This weekends Rotary district conference in Barrie was one of the best con ference chairman Ron Lynch said Saturday as the three day event neared its end The conference drew representatives from all of District 701s 36 clubs located as far away as Kapuskasing Chapleau and Amos Queto Barrie the district southernmost city You usually miss one or two or three Lynch said He put the number of outof town guests at about 250 with members of Barries two clubs pushing the total attendance past the 400 mark The conference wound up Saturday with reception at the Barrie Curling Club followed by the governors banquet and dance District governor is Barries Peter Dean nearing the end of his oneyear term At lunch Saturday the Rotarians heard talk on the spirit of Rotary from Edwin Zeller of edar Rapids lowa who rep resented Rotary Interna Edwiii Zeller left representative of Rotary International president Robert Manchester chats with Barrie lluronia Rotary lub president George llarper Saturday before address ing Rotary District 701s annual conference Zeller of Cedar Rapids Iowa spoke on the Conference was one of best says chairman of Rotary spirit of Rotary Examiner Photo tional president Robert Man Chester of Youngstown Ohio By Rotary custom the in temational president is in vited to every district con ference but always sends representative rather than attending in person nus as gt er event Down through the years theyve touched the lives of all of us he told an en thusiastic audience onductor loliii Montague goes over the music for Sundays lliiroiiia Symphony youth and junior orchestra concert llll performers leiiiiy lloll left Debra Lanning Kelly Drope Laurie ddis and Karen llllt letty laiiiinei lliotoi Enthusiastic audience greets performances by orchestras By MlRlld Llllflllli The lluron1a Symphony Youth and Junior ttrchestras played to an enthusiastic au diencc ot parents and iii terested friends on Sunday night However the Embassy Hall is not the best place acoustical ly for such concert Although the it strings that make up the Junior llthtllit projected reasonably well though program of Telemann Schubert and Sullivan plus Chorales tor strings still the music was dulled because ot the lack of resonace in the hall The Youth ttitlietia with fuller and more penetrating sound and with the addition ot brass and wotxlwinds fared better llaydns lock Sym phony had brightness of tone and good rhythmic pulse despite some intonation pro blems and inenientary ttilllll sioii itli the score among some of the members The Mowrt llorn oncerto is good program material The young soloist Robert Thurlow gave capable peiv formance on this difficult in struincnt and at times brought out some lovely musical et fects The accompaniment by the Youth Orchestra was generally sure and the young performers seemed com tortablewitlithcscorc Karen Dakus and Jane notebook Any nonprofit organization or indiiidual may have community went in Notebook Just call 7266337 and ask falls for Friday for Pat iuergis received by noon Honda Hills for day on the Wednesday Leisure Monday for publication the Weekend Page must Notebook must be following otebook published Thur be received by noon did you know There are about 1th at res of open space in the city of liarrie The parks and forestry diision of the citys department of recreation is responsible for the maintenance of the open space which includes grass cutting building maintenance floutr bed maintenance alliletic tield iiiaiiitainauce and equipment manufac ture installation and repair tonight Olour elementary and one secondary school will pillllflitlt in string concert at in at Georgian ollege The Castviezv Strings will perform as Wlll groups from Maple ilovt Steele Street odringtin and Johnson Street Schools 0A tanadian lttltl long sorVire Pensioners meeting will be held at lit in the liliie Flame Room at the Coir arlos the two cellos of the or clicstra have been playing as duo for some time now They have achieved natural flow and flexibility between them that is pleasure to hear lheir duo by uinmer was clear with nice basic rhythmic pulse The highlight of the program was Rustic Dance by Vivaldi The Youth Orchestra measured up to the requirements of this composition and had sureiiess of sound and rhythm that me titiite delightful lr Montague Director brought out the full spirit of the peasant dance Iatlieltel Karnoii also included on the program but by its nature tend to become monotonoth lhis coingxisitioii is seldom successful unless pei foiiiied by very professional chamber group and even then can fail to stimulate the listener Top winners perform at Stars of Festival By llltllil LEIIVER About 45 young musicians from Barrie and area perform ed at Georgian ollege on Saturday night Stars of the Festival was presented by the tarric liranch of The Dntario Registered Mtisic leachers Association as another platform for per formance for iiiusicallygilted children it has been felt for some time that although many programs are underwritten by clubs and SAltllS today for the tinder privileged or belowaverage child little is being done for speciallyvgil ted cliuldren Often these children par ticularly gifted in special area or generally brilliant never develop as they should because little special help is given to them So the top winners of the re cent Kiwanis Music Festival held in Orillia were asked to perform in concert as further recognition of their achieve ments The program began and end each of which might be con Slfltlttlttilltillill Lindys School of Music Ensemble has already achieved an enviable reputation in Sun oc county The young musi cians not only work hard on their accordions but they seem to put sincere effort into their ensemble work The result is accordion playing of Sylll phonic nature brilliant and musical The Merry inst lcls who closed the concert are small group of vocalists under the direction ot Marjorie Mc Kelvey The Alliston lllllllilt is one of the most sensitively musical vocal groups of young people that haie heard It IS no wonder that they take top honors wherever they sing The audience quickly responded to their inspiring work and ap plauded them warmly as they concluded the concert There was much work of very high level at this concert piaiiislic vocal flute guitar cello cuphoniuni tuba and ac asp Police