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By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner It appears the hassles involv ed in the citys awarding of its bus contract to Penetang Midland Coach Line PMCLJ are not yet over Barrie earlier awarded the bus contract to PMCL to run the citys bus service from 198082 It is the first time the Midland company was awarded the contract However PMCL intends to build new garage off Seaforth Ave and nearby residents are displeased About 15 residents appeared before the committee of adjust ment in Barrie Thursday to ob ject basic opposition concerns the volume of traffic on dead end street said Ald Dorian Parker Its not an arterial route sid the Barrie alderman and some people have lived on that street for more than 30 years That was long before the property the bus garage will be built on was thought of as industrial she said Noise and possible pollution problems also concern the residents she said Brian Dubeau PMCL vice president and general manager said that because of the zoning residents could have much worse use on the property than as bus repair garage country Blue Jay tickets deadline Monday Monday at pm is the final deadline for tickets to Barrie Day at the CNE Stadium Aug 26 when the Toronto Blue Jays play the California Angels Five hundred tickets for the game have been set aside for Barrie residents The $9 tickets include bus transportation admission to the CNE and the baseball game and donation to the United Way Buses will leave The Examiner building 16 Bayfield St at 10 am on Aug 26 and return that afternoon at pm Tickets are available at The Examiner offices Barrie Day at Exhibition Stadium is sponsored by The Examiner and the City of Barrie in cooperation with the Barrie and District United Way GerowDiver appear PENETANGUISHENE The preliminary hearing of two Midland men accused of murdering 14yearold Elizabeth Whelan June was adjourned to Sept 13 in provincial court here Thursday Neil Gerow and Garrold Diver both 19 appeared in court briefly before Juge Len Montgomery Following the ad journment the two men were returned to Barrie Jail where they remain in custody Gerow and Diver were arrested in Fort Lauderdale Fla five days after the Penetanguishene girl was found beaten stabbed and run over by car on road north of Midland She died en route to Midlands Huronia District Hospital Diver was represented Thursday by lawyer Bicker ton Barry Swadron represented Gerow Degrees given locally For the first time in five years graduates for Sir Wilfred Laurier Universitys Simcoe County extension program will receive their degrees during local ceremony Some 50 students will be awarded during the convocation Sunday October 21 at Georgian College spokesman for the university said Thursday The last time the ceremony was staged here for local grads was in 1974 In years when there are sufficient number to justify separate convocation it is handled local ly the spokesman said In other years the grads attend the larger ceremony at the main campus at Waterloo An honorary degree will be bestowed on an as yet unnanr ed resident of the county as part of the festivities the spokesman said Barrie girl third at Ex Barries Lynn Langford placed third in the open Beethoven sonata piano class held Thursday as part of the CNE Music Festival Miss Langford one of 300 music students from across the province competing the music festival scored 80in the piano class On Aug 22 she competes in two flute classes at the CNE and on Aug 31 she plays in the open violin class The other Barrie music student competin in the festival Jamie Warr ington plays in the euphonium class on Aug 21 Later in August the Central Collegiate Band directed by Morley Calvert competes in the band class of the music festival Barries entrant in this Miss CNE Queen of the Fair Pageant Sandra Lee did not place among the top three win ners of the event Miss Lee was named Miss Barrie Fair in 1978 Stayner receives grant Stayner has received $40000 in Ontario Home Renewal Program grants which will be administered as loans to local homeowners to improve their houses Stayners allocation is part of 3579161 in grats allocated to 15 municipalities announced recently by Housing Minister Claude Bennett The OHRP provides per capita grants to Ontario municipalities to provide loans to homeowner for home im provement The money is primarily used for improvement of struc tural and sanitary conditions and the upgrading of plumb ing heating insulation and electrical systems Receives annexation information Information pertaining to Innisfils annexation appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada has been sent to Barries lawyer Robert Rueter representing Innisfil told The Examiner today Barrie must approve the information before it can be sent off to the supreme court Jim McCallum Barries lawyer was unavailable for com ment today Correction The wreckorama to be held Saturday in Barrie will take place at the Texaco station on 85 Dunlop Street West and not RR as stated in Thursdays Examiner The event to help out muscular dystrophy will be held between 10 am and pm 72 Full swing playground slugger fans the air as pitch from the mound sails by him during the city recreation department baseball tournament Thursday at Queens Park Maple Grove won the championship beating Shear Park 76 in the final Four playground groups competed in the event Examiner Photo by Cathy Heather The company Wlll initially have 13 buses to store in the building each night Dubeau said At 645 am seven buses would leave for the route and at 730 another four buses would depart The buses would be started about 615 in the garage and Starts Sunda would not bother residents he said area Additional storage space is being put in the building said Dubreau in case the city wants another route in two or three years Peter Mills committee chair Bus troubles not yet over man said he could see the residents concerns But the ap plication by the company is in character with the zoning for that property he said The committees decision should be rendered in few days in Toronto Annexation at AMO conference An annexation report which Barrie had hand in will be one of the topics up