mm Coun Martin Connolly left chairman of Cookstowns water committee listens as Roy Hounsome manager of Pump nun Lixt IV Estates mobile Cookstown home park goes over the costs of villages the system improving water INr IXU IUKI is inanexv uxi Hounsome and 21 other residents attended public meeting in the village Mon day night to find out why their water rates will go up an average 66 April Ex aminer Photo 22 residents at meeting to explain wa ter rates By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter COOKSTOWN Present res idents of Cookstown will pay the bills for improvements to the village water system which will be of benefit to future residents Coun Martin Connolly chair man of councils water commit tee made that observation Monday night at public meeting called to explain the need for higher water rates which take effect April The meeting attracted only 22 village residents The way it boils down is the old residents are paying the whole shot he said The whole shot amounts to 3204859 for new well and pumphouse needed to provide sufficient water for popula tion of 1540 Connolly said the village could grow to that size if all 92 units are developed in the Cookslane subdivision and Cookstown Estates mobile home park increases from the present 185 units to 250 units as permitted in the subdivision agreement Drilling work on the new well has been completed he said Tenders have been received for the new pumphouse but the con tract has not been awarded The lowest bid submitted Connolly said was $112852 The original estimate of the cost made in 1973 was $85000 The pumphouse is expected to be finished next November Connolly said the money to finance the improvements was borrowed by the 197576 village council from the nowdefunct Ontario Water Resources Com mission at an annual interest rate of 1025 over 30 years To build the well and pum phouse repay the loan and operate the village water system will cost $46100 year he said Estimated revenue from the new water rates hook up fees and municipal taxes amounts to $46100 COlLD LIGHTEN The only way council could lighten the load on the present residents Connolly said would be through lot levies paid to the village by Cookslane developer The developer must pay the village $2500 for each lot it develops Connolly said and $1151 would be applied to the cost of water system im provements However Cookslane intends to build only six model homes this year he said and if the houses dont sell the village might find itself paying the en tire cost of the improvements The new water rates which amount to an average 66 in crease to residential and com mercial users over last year were imposed by council at the suggestion of the Ontario Municipal Board OMB Connolly said council discussed the problem with the OMB and was advised to raise the water rates rather than municipal taxes He later said the village has contingency fund of $10000 for emergency water supply pro blems but said he does not want to use that money for the im provcincnts in case there is major breakdown in the pre sent system Coun Connolly said he feels badly about having to raise village water rates because of tragic blunder by the 197576 council when it negotiated the subdivision agreement with Cookslane DEVELOPER SHOULD PAY He said council should have asked the developer to pay percentage of the cost of im proving the water system to in sure adequate supply to Cookslane residents We didnt say Okay we will provide water for you but you have to pay percentage of the cost of providing that water hcsaid Should another developer come to council with proposal requiring upgraded municipal services onnoiiy said things would be handled much dif ferently The present council would insure that we had the cash in our pockets before wed ap prove any upgrading of any thing he said whether it be water hydro or anything else Cardsontable session asks help for Firehall By RICHARD DL NSlAN Examiner Staff Reporter The board of management of the old Collier Street firehall has asked city council for complete endorsement and support of the boards efforts to turn the disused building into cultural centre The board led by chairman Tony Gilsenan sat down Mon day with councils general com mittee for cardsonthc table session in whic council was asked to throw its weight and some of its money behind the oftencontroversial restora tion project if you dont want to do it were through Aid Janice Laking board member and longtime firehall supporter told her fellow council members We ordinary citizens have done much more than We should have needed to do up to this point Gilsenan said think the way should be made very easy for us now The board did not ask for an immediate answer and did not receivconc Key to the boards prescnla tion was request for 830000 from the city toward 5200000 restoration contract the board hopes to undertake this sunr mcr The request marks the abandonment of longstan ding statement by board members that the restoration would not require