Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 17 Sep 1976, p. 6

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uaul lfikflWAV lt or own nuiwirhrl WIvlull UUHII uv LESLEY GORDON City hires coordinator for mentally retarded plan Mmt Ontario municipalities offer variety of recreation programs for children teen agers adults and senior citizens But few have any programs for the mentally or physically handicapped Barrie will soon be one of the few The city is making use of $10000 grant from the ministry of community and social ser vices for the development of special recreation programs Lesley Gordon 25 is the first step in the development Mrs Gordon was hired by the city recreation department as the project coordinator for the specialized recreation services Basically her job is to prepare program for the men tally and physically handicap pedin the city She comes to the city with im pressive qualifications in cluding bachelor of artsin recreation from the Universxty of Waterloo and an interdis ciplinary masters degree in theraputic recreation lphysical education and specia educa tion from the University of Oregon There is no real other recreation program in the ci ty she said This should become part of every munic ipalitys recreation program Mrs Gordon is preparing program for the mentally re tarded in the city working with various existing organizations including the Adult Rehabilitia tion Centre The program should be star ting within the next two mon ths she said adding it depends on the response from the public NEEDS MORE PEOPLE ill try to develop volunteer core for the pro gram she said If the pro gram is going to succeed it for the have to help with integration of the handica ped into society difference between regu recreational programs and special recreational programs There are alternative motives league in the city We must develop the league at the local level she said According to the guidelines grant the programs Mrs Go on said integration is not the sole aim of the project which will also offer the han dicapped something to do while teac and living skills ing crafts sports skills She said there will be fitness activities active and quiet games and social activities and clubs This she said is the maljor ar PEOPLE AND PLACES Couple Wed TROPHIES AWARDED Trophies will be awarded at the closing dinner for members of the Shanty Bay Golf and Country Club Girls Association Sept 29 The trophy for the to golfer in the busmess girls club cham pionship has been donated by Chris Mitchell and will be presented by Jay Glasman president The dinner will be held at River Garden Restaurant with Helen Monger and Margaret Coutts in charge of ar rangements 106th BIRTHDAY The West Oro Baptist Church is celebrating its 106th birthday Sept 26 at 11 am and 730 pm at the church Pastor Ledrew will be speaker RETURN HOME Mr and Mrs Harry Kirk have returned home after spen ding few days in South River BACK FROM COTTAGE Mrs Viola Dunn returned home recently after spending three weeks at her cottage at Wasaga Beach WEDDING GUESTS COOKSTOWN Eldridge and Marjorie were guests at the Catonia Wolfe wedding and reception in Brad ford recently BIG SISTERS The Big Sisters Association has new telephone number 7372092 Aileen Carroll All potential big sisters and all who know potential little sister are invited to call Ap plicants will be interviewed and matched by Marilyn Kornyk and Jeanne Harris will inter view and match The associa tion also will hold discussion group for current and potential big sisters the last Wednesday of each month Call the new number for time and location The Sept 29 meeting will begin at8pm BIRTHDAY BELL EWART Susan Huf fett celebrated her 87th bir thday recently Mrs Ituffett and her husband Bill have been married 70 years BREADMAKING breadmaking demonstra tion will be given Sept 29 at 730 pm at Consumers Gas by Lorraine Labelle home ec onomist with Robin Ilodd Multifoods NAMED MANAGER Donna Brockman of Curtis Court teacher will serve as campaign manager for may oralty candidate Willard Kin zie Mr Kinzie has announced Mr Kinzie ma or of Barrie from 1957 throug 1961 an nounced his candidacy this week He is the fourth entrant in the race Mrs Brockman teaches men tally retarded children at Sun ny Park Nursery and has been active in such community work as the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal and with her husband projects of the Opt timist Club of Barrie She will assist Mr Kinzie in his race against Mayor Dorian Parker and alderman Ross Ar cher and Jim Perri SEXUALITY AND FAMILY LIFE The Barrie Family Life Association is presenting six rt course on sexuality and amily life starting Sept 28 at 730 at Barrie Central Col legiate The course will con tinue for five consecutive Tuesdays Dr Barrett and Mrs Barrett will speak Sept 28 on clarifying sexual values VISIT IilLLSIALE Mrs Mar garot Vollick of St atharincs visited with Annlavcnp0rt sopfe and behind the special programs apart from simply having fun want to make the program long range so it will not stop when the grant runs out she said This program for the mentally retarded will be needs more people than my self She said according to ministry survey there are about 150 mentally retarded living in the city who could benefit from vents The Barrie Examiner Friday Sept 17 I976 organized recreational ac tivities One of the easiest types of recreation programs is sports league she said and plans are under