CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March20, 1975 Four Men are Credited with Making It All Happen Edmonton Builds Beautiful $15 Million Coliseum ry swirls about s at Is 23 per cent above the !SSoriginal estimate of $1.6 million, he following article on Edmon- Jon's beautiful new $16 million oliseum holds strong local interest. The article was the cover tory In the January-February Shoe of Business Life in West- ern Canada, It was titled “They Eade it Happen.” RH A lot of people’ can dream “A few years Rigo, someone zztame up with a great idea for 22 8monton, a covered stadium tizens overwhelmingly. But ‘Ewhen the time came tostart the tion, the idea people faded Ba the ides died. A couple of years later, nother ides was born. Ths one led for a modern new col- station, and it was that body jhich was presented with the liseum idea. The idea wasn't jew, but a 1971 study done by Sthe Woods Gordon & Co, for the eMssociation had revived it, Crecommending further develop- “ment at the existing Exhibition rounds ineluding construction ‘at a coliseum on adjacent ‘S55 This put the {dea clearly in ‘Sfocus, with all the impetus it as likely to get for some time. ut still -it seemed to hang there for a while. Financing the j16 million project was a major wuestion, and there were some loubts about the location, the pe of building, etc. Meanwhile the Edmonton ion sesson inthe old jardens, drawing an average of. dnbout 4,000 fans per game. uld they do any better in a. ew building? Concert promoters were eine for larger facilities than ethe Gardens or the 2,700-seat, aes Auditorium. But would $ ey really gamble on booking g names in a new building? With the coming of the mmonwealth Games in 1978, \ Be would use the building, Edmonton's Beautiful New $15 Million Coliseum but they also require a major new outdoor stadium and other facllities, demanding moat of the available government fund- ing. The real question was whether or not Edmonton was really a big league city. Finally, three bold men decided the time had‘come to find out, It was late 1972’ and Exhibition Association presi- dent Jack Bailey, first vice: president Harry Hole (now president), and second vice Ted Mildon had just finished going backward and forward over the coliseum idea at an-EXA board meeting, They sat down along with Exhibition Association * general manager Al Anderson in his office to rehash the situation. “Finally we just looked at each other and said, shat the hell, let's do it’, Mildon recalls with chuckled And they id it, When the building opened toa sellout crowd of 18,300 on Nov. 10, 1974, for an Oilers game, and then sold out again a few days later for a Stevie Wonder concert, there was little doubt leit that the deci- sion had been the right one. All doubt has since been erased, with the Oilers averaging more than 12,000 per game, a com- ‘plete sellout for 10 per- formances by Ion Capades, and more .than'200 dates’ already. for the: firstiyear’s operation. Bailey, Hole and Mildon did a lot more than make a decision, and they deserve a lot more credit than usual for taking this project from the idea stage right through to completion: Along with Al Anderson they were directly. involved in every phase of the develop- ment. They sold the Idea to their board. Then they sold it to “THE BLACK FOREST. INN” Nelson, B.C, PneatOurPlacey Had a Busy. Week? Get up .. . get outl Treat your spouse and self toa bg night on the town with us, Our European and ‘American Cuisine is superb. We offer the / best in food and drinks in the Kootenays. For Reservations Phone is 352-3498 THE BLACK FOREST INN Across from the Lakeside Park Nelson, B. clty council and the provincial government, prying matching grants of $3.7 million out the each, They got a $5 million loan from the federal department of agriculture. But they didn't walt for all the financing before they got the action started, They moved right ahead with site acqulsi- tion and clearing. They commissioned the: Vancouver architectural firm of Phillips, Barrett, Hillier, Jones ‘and Partners, who designed the Pacific Coliseum In Vancouver, to do something similar, But they also insisted on a local firm. being retained as consultants to provide expertise on local con- ditions. ‘Then, rather than wait many months for complete design’ specifications so a8 to tender the whole project,'they stuck their necks out and called for bidson the shell only, to get the project started as soon as possible, Batoni Bowlen Enter- prises, of Edmonton, won the contract:and also became the project managers, supervising the sub-contracts let as the project progressed. Total