PAGE 8, WEDNESDAy, AUGUST 16, 1978, WHITBY FREE PRESS New During budget dfi Gartsliore said Iroquo promotion ini order ti Last Monday, in ai Recreation Departme manager for tlie Iroqi Arena, Heydenshore Brooklin and Ashburr Mr. Gosleigli, witli business,,has been lea in April 1974. His major job will1 more people using the< operating costs. According to Recrei Park arena presently figure is not overly hig be reduced to $25,000 The average weekly Park Arena is 3,000,i 120,000, says Mr. DeV By comparison, the' $10,000, which lias heei years, says Mr. DeVe. year," lie said. facili1zties manager to promote Iroquois Park iscussions last February Mayor Jim managing facilities ror mne îast year and a haif. Mr. Beekette 'YMCÀ* and Recreation iiepartment s disco dance during the ais Park needed a considerable amount of will be returning to the main office at the Municipal Building to carnival. H1owever, says Mr. Gosleigh, the circus was flot as , offset operating deficits. assist Mr. DeVeau in his work. well attended as it might have been. ýn attempt to rectify the situtation, the Mr. Gosleigh has one tlieory why Iroquois Park Arena does "We can get people in here if 'we know what they> want, but ent appointed Jim Gosleigh as facilities not seem to attract the attendance that the townfeels it should. you have to take a change," says Mr. Gosleigh. "You caiVt sit uois Park Complex, Brooklin Memorial back and wait for people to corne to you; you've got to g0Oout Pavilion,- the Centennial Building and A lot of Whitby residents work- in"Scarborough, and tend to go and get them." n Community Centres. there for recreatiow and entertainment rather than stay in The off-season is the time to fili the arena with special 1 14 years of experience in ' the arena Whitby, he said. He would like to sce more Whitby taxpayers events, lie says, and the recreation department is studyiiig a ad liand at Iroquois Park since it opened using the buildings they are paying for. number of proposals for special events to be held in Iroquois Some events at the arena have been very successful, such as Park during the next year. be promotion of facilities to try to get the recent Wintario draw which attracted a crowd of more Mr. Gosleigli has a lot of experience in arena work. Fourteen em and more dollars of revenue to meet than 2,000 people. Aiso about 250 people turned out to the years ago he started as a facility attendant at Scarborough, p f jwand was manager of a double-rink arena, a community centre cation Director Wayne DeVau, Iroquois and tliree ball diamonds after two years. has an operating deficit of $40,000. This After five years in Scarborougli le went to Langton, Ont: a yar wthM rperpromout efi o where he managed a new arena and organized a hockey ah sas t M r.Deau robutefeio ld league. Mfter a few years working in industry as a stationery y' attendance over 40 weeks at Iroquois engineer, he came to Whitby when Iroquois Park opened. and the average yearly,-attendance is Anyone wishing to 'contact Mr'. Gosleigh about Whitby's Jeau. ~~~~~recreational facilities can contact him b aln 6-75o Brooklin arena lias an annual deficit of AVLyy 668-7766. b aln 6-75o n steadily decreasing over the past few au., "We expect to reduce it again this f W hitby A t im f s i a the deficit at both buildings is decreasing due to more careful use of electrical facilities, but there are other factors sucli as ice time selling better at Brooklin Arena than at Iroquois Park, lie said, The Iroquois Park Swimming Pool lias an annual operating deficit of $60,000 a year, but this is, one of the lowest deficits for a pool of this type in southern Ontario, says Mr. DeVeau. Average attendance at the pool is 500 a day, 3,000 a week and 150,000 a year, which is very good,-says Mr. DeVeau. However, he points out that many Whitbyites have neyer seen the pool. .The main trust of the new approacli to proniotion will be for thelroquois Park Arena. Mr. DeVeau and Mr. Gosleigh have suggested such approaches as contacting various enterprises to find out what kind of entertainment can be found to fit the facility. *Another new approacli will be to advertise more extensively throughout the Durham Region and the Toronto area, says Mr DeVeau.- He points out that it is not enougli to confine advertising of events to just Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa.' Mr. DeVeau would like to have pictures taken in colour of various setups in the arena that can be shown to promoters to indicate what the facility has to offer. Mr.,DeVeau also coniments that mucli of tlie activity at Iroquois Park is pac ked into the County Town Carnival, and it siEoùd be spread throughout the year.Whitby'got* the'Oshawa Home Show this year, and an attempt will be made to obtain it again for'1979, lie said. Mr. Gosleigh W'ill have bis office in the Iroquois Park Arena, where Pred Reokette. deniiv rp<'rpatinn dtrrr'tnr hns hoe Program AUGUST 16: WEDNESDAy 7:30 p.m.: DANTE'S INFERNO (1967) Oliver Reed. Ken Russell's dramatization 'of episodes in the life of the pre-Rapliaelite poet and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. SIIORT: MICKEY'S DELAYED DATE (1947) Disney! AUGUST 23: WEDNESDAY 3 p.m.: THE BELLES 0F ST. TRINIAN'S (1954) Alastair Sim. Comedy and chaos reign at a girl's scliool in dire financial straits. 7:30 p.m.: HIGH NOON (1953) Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper. A western Classic. SHORT: DR. DOOLITTLE: TALK TO THE ANIMALS (1976) BETTY BOOP CARTOONS (1936) More fune! AUGUST 30: WEDNESDAY 3 p.m.: DR. 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