Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 29 Sep 1979, p. 13

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After l0 years glued to set Expert made jump from television to reality Sanderson Layng TV can bridge gaps between parents and kids toay By LORI OIIEN Of The Exaiiilncr fact finder has been ap pointed by the Education Relations Commission to assist in negotiations between the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board and its teachers Ian Hunter associate law professor at the University of Western Ontario and counsel for the Ontario Human Rights Commission will prepare report on negotiatons between the board and the 280 teachers to be presented to both sides within 30 days The majority of teachers are members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and about 25 belong to LAssociaton des En siegnants Franco0ntariens Both associations bargain col lectively with the board Their last twoyear contract expired Aug 31 John Blake chief negotiator for the teachers says wages STORE prepares test of claims for course Hy TERRY FIELD The Examiner The Simcoe Taxpayers Organization Researching Education STOREJ is prepar ing to test the validity of the Simcoe County Board of Educations claim that aten dance in human relations related courses will be op tional the groups lawyer said Friday They STUREi were quite surprised and bit annoyed at the suggestion during the re cent hearing in the Supreme Court that they have been given the option of having their child be excused from the program Marshall Green told The Examiner Board lawyer Lorne Morphy insisted the parents were given the option and used statement of intention written by the board as proof Dr Robert Thomas the countys curriculum superintendent has said parents will have the option of pulling their children from the program REMOEVE CHILDREN Severl of the boards 21 trustees have said the pro gram must allow parents who disagree with the material to remove their children Green said STORE members have found it difficult to have their children pulled from the program and did not realize they had choice Now basically theyre try ing to find out if the board is serious about accommodating the parents campaign is being mounted and parents objecting to the program will be asked to send form requesting ex emption for their children Green said STORE will monitor the boards reaction While moms away While mom visits friends Michelle and Bobby Ebner find pleasant way to spend warm September evening Michelle and Bobby live in Midhurst and go to Monsignor Clair Catholic School in Barrie Examiner Photo During meeting Thursday Green briefed STOREs ex ecutive and listed their op tions one being to continue with the legal action initiated earlier this month in an at tempt to have the program cancelled SCHEDULE MEETING No decision was made and general meeting of the membership said to be 1000 is being scheduled Green said If the board does make the program entirely optional much of STOREs court case that suggested in part that parents right to pull his child was not being met would be negated Fieldtesting of the program is scheduled to begin again within the next few weeks By NANCY FIGUEROA Of The Examiner PAINSWICK When Sanderson Layng was 16 he bought his first television set He then proceeded to spend the next 10 years glued to it Today Layng makes money out of his former hob by He is considered by those in the know to be an authority on childrens television He is the author of the soon to be released booklet Coping With Television He is also lecturer for the Childrens Broadcast Institute and is program consultant for the CBC Tuesday Layng was the guest speaker at discussion by the Georgian Bay Regional Library System GBRLS In 1952 when television first came to Canada it was considered to be fad said Laygn He said however to day television is the number one recreation activity in Canada For fad its something that has really caught on hesaid WATCHING TV Studies show that on average Canadian spends four hours day in front of the tube By the time that per son is 18 years old they have spent two full years watching television In Canada study on the national hours of television viewed shows men watch 21 hours and 23 minutes of television week For women the national average is slightly higher at 25 hours week Teenagers are ranked second spending 21 hours and 49 minutes week watching television Children spend 20 hours and nine minutes week watching television In Canada there are some good childrens television shows said Layng By the time child is seven much of his viewing time is spent on adult shows Watching adult television not only means seeing more than 13000 murders by the time child is 18 but also see ing commercials which stereotype different elements of society Studies show that 33 per cent of all television characters are involved in law enforcement In Canada however less than one per cent of Canadians are involved in law enforcement said Layng The violence however has not been all bad he said believe television was instrumental in ending the Viet Nam war because it brought war into the home The phenomena of television is not native only to North Americans In Poland the Communist Party meeting night was switched from Wednesdays to Thursdays The reason members wanted to watch Dr Kildare Wednesday night In Canada 97 per cent of all people own television sets thats more than have indoor plumbing Of those peo ple 40 per cent have more than one television TAKES US AWAY The beauty of television for adults and for children alike is that it has taken us to places we would never be able to get to Almost all of us have been to the moon said Layng We live through television as citizen of the world Its passport to the global village It is amazing that television has grown as fast as it has in less than 30 years After sleeping and working peo ple spend more time watching television than doing any other activity said Layng But we dont stop at watching television Its also one of our main topics of conversation Not to mention that TV Guide is Canadas number one magazine in terms of cir culation Television has gone from luxury to necessity in less than 30 years said Layng TV he said has changed our lifestyle and revolutionized our standards of learning Todays teacher must also be an entertainer