city funds money was to be raised entirely through provincial and federal grants and private donations ive never been slave to consistency board member Roger Oatley said in asking for the nominal expenditure of $30000 Were now prepared to say we were wrong atley also said the city may be asked to help out with operating costs of the building but said such costs would be justified in view of how little the city spends on culture com pared to expenditures on sports and other recreational ac tivities and facilities ihat comparison speaks for itself he said Board members said demand for use ot the fireball with its proposed thcatrc meeting rooms and art gallery will be high know personally there wont be enough time available for the groups that will want to use it member Muriel Lecpcr told the committee while Gilsenan said the building will be too small five years from now and additional space will have to be sought Gilsenan said the city is unwiiiivocaliy committed to preservation of the fireball through its decisions to work for downtown revitalization and to appoint local architec tural review board to designate buildings tor preservation and atley said it would be an ex crcisc in arrogantc to deity that the firehall is worth sav ing Board members also cited approvals the city has given for expenditures of $l00000 none of it from thecity treasury as to the committing council firehall liowevcr Aid Ernie Rotinan said any city commitment has been based on the premise that city funds Would not be needed for the projch We have been going along for quite long time on the assumption that this is not go ing to cost the taxpayers cent hcsaid Aid Rotinan anti other coun cil members said they would like more information on the boards current plans and pro posals and atley suggested committee of council meet with board members and city rec reation staff for further study and discussions before council takes vote on the future of the project The subject is expected to come up for discussion next week at general committees regular meeting its been good for both of us Aid Del Tole said after the discussion Weve put the cards on the table where we are No beach for Allandale area lifeguard debate ties vote proposed third swimming beach for Barrie was shot down by city council Monday follow ing lengthy debate over whe ther the beach should have lifeguards general committee recom mendation to consider establishing an unsupervised beach this summer was defeat ed on tie vote after an attempt to change the recommendation to read supervised was beaten back by vote of 75 Mayor Ross Archer who had voted against lifeguards joined lifeguard supporters Bill amp bell Alex Arthur Ron Lynch Ross Stephens and Fred Ruempcr in defeating the com mittee recommendation to con sider setting up the beach at maximum cost of $5000 Aldermen Janice Laking Del Cole Nelson Garrett Bill Knowles Ernie Rotman and Ed Thompson voted for the beach but against lifeguards Aid Gord Mills was absent The proposed $3000 expen diture would have providcd minimal site preparation for School opens tonight for citys firefighters fireprevention training school being held at the Barrie fire department begins tonight at630 Barrie fire Chief Jack McAllister says 45 men will take part in the program the first to be held in Barrie Tonights session begins with registration and official ceremonies held at the fire sta tion Chief McAllister says there will be discussion on the role of firefighter fire department objectives the purpose of the building code and provincial and municipal legislation Other topics being examined include the chemistry and the classification of fire Classes will run three full Saturdays and Tuesday nights from tonight until April it 200 parents watch About 200 parents were on hand at Forest Hills School in Midhurst Monday for Gym Night presented by 65 pupils from Kindgergarten to radc it went marvellously teacher Gcor Cooper re ported today iut 200 parents attended The pupils went through various exercises learned dur ing the night school gymnastics program theyve been following one night week at Forest Hills for the last 10 weeks They demonstrated their pro wess on the mats boxhorse trampoline ropes parallel bars and balance beam the beach north of the INR station near the fool of Tiffin Street Full development of an unsupervised beach would have cost $8000 according to the cir tys recreation department Willi lifeguards costing another $8500 Supporters of an unsupervis ed beach argued that swim mers have been using the area without supervision for years irRiliAl SliiZRViSitN Aid Laking said non swimmers using the beach should be supervised by their parents and swimmers who wnted city supervision could go to nearby Centennial Park Aid Cole and Aid Rotman noted that many area beaches including some on Georgian Bay are unsupervised or sub ject to very limited supervi sion cant see the spending of the additional money tfor lifeguards this year Aid Cole said dont care what