for discus sion at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario AMO annual conference in Toronto The conference starts Sun day and runs through to Wednesday Barrie represen tatives at the conference will include mayor Ross Archer Ald Alex Arthur Gerry Tamblyn city administrator and Ben Straughan city clerk It was an annexation report coordinated by the municipal liason committee Straughan told The Examiner today AMO representatives include Strughan and Bill Gibbins ln nisfil reeve The report was presented to Tom Wells minister of in Province wonthelp bee keepers The provincial government will not help out local bee keepers affected by the recent Sevinpesticide spraying of ar my worms George Taylor iMPPSim coe Centre told The Examiner Thursday the ministry of agriculture has no money to compensate keepers which had some bees destroyed by the re cent spraying Edward Woods of Hillsdale county bee inspector estimates hell lose about 325000 as result of the spraying Andy Whyte of Barrie another affected bee keeper said Thursday he had asked Taylor if he could do anything to help out Taylor said the ministry of agriculture had made informa ergovemmental affairs earlier in the year he said The report called for more discussion between political bodies rather than confronta tion through the Ontario Municipal Board 0MB said Straughan These discussions would cut down on the length of time involved with the annexa tion process Straghan said Straughan said new govem ment formula might surface as result of the report and Wells might introduce it during the conference Strughan said it is his understanding the new for mula might be tried out in Bradford which is experienc ing annexation difficulties at the preent time The report will probably also be discussed by the association he said but GEORGE TAYLOR province cant help Other subjects of interest to be presented include the AMO response to the white paper on the planning act recently in troduced by the provincial government Mayor Ross Archer told The Examiner recently he was pleased with many aspects of the new act report from the AMO con flict of interest committee is also expected to be presented The matter is of particular in teret to Barrie because of the request for an investigation in to the Barrie Police Commis sion by six Barrie aldermen The aldermen say there might be conflict of interest with commission chairman and an alarm company which operate the devices at the Bar rie police station with losses tion available to bee keepers by way of the Ontario Bee Keepers Association prior to actual spraying It was obvious to farmers where bee hives were located that spraying was going on Taylor said The evidence he said was low flying planes and the publicity it had been given in the media The ministry of environment licenses the program said Taylor and the ministry of agriculture was aware of ac tivitieshe said The pesticide used kills main ly the field workers the bees which gather pollen to make the honey Woods said earlier cat and goat in Medonte Township also died after con tact with the pesticide he said County officials hear planning act changes By PAT ONROY Forthc Examiner Major change in the Ontario Planning Act brought ministry of housing officials to special meeting of Simcoe County council yesterday The group headed by Gerad Fitzpatrick of the ministry of housings local planning branch outlined the proposed changes as they affect county government The changes are contained in weighty white paper the result of 10years work tabled in the Ontario legislature in May Fitzpatrick told council that the new act is designed to ex tend powcr to municipalities to act in place of the province on local planning matters The new act he said extends delegation to municipalities and counties He said that the povince intends to allow municipalities to approve sub division and condominium plans without first ministry approval DELEGATE POWER Other powers to be delegated include land severance general zoning power and community improvement Under the pre sent act these changes require the approval of the ministry of housing However while the province says it is stepping back to allow municipalities greater autonomy the moyc is more sidestep than retreat Fitz patrick said that the povince will have veto power over any municipal actions which conflict with stated provincial getting interests These interests he said will be spelled out in the new act and in regular govem ment policy circulars sent to municipalities And the province is imposing strict criteria for municipalities to act on their own behalf The white paper calls for ministryvapprovcd official plan before power can be delegated Also municipalities must have professional planning staff Fitzpatrick said Simcoe County has no official plan but firm has been retain ed to work towards that goal Cadet Murphy is presented with the Douglas Maxwell Watt Award by Mr and Mrs Watt Thurs day during the annual Graduation Parade at CFB Borden Murphy was selected by his peers as the MTV Cadet Robert Knight right of the 44 Sarnia Air Squadron won top honors as the best technical training cadet during Thursday the graduation parade the examiner Friday August 17 1979 most congenial cadet The award honors the memory of Doug Watt who met with tragic acci dent while training at the Cadet Summer School Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu de Cadet Leger of the 772 Vonier squadron is given kiss from his sister Suzanne moments after the Graduation Parade at CFB Borden woday blood clinic objective 600 pints By RICHARD THOMAS The Examiner The Barrie Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society is making push to encourage the public to donate badly needed blood says its local chairman The society will hold two day blood donor clinic Aug 27 and Aug 28 at the Trinity Parish Hall on Collier Street and is extending the plea to those in good health between 18 and 65 not restricted for medical reasons to donate said Maisie Murphy Sponsored by the Kempenfelt Kiwanis Club the clinics will be open from pm to pm and pm to 830 put both days Mrs Murphy said We want to raise at least 600 units Barrie has been responsive to previous