may Pipers invad Pipe bands from across Simcoe County invaded the Simcoe County Museum in Midhurst Sunday as Scots celebrated Scottish Day More than 500 visitors tapped their toes to the skirl of the pipes oday Midhurst and Gaelic choir There were displays of Scottish ewellery clan badges baked goods crafts and family tabards Examiner Photo Waste treatment plant It DENNIS lllIER lhc Examiner An experimental iiidustrial waste treatment plant the first of its kind in Canada began operation in Barrie today The system Vespra woman charged Vespra Township woman has been charged with woun ding and having an offensive wcapon after her husband was stabbed in the back with knife Saturday night Provincial police said Sandra Gilson was charged after John Gilson was stabbed once in the hack Gilson was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital treated and released Police said his wound was not serious The incident followed domestic quarrel said police Mrs Gilson was released from police custody Gilsoii returned to the couples home at 500 Sunnidale Road No further details ava ilablc today designed to break down industrial waste in to liquid substance started to roll this morning said Jim Stewart general manager of Chemical and Petro Waste Disposal Ltd CPWJ Its been long wait for Stewart and his group which first applied to city council August 1978 The final decision was delayed while council sought additional information on the setup It was at one of the initial ses sion Ald Gord Mills said he smelled rat in the system Arthur King an American chemist has devised the system that electrically breaks Decision on Stollar proposal due tonight The tabled item on the pro posed commercial development on Bayfield Street proposed by Jack Stollar is expected to return to city council tonight General committee has recommended the Swiss halet proposal not be approved Rut council deferred final decision on the matter two weeks ago so legal opinion on charges by Stollar could be ob taincd Stollar claims the city cant properly make decisions on ap plications for commercial development outside the core because it has made financial commitments to the downtown improvement project But ssie Rowe city solicitor says that legally Stollar would have no case in putting the matter in front of the Ontario Supreme Court ouncil will likely ratify the general committee decision reached earlier ouncil is expected to ratify decision to purchase new fire truck at cost of about 2110000000 Additional equip ment for the new machine ex pected to cost an additional 313000 ouncil should endorse decision reached last week to reopen Dunlop Street at Mulcaster to allow local traffic go through town country Committees applications up BARCLAY ommittee of adjustmenJapplfcations have shown substantial decrease this yea planning coordinator says Bob Lemon From Jan to lune 30 1979 70 applications which in clude severance and variance applications were made In the same period this year only applications were made The decrease is not necessarily bad says Lemon He says however the decrease shows the township should continue to monitor provisions of bylaws for any undesirable affects So far there have been no undesirable effects says Lemon Morrow spending $40000 BRl AY The recreation department will spend about $40000 this year on new equipment The proposed equipment includes 1979 half ton pick up truck budgeted at $7500 1979 35 horse power tractor budgeted at $8000 dressing room and washroom facilities at the South Imiisfil ommunity centre budgeted at $6600 lights and control box at Innisfil Beach Park budgeted at $10000 dehumidifier and draperies at the South lnnisfil Community Centre budgeted at $7200 Larry Morrow recreation coordinator said the new equipment is necessary especially new truck One of the departments existing trucks isnt very roadworthy he said New compressor needed in Stroud BARCLAY w1ll likely be purchased for the Stroud Innisfil Recreation Centre The compressor being replaced is about 16 years old Costs to repair it are estimated at more than $8000 new compressor at cost of about $9000 Although the rmreation committee of management recommends new unit be purchased if the Stroud Curling Club pay 291 per cent or $1800 of the cost the final decision rests wit tOlilltll Larry Morrow recreation coordinator said he was sur prised lit the cost to repair the unit think wed be foolish not to buy new one he said Four charged with local breakins Two Parry Sound men and two Toronto youths are in jail awaiting bail hearing today charged with breaking and entering Police said the four were arrested about 930 am Friday in the Letitia Street area following three breakins in that neighborhixid earlier that day harged with break enter and theft are Barry Robinson 19 Edward Robinson 19 of Parry Sound and Paul Birch 17 and John Mcihalski 16 of Toronto The Robinson brothers are also charged with two addi tional counts of breaking and entering with intent to commit an indictable offence They are charged for two breakins on ast le Iri Police said jtWtlt and liquor were