in Barbara Kennedy animal care technologist pets horse patient standard bred Robin Jewel owned by Russ Clark of Bowmanville at Barrie Unique facility here Equine Clinic operated on the lOth Line of in nisfil by Equine specialist Dr Terry Ruch Barrie equine clinic serves large territory By lllt BAKER lNNlSlll liiiqiie in ential Ontario is the Barrie llqlllllt tliinc operated by fir Terry ltuch at the cor ner of the 5th Sideioad and oiicession ft of liiiiislil As the name implies the clinic is hospital for horses and horses alone The clinic serves illiiiendous area extending from far north of Harrie to Niagara Falls and from Urangeville to leterborougli and Oshawa and Believille llr ltuch hiiilt the present clinic in lttTt when he decided that hospital fully equipped to liatidle eqiiine patients was really tieeded His decision to locate the clinic near Barrie was influenced by the fact that it was central to race tracks at ltarrie Orangeyille leteiboiough and Toronto Although treat all types of horses here 73 per cent of the horses that come here are race horses says fir ltueh lheii you consider that many of the horses that come here for treatment are valued in the tens of thousands of dollars you can understand that their treat inent caiiiiot he treated as some sort of sideline you must be specialired llie inost cotiiinoii problems we encounter are sprains and small bone fractures Second most common are com tiioii cold viruses and pneumonia usually resulting from the horses getting hot from the race then getting chill larasitic worms are problem too and certain kinds are best eradicated alter the frost comes when re infection is least likely toocciir Most horse owners have good trailers for transporting horses and it is much more satisfactory to have the horses brought to the clinic where we have ill the facilities to diagnose and treat tlietii in complete safety KISt ll Here at the clinic as in hospitals we can give treat ment do operations give post operatiy care give followup medication and check the patients recovery pro guy llowey er we do make farm and ranch calls up to thirty miles away liiterestingly llr ltiich had just returned from trip to lennsylyania where he had checked out the health status of two race horses tor Canadian buyer who plaiiiiul to spend quarter of million dollars on the two horses ccording to Paul Riley of Bowiiianville and ltiiss tlark ot Oshawa the raceliorse industry is the second larget employer in the province The two men who had brought horses to the clinic noted that this tall 300 horses were sold at the for an aerage price of same each They eyplained that thoroughhrul hoises are ridden by jockeys who stand torwaid iii their stirrups to throw their weight forward away trom the back of the horse and to cut down on wind resistance Standardhted horses are siilky iacers such as are used at Barrie Raceway Horse racing is the worlds largest spectator sport sick or lame horse is not going to win you anything commented laiil ltile There are onb tour ets it On tario who really know horses and Dr Ruch is one of them To win our horses need the best attention possible that is why we think nothing of driving hundred miles from home to come to this Barrie clinic Dr ltiich is assisted by his wife two animal care technologists summer student and Dr Robert Trace comes in to help The heaviest work load comes in the spring although he finds it surprisingly consistent throughout the year In the spring after winter of indoor housing horses tend to be more subject to fall prey to common horse ailments and to strain themselves Horses are seasonal breeders and fertility work starting in February is con cerned with uterine infections and cycling problems Surgery work includes tendon surgery and throat surgery Orthopedic work includes setting breaks and fractures removing chips of bone and even mending bone with stainless steel crews SOME IRIFNIHJER love working with the horses here remarked animal care telinologist Barbara Kennedy Some horses especially the standardbreds that get handled lot are more friendly than others but you have to like them all to get along ell with them Most of the horses are here not more than few lays so you dont get to know them really well However they all have different habits Some are picky caters and some are grabbing the food before yoti get into the stall Most sleep standing tip but few lie down to sleep They have habits just like people do Every few weeks we get little colt in for treatment and they are really cute to look after tnlike human hospital patients equine patients do not lime to pay extra for private ward for all the wards 15 are singlepatient wairls The operating room is something else again in the cen tre of the clinically clean operating room is the operating table it is built like narrow horsestall and is all padded with green leatherette upholstery The horse walks in and is comfortably strapped to one side which hydraulically swings down to become the operating table Like human patients the horses are anesthetized locally or entirely as necessary to the comfort of the animal fully padded recovery room protects the horses from stumbling and hurt iiig themselves fter the operation Other specialized equipment includes anesthetic machines Xray machine heart monitor and an electrocautery device for making electrical incisions in which bleeding is automatically prevented by heatscaling severed eins One of the most useful instruments is fibreoptic scope hith can be inserted down the breathing passage directly into the lungs of the horse for direct examination of the in terior of the lungs Equipped and stalled like modern hospital the Barrie Equine liiiic is far far cry from the business of the old time