con- struction time on the project was a remarkable 20 months, allhough It took’ some’ frantic *round-the-cloek effort to get the last seat in place for the big opening night. The coliseum is located on the north side of 118th Avenue (Highway 16A), at the junetion with the Capilano Freeway: It ts connected to the rest of the Exhibition Grounds by a million-dollar pedway over 118th Avenue. The west side of the site {s bounded by the CN tall line, likely to be the first leg of the elty’s proposed rapid transit system. The complex has been designed to accomino- date a rapld transit station. Ineluded in the plans, although not yet completed, isa 200-seat restaurant and cocktail lounge, escalators to the three main levels, and 4,000 more seats. The restaurant and escal- ators are currently being com- Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley pleted and the seats. will be added when required, bringing total capacity to nearly 20,000, The design also features telescoping risers for the bot- tom 11 rows of seats 20 the floor or Ice suriace can be expanded for exhibit space or for interna. tlonal hockey. So far even the most churlish crities have been able to find little fault in. the building, and visitora have unanimously acclaimed it as one of the finest sports facilities in North America. And, although. and final costs have not yet' been determined, it appears that tho, cost did not exceed original estimates by too much, + It Jack Balley, Harry Hole, Ted Mildon and their fellow normally, but let a project like Is turn out to be a dud and the man at the top would be the one wearing the goat horns, They put in endless hours in meetings, and many more hours on the phone, writing letters, studying plans and reports, and probably a few more each week just worrying, But the man who really put in the time was Ted Mildon, He was chairman of the Planning and Development Committee land the man reaponsible for the day-to-day progress. of the project. He seldom spent ‘less than four hours a day at the site for nearly two years. Add on the hours of meetings and other chores and the total represents dedication and generosity well beyond duty. ‘All three of these “doers” have long records of service to the citizens” of Edmonton through the Exhibition Associa- tion. Jack Bailey is a business- ‘-man-farmer ’ whose affiliation with the BXA goes back to his daya as a breeder and exhibitor of top Holstein cattle. He was appointed to the Llvestock com- - mittee In. 1960, ‘named to, the board of directors in 1969, and elected president in 1972. Harry Hole Is an engineer * oar Used ‘ee niall . loaf: 96.” PHONI 79 Pine Street rae to Wena Dept. Store) CLOSED MONDAY. ‘Mayfair Hotel located at Hornby ond Robson Streets. IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER ‘THE MAY EAIR HOTEL provides spacious . new accommodation. ©) with fully equipped kitchens, cable TV, phone, free parking and’. view balconies. All:-this for $18.00single and $4.00 per. additional guest ...with compli- mentary coffee and tea service for your added enjoyment. On \ your next visit to Vancouver tay downtown at. the For reaervations, write to : ‘THE MAYFAIR HOTEL: ; 443 Hernby St, Vancouver 804-687-4751, ‘Singer Streich Sewing Classes i FOR CASTLEGAR ‘ ere ble & Hole Western Ltd, the largest mechanical contracting -firm in Western Canada. He doesn't remember ex- actly when he first started working on committees for the rectors walk a little taller when they enter the Collseum, their pride is well justified. rey ut it was “some- time: back in the fifties.” He became a director in 1965 and was chairman of the Planning the association, Bailey and Hole carried a heavy load of respon- sibility. The job carries no pay and not much recognition, How It Is With the Kids ‘Bios year. about. this time, I-‘turn- a deep ny: shear ‘This is a ‘about by that fairly new occasion in school. fe known as “Winter, down students, near a state of total exhaustion from not doing their homework, skip- ping school, and sleeping at their desks, havea chance to recharge their batteries for the terrible, gruelling term ahead, during which they will be worn to a frazle from not doing their home- work, skipping. even more school use the weather is batten a pry falling in love because it's spring. It’s not that Ihave any- thing against winter break as such, or holidays in Cait : wy is churned up by ont Sascticely limitless op- . portunities the rotten kids have these days to see the world, something I ‘have lesired fiercely since I was about four, and have never been able to fulfil. ‘You should hear the young blighters, in the classrooms