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Marion Hislop right of Scarborough Ont shows Muriel Jacobs of Elmvale Dolls at festival one of her dolls at the Spring Festival at the Simcoe County Museum Sun day Mrs Hislop displayed her handcrafted dolls in the cultural wing of the museum She is now working on book called Canadian and Heritage Rag dolls Examiner photo Into Jennings dispute Special meeting called Ed Jennings and his property is the subject of special general committee session tonight The special meeting will be held following the regular Bar rie council meeting at pm Last week general committee recommended an agreement be reached with Jennings who owns property on the block bounded by Owen Worsley Clapperton and McDonald Streets The city claims Jennings owes it money for maintenance work performed by the city under authority of the Property Standards Act Barrie is planning to accept $640 part of the sum it says Jennings owes and drop court action provided Jennings cleans up the property During the session Ossie Rowe city solicitor said Jenn ings was trying to peddle Kempenfelt Place the multi million dollar apartment pro posal on that block Ald Ernie Rotman said Jenn ings would likely delay con struction of the building until he could sell the land Roger Oatley the lawyer representing Jennings will speak to the committee He refused comment Friday In addition the recreational planning committee will be suggesting the city hire con Man dies Thomas Cooney 20 of Tot tenham died over the weekend as result of head on collision Saturday on County Road 10 four kilometres south of Tecumseth Concession 14 Cooney was taken to Toronto General Hospital where he died from his injuries Official coming The federal election may have ended six days ago but there will be much activity to day in the South Simcoe returne ing office The official election count will be made today at the retur ning office on Bayfield Street in Barrie says Al Froom chief returning officer Froom told The Examiner to day he doesnt foresee any major changes in the final results Ron Stewart progressive conservative candidate emerg ed clear victor following the unofficial vote count last week Stewart outdistanced his nearest competitor liberal can diate Ray Ramsay by about 12000 votes Froom said the job today which involves tearing into all the ballot boxes will probably take about eight hours to com plete Froom said some parts of Belle Ewart and areas further south were missed in the enumeration process His comments were in response to query from Belle Ewart citizen who said many local residents were missed in the enumeration pro cess Mrs Eleanor Steiner said that one 10 year resident of the community was missed and had to be sworn in on election day to be able to vote Room says that in rural areas enumerators arent re sultant to do recreational needs study The report follows study by the recreational steering com mittee on establishing major recreational centre in Barrie The facility would include an ice surface and track and field facilities Harvey Baldwin city of Barrie employee will be presented with gold watch for 25 years service with the city Greg Wood of Portage View Public School will be sworn in as new mayor of the week He replaces Jill Gillespie of Johnson Street Public School Council is expected to ratify decision reached last week which would likely see expand ed transit service in the in dustrial park sector of the city trial run of the expanded service would be started in the fall Stollar attacks planning board planning department deci sion on rezoning request is stupid and ridiculous says Jack Stollar local developer Stollar requested planning board consider rezoning piece of property on Bayfield Street to allow for commercial use The citys administration vetoed the request at recent planning board meeting Various members of planning board said the proposed development may hurt the ci tys attempts to revitalize downtown But Stollar said Rick Jones city planner came through with recommendation signed by city administrator Gerry Tamblyn before they had talk ed to him He said the city had no background on the proposal Stollar told The Examiner to day he is not planning major commercial venture on the site He said he was approached by count today quired to go frotn door to door as they are in urban areas Froom says notices are left in the rural areas but often these notices are either stolen or blown away He said he returned to one apartment building three times in one day and discovered notices missing on all three oc casions Froom said Canada should consider permanent voters list which leaves it up to citizens to keep their names on People might not like it though said Froom In Austrailia if you move and you dont let anyone know there are heavy fines involved He says however there is on ly between two and five per cent ratio of persons usually missed by enumerators in Canada each election That total is of the lowest in the world Id room Arts program registration Registration for the summer creative arts program at the Barrie public library will take place next Monday Registration will start at 930 am Monday and proof of age will be required for six year olds Further information can be obtained by calling the library annex at 7289601 Swiss Chalet representatives interested in starting Barrie establishment He said anything put on the site would not hurt downtown Rather than have Tamblyn sign recommendations going to planning board maybe he should look at establishing strong planning department said Stollar He said the department doesnt know the difference between left and right Stollar said it should be the job of the planning department to make recommendations to planning board He said planning board should be an advisory body only to city council The matter was deferred however because Stollar decid ed to make presentation to planning board Tuesday Stollar is assembling proper ty for an alternate downtown improvement project scheme He said he should be ready in about two weeks to release details of it GERMAINE LENNON hate it Its all right for the younger ones to learn but its too late for us cant understand it Its too much of change keep all my old cookbooks and cooking uten sils For temperatures still go by the old thermometer When Im driving have both miles and kilometres in the car sol go by miles If it was my decision Id go back to the old way By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner The Canada Labor Relations Board has ordered vote for Bell Canada operators to decide whether they want to retain their present union the Com munications Union of Canada CUC or want to switch to rival organization the Com munication Workers of Canada CWC Representatives of Bell Canada and both unions meet in Ottawa May 30 to determine the details of the vote It will most likely be taken by mail allow ing seven weeks for operators to mark their ballots and mail them back Ballots will be open ed with all parties concerned present Joan Bell Barrie operator and CUC district chairperson says shes glad the vote was ordered Were winning the battle she says This matter will be settled once and for all Bill Hawes national CWC representative says hes op timistic his union will be selected These people the operators have had the op portunity to assess the CUC for 34 years he explained then we were invited in The Barrie Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society is staging blood donor clinic today and Tuesday at Trinity Parish Hall Collier St Automobile accidents and other mishaps over the Victoria Day weekend caused much of the available supply of blood to be depleted to the degree where elective surgery is postoned in the Toronto region Ethel Turnbull of the Barrie Branch told The Ex aminer The first session began at pm today and ran until pm second ses sion begins at pm and continues through to 830 pm Tuesday from pm to pm the doors of the hall at 24 Collier St will again be open to donors second session Tuesday is scheduled to start at pm and run through to 830pm Anyone in good health between the ages of 18 =1 and65may donate and 17 yearolds who have per mission from parent are allowed to contribute Turnbull also said anyone who has had shingles or chicken pox may also donate blood if they have been clear of the illness for at least six months We want to get everyoneoutshesaid The Barrie Kinsmen 31 Club is sponsoring the clinic and are supplying 3231 much of the manpower If needed to set up the beds and so on Turnbull said students from Barries four high schools are competing to see which of the four can get the most donors to the clinic Barrie is part of the Toronto district Turnbull said Any blood collected here is sent to Toronto along with blood from other centres in the region and distributed wherever necessary JIM BROWN think its great It means standardiza tion of units for crossing in ternational borders so its better for imports and ex ports its the same for temperature The metric system is much better no matter where you are in the world you know what people are talking about The con version should have been done long time ago Theres no problem with cooking as long as you have the right equipment to measure with Labor board orders Operators to vote on unions The CWC is soliciting the sup port of 7900 operators and din ing service employees in On tario and Quebec There are about 100 operators in Barrie The CWC applied for the vote last year but was denied because majority of union cards had not been signed se cond application was accepted last month waiving six month mandatory waiting period between applications The CUC denounced the boards decision saying it was dangerous precedent for labor relations Both unions will campaign vigorously during the next few weeks for operators support Mrs Bell says national CUC president Shirley Nicholson is meeting with operators across the province telephone com mittee is urging employees to vote Hawes admits that the CWC has raided the CUC but con siders the raid justified The CUC is regarded as company union he explained It is not seen as legitimate union in labor circles For 34 the examiner Monday May 28 1019 years it was isolationist and never tried to enter the mainstream of the labor move ment The CUC tried to join the Canadian Labor Congress last year but was denied entrance Hawes says it tried to join because its existence was threatened by the CWC The officers of the CUC are fighting for survival he said Hawes noted the CWC tried for merger between the two unions that fell through Mrs Bell says CWC may have had the operators support earlier but the tide is tumin in favor of the CUC She sai the majority of Barrie operators will stick with their present union Decision demanded an airport four sites being considered By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner Barrie general committee may be asked tonight if it is committed to construction of new municipal airport in the area The airport advisory commit tee in meeting held last week recommends the city ad vise James Snow minister of transportation and communica tions that it intends to proceed with construction of an airport The matter may come up tonight at special session of Barrie general committee or at next weeks regular meeting Some weeks ago Barrie com missioned study estimated to cost between $35000 and $40000 to determine which of four sites is best for new air port The committee has two sites in Oro township and another two in Vespra township The committee received reply back from Snow saying the ministry will help subsidize the study if the city intends to proceed with the project says Mayor Ross Archer think it will be supported by council the mayor told The Examiner today If not its about time we found out with all the study weve gone through COMMITTEE HOPEFUL The mayor said the commit tee is hopeful the study is completed by early fall so Good performance but few available to hear By STEPHEN GAUER Of The Examiner The Huronia District Youth Orchestra has good reason to be disappointed by the small tur nout for its concert at Georgian College Theatre Saturday even ing it played well enough to deserve packed house The orchestra draws its members from the Huronia Symphony Orchestra and from resident conductor John Mon tagues string students in Toronto Despite the range in age and experience of the musi cians the orchestras sound was consistently strong and confident proof of the skill and discipline they bring to their music Conducting duties for the con dert were handled by Montague and by Walter Babiak Toron to compuser and conductor Babiak clearly inspired the musicians to strong per formances in such works as the Pachelbel canon Handels Con certo Grosso No and Mozarts Eine Kleine Nachtmusik The canon was typical of the way the orchestra handled each of the pieces on the program The introduction was clear and confident and the lyrical mood of the canon was sustained right to the final note Both the violin