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additional regular run ls now an extra shopping bus, mostlv tor senior citizens. at noon on Friday. Warsaw Bus Lines employs one full time and ten per! time people. The other big employer l5 the Utonsnee Region Conservation Auth- orlty With 15-20 employees lor the Warsaw Caves Conservation area. most of whom live in the hamlet. Warsaw has been largely by passed by the hordes or summe) tourists to Peterhorough County and so the tort as people are not ytt con- fronted by motels. restaurantsv iuhe outs and neon lights oi placvs illn- Lakeheld, BUCHIOI‘I’I rlllll Bridge- north. A liquor and deer slure may be in the oiling as early as next yea] and it could be a difference that lilzilies all the dinereace. Jt‘s a good eight to ten miles shorter to Clear and Stoney Lakes Via Warsaw than we Lakefleld, With the holldnyer‘s penCham tor the liquld from fermented grain, an LCDO might attract thorn to the shorter route to (he cottage-s, com- pletely changing the focus oi [he small commercial sector. Actually. the tourists might al- rrudy be taking tho Warsaw route ll they knew about Warsaw Lunch. They some the best homemade pie nnrth uf Thurston's Restaurant. Above. curling in the arena below, Sherman Nelson Community Centre 7 is the social centre l1 a omnll place is to romaul n unmmunihl. it needs a (0645. Until the soual revolution ill the st mos. the churches prmillr‘d such a L-r-ntre ol social activity Although Warsaw Still has lllrct‘ Protestant churches With Varying ntvendrnoe, the real heart of lhe collimllnitv is social llie is down the road at the arena. Warsaw Community Centre was huilt H1 1950 with natural lCe faCll- miss. The problem With natural ice was that home games could only be played irorn December to February when winter was at its harshest. It‘s hard to Win it local {ans can't cheer the home team throughout the season. Ehermnn ersnn had two main nhjeutivrs whon he first iound himâ€" sali on township council» to get a fire hall‘und to get nrtiiioial ice in thn lirt‘nur without an expanded us or the onmmunity centre, he fell thni Worsnw would continue to slide as n vital community. ln 1971, the township bought a used ice plant from Beaverton. Be- fore lllstalllng the plant. they inâ€" vited a consulting engineer to test the roof, and found that it would cost $40,000 to bring its stress up borough, said he never saw such A crowds to watch men‘s leagues in the city. The arena is busy every night until midnight or alter. "even though some people thought we were crazy to build it. " Sal-4 Sherman Nelson. He spent almost all hrs time at council, the bus lines, and the arena that winter. His Wife. Jean. looked up from the supper she was arena “in”. smiled and aald. "It that arena hadn't been finished soon in 1574 , Sherm Wuuld have been a bachelor. " to the 45 pounds per square foot reâ€" quired by the National Building Code. ‘ By September, 107:1, the rooihnd i heen reinforced and money was raised throught community drives and a loan taken out by the Llnn's v Club to pay for installing artificial me. An arrangement was worked out Wm: the cement contractor sud ‘ most oi the labour was donatea‘l by the men of Bummer Townshlpi About . as men poured loo yards of cement from 3 am to a pm one day The anll'lc'tal ice facilities were opened In January 1974. An arrangement with the Lion's l Club has given them the use oi the concession booth in the arena for five years. Already, they ths been able to pay back $6.400 of their ‘ 810.000 loan [or the artificml ice. ‘1 ‘Fwe minor hockey teams and two l 1 men's teams hwe first prlnrlty for ' ice time. and the rest is rented, ‘ even to Peterhorough teams that can't . Mlxed curling happens Monday N . nights, and women's curlinz Tuns- ‘ day mornings. Figure skutlng Masses are hald Wednesday nights and Satâ€" , skating Snturday nights and Sunday . afternoons. Gerry O'Toole, whn iormerly I played [or a men's league in PetFrâ€" l l get ice in the city. urday siternoons, sud there's public