she corridors. “Hi, Liz. Where y" goin’ wrlnnetbrake? We're gona Tey, yy, great, We're there lasyear, Snot bad. Lotta : Friendly Frank Says... . Spring has Sprung! Time to Inspect Your Brakes! We are completely equipped to repair your Brakes Woodland Park Esso Service Lid. A satutemtal We got iana the wine. Terry, tha teach,” gunna ‘jis stey homen get mouldy, aryat™ got’ ole Droopy-Drawers anis ‘wife' for chaperones, and he allus wantsa goda museums. . o ae +. “Yeah, he'll be ‘sead't s is oak anya can sneak’ outa thi hotel and hit the vino elas ters anall.” ‘ Oa. Rideon. Hay, javnee trouble geddin bread for your trip?” “Na. Worked three weeks. last summer an saved twenny bucks, before thoy me, ‘Tole the oleman gonna goda pow geddanother. job, bleeved me. ‘Tole Manpower wi a job as a go-go- girl. ‘They didden havnee. So he put up the other four huonert. He allus wannada travel himself, poor ole slob. He never even godda cross the border.” “Oh, they're gonna Russia, Good “deal. They goddan extrh week ofa school. Swurth the extra hundred bucks.” Now, gentle’ reader, it's not as though our students actually talk like that. It's just that they, sound as though they talk ilke that. ‘And I guess you can see that the foregoing, eonver- vividly, ae bitter ehvy'" af Uheae young punks who take off’ for Moscow and London and Rome with about as much aneaivs usedto have if we were going to spend a Satur- day. night in the nearest big htide from those who are ve doing during. winter Sin: “Oh, Tm jis gonna smash aroun in the snow- mobile a lidde! an maybe hit the pubs a few Dighte.” The” snow-mobile coat more than His father had anved in elght years for the the first mortgage onaeff: Well, afew of us are gonna Colorado to aki.“ Snot father earned a month when aS Mae wth “So. Ith my envy is.a good solid: streak of, rags. Rage that I was born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, in the wrong economic climat Tt took me thy ‘years, anda great citfes of the world, only to find them bleak and blacked-out. travel. and when the decision was made to build the coliseum. :He was elected president in 1974. ‘Ted Mildon is president of Muttart Industries Ltd, the west's largest manufac- turers of modular housing mobile homes. He was ap- pointed to the EXA board in 1962 and has chaired several committees. He is currently first vice-president and will Ukely move into the prealdent’s “hate in 1976, ‘Ttmay well be that there. are many othera in Edmonton, “even others on the EXA board who would have done as much, but these three were the ones in the hot seats when the’ big decision had to bé made, They not only got the decision made, they got the job'done, and they deserve the credit. .. one of - SEW FOR THE MAN IN YOUR LIFE © Man‘s Sports Coat Class Three Week Course Starts Monday Evening, April 7; 7 +9 p.m. — Fee $6.00 =| Learn to Sew Beautiful Lingerie SLIP, BRA, PANTIES, GIRDLE, NIGHTGOWNS Four Week Course i Starts Monday, Apdll 7. 1-3 pm. — Fee $8.00 - ° Phone 365-3810 to Enroll SALES & SERVICE ‘CARTER'S SEWING. CENTRE 703 - 7th Ave. S. — Phone 365-3810 — Castlegar - Weal PARENT INFORMATION. “WEEKEND d of Helpful Inf SELKIRK COLLEGE Castlegar Campus tion for Parents Ww ANNUAL MEETING ROBSON IRRIGATION DISTRICT WIL BE-HELD « Robson Church Hall MONDAY, -MARCH 24 — 7.30 P.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 21 AND SATURDAY, MARCH 22 “PROGRAM FRIDAY, MARCH 21 7:30 P.M. REGISTRATION 8:00 P.M, KEYNOTE SPEECH - “Dealing With Pressures and Parenting”. ‘Mr. Ron Cameron, Director/Administrator of the Tall! ‘Mental Health Center. ir, Cameton will discuss child development and the problems ssocited with raising children. through the different stages of childhood: Perenting will be covered from the penta of view of the couple. as well’as the single parent. 10:00 P.M. COFFEE (Faculty Lounge) SATURDAY, MARCH 22 9:30 AM. 10:00 A.M. REGISTRATION SN PARENT BY RELVES TRAINING. - Mr. Sonny Zimmerman oor Mr. Zimmerman is Administrator. of the. Vernon. MentalHealth = ° “| Center, and ‘ls a certified ‘instructor of Parent Effectiveness Training. Parent Effectiveness Training helps parents to com municate more effectively with: their children so: that the “children will be more responsible, capable, happy and’ pro- ductive. LUNCH (Please bring your own) ROTATING WORKSHOPS (Choose one} Drug Information (Room 8-15) e i Dr, Brian O'Flannagan, Medical Director, Chemical Dependency Unit, Trail, B.C, £ Prevention, Intervention and Discipline (Room B-17) (Intended mainly ‘for parents of \ children 298 9 oF over) — Robert Blank, Director, West Kootenay ‘Health Education Program. + Children Are People Toa (Faculty Lounge) (For parents’ of. children ‘under the age of 9) Sukh Close, Janice Mickellhwaite and Trudy Andrews, Teachers at Gen- elle school, and recipients of the B.C.T.F. top award for Innova- tive teaching practises, corree | ; 12:30 P.M. 1:15 PM. . 