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TERRAS: Frustration as lights go out at Bashley

5:20am Wednesday 29th January 2014 in Club News By Adam Summers

THE Terras were left frustrated last night when a general power cut brought a premature end to their league clash at Bashley.

The lights went out in the 43rd minute after Weymouth had built up a 2-1 lead, courtesy of goals from Scott Walker and George Rigg.

The blackout left referee Mark Russell no other choice but to abandon the fixture, which might have been stopped at half-time anyway, due to surface water gathering on the pitch following a sustained period of heavy rain.

The Terras are beginning to get used to floodlight failures at the Recreation Ground.

They also had a Red Insure Cup tie at Bashley postponed for that very reason back in October.

On that occasion the game was called off just 15 minutes before kick-off.

Weymouth player-boss Jason Matthews, a qualified electrician, told Echosport: Theres nothing anyone could have done.

It was a shame because it was turning into a really good end-to-end game.

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Dick Ahlers first found Manitoulin in 1931 when his parents, from Pittsburgh, holidayed at the cabin-in-the-woods of his fathers law partner in Rockville on Lake Manitou. I have been drawn to the Island ever since; more so as my own family has lived in St. Louis, Pittsburgh again, Detroit, Houston, Cleveland, Detroit again and Cleveland again. It became a home base for our family. We have just sold our Island cottage after 47 years of enjoyment, Dick explains. With our aging, property maintenance had become even harder and more time-consuming. To sell was a hard decision, but we still expect to spend a lot of time on the Island.

Richard W. Ahlers Jr. was born to Richard W. Ahlers Sr. and Margaret (nee Hartley) on January 25, 1927 in Pittsburgh. My mother was a school teacher and she retired after marrying my dad. Maternal grandparents were Beecher Hartley and Lara (Murray). Beecher was in the coal business in Pittsburgh. My maternal grandmother died in 1931 when I was four. My paternal grandfather William Ahlers owned a lumber business in Pittsburgh. He died in 1901. Grandmother Ahlers visited the Island once in 1936.

Richard Ahlers Sr. practiced law at Pittsburgh in partnership with Lee C. Beatty, 20 years his senior. Beattys wife Gertrude Beatty was an English-born Welsh woman who loved Canada. In 1927, the couples annual excursion north brought them to Whitefish Falls, to the Stumpf and Spry Lodge in surroundings they much-admired. Mr. Spry persuaded Lee and Gertrude to visit his cousin Alf Spry at his new resort in Rockville on Green Bay of Lake Manitou, on Manitoulin Island. A year later, Beatty commissioned Alf Spry to build a cottage for him. Their first vacation there was in 1929 and the family returned every year until Lees death in 1943. The Beatty family still visits regularly.

In the bleak year of 1931, and for the next 10 years, the Beattys generously offered late-summer use of their cottage to the Ahlers. That first summer, Dick recalls, we left Owen Sound in the afternoon, sailing on the S.S. Manitoulin. We spent the night at Killarney, which had no road access then. I still remember standing on the top deck of the ship with my dad in a dense morning fog, while my mother dressed. The steam whistle sounded above us, loud enough to lift a small child out of his sandals. The boat proceeded to Manitowaning and on to Little Current where Alf Spry met us in our 1928 Hudson. There were no road signs to Island locations in those days, Dick continues. As my parents unpacked at the Beatty cottage, I wandered away behind the building to an area of escarpment rock and fissures. Much distressed, mother found me placidly ensconced in the plentiful wild strawberries.

The Ahlers enjoyed the Beatty cottage, taking their meals at the Spry resort, half a mile away. In the late 1950s the Spry Resort became Manitou Haven with Jule and Edith Chisholm as proprietors. Jule was the adopted son of Alf and Lily Spry. Lily lived to be 104.

In 1934, Dick was joined by brother Roger and the Beatty youngsters often stayed on the Island with the Ahlers after the Sr. Beattys returned home. On September 3, 1939 I remember being at the Paul Foster cottage next door and listening, with a handful of others, to the Fosters new Oldsmobile car radio as Canada declared war on Germany. Pauls sister May wept. Their brother Ainsworth had been wounded in the Great War, World War One.

Travel from the States to Manitoulin was far more challenging in those years. It was a dirt road after Owen Sound and just a trail from Parry Sound to Pointe au Baril and beyond. The winding dirt road to Goat Island was a beautiful half-day experience. The small eight-car ferry, the Jaqueline, made the final passage to the Island because the bridge served only the train, known as the Blueberry Special. It would stop for blueberry pickers along the way.

One of the two Tobermory ferries was the SS Manitou, an elderly coal-fired boat, carrying 12 to 15 cars. Meals were prepared on the car deck on a coal-fired range and passed up by ladder to be served at six two-person tables in the fore-aft passageway. A one-armed bandit, a five cent slot machine, was chained to a steel pipe supporting the wheelhouse above. One year, with three nickels to invest, I hit the jackpot, Dick allows. The machine spewed a bonanza of three or four dollars of nickels everywhere.

The steel-hulled diesel powered MS Normac had been retired from fire boat service at Detroit. It carried a few more cars than the Manitou and did not pitch and wallow as readily. She ran for several years in the 1960s between Meldrum Bay and Blind River before becoming Captain Johns Seafood Restaurant at the foot of Yonge St. in Toronto. Most recently, the MS Normac served as a floating cocktail lounge and restaurant in Port Dalhousie, but was gutted by fire in 2011.