larrier $475000 Midland YMCA grant Midland ly has ingwood one to Tiny construction of new YMCA announced Reuben baetx minister of culture and recrea tioii recently The grant was one of more than 20 recently awarded in Sinictxtoiinty Of the in grants seven went to Barrie three to Orillia two to Midland two to Cell lownship one to Stroud one to New Lowell two to lioiden and one to lottenhani tolhngwotxi Shiite his beer granted to assist in the constiiction of tourist in formation centre grant of Stilt was apptov of for the Orillia public library for the purchase of French books among 20 Wintario awards The been granted Stiloï¬t tor the ln liny Tow iiship grant of stem will be used to assist of hockey simooe county Ministry wont abandon the examiner Tuesday Nov 13 1979 suicide junction plan By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner Attempts by the village of Coldwater to convince the ministry of transportation and communications to abandon controversal new exit leading from Highway 400 to the village have proven fruitless says its reeve Reeve Earl Brandon told The Examiner representatives from Coldwater Medonte Township and even Mat chedash Township met with ministry officials last month but were unable to persuade them to scrap the new 90 degree turn just north of Coun ty Road 19 Moonstone Road which local residents have named suicidejunction They more or less told us to go to hell says the reeve The municipalities had been asking the ministry to keep the old ramp approach off the highway into the village because it offered northbound traffic smooth safe exit by veering only gradually to the right The ministry has closed this ramp however and con structed the new exit further north which village officials feel is more dangerous because it forces traffic to slow too rapidly to negotiate its sharp right turn That section of the highway is only two lanes and municipal officials are concerned that traffic in the right lane slowing down to make the turn will cause accidents MLST SLOW Cars using the exit must slow down to 25 or 30 mph says Reeve Brandon and in winter they will have to slow down by another 10 mph which will be even more hazardous If you have to brake your car in winter conditions you are going to cause accidents but if you can pull off gradually without having to brake you wont he says There is no point in slowing someone down to 25 mph to make the turn when the old exit is already there Reeve Brandon says Wit tenberg head of the planning and design section with the ministrys regional office in London claims the new exit was constructed because the old one was too close to pro posed interchange which will link County Road 19 with the highway The reeve says according to ministry requirements ac celeration lanes coming off an interchange onto the highway and deacceleration lanes leading from the highwav to an This view shows southward from Coldwoter The old ramp at right has been closed and northbound motorists exit must both be minimum of 500 feet each and the ministry doesnt think there is enough room to comfortably allow both between the proposed inter change and the old ramp exit For this reason the new 90 degrec exit has been located about 2000 feet further north from the old exit says Reeve Brandon but in fact the distance between the proposed interchange and the old exit is about 2500 feet and does meet the ministrys acceleration and deacceleration requirements THREE YEARS AWAY In addition he says the inter change wont be constructed until the highway becomes four lanes and that is still about three years away What we are saying is that until they build all this lets use little common sense the reeve says but the ministry is just being damned pig head ed Reeve Brandon says the village council is also concem ed that the new exit will discourage motorists from coming into Coldwatcr which will be bad for business Although there is another exit about two miles north the one in question leads into the villages business sector and handles the commercial traffic from points south such as Bar ric and Toronto he says The fact that the new turn may discourage commercial tourist trade is also the reason why even Matchedash Township is concerned he says because access to that municipality also depends on taking the new exit into Col dwatcr the reevc says Simcoe update Dump picker dumped on suicide junction looking must now enter the village by the dogleg shaped exit at right leading in from Highway 400 Examiner Photo Metis awaiting decision on historic site plan The Simcoe Metis and Non Status lndian Association is still waiting to hear whether it can acquire for development of an historic landmark site once believed to have been the Huron lndian capital Betty Hoffman president of the associa tion says it had favorable meeting last week with the rillia and District Chamber of Commerce which owns the 7acre parcel of land in question but is still awaiting con firmation in writing that the site will be tum ed ovcr fora nominal fee If this is received she says the associar tions first step will be to hire consultant to conduct feasibility study oti ahiagiie as the site about 11 kilometres west of Oiillia is known to determine the options for develop ment and the cost Mrs Hoffman says the association has discussed the possibility of funding for the study with Employment and immigration anada officials who are willing to finance it from $19 million Canada Works fund set aside for native groups providing the association has some hold on the land SEEK FlNlMNG If the study proves acceptable and an op tion is chosen she says it will likely mean going to local community organizations as well as provincial and federal governments for funds to carry out