3:00 PLM. D'Arcy Seeks Help With ‘Cost of Water Systems, Rossland-Trail MLA, Chris D'Arcy, haa tried a second time to persuade the ‘provincial government to help bear the costs of industrial and domestic water systems in the province, Mr. D'Arcy re-introduced a private member's bill ‘entitled the Water Facllitics Assistance * Act, under which the province would pay 75 per cent of all debt charges of more than two mills for water ‘systems, ‘Outside the legislature ‘Thursday, he said the legisla ton would apply to any water systems approved for govern- ment assistance by the provin- cial comptroller of water rights. The bill is almed at small developing districts which have water problems such as Cres- ton, Quesnel, Fort Nelson or North Saanich, Metropolitan areas auch as Victoria or Vancouver would’ not receive aaslstance: Cost!sharing arrange- ments would be similar to those under the Sewage Facilities Darcy’ help for: industrial s private water companies, and improvement of irrigation sys- ms. ; He’ said: costs to. the Id be. Cf they would decrease with the number of systems, The cost of the sewage facilities assistance program currently is about 35. million a year. Like.most private mem: ber's bills, Mr. D'Arcy's proba- bly will dle on the order paper because it involves the spend- Ing of government money. MRS: TERRY MORGAN, nee Jean Price, graduated as nurse Feb. 8 from Royal Ny Letter to the Editor Time fs Enemy to Cost Factor Dear 8i the ‘building committee may be unable to say many thegs that shouldbe said to lion. to B.C, and spent it the winter of 1973-74—leaving us until the 1975-76 program to be able to pick up any of this grant “Last September, Mr. Con- nally presented the architect's. toward the centre, Tho mathematics are now fairly straightforward with the centre at $1.6 million saying that this figure will provide a suitable cushion for inflation for thia plan. When all the bids came in they were quite competitive and more or less within 10 per cent of one another, the lowest. being Fame Construction at $1,086,000 to provide the or ginal architect's plan. , However, with a change to the roof desig atone, a saving of $99,495 would be realized, bringing the amount down to $1,892,000 (which ‘is still well over the architect's cushion in}. Tt is obvious that if the contractors bid the way the architect's estimate, all con- tractors would have been bank- ‘rupt, Incidentally, thia figure Includes the architect's feen of $116,000; ‘The justification of this bill in view of the circumstances escapes me, Tn October, Regional Dis- * trict of Central Kootenay. ad- Hospital ia mately $10 million a year but New now oolyed Village of Sloan Briefs . * Members of the RCMP “ detachment at Crescent Valley were present at the March 12 counell meeting of the Village of ; Slocan. Control and licencing ‘of dogs:in the village was dis: cussed. Cpl. McLaren recom- mended that the Dog Bylaw be amended, notices be sent to all owners of unlicenced dogs with copies to the RCMP. and that the village consider, hiring someone to, pick up dogs running at large, Co-operation between ‘village residents and the RCMP was requested. ele aes there fs, no evidence of nging branches oa ¢be* removed ‘and>a * farther study during the grow- ing season is recommended. Glenmerry'” NEW AND USED FURNITURE 9191 Highway Drive PHONE 364-1822” ‘The birch tree inthe elemen- tary school yard was found to be suffering from advanced to final decay, and removal of same was recommended. Coun: cil expressed its’ gratitude’ to Triangle Pacific Forestry department for this study. Priorities for the STEP and SWIM programs this sum- mer were considered; beautifi cation of the village in prepara- tion for the 75th anniversary in 1976 was deemed of uppermost importance. eee! fay. No. stated, that pase are available for improvements but the work is ‘riot likely to get underway until the latter part of 1976 due due ‘to:the. review. of alternate. ‘designs for this difficult section of highway..> >. ke tie ge eS Council expressed their thanks tq Ald. Dol for the old picture of Slocan City, 1896, that he has donated to the village. EASTER HOLIDAYS - Are “Almost * Here ~ AVOID LAST MINUTE RUSH, GET. “YOUR CAR SAFETY : INSPECTED NOW Phone 365-7532 Take Advanuige of there Savings! 