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Pyramid Recreation Centre pool reopening could be just a month away
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Scaffolding is down and final tile repairs have commenced
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ST. MARYS HONOURS LOCAL SPORTS LEGENDS
Pictured are players and family members representing players from the 1962-1963 St. Marys Lincolns team, as well as Rick Fifield (left) and Mike Craig (right). Fifield, Craig and the ‘62-‘63 Lincolns were honoured at the Pyramid Recreation Centre on Nov. 1 as the 2025 class inducted into the St. Marys Sports Wall of Fame. For more coverage of the St. Marys Sports Wall of Fame induction ceremony, turn to page 26. (SPENCER SEYMOUR PHOTO)
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Project could close portion of Queen Street West for 10 days or more GALEN SIMMONS Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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St. Marys council has awarded a nearly $600,000 contract for the urgent replacement of a failing culvert under Queen Street West to Nichols Excavating Inc. At council’s regular meeting Oct. 28, town public works director Jed Kelly presented the results of a tender for the replacement of the Bolton drain culvert under Queen Street West after it was found to be failing and undersized by the town’s drainage engineer in the summer. With six bids submitted ranging as high as just under $1 million, council voted to award the project to Nichols Excavating, the low bidder, at a cost of $597,935 – just below the roughly $602,500 budgeted
for the project when the failing culvert was discovered in July. “There’s a culvert on Queen Street West near the Beer Store,” Kelly said. “The culvert is failing; it’s in critical need of replacement. We are monitoring it, but we would like to proceed with the replacement immediately. If council approves the award tonight, we’ll have to start working backwards through the project schedule. We would obviously order the pre-cast tomorrow, engage the contractor and then start working out a construction schedule. “The plan is to have a 20-day construction window – so in and out in 20 days. Once we get awarded and we have a construction schedule, (infrastructure services manager)
Though it has taken longer than expected, the Pyramid Recreation Centre (PRC) aquatics centre could be ready to reopen by the end of this month or the beginning of next. During the Oct. 28 St. Marys council meeting, town director of community services Stephanie Ische presented an update on the nearly $2-million renovation of the PRC pool, closed one year ago to address safety and structural issues related to years of high humidity caused by an undersized HVAC unit and degradation caused by the pool’s original saltwater system. After the scope of the work necessary to address the issues pushed the project’s completion date well past the summer, when staff had originally hoped to reopen the pool, Ische told councillors the pool could be ready to reopen in as little as one month. “The scaffolding has been removed and then there was an area – a one-foot stretch (of tile) spanning the width of the pool that needs to be replaced – that work will begin tomorrow,” Ische told councillors Oct. 28. “There will be a two-week curing period following that, and then we can put water in the pool. So, that work was one of the last items we were waiting for.” In a follow-up email, Ische told the Independent the tile work was completed on Oct. 29 and curing of the new tiles will finish up by Nov. 10, at which time the pool can be filled
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