only because she must compete with television said Layng It is not only children however who are enraptured into thinking television characters and the lives they lead management rights clause and fringe benfits are the outstanding issues in the set tlement The board and teachers are only apart by about five per cent in salary negotiations he said The teachers recognize the boards right to manage the county Blake says but the wording of the clause is under debate Fringe benefits in clude areas such as insurance Both sides have already come to an agreement on Paul Butcher left and brother Art hold up the fragment of an old gravestone which they found while digging to build fort near their Worsley Street home Examiner Photo Fragment of old tombestonefl discovered near boys fort redundancy clause involving lay off procedure during times of declining enrolment Blake says negotiations are progressing Simcoe County has only been without con tract teachers in Peel Region have been without one for 17 mon ths and are close to entering strike situation he notes HELPNEGOTIATIONS Bill Bolger board director says hes hopeful the fact finder will assist negotiations by assuming mediatory posi gig tion and making recommenda certain the nowhere near tions Hes teachers are strike and says the board and the teachers have always had good relations Mot of the countys separate school teachers are employed in elementary schools There are about 25 at St Josephs High School in Barrie and St Theresas High School in Midland lnnisfils Saskatche fascinating place says Jans BARCLAY Assiniboia Sask Innisfils twin is fascinating place says Coun Kathe Jans who recent ly visited the town Unkown to many Innisfil residents Assiniboia is not on ly Innisfils twin but also the birth place of Reeve William Gibbins As in Innisfil the Gibbins family is prominent in Assiniboia It was Reeve Gib hins father who started the towns curling club and store says Coun Jans As well the Reeves sister Beth Maze is clerk of Assiniboia Those werent however the ieasons why Assiniboia and Iii nisfil were twinned They were twinned because they are similar in many ways Assiniboia farming corn munity is much like Stroud The town plan is in the form Four youths Four youths involved in breakin at Letitia Street home July were found guilty of break enter and theft in provincial court Friday Barry Kevin Robinson 17 Edward Douglas Robinson 18 bodi of Parry Sound Paul Russell Birch 17 of Toronto and John Jacob Michalski 17 of Toronto will be sentnced Nov after Judge Donald Inch views presciitence reports on all four The youths took part in breakin at the residence of Ir ving Harris 11 Letitia St at 930 am After entering through rear window thev of square much like what is proposed for Stroud in the of ficialplan Coun Jans presented the Mayor of Assiniboia with an official Innisfil Township plate He was very pleased says Coun Jans In retum Coun Jans was presented with chain and medallion of the town crest Her husband was presented with matching pin TAKEN T0 DINNER The Jans were taken to din ner at one of the towns finest restaurants Following dinner they wre showna slide show by young Assiniboia girl who had spent year in Australia on Kiwanis Club exchange trip The show was collec tion of slides of Assiniboia Saskatchewan and other parts of Canada It was put together to show Australians about found guilty removed jewelry coins liquor and Canadian Tire money valued at$l100 Barry Robinson and Paul Birch also pleaded guilty to break and enter with intent at the residence of Gordon Roach 26 Castle Dr and at tempted break and enter with intent at the home of Wilfred Egan Castle Dr Barry and Edward Robin son who have been in custody since their arrest July 16 were remainded out of custody until sentncing and ordered to live with their mother in Parry Sound and observe curfew for one month while fort in clump By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Fragments of history can crop up in the most unex pected places as two Barrie youths discovered this week Twelveyearold Paul But cher and his brother Art 14 were busy constructing of woods north of their Worsley Street home between Poyntz and Berczy Streets last Monday when they un covered fragment of an old gravestone The boys were clearing away some large rocks so the floor of the fort would be even then they came across the fragment It was just covered over with dirt says Paul and didnt notice anything at first But afterwards when we were moving the rocks over saw bit of writing an twin Canada was very proud to have been invited for this event because if we have many more Canadians like her our country is in good hands said Coun Jans Assiniboia has population of 3000 and is 78 miles from MooseJaw The town has two hotels two motels new shopping plaza next to the huge grain elevators 12 homes rented to the elderly where the rent is equal whether rich or poor senior citizens lodge nurs ing home hospital all paved streets parking meters but you dont have to pay if your licence is from out of the pro vincel many parks an ice arena with seating an outdoor swimming pool golf course and curling club was amazed how town of 3000 people is run by staff of three ladies in the office said Coun Jans Look at what 3000 people can do when they put their minds to it The town also has at least seven houses of worship JLDGE WEALTH Coun Jans says however Of course the most outstan ding feature of Assiniboia and am told that according to the grain elevators you can judge the wealth of the area surroundingit Coun Jans said however the most impressive thing about Assiniboia was its friendly people They say hello to you on the streets she said Thats missing here onit Although the fragment is weathered with age and some of the inscriptions are incomplete the name War nica can be plainly seen The name says local historian Allan Fisher is one of the oldest in the area and the Wamica family members of which still live in the Barrie area was among the fist halfdozen or so families Originally from Denmark they settled in the Tollendal area about 1830 or maybe earlier he says Fisher says however he is not sure how the gravestone fragment came to be in that location Alderman Del Cole who represents the area of the location Ward says he is certain it was the site of an Ald Cole says to the