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Dick Brown for right owner of the Candy Factory pitches in to help serve customers as the store begins to fill with tourists browsing among the specialties for something to suit their fancy Ex aminer Photo Collingwood candy tempts the sweet tooth By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner If you are calorie counter fear for your complexion or are locked in mortal combat with giant sweet tooth then the Candy Factory in Coll ingw00d is no place for you unless of course you are masochist or determined to put your will power to the acid test 0n the other hand if you are the slim willowy type with the metabolism of deepsea shark who can eat everything without gaining an ounce then Gary Clayton of Wasaga Beach one of the 22 employees at the Candy Factory stirs copper pot full of fudge in the boiled sweets room plate glass window in the factorys retail store allows customers to watch the process from start to finish welcome to chocolatecoated paradise Here youll find mouth water ing candy of every shape size and flavor enough to make troop of boy scouts sick for month There are apricots French almonds Brazil nuts peanut butter smoothies and raisin clusters all smothered in chocolate peanut brittle assorted boiled sweets and suckers the size of pingpong paddles colored with every hué of the rainbow lot of the stuff we make other companies dont says the factorys owner Dick Brown leaning over an old fashioned marble slab counter used by candy makers genera tions ago For example the Candy Factory makes hoarhound an oldfashioned hard candy which Brown says you Wont find anywhere else And about three months before Crhistmas the factory specializes in footlong candy canes another rare item in the candy making business he says The Candy Factory not only offers confection lovers an unusual variety of sw eetmeats but allows them to watch the candy being made Two plate glass windows in the retail section overlook the back rooms where customers can watch employees boiling eight kinds of fudge in large copper pots or running an endless stream of chocolate covered tidbits through diet destructive assembly line This feature makes the fac tory unique as manufacturing operation says Brown dont know of another anywhere The concept of the factory he says is to make everything by hand in full view of the customer The recipes are over 100 years old and frequent samples are circulated out to the watchers browsing in search of favorite item Employees will frequently make trips to the nearest super market for emergency supplies of milk or butter much like any other homemade operation Brown says The average housewife would feel quite at home in our kitchen Brown who ran his own pot tery business in Collingwood until he opened the Candy Fac tory about five years ago says he became intrigued with the idea when he noticed an old candy operation up for sale He didnt buy it but decided to open his own and incorporate the idea of allowing customers lcnlouviyour school board By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner The only issue that has at tracted more attention than the human relations pro gram since Roy Edwards became school board trustee in 1949 was the out cry over new school in the Moonstone area An old school house burnt down and new one had to be erected There wasnt really any confrontation over the need for new school Edwards says The confrontation was over where we were going to build it Everybody wanted it in their own backyard he says Edwards farmer serves the aseyMoonstone area as member of the Simcoe County Board of Education but his career as trustee began 20 years before the county boards came into be in gl became interested because had my children 97 five starting school he says The Medonte area school board was established in 1942 Edwards was elected in 1949 and also served as chair man of that board for 11 years beginning in the 19505 He has seen changes From the one room school to centralized school buildings was big m0ve back in 196465 but the county board was the major change Edwards says Before 1969 education in Simcoe County was in the hands of dozens of small boards and committees Following the birth of the county board they were ab sorbed and the education process was centralized One administrative body with trustees representing various parts of the county began making decisions for the whole dont think the educa tion process suffered at all tbecause of the change but the closeness of the local gt was Roy Edwards first elected in l949 ROY EDWARDS seen changes to see the process which he had used in the pottery To recapture some of the at mosphere of the old candy store he has also decorated the retail section with old brass cash registers antique bottles and chocolate moulds and bits of candy makers machinery With 22 employees who work shifts the factory is open seven days week attracting mainly tourists and outoftowners The operation is small enough for Brown to manage on his own and he has no intention of competing with giants in the business such as Laura Secord or McCormick But despite the homemade flavor of its operation the Can dy Factory markets its pro ducts coast to coast Brown says he recently sold about 500000 apple pop suckers to large super market chain and some of the major department stores in the Toronto area sell the factorys chooolates at their candy counters The factory also has special line of chocolate mould figures of wellknown characters such as Big Bird Ernie and Cookie Monster of Sesame Street fame as well as Charlie Brown hero of the Peanuts comic strip ne mould of Harvey the rab bit on display weighs in at 30 pounds And this is the only place you can buy jelly beans in separate colors says Brown pointing to