposed loca Board defers decision on Barcor store plan Barrie Planning Board defer red any decision on rezoning application by Benmore Con struction Ltd for 4270 square feet of canant buildin The board this wee sent the pro al back to the planning an engineering departments for further study and report in two weeks The application was made in the spring Barbara Marshall represen tin Barcor told the board the bui ding at 357 Bayfield St has been partly vacant for 18 mon thliliiss Marshall said the de veloper hopes to attract new business with rezonnig which will permit the neighborhood retail type of store including milkvariety store She showed the board plan which included oneway en trance from Bayfield Street and an entranceexit on Cundles Road Most people in the area she said seem to support the idea of local milkvariety store The only other store in the area is on Ferris Lane Graydon Richardson board chairman said the application was sent to the zoning commit tee and has been kicked arounda lon longtime think it hooves the board to come up with some kind of decision he said We should reach some kind of conclu sion tion But Bayfield Street has heavy grade Mulcaster Street does and Ann Street does Mr Wilson said think the road is in the wrong place SHOULD BE POSITIVE Mr Wilson said streets are rmanent in the city and the ard should be positive of the best location before making decision Ald Jim Perri board member said the city engineer ing department told the board it is almost impossible to build road along the half lot line because of the steep slope Once that road is built its there forever he said We should make sure thats exactly where we want it Ald Perri suggested the site ins ction because of the road an the problems perserving an existing pond on the property The road runs north and east of the pond and Mr Jones said about one per cent of its area will be lost because of treat ment to hold the banks In an earlier report to the board the city planning depart ment recommended against saving the pond because of the high cost in trying to save it from pollution ecause of development The department said the con struction will degrade the pond through possible destruction of the artesian conditions The pond is believed to spring fedl by artesian conditions in the s01 The planning board decided to save the pond even though the necessary measures are very expensive and will become the citys responsibility in the future med at Guthrie Registration will be held for the group at pm Sept 23 at Guthrie United Church hall Those in terested in helping out should telephone 4872503 CHILDRENS AID The regular monthly meeting of the Simcoe County Childrens Aid Society board of directors will be held Tuesday at pm at the societys of fices in the County Administra tion Centre Midhurst OPENING TEA The Simcoe County chapter of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of One tario will hold its opening tea to welcome new teachers Monday at 730 pm at Huronia Centen nial school in Elmvale YEARS PROBATION Cory Privitera 19 of Barrie was put on probation for one year in provincial court Wednesday Privitera had been found gui ty Sept by Judge Nadeay of stealing over $200 worth of meat from Mir acle Mart in the Bayfield Mall HAWK WATCH The Brereton Field Naturalists Club will hold hawk watch Saturday Par ticipants should meet at south Centennial Park at 1230 or at Horseshoe Valley at 115 pm For further information call Vi vian Bell 7285283 NATURALISTS The Brereton Field Naturalists Club will meet Se 24 at Cundles Heights Sc 001 Business meeting will begin at 730 pm with pro gram at8pm BALM BEACII DRAW The Georgian Shores Sw inging Seniors of Balm Beach have had another successful car lottery The winner of the Building Fund Car Draw is Sidney Gilbert of Bracebridge with ticket number 3001C The draw was made Saturday by Miss Balm Beach 1976 Over the last two years the senior citizens club has collected about $51000 from its draws with good portion used for the senior citizens building fund Some club members are help ing with the construction HOUSING POLICY Barrie Planning Board is holding special meeting Sept 28 at pm to discuss the citys housing policy statement The statement was sent to the board for comment in the spring and public meeting was held in Ju The board has not made ecision on the statement RECREATION MEETING The Barrie Recreation Ad visory Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday Se 23 at4 pm at cit hall major points of iscussion are the need for third beach area and an intorduction of Lesley Gor don thera utic recreationist with the epartment who is preparing special programs for the mentally retarded Transferred DORCHESTER NB CP James Lawrence Hutchison one of two convicted murders of two Moncton NB licemen has been transferr from the penitentiary here to Millhaven penitentiary in Kingston Out prison official here says Tomm Epp assistant direc tor of the penitentiary said the transfer was part of policy to put longterm prisoners in two maximumsecurity in stitutionsMillhaven and the correctional and development centre in Laval Que Hutchison and Richard Am brose were convicted of mur dering two Moncton policemen in December 1974 Highway 11 The hearing is expected to end Friday Ex aminer Photo should be no difficulty in fin ding enough water for the development We believe there is good chance water will be there he said Are you prepared to guarantee that Mr May asked Im not in the insurance business Mr Sobanski replied He said his estimates were made on the basis of local water well records Test drill ing is expensive he said and construction of well would cost at least $25000 Mr Skelton said storm water runoff will increase by about 16 per cent with development of the industrial park possiny making necessary larger cu verts under the 4th Line and Highway 11 No agreements have been made with an adja cent landowner nor the ministry of transportation The ministry has made no ob jection to the industrial plan which has also been supported by Oro township council With bylaw provisions the developer has satisfied con cerns of the ministry of en vironment and the Simcoe County District Health Unit regarding water use and sew agedisposal During Wednesdays hearing OMB panel chairman Alfred Chapman described rule of thumb while ruling on ad missability of letter of ap proval from the health unit man should be able to do with his land what he wants Mr Chapman said If the man is challenged in what he is doing he should have the right to crossexamine whoever is making an objec tion he said Vandals drivers city hall give Downtown Board headaches Vandals drivers and city hall have combined to give the Downtown Improvement Board headaches over its tree planting project Current problems involving the 100 or so trees planted by the board over the past few years include vandalism which has broken an extimated 25 of the 80 to 100 nd slabs which surroun the trees at sidewalk level an order from city hall to BOB HOLLYWOOD correct sidewalk toetri caused by settling of the slabs another cit order to move two trees sai to be blocking the sidewalk on Mulcaster Street on the east side of the bottom of the hill and the loss of two trees on Dunlop Street West at the southeast corner of Maple Street to an errant driver It will cost $1050 to replace the broken slabs and repair the toe trips the board learned at its Wednesday meeting and another $351 to move the Mulcaster Street trees to the Dunlop and Maple location to replace the trees destroyed by the driver Board chairman Doug Cherry said most of the slabs appear to have been broken by vandals it would take at least two he said who lifted them out of place and dropped them on the sidewalk GROUPS OF FOUR The slabs are arranged in ps of four around the bases of the trees The groups cannot be replaced by Single slabs or poured concrete because the spaces between slabs are to let moisture in Bob Hollywood board secretary told the meeting If anyone can go around at random and lift stones and steal park benches it could go on forever board member Karl Schulz said One of two benches placed by the board at Memorial uare has disappeared Cherry said repairing the toe tri may be an ongoing job as wel because of the possibili ty of continued settling The ci ty has received three com laints from residents the rd was told Mr Cherry said the board would have to repair the trips or the city will do the work and send them the bill Neverthe less at least one board member is convinced the toe trips STU GREEN Oro horse is third in Beeton fair race BEETON After shaky start Tom MacKenzie of Hawkestone guided his horse Hes Diller to third place close finish in one of the feature sulky races at Beetons 1976 fall fair Wednesday afternoon The 12yearold gelding owned by Gladys MacKenzie was just length and half behing the winner Lawrence drived by Clarence Rutledge fouryearold Thomas Hawlea from Mississauga finished second with Wayne McClure handling the reins The three horses were all ex tended down the home stretch of the half mile track to provide an exciting finish for some 3000 spectators Stan Beau driven by Graham of King township was close fourth and Somer villes Casa Lee was fifth Dr Holmes was racing secretary in charge with Harry Cross committee chairman Despite threatening skies and few drips of rain just before noon there was good turnout which was increased by 1700 school children who scattered around the grounds after taking part in noon parade Midway rides which included loopthe loop roller cars sky boats and the traditional