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2-- Ordnô Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 18th; 1976 THE ORONO ARENA, , With the local Orono Arena being determined unsafe for publie use the replacement of the building which has served this community as the local ice palace for years as well as an exhibit building for the fair and the site of numerous other events,, as carnivals, dancingi and sales becomes of a prime concern with various groups. The initial concern.will be the use of the building for the ' annual fair abo.ut to be held on September 9th to 11th. The fair 'board is.now doing all it can regarding this use and in one -, yya:y or another will solve this immediate problem and the fair will go on as usual. In the long term a new building is no doubt required and to this end all efforts of the Fair Board, Town Council and . Athletic should be directed. The first decision comes on what to build and where, this could well be the most difficult of 'decisions to be faced. The Athletic Association'has been over the past year promoting an arena-community centre complex with the ' hope that it could be built on the fair grounds replacing the , present structure used jointly by the association and the fair board. Estimates of the total cost have been placed at around $500,000. The building would house an ice arena plus a large community room and a room for senior citizens. Last week Jim Rickard, president of the fair board, , suggested the possibility of tearing down the present structure in Orono and replacing it with a new shell which he estimated might cost somewhere around $300,000. He said he new shell should be larger to accommodate a larger ice surface and that the present ice pad could so be enlarged. The new building would rest on the same site as the present arena. • This no doubt will bring up the question of a community room in the new building, i But accessing what we have in the community could cast some doubt on the community room proposal as being feasible. The room surely would not be larger than the present Town Hall. Community.rooms in arenas, as far as we are concerned, are cold and uninspiring. The Town Hall in Orono does have character and a feeling, of warmth or at least could with some renovations. Do we nped two such areas in Orono. We beg to say no as it would only add to the cost of upkeep. Further it would be a crime to let the Town Hall degenerate any further. Lets rebuild the arena structure and then turn efforts towards a renovation of the Town Hall as a community centre for dancing and such events. As far as banquets the church has adequate facilities as has the Oddfellow's Hall. Do we need further banquet facilities for the few that are now held in Orono. Surely again the case is 'No'. Sernior citizen facilities should be available in some of the existing buildings in the community rather than increasing public owned facilities beyond a good use factor. Mr. Rickard in speaking of a proposed new arena felt that right after the fair the project to tear down and replace the present building could be undertaken and who knows possibly completed before the end of the year. This plan would improve ice facilities in Orono and then with a proper Undertaken at the Town Hall give the Village something of which to be proud. Let us not neglect the Town Hall to become an eye-sore in the centre of the Village. Durham fair all "Go" for September 9- ll Irregardless of rumors the Durham Central Fair to be held in Orono is all "Go" fqr September 9th to 11th. President President of the Agricultural Society, Jim Rickard, stated Monday morning that rumors had been circulating to the effect that the Fair in Orono had been called off due to the closing of the Orono arena which is used for display of exhibits from Junior Work to baking, flowers, etc. "This is not the case", stated Mr. Rickard. The fair will go on, he said, regardless of heavy snow or high winds. It was pointed out if the Orono Arena building cannot be used for the display of exhibits that two large marquis marquis tents will be rented to house the exhibits which would normally appear in the arena building. The use of the Arena building has not as yet been ruled out as an engineering study is now well underway which may allow the use of the building during the three days of the fair. The engineer- Newcastle arena should be closed HIRE NEW CONSULTANTS < Continued from page 1 ) passed a resolution electing j the firm of Totten Sims and Hubicki to do municipal work. , He also stated that the firrq '®ï a - had great experience in arenas as well as having 8 or 9 staff members living in the community. Also he pointed out that the firm in March had submitted a complete list of work they would , carry out in a study of the three works. Leighton and Kidd, Totten and Sims and Morris Hers- field all submitted proposals Doug Moffatt touring Ontario Doug Moffatt, M.P.P.. Durham Durham East, is touring Ontario this summer with a select committee of the legislature dealing with the highway transportation of goods in the Province of Ontario. The Committee consists of M.P.P.'s from all three parties parties and is conducting public hearings so that people will have input in any legislation. An iterim report is due in September and a final report by January.1977. There are 33 separate topics in the terms ot reference. Such reports normally have a great deal of bearing on final legislation. During the last two weeks, the members heard briefs in Fort Frances, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunderbay, Sudbury, Kapuskasing and North Bay. This week will be spent in Southwestern Ontario. and costs to council on Monday covering the work to be undertaken on the arenas as well as costs. The proposals proposals were submitted in cam- O.M.H.A. GIVING EXTRA TIME • In speaking with Bud Fan- nig, director of recreation, he stated that he understood the O.M.H.A. was giving extra time this year before establishing establishing schedules dufe to the . fact