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By TERRY FIELD OfThe Examiner ISitpractical That question was on the mind of many of teachers in troduced Friday to an approach to teaching that will radically alter the traditional classroom if introduced to schools Facing 30 children daily is difficult but could be even more difficult if they were encouraged to speak out move around at will and largely choose for themselves what they would like to study two Simcoe County separate school board teachers said The teachers one from each of the boards schools com prise task force charged with examining the new approach to language learning described by the word psycho linguistics which is the study of the relationship between language and thought Proponents of the psycholinguistics philosophy in clurling Des arroll the boards superintendent of cur riculuni llt the education system has embarked on the New method changes schoo wrong approach to language training and are suggesting change in attitude The child they say does not need to be taught but helped to learn Language aquisition which leads to greater understanding of language and ideas is part of being human and is done naturally by all of us Rather than provide the child with lessons in grammar spelling and so on the system should provide stimulating environment which prods childs builtin desire to learn they say UNDERSTANDING The emphasis would be placed on reading to understand what information is being passed along and not reading aC cording to rules of language that make no sense to the child they say Further the four facets of language use would be in tegrated Reading writing listening and speaking must be done simultaneously if language is to be learned thoroughly they argue This is the most important exercise being undertaken by Centre takes form The Ontario Travel information Centre on Hwy 400 begins to take its new form as workers con tinue renovations The centre which is expected to be finished near the end of January l980 is Council wants rezoning the second tourist centre to adopt the new look All centres will eventually look the same as part of visual identity program designed to make them easily spotted Owner seeks legal help Im not sure what should group of not more than four do said Jamie MacVichie human beings asasingle fami owner of group home for IIIO ly housekeeping unit lllllll when told Innisfil may take says lioweverlnnisfils defini legal action against the ltotm lniiisfils development recommended lhursdny that Court hearing disturbed children At least one Toronto lawyer tion of family wouldnt stand planning and at an Ontario Municipal Board commit ee OMB hearing or at Supreme ing to do he said But havent gotten any answers In letter to council in October Birch provincial secretary for in all social development requested the municipality to facilitate group homes in all residential by areas courage municipalities to make appropriate amendments to their official plans and zoning bylaws to permit group homes residential neighborhoods she said MacVichie disputes claims council that sign on his however Margaret unless MacVichie files for rezoning application council should tiikc legal action against him MacVichie told The Ex aminer Friday there are number of options open to him including letting council take legal action against him But he said Ill have to wait to talk with my solicitor Innisfil contends that the home is operating in contraven tion of the zoning hyliiw lhe bylnii permits families only in residential area Innisfil defines family as One or more human beings related by blood of marriage or common law marriage or Land zoning can only prohibit the use of land prohibit the erection and use of buildings on that land and regulate the characteristics and location of building said Norman Ep stein during recent council meeting Youre not land zoning youre people zoning he told councila Youre saying who can live with whom MacVichie says group homes have become provincewide problem but says talks with government officials havent offered him any guidance Ive been down to the ministry numerous times to see what if anything they are g0 As you know the main thrust of our policy is to en lawn advertises the home as group home The only thing have on my lawn snowman he said Local woman hurt in crash Big Bay Point woman is in serious condition in Royal Vic toria Hospital following single when her car left the road went into ditch and struck hydro pole at 241 am Ms Aspinwall vehicle accident on Con 11 at Sideroad 20 in Innisfil Township early this morning Heather Aspinwall 24 was headed eastbound on Con 11 lawn said police Damage $4000 was thrown out of the vehicle before it stopped on nearby is estimated at this board at this time Carroll told the task force He believes it will help the child realize his full potential Carroll says the school system has been guilty of turning children off learning It has assumed children know nothing and endeavoured to fill up their minds as if they were empty reservoirs The child will learn on his own and the system should draw him along encourage him to explore his thoughts and the thoughts of others Carroll says FREE CLASSROOM If adopted the psycholinguistics approach would force teachers to deal with free classroom which con ceivably could have 30 children doing 30 different things though that would be unlikely The practicality of the approach