taken from the homes The street has actually been reopened already The action followed complaints by mer chants who said the street closure was seriously affecting their business Dunlop Street reconstruction is expected to be completed by the end of August Salary increases of up to eight per cent for nonunion personnel at city hall is exs pected to be ratified tonight Salaries were diSCUssed at an incamera meeting last week Effective in 1979 nonunion staff will get Remembrance Day as holiday should coun cil ratify the pact tonight By TERRY FIELI Of The Examiner Gone are the days when 15 yearold must sit at tiny desk in grade eight class marking time until he can leave school and while they are remembered it is not with fond ness lot of kids dont succeed in school not because they cant handle it but because the ap proach taken by the institu tion didnt fit the child says Dr Carol Reich member of the special education faculty at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Our school system was for years aimed at those who could keep up and the chilren who could not maintain the pace did not receive an education she The prevailing attitude among people involved in special education is that children with learning prolt blems should not be segregated but while contact with their peers helps them learn it can also be painful experience Weve done fair bit to in tegrate the students into the secondary school community in order to break down some of the barriers says Baird Garyey head of special education at In nisdale Secondary School Bar rie Theres still the name call ing however and there are still more barriers to be broken down Garvey said Special education students in secondary schools are divided into two groups Those in the starts operation today down industrial waste remov ing the contaminating material His work was based on nobel prize winning book written in 1936 written by Pro fessor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debyc There have been initial mechanical startup problems which are normal with any new operation Stewart told The Ex aminer today The treated water is being transferred to city owned holdingtank After inspection by city per sonnel about 10000 gallons of treated water will be pumped into the citys sewer system on adaily basis Stewart said inquiries have been coming from industries all of which will have to be in vestigated before allowing the groups to utilize the industrial wastcunit The project operated in con junction with the province is run on an experimental one year basis said Stewart Various reports will be distributed throughout the year as to the progress of the unit he said The provincial government recently announced grant of up to $30000 for analytical work It sure helps said Stewart of the grant Every little bit helps Industries have been pro hibited from dumping liquid waste into landfill sites since Jan by the province Barrie council has encourag ed industries to find alternate means of waste disposal after seepage problems were en countered earlier in the year at the Barrie landfill site said In my time there was no special education program for the kids and when they were old enough to leave school they dropped out said Baird Garvey head of the special education department at In nisdale Secondary School Bar me Today children with leaming problems can receive help from kindergarten through high school Special education in secondary schools is offered at two levels but the program is flexible and takes into account the varying needs of the in dividual Garvey said We basically try and ac complish two things First we attempt to improve on the stu dents abiity in remedial way by addressing the difficulties Peer contact helps teachers with job basic program have learning problems less severe than those in the modified program Socially children in the basic program mix quite well with children in the general regular program he said Students in the modified pro gram do not mix well with the others Garvey added We hope that through con tact we can make the children in the regular program more sympathatic tIO those in special education he said The interaction between special education students and the student body in general forms the basis for integrating thetwo We all learn by example Garvey said Americans blamed flB examiner fAMRQcIay Iyly 979 CB dying local club By LORI IIOIIEN Of The Examiner The Americans are hogging the airwaves causing Cana dians to lose interest in the once highly popular pastime of citizen band radio vice presi dent of the Bay International Radio Club in Barrie says Because American CB users are allowed more than the four andahalf watt power output Canadians are restricted to its difficult to get through the skip or airwaves Mike Williams explains CB is dying rapidly because of lack of interest he said If the weather is clear and theres no skip CBers can reach each other from 20 to 30 miles away Williams says and with skip the radius is reduc ed to about half mile This af fects Canadians anywhere Its fight for the waves he says The decline