that a number of arenas are being closed.He said the local problems were going to play havoc with hockey and figure skating in all centres. The O.M.H.A. generally commences1 commences 1 its schedules by the end of October. Mr. Fanning said he was not sure just what conditions would exist locally at that time. It was pointed out by Mr. Fanning that the Bowman- ville arena had been repainted repainted and was already to go the first week in September but this would not be.the case this year. The Darlington Sports Centre he said would not open Until September 22nd due to the fact that the ice making plant did not have sufficient capacity to start earlier in the month. "We had trouble on The Newcastle Village arena arena according to a report from the Engineering firm of Leighton and Kidd made public last Wednesday at a special meeting of council concludes that the building could be seriously overstressed overstressed and as such is unsafe for public occupancy. The report recommended that use of the building be discontinued immediately. It was also pointed out in the engineering report that the arena could not be economically modified or altered altered to meet Code compliance. compliance. "The nature and extent of dismantling the members : the difficulty in placing interior interior split rings ; the limitations imposed by edge and end distance related to augument- ing the number of connectors ; the bonding of additional anchor bolts ; and the general addition of timber, would be impractical." It was outlined in the report pointed out that under new terms of the style of building that many connection have only 15 to 20 per cent of the capacity they require. Column Column base connections could be overstressed by more than 14Ô per cent. It was pointed Out that due to the fact that the arena had a two curved roof the Ministry was regarding regarding it as a curved roof and that this changed all figures as established in the initial report made by Leighton and Kidd. The lack of split rings in the construction was a great matter of concern by the engineers and as they report, the Ministry of Labour, A delegation from Newcastle Newcastle Village was present at the meeting and headed by Bug tyagar asked how come the arena in the first report was the best in the area while a second report condemns it as being beyond repair. Mr. Halliday again pointed out that the Ministry considers the building as one with a curved roof which changed all the conditions of 1 the survey and report. He also noted the omission of split-rings in 'the construction which were not investigated in , the ' initial survey. It was pointed out that the. engineering firm only investigated investigated one joint to see if the rings were present. This final report places the Newcastle arena in the same state as the Orono arena -- beyond repair. used and that authority had ing firm ol Totten, Sims and | le(1|1 gj ven f or jts use. Later Hubicki during the latter part • ' of last week made a survey in ,h(> " ( was \ a ® al f n and study of the building and reported that such informal will report their findings to ion was not correct and that the Agricultural Board this the person.giving the approv- weék. The study is to find the a] dl( ;, not have the authority maximum wind-stress .the to do so! ' • building can now stand as well as what repairs would be necessary to bring the building building up to a standard to ' withstand a specific wind stress. The engineers will furnish 'this report to the Board who then in turn would have to have the wind thrust monitored and if it rose above the safe level the building would have to be closed. The Ministry of Labour who have reported the building unsafe for public use would give their approval for the three day use providing the ' engineering firm will determine determine to what level of wind- stress the building can withstand withstand without danger to those who may use the building. It is understood that the Agricultural Fair Board ,will be holding a futher meeting as soon as the engineer's report is available. Last Saturday it was. reported reported that the building could be Three charged with break and enter Newcastle O.P.P. have charged three Newcastle residents residents with break and enter with intent to corhmit an indictable offence, in connection connection with an incident at the Durham Farmers County Co-operative at 3:25 Sunday morning. Const. Harold Burke found the - door on, the northwest corner of the building had been pried open and found two persons hiding under empty bags, in the storage room, police report. Those two were arrested on the scene while third person No matter what the outcome outcome over the Arena building is the fair in Orono will go on through the three days from September 9th to 11th with all events now planned to be promoted. The closing of the building will have no effect to the promotion of the fair outside of proving an inconvenience inconvenience at this time for the Society. VENEZIA Restaurant HWY 115 and 35 % Mile South of Orono Rhone 983-5651 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK We Specialize in: Pizza - Meals ALSO Weekend Specials " IT IS BETTER TO BE SILENT AND BE CONSIDERED A DUNCE, ■ THAN TO SPEAK"AND REMOVE 1 ALL DOUBT !l " Orono Towing GENERAL REPAIRS Phone 983-5249 Orono Orono Electric Herb and Gerry Duvall 983-5108 ELECTRICAL «CONTRACTING ELECTRIC HEATING Electrical Appliances TV.-COLOUR TV. 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OUT OF THE MISTS < Continued from page 1 ) a numbered index of present and former buildings and features of the Village. The book, we now understand, understand, is selling for $12.50 and' will be available this coming Monday from .two legations in Orono at this' time. Books may be obtained ,fl"orn 'Mrs. Helen Schmid or at the Clajke Museum. Museum hours are 2 - 5 and 6'- 8;30 on Thursdays, 6 - 5 on Fridays and from 1 - 5 on Sundays. '# The publication is limited to 1500 copies with close to 400 ( already being sold through pre-sale. - .