they do in Wasaga Beach or Balm Beach or anywhere else this is the Ci ty of Barrie Aid Stephens responded He said the chance that one child might drown was more important than the money involved Aid Rucmpcr said the fact that the beach has been used in the past on an unofficial basis has no bearing on what should be done if the beach is officially established by the city We certainly have moral obligation when we spell out beach to get in there and pro vide supervision he said He said lifcguards need not cost as much as predicted by the recreation because the water at the department proposed beach is much shallower than at Centennial Park or Johnson Strect beach and lower standard of protec tion would be acceptable Russell and Rosemary Uncles of Rth2 Elinvale pre sent cheque for 8250 to Maurice MacLaren treas The Barrie Examiner Tuesday March 15 1977 barrie today in bizarre murder By SUE ROUTIJFFE Examiner Staff Reporter 19yearold Penetang uishene man charged with seconddegree murder is in the early states of schizoid condi tion says Toronto psychiatrist Dr Robert Coultherd says Ronald Buttineau couldnt emo tionally appreciate his actions in the strangulation death of Emily Beatrice Dorsey last April Agrees to delay ne of two criminal murder cases to be tried during this session of the Supreme Court of Ontario held in Barrie has been put over Mr JusticeJ Keith agreed to wait two weeks before hearing the progress of the Crowns case against Eileen Nora Sawyer Defense counsel Richard iarke asked for the delay because psychiatric tests for the woman charged with non capilal murder have not been completed Clarke said the deaths of brother and sister in February delayed tests being done at the iarkc institute of Psychiatry in Toronto and said the delay could stretch four weeks Mr Justice Keith said the matter would be put over to March 38 for review and said the case could be tried at the end of thc fourweek sit ings Mrs Sawyer has been charg ed in the death of her husband His testimony came Monday on the opening day of the But tineau trial being held during Supreme Court of Ontario hear ing in Barrie Buttineau is pleading not guilty by means of insanity He was arrested after the body of Mrs Dorsey 69 was found in her home by police She had been strangled and was found with her underpants stuffed in her mouth and pillow and set of bathroom scales over her face in what Crown attorney Jim Murphy described as bizarre murder She had been sexually assaulted Buttineau made voluntary statement about the April murder when he was arrested April 28 admitting he mur dcred the woman who lived across the street from him Defense counsel John Gignac told Mr Justice Keith and the jury of four men and eight women he is not challenging the prosecutions evidence that Buttineau strangled and sex ually attacked the woman instead he presented two of three medical witnesses Mon day in an attempt to prove But tineau was insane at the time of the murder Dr Coultherd of the Clarke institute of Psychiatry in Toronto examined Buttineau after initial tests were made at the icnctanguishcnc Health Centre and says he found withdrawn person whose emo tions Wcrc often inap propriate iilI iRiNNEI He said Buttineaus recital of the murder was done in flat voice and said he grinned at inopportunc moments Dr Coultherd said Buttineau confessed to feelings of inade quacy in his relations with others and as slow learner in school was loner He said Buttineau is distracted easily and suffers from some percep tual problems He would know what to do and he would know how to do it said Dr Coultherd but he wouldnt know how to start He said psychiatric tests showed an average intelli gence but said Buttineau hasnt lived up to the potential indicated Dr Coultherd says Buttineau would have been aware of what he was doing at the time of the murder He was well aware he was in the wrong being in the house hetestified He said Buttineau would know he had his hands around Mrs Dorseys throat and would know he would cause harm But he probably wouldnt have realized the magnitude of what he had done Murphy asked if Buttineaus actions in covering his tracks once the woman was dead wouldnt reveal knowledge of guilt and Dr Coultherd agreed to point He said while some acts showed guilty others were ina propriate the sexual act an the use of pillows and scales on woman already dead actions he said were pointless Dr Coultherd testimony followed that of the only pro secution witness OPP inspec torTomHill Insp Hill read statement both the Crown and defense lawyers agreed to which in cluded the revelation Buttineau Jennings seeks ruling on standards bylaw Barrie developer is asking Divisional Court to rule the ci tys minimum standards bylaw invalid in notice of application for judicial review served Friday lawyers for Ed Jennings argUe that the bylaw is invalid be cause the citys official plan does not include provisions re lating to property conditions as required by the Planning Act The application comes