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1984 WELLAND AT 150 : book five
SPORTS : 1984 Welland native Adam Creighton takes most valuable player honours as the Ottawa 67’s defeat the host Kitchener Rangers 7-2 in the Memorial Cup final.
Creighton leads all scorers at a four-team national championship that also featured the Kamloops Junior Oilers, the champions from the Western Hockey League.
The City of Welland has the structure and have it designated a
historic courthouse designated heritage building.
under the Ontario Heritage Act, pro- The Cross Street pool, that
tecting it from future demolition. architectural reminder of Welland’s
Sarah Lynn Shelton is early canal years and a public
Welland’s first baby of the year, born resource since 1946, is closed. Parks
to parents Sherry and Jim at 7:27 superintendent Dan Ryan says it will
a.m. New Year’s Day. cost the city $500,000 or more to
The Moore House, Welland bring the pool up to health and safe-
Historical Museum’s former home, ty standards and city council
is demolished early in the year. The decides the price tag is too high.
house was built in the 19th century Welland fire Chief Roland
by local Quaker Solomon Moore. Bouchard says a 911 emergency
A $10-million development dispatch system will result in large
proposal for lands near the corner increases to the number of medical
of Prince Charles Drive and Lincoln assistance calls firefighters must
Street West for a 143-room housing make as the system requires a two-
unit and a 90- to 100-room hotel is PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CITY OF WELLAND ARCHIVES AND TRIBUNE ARCHIVES
tiered response.
Welland has an unusual unveiled at the Welland Club in Welland’s Ukrainian
change of mayors this year when January by Welland contractor Roy Roland Hardy, left. The former home of the Welland Historical Museum is demolished. Mandolin Orchestra goes on a tour
Mayor Eugene Stranges resigns Timms of R. Timms Construction of the Ukraine and in two years’
after being convicted of theft over and Engineering. Timms is joined in Ivy Riddell. Riddell’s Ward 2 city Welland Iron and Brass and time will also be invited to represent
$200 involved in a bingo operation the project by Grimsby realtor council seat is in turn filled by long- Wabasso costs Welland more than the Ukraine at Expo ’86 in
he and a Roman Catholic priest had Harold Jarvis and Hamilton develop- time city politician and former $286,300 in property taxes, not to Vancouver.
been supervising. Roland Hardy is er Larry Paron. mayor Harry W. Diffin. mention the lost income suffered by The Riverside Annex,
appointed mayor in Stranges’ place. The federal government’s In September, Wabasso the hundreds of unemployed work- Welland’s former county hospital, is
In an editorial in its first issue ongoing plans to develop the old announces that the influx of cheap ers. saved from the wrecker’s ball by a
of 1984, The Tribune praises the canal lands into a recreational cen- foreign-made goods is forcing it to Good news on the industrial government program. Laurent Viger
federal government’s Welland Canal tre for Welland help spur on the close its Welland mill. Despite the front comes from Welland Forge, a plans to use the program to convert
recreational lands plans. The plan plans. pleas of local workers and the division of Dominion Chain Inc., the old building into apartments.
calls for the federal government, A new surtax on the impor- efforts of political leaders, the com- which receives $78,000 in federal Welland County General
through its Public Works tation of certain specialty steels is pany sticks with its decision to close funding from a defence ministry Hospital has turned a $200,000
Department, to spend $8 million expected to benefit Atlas Steels, the plant. The closure will result in program. The money enables the deficit into a $51,000 surplus,
over a number of years on infra- says company vice-president and the layoff of 450 to 500 employees. Centre Street company to recall laid reports hospital executive director
structure projects on the canal general manager Allan Orr. In a strange coincidence, off workers and successfully bid on Frank Barton.
lands, from building hiking trails to Progressive Conservative Welmet Industries Ltd. closes its a contract to produce tracks for Welland joins in Ontario’s
development of fishing. To date $2.5 and former Welland mayor Allan doors this year, the same year tanks used by the American military. bicentennial celebrations this year.
million has been spent on landscap- Pietz defeats Liberal Gilbert Parent Welland Iron and Brass goes out of Welland Forge employs about 150 With the co-operation of local
ing and upgrading. “The benefits to by about 4,000 votes to become business. The two operations traced people at this time. organizations, supported in part by
Welland and its further growth will Welland riding’s member of their history back to Welland’s earli- Welland council is consider- provincial funding, many events are
not be immediate,” says The Parliament in the Sept. 4 federal est days and were linked at the out- ing donating the log cabin at held to mark this historic occasion,
Tribune, “but if they are brought to election. Pietz, who had been serv- set in 1858 by their ultimate founder Chippawa Park to the Wainfleet highlighted by a visit of two Tall
fruition the community will be dras- ing Welland on regional council Amos L. Haun. No physical trace of Historical Society. The cabin has sat Ships and performances by
tically changed in the years to before stepping aside to run federal- these historic businesses remain. in the park for years and the aim of Ontario’s Bicentennial Showcase at
come.” ly, is replaced at the region by Ald. The closure of Welmet, the donation is to preserve the `Welland Arena.
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