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Wfl winm the examiner Saturday August 25 1979 Judge rules dog be destroyed dog that bit the arm and leg of little girl on her way to school drawing blood must be destroyed provincial court judge ruled friday Judge Leonard Montgomery found Nancy 17monthold part collie part Geoman Shepherd to be vicious dogand ordered owner Thomas Pitman surrender to the Bar rie canine control to be destroyed within the next 15 days aldwells too By STEPHEN iALEIt The Examiner Midway rides and agricul tural exhibits proved to be more popular than the grands tand show at the Barrie Fair Friday night only very small crowd turned out to watch the Paul Caldwell Show perform slick 60minute set The Caldwell Show feature ing five singers and fivepicce band 77 travels the fair circuit in the US and Canada Their music concentrate on uptempo show tunes pop songs with bit of country and bit of rock and roll thrown in to please the dif ferent segments of the fair au dience Everything they do is slick and polished in way that sug gests as little emotion as possie ble Every number is chorco graphed and every number gets the same kind of breezy treat ment TIRESOME That approach is fine for 10 minute but after an hour all that enthusiasm starts to become tiresome With the ex ception of young singer namr ed Mika Brooks the singing in the Show was competent but unexciting Miss Brooks however provided some of the more enjoyable moments in the show with some gutsy singing in tunes like Summertime Shes powerful singer with dramatic style and easily deserved every solo nuiiibcr she was given But as hard as the per formers tried and theres no The dog bit Tanya Oaks nine of Colleen Street while she and two girlfriends were walking on Jeffrey Street on their way to Steele Street Public the after noon of School May TEASING Testifying as an unsworn witness Tanya said other children had been teasing the animal when she and her friends walked by The dog ran out from the driveway breaking its chain that was tied to two cement blocks and lunged at her The other two girls froze but Tanya panicked and tried to run away and the dog bit The girl was taken to hospital but did not require stitches Pitman along with three employees of the Barrie branch of the Ontario Humane Society testified the dog was friendly and playful Charles Simpson humane society warden said children should not provoke dogs and that he felt compelled to take the dogs side He said the chain Nancy was tied with was inadequate and cheap and should not be sold in stores Because it was the first time Nancy had bitten anyone the defence counsel asked Judge Montgomery to consider the animal as first offender Were dealing with the life of an animal he said Its serious matter tody Performed at fair grandstand denying their energy and en thusiasm they couldnt get much of response from the au dience Their music seemed more suited to nightclub than fair and the lack of interest shown by the audience should have told the performers they were doing something wrong The crowd wanted country music The Caldwell singers responded with handful of popcountry standards and then went onto do medley of Broadway show tunes Broadway tunes may give the singers chance to throw in some dance routines and in tricate harmonizing but they didnt go over very well with the audience Much more impressive than the five singers were the musi cians in the groups band par ticularly the trumpeter and saxophonist The show opened with jazzy uptempo inlt strumeiital number that pro niised good things to come lhat promise was never fulfille ed much to the disappointment of the small audience in the grandstand And for all the showbiz trap pings of the group the easy patter of the lead singer the colorcoordinated costumes the bright smiles and pretty faces they simply didnt draw their audience into the music It was all too slick too polished and too plastic Better to let the band play alone at least give the audience the kind of music they obviously wanted lohear town country Telethon tonight CKVRTV is taking part in threehour telcthoii to raise money for the Vietnamese boat people The telethoii to be broadcast Saturday from to ll involves at the studios of 100 Huntley Street iraaiii Kerr will be the host for the show Twice each hour KVlts Moira limit and Terry Thomas will be the hosts for local segments highlighting efforts to assist the boat people at the local and regional level People involved in local assistance projects will be interviewed Correction photo on page one of lhiirsdays Examiner stated ineorv rectly that traffic accident involving tractortrailer driven bv Adrian Dairoii was on High ay 400 The accident occurred on Highway 11 at the first conccse First corn roast pm community sion of Oro at ll 15 am after tire on the rig blew out Fiddling rock and roll Scottiin dancing and live theatre will be presented at the first Letitia Heights community corn roast to be held at Laiiipniaii Lane Park Sunday at 630 The corn roast is sponsored by the Letitia Heights Com munity Association in cooiwratioii with the citys Parks Are For People program The roast is free to residents of the Judge Montgomery said the attack indicated the dog meant business and showed savage disposition At the real core of this case is that an innocent and defenceless human being was injured by this dog Judge Montgomery said The danger is its unpredictable behavior Im not prepared to gamble with the safety of children or other persons in the area of the dog The Paul Caldwell Show attracted only small audience to the fair grandm stand Friday night The five singers in the show drew lacklustre response from the crowd Innisfil police building progressing on schedule Construction on Innisfil Townships new police building which svarted July is right on schedule says Don Koop mans Innisfils police building committee chairman The building is expected to take 14 weeks to finish putting the completion date near the end of October he said Koopmans said he visited the site Fridy for an inspection tour because he was concerned about some areas of the walls where the blocks were not in terlocking He said he was concerned that the strength of the walls might have been weakened Koopmans said however that the builders