in response to January decision by the citys property stan dards committee upholding work orders on about HO bylaw violations involving 127 rental propert ics owned by Jennings The properties are all in the block surrounded by Owen Worsley Clapperton and McDonald streets known as the block because of the lancway pattern Jennings plans to demolish the buildings and redevelop the block after pur chasing the haifdozen proper ties he does not yet own The application also calls for the work orders and the com mittees decision to be declared invalid on variety of pro cedural grounds including an alleged indirect pecuniary iii terest in the committees action on the part of committee incin ber harlcs Style lawyer DECLAREDCONFLICT The application says Styles Law firm was prosecuting lawsuit against Jennings at the time of the committees hear ing with respect to mortgage foreclosure on two of the pro perties Style declared con flict durning the hearing with respect to the two properties but the application argues that Style had an interest in all the More than onethird in from Bowl for Millions More than onethird of the $30500 pledged in the local Big Brothers Bowl for Millions has been collected so far Bowl for Millions chairman Ed Jennings said Monday He estimated that 50 of the league bowlers had turned in their money with somewhat lower return from the celebrities Deadline is April 30 More money to urcr of the Easter Seal ain paign for Barrie and area conducted by the Kiwanis lub of Barrie The Uncles About 575 bowlers par ticipated in the Bowl for Millions including 63 from Base Borden who roiled for pledgesof$211t Jennings said bowlers have been turning in an average of $120 more than they were pledged The total of $19500 is very close to final though $40000 is still possibility 3i and hqhli it back fighter raised the money by taking part in horseathon last June They rode from Elinvaie to Oriliia and back matters before the hearing uti der the Municipal Conflict of interest Act Roger atley lawyer for Jen nings said Monday the applica tion does not allege any de liberate wrongdoing against Style but the municipal Con flict of interest Act does not concern itself with intent purely innocent conflict that wasnt realized at the time is all you need atley said Other procedural grounds listed in the application include alleged errors in the minutes of the committee hearing the holding of closed committee session during the hearing failure to give proper notice of the committees proceedings and lack of adequate evidence to form basis for the commit tees decision The application also asks for an order prohibiting the city from demolishing the proper ties repairing them at Jenn ings expense registering the work orders on title pro secuting Jennings for non compliance or taking any other steps to enforce the orders The original work orders issued by Lloyd Pearson pro perty standards officer for the city gave Jennings until June 15 to correct the violations The committee gave him until Feb ruary 1979 to correct those violations deemed to pose no threat to health or safety more than third of the total with the June 15 deadline up held for the remaining viola tions and completed the 81 mile trip in two days Examiner Photo had voluntarily admitted to the murder BROKE iNTO HOUSE He said Buttineau broke into the house in search of alcohol and money when he saw Mrs Dorsey was not in He was familiar with it having done odd jobs for her for number of years He said Butineau searched on both floors for money and at one point took can of soda pop from the refrigerator When Mrs Dorsey returned he was trapped and hid insp Hill testified behind dresser in secondfloor guest room He placed the can in nearby closet After one unsuccesful at tempt to sneak out Buttineau made it to the stairs The woman heard him from her ad jacent bedroom Buttineau said in his state ment he lunged at her and held her by the throat until her arms went limp He then plac ed the pillow and scales over her face though Buttineau denies in his statement having sex with the body He then ran downstairs and took $310 from the womans purse He wrapped scarf around his hand said insp Hill to prevent leaving fingerprints but the scarf snagged in the door and he left it there Buttineau said in his state ment he crawled away from the house to avoid detection Hill said one distinct finger print was found on the Soda pop can although no finger prints were found on the scales The last witness of the day was Dr Larry Arnold psychologist who has examin ed Buttineau in the Pene Insanity plea entered tanguishene Health Centre where he is now being held He testified Buttineau ap peared emotionally upset and withdrawn and indicated he lacked control of what emo tions he has He said Buttineaus unrest and de ression while at the cen tre in icated an upheaval of those emotions Both Drs Coultherd and Ar nold stressed the schizoid i1 lness is not the twopersonality illness most people think it is It is term