requests for blood and the societys local branch receives about 2500 units per year but we are always look ing for more Mrs Murphy said SEVERE SHORTAGE Doreen Duffin urban co ordinator for the Red Cross for Alcona Beach man says day care centre needed By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner BARCLAY An Alcona Beach man wants to leave the Alcona Community Centre to start day care centre this fall Chris Teeter told Innisfil Councils committee of the whole Wednesday there is need for day care centre in thearea Ive talked to people in Bar rie and there are people who are dragging their kids to day care centres in Newmarket said Teeter His operation would employ four other persons including two speciallytrained child care workers and would be governmentlicensed centre he said The Alcona Centre now unoc cupied was used for similar purpose two years ago said Deputy reeve Grant Andrade Teeter said the premises have been inspected by the township fire chief the Simcoe County Health Unit and the ministry of community and social services He presented list of their recommendations The ministry said if the special requirements were met the building could handle 30 preschool children Teeter said if the township brings the building up to re quired fire and safety stan dards he would assume all ongoing maintenance costs The committee said the pro posal would be considered but that other groups have ap proached Council about renting or leasing the centre The building was leased to the Alcona Program Group from May to September 1978 at fee of $350 month says report from the townships recreation director In that report Larry Morrow suggests that an appropriate leasing fee would be $385 month which would compen sate for 10 per cent increase in operating costs HiWay Pentacostal Church rented the centre this summer but the building was not rented toanyoneelsesinceSeptember 1978 says Morrow Under the community recrea tion centres act facilities receiving financial assistance must be available for public use says the report Innisfil has received about $4000 under the act for im provements to the centre Coun cil would have to notify the AMMMA ministry of culture and recrea tion if the buildings use is changed Committee decided to con sider Teeters request along wihh request from Heritage Baptist Church after recom mending Council turn down purchase offer from HiWay Pentacostal Church That church offered the township $55000 for the centre but committee members did not want to sell the building Deputy reeve Andrade told The Examiner that was all they could afford to offer for the area but the committee felt it was worth much morsthan that We had no intention of sell ing it prior to the churchs of fer and we felt if we do want to sell it wed do much better by selling on the open market he said The centres value may in crease substantially when sewer and water systems are installed in that area of the township said the deputy reeve Council might also find its own municipal purpose for the centre in the future he said HiWay Pentacostal church wanted to use the centre as church Central Ontario said the socie ty has just experienced severe blood shortage and the importance of the Barrie clinic is to eliminate the possibility of another one Miss Duffin said the summer is always difficult time to get blood donors out to clinics but if we experience three days where we are not collecting it can put us into shortage Everyone takes vacation but disease doesnt she said Miss Duffin said each week the society must collect 3969 units of blood from the central region In this 180000 square mile area from Mississauga to Kapuskasing and including Belleville there are 97 hospitals in constant need of blood she said The weekly requirements are based on statistics kept by the Red Cross which include the number of operating theatres each hospital has the number of patients the number of open heart surgery cases each hospital may handle in day and list of haemophiliacs bleeders listed with them Miss Duffin said Open heart surgery is now common she said and about 14 such operations are being per formed in Toronto hospitals alone each day For each open heart opera tion it takes six units of blood to prime the pump and we must have 20 units on standby unit of blood is just under pint she said Miss Duffin said single donation can help several different patients REMOVES PLASMA She said after removing the plasma the packed red cells left behind can be used to treat patients suffering from anemia or requiring surgery The red cells have shelf life of 21 days Platelets can also be remov ed from the plasma and used in the treatment of leukemia and cancer patients but these only have shelf life of 48 hours she said Doreen Duffin urban coordinator of the Red Cross in Central Ontario left and Maisie Murphy chairman of the Barrie branch display poster show ing the ways in which one unit of blood can help different patients Ex aminer Photo At Wye Marsh Centre Rattlers on display MIDLAND If youre curious about rattlesnakes but not eager to satisfy your curiosity by confronting one in the wild trip to the Wye Marsh Interpretation Centre on highway 12 near Midland may be in order Two Massassauga rat tlesnakes are on display there until Sept as part of its free summer program and the reptiles are safely confined in glass terlt rarium The snakes were captured on Beausoleil Island in Georgian Bay where Georgian Bay Islands Na tional park wardens are tag ging rattlesnakes as part of research program Why Marsh staff have named the snakes Donny and Marie Donny 74 cm male snake sports blue and green plastic tags on his tail Maire female of 65 cm in length wears tags of white and cream said Robert Whittan centre biologist Whittan said the centre displayed rattlesnakes last summer and many curious people visited the centre just togetalook atone Interested persons wanted to see the snakes so they might be able to distinguish rattlesnake from other rep tile species lving in the Georgian Bay area Also featured in the cen tres exhibit hall is alive Peregrine Falcon The Peregrine Falcon is an endangered species in nd Massassauga rattlesnake may be also be threatened with extinction in Ontario