of CB radio popularity was evident Satur day at the weekend coffee break at Molsons Park time for CB lovers to get together and meet who they may have talked to many times Few people were in at tendance at the opening ceremonies which MPP George Taylor PC Simcoe South and alderman Dorion Parker at tended This years gathering the fourth annual event sponsored by the Bay International Radio Club was specifically to raise funds for Royal Victoria Hospital The club raises funds for the hospital regularly Last year it air By STEPHEN NICHOLLS The Examiner Randy Ralph was not totally successful in appealing penal ty imposed for hosing incident at Barrie Jail but his lawyer says the guard accomplished his primary goal to clear his name Roger Oatley said in an inter view Friday that the 30year old guard is pleased with the purchased an ultrasonic nebulizer machine used as breathing aid The name coffee break comes from the idea of breaking channel when CBer wants to talk to someone says Williams Williams said he ex pected eight or ten clubs to at tend as groups and number of individuals for total of 1500 He would not venture how much money the club hoped to raise Along with guests were several displayers of CB radio equipment Troops from Cana dian Forces Base Borden pain ticipatc each year with com munications display Williams sees no change in the decline of CB radio in Canada unless the federal government steps in and allows users to boost their power out put He says CB radio is mr portant often assisting during emergencies But we have no strength he says We are the lowest on the pole of communication Local dignitaries were on hand to officially open the Bay International Radio Club coffee break Saturday held to raise funds for Royal Victoria Hospital Left to right are Captain Pat Cooper CFB Ted Long from RVH Uorian Parker Barrie Alderman and Mike Williams vicepresident of the radio club Williams says coffee breaks give CBers chance to get to know each other in Borden MPP Georae Tavlor PC Simcoe South Despite five day penalty Guard lawyer claim appeal successful ntaro Public Service Grievance Settlement Boards decision to reduce the guards penalty to suspension of five working days from 20 Mr Ralph would have preferred to have been totally vindicated but his main con cern was to establish that he had not deliberately gone after any inmates ipiisonersi with fire hose said iatley Understanding needed Lewis It is vital for politicians to clearly understand the jurisdic tions for which they are respon sible says Mr Doug Lewis PCSimcoe North In recent press release Lewis says that politician who cannot learn to concentrate on problems which are in his jurisdiction soon gets into trouv ble Every elected politician in the riding of Simcoe North finds that there is plenty of work to do in their own particular area of concentration without being distracted into other jursidio tions says Lewis Surely politicians responsibility is firstly to the people who elected him to handle the problems of the jurisdiction to which he was Times schools change children beneficiaries they are having Then we help them apply skills they already have that they will need to get by in life BROKEN INTO GROUPS There are some 1500 special education students in Simcoe County high schools who are broken into two groups depen ding on the severity of their problem Those in basic are transfer red from an elementary school to secondary school They are behind other children their age and are moved on and kept with their peers Students in the modified pro gram have profound learning disabilities and often are transferred from segregated special education elementary school classes When they come here we offer them four years Garv said The basic students pick up secondary school graduation diploma Modified students graduate with cer tificate of training The students are encourag ed to take instruction at whatever level they need Garvey said The flexibility allows the student to always take material that is testing student in the basic program who has an ability in mathematics may take that subject at the general level It allows the child to ad vance and continue his learning development always at his own speed Garvey said Special education programs combine academic training with practical work in shops and home economics There are some 4500 special education students in the coun ty served by the local school board Most of those children are in elementary school The Simcoe County school board also supplies teachers for some 10 trainable retarded students under itsjurisdiction elected Lewis says an MPs relation ships with municipal and provincial politicians would deteriorate if he tries to act as kind ombudsman on municipal and provincial matters They were elected in their own particular elections to carry out the responsibilities of their elected office and they do not need the public intcrfeienw of the federal member says Lewis The Simcoc North MP has re quested meetings with every council in his riding to establish and maintain sound working relationship which will