the project Despite the associations optimism however indications are that the chamber will not hand over the land until development of the site has been carefully considered by the provincial government or more specifically the ministry of culture and recreation under whose jurisdiction historic sites fall Clare Shaver manager of the chamber says the province will get first crack at the Chambers parcel because commitment was made to that effect if the province intended to develop the site as an historic site or tourist attraction The province owns the remainder of about granted $138 for the purchase equipment for 24 with improvements to Marygroye Camp for under privileged girls lt New lowell grant of Slow has been approval for the purchase of Canadian books tor Sunnidale Township Public Library Board The Base Borden Minor Hockey ssoeiation has been hockey teams As well the Base Borden Ar chery Club received grant of $172 for the purchase of ar chery eqmpment The grants are all part of the winiario grants program for the support of cultural and recreational fatalities and ac tivities OWEN SOUND JoAnn Hull 30 of Owen Sound says she is being unfairly dumped on Ms Hull self proclaimed dump picker was warned by the OPP that if she continues to pick she could be charged with theft under $200 She says however dump picking is not only harmless but also environmentally advantageous Shes willing to go to court if necessary Council outlawed scavenging at the city dump six weeks ago According to council the law is necessary not only because the site is unsafe but also because garbage is private Towns may be twinning TOBERMORY The twinning of Tobermory Ont and Tobermory Scotland may soon become reality The concept of Twinning was proposed to St Edmunds Township council by Arch Brown of Barrie whose ancestch are from Tobermory Scotland The two communities are similar said Brown Both have populations of about 700 beautiful natural harbors with shipwrecks similar climate and geography and both are tourist centres where boating fishing scuba diving hiking and camping are popular Named top harvester dealer Frank Moreau of Moreau Farm Equipment Phelpston has been named North Americas top dealer of Hessian forage harvesters Moreaus success has been credited to the excellent ser vice he gives his customers This marks the second time he has been named top North American dealer The Americanowned Hesston company is based in Kan sas but has its Canadian head office in Calgary Film at County Museum The films The History of Waubaushene The Heritage of Lincoln County and Loyalist Country The Richelieu Valley will be shown tonight oclock at the Simcoe County Museum The films are presented by the Simcoe ounty Historical Association The museum is on Highway 26 in Midhurst Everyone is welcome Admittance is free Agriculture minister to speak John Wise federal minister of agriculture will be the guest speaker Nov 21 at meeting of the Simcoe Federation of Agriculture The meeting in the Roof Gardens Room of the Continental lnn begins at 8pm Everyone is welcome Lung cancer up drastically TORONTO Although great advances have been made in curing most kinds of cancer the incidence of lung cancer has increased so drastically it as offset all that has been done in other cancer fields says Dr Richard Hasselback cancer specialist at Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto 60 acres adjoining the Chambers share of the site and are notified by mail know your county Mrs Keith Caldwell of RR Shanty Bay correctly identified last weeks Know Your County contest picture at the Castle Village Gift Shop on Balm Beach Rd near Midland For correctly identifying the picture she wins two free steaks courtesy of and Super Discount Stores in Barrie Angus or Alliston if you can identify this weeks photo send your answer along with your name address and phone number to Know Your County Contest The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Winners The chamber is in coininiinication with the ministry he says and must wait and see what its plaiis are for the site before turning it over to the association The asociations feasibility study would also have to be seen before this could happen he adds Although the province will consider the asstxiations proposal to acquire the land and conduct feasibility study it may still have plans of its own for development of the site says Mll Gord Smith ilSiinctwEast It is my understanding that the province is still interested in developing the site and is in the process of study on the type of development it should he and what funding they have available But before the ministry of culture and recreation can undertake any development of the site it must first be transfered from the ministry of natural resources which is the current owner ol the tit acre piece Smith says This however is being taken care of he adds llSlillI Despite the assoctations good intentions the province is likely to still play the key role in the sites development not only because of the chambers agreement to give it first refusal on its own parcel but because the ministry owns the larger parcel and it should be develole as package Smith says ll the associations proposal was accepted the province would still likely play major part because of funding requirements he says Once the site of archeological excavations during the 1930s and ltititis ahiagiie has more or less lain dormant apart from occa sional interest shown by the lniversity of Toronto According to the writings of Samuel dc hamplain dating back to about ttitz the site fits the description and location of the Huron lndian capital where the famous explorer spent the winter recovering from wounds received in battle against the Iroquois