10 Per Cent Reduction. applies to all merchandise — gifts : as well as flowers Getting Married? Book your orders now. and save 10 per cent on, your wedding order Gene Bodard had then worked out the financial + formula which had included 20 “. per cent of the project cost covered by winter'works pro- rant On the $1.8 million figure, this now would mean However, ‘Mr. Bodard now ‘informs us that the provincial government had taken their winter works grant on a two-year basis (1978-74 a: 19746) allotment of $44 mil- Active Listening. Cor id at 25 per cent plus the 20 per cent fost on the winter works, totalling a 45 per cent finanelal increase. The original three mills plus 48 per cent, or one-and-a- Increase equals four-and-a- ‘half mills total. Tn conclusion, the commit tee had been put ia very unfavorable circumstances, but now had to decide to give the * community centre the go-ahead now or delay until additional granta are available and take a chance on the cost of material and labor increase being’ less than’ the increase in grants, With the rate of inflation at 1 per cent per month for labor and I’ per cent per month for aterial, it would take less na year to cancel out the amount of the winter. worka money. ‘The community will, how- | overs only build one centre. is will provide ‘the facility me is needed without any cuts, ‘or deletions except the 1,000 seats on‘one side of, the building. But, as ever, the taxpayer has bill. All of which; makes me wonder if with Mr. Drapeau's ‘$600 million ‘for his one shot Olymples, we could pravide 300 community centres free’ all across i As_a concerned citizen, I can't belleve the whole thing. ‘Mel McMullen Castlegar wn ge Aa weed The Key fo Betfer Parenting By Bob Blank . Health Educator, WKHU How much training did you take before you became a rent? c This question is not as absurd as it sounds. We would + Rot think of allowing, a person "to ea logging truck unless he’ was’ properly trained and Mcensed. And yet, we assume ‘that people will automatically know how to properly raise our moat valuable resource—our own ehildren, T have been searching for” ~ ways to. make a better parent and I would like to share one of ihe methods I have discovered with you. -. One of the most important skills we can learn to help us communicate more clearly is the ‘skill of ‘listening. 1 don't mean a passive type of listening where you patiently let your child ‘or spouse ramble, but an active. type of listening. “Active listening”, a term coined by Thomas Gordon in his book, Parent Effectiveness Training, is: listening for the feeling or emotional “message” of the talker and then feeding . this feeling back to'the person. TOMORROW IS 10 PCT. DAY AT HELEN'S FLOWER AND. GET. ‘SHOP LTD. “Active listening” is to be used when the child has some- * thing that is bothering him, as in the following example from Dr. Gordon's ‘books Johnny: Tommy won't play with me today. He won't ever do what I want to do. | Mothers’ You're kinda. an- sry with Tommy. (Active lis- - tening). Johnny: I sure am. I never want to play with him again. I don't want’him for a frien Mother:.You're so angry you feel like never seeing him again. (Active listening). * Johnny: That's right, But if I don't have him for a friend, I won't have anyone to play with then, listening). Johnny: ‘Yeah. I-guess I just have to get along with him someway. But it's'so hard for me'to stop getling mad at him. Mother: You want to get along better but it’s hard for ‘you to keep from getting mad with Tommy. (Active listen- ing). ~ "Johnny: I never used to— but that's when he was always willing to do what I wanted to do. He won't let’ me boss him © anymore. Mother: Tommy's “not 80° 7 easy to influence now. (Active listening). Johnny: He sure isn’t, He's not auch a baby now, He's more |? fun though. Mother: You really like him better this way. (Active listening). - Johnny: Yeah. But it's hard to stop bossing him—Fm s0 used‘ to lit. Maybe we. wouldn't fight so much if I let him have ‘his way once in a while. Think that would work? < Mother: You're thinking that if you might give in occasionally, it‘might help. (Active listening). * Johnny: Yeah, maybe it would. Pt try it. + |.We sce from the above - example that by not judging or evaluating the child’s com- ments we are. saying to him that we are really interested in him and what he says. He begins to think Mom and Dad really care about him’and this helps him to. develop self. confidence and good feelings about himself, It will also give the parent a chance to better understand and appreciate the child, > “Next time your child has a problem and wants to talk, try “active listening”. 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