merrygoround were enjoyed by throngs of youngsters The fair was formally opened at stage ceremony by Miss Dominion of Canada Pamela Mercer of Burnaby The attractive darkbrown haired girl was enthusiastically greeted with applause The youngsters kept her busy for about half an hour signing autographs said Dr McKelvey past resi dent of the Beeton Agricu tural Society and former reeve who presi ed for the ceremony She must have signed at least 150 autographs Along with the sulky races the horse and pony show re ceived the most attention on the grounds There were nine en tries in the draft pony class and also pony teams from Bar rie Guthrie Orillia Minesing Painswick Stroud and New market Beattie Brothers of Stayner were main winners in the heavy horse classes with Russell Uncles of RR Elmvale winn ing the commercial horse hitch There was large entry in farm produce and domestic science classes which were viewed with interest by spec tators Mrs Arnold of Queensville was leading win ner in vegetable sewing and baking classes Simcoe Manor entries were awarded the most points for plants and flowers President of the Beeton Agricultural Society Grenville McCague and other officials were pleased with the turnout in view of the weather It was estimated some 12000 attended during the two days of the fair slightly more than last year caused in downtown sidewalks Compared to the sidewalks its nothing member Stu Green said POSE HAZARD The two trees on Mulcaster were planted with city permis sion but Mr Hollywood said ci ty officials have decided they pose hazard to pedestrians and are invoking cit powers under the Municipa Act to have the hazard removed at the boards expense At present the trees are more of an obstacle than others in the downtown area because of the narrowness of the sidewalk on that part of the street In addition to vandalism and wild driving more prosaic causes have killed number of trees in other parts of the business district creating fur ther expense for the board Wednesday the board drew the line at one proposed exten sion of the problemplagued tree project declining with thanks the citys invitation to plant trees on the recently widened lower Mary Street between Dunlop and Simcoe streets But the board left the door open for the future if development in the area war rants such lantings One brig note in the often gloomy picture Mr Hollywood said after the meeting is that vandalism to trees and protec tive hardware has decreased from the early days of the pro ject when many branch was broken off while no one was looking Parking plan kept secret The Downtown Improvement Board is looking at plan which would add 75 to 100 free parking spaces in downtown Barrie But the location of the spaces and the roposed terms of the plan are ing kept secret until arrangements are com leted Stu Green parking airman for the board said after Wednesdays board meeting an announcement can be expected in week to 10 days Board members say there are 974 metered parking spaces in the downtown area at present plus an undetermined number of free spots PHONE RATES RISE TORONTO CP When Bell Canada expands its tollfree calling areas Nov 20 rates will rise for customers in the Bol ton Nobleton Bethesda and AjaxPickering areas who get tollfree calling to Metropolitan Toronto Rates will not change for customers in Metro and other areas involved from Markham to Richmond Hill to Brampton to Oakville Bell spokesman said Wednesday Hurdler missed Montreal Olympics has sights set on games in Moscow By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Reporter It isnt difficult to pick out the vehicle driven by Mike For grave from those in the arking iot at Barrie North Col egiate The miniature track shoes hanging from the trucks rear view mirror are dead giveaway Like thousands of Barrie and area students Forgrave re turned to school last week Unlike most of them he decided to pass up five univer sity scholarships to return for Gradel3 Forgrave has become Bar ries leading name in track and ield The 18yearold is also one of Canadas most promising athletes the number three ranked 400metre hurdler in the nation His exploits in this his best summer of competition in cluded first in the 400metre hurdles at the national junior track and field championships in Sudbury and at the Canadian senior championships in Re gina His winning time of 5210 seconds personal best at Sudbury stands as national record If ld been running for any country but Canada might have gone to the Olympics he comments somewhat wryly Canada did not bother in cluding 400metre hurdler in its large Olympics contingent atMontreal Forgrave notes that times between 52 and 53 seconds prevailed in man of the heats His best time ta within those boundaries However hes especially irate that there wasnt