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i e _ Yurk Road p tion Master Plan ac . it Recrea _ | pl accCcess 5 o io 4 | appr()ved s« Ball organization contin : | [sC M,}Uc $ ‘ | * u2i LE || oo bere e P leke U o j . Post that he â€" fastball league hadn‘t used the J | By EOB Ofvg‘;" cL*" that Turk Rd., which is _ By Bos OweN NN ”’-/15/09 Efidei‘,féf gft%ttohle\zdtfastball group Twin Diamond, Mr. Rutherford | chronicle@belrnet“\éaw AS/Q),HOW an unopened road _ chronicle@belinet.ca and others recently. and respoqded that the diamonds had || exorenenane ds o. " SNomames be apereded > Cremahe Township conncll . undersiced the meny AOUrS Uol C500(2 dian d emedons cussion and meetin1 . standards and fullp has approved the Parks and have been contributed to the n(?Ed?da es been moved to C Cram: SEr e all o2 fully _ Recreation Master Plan titled park. The committee that wrote kids‘ ball has been ' Ceainy Council . maintained for the life 0f _ yroving Forward. After accepting â€" the report met on November 13. Castleton and now the Colborne || quickly approved the the pit by the aggregate i ; i hat â€" diamonds are underused. ‘| use of Turk Rd. as the company It also the' repprt Nov. 2, council The members came out of tha \ d Recreation | access to Shelter Valley demands _ that â€" the decided in a recorded vote Nov. . session feeling strongly that the tfi .cs‘ s d at the | | Aggregates pit in entrance off Turk Rd. to 16 to approve the plan, despite Township should move ahead, Director, Ken Wood, Xvask d to | Ainwick/Haldimand County Rd. #25 be objections presented by Colborne . understanding that some people meeting, but was not as e1 ; | Township brought to standards resident Curly Rutherford. _ _ will be upset. Mr. Coombs added comment. In an interview I\?Is The â€"imotion â€" was required by the County in his presentation to council, (keeping the ball diamond) Thursday, he refuted , J passed with hardly a of Northumberland. Y _ the member of the Colborne doesn‘t make sense. There are. Rutherford‘s claim that kids‘ b ,_. commengnand Mayor When the pit is closed Men‘s Fastball _ Léeague â€" currently three diamonds owned had been moved. * Lce Dekeyser out of the â€" the aggregate company commended the committee that by the Township, two by the In 2003, the Rev. Isaac Flagg _ Foom because of conflict _ must upgrade the road to wrote the report for its efforts. Castleton Sports Club and three supervised children‘s baseball in of inferest meemew n ecouitioin But Mr. Rutherford said he on school playgrounds in the Colborne. There were three us The mdtion Reciines continued on page 2 could not support the changes Township. divisions. Because of a lack of‘ 4 § proposed for Memorial Park in Councillor Ed Van Egmond _ numbers, some of the teams were : Colborne. agreed. He recalled his years mixed, with kids from Colborne _ The changes would turn the coaching hardball on the and Castleton on them. park from primarily a ball park _ Memorial Park diamond, adding, But the Rev. Flagg moved mm en o nesanl on to a family recreation area and _ "Tt was a tough decisjon to let it from Colborne and the volunteer R 2 5 children‘s playground, he go." base disappeared. Castleton@ atepayer S patron observed Perhaps to reinforce his point, Sports Club held a ball, M r 4 Councillor Van registration for everyone," _ Rutherford _ Egmond asked supported by the municipality. continued from page 1 : recounted the Mr. Rutherford There were not enough .. Eit £ orlf es te experteboo wey. Pn sns . Having the Sports Club npw,onen that cutstencormanionms Sn the Nes Roowntleadcome camem, (1 06 pigey un bell is no differentthan. weegnoogt. .. , » e result 0 f r. Rutherfori ¢ gg?rdfigvri;%}%m‘fia;u%flé%l Gauthier, one of the | the volunteer _ COIDOMe Cramahe Minor replied that it had founde ; $ ® 1 f Ms. Warren found the trip to Otta;lwa a grand fifff,f,tjunify Hockey running Sve:élkused (2 wfoi adventure, obviously savouring the ric, experience a 3 gggpgge opportunity to talk to so many interesting m%bsetriéssed the winter Sp ort. ;g él blti{al?a?gés In some ways it‘s difficult to imagine this tchkfl-ltmren’i â€" Ken Hood ;rS:ciise th.5 408 charming woman with impeccable manners and playground mm es e ces 0 Hetor ETo 10 Wl’i) x}d;&rful}\:d 1(; pltmbg‘xg t eas. S;;l}t\flre, ces oq;:’e and water park were a good idea, the suggestion that there were ®* e aunche mho & 15‘3“5511_08 * del,' pf?ssu;n, ;15 but there are better locations. He other suitable places, Mr. Van : esoyde d c e msaitioh . anada‘s first female worried that, if the lights were Egmond asserted that the Keeler pilots and a role model for generations of young pulled down, the bull pens and Centre was too far from the £ womety other structures couldn‘t be reâ€" centre of the village for a 4 used. playground. It was a lot of work & He has been waiting to apply â€" to maintain a ball diamond for â€" for Trillium grants until the _ two doubleheaders a week. e Parks and Rec. report was done Committee member, Dave © and asked Council to delay its Impey joined the dialogue, decision to give the committee a _ observing that there is very little * chance to work with his group. green space in the village. In 50 He suggested that, in the years Memorial Park would be a e meantime, Council could operate | ‘real jewel‘. = an outdoor skating rink on Little Mayor.Leé Dekeyser threw his Lake to see if it would attract / support behind Mr. Rutherford‘s #: people to the area. proposal. He worried about Tim Post was the first member _ traffic from the firehall and of Council to speak. Lauding the ambulance _ station . across committee for its report, and â€" Victoria St. The Mayor favours stating his agreement with 99.9 â€" using one of the Twin Diamonds p per cent of it, he asserted that he behind the former Colborne could not support the report Cramahe Arena as an enclosed = because of the changes proposed â€" playground. o for Memorial Park. Deciding to end _ the Mr. Post‘s family has a long â€" discussion, the Mayor called for a & association with the ball vyote, but discussion continued diamond. He and his father â€" amongst Councillors, members of s played on it at one time. Heasked the â€" committee and Mr. . the committee to reconsider that â€" Rutherford. & portion of the report. When Deputyâ€"Mayor Ray That drew a response from â€" Kelly wondered why the men‘s * fellow Councillor, Mare Coombs. € e