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Tags Chris Wright of Barrie tookvadvantage of the re cent sunshine to put his new bike through its paces in the family driveway Cycling of all kinds is popular in Barrie now that the warmer temperature is here Examiner Photo today OThe annual meeting of the Creemore Cemetery Board will take place at pm in the Creemore Municipal office Red Cross Barrie branch is holding Heritage Tea and bake sale from 230 to pm in the Red Cross Rooms 34 Clapperton St Barrie This event is being held to celebrate world Red Cross Day and the birthday of the founder Henry Duant Barries 125th anniversary will be included in the celebrations OInnisfil Historical and Archaeological Society will hold meetig in the One Room School Painswick at pm Plans for the Spring Fair May 27 will be discussed and some preparation of the school for the event will take place OAngus Lions Club will begin doortodoor canvass of the area today for donations to the Essa Township Recrea tion Centre fund Bumper stickers will be distributed at this time along with information on the arena fund tuesday oEuchre will be played at the Barrie Legion St Vincent Streetat730 pm oUpper Canada Token and Medal Society will meet at 730pm at the True Blue Hall King Street Angus OBarrie Gem and Mineralogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 745 pm in the Church of the Good Shepherd Steel Street Anyone interested in this sub ject is invited to attend OSenior citizens from Sandy Cove Acres will assist the children at Warnica Public School Painswick with their art work They will also have their own paintings on display at the school as part of an art fair being held from 930 to pm ODalston Womens Institute is holding supper entitled Luncheon is Served at pm at Dalston United Church Tickets are sold in advance only For further information call 7266869 OThe Cookstown Preschoolers Mothers will meet at pm at the home of Jane Hutchinson RR Barrie Simcoe County Historical Association will meet at pm at the Simcoe County Museum Helena Ignatieff will speak on Canadiana furniture Mrs Ignatieff IS research associate with the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto This IS the last regularly scheduled meeting of the SCHA for this sprgligg The annual election of officers will be held at this wednesday oSimcoe County branch of the Ontario Archeological Socrety will meet at pm at the Simcoe County Museum Speaker will be Dr Wright head of the scientific diVi sion of the Archaeological Survey of Canada National Museum of Man Ottawa OAn executive meeting of the Thornton District Hor ticultural Society will be held at 815 pm at the Camilla Crescent home of Elizabeth Weaver Thornton OAdult roller skating will be held at the Tottenham and District Community Centre from 730 to 10 pm Limited to those 21 years of age and over Admission is 75 cents skate rentals are 50 cents ORepresentatives from the Home Insulation Assistance program will be at Parkview Centre Blake Street Barrie from to pm to give those present tips on insulating their homes OThe University of Michigan Symphony Band conducted by Robert Reynolds will presentthe fourth and final con cert 01 this season at Centra Collegiate auditorium at pm Admission is by series ticket or $5 for adults $3 for students Tickets are available from Betty McNiven 7261657 from Barrie Central Collegiate Band students or from the box of fice at the school OBarrie and District Stamp Club will meet at 730 pm in the parish hall of St Georges Church Burton Avenue Bar rie Anyone interested in stamp collecting is welcome to at tend OKindergarteii registration for the school year September 1978 to Iiune 1979 in Area elementary schools will take place at Adjala Central Alliston Union Baxter Central Bradford Public Cookstown Central Hon Earl Rowe and Sir William Olser schools from am to 330 pm OCookstown Senior Citizens Wlll meet at 130 pm at the Cookstown Town Hall Anyone wishing tojoin may do so by coming to the meeting or phoning Les Smith at 4584513 OCookstown Leo Club will hold bingo in the Town Hall at730pm OThe annual meeting of the Angus Union Cemetery plotholders will be held at the Simcoe Street Schook Angus at8pm OBarrie Christian Womens Club will hold their May cof fee hour at the Embassy Hall Blake Street Barrie from 930 to 1130 am Helpful gardening hints from Rene DcBoer Barrie City horticulturist will be featured Call molgllrrlihrs and the St Pauls Ukelelc Group will entertain at Knox Church Allistori at pm 0A Ladies Coffee Ilour will be held at 10 am in the West Oro Baptist Church 4th Line of 0m in the village Edgar Featured speaker will be Betty Evans crusader co ordinator Inaugural meeting Personnel practitioners in Barrie and District will meet at the Barrie Country Clul May 15 for their inaugural meeting This will take the form of diii ncr meeting with assembly at 330 pm for diniicrat 7pm Guest speaker for the occa sion will be II Iotten of the University of Western Ontario London who is president of the Council of Canadian Personnel Associations Since the planning for an association in Barrie began almost one year ago four meetings have been held and draft constitution approved in principle The constitution will come up for ratification at thc meeting Also on the agenda are thc election and installation of the first slate of officers It is hoped the new organiza tion will provide the opportuni ty for personnel people to in tcract with each other and with allied associations to the better ment of their professions and the fastcring ol socral as well as professional relations rge Studio Cutting number of fatalities the examiner Monday May 1978 Seatbelt law working By SUE BURKE Examiner Staff Reporter Increased enforcement of On tarios seatbelt legislation is cutting down the number of fatalities and injuries suffered in traffic accidents says Sgt Andy Austin of the Ontario Pro vincial Police He says fatalities dropped by 16 per cent in 1977 in District of the OPP which includes Grey Simcoe and Bruce counties and has its head quarters in Barrie 1n the first four months of 1978 the number of injuries reported were 53 says Sgt Austin down 27 from 80 in 1976 Sgt Austin says heavy con centration on enforcing the seatbelt law since August of 1977 has led to the promising statistics In 1977 we laid 2572 charges districtwide and warned another 5579 drivers he says In the first four months of 1978 To World Mgig ngtival Lottery to help pay trip lottery is being held to help pay the costs for