way for floor hockey 300 flying farmers expected on weekend As many as 300 flying farmers are expected in Barrie this weekend What you may ask are fly ing farmers The answer is simple they are farmers with airplanes who belong to the Ontario Flying Farmers OFFi The OFF is holding its 14th annual convention at the Con tintental inn in Barrie this weekend and farmers from across Ontario and few from other parts of North America are expected to arrive Friday night and Saturday morning Since they are flying in says Barb Wilcox of Bradford one of the organizers the attendance depends heavily on the wea ther But the OFF belongs to the International Flying Farmers and Mrs Wilcox hopes for some representation from the United States The OFF has activities planned for the visitors on the weekend in addition to the regular business meetings There will be bowling and tours of Simcoe County Nursery Springwater Park and local television station The high point of the weekend for the OFF will be banquet Saturday night when new Queen and Farmerette will be crowned McCrone and Bailey top northsouth at bridge Shirley McCrone and Lea Bailey were first in northsouth play Sept 10 at the Barrie Duplicate Bridge Club Dave Higgins and Gary Ed munds were second and Mary Woodstock and John Kilby were third In eastwmt play Dr John Postnikoff and Rick Sexby were first Jean Carruthers and Barb ZMenezes were second and Ella Swain and Olive Herse tied ithird with Marg Powel and CLAM cnowoan tblsps diced salt pork tbispsi Butter margarine tbls chopped onion cup iling water cups potato cubes tsp salt few rains 110 can biggeclams cups scalded milk golden brown and onion cook until water potatoes salt and pep per cover Boil 15 minutes stirring occasionally Add clams with liquid heat Add milk season to taste serve at once Serves lIIIIIIIIOIIII STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE So simple to do youll be sur prised Serves 1V lbs round steak V2 lb kidney 14 cup flour la tsp salt V4 tsp Pepper Frontouunonanra In Or saute sal rk in butter until crisp Add golden Add Maude Metcaife In play Monday Sept 13 for the presidents cup Win Condor and Olive Hersey were first in northsouth play Ernie Irvine and John Haaell were second and Scottie Church and Helen Rowe were third In eastwest play Elaine Evans and Ella Swain were first Marg Flewelling and Bill Purvis were second and Betty Cunningham and Joyce Betts were third TODAYS RECIPE tblsp chopped onion tblsp minced parsley 12 lbmushroomssliced water or stock pastry for onecrust ie Cut steak an kidney intoIz inch cubes dredge in flour season with salt and pepper Arrange meat in greased casserole add onion parsley mushrooms and sufficient water to cover meat Cover casserole bake in 350 degrees oven hour or until meat is almost tender Remove cover top casserole with pastry prick crust to allow steam to escape Return to 450 degress oven 15 minutes or until crust is browned USED IN SPORTS Garrison finish became part of the American sporting language when jockey Edward Garrison won most of his races in the last iurlong model for all handicapped pro grams PART OF COMMUNITY Mrs Gordon said ople have to realize the menta ly retarded are part of the community and not just an extension of it She said the more people who become involved the better the program is in the city Anyone who has special interest or skill and wants to transfer this to special group could do this through an organized recreation pro gram she said Mrs Gordon who was raised in Barrie will live in the city with her husband an instructor at Georgian College She worked in number of centres for the mentally re tarded including Orillia Penetanguishene and Grav enhurst became involved in the mentally retarded for purely selfish reason she said ap plied to the Orillia centre dur mg the coOperative program at Waterloo to be close to home Kiwanis Club presidents honored at dinner at Holiday Inn Kiwanis club president over the past 20 years will be honored Sept 20 when mem bers meet for presidents night at the Holiday Inn Three new members will also behonored The evening will begin with cocktails at 530 followed by dinner Presidents to be honored in clude John Bowden Jack Luke Bruce Owen James Green halgh Jack Butler George Caldwell George Leggett Maurice MacLaren Itoy Macklem Bill McCreary Jack Slessor Walter Steckley Norn Synnott Ken Walls Roy Christie Bill Craig Neil Mac Sept 20 Donald Ross Stephens Gil Smith and Tony Iearic An installation of officers night will be held Sept 27 also at the Holiday Inn when Lt gov Ken Iteimcr of the Scenic City Club of Owen Sound and iov Dr Ken Smith of Kit chener will conduct the stallation ceremony Officers include John Day president Ralph McCartney in first vice president Don Faragher second vice Roy Macklem secretary James Grecnhalgh treasurer John Bowden past president Director include Don Arnoldi Ray Burgess Bob Jackson Jim Paul Wayne Pennctt Mike Wieder and llarvie White THE OMBUDSMAN for the Province of Ontario announces that members of his staff will be available for private interviews at THE COUNCIL CHAMBER BARRIE CITY HALL 84 COLLIER STREET BARRIE ONTARIO from 1000 om to 900 pm Friday October 1976 for individuals groups organizations and their representatives who wish to bring complaints to his attention These interviews shall be conducted in private due to the obligation on the Om budsmon to make no disclosure of any information received It would