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"Bill" Kurelo Has Key Post As Manager Of Auditorium William "Bill" Kurelo is a tall, handsome 40-year-old with greying hair and a million prob- lems. He is manager of Oshawa's $1,200,000 Civic Auditorium, due to open eeerese of Hired last June, a@ year, over eight other candi- dates, the former member of the Auditorium's Board of Direc- tors, cracks he has "a problem for every dollar" the building costs. Mr. Kurelo is an Oshawa native, played hockey and soft- ball here as a boy, and later sat on the Oshawa minor Hock- ey Association executive and the Oshawa Children's Arena at $8250| Commission. WILLIAM KURELO He walked into the manager's job with his eyes open. He was able to get an insight into the myriad problems attendant to building and operating the arena when he was involved in promotion during fund-raising in 1962-63. "You have to give credit to those directors," he said the other day. "The building may not be wholly complete yet but if a manager walked in there now who had not had a chance to "grow up" with the building, he would be sunk. "There are just too many facets of the-entire operation cropping up all the time. "It is a. big challenge. but I love it. I'm learning all the time and it is very. .stimulat-. He must love it. He works a 14-hour day (closer to 20 the last two weeks) and worries night and day. He carries a pad and pencil everywhere with him and is continually jotting down items to purchase and ideas on run- ning everything from printing programs to ordering food for the building concessions. BIG JOB Bill admits he is humbled by the enormity of the job but: not overawed. He is extremely con- scientious,-ever aware he is now working for the city, and the thousands of residents here who pledged money. Early in his tenure, he. spent much of his time travelling around southern Ontario talk- ing to arena managers. He has nothing but praise for their co-operation. "Everybody. was really ter- rific to me," he says. "'E sup- pose I asked some of the strang- est questions but they all went out of their way to he'p me, And I was able to learn by their mistakes." He cited Harold Ballard at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and Ron Simcoe at the Chil- dren's Arena here as great aids in his "indoctrination." 3 Words foreign to his vocabu- lary now spill off his tongue with ease. Words like Zamboni (the machine which scrapes and floods the ice between periods) and technical and architectural terms he has pick- ed up while roaming around the Thornton road south project site. § Bill has been out at the site every day since ground was broken, asking questions here, making suggestions there, to facilitate operations he _ en- visions introducing when the Auditorium is open. . He has worked with William |; J. Crompton, city purchasing agent, on supplies, furnishings-- from refrigerators for the' con- cession booths to drapes for the stage area to to hockey goal Stage area t> hockey - goal nets. "The Board of Directors has been good to me," Bill says. "They have allowed me a lot of leeway in setting up. pro- grams for the concessions, tick- et printing, seating and book- ing attractions." CONCESSION SALES Tickets and concessions (food, souvenirs,. etc.) he describes as "big, complicated jobs". He has | | had to worry about such varied | } Kt si indeed sincere congratulations to Oshawa Citizens for the remarkable goal they have reached, ht wos our pleasure to build and in- stoll the centre ice Sports Timer for -this magnificent community centre. Mechanical -- LTD. ~ CONGRATULATIONS to the Citizens of OSHAWA & AREA a priviledge to offer our most -- Advertising | pensers; things as hiring staff (three full- time stationery engineers and four caretakers plus part-time staff. for functions), the color scheme for Auditorium seats and a mile-long list of equip- ment, including: . Everything from parking signs to "coming attraction" signs; typewriters to ticket dis- pianos to ashtrays; advertising on the arena time- clock to. programs and bro- chures: maintenance equip- ment (lawn movers, paint roll- ers) to first-aid equipment; (food) .cooking methods to change machines; ice scrapers to twine to repair the hockey nets; music on records versus tapes; referees' rooms to team locker rooms; skate (hockey) Sharpeners and skate (roller) grinders to laces; oil for boil- ers and frefrigeration equip- ment. For winter, Bill sees. hockey, pleasure and figure skating as the main events. A portable floor ©» top of the ice surface will open the' way for concerts, bingos and one-night (enter- tainment) stands. In the summer, lacrosse, roller skating, wrestling, trade fairs, conventions, "the sky's the limit', he says. A public meeting room on the second floor will seat 300, and will be available for groups all- year round. 'We have a public facility here with a $100,000 plus bud- get," he adds. '"'My job is to Sell space. Make available all. the facilities we have, to who- ever wants them. THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, December 10, 1964 : 7A FUND DRIVE EXPLAINED E. R. S. 'Dick'? McLaugh- lin, chairman of the Civic Auditorium committee (on right) displays a cheque dona- tion to the Auditorium Fund drive to Mr. E. H. Walker, president and general mana- ger of General Motors of Can- ada. General Motors bolster- ed the fund drive with a cheque for $250,000. TOPS LIST Col. R. S. McLaughlin, Osh- awa's greatest sportsman and sports booster, topped the list of patrons of the Oshawa Civic Auditorium. Col: McLaughlin was almost personally respon- sible for the old Oshawa Arena in 1930. WORDS OF PRAISE The Auditorium came in for a favorable comment at Port Perry Magistrate's Court last year when prior to the conclu- sion of the docket. Police Chief Cameron asked Terence V. Kelly, Oshawa barrister and finance chairman of the project, to "'pass along to the citizens of Oshawa his congratulations for the wonderful job they are doing towards raising funds for a new auditorium." if 255 Simcoe South the Curtain Goes Up... ».. on one of the most remarkable feats ever accomplished by the Citizens of Oshawa area ... the building of the new Oshawa Civic Auditorium, We at HAROLD R. STARK extend our most sincere congratulations to those who have combined money, time, and hard work into building Oshawa's Community Centre for the good of all Oshawa residents. It is indeed a feat of great stature, -- It has been our pleasure to handle all the necessary plumbing and heating installations in this impressive new structure, HAROLD R. STARK PLUMBING HEATING & ENGINEERING LTD. Oshawa 725-3521