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by PETER SPOHN Boat builders in the Midland- Penetanguishene area will be _ well represented at the Toronto Boat Show, which Opens tomorrow at the Canadian National Exhibition's Coliseum building. ACF Grew Inc. of Penetanguishene, Express Yachting of Midland, and a Port MeNicoll boat builder will have displays at the boat show, the biggest in Canada and one of the biggest boat shows in North America. The Toronto Boat Show runs from Jan. 10 to Jan. 20. It is greeted with much anticipation by boat builders plugging their product lines. Grew will have the biggest display at the Penetanguishene \ Wednesday, January 9, 1985 Vol. 18, No. 2, Folio 3 ChrisCraft manufactures under licence, on view. president Peter Francis said yesterday that will the boats will range in size from Grew's new 10 foot racing cub, which sells for $3,000, to a 42 foot ChrisCraft cruiser, which sells for approximately $275,000. The Penetanguishene company will have about $750,000 worth of boats on display, Francis said. Sixty-five percent of the models on display will be Grew lines, and the remainder ChrisCraft. Grew is the largest manufacturer of power boats in Canada. The company has been show with all Grew product lines and several the company models, which Grew production $105,000. represented at the Toronto show for more than 25 years. Between 20 and 30 Grew dealers in Ontario be manning the during the 11 day show. Nineteen : eighty-five marks the biggest year for Express at the boat show, Express's manager Stewart yesterday. "We are extremely positive about this year's show," he commented. The Midland sailboat manufacturing firm will display its Express 30-M model, Express 30-PC, and the top-of-the-line Express 35, a new model which sells for approximately company's Jones display said Area's boat builders ready for Toronto show will man_ the Toronto. ' business. This is the seventh year the company has attended the Toronto show. Dealers retailing Express boats in Ontario booths representatives from Midland will also be in Vie Carpenter, a builder of wooden boats with production facilities in Port MeNicoll, will also be at the show. unable to contact Carpenter but the boat builder in previous years has had one of the most popular displays at Toronto's boat show. Carpenter makes replicas of old model launches and is also in the boat restoration and company A reporter was { Citizen 20 pages, 40 cents TH Penetang Atoms a top team travel in February to Sarnia to take part in the International Silver Stick tournament. The Penetanguishene Atom team, a finalist in the recent Wasaga Beach Silver Stick hockey tour- nament, lost to Erin 7-4 in their last game, but will WASAGA-- BEACH {Px ANNUAL We bi . PRN _ Less than hoped for No overnight parking in town The Penetanguishene Police Force reminds town residents that parking is not permitted on any street inside town boundaries between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. The bylaw prohibiting overnight parking is in effect until April 1. If a vehicle parked overnight is blocking Public Works Department snow removal crews, it could be tagged and towed away. The cost to recover the vehicle is $35. Residents are also reminded that snow removed from private property is not to be deposited on public roadways or sidewalks. Gasoline prices Even though there seems to be a surplus in world oil stocks and the world price for oil is slowly falling, the price of gasoline at local service stations has taken a dramatic jump. The average. price of gasoline in the area jumped by 5 to 6 cents a litre. The price of regular gasoline at the Petro Canada station on King Street in Midland went from 43.9 cents a litre to 51.1 cents. At the Gulf station on Funding OK'd for sewers, treatment plant Construction of a new sewage treatment plant on Fox Street and in- stallation of storm sewers on north end Penetanguishene _ str- eets costing a total of $2,721,000 are expected to get underway this year now that provincial government funding for the project has been approved by the Ministry of the Environment. The Town of Penetanguishene. was informed recently that MOE would cover 43 percent of the cost of the combined project. The town had hoped that MOE would pay for 75 percent of the project. Today town clerk Yvon Gagne is meeting with Street in Main Penetang, the price rose from 48.1 to 51.4 cents a litre for regular gas. Texaco's King Street, Midland station is at 51.4 cents a litre, up from 47.3 cents a litre for regular gas and the Quebec victories hearten francophones: Recent court victories use of English on signs by Quebec Anglophones in is contravention of lighting against their the Canadian con- provincial governm- stitution. A couple of ent's restrictive years ago, a Quebec language legislation are court of appeal struck giving 'his area's down another Bill 101 Francophone com- provision which allowed munity reason to be only the children of optimistic about future English-speaking redress of grievances Quebecers to attend held by Ontario's English-language -- sc- French-speaking com- hools. Few exceptions munity. were permitted. Now, the children of English- In recent weeks, a Speaking parents who move to Quebec from other parts of Canada, and parents in Quebec who wish to educate Quebec cour! ruled that the Parti Quebecois government's Bill 101 provisions banning the their children in English schools, are allowed to do so. Simcoe County Board of Education French Language Advisory Committee (FLAC) chairman Claudette Paquin says that while Ontario's French-sp- eaking minority finds itself faced with cir- cumstances different from Quebee's Anglophone minority. Ontario Francophones can take some _ heart from their Quebec counterparts' recent victories. "We would hope thal the Canadian Charter (of Rights) comes through for the French in Ontario as much as it has for the English in Quebec,"' Paquin said yesterday ina telephone interview. Paquin said _ she thought some of Bill 101's_ provisions are widely regarded as being "abusive." She said it is difficult to compare Quebec Anglophones to Ontario Francophones, but there. are areas, par- ticularly in education, where Francophones would like to see progress. Paquin said that while the Ontario Ministry of Education now permits the establishment of French-language sc- hools in areas "where numbers warrant" the policy is somewhat vague and does not adequately address itself to the issue of quality in education. "Tt's most important to have relative quality Ministry officials in Toronto to discuss financing of the project. "We are delighted that the ministry has approved funding but we did think originally that it would be for 75 percent," Gagne said yesterday. He said that the municipality will have to go back to the Ontario Municipal Board for formal ap- proval of the present financial arrangements but that approval had already been received for the project, with provincial funding at 75 percent. Gagne said that the municipality is now ready to call for tenders for the project. Of the Pioneer Gas Bar on Vinden Street, Midland reported its prices nosed up from 46.2 cents a litre to 50.7. The price of home heating oil seems to be holding steady, at around 36.5 cents a litre. $2,721,000 capital costs, $1 million is slated for construction of the sewage treatment plant. The plant will be located on Fox Street near the Baymoorings property. The plant will service homes in the north end of town and will augment the municipality's existing sewage treatment facility on the Penetang waterfront, near the centre of town Sanitary sewers will be installed on the north end of Broad Street, on Church Street between the Mental Health Centre and Don Street, Cambridge Street, and possibly on _ Robert Street East, Gagne said. udden jump None of the dealers contacted felt that the price would rise. Some of the dealers explained that the dramatic jump in the price of gasoline was due to the recent price wars coming to an end. FLAC chairman between French schools and English school of comparable size,' she commented. Paquin said that there is one parent in Simcoe County who is now fighting to have quality of education in the province's French schools the same as in English schools. She suggested that in some cases the French- language schools offer a more limited range of education options than English schools of comparable size. As well, Paquin said that Francophone parents are attempting to have a greater say in how French-language schools are operated. She said they would like to see the same level of management! by Francophone parents in French schools as Anglophones in Quebec have in their schools. "The new constitution made if possible for citizens who dealt with an abusive law in Quebec to change it," » Paquin said. "That's a good thing."'