is the key test said Mike McLinden of St Monicas elementary school Barrie He believes it is realistic goal and is impressed by the con cept Children learn to speak by speaking and to read by reading The more of both they do the better he told The Examiner McLindens colleague Theresa McBride of St Marys said the concept interested her but she also expressed skep ticism Ideally you would like to have program for each child but that is impossible in class of 30 If each teacher had less students it could work though Both McLinden and McBride said they would be prepared to work under such system They also said teachers are eager to change their ways if better ones present themselves Psycholinguistics is philosophy of education and does not presume to outline the methods teachers should use in classroom Carroll said He likened the psycholinguistic oriented class to sophisticated kindergarten Like kindergarten there would be certain lack of restraint placed on the students but the subject matter would suit the particular grade The new approach would not drive traditional subjects such as mathematics and history from the curriculum but the way they are taught could change he said During the next few months the task force will meet regularly to review resource material on language training and the integration of the four major facets of language Its members are also asked to act as liason between the board and other teachers town country Bellamy new PC president COLLINGWOOD Peter Bellamy Collingwood lawyer has been appointed the new president of the GreySimcoe Progressive Conservative Association He was elected at the associations annual meeting in Markdale last month Also elected to the executive at the meeting were the following secretary Fred Workman of Owen Sound treasurer Ron Emo of Collingwood Douglas Breadner of Meaford Ken Devlin of Wasaga Beach David Bain of Markdale Arlene Wright of Owen Sound Stan Tate of Wasaga Beach and Douglas Ward of Owen Sound Youth representatives for the association will be Glen Lemon of Sydenham Township andDan Little of Flesherton Turkey shoot ELMVALE The Elmvale and District Lions Club will hold turkey shoot Sunday Dec at its gun club on Concession seven in Flos Township Price of tickets for each shoot will be $2 and winners will receive turkey Proceeds of the shoot will go to community projects Elmvale breakin Elmvale OPP report breakin sometime Friday night or early this morning at Dianes Hairstyling at 17 Maria St in Elmvale The store window was smashed and $40 taken The incident is under investigation Wiring blamed stares in local fire COLLINGWOOD break in electrical wiring is blamed for starting fire Wednesday that caused $25000 damage in downtown damaged goods in neighboring businesses Chief Maguire estimates damage to Plaza Billiards at about315000 an estimated vicepresidents Collingwood Town Fire Chief Francis Maguire told The Examiner fire started in lunch counter area of Plaza Billiards 78 HurontarioSt Ontario Hydro inspectors ex amined the wiring and found there had been mechanical break They did not determine what caused the break in the wiring Sparks from the wiring ig nited surrounding material under the counter sink and fire resulted Ms 515 womens clothing store located next door had $9000 to $10000 damage Trotts Furniture Ltd had $300 to $400 damage he said The damage was caused primarily from heavy black smoke Chief Maguire said Friday He said the smoke was unusually thick and black but he did not know what caused it tobethatway No one was injured in the fire The businesses were emp ty when fire broke out Wednes Firefighters were able to ex day evening tinguish the blaze within Firefighters evacuated two minutes of their arrival but not apartments above the stores before thick black smoke char and the tenants were moved to red the inside the pool room and other quarters where you live Tall Trees offers By LORI COHEN of The Examiner Living in subdivision isnt to everyones taste The houses look alike they are built close to each other and when first constructed there are generally few trees to be found But the nice thing about subdivisions is that theyre quiet away from busy downtown streets and filled with modern wellkept houses Families can move in and know that their neighbors will probably be just like them young families who settled in to raise their children where there are big backyards and school nearby Thats what youll find in Tall Trees one of number of subdivisions that have sprouted up in and around Barrie during the past 10 years Drive north on Bayfield Street and turn left on to Cundles Road Make another left on Springdale Drive and youre into Tall Trees subdivision of 400 homes set on win ding streets and tiny crescents or courts as residents call them There are lots of kids running around paperboys on their routes and boys playing ball hockey on trafficfree dea dend streets Although it seems to be two car family area theres bus running along Springdale Drive the main artery to serve the estimated 600 residents As an area Tall Trees is relatively uneventful place although that was not the case four years ago when homeowners banded together to find solution to problem The Tall Trees Ratepayers Association was formed when it was discovered building problems like leaky roofs were more than an occasional phenomenon The group wanted the builder Northdown Homes to db something about these premature