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It's only just begun, and the $239 million takedown of the old Bay Bridge eastern span has already fallen six months behind schedule - prompting officials to reopen negotiations with the contractor to try to speed things up.

One immediate effect of the delay: The scheduled hookup of the popular bike and pedestrian path to Yerba Buena Island has been put back.

Caltrans originally hoped to have the old bridge out of the way and the bike path ready to be connected to Yerba Buena by early 2015.

"We are now looking at the summer of 2015," said bridge project spokesman Andrew Gordon.

Another effect of the takedown slowdown is an increase in the cost of demolishing the old bridge. Well-placed sources say the price tag for toll-payers could come in at an additional $5 million, at least.

State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, whose Transportation Committee has been investigating cost overruns on the new span, said that "given everything we have been finding out about how this project has been managed, it is totally unacceptable."

Caltrans and Bay Area Toll Authority officials gave the green light to renegotiate the takedown contract after conferring on a conference call Monday evening.

Caltrans declined to comment publicly on how much it might cost to get the work back on track, citing impending negotiations with California Engineering Contractors and Silverado Construction, the two main contactors on the demolition's first stage.

According to Gordon, Caltrans was so busy trying to get the new eastern span finished by last Labor Day weekend that it didn't have time to secure the necessary demolition permits.

"It wasn't until the opening that they were able to shift gears," Gordon said.

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A DECISION on redevelopment plans at The Broadway Centre, Sandown, was postponed by Isle of Wight councillors last night (Tuesday).

Sandown Town Council wants to demolish the 19th century Broadway Centre and Los Altos building, which they claim are expensive to run and in poor condition.

It wants to build a new single-storey community centre and five houses, however officers have recommended refusal.

Members of the Isle of Wight Council planning committee agreed at last nights meeting that they needed more information on the proposed housing and whether any would be offered as affordable homes.

A deferment would also enable further negotiation on lay-out, car parking and landscaping arrangements, they said.

Reporter: martinn@iwcpmail.co.uk

@ Neil unless you are meaning the wages part? Then I would agree that needs to be backed-up as I do not believe that is the case?

I still struggle to see the need to demolish this building. Agree converting to housing would maybe slightly more expensive than rebuilding. But what cost is the loss of another fine old island stone constructed building. Come on Planning Comittee - get real start to insist on integrating our history into new developments instead of the soft option !!!!!!

@ Roger - yes the connection from the island to the mainland is very expensive, but that might work the other way form people who want to leave the mainland behind them. If the island was attached to the mainland it would be a disaster and trust me if would be facing many other problems by now!

@Neil I feel Barbara is speaking from experience and current costs Neil, I visit the island to see family and I do agree with her statement. Do you not live on the island?

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Saline resident and close friend pays tribute to Dennis Holley, who passed away Jan. 25

Looking out across Sunset Lake in the York Woods subdivision where I live, I can count four homes besides mine that were built by Dennis Holley, a Saline-area builder who passed away on Jan. 25.

Dennis legacy includes many other local custom homes in addition to the ones in York Woods, and I often told him that if I could go around my community as he could, pointing out the beautiful homes he had built, I would indeed feel proud of what I had accomplished in my life.

Dennis mark upon Saline as a builder began in 1965 when he helped his father, Eugene, construct the Thorncrest Apartments on Clark Street. Afterwards he worked at his trade as an electrician until he began his career as a custom home building contractor in the early 1980s.

He is well known for his show-stopping entries in the annual Showcase of Homes, which he participated in for 21 consecutive years starting in 1987. His were often the Showcase homes people most looked forward to visiting each year. They were houses invariably characterized by sumptuous quality, ingenuity and meticulous attention to detail.

I was so impressed when I visited the Holley 1992 Showcase entry that I was determined to meet and talk with its creator. It was then that I first met the team of Dennis and his wife, Joy, who turned out thereafter to be builders of one and later eventually two fine homes for me and my life partner, Jean Burns, as well as to become our longtime close friends.

I suppose its unusual for a customer to form anything like a friendship with his home builder, but thats what happened after all of us started working together. We had so many adventures collaborating about architectural plans, shopping together for building materials, and inevitably eating out at local and sometimes far-flung restaurants, that the process of building our homes became less than just a business deal and more like a creative lifestyle that we honestly wished at times would never end. And the physical results were outstanding residences that we, like so many other clients of the Holleys, have been thrilled to call our homes.

I remember Dennis talking with his hands. He was such a visual person that he often expressed himself by drawing pictures in the air with his hands. He would explain how he was going to do something, like build a curving staircase or attach a heavy wooden form to a 20-foot ceiling, and even though his visual explanations seemed clear enough, the reality of his finished products seemed to go beyond my comprehension of what he described. I would watch with wonderment as he worked his building magic, but I still couldnt quite conceive of how he managed to do the difficult things he did as a builder, and always did so well.

Dennis succumbed finally to a powerful and terrible illness called Lewy Body Dementia, which was strong enough to bring down even someone of Dennis tall stature. He will be greatly missed by me as his friend, and by the many people in our local community he served for so many years as an outstanding builder of custom homes.

Visitation is at the Nie Funeral Home on 3767 W. Liberty Rd., Ann Arbor, from 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, and a church service will take place 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31 at the First United Methodist Church of Saline, 1200 N. Ann Arbor St., in Saline.

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