Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 24 Nov 1978, p. 7

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Denise McQuarrie is one of many Barrie area Canadian Craft Show The show held in the Toronto is the largest craft show in Ontario and the second largest in Canada Examiner Photo people participating in the Queen Elizabeth Building in Father keeps girl here through legal leaphole TORONTO ttli niner yearold Jamaican girl has to to Buffalo NY today in order to stay in Canada For her father it has meant almost years walk through the mmplexities of the federal and Ontariogovernment Joan rIarys father syva Id brought her to Toronto illegally in Oct 1977 after he found her livmg with her mother and two other children in the midst of civil strife in Kingston Jamaica Last May the Canadian employment and immigration canrnission ruled that Joan had to return toJamaica But ntano govemment of Women sell clothes in homes ficials found loophole in the law which will pcnnit Joan to stay in the country She can go to the Canadian cotisulate in Buffalo and pick up ministerial permit allowing her to enter Canada ltgally She will then return with her father to Toronto where she can become landed imr migrant in year STAY Meanwhile federal iin migration adjudicator niled Wednesday that Selena liiiiie an illegal Jamaican immigrant will not have to return to Jamaica immediately as would normally to required because she has not been work ing intanada for pay Mrs Fruze 27 who arrived in the country on Oct was an rested by two RCMP constables Ii tip that she was working The woman who al lowed Mts Huze to stay in her apartment told the RCMP that Mrs lrule had helped out in her home but had received only three dresses in payment Adjudicator llcn Meltricii said that as result Mrs Iiuze will not have to return to Jamaica until January Mrs Frim said Wednesday that after being aritsted and held she felt like could go back home right now in $1 million business IJROIO ICIi If plastic fishes jewelry and makeup sell at house parties there must he market for clothing saysCec Girling She and partner wife and mother like herself have warehouse full of clothes and salegiils and they expect to gross $1 million this year The salesgirls take about garments and hold fashion par ties in their neighborhoods selling current anadianinade clothes at cutrate prices As Annie iieenway tells her guests crowded in living room Its like it of you are going shopping together We have till to 30 brand labels and more than likely youll find clothes that fit We take cash bahybonus cheques signed table napkins and major credit cards Ms reenway says she works eight months of theyear in the peak fashion seasons and by running up to 13 pa rtics she can make 320 month When Mrs lirting and Boo nie Bickel started trudging through garment factories three years ago they had $411 between them and felt cautious They were looking for leftovers Delegates call for end to sexual harassment VANCOIVIJR Itli There should be no more leering at womans body the British for lumbia Federation of Labor said Wednesday More than Loon 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7057373262 positioned some female dele gates Shame on you Werent you listening to the debate shouted an indignant woman During the debate delegate Josephine Hallock suggested that unions organize prostitutes and find them better jobs with decent pay She said many women work as prostitutes because they cannot find olherjobs later the bane of any manufacturers existence They started by asking their friends to parties but soon customers were asking to run their own shows Many of them are outof work teachers and ilirses Fashion parties Mrs iiiling says are fun for everybody Ihc hostess who lends its her house gets percentage based in how many people coiric and how much is sold WEST BEND lTDS ANNUAL In Canadian Craft show Barrie artists display their wares By NANCY FIGUIIROA Of The Examiner For James llarkness and his wooden rocking horses last years Canadian Craft Show wasa disaster This year however Harkness minus his wooden rocking horses plans to have very successful show Haikess Stayner resident has abandoned the horses and instead will be selling wooden ducks at this years Canadian raft Show The show now in its fourth year was originally started to fill need for craft marketing in Ontario It will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Building in the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds in Toronto from Mon day through Sunday There will be 240 booths each with its own characteristics and flavor The booths will be occupied by more than llli crafts people including several Barrie area residents IIvcrything at the show is incscnted for sale and has been handicrafted by the actual craft sperson at the show lOl The show goal is to create market whre craftslxiople can sell broad range of crafts of all prices directly to the public says Martin ltuinack one of the founders of the show The craftsmen will riot oiin be selling but will also demonstrate the skills used to make their crafts said Itumach This will add an educational component to the show making interesting to every individual young or old ltumach Toronto lawyer was one of three people who met in in and decided to create craft show in Toronto Their efforts have resulted in the anadian raft Show being the largest craft show in One tario and the second largest Taft show in Canada The largest is in Montreal at Place BOILIVCIlllIIt Itumach explained that the craftsmen pay from $50 to $2393 for booth during the severi day show This price includes electricity hour security and plastic shopping bags Last year 54000 people came to the show said Itumach This year we are hoping for at least llzllllpcoplc INIQIII Last years visitors spent almost $1 million at the show Many of the items purchased can not be found in stores and this adds to their attrac tiveness said Ituiiiach Many crafts on sale are not available in Ontario stores because of their uniqueness and also because sizeablc percentage of exhibitors have travelled from other provinces to be with the Canadian tralt Show he said Some of the Barrie and area xiiticipaiits include line Lin dgrcii pottery Iteiiise Me Quarrie weaving athy Reid batik Monica Shelton water colors Hartley Woodside pot tery and llarkness with his wooden hicks lior Harkness the hicks are not only hobby but his employment work seven days week 14 hours lay on the ducks he said His clients include the hitMichael tollee tioii iii Kleinberg stores in resort areas Will Silks leneral Store in orakstowri and Toronto craft shops Ive been preparing the ducks for the craft show since last winter ever since the rocking hoists flopeed tlarkness charged so for the comm DENTU RE THERAPY CLINIC Complete Denture Services 7264721 I49A DIINlOP ST BARBIE MEMBER DENTURIST SOCIETY Robert Swer don DOCTOR OI CHIROPRACTIC is pl tthtll lllltlllllitlltit that he isriiiw practicing hi litplttll its at 79A DUNLOP ST BARRIE NT loi appointments pleasecall 7261031 WAREHOUSE II rocking horses and only sold about donn of them He estimates that to have been successful he should have sold dose to $4000 worth of horses However he only sold about $11llllworth It was almost not worth my going he said The horses were flop IIXIIICIINU SlCClISS This year Harknes is expec ting great business It takes him approximately seven hours to make eadi duck and his prices range from $7 50 to $21 year old Very Mild Blended and aged to velvet softness Denie MtQuarne of Bank will also be part ieipating in the show Since August she has been weaving sweaters jackets scarves and purses Mrs McQuarrie studied design arts at Georgian College for three years and majored in weaving She also took part in last years show and sold about $850 worth of woven items But this year she expects to sell lot more wasnt properly prepared for last ars show she said available for all three do be acceted filliflrdrltlcflgldié 60720053 MON REAL 1i it ll ltifllc rims Saucepans Electric Frypans and Dee the examiner Friday ll0v 24 1978 hope to sell $2000 worth this year Her prices range from $8 for purses lost for sweaters This will be the fourth year that Barries Monica Shelton will participate in the show Mrs Sheltons works include paintings of all sizes Her pain tings range in price from $55 to $150 The show is great she said Everyone has booth and its like having your own store for week Animus 211s heer maria Now this Thursday Friday and Saturday you can take advantage of Great Clearance Savings on Bakeware Coffee Percolators Pressure Cookers Fryers There will be plenty of stock ys of the sale All sales will be final and only cash will Mrs Shelton said that the show is good for advertising She recentl opened gallery at Bayfiel Street and found that many of the people who come to the gallery first saw her work at the Canadian Craft Show The show is really terrific thing she said You can spend whole day just looking atevcrything WEST BEND OF CANADA llD I91 John St Borrie0nt

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