more than dozen jars of beans normally available only in mixture He had to buy almost two tons of jelly beans to persuade the manufacturer to interrupt the normal production schedule Nibbling sliver of fudge here and broken bits of raisin cluster there during tour of the back rooms Brown admits he does tend to sample If like it eat it if dont spit it out But do sample it One previous employee he says used to consume about one pound of candy per day He didnt just taste it he ate it school was lost Edwards says if He says the interest parents had in the school system was not weakened by centralization but he adds more onus has been placed on local principals to help with public relations Changes in curriculum have been less obvious Ed wards says though he acknowledges that teachers and teaching aids have become more sophisticated Curriculum is curriculum it is the methods of teaching that have chang ed he says Edwards rates curriculum development as the boards most important function and says the boards vice chairman that includes the human relations program Im in favor of it he says its community gfi builder and lot covered in that program is worthwhile for students of to day thats the examiner 7491 59931915n19391 Buffalo still roam free on Oro farmers ranch By BRIAN BAKER Examiner Correspondent 0R0 STATION In 1967 Big Bay Point dairy farmer Bert Schumacher and his wife toured Western Canada and the US and discovered that there was not one place in North America where ordinary visitors could go right in and see free roaming buffalo This he thought was shame in view of the fact that the buffalo played such an im portant part of the colorful past of western North America and figured so prominently in the stories and legends of Indians and whitemen alike In 1970 therefore he realized his dream he bought 430 acres of rolling hills covered ideally with bush and abandon ed farm land and stocked it with buffalo and elk purchased by tender from the Government of Alberta as overflow from their northern parks Well good gosh exlaimed two teachers from British Col umbia who had visited all the open range buffalo preserves On their way east through Western Canada and the US without catching sight of one buffalo We have to travel twothirds of the way across Canada right through traditional buffalo country and not see one until we get here CORRECT NAME The correct name for these animals is North American bison said Schumacher but since many people do not know what you are talking about when you speak of bison it is easier to call them buffalo On this ranch we have nine miles of trails some of them follow ing old logging trails so that we can reach every part of the ranch and visitors are assured of seeing buffalo in their natural habitat from the com fort of our bus Looking after this buffalo ranch at least through the summer is like looking after herd of dairy cows its seven dayaweek job laughed Mrs Schumacher who since Mr Schumacher froze his feet last winter and is recovering from partial amputation knows what it is like to get up at 430 am every day and drive down to Big Bay Point to milk 46 Holstein cows Actually we are open weekends Victoria Day to end Pioneer mUSUFPflIOVeS ALLISTON Reorgans ization and cataloguing are pro mising to make Allistons South Simcoe Pioneer Museum just west of the hospital an even bet ter place for the whole family to visit Under the Heritage Canada Program one college student and two grade 13 students are busily cataloguing every item in the museum along with its historic background working through the cultural and recreation program What we are trying to do is standardize our catalogueing system says curator Frank Mcars When you realize that there are 300 different ap proaches to this job it is not easy to pick the one best suited to our needs However the job is shaping up very nicely now It will give us true picture of what belongs outright to the museum and what is loaned After all we do not want to end up as some sort of storage sh ed Culturally speaking think the South Simcoe Pioneer Museum fills real need in the district and what we do now will affect its effectiveness for years to come number of displays are be ing completely reorganized for better interpretation New displays are being added RAILROAD ARTIFACTS At present Meats is par ticularly enthusiastit about display of railroad artifacts that he is arranging in the nor thwest corner including posters ticket office and wicket oilers oil signal lamps with red green and blue lights hand powered rail inspection jigger and grasshopper No grasshopper is not an in sect when you are talking railroads it is long handled pinch bar that is inserted under the wheels of freight cars to move them back or ahead by hand for unloading on sidings number of artifacts from insulin discoverer and Alliston native Sir Frederick Banting including 20pound World War bomb German machine gun and 25foot kayak brought back from his 1924 Arc tic expedition Of particular in terest is an oil painting made by Sir Frederick himself Other prints paintings and photos include Queen Victoria King George the 6th and the Queen Mother Canadas Sir John Macdonald in red bow tie stiff white collared shirt and wearing fur collared of June daily through July and August then weekends until mid0ctober or later 10 em to dusk In the office massive mounted heads of buffalo pro ject from the walls and hides hang from the walls Other mounted specimens that in trigue visitors include snowshoe hare great horned owl and flying squirrel creatures common to the ranch but almost never seen by the casual visitor This is an in troductiOn to the 56 buffalo and their calves 12 graceful elk and herd of fallow deer that live in complete freedom within the ranch PLUNGEI When the bus bumped over Texas gate of spaced pipes across which hoofed animals will not venture we plunged immediately into deep woods crisscrossed by creeks and streams headwaters of the Col dwater River past patches of gay summer flowers past the tree that is home to family of baby skunks and into large bush encircled field where we saw the heads of 10 female elk sticking up above the brow of hill like periscopes We came to stop within 50 feet of these usually in the wild shy creatures sporting long necks short tails and red rumps Our next stop was at the ponds where geese and ducks came right up to the side of the bus for handout of grain and big rainbow trout splashed wildly as they snapped up fish food tossed out on the surface of the water For half mile we drove through the most beautiful maple and mixed woods the sky invisible beneath the green canopy of leaves In these deep woods we came to the historic remains of an original lumber mans shack where the men stayed all week to cut timber through the winter then showshoed out for the weekends before roads existed in the im mediate area The little wooden building has rotted to the roofline but an ancient iron box stove can be seen underneath and good luck horseshoe adorns the one and only door way One oldtimer recalled that he used to walk by this way through the bUSh to school on the Eighth Line At the top of very steep coat Of particular interest to Alliston are photos of the founders of Alliston William Fletcher and his wife and their son John and his wife Most outstanding is the 1871 map of Simcoe County showing the names of all the land owners at the time done to the scale of 80 chains to the inch At that time some blocks of land were still held by the Canada Land Company open for settle ment GENERATOR grain binder hand powered seeder horsepulled grain drill wooden water pump ox yokes yoke for carrying two pails of water from the well cutter complete with black bearskin robe early grain measures cow and sleigh bells complete the agricultural display The excellent early carpentry display includes broad axe adze fourinch wide slip chisel planes levels and barn framers drill press Other displays include china dolls dinner sets early fur niture the pipe organ from Knox Presbyterian Church cook stoves and handpowered washing machines early street lights Indian artifacts native birds seed pictures and wreaths and the little 15 jack telephone switchboard used in Everett until 1960 If you suffer from claustaphobia said Meats pointing out the tiny iron slat ted original Alliston jail then you had better not get in there ROPE BED rope bed with feather tick dark pine sideboard hand washing machine with scrub board and hand wringer cookstove with elevated oven spinning and weaving equip ment add interest to the two storey log house built in 1851 by Angus McDonald originally on the east half of lot 11 Conces sion Essa Thirteen logs high the walls of the house are cor nered by the quicker lapkey mortice as opposed to the more efficient dovetail mortice The low doors and sixfoot downstairs ceiling indicate that the pioneers were of smaller stature than people today said Mears Thats okay for oldtimers like myself but for taller people of the younger generations like yourself it is no good South Simcoe Pioneer Museum is open daily 11 am to pm from first week of June until the Labor Day weekend $5127 73 Built like bulldozer fine bull buffalo grazes on the North Oro Buffalo Ranch operated by Bert Schumacher an lnnisfil dairy farmer bush trail we again came into the open of fields and drove into the midst of one half of the but falo herd until we could almost reach out and touch the big shaggy animals which seemed quite unconcerned by our intru sion We were lucky for the calves darling little guys had not yet lost their peculiar sandy colored coats and it was lunch time and they were busily help ing themselves to their mothers milk Other buffalo were enjoying the typical buffalo luxury of rolling and kicking in deep san dy buffalo wallows of their own making Some were chewing their cuds others were grazing nearby The herd seemed to Frank Mears demonstrates the use of handoperated drillpress communicate with odd little grunts that belied their massive size Built with shoulders like those of football players buffalo can smash their way out of any ordinary truck people might try to transport them in Most im pressive was to see these animals silhouetted aginst the skyline Driving into the edge of the bush we discovered the other half of the herd nearby all peacefully lying down in the shade for Sunday afternoon rest Here too was the great lead bull weighing almost ton Protector of the herd he swung his massive head around in our direction monchalantly ahead as if to say Its okay know you are there Just dont try anything thats all As we drove back to the of fice cresting the top of hill that is the height of the land overlooking Bass Lake and then turned and twisted down into the valley with its old fencelines and pioneer rock piles Schumacher explained that although most of the animals have been born on the north ro ranch they are still plains animals at heart and avoid the deepest woods where instinct tells them that they are at disadvantage with no room to manoeuver to defend themselves ucidv¢ou ¢¢I¢ curator of South Simcoe Pioneer Museum at Alliston Diane Bell of Elmvole correctly identified the last entry in the Know Your Contest as the Waverley Community Centre and wins two steaks courtesy of and Super Discount in Barrie Angus or Alliston if you know the answer to this weeks entry send your name address and phone number along with your entry to Know Your County Contest The Examiner Box 370 Bar rie L4M 4T6 Winners are selected by random draw of correct answers and will be notified by mail