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Brighton Auxiliary Rescue Unit leader Paavo Kivisto and deputy unit leader Peter McCann are all smiles as the new “Brighton Rescue” boat is officially commissioned on Monday night. Up top is navigator and deputy coxswain J.C. Sullivan. Photo: Ray Yurkowski
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EMC News - Brighton - The Brighton Auxiliary Rescue Unit (BARU) officially commissioned their new search and rescue boat on Monday evening. Located at the BARU base at Presqu’ile Landing Marina on Harbour Street, the new boat, “Brighton Rescue,” is being brought into service to better serve the needs of boaters in distress on Lake Ontario in the Brighton area. The 30-foot Sea Ray cruiser was extensively refitted with search and rescue equipment so the all-volunteer crew can respond to calls from the west end of the Murray Canal, west toward Cobourg and out to the mid-lake USA border. The unit will respond to upward of a dozen calls annually that come out of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at CFB Trenton. Made up of 16 active members, the unit conducts weekly training programs on the water or in the classroom including the use of near-shore rescue equipment, first aid, CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator. “Once you’re on a search and rescue mission, you need to know that people know what to do and that they work as a team,” said unit leader Paavo Kivisto. “It takes refresher training and you have to practise on a regular basis. We tailor the training based on new members and where we think we’re weak.” As well, every year, the unit is put through their paces at an evaluation exercise. Please see “Unit” on page 3
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EMC News - Brighton - It’s turned the corner and now the finish line is in sight for the million-dollar track being built at East Northumberland Secondary School— a year later than expected. Work resumed on the project July 15 with GatemanMilloy Inc. of Kitchener as the general contractor, taking over from Terratechnik Environmental Ltd., the company originally awarded the contract for $934,000 (plus HST), only to go bankrupt after construction had begun. “I’m pleasantly thrilled; they kept telling us it was going to be done any time
last summer,” ENSS physical education director Tim Larry said Friday. “It’s been quite a trial.” The timeline he’s been given is that the asphalt laid down on the 400-metre track last week has to sit for 28 days in order for it “to cure properly,” during which time the field will be re-sodded. Another three or four days will be needed to add the rubberized surface to the track top, which then will require about a week to cure before lines can be added. Larry said the field had not been prepared correctly before sod was added—“there’s a number of undulations and depressions”—
so all the work done previously has to be redone. “There won’t be any increased costs to us,” said Greg Kidd, a communications officer with the public school board. The water jump for the steeplechase will also need to be relocated, he said. The community, with the help of a $200,000 donation from the municipality and $25,000 grant from Kraft Canada, raised approximately $850,000. “The expectation is that we get ourselves the facility that we fund raised for,” Larry said, and that the school board makes sure “that what is put in place is actually perfect.”
Larry said the project went “from being a joyous event”—with a fund-raising campaign that included a Kraft Celebration Tour stop televised on TSN in 2010—to something of a “Gong show” plagued with problems that caused frustration. But the chair of the Track Quest fundraising committee paid tribute to the people of Brighton and the staff at the high school for the patience they have shown, while the project was stalled by a series of delays and then halted until a bonding company could find another company to complete the work.
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