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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015
Vol. 3 Edition 27
Camp pool is open
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Warbirds fly over C-K Airport
But bitterness lingers over contract issue
By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
The new pool is in thanks to Quality Pools, but Camp Vincent has yet to get back any of the $40,000 the charity paid to another local contractor more than a year ago to do the job in the first place. That according to Valerie Butterfield, president of the St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) particular council. The pool was initially supposed to be completed by June of last year, and New Wave Pools was contracted to do the job, signing up in December of 2013. Camp Vincent – a children’s camp near Bothwell run by SVDP – paid a total of $40,000 to New Wave Pools, which is owned by Maurice Rossignol, in three instalments, and a hole was dug, but the pool was never completed. “This is not our fault; we did nothing wrong,” Butterfield told The Chatham Voice. “He did not fulfill the contract.”
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Tom Russell of Whitby, left, turns over the engine of his scale-model P-47 Thunderbolt while Walter Ernstberger of Napanee holds onto the fuselage at the annual Warbirds and Classics Fly-In. The annual event, put on by the Chatham Aeronauts at the Chatham-Kent Airport, enjoyed sunny skies for the most part on the weekend, and featured scale-model planes from the First and Second World Wars.
Arena issue merits pondering
is distracting the community from the real issue of what Chatham’s next areFor Mike Pugh, the ques- na should look like. “Put the OHL aside for tion of whether or not Chatham will land an On- the moment. What we Continued on page 2 tario Hockey League team need to do is look at what Run Date: July, 2015 Chatham Voice (10.333" x 2.143") Full Colour EOR#7210 By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
the community needs now and will need in the future,” said Pugh, an investment advisor and Chatham-Kent native. “We don’t have to go chasing a team to build
an arena we need, but we shouldn’t limit ourselves.” He believes Chatham-Kent Council should form a committee of local citizens and staff to look at not just the cost, but also
the potential involved in building a new arena. “We need a variety of expertise but we can’t come at this with a negative attitude,” he said.
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