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6 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, June 24, 2009 LOCAL SPORTS Skate park set to open soon by Sue Weigand Hotdoggers take note: the cement is setting on the Orono skate park. The Orono Skate Park Committee (OSPC) has announced that the official opening of the new skate park will be held on Wednesday, July 15. The opening will start at noon, will likely include members of Clarington Council, and will be followed by a free BBQ hot dog lunch, said Peter Windolf, Clarington's Manager of Park Development, and a member of the OSPC. Construction of the skate park started last week, when the foundation was dug, gravel was laid, and a reinforcing steel frame for the base was installed. The concrete pad was poured on Monday. The modular skate park equipment is expected to be delivered and installed on July 13, said OSPC member Marilyn Rousseau. The installation should be done that same day, weather permitting, she said. Windolf said that local skaters will likely start using the park as soon as the equipment is in place, and need not wait for the official opening. "The kids will be on it right away," he said. The modular equipment is being supplied by Canadian Ramp Co., a subsidiary of American Ramp Co. which bought the original supplier, Solo Ramps of Montreal, last fall. The company supplies pre-cast concrete forms, which are considered the quietest product of their kind. In 2008, the OSPC received a grant of $65,000 from the Ontario government's Trillium Foundation to pay for the skate park equipment. The Orono Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA), which had applied for the grant, requested an extension Matt's Angle by Matt Dobson Life on the Edge Almost anything in your local lake can create what is called an edge, and edge is a perfect hiding/ambush point for all types of fish, big and small. Now you may be asking yourself, what is an edge? Well an edge is a change is lake bottom and structure types which creates a spot for game fish to hide and hold in or on, because fish almost never stay on the flat bare featureless part of the lake. In most cases, this edge involves weeds and hard bottom. The weed growth beside the hard bottom creates a very definite edge for bass, walleye, muskie, pike, and crappie. Fish position themselves inside the weeds, whether its mostly rock with many smaller weed patches, or the exact opposite, and everything in between. When unsuspecting baitfish enter these open waters of rock, the game fish will ambush those baitfish and return to the safety of the weeds. Now another type of edge is one created by lake rocks and boulders in the water surrounded by gravel, rock bottom, or sand. This edge is most popular with smallmouth bass, but other species like walleye and muskie will also be found here. It's not necessarily the edge that attracts the smallmouth, it's the crayfish found in the rocks. The smallmouth feed on the crayfish that seek the safety of the rocks for their own survival. Now that I've opened your eyes to this less obvious structure, give it a try and maybe find you'll an edge of your own. Matt "Dobber" Dobson is from Orono, and attends Sir Sanford Fleming College. He fishes using a 2000 Skeeter sx175 boat with a Yamaha 115hp motor. photo by S. Weigand Francesco Provenzano used a power trowel to put the finishing touches on the just-poured concrete pad for the new skate park in Orono Park on Monday. until the end of this year, to accommodate a delay in the equipment's delivery caused by the change of ownership of the supplier. According to Rousseau, the OSPC used "every last penny" of the grant money to get the best possible configuration of equipment for the park. Last year, the OSPC held meetings with local skaters to consult with them on the park's design, and the configuration of the equipment. The actual construction of the park, at an estimated cost of $44,000, was financed by the Municipality of Clarington. The concrete for the park's base was donated by St. Marys Cement Co. of Bowmanville. This donation saved taxpayers approximately $20,000, according to an earlier statement by Windolf. The size of the concrete pad was "reduced slightly for budget reasons," he said last Thursday. The original design called for a 100 ft. by 40 ft. pad, but it was downsized to 80 ft. long by 34 ft. wide. "It's basically the same configuration," he explained. "It doesn't impact the equipment; the equipment is the exact same. SKATEPARK see page 7 2009 PONTYPOOL MEN'S SUNDAY LOB BALL LEAGUE Results for June 21, 2009 Black Jacks Slime Renegades Pita Pit Cement Heads TEAM over over over over over GP Blazers 10 : 8 Cement Heads 7 : 6 Generals 14 : 13 Mud Hens 20 : 10 Renegades 3: 0 RF RA +/PTS League Standings 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pita Pit Renegades Generals Cement Heads Slime Blazers Mud Hens Black Jacks 8 8 7 8 8 8 7 8 WIN LOSS TIE 6 6 5 5 5 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 6 6 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 96 77 19 86 55 31 112 60 52 92 71 21 76 67 9 90 132 -42 55 95 -40 56 101 -45 13 12 10 10 10 3 2 2 Wooden Bat Cement Hds vs. Black Jacks - 9:00 am Tournament Mud Hens vs. Renegades - 10:15 am June 27th Pita Pit vs. Blazers - 11:30 am Slime vs. Generals - 12:45 pm Championship games Sunday, 2:30 pm start