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40 teachers teaching at city night school By SHEILA MCGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter The lure of the good old school days is expected to draw over 1200 people to the Simcoe County Board of Educations Barrie night school Larry Labadie principal of the night school said more and more people are turning to the night school program as an op portunity to get out of the house and accomplish something General interest courses at tract the greatest number of people he said but there are also many people taking programs to upgrade work Qualifications In three years enrolment at the school has climbed to 1200 from 400 and we are expecting another big increase in people this year Mr Labadie said The school is in operation four nights week and em ploys about 40 teachers Were almost running another school at night he said One disappointment in past years has been the low registration in academic programs Only one credit course Grade 13 biology has been held in the past FOUR OFFERED Rather than asking people what credit courses they would like Mr Labadie has offered four specific courses Grade 12 mathematics Grade 12 and 13 English and Grade 13 biology Practical courses in the com mercial field include typing bookkeeping and shorthand and the technical areas of small engines welding and wood working The general interest courses are again varied and new programs include quilting cooking macrame and fur niture touchup complete list of courses is published on of todays Examiner New Canadians wanting to learn about the English language should register in the English and Citizenship program which is available at the basic and advanced levels The board of education has held fees to the same rate as last year However some programs which require use of the school equipment will have an additional $5 fee Senior citizens are exempt from registration fees Applicants will be accepted on firstcome firstserve basis Registration and the majority of courses will be held at Eastview secondary school Registration will be held Tuesday and Thursday between 730and930pm Mr Labadie said it is strongly advised that people register during these two days as most of programs will be filled by Thursday In addition to providing programs for the community the night school program is good public relations for the school board Mr Labadie said People are making use of the expensive buildings Provincial first for college with optical training course Georgian College will sonn become major centre for op tical training with the dispens ing optician starting in No vember at the colleges Barrie campus The twoyear postsecondary program is the first fulltime program in Ontario and is be lieved to be the only one of its kind in Canada An optician makes and sells eyeglasses and optical equip ment The Georgian program is de signed to alleviate the acute shortage of qualified dispensing Opticians which currently ex ists in the industry according to Luterbach dean of the colleges health sciences divilt sion John OHagan of London be lieves the program is long over due Mr OHagan is chairman of the board of ophthalmic dispensers of Ontario which was established in 1961 as the provincial licensing and re gulatory body Our board has been striving for very long time to have fulltime day program in troduced at college such as Georgian where the students would receive extensive prac tical lab experience as well as academic theory and related business training he said There is no doubt that the Georgian program will help raise the standards of optical dispensingin Ontario In addition to extensive study in all aspects of ophthalmic prescription and instrumenta tion work students in the pro gram will also study business communications accounting marketing retailing the law and other subjects to enable them to successfully manage dispensing business and to con tribute to the advancement of their profession Georgian already has proven expertise in the area of lens processing The college has operated 36week optical leis processing program in Pene tanguishene since 1968 This program designed to train ophthalmic technicians skilled in the manufacture of complete spectacles to prescription and in the fitting of finished lenses to frames is the only known one outside Quebec To permit consolidation and integration of optical training resources at the College the lens processing program was transferred early in September to the Barrie campus Here wellequipped labs will be used by the students of both pro grams The new dispensing optician program will be part of the col leges health sciences division and will graduate students who are eligible for licensing im mediately as dispensing opti cians under the Ontario board and in any other province or country which recognizes the Ontario boards sta ndards Anticipated enrolment during the first year of the program is 25 and applications are now be ing accepted Numerous employment opportunities exist for graduates of the program in the fitting and dispensing of eyeglass and contact lenses special frames and other devices in optical dispensary practices which have multiplied significantly in re cent years In fact survey conducted by management consultant firm demonstrated that Ontario alone requires minimum of 60 new graduates peryear Factors contributing to the high demand for qualified dispensing Opticians include the growth of