applied to psychiatric mental disorders Dr Coultherd testified He said it is condition characterized by lack of feeling withdrawing and day dreaming The trial continues today Scarlet fever cases reported few cases of scarlet fever have been reported in the coun ty but no more than usual for this time of year according to Dr Nancy Armbrust director of the Simcoe County Health Unit few cases of the contagious disease are reported every sprs ing she said and some cases turn out to be only strep throat There is no effective vaccine against scarlet fever she said but it readin responds to an tibiotics such as penicillin which were not available number of years ago The first symptoms are sud den sore throat and high fever followed by nausea and vomit ing The disease can become quite severe and develop into Rheumatic fever Council re turns zoning decision general committee decision to refuse proposed com mercial rezoning on Cundles Road West was sent back to committee by city council Monday for further consideration after Kevin Carroll laywer for Greenbriar Developments met with council to protest the decision The developer wants to put milk store bank and secondfloor apart ments on the property but needs rezoning for the milk store Carroll argued that the milk store would create fewer traffic and other problems than taverns and other uses already permitted under present zoning Bylaw request to be considered Gerald Stock of Stock Brothers Bus Lines asked City coun cils general committee Monday not to enforce zoning bylaw which outlaws bus terminal his firm is operating on Bayfield Street across from Bayfield Mall The request will be considered next week at the committees regular meeting The committee turned down similar suggestion from Rick Bates city zoning administrator earlier this year Stock told council his firm will look for permanent site with proper zoning if its licence for an Oriliia Barrie Toronto bus service is confirmed following current Ontario Highway Transport Board hearing The licence requires the firm to have Barrie terminal within half mile of Highway 400 but no land within that distance is currently zoned to permit bus terminal Building permit granted City council voted Monday to grant building permit for commercial construction on land at Sophia St even though commercial rezoning on the land approved by coun cil Monday has not received Ontario Municipal Board ap proval The permit is subject to legal agreement absolving the city of all liability in the matter and city clerk Ben Straughan said owner Millet Salter will have to demolish the new building if the OMB does not approve the rezoning Ap proval is expected to be routine as no objections have been received but such approvals usually take about three mon ths The rezoning will permit Salter to join the parcel to commercial pro erty he owns at the southwest corner of Sophia and Bay ield where he is working on small com mercial development which will extend onto the rezoned parcel Council considers closing ditch City council will consider closing an open ditch at the rear of Highview Road from Duckworth Street to Howard Crescent on the equest of Aid Nelson Garrett who told council Monday 16 area residents have complained that the ditch is dangerous to children in the residential area The ci tys engineering department is to prepare an estimate of the cost of the project for consideration during this years budget discussions Parking bylaw passed bylaw prohibiting parking on Toronto Street between Wellington and Grove from am to pm weekdays and on Wellington from Toronto Maple at all times was passed by city council Monday Aldermen Ross Stephens and Fred Ruemper opposed the measure Aid Gord Mills was absent Public stays for closed session Three members of the public were allowed to remain in ci ty council chambers Monday during general committee discussions with the board of management of the old Collier Street irehail Permission was granted over the objection of Aid Alex Arthur who said the committee should abide by its rule of excluding the public until the rule is changed Pre sent vere two members of delegation from Stock Brothers Bus Lines waiting to meet with the committee and former alderman Jack MacLaren who left part way through the irehall discussion Also present were two reporters admit ted under the committees policy of allowing members of the press to attend its meetings Student mayor of the week Barries new student mayor of the week is Timothy An drew Read 13yearold Grade student at Codrington Street School Iceout car to be out tonight The car used for the Barrie Ys Mens annual iceout con test is to go out on the Lake Simcoe ice tonight says Sandy Urchuk club president The car was supposed to be put out Saturday but wasnt ready Urchuk said club members will test the ice before putting the car out to make sure it doesnt go through the ice right away Winner of the contest and $500 will be the person who correctly guesses when the car goes through the ice