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County, township working together on Wellington Road 8 reconstruction project
In Motion - The Minto-Mapleton In Motion committee partnered with four local schools to play In Motion Bingo. The bingo cards challenge and encourage students and their families to be more active and healthy. The class with the highest participation rate at each school wins a prize that further promotes physical activity when at school. The schools that participated this year were: Maryborough Public School, Palmerston Public School, Minto-Clifford Public School and Alma Public School. ABOVE: Ms. Merrett’s winning Grade 4/5 class from Maryborough. submitted photo
Leafs trade Spaling to San Jose Sharks TORONTO - Drayton native Nick Spaling’s brief tenure as a Toronto Maple Leaf has come to an end. Spaling, who joined the Leafs through an off-season trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins in July, is headed, along with veteran defenceman Roman Polak, to the San Jose Sharks. In a deal announced Feb. 22, the rebuilding Leafs will receive second round draft picks in 2017 and 2018 and journeyman forward Raffi Torres. He hasn’t played in the NHL since serving a 41-game suspension for an illegal head check in October, and was loaned by the Leafs to the San Jose Barracuda, the Sharks’ American Hockey League affiliate. Torres’ contract expires at the end of this season.
The Sharks become the fourth NHL team for Spaling, who was originally drafted by the Nashville Predators and first cracked their line-up during the 2009-10 season. Spaling, who can play both centre and wing, had one goal and six assists in 35 games for the Leafs this season and missed about six weeks in December and January with an upper body injury. Over his career, Spaling has compiled 50 goals and 68 assists for 118 points in 440 NHL games. The Leafs, with 50 points, sit last in the Eastern Conference and are tied for last in the league with the Edmonton Oilers. The Sharks, with 67 points, are sixth in the Western Conference, holding down a playoff position with 25 games left in the regular season.
Headed to San Jose - Drayton native Nick Spaling, shown here at a hockey camp he operated with his brother, Nathan, in Drayton last summer, has been traded from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the San Jose Sharks. Community News file photo
Updated security and access system authorized for administration centre by Patrick Raftis MAPLETON - Council has authorized the purchase and installation of an updated security and access control system at the municipal administration centre and new maintenance facility. “With the construction of the new municipal maintenance facility and since it will adjoin
the municipal administration office, we will be required to update the security system,” explained CAO Brad McRoberts at the Feb. 9 Mapleton council meeting. At McRoberts’ recommendation, council accepted a quotation from Mornington Communications Co-op Ltd. to provide the system for $8,800
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plus a $264 annual monitoring fee. Two other quotes were received: one from Georgian Bay Fire and Safety for $17,096 plus $253 for monitoring and another from Alliance for $20,934 plus $300 for monitoring. The cost for the system update will come from the maintenance facility project contin-
gency fees. Prior to voting to accept the recommendation, councillor Dennis Craven said “it always concerns me whenever the lowest tender is half what the next one is … sometimes cheapest is not always the best.” While noting it was a “fair said question,” McRoberts Continued on page 5
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by Patrick Raftis DRAYTON – Reconstruction of Wellington Road 8 through Drayton is expected to begin in May and shut down traffic on Main Street here for a portion of the summer months. The project, which includes reconstruction of the Main Street bridge, will be completed under one contract to cover works for both Mapleton Township and Wellington County. Mark Eby, construction manager for the Wellington County roads department, explained in an email that two years ago delamination of the concrete bridge deck just below the asphalt surface caused a small pot hole that required repair. The project brought attention to the condition of the bridge and it was determined rehabilitation was required as soon as it could be designed and budgeted for. The rehabilitation of the bridge will cover a new concrete overlay, patch repairs, new concrete Texas style open railing parapet wall, waterproofing and paving. A storm sewer on the north side of the road that runs under the sidewalk from the FS Partners parking lot to an outlet in the river drains the Mapleton industrial park and some of the county right of way. This storm sewer is past its useful life and requires replacement, Eby explained. There is also another storm sewer on the south side of the road that drains the rest of the county right of way and connections to Drayton streets. The plan is to completely remove the aged storm sewer and replace the storm sewer on the south side with one large enough to convey all of the water from the industrial park, county right of way and Drayton streets. “Another benefit of this work is that there will be only one outlet to the river on the south side of the bridge, so there will be no future concern of erosion at the footing of the bridge,” stated Eby. The county asked the township if it had any underground work it wanted to complete at the same time. Mapleton will be installing a new watermain on Main Street from east of the bridge, across the bridge (suspended under the bridge) and connecting to the existing watermain on Main Street west of the bridge. This will provide
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a loop for the water system on the west side of the river. Mapleton will also be completing work to improve the streets connecting to Main Street and has budgeted $600,000 for this purpose in 2016. The road will be repaved at the end of construction from Wellington Street (Wellington Road 11) to just west of Drayton Industrial Drive. “Since we know that there will be disruption, the intent is to do it all at once and get it over with instead of doing it over multiple different years in smaller parts. There should be economies of scale to complete a larger project as well,” said Eby. Tendering will occur after a community open house, planned for March 2 from 6 to 8pm at the PMD arena community hall. Eby said this will allow for incorporation into the design of anything that comes out of the open house. Tendering will take place in midMarch, with the award letter going to the county roads committee in April and then county council for final approval. The budget for the road works is $1.2 million and the bridge work is $850,000. All work will be in one contract. schedintended “The ule for work is to allow the contractor(s) to determine how they think it will be best to complete the work, but it will have to fall within our specified window,” Eby noted. He added the road and sewer works will be allowed to proceed in May and June but the contractor will have to maintain one lane of two-way traffic during the day and two lanes of two-way traffic at night. “This will allow the buses to run until the end of the school year and FS Partners to complete their spring spraying and fertilizing without have to drive around a detour,” said Eby. The work for the bridge will have to be completed with the road closed. This will occur in July and August. A detour will be posted for traffic. There will be one sidewalk maintained on the bridge as much as possible throughout the closure. “This will allow residents of Drayton living on the west side of the river to walk to the east and not have to drive around the detour to get a carton of milk, go to the park, etc.,” Eby explained.
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