problems and found it difficult to get action ELECTION ISSUE It was then says former association president and four year resident Ronald Diamond that candidate for municipal office who lived in the area jumped on the band wagon and made the homeowners nightmares an election issue Diamond says lot of publicity was generated man elected but nothing done to help the residents after the builder declared it wasnt responsible for the housing Diamond says its common knowledge in the area that the problems were simply used as an election vehicle but thats all in the past now Some residents were annoyed when immediately after the publicity the value of homes in Tall Trees declined but its picked up since then Less than two years later the association disbanded for lack of raison detre Before disbanding it managed to raise $1500 to put playground uipment in the Cundles Heights schoolyard and this year city decided to equip it even more fully The association tried for an ice rink in the yard but failed It did manage to prevent the city from cut ting down trees in the tiny park on Springdale Drive And there are plenty of tall trees in Tall Trees plea sant change from most subdivisions where residents plant their own and wait 10 years before they graduate from the shrub stage Diamond says he believes Ashdale Court is neighborhood with lots of sociable people who invite each other whenever theres party or gettogether few years ago the community housed large number of BarrieToronto commuters Diamond says the cost of commuting became too great and now Tall Trees is fairly stable residential area of people who work in this area Almost every house is occupied indicating that subdivi sions are still an extremely popular place to live particular ly in this neck of the woods the examiner Saturday Dec 197911 Smile when you say that The Wild West come to Barrie Friday with lnnisdales theatre arts group performing Wild West Circus directed by Elspeth McGibbon In this scene Sheriff Brent Oakley and his deputy Carlton Aylette confront gunfighter Marie Parent The group performed the play at Cundles Heights School Friday Examiner Photo by Peter Roberts Bank manager sees Costs to rise for farmers By RICHARD THOMAS of The Examiner There is no question the toughest problem facing farmers in 1980 will be sharply increased costs and energy and fertilizer are likely to be major factors members of the North Simcoe Soil and Crop Associa tion were told Friday George Arnold agricultural service manager with the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto told farmers the de mand for energy at the farm level has increased tremen dously because of more lar er that energy will continue to rise This upward trend in energy prices will continue to put pressure on inflation said Ar nold He predicted an inflation rate of 12 per cent if the Cana dian governments follows its plan to move more rapidly towards world oil prices with projected price increases of 35 to 40 cents per gallon of gasoline over the next year As soaring energy and other input costs outpace any modest increase in the price of com modities farmers can also ex pect drop in net farm income Arnold said Agricultural economists in the United States are forecasting drop of about 20 per cent in 1980 he said but the situation might not be as severe in Canada as energy costs have increased more dramatically in the US than here In discussing high interest rates Arnold pointed out it was difficult topic to speculate about on but he offered the association members some uiet Imllal ailsInn Tiny crescents or courts hope that the rates had peaked particularly in the US where one or two of the major banks have lowered their prime in terest rate in the last two weeks HIGH RATE In Canada the prime rate is currently at an all time high of 15 per cent he said but we see some encouraging signs GEORGE ARNOLD costs to rise ln offering farmers forecasts for the future however Arnold said he expected reasonable strength in the beef industry with slaughter cattle prices conservatively ranging bet ween 80 to 85 cents per pound like this one are The relatively high price of beef may also hold up the hog market he said which is very close to full production due to tremendous expansion Arnold admitted however that unforseen circumstances such as higher grain prices and sudden strengthening of the Canadian dollar which would reduce exports could upset my predictions for both beef and hogs Arnold also offered farmers some advice on how to manage their business affairs in the face of high interest rates and growing inflation Money will continue to be ex pensive he said and farmers who are thinking of major capital expenditures next year such as tractor should hold off Farmers should also make great effort to collect money which is owed to them and deposit it against operating loans he said When you receive cheque or cash for produce make sure it is deposited against your operating loan as soon as possi ble am amazed at the number of cheques payable to farmers which ride around for week or twoin your wallets Arnold advised farmers to keep all inventories and sup plies to bare minimum to help reduce operating loans and finance capital expenditures out of term loans not operating loans As we move into the 1980s the challenges are going to be greater than ever on the farm manager Arnold said Nonetheless am confident that most Canadian farmers can cope