best of my knowledge the graves and bodies were removed from the site in the 19305 and reinterred at the Barrie Union Cemetery The fragment might have been knocked off gravestone during the move he says Ald Cole ays he has men tioned the incident to city officials who will check to see there are no dangers or caverns which might cave in if the boys continue buildingtheir fort The Butcher brothers arent sure what they will do with the fragment They say they might just end up keeping it themselves and neither has any superstitious feelings about having piece of an old gravestone lying around the the examiner Saturday 59m 29137943 anereal RECEIVED LETTERS Robert Young who portrayed Dr Marcus Welby in the popular television show Marcus Welby MD received more than 250000 letters asking for medical advice during the shows first five years wasnt children who wrote those letters said Layng Similarily wedding gifts and telegrams flooded the network when the character Rhoda Morgenstem of the show Rhoda was married It wasnt children who sent those gifts and telegrams said Layng Although Layng considers himself very much fan of television he said that because of this he is also very much critic of television Television is neither good nor bad he said It just depends on how you use it Parents should watch television with their children and discuss programs with them Television can act as an opening door vehicle for discussions about social problems between parents and children he said It can bridge gapAs well as the programs parents should discuss television commercials with their children Too many show people in limited ways Women are viewed as flighty users of cosmetics while men are too often stereotyped as macho virile authority figures It is not matter anymore of whether someone is good person but whether they are quarterpounder person said Layng GRADIATED FROM TV Layng admits that after watching endless years of television he graduated to have romantic vision of the world He fell for the commercials and always drove sports car It is only recently that he withdrew from this televisionproduced image of the world Today he drives Honda every day he said It was tough jump to realize life isnt like that portrayed by television he said The tough jump is one of the reasons why Layng is so concerned about television am aware of the impact it can have he said To lessen the impact parents and libraries should become more involved with television Use television in the libraries to stimulate reading Layng advised This is essential he said because the time children spend at ching television means time deducted from the hours the child would spend reading Layng considers game shows the worst of the telcvi sion lot The biggest offender is The Gong Show closely follow ed by the $198 Beauty Contest Those shows are exploitive of peoples desires for at tention he said Those shows dont bring out the best in people He also adds The Newlyweds to the list That show robs its contestants of human dignity he said Some situation comedies are no better Sitcoms too often portray sex as either something really naughty or as something funny He refers to community television such as Barries Cable as great alternative to some of todays awful shows Community television is real he said WORTH WATCHING Layng includes the Mary Tyler Moore Show MASH and Mork and Mindy as the shows he makes point of watching Mark and Mindy discusses important social values in way that hits home he said If minister preached the things Morkdearns about earth people might not listen he said But Mork is able to present the message in humorous manner like MASH because it is well written and presents very human values and situations he said But it is The Mary Tyler Moore Show that he loves best It is well directed well written well acted and it presents human nature in human touching way he sai Ted Baxter the shows anchorman is character Layng can sometimes identify with In some ways we all crave attention affection and want to be loved as Ted does he said But the show lets you identify with the characters in nonthreatening way know theyre not making fun of me when theyre making fun of Ted Telegram defends Liberal president ORILLIA telegram signed by the executive of the Simcoe North Federal Liberal St Association has been sent to opposition leader Pierre Trudeau defending associa tion president Frances St Amant whm was recently port criticized for her stand on French language high school in Penetanguishene The telegram was circulated Canadian Legion here Amant separate Penetanguishenc and Pierre Trudeuu Penetan guishene town councillor en dorsed resolution Monday circulated by Township of Tay council which voted not to sup French language high school in the area The next day Jean Jacque Blais iSSUed for signatures at dinner statments saying St Amants Anglican cemetery house meeting of the association members held at the Royal actions showed lack of understanding and intolerance The Eastview Collegiate Orchestra is celebrating its tenth anniversary so they decided they should have portrait but they also decided that it should not be an ordinary portrait Peter North cott is seen here taking that unusual portrait in Sunnydale Park His assistant is Sam Smith Ex aminer Photo Light turnout at city planning meeting By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner meeting Thursday to outline District plans for regions seven and eight in the city was relatively quiet says Andrew Hill with Barries planning department Just 20 residents turned up as plans for those areas were unveiled by Barnes planning department The prpposed seeder project was one of the topics up for discussion as part of the districts infringe on the west end of Barries downtown said Hill Two other residents also complained about high density development located south of Ross Street Hill said Others expressed concern about the proposed parking garage to be located on Seaforth Avenue in the citys Ward district Residents are concerned about increased circulation in traffic due to the new bus garage to be set up by Penetang Midland foarh Lines But its now out of planning boards hands Hill told The Examiner The roperty in question is zone industrial and the company is within their rights to locate there

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