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Blind Oro farmer is skilled in basket weaving crafts By KONRAD EJBICH 0R0 STATION In cool nottoodamp room in farm house here Mel Crawford talks about life that few of us can comprehend and hopefully will never experience For the last 16 years of his life Mel has not seen more than the light of day He is lucky to be able to make out that much All it means is that Mel can tell if he is close to window or if light has been left on Apart from accidents explo Sions and other such an fortunate happenings two thin can cause natural blin ness One is glaucoma disease of the eyes in which the pressure of the fluid of the eyes increases and the other is diabetes Mel has been diabetic since DISTRICT NE WS 2The Barrie Examiner Friday Sept 24 l97b COUNTY GLIMPSES City to be asked about zoning plan STROUD Barrie city coun oil will be consulted over senior citizen apartment building proposed in Innisfil township Innisfil planning board is recommending approval of rezoning of eight acres to allow the building onlot 11 Con 13 The Inniswood Baptist Centre proposes three phases of con struction ninestorey apart ment building 120bed nurs ing home and 10storey 100 unit home for the aged Because the property is in an area suggested for joint plann ing with Barrie planning board said Barrie should be con sulted BOTTLE DRIVE PAINSWICK The First In nisfil Cubs will hold bottle drive Saturday from am to in the Painswick and Big Bay Point Area Pop bottles beer bottles and milk jugs will becollected OPEN HOUSE LEFROY The public is in vited to tour the former Lefroy and Bell Ewart schools this weekend before they become community centres in Innsfil township The buildings will be open from to pm Saturday and Sunday public meeting to discuss their use will be held Monday Oct at 730 pm in the South Innisfil community centre Lefroy ORANGE BOWL MIDLAND For the second time in three years the Midland Pipes and Drums will be part of the Ontario massed band in the Orange Bowl parade in Miami in January PENNY SALE STAYNER The Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Cana dian Legion will hold penny sale at the Legion Hall on Friday until 10 pm HORTIlITLRE MIDHURST Vespra Hor ticultural Society will meet next Monday evening in the reforestry hall RISKY RIDING STAYNER Town council here has issued notice asking parents to stop their children from riding bicycles on sidewalks bylaw prohibits riding on sidewalks and park ing of bicycles which causes an obstruction OFFICIAL PLAN COOKSTOWN The village planning board was heard from number of developcis who want their lands ac commodated in new official plan draft plan released earlier showed that only one major subdivision would be allowed the Srllot Cookslane development proposed in the southeast quadrant ARENA STLDY CREEMORE The struc ture of the 49yearold Creemore arena is being ex amined by Reid and Associates of Barrie to see if it meets safety standards of the ministry of labor MINOR HOCKEY ALLISTON Registration for minor hockey will take place Satruday from 10 am to pm and next Thursday from 7t09pmatthcarena PUBLIC MEETING 0R0 STATION gravel pit proposed south of Bass Lake will be the subject of public meeting Monday at pm in Cm township hall The pit re quires an official plan amend ment FARMERS MARKET DALSTON The 150th an niversary committee of Dalson United Church will hold farmers market on Saturday Oct at 10 am at Dalston United Church Items for sale include baking perserves crafts vegetables and farm and garden supplies CRAIGHLRST PLAN ELMVALE With the in formation that Ainley and Associates engineers will charge $950 for secondary plan at Craighurst Flos township council is asking for an estimate from Windland and Associates Four townships are involved in planning the hamlet of Craighurst SENIORSIIOLSING ALLISTON Town council has accepted preliminary site plan for 16 senior citizen apart ments to be built in Alliston by the Ontario Housing Corpora tion ARENA SAFE ALLISTON With about $10000 worth of repair work completed the Alliston arena has been certified safe by the ministry of labor HOSPITAL SUPPORT BRENTWOOD Sunnidale township council has sent let ter to MPP George McCague supporting the Collingwood hospital and opposing any cut intheoperating udget 1939 but managed to retain his sight until 1960 Mel was an electrician till then and did some farming but ever since his sight left him he has not worked Ive learned to weave baskets and do some leather work but is doesnt provide much of an income he ad mits The leatherwork and basket weaving he learned through toLllStS given by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind ICNIRI The courses are free of charge and cover such areas as cooking handicrafts rug hook iiig knitting copperwork courses to teach ie blind things they once could easily do such as ieco nition of money keeping othing in outer or dialing we telephone There are also several courses in braille the language of the blind but Mel is unable to study it because he lost finger about the same time he lost his sight He explains that heading in braille requires the use of all eight fingers Instead Mel spend much of his time listening His wife Helen reads the newspapers to him quite often and much of his time is passed with his talking book machine placed in his home by the CNIB Mel pays nothing for the 31m tape player and can keep it as long as he needs it The Toronto branch of the CNIB sends tapes to him on regular basis Some tapes have books taped onto them others have magazines or chapters of the Bible When the reporter was there Mel was listening to last months iSsue of Mac Leans But for the most part Mel must amuse himself as best as he can Listening to Macleans can get terribly boring after while and the hands can stand only so much basket weaving So Mel has Ieamed to put up with his disability and do things somewhat like the way he used to He has installed set of shelves and cupboards in the kitchen for his wife He has built walls around porch and insulated them to make useful room outside of the kitchen He has even put new roof on one of his smaller barns Doing and making things that are useful means lot to Mel He does not get pension of any sort and his wife does not work outside their home And yet Mel has paddled his own canoe for all these years It hasnt been easy Something as simple as grow ing vegetable garden has at Innisfil plans drainage work STROUD Innisfil council intends to improve drainage in at least three areas in the township Council will ask for meeting with West Gwillimbury town ship council to discuss co operation in improving the Hyndczyak which is in both townships Engineer Don McNalty was instructed to report on work needed to improve drainage at Pine Grove 25th Sideroad bet ween the 11th and 12th lines Council is to meet with the South Lake Simcoe Conserva tion Authority this week over poor drainage at Lefroy Residents Gerry Dunford and Russ Peters told the council that diversion of watercourse and landfill on the property of Ralph have caused flooding on their lots ways required the help of his wife can sow the seeds and water them but once they start to grow cant tell the dif ference between young tomato plant or weed So if the summertime is mer ciful to the blind the winter time makes up for it Mel shovels all the snow but for the most part he is coupcd up with not much more than his talking machine And with each winter the cost to the CNIB of maintaining the service iii creases service that costs $200 per year in 1976 could cost up to $22011 1977 One problem being ex pericnccd now is lack of can vasscrs during this years fun ding campaign There are oiin 70 people going doortodoor and more than 100 are needed Already the canvassers have been going around from door todoor on their own time after workingafullda CNIBs goalo $19800is only enough to maintain the same services as last year with no increases with no chance of assistance for any person that may lose his sig during the next year The CNIB asks that any one who is able to iarc some time in the next wcc contact them at 3251041 or 3250665 Those in terested in contributing money to the cause of the blind are asked to deposit their contribu tions at the Toronto Dominion Bank in rilliii if they do not get visit from one of the leBs canvassera Children show one attraction during Ora fair URI SIAIIDN Ihc chil dren of 0H township arc hav ing their day today with the first major events of the 0m Worlds Fair In addition to the school fair crafts and homemade goods are on display and sulky racing is scheduled at the fairgrounds 7th Line north of Highway 11 Chariot races begin Saturday along with dog show and hunter horse show western horse show starts at 1230 pm chariot racing pm heavy horses at 130pm and sheep and dairy cattle will be on display all afternoon Later there will be hog car cass competition followed by an auction of hogs The 4H clubs will hold their annual Achievement Day One of the oldest fairs in Sini coc County the 0m fair dates back to 1853 when Richard Irury was its president and Joseph Thomas secretary CHURCHILL 4H Club elects new executive Ry MRS II SALNIER CHURCHILL onnic Apt pelbaum has been elected president of the Churchill lH Homemaking Club and Anne Campbell press secretary Members are Darlene Squibb Laurie Smith Cheryl Kcll Debbie Ferguson Sandra Coutts Julie Cronaii Anne Campbell Louise Browning Donna Marie Browning and Connie Appelbaum The club meetsinthecommunityhall Cathy Trotter daughter of Mr and Mrs ly Trotter spent the summer working at the Shakespeare Festival at Strat ford Marie and Marion Ilillcock enjoyed their vacation in the New England States and Cape Cod Shawn Bradley Shapton in fant son of Mr and Mrs Robert Sha ton was baptised Sch tem cr 12 at the United Church by the Reverend Croft Mr and Mrs Alhcrt Watkins Usk iucnt England and Miss Ida Pyke Poole Dorset are visiting Mr and Mrs Arthur Jones 51h Line The IllC of the Pastoral chargc mct Sunday night at the home of Sandra and Barbara Kell Churchill folk were among the invited guests at the bir thday reception for Elmcr Rothwell at lilford Celebrating his 90th milestone the celebrant is one of the few people who attended the old Gil ord school closed in 1897 It was located on the road directly Two words for smooth SpeciaIOId east of the United Church of today and was often humorous ly dubbed College Street tip of the hat to Cynthia Capelle who topped the 30 South Simcoe entrants in the judging competition for Juniors at the Canadian National Exhibition She stood 17th out of 142 Ontario entrants FAIR INNERS Congratulations to the win ners of prizes at ookstown Fair David Lucas chalked up three 1st prizes with his hols tein calf best in the 4H show ing and fourth in the Public School class David also won red ribbon fora Docm Todd Sinclair won first with his ewe lamb in the Other Breeds class in the senior show second in the HI class and 4th Public School showing In Showmanship he placed so cond in school showing and was in the first prize group in 4H showmanship Todd teamed up with Wally Riley to win second in thc Trimming class preparing sheep for showing Bobtail Marianna 7269344 MEI ltAWlDRD who has not seen more than the light of day in it years lifts Ian chair which he madc He also tame up with the idea of ut ting wheels on the hack cgs so he could move the chiars without lifting them Mel does lot of chores around the house Packet and Times PhotO Hawkestone harvest service Sunday By MIIIIIEI IIARI HAWKESTIINE Harvest Thanksgiving service will be held at St Marks Anglican Church East ro on Sunday at 230 pm Archdeacon Basil Tonks of Barrie will be the speaker and music will be supplied by St Giles Church Barrie Euchre parties will resume at Hawkcstonc community hall on Friday Oct Lat 15pm Mrs Silk of Grand Valley has been spending some time with her sister and hus band Mr and Mrs Albert Iugslcy baby shower was held at the home of Mrs Ern Banbury for Mrs Peter Hewitt on Tuesday Sept l4 game was played and then Marie opened her gifts Attending were the grooms mother sister the brides Clare Robinson wish to announce operating my will now be own Real Estate Business in Barrie If can be of service to anyone with Real Estate needs please call 7286044 STARTS TODAY Frl 50 in My butt 105 Win Place or Steal 840 Me craziest driver in town steal Me fastest mices in Me mu and tear up NickelMM County RON HOWARD pop Me clutcli and tell Me we rd The wildest car chase om filmed uo cars trucks boats buildings destroyed CHRISTOPHER NORRIS WARREN KEMMERUNG DAVE MADDEN JESSICA POTTER that detain diatom new WORLD PICTURE Iltilltlli It trjli llIi lll Iliill P105 WIIIPlI6E OB STEAL ALEX McLEAN DEAN RUSS KARRAS STEVENSth STUCKWELL TAMBLYN lioIliItied by IHOMAS XIIINIY met ted by RICHARD All Written by ANIIIUNY MONAIIO and it ltlllANll HA Music by IIM MLINIIRI CINEMA NATIONAL CORPORAIION IILLLASL SIN HIAIIII LIIERPIIISLS PRLSLNIAIIIIN ASTMANCULUR ifuuutnciois Imitumunaml grandmother Mrs Ed McBride of Toronto and aunts and cousins Thanksgivin service was held at St Ai ans Church in Hawkestone on Sunday Sept 19 The United Church cancelled its service and many people at tended the special service Rev Hwy 90 OH Hwy No 400 We Proudly Present for audience participation Barrie Ont Newman was the speaker and Mrs Gerry Croft sang The Lord is My Shepherd The church was decorated with flowers fruits and vegetables Mr and Mrs Gordon Jermey of Bobcaygeon were Sunday visitors with Mrs Leslie Jermey iiiiioi CHARLIE BROWNS THE CONTINENTAL INN 7261834 Fri Sat Giant Spider Invasion 645 955 Castle of Livng Dead ms martian STEVE RODIE BARBARA HALE ESLIE PARRISII ALAN NAIT UNTIL WILLIAM IV GILIIIIL IR mount in BILL REBANI RICHARD NUII Iimliituiii BILL RIBANI DISTRIBUTED BY GROUP Pit5 Iceminute AS mu runaway CASTLE or THE LIVING DEAD mull MI IIIIIAMII