room on the team for Dave Jarvis of Grimsby the number one rated hurdler He was ripped off by the Canadian Track and Field As sociation in not bein chosen for the team He recor ed times that indicate he could have got into the semifinals if not the finals of the hurdles at the Olympics which is lot better than lot of Canadian athletes did he stated MAJOR HOPEFUL Forgraves personal goal is the 1980 Olympics in Moscow Given his youth and potential for development he looks to be the major hopeful in the 400 metre hurdles Jarvis 25 has apparently quit track after not being selected for the Olympic team The number two man in the event Gladstone Williams is four years older than Forgrave The Barrie hurdler actually defeated Williams at the senior championships but concedes he can beat me In Regina he was out of shape Forgravesa that some ro minent indivi uals in Cana ian track have told him that if keep at it there should be no way cant meet the Olympic standard Edwin Moses of the United States took 4764 seconds to clear the 10 hurdles and earn the gold medal at the 1976 Olympics Forgrave isnt within striking distance of that time but then neither were many of Moses opponents It may be another story however by 1980 In the past year Forgrave has improved is best time for the 400metre hurdles by 13 seconds He gives much of the credit to his coach Brent McFarlane of the KitchenerWaterloo Track Club For ave met McFarlane at trac and field camp in Sudbury last year and has been under his guidance since McFarlane public school teacher is the Ontario hurdles coach Hes even written book on the subject 11 Wmn IMPROVISING IN 400 metre hurdles race wont get you far Barries Mike For grave rated number three in Canada in the event says He gives me information helps structure my workouts Hes provided me with know ledge on how should run Dur ing the summer we met almost every weekend at track meets but we talk over the phone too and he sends up schedules for me through the mail said Forgrave The onus of course is always on the athlete to use the coaching to his advantage Its fact Forgrave recognizes and its the reason he puts in an average of one and half hours day of training Track is like that your own responsibility All the coach is rea ly there to do is supply information Its you that has to do the work says Forgrave Although he also competes with success in the 110metre hurdles and 400metre sprint the 400metre hurdles is his specialty As is often the case he learned of his suitability to the event somewhat indirectly In Grade and 10 used to nm the 110metre hurdles and the mmetres In Grade 11 we though of putting them together In Grade 12 two years ago we three them theres definite strata and technique involved visable is 22 strides to the first hurdle and 15 between the next nine Forgrave here together and it came out well won at the high school level was third in the national seniors won the national ju niors and set new Canadian juvenile record he relates Forgraves emergence as an athlete dates back to Grade when it became obvious that either my classmates had slowed down or got faster FINDS DIFFICULTY At the stage hes reached now in both school and track hes finding some difficulty in track keeping the two compatible start of school this year is coinciding with his first month off training since dont know when Last year tri to California with the Cana ian Olympic team meant taking month off school learned tremen dous amount down there he says adding that he met Muich Olympics silver medallist Ralph Mann in one of his races Despite running personal best he remembers being cleanly beaten They pulled few jokes on me initiation guess but think they treated me too with exercising on the Barrie North Collegiate track trains yearround The com ing of winter only means much of his work will be in some respect because was young and got that far he said There are he admits times when an athlete gets to wonder ing why youre in it why all the work and training just for matter of 50 seconds on track Yoy give up lot from your social life had no job this summer because Id have to leave at weird hours or days at time for track meets To him there are three answers to the question respect for self and from others the extensive travelling Ive been to places doubt that Id ever have seen and the glory Theres always the glory Everybody likes the ego of win ning lot of athletes wont ad mit it but everyone loves it he contends What is Mike Forgraves path to Moscow and 1980 Hes not sure et Id like to stay in Cana but right now my plans are indefinite The near future holds train ing and more training as he strives to make the Pacific Con ference team bound for Aus tralia next year doors Snow or not therell still be outside drills in his training schedule Ex aminer Photo