retail outlets in malls where stores are open up to 72 hours per week visual testing programs in schools and the increased provision of ophthalmic devices by the ministry of community and s0 cial services Proposed legislation under the health disciplines act is also expected to have significant ef fects on the industry Mr OHagan said If approved this legislation will require that qualified dispensing optician be on the premise of an optical dispensary at all times and that all premises be licensed by the Board Those interested in the pro gram should call 7281951 Four courses offered here by university Four first year university courses will be offered by Wifred Laurier University WLU in Barrie this year along with 22 in Orillia and two at CFB Borden This is the first year WLU has offered courses in Barrie Pro grams have been offered in Orillia for more than 10 years and were begun at CFB Borden last year The Barrie program will be 25 receive degrees at WLU convocation About 25 students from Sim coe County are expected to receive degrees Nov when Wilfred Laurier University holds its first convocation ceremony in the county The convocation is scheduled for Barrie Central Collegiate WLU has been offering full credit university courses in Simcoe County for more than 10 years The extension program began at the request of elementary school teachers It has grown to campus offering courses in Barrie Orillia and Owen Sound allowing students to ob tain full degree within the county This is the first year students will actually graduate in the county During the ceremony an honorary degree will be confer red on Jack Ramsay director of education for the Simcoe County Board of Education University officials have not announced what type of degree itwill be The Barrie Cental Collegiate Band will play during the con vocation exercises Social ac tivities to accom ny the con vocation are still béeiing planned bv the elementary teachers held at Eastview Secondary School and will include so ciology on Mondays geography and psychology on Wednesdays and anthropology on Fridays The lectures run from to 10 pm beginning next week and continuing to the end of March To date more than 100 stu dents have registered for the courses English and sociology will be taught Tuesday and Thursday evenings respectively at CFB Borden These programs began this week The Orillia program will be run on Saturday with lectures being given either from am to noon or to pm at Twin Lakes secondary school There are total of 22 dif ferent courses including an thropolohy geography history philosophy physical education political science ychology sociology and re igion and culture An estimated 250 students have enrolled in the Orillia pro grams The lectures will run from October to April Tuition fee for twoterm course is $130 and $65 for oneterm program Information about the courses can be obtained by tele honing the university in Oril ia at 32fr4682 TIIE ONTARIO Flying mers held their International Miss Propwash contest Fri day night at the Continental Far Inn with women er per sons of grace and distinction left competing Miss Ab Original right alis Peter ir win founding president of the OFF finds out that if you dont pay your dues they take the shirt or part of it off your back Doug Wilcox of Bradford clips out chque for $40 The OFF is holding Decision soon its 14th annual convention at the Continental this week end Tonight there are plans for serious beauty contest following the club banquet Examiner Photos Weather keeps Flying Farmers out of the air and on the ground By JOIIN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter You dont have to be farmer to belong to the Ontario Flying Farmers but most members are According to Harry Clark of the OFF not all members are farmers but all are actively in terested in agriculture The Ontario chapter the OFF is part of the International Flying Farmers was formed in 1963 by Pete and Joyce Irwin Since then the membership has grown to just over 600 The OFF began its 14th an nual convention Friday at the Continental Inn in Barrie but there werent too man mem bers in attendance rain and generally cloudy weather over most of southern Ontario prevented members from fly ing in said Mr Clark Most of those present drove to Barrie but three families braved the weather and arrived bv airplane Mr lark said he Ellie Tfiarrie Examiner The Barrie Examiner Saturday Sept 18 l9769 LOCAL GENERAL DINNER DANCE Sons of Scotland Lovat Camp will hold their fourth an nual fall dinner dance Oct at 630 pm in the Willow Room at the Continental Inn Dinner is at cabaret and dancing at The evening will feature muscal trip around Scotland with Bill Burnetts Heather Trio Tom Park and Irene King Tickets $10 apiece are available at 7283048 or 7281999 Barrie 3254780 Orillia or 7732957 Bradford ART SHOW The Sandycove Acres Palette Club will hold its third annual exhibit of paintings and sket chesSept 23 from223oto7 pm at the Hub Sandycove Acres Tea and coffee will be served 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 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 On tario will hold its opening tea to welcome new teachers Monday at 730 pm at Huronia Centen nial school in Elmvale ANGUS PLAN ANGUS Essa Twonships planning board will hold public open house Sept 23 to present the revised draft 0f the secondary land use plan for the Angus area Public comments on the plan are inVIted The open house will beheld at LiOns Hall on Highway 90 in Angus 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 The as sociation also will hold discus sion 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 willbegin atapm 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 or Ray Bowls 7264967 HAWK WATCH he 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 7286280 LEADERS NEEDED Male or female leaders are needed to help with the Cubs of new Scout group being for 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 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 ONFERENCE 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 EVENINGCOLTRSES 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 pm at the college Most courses start early in October 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 ly The board has not made decision on the statement RECREATION MEETING The Barrie Recreation Ad visory Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday Sept 28 at pm at cit hall The 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 COFFEE BREAK Day International Com munications CB radio club is holding coffee break Saturday and Sunda at Molsons Park Any mem of the public whether radio operator or not is invited Proceeds go to the muscular dystr0phy and di abetic associations Admission is $150 per adult with children under 12 admitted free Camp ing is available though there are no hookups hoped the weather today would clear so more members could fly in This morning was devoted to business meetings but there were festivities Friday night as club members took part in talent show and the Interna tional Miss Propwash contest Propwash is one of those mythical substances something like lefthanded monkey wrench It doesnt exist but is often used as training tool that is young aviators are often sent in fruitless search for it There were probably man who wished the Miss Propwash contestants didnt exist par ticularly the aforementioned contestants They happened to be past presidents of the club dressed to make themselves as apealling as possible This evening the OFF will hold serious queen contest as well as banquet The convenv tion winds up Sunday morning OMB promises By JIM DALZIEL Examiner Staff Reporter 0R0 STATION decision on the 113acre Guthrie in dustrial park proposal will be announced as soon as possible Ontario Municipal Board panel chairman Alfred Chapman said here Friday at the conclusion of fiveday public hearing Mr Chapman and panel member Jean Wadds wil rule on rezoning and an official plan amendment for the industrial subdivision and one com merciallot The project of Ray Campbell Enterprises was supported by Oro township council and at least four residents who spoke at the hearing It was Opposed by 10 residents at the hearing and perhaps as many as 199 people who authorized lawyer Lloyd May to speak for them The objectors argued that in creased traffic on Highway 11 and the Ridge Road would result from the development and pose an added hazard And they criticized rezoning of far mland for industrial use Mr May retained by com mittee which includes residents Ross Bradley and Stephen DaVie complained on Friday that the township has made no complete study of the township to decide where industry should be placed HAD COMPLIED David White Barrie lawyer representing Oro council said Mr Campbell had complied with all requirements of the townships official plan to ob tain approval of his project As early as March of 1973 the township planner and the ministry of housing looked favorably on industrial development in Oro Mr White said In an argument that paralleled Mr Whites Mr Campbells lawyer Michael McQuaid said the industrial park reflects policies of the of ficial plan suggesting industry be built beside major arteries and village communities Sentence set Oct 29 on manslaughter plea Paul Wayne McLean 18 pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Supreme Court Friday He will be sentenced Oct 29 by Mr Justice Campbell rant McLean had been found guil ty of nonvcapital murder of Borden Bleich in April 1975 but the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered new trial He was to be tried on charge of second degree murder which carries minimum 10year sentence but Mr Justice Grant accepted the manslaughter plea The ri minal Code provides for up to life imprisonment for manslaughter but there is no minimum sentence McLean had been charged along with Robert George Hillier then 22 with the Nov 22 1974 slaying of Bleich Gravenhursl taxi driver The two men both from North Bay had travelled to Gravehurst in order to rob convenience store but decided against it Instead Hillier who pro fessed to having performed similar robbery on another oc casion suggested robbing cab driver They took cab south from Gravenhursl and told Bleich to pull off at the mm of ro According to Ilillier he was in the back seat and McLean in the front Hillier had sawed off shotgun in his pocket and pulled in on Bleich But Bleich grabbed at the gun and in struggle it went off hitting Bleich in the head The three men got out of the car and Ilillier Bleich charged at him so he fired another shot and started hitting Bleich with Area farmers invited to DIB farmers market The Downtown Improvement Boards Sept 25 farmers market may draw participants from as far away as the Niagara Peninsula Garry Mc Cluskcy promotion chairman for the board said this week He said grape growers had an unusually good crop this year and are checking with markets around the province to find enough sales outlets Operators of Barrics regular farm market responded to an inquiry by asking the growers to come for the boards market day The market will be held at the farmers market building on Mulcaster Street with any overflow to be accommtxlated half block away on the mu nicipal parking lot east of city hall Mr McCluskey is looking for farmers gardeners hobbyists and other individuals and groups to provide produce crafts and baked goods for the event designed to help bring shoppers downtown There is no charge for par ticipation and no licence is needed Mr Mctluskey said pro blems between the board and the regular market operators have been ironed out now that it has been made clear the board does not intend to compete with the market Market operators should benefit from the event he said the gun Bleich collapsed and McLean and Hillier got in the cab and drove to Barrie in the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot on Bayfield Street they abandoned the cab and hid the gun and ammuni tion They walked out Highway 27 to the Simcoe County Ad ministration Building then called cab and got room in the Bavshore Motel in Barrie During McLeans original trial Hillier had testified as Crown witness He told the court then that the whole rob bery had been his idea and McLean had simply gone along with him jobs The subdivision is proposed on the south side of Highway 11 at Guthrie eight miles tor theast of Barrie Mr McQuaid said the sub division would improve Qros property taxobase and provide and business op portunities While many residents said they fear increased trafficon the Ridge Road along the lakeshore Mr McQuaid said the connection between that problem and the subdivision is tenuous Mr May said his clients ob ject to at least one of the per mitted uses in the subdivision establishment of transport truck terminal Citing evidence producedby the developer he said the an ticipated 10 per cent increase of traffic on Highway representing 2000 vehicles will increase the hazard Overpasses and median barrier are to be built next year to improve the highway ac cording to traffic engineer called by Mr McQuaid On the issue of farmland loss Mr McQuaid noted that no far mers came forward to com plain Earlier in the week professor from the Ontario Agricultural College said high land costs make the subdivision unsuitable for farming About half the site is class farmland the second highest category in the Canada Land Inventory While Mr May pointed out the lack of fire hydrants and ex tensive fire protection Mr McQuaid said you cant pro vide for every detail and hold up the project Commenting on 199name petition said to be in opposition to the industrial park OMB panel chairman Mr Chapman said the number is not significant If one man is being harmed by the project and he shouldnt be there can be 100 in favor and it wont get ap proval Mr Chapman said Two busloads to Jubilation At least two busloads of Bar rie residents are expected to travel to Toronto Sept 26 for Jubilation United Church musical and dramatic celebra tion at Torontos Varsity Stadium Audrey Emms of Burton Avenue United Church presi dent of the Toronto conference of the United Church Women will read scripture during the program and Rev George James of Stroud head of the local presbytery will be at the head table Theme for the event is man is not alone thanks be to God The celebration will involve choirs dramatic perfor mances audiovisual presenta tions and Christian witness About 6000 worshippers are ex pected to attend One of the buses will leave Collier Street United Church at 130 pm returning at pm Tickets $2 to cover the bus trip are available in the Collier Street office Missionaries role to be semin seminar on questions fac ing the western worlds mis sionary effort will be held Oct 19 at St Georges Anglican Church on Burton Avenue Dr Cyril Powles former Anglican Missionary to Japan will conduct the seminar spon sored by the Barrie and District Labor Council The seminar grows largely out of questions raised about the proper Christian response to dictatorships Rev Ray Waldock of First Baptist Church organizer of the seminar says He says many missionaries are faced with the question of whether their Christian com mitment should lead them to resistance including armed reststance tn dictatnrq ar topic The Christian people are in bind he says Another question which may be considered at the seminar he says is whether western misj sionaries ought to be sent at all to thirdworld countries where there are native Christian leaders Western mission work in such places can mean exporting western culture Mr Waldock says and Canada is one of the more pagan countries in the world today There are church leaders in Africa who say we dont want any more missionarieshe sayS Dr Powles is currently pro fessor at Trinity College in Toronto ya OMB CLEANS UP AFTER FIVEDAY HEARING After fiveday public hear ing over the proposed iii dustrial subdivision at Guthrie Ontario Municipal Board panel members Jean Wadds and Alfred Chapman gather papers and exhibits on Friday as Don McKay deputy clerk of Oro township looks on at left The OMB panel reserved its deciSion on rezoning and offiCial Ian amendment for the su ivi sion The next public meetings in Oro will concern gravel pit on the 7th Line on Se 27 and Barries pro pos airport on Concession on Sept 30 Examiner Photo