Benlorswell onstruction Ltd of Barrie have assured him these ap parent flaws are actually deliberate and are designed to prevent cracking due to temperature changes FLEXIBILITY Doug Reid the township chief building inspector said the areas are known as crack control joints which give the wall some flexibility and are designed to take up any move ment in masonry wall such as that you can expect thermal movement Reid said He said the joints have been Council seeks ban Persistent erectors of road side signs in Innisfil Township may soon be fined for this in fraction of the municipalitys bylaw says its bylaw enforce ment officer Council wants to add penal ty section to its bylaw says Roy Bridge because although the existing bylaw forbids roadside signs on the townships road allowances it is being ignored The townships has the right to take these signs down and installed every 20 feet and by preventing cracks elsewhere in the structure will keep the building looking good for long time The building expected to cost about $858000 is located on the Innisfil Beach Road just east of the municipal buildings has been says Bridge but peo ple keep putting them back pCouncil asked Bridge last week to draft an amendment to the bylaw to include penalty section which he says will add some clout Council is likely to approve the new section in September he says The increasing number of signs along the road allowances has caused councillors concern because they are often placed av intersections and block the vision of motorists Councfl approves lease Its official Innisfil council has passed the bylaw to lease the Alcona Community Centre to Heritage Baptist Church for the purpose of reopening its Christian day school The decision came at special council meeting Friday morning It means Heritage Church can now reopen the school after the Ontario Supreme Court closed the school run in the Little Avenue church The church will have to repair the building to meet fire safety and health standards but the township will repair any structural damage The lease agreement will run between Sept and June 30 1980 The church will be charg ed $2500 for use of the building for those 10 months Paula Abbey of Oro Township is one of the few women in the area working as certified Class motor vehicle mechanic Miss Abbey just com Of The Examiner lf Paula Abbey Class motor venicle mechanic had to do it all over again shed probably become plumber After five year of apprenticeship involving 9800 hours of on the job training and classes at Centennial College in Toronto the 25yearold Oro Township woman is proud to be among the few women certified in her field Although she complains the pay isnt high as shed like at her service centre and doing top quality repair job isnt always easy in the time allotted the apprenticeship pro gram sponsored by the ministry of college and universities gave her the chance to learn skill and earn living at the same time and shes grateful for that That may be why the number of apprentices increasing with 30000 in the province compared to 1000 apprentices 30 years ago and more than 1000 in Simcoe County Young people like apprenticeship programs because they can come out of high school make little money right away and know they will learn trade says Bill McConnell in of GreyBruce County dustrial training consultant with the ministry office in Bar rie which covers Simcoe County Muskoka district and part Apprentices are in great demand particularly in metal and machine trades where theres shortage of skilled tradesman McConnell says The jobs available are well paying he adds FINDING JOB employers turn treats them well the school is outside Barrie Brown College in Toronto will be needed Barry says SEVEN APPRENTICES started 18 years ago The only prenticeship By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner provinciallysponsored employment program designed to give students chance to work on farms during the sunr mer has ended on successful note in Simcoe County says its coordinator for this area Known as Agricrew the pro gram which is funded by the Ontario Youth Secretariat and administered by the ministry of agriculture was pretty much of success this year says Bev Rawn The program ended Aug 17 after an eightweek period dur ing which time two five member crews of students tone crew in North Simcoe and one in South Simcoe were hired out to local farmers on daily basis for odd jobs repairs and general cleanups around the farm Another crew of five also co ordinated by Rawn was based inDufferinCounty REWS BLSY With the three crews we served about 43 farmers throughout the summer and the crews were busy about 90 per cent of the time says Rawn Out of total of 114 possible working days the crews work ed 106 days combined he says The North Simcoe crew had on ly one idle day while the South Simcoe crew had two and the Dufferin crew had five fair events SATLRIMY are 25 in Kramer and Lompany perform at the grandstand Miss Abbey became an apprentice the way most people by by finding job in herfield and then registering in the ap prenticeship program Her program is now carefully monitored by consultant like McConnell who goes to her workplace from time to time to talk to apprentices and Most Barrie shops are jammed with apprentices Mc Connell says General Tire hires about four apprentices year and hasnt had layoff in four years Desmond Barry manager of engineering and maintenance says the com pany expects moral commitment from its trainees and in Their starting wage is 60 per cent of regular wages and all schooling for the electricians millwrights and stcamfitters is paid by by General Electric including accommodation if Right now Barry is little annoyed that all apprentices must be sent out of Barrie for their classroom training creating financial burden for the company He hopes Georgian College will soon offer apprenticeship courses with the same high standard of teaching offered at Georgian Although theres no guarantee of full time employment after an apprenticeship it looks as though every apprentice Barrie Welding and Machine Ltd has seven apprentices and part owner Jim Sheardown says the firms best employees came out of the apprenticeship program which problem Sheardown finds with the program is that trades tend to attract