and cello sections carried their parts with excellent tone and good range of dynamics The Handel concerto required light and rhythmic touch and the orchestra supplied it Although some of the solo work was shaky the orchestra sustained the momentum of the music through halfadozen movements scarcely missing beat PLAYED WELL The two Vivaldi concerts were both well played The mandolin concerto featured soloist Lori Downer who seem ed more at ease in the slow mid dle movement than in the two fast movements The concerto is light and What do you th about converting to metric measurements ARLENE ROBERTS The metric system is fine for school chilren who learn it from the beginning its dif ficult for middleaged peo ple and its total loss for anyone over 50 The initial transformation is difficult but once its made it will be good because its universal sytem dont use many recipes so Im not cooking in metric think it might have been better if conversion had been done just after the war before industry began to grow charming as Montague described it and displays Vivaldis adroit use of dynamic contrasts and bright rhythmic effects The second concerto por tion of The Four Seasons gave violinist David Harding chance to display his im pressive technical ability on his instrument Harding is an ag gressive musician with ex cellent tone and confident at tack and he provided sharp focus for the intensely pro grammatic style of the work Harry Somerss Little Suite offered an intriguing contrast to the rest of the program Somers has arranged Cana dian folk melodies in contem porary style with striking har monies that create strong sense of mood The orchestra provided an impressive inter pretation of the work par ticularly in the hauntingly beautiful second movement Its unfortunate that such small audience showed up for the concert The young musi cians who make up the Huronia District Youth Orchestra deserve greater appreciation for the skill and dedication they bring to their music Lori Downer kisses John Montague resident conductor of the Huronia District Youth Orchestra after the performance of Vivaldis mandolin con certo Sunday night The orchestra performed well although the attendance was sparse Examiner Photo MOLLY EXELL We seem to need the metric system because of other countries but we should have started long ago now its hard to convert And when youre buying things made in other countries you can get ripped off People are not being taught enough about conver sion dont think in Celsius for temperatures but Im use ed to kilometres because just took my driving test think they should have both miles and kilometres on the signs LALRIE ESHEVY The metric system is easier think its good if chilren can work at things better because of it dont work with the metric system and havent really tried dont measure for cooking but dont find it hard to work with Celsius or kilometres think metric conversion could have been done 10 years ago finished school three years ago fr it would have been better if Id learn ed it when was younger BILL LONGURST Its been difficult conversion but in the longterm it will do us some good because it unifies measurement in the world Conversion has been difficult only because we continue to think in both systems it would have been better to have cut off date Then wed be thinking quickly in the other system thats how we learn Last year wasnt but this year Im thinking in Celsius for tem rature and kilometres for riving funds could be included in the 1980 budget The mayor said earlier he is in favor of the project because the present airport is too small to handle the number of air craft now In addition the mayor says he has been told some pilots have difficult time landing at it because of wind currents David MacDonald Orillia mayor was in attendance at last weeks airport session Orillia told Barrie in February it would not be in terested in jointly funding an airport with Barrie at this time MacDonald told The Ex aminer he attended last week because of letter from Barrie asking the Orillia contingent to continue sitting in on meetings Georgian planning building Georgian College is planning the construction of new building at the Barrie Campus Highway 400 and Duckworth St Incorporated in the new facility would be library cafeteria and classrooms for use by the colleges nursing students and adults in training courses Our goal is to bring those people onto the campus and in tegrate them into the college community Georgians presi dent Wayne Busch told The Ex aminer Currently the college rents 45000 square feet of space off campus for use by the nurses and adult students The new building would con tain 85000 square feet of floor space and cost $4000000 It has yet to be determined whether the money will be made available by the province Busch said the library and cafeteria in the administration building would become classroom space There is at this point no classrooms in the building that houses the cafeteria and library Plans also call for construc tion of gymnasium and other athletic facilities that would take approximately oneeighth of the building study conducted jointly by the college and the city concer ing the inclusion of swimming pool that would be funded jointly is still being assessed Committee studying briefs The Simcoe County Board of Educations moral education committee met Thursday over the human relations program but its chairman says it will take several weeks before recommendations are forward ed to the board itself We have second meeting coming up in two weeks In nisfil trustee Stewart Fisher told The Examiner He also said the committees report would likely not be presented until the boards se cond June meeting scheduled for June 20 The committee is reviewing the briefs submitted by various individuals and groups during three meetings held earlier this month The briefs offered both criticism and support of the program proposed for county wide use by the board lmplementation had been lanned for the fall of this ear ut that schedule has jeopardized by the bad reaction to the program from many parents The program designed by teachers with the board deals with the interaction of human wings emotionally and sexual It has been criticized for in terfenng in the relationship between parent and child by ac ting as third party that may express pointofview con trary to the parents beliefs The more education commit tees recommendations will be examined by the full board before any commitment to the program IS made by trustees