Week starts with dinner tonight at Optimist Club Barrie Optimist Club members and local police are joining forces to promote police work today through Friday in combined Respect For Law and Police Week campaign says Optimist director Peter Frans Optimists have rescheduled their annual Respect For Law week to coincide with the police forces efforts to strengthen both campaigns he says The week will be marked by oint display by three Barrie ased forces city police the Ontario Provincial Police and the RCMP in the Georgian Mall and special Optimist dinner tonight Three local policean will be honored as policemen of the year by the Optimist Club tonight at dinner at the Lakeview Skyroom says Frans Actor wins play award Bradford District lligh School returned from the On tario ollegiate Drama Festival at the St Lawrence entre in Toronto this weekend with one award Stephen Bainborough Grade 12 student was judged to have turned in one of the four outstanding performances lit the threeday festival He played the part of Announcer in the play The Leader Working towaid Better Way Three Barrie block parents are also being given citations Reprtsentatives of the city police OPP and RCMP will be at the meeting says Frans Guest speaker is Richard Clarke of Orillia president of the Simcoe County Bar Associa tion Students winning Respect For Law essay contest organized by the Optimists will be honored at dinner May 30 DISTRIBUTE POSTERS The Barrie club has also distributed some 100 Respect For Law posters and has been giving out bumper stickers The Barrie police are going to the public through the Georgian Mall display says Constable Ron Golden community ser vices officer for the Barrie Pl combined effort is replac ing attempts to have the public take tours through police sta tions he says We are not opening our of fices to the public this year he says because it hasnt worked in the past We cant here he says So now were going to them Constable Golden says drug alert displays the canine corps dog and displays on moped breathalyzer and bicycle legislation are being organized by the local ll Barrie city police will have displays on crime prevention block parents and safety patrollers programs says liief Earl Snider get them over finer point of the art lleber Boone student of glass blowing at Georgian College shows Leah Emms 11 finer point of the art Leah as one of about 50 children who Saturday attended glass blowing demonstration at the Bairie hildrens Library Boone told the group how glass was pro bably accidentally discm cred 6000 years ago and then gave the demonstration Examiner Photo To Improve the Work Environment Improved conciliation mediation it New national occupational and arblralon servces safety and health centie To Improve LabourManagement New national quality of working Relations life centre Promotion of educational facilities and opportunities to develop worker skills and knowledge in labour relations Ll Expanded adviSOry services Voluntary code of good industrial relations practices suiiiers this Building Ferris Lane liarrie tuesday oltie Tith District Annual llltfllllfl ol Siiiicoc Soulti Womens institute will be held in St Johns lnited hurth Alliston Registration will be at it in Whats 73 Years lie tween li iends ls thethenie Olhc tarric and District Association for the Mentally Retarded is holding supper and meeting which is open to meinbeis and the public at titiitl Tickets for the dinner which wul beheld at 177 Hayfield St are $4 person and may be obtained by lltitllllii7261Mle Dr Hunt at local tllttllltlilll will speak wednesday dessert and bake sale will beheld by the St Georges Anglician hurch Women at the church from ti to 8pm Oilie Federal Business Development Bank and the Greater Harrie fhamber of oiniiierce will hold manage ment seminar for small and mediumsize businesses at the Holiday liin Harrie OSuicide will be the subject tonight when Dr Diane Syer of Toronto East General Hospital addresses public meeting in the eiitial ollegiate faculty lounge The meeting organile by ontact is set for 730 pm Everyone is welcome Grade and it pupils from Angus Public School will be present the operetta Tom Sawyer at 7pm oShould men and women retire at 65 Members of larkvievy Senior itizcns will discuss this at neeting at 730 pm at the centre The discussion will focus on the need for recognition of worth and job satisfaction for those over 43 vv ed with an ensemble group cordioii Public Notice The Barrie Planning Board will be holding Public Meeting on Tuesday May 17 1977 at 730 pm in the Auditorium of East view Secondary School to discuss conceptual development plan for the Stage II lands of District These lands comprised of approximately 200 acres lie east of Nelson Street west of Blake Street north of existing develop ment on Steel Street and south of the City limits The plan is only conceptual of this time so interested persons are invited to attend the meeting or write of the writer Box 400 Barrie Ontario to express their opinion The plan may be viewed prior to the meeting of the Planning and Development Department on the third floor of City Hall during regular working hours JONES SecretoryTreasurer Barrie Planning Board Many jobs are dull and repetitive For years that was accepted as the way it had to be Canada like more and more industrial nations is now seeking to develop new ways of improving the quality of working life because we know it increases job satis factionand this can help boost productivity and quality of service One major proposal is to set up Quality of Working Life Centre in cooperation with labour business and the provinces to develop new ways of making working life more satisfying for more Canadians This is another part of broad new package of proposals launched by the federal Government Additional protection for unorganized workers Provision for joint worker management safety and health committees To Improve Collective Bargaining Promotion of broaderbased bargainingbargaining coalitionsless fragmented negotiations Improved processing of certificationhandling of complaints Labour Canada and You Working toward New collective bargaining information centre For further information write to The Honourable John Munro Minister of Labour House of Commons Ottawa Travail Canada Labour Canada Hon John Munro Minister