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 jerm IX
    
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 60 on 11/29/2011 11:51 PM >
|  | | | Curious to know if there are any AA members frequenting this Ontario forum?
If so, and you are comfortable sharing, please send me a PM, or better yet, email [email protected]
[last edit 11/29/2011 11:52 PM by jerm IX - edited 1 times]
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 61 on 12/1/2011 2:30 PM >
| | | | Sobriety. Day 6. I truly never thought 6 days was possible.
Started writing my Hearn post yesterday, felt good to get back to an activity that I enjoy. It was the first time I ever wrote anything sober.
Tomorrow, we bury my stepfathers ashes, I've actually been carrying that piece of Nicholls brick with me in my pocket all week. Also been enjoying checking out all the new great posts this week.
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skootles
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Male
Is the poop deck really what I think it is?
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<Reply # 62 on 12/2/2011 7:08 PM >
| | | | We're all rooting for you, Jerm. 
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 63 on 12/3/2011 1:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by skootles
We're all rooting for you, Jerm.
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Thanks so much Skootles, I