the Barrie Central Collegiate Bands trip to the Kerkrade World Music Contest in Holland this sum mer We will be selling just 1000 tickets in this lottery and there will be 72 prizes This means person will have one in 14 chance of winning says Robert Holt chairman of the Barrie Central Collegiate Band Association lottery committee The cost of the lottery ticket is $25 First prize in the lottery is $5000 cash second prize is $500 and there will be 20 prizes of $50 each and 50 prizes of dinner for two In addition Holt said portion of the money spent on the lottery ticket will be tax deductible so that the actual price of the ticket will be con siderably below the $25 selling price All those who purchase lot tery ticket will also be given two admissions to special Bon Voyage concert which will be given in part by the Central Band at the Central Collegiate Auditorium on June 26 Eightyone members of the Central Collegiate Band under the direction of Morley Calvert will be leaving June 29 for Kerkrade to compete for the third time in the world music competition which is held every four years The money being raised by the Band Association will pay only part of the per student cost of the trip It will cost about $800 to send one student Lottery tickets may be pur chased from any band member at Addics Confectionery on Essa Road Midway Variety on Bradford Street Bartko and Hall HP Station on Blake Street or at any branch of the Toronto Dominion Bank Officials investigate fire in vacant house Police and fire officials are investigating the cause of fire which caused considerable damage to vacant house on Bayview Drive early Saturday says ChiefJack McAIlistcr Smoke was seen billowing through the windows of thc house at 79 Bayvicw II near 315 am Saturday and firefighters discovered flames in the windows and basement area of the house he says Fire officials are still work ing to determine who owns the house the damage caused by the fire and the cause says Chief McAlIister The electricity was off in the house and there is no reason we know of for fire to start ac Two hurt in mishap Minor injuries and $2800 damagc was thr rcsult of two car accident which occurrcd at 725 pm Saturday on Highway 11 south of thc l4lh line of Iiinisfil Township Karl Ilcllingcr of Harric driver of one of the vchiclcs has bcen charged by Ontario Provincial Policc liarric detachment with driving an unsafe vchiclc Driver of the sc cond car involved was umiiiic Boyd YongeStrect Barrie Investigating officer Brian Bailey says both iricii rcccivcd minor injuries in thc accident Warm MADE and BEDSPBEAIJS niiAPEiiiis Cidcntally he said today For that reason we called in the police The Ontario Fire Marshals office has also been notified says McAllistcr although there are no plans to bring an in vestigator up to Harrie autobaus Rabbit Foxes Solon loolng Go Dluol 7370l00 there have been 1427 charges laid and 2378 warnings issued The use of an increasing number of moving radar units has also contributed to the reduction he says Provincewide in the two years since the introduction of the seatbelt legislation there have been 313 fewer driver and passenger deaths says James Show minister of transporta tion and communications Believe transmissions involved in accidents DETROIT AP Two types of transmissions in some In 1977 1001 drivers and passengers died in traffic ac cidents drop of 108 Fatalities increased in the Barrie area last year says Sgt Austin while the 1978 figures for the district show 41 per centdrop Ten people died in fatal ac CIdents in 1977 in the Barrie area up from five in 1976 while there has been one fatality in Barrie so far this year Fatal accidents killed 14 bed Ford cars and trucks which are said to slip accidentally into reverse from the park position may have caused 104 more accidents and 30 more injuries than first reported However Ford Motor Co said its engineers have found no defects in the transmissions and that the problem may be human error The new accident reports were contained in documents filed by Ford at the request of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The agency is investigating claims that defect put the automatic transmissions into reverse causing the vehicles to run over or crush bystanders The latest Ford documents indicate that such tran smission failures may have been responsible for at least 277 acudents 100 injuries and nine deaths since 1966 Singlecar accident single vehicle accident on Highway 400 near the Tourist Information Centre at Barrie sent two Barrie residents to Royal Victoria Hospital Sun day Injured in the accident which occured at 150 am are Gerald Letourneau Sanford Street who received minor cuts and Karen Ley Donald Street who suffered frac tured shoulder MINUTE SERVICE On Passports Identification and Citizenship at SOOTER STUDIOS ACROSS FROM BAYFIElD MALI THE CINEMAS 7373341 ple in the first four months of 1978 districtwide while 19 died last year Trafficrelated injuries also increased last year in District and provincewide In the Barrie area there were 278 personal injury accidents in 1977 as compared to 211 in 1976 while in the district the number increased by 11 per cent says Sgt Austin In Ontario the figure increas ed 142 per cent from 83736 in 1976 to 95652 in 1977 The total number of ac cidents in District dropped in 1977 despite rise province wide says Sgt Austin In the Barrie area there were 982 accidents in 1977 down from 1037 in 1976 he said The first four months of 1978 have had 283 accidents reported while the number for the same time period last year was 308 6381 ACCIDENTS In District there were 6381 accidents reported in 1977 down 54 from the 1976 figure while in the first four months of 1978 there have been 1633 reported drop of 76 per cent Sgt Ralph Berry of the Bar rie City Police says the number of accidents reported in Barrie last year increased from 1977 figures There were total of 1606 accidents reported last year although 57 were settled before we arrived on the scene he says There were 1498 ac cidents reported in 1976 One person died in fatal ac cident in 1977 while two lives were lost in Barrie in 1976 he said The number of accident related injuries rose to 272 in 1977 from 254 in 1976 Police in Barrie laid 780 charges last year in connection with traffic accidents up 40 from the 740 laid in 1976 if they copy the style they cant match the quality All leather only 33798 An amazing price for premium calfskin Fully leather lined 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