~- ~C4Ud ~c §%7 Centennial Centre~lastAt cost $712,500 and the indoor swimming pool will cost $471,- 000. He said the oniginal estimate on the cost of the pool pool was about $471,000 but that as a result of the in- numerable delays in the project "it's probably double that now." Three separate construction strikes held up comple- tion of the pool for four months this summer. Mannell has referred 10 the complex as "a monument to stupidity" saying that there are other things the town has to ac- quire before they need a Centennial Centre. . Ontario's Lieutenant - Governor Earl Rowe will be present at the opening of the site located" at the comer of Navy Street and Lakeshore Road. Even before construction started on the site 'it was the centre of a controversy. During the 1965 election cam- paign one of the major issues was whether or not to put the new police building on that site instead of where it is now on Trafalgar Road north of the QEW.. The .Mayor and eight citizens of Oakville's twinmu- nicipality, Dorval, Quebec will also be present. The past few months have seen a number of goodwill exchanges between the councils of both municipalities. Reeve Herb Merry was to have taken over for May- or MdLean Anderson at the ceremony but it was revealed that the Mayor has returned from a holiday in the Bar- bados earlier than was expected. OAKVILLE CENTENNIAL CENTRE Officiall opening on Saltooday