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07 | 07 | 2016 VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 26
YOUNG MUAY THAI FIGHTER EXCELS SPORTS PAGE 16
COMMENT PAGE 6
WATER CONCERNS COME WITH HOT SUMMER WEATHER
Worn out, tennis courts to be torn out of Albert Erb Conservation Area
Construction in Breslau unearths long-lost carriage stone
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LIZ BEVAN THERE WILL BE NO more tennis courts at Albert Erb Conservation Area in Wellesley, not that anyone was using them anyways. The courts have fallen into disrepair, with significant problems identified with the lights, fencing, nets and playing surface – in short, the entire facility. The changes were discussed by township councillors meeting Tuesday night in Crosshill. The current plan is to have the courts, asphalt and all, ripped up in the next month, and seeded with grass. There is no sense in taking the time and money to repair them when they are so underused, said staff in a report from recreation director Brad Voisin. “It is either do a fairly extensive repair on it, or take the thing out. For it not being accessible, to spend a lot of money on it wasn’t really the recommendation from Brad,” CAO Rik Louwagie told council members. “He thinks that we should tear that asphalt out now and use that money to go towards something in the future that can really be used.” With the court in disrepair, safety was the number-one priority for staff. “It was definitely a safety aspect there with the pad itself and the cracks in it. There was talk of maybe rollerbladers using that pad, and the cracks were definitely a big issue for that,” he said. “For tennis it may not be as detrimental, but COURTS | 2
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Contractors working on Woolwich St. project find piece of history buried during project four decades earlier LIZ BEVAN
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Campers at the Elmira Summer Sports Camp got creative to beat the heat this week. Here, Andrew Bebenek takes a trip down the slip ’n slide. The camp runs for the month of July. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
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CONSTRUCTION CREWS IN BRESLAU have dug up a little part of history. Right in front of Roberta Schofield’s home on Woolwich Street, crews unearthed a very heavy, rectangular-shaped stone last week. It turned out to be a piece of the past: a carriage step. The stone now sits on her front lawn. Schofield had seen the stone step before, when her and her family first moved into the house in the late 1960s, but it went missing almost 40 years ago. She never thought she would see it again. “When we moved out here in 1965, the stone was
right down at the street. You can see how the grass on the front lawn (of the house) is worn out into a straight line down to the road, it was right at the edge of the boulevard. It was there and the people that lived here before us said it was a carriage stone. In the time when everyone used horse and buggies, they would be quite high off the ground. They would step on to the stone and then step up or down from the carriage,” she said. Then, construction started on Woolwich Street, just south of the bridge from Victoria Street, and the stone was lost. “Then about 37 or 38 STONE | 4
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