people with limited education and while there may be more machinists than ever before they are not all well qualified Barrie Welding and Machine requires trainee to work six months before starting his ap We cant afford to make mistakes Barry says An estimated onesixth of the 30000 apprentices in Ontario And this was due more to bad weather than to lack of farmer interest The crews were involved in variety of jobs including fence clearing painting and minor construction The biggest job Rawn says was haying The crews did not get involv ed in harvesting he says because the program ended too soon for that Harvesting however is pretty mechanized these days he and farmers dont really need that much help Rawn says survey of farmers who hired the crews in pleted fiveyear apprenticeship program and say it gave her excellent training in her field and recommends it to others Examiner Photo Apprenticeship programs popular way to learn trade By LORI OIIEN complete their programs McConnell insists there are few quitters He says many apprentices particularly in the con struction trade must suffer through layoffs and future unemployment and become discouraged The dropout rate in Barrie is about 13 per cent he says The most popular program is for motor vehicle mechanics since theres garage on every corner Mc Connell says Hairdressing is popular among the women McConnell admits there are few women in traditioal male jobs and wishes more companies would hire women so they could become apprentices in the construction and industrial trades TAKE EXAMINATION After an apprentice completes his program he takes an ex amination iii the ministry office in the courthouse on Worsley Street if required There are two types of trades in the province regulated and nonregulated In compulsory regulated trade only holders of cer tificate of qualification or registered apprentices may prac tice it Regulated trades may also have voluntary certificar tioii Nonregulated trades have no formal regulatons although many have programs setup Both ministry and company representatives say appren tices are welltreated in the workplace because young peo ple wont stand for mistreatment as in the old days Those days are gone because young people are wiser to day McConnell says If you take smart lttyearold kid and try to treat him unfairly he wont take it He says apprentices are looked after by the more ex perienced employees and unions play large role in ap prenticeship training General Tire has joint appren ticeship committee composed of management and union representatives Miss Abbey expected to have more difficult time during her apprenticeship than she did Although she had been tinkering with cars since age seven after quitting high school she worked on switchboards as radio dispatcher in factory as shampoo girl and gas attendant before get ting iiito thefield she really liked Luckily all her employers during the past five years have treated her as one of the guys allowing her to work to her full potential and gain confidence Shes never had trouble finding work Although she doesnt consider herself different from most women she says really ladylike girls or girls who dont want to get their hands dirty shouldnt become mechanics Now that shes certified Miss Abbey may try to work as boat mechanic in the Iarribean or take another appren ticeship plumber where she says the moneys better Or she may try to train others in her field The apprenticeship program has been under fire in recent years for not meeting industrial job requirements concern was brought to head last winter when the provincial government sponsored advertisements in British newspapers paid by General Motors seeking 95 qualified tradesmen McConnell says apprenticeship programs were receiving little support from industry and government but that has changed and everybody is on our side it took lot but knew wed survive Provincial Liberal leader Stuart Smith has called for measures to triple the number of apprentices unions have thrown support behind programs and openings for skilled tradesmen are more plentiful than those for degree peo ple McConnell says Thesa factors should boost the apprenticeship program and put some of Ontarios unemployed to work Agricrew program success dicates most of them were pleased with the work done The students who worked well together also were happy with the program and although some farmers took advantage of them and gave them the dir tiest jobs most of the farmers were good to work for Hawn says BIGGEST OMILAINT The biggest complaint the students had he says as the difference in wages Those over 18 were paid $3 an hour while those under 18 were paid $215 but hopefully this will be changed he says Rawn hopes the program will be repeated again next year but could not say definitely it the money will be available The basic concept of crew supplying farm labor as well as creating employment is good one and has worked well especially in this area Agricrew was implemented last year as pilot project in eight counties and ran provincewide this year creating employment for about 60 crews of five students each Farmers paid $90 day for the crews Services but were given $15 rebate at the end of the program spinKramer andCompanyandTbeleahy Familyaithe grandstand Hes had winners SlNDAY ALT Bad ews ready Sunday is family day at the fair With $5 admission for two parents and two children noon Buildings open 1010 am Appaloosa show and arab show IzJo am American saddle breed show lpm Horseshoe pitching Charolais show pm Stella Parton performs at the grandstand pm Stella Parton performs at the grandsiand pm Fair closes Lucky Luigi Romanelli left accepts cheque from Martha Koetzle representative of the Ray Bowles Assocoition for selling winning Wintario and Provincial Lottery tickets last month On the right is Susan Stuckless who had Si00000 winning ticket among her customers Luigi accounted for four i0000 winners and seven 000 winners Examiner Photo Its time to get ready for school and nobody knows it better than Duff Binkley and Mark Reynolds both Grade l2 students from Barrie North Collegiate Binkley and Reynolds collected their fall term schedules Friday and from their faces youd think they were reading last years report cards Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu