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vfvwaAW Township move fornetric Changeover goes on despite confusion By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Although some confusion over the metric system still lingers in Simcoe County the changeover is presenting few problems to the everyday business of the municipalities several township officials say Personally have no pro blems with it at all says George Roberts planning ad ministrator for Oro Township Roberts says he can convert mentally where have to but admits members of the townships road department do New park opens near Penetang Ontarios newest provincial park located 11 km northwest of Penetangushene on Georgian Bay will be officially opened July by Natural Resources Mincster James Auld Awenda 22square kilometre natural environ ment park has 150 campsites in groves of maple and oak and ministry officials say another 150 campsites will be developed in the future The park has three kilometres of beach backed by the SOmetre high Nippissing Bluff and 17 important ar cheological sites including two lndian villages Auld said in press release this week group camping and picnic areas winter and sum mer trail system and displays will also be developed in the future The Awenda area has been in habited by peoples of four dif ferent cultures including the Huron and Auld said the historical nature of the area maybe tourist attraction We expect Awenda will be extremely popular because of the setting and history there but also because of popular tourist attractions nearby like Ste MarieAmongtheHurons the Penetanguishene Naval and Military Establishments the Martyrs Shrine and the Wye marsh Wildlife Centre said Auld Awenda Huron for the Work begins on portables for local iail Work began this week on the construction of two portable jail units to house 32 prisoners at HarrieJail Duncan McFarlane jail superintendent said site preparation started Monday and the ara should be ready for the portable cells by Sept Before the portable units are brought in sewers water lines and telephone cables mUSt be laid said McFarlane The two units 38 feet by 27 feet will house total of 16 double cells After the units are installed concrete block wall will be built around them McFarlane said they probably will not be used to hold prisoners until November Canada Post word was developed under the Agricultural Rural Development Act ARDAI with costs equally shared by the federal and provincial govern ments 7265333 smuwGPOOLS Phone have some difficulty when changing measurements from feet to metres Building plans and lot severances are all officially recorded under the metric measurement when filed by the municipality says Roberts but the township still accepts plans submitted under the imperial system None of our township stuff is required to be submitted in metric yet Tha is still somewhere down the road it is the same in Medonte Township says Howard Robin son clerk and in fact the municipalitys tender contracts are still quoted in yards for gravel or gallons ln lnnisfil Township most of the plans are still coming in imperial sand tons and with measurements 7261322 Guaranteed Investment Certificates Interest Paid Annually Regular yr 1O2 24 yrs 10 yrs 1014 610 yrs 10 1120 yrs 10 Cashable 10 934 10 934 10 934 934 934 Interest Paid SemiAnnually Regular Cashable 10 Vaco 93496 N2 V2 Monthly interest IS available at semiannual rates for $10000 or more Under $10000 rate is reduced $1000 minimum With GlCs and Canada Trustco debentures you can get up to $40000 insurance from the Canada Deposrt Insurance Corporation Insurance applicable on terms up to and including years All rates subleci to change Without notice Canada liust I1 Dunlop at Memorial Square Postes Canada The weight steps are 116Wb2181C rates are the same liffcctivcjuly 19 the Post fficc is metric Iliumu um ISLt Letters up in fill grams llllilLLl papers and gitcling cards up It fit grams Other countries L1i igtLIItis lI1tl lcttcls up It ll grams lnr niiiic iiiliirmaiinii pltJsc enquire it tutu iicrncst post llltt cents cents tLlll iiillliliii llllliii liiilllllillilll tritiuinhgiriilttrr iiHrriiyt 3r and the municipality does not refuse them says Bob Lem mon director of planning in fact the township uses combinaton of the two systems in some cases he says We arent prepared to sit down and talk metric all day when the people we are dealing with are talking imperial We do everything we can to ac commodate them N0 OBJETINS Innisfil circulated metric version of its zoning bylaw in 1978 Lemmon says and dont recall any objections to it Any grumblings about the changeover appear more likely to come from the farming sec tor where the traditional acres tons and pounds are be ing replaced with hectares ton nes and kilograms There is certain amount of resentment but not enough to cause any outpouring of opposi tion says Bob Cowan secretarymanager of the Sim coe County Federation of Agriculture Cowan says the younger farmers are more likely to ac cept the new system readily Starts FRIDAY ll 7269944 CINEMA the oxamlnor Thursday Jun 28 1979 but to the older ones going metric is just going to be baliy nuisance and among themselves they still use im perial system But grain feed dairy products and some farm machinery measurements are now quoted in metric says MOI DRAPERIES cum umrm For shop at home call 281991 Coan and although beef cattle are still sold according to im perial weight this too will change in 1980 People dont really like it that much but theres not an awful lot they can do about it he says 19 Dunlap St Barrio Ontario AIR CONDITIONER after full range of who on Ehmhomo and GI indw of Alt Conditioners and other Home Comfort Apple Cleaning 4th Repair Service Spoclol lapel Plans with full 12month warranty Including loonan and illtm Special goodtill and of Jena an Pickup Cleaning $1995 31 SERVICE ELECTROHOME luri Iruch 49 Huron It III 71659 New tol se include the IS were WMIII governments to iindabuyer for the Canada represenlalw stock or to liqui the 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