be appreciated although not essential if individuals groups organizations or their representatives wishing to present briefs or statements or lodge compoims provide copies of such material prior to the above dates addressed to The Ombudsman Sixth Floor 65 Queen Street West TORONTO Ontario MSH 2M5 on Sept 11 SHIRLEY JENNETT Co dwater United Church was the setting for the wedding ceremony Sept 11 when Frances Mary Gleadall of RR Coldwater and Kerry Wesley Purcell of Painswick were mar ried Officiatingl clergyman was Rev Keit Brown of Markdale Mrs Shirley Eplett of Coldwater provide tradi tional wedding music at the organ The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Gleadall of RR Coldwater and the groom is the son of the late Mr and Mrs Charles Purcell formerly of Monetville Given in marriage by her father the bride wore the wed ding dress wom by her mother on her wedding day 25 years ago The gown was of ivory satin with long sleeves lace trim and cathedral train and she wore matchin ivory satin slippers Her head ressofivo lace featured waist lenglth tulle veil and she carried bou quet of yellow roses and white carnations Jo ce Gleadall of Coldwater was er sisters bridesmaid and her pale green polyester gown trimmed in yellow featured short puffed sleeves Veeck empire waistline and flared bottom panel Her shoes were of white satin and she carried basket of yellow daisies The best man was Micheal Purcell of Orillia brother of the groom and the ushers were Bill Gleadall of Coldall of Cold water cousin of the bride and Kell Purcell of Parry Sound bro er of the groom Following reception at the United Church Auditorium the couple left for honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls On their re turn they will live in Painswick Outoftown guests came from Guelph Parry Sound Monetville Washago Toronto Plenetang Markdale and il ia Fund raising concerts aim Fundraising for victims of world disasters is the object of Christian musical concerts tonight sponsored by Glory Land Productions and Men nonitc Committee groups One of many concerts being sponsored throughout Ontario tonights concert will feature Dave Chapman and Sweet Spriit contempory folk music group attir30and930pm Glory Lands Productions will provide top name artists and groups for victims of recent id sasters such as the flooding in Elmira the hurricanes in the United States and earthquake victims in Guatemals China and Japan Central it They accept me as am says girl in survey course Maureen Edwa rd decided she wasnt cut out for office work after two and half years answering phones taking messageaarvifiling She wanted to meter reader for Ontario Hydro But nodice They kept saying there were no openings said the zfryean old former Barrie high school student now enrolled at Georgian College SO instead of reading metres she decided to trade in her files and her office dresses for pair of overalls some survey equ1p ment and 18 male peers Maureen is the first female enrolled at the Barrie campus with survey as her primary course Other girls have taken the course but majored in another technology area The only thing about this job is that have about $500 worth of clothes Ill probably never wear again said the blonde Eastview Secondary School graduate in an interview My father is an engineer and thought Id like to try surveying Im liking it so far she said Hank Elliott course instruc tor is elated that more girls are taking courses such as survey Theres no reason why they shouldnt The other girls have been excellent students Says Maureen had no trouble adjusting The guys are more willing to accept you as you are today The two year program aims to prepare techniciam who can assist surveyors in the field and Blouses by EIite Tall Jay Sweafers FASHIONS Surrey Classics And host of other fine clothing all at Sherrys regular low prices com nications MAUREEN EDWARDS in the office Subjects include mathemat ics physics survey drafting geometry photogrammetry plane surveying spherical trigonometry and astronomy Tuesday was the second day Mr Elliott had his first year students out in the field apply ing their newlyacquired basic measuring skills More and more girls are getting into this type of work Mr Elliott said And its great Any of the girls who have taken the course have been steadying influence on the guys They were all good stu dents and created bit of com petition he said Janet Young survev technician student who grad uated from the Owen Sound Campus said she took the course because she wanted to be best at something She chose survey out of pure in terest in the work Maureen says survey is for anybody who wants it male or female Id suggest it to other girls When was in school wanted to take engineering but never followed it up wasnt en couraged The problem with many girls is they have negative at titude in the beginning about certain jobs says Maureen They dont think they can do it Iknow can Maureens father Ray an engineer in Blind River where the family moved year ago supported Maureen when she decided to take the course And for those Creative at Heart Fine Quality Millends Millends Make Sewing less ex and Sherry Makes Millends less expensive all of pensive less then Price if Ive gotten lot of positive reactions from both my parents and my friends New in Town Youll find friend where you see this sign For more Iniormation tall 7261454 01 7286331 1U euew ii

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