work to the benefit of every constituent in Simcoe North He has been cleared of that allegation and we are very pleased about that Ralph was unavailable for comment Friday The board in its decision this week ruled Ralph did not deliberately spray prisoners with fire hOS Oct The 30yearold guard was performing his duty by follow ing an order from his shift sergeant to hose down walls and the floor of cell corridor where guards said they saw smoke after smoke detector sounded NEGLECTEI RESPONSIBILITY Ralph neglected his respon sibilities as correctional of ficer however by not pro viding prisoners with dry clothing and bedding after the incident the board ruled The board said there was no fire in the corridor that night During the appeal hearing prisoners testified they deliberately set off the smoke detector by blowing cigarette smoke into it Triggering the alarm to annoy the guards was favorite sport of prisoners in thejail testimony indicated Sgt RH McNeil ordered Ralph to hosc down the cell cor ridor walls and floor because he said he believed there was firethere person Examiner Photo The board ruled that unusual tension and low staff morale plus fear of fire and of the inmates thcinsclve could have contributed to an error in judgment Because of stress and inade quate fire training Ralph was justified in obeying the order to take the hose into the corridor said the board We are unable to conclude that Mr Ralph did any more than carry out the duty assign ed to him and that the water which wcttcd the inmates was result of splashing and spray ing rather than deliberate malice said the board Ralph testified he spoke to Sgt McNeil about changing prisoners clothing after the iii cidcnt but Sgt McNeil told him not to bother with dry Clothing The board ruled Ralph as guard was respon sible for the safety and health of the prisoners and he should have taken action to ensure the health and safety of in mates in his care The board ruled Ralph should be penalized for not trying to provide the prisoners with dry clothing Michael Rowett Ontario Public Service Employees Union staff rejirescntat ivc said other jail guards may be upset because Ralphs penalty was not completely dropped When guard makes split second decision that does not result in abuse of the prisoners then the guards would expect complete support and back ing said Ivowctl IISIISIIICI Il7 There will he few people disatisfied with this decision hcsaid Rowctt said guards are trainr ed to work under all kinds ol conditions but the tension in Barrie jail affects the hcaltli ol many guards Anybody who has been guard there in excess of year would experiencesomenervous disorders tension headaches ulcers ncrves etcetera said ltowett The ministry has been ordered to compensate Ralph for the 15 days pay he lost because of the stispension One member of the three person board said Ralph should not be penalied at all because he was following orders and did not spray any prisoners In my view Mr Ralph did not deliberately or otherwise cause any harm or suffering to the inmates and no penalty should be imposed on him for the incident said Harry Sinions Garfield Peacock keeps Barries fire trucks rolling Peacock prevents tragedies that come with breakdowns By STEPHEN NICIIOLIS Of The Examiner Mechanical failure of an emergency vehicle could result in tragedy Its Garfield Peacocks job to see that doesnt happen w1th Barrie fire departments 14 vehicles Peacock is licenced mechanic who is responsible for maintenance and repair of the departments fleet of three cars and 11 trucks Hes trained firefighter who attends fires with the other members of his department but when hes back at the star tion he works on the vehicles The vehicles must be maintained so when you need them theyre ready and mobile and in good working shape so they dont break down at fire said Peacock If fire truck breaks down it can cost lot of money at fire scene Peacock checks the vehicles regularly to ensure thev are running properly When truck returns from fire call he inspects it from the front bumper to the rear bumper One problem characteristic of fire trucks is loosening of parts because of vibration The trucks engines used to power the water pumps run for lengthy periods of time while the truck is stationary This constant idling vibrates the truck and loosens parts of the vehicle Peacock said he inspects the trucks closely to make sure everything is tightened up An engine may overheat at the scene of fire because there is no wind to cool the stationary engine as there is when the truck is moving If an engine begins to overheat auxiliary coolers can be used he said Speed is essential when working on emergency response vehicles Firefighters do not want to tie up truck for long periods in case it might be needed fora fire For that reason maintenance procedures are planned and carried out with efficiency Peacock changes the oil grease and oil filters on the trucks every six weeks The large diesel trucks need 22 quarts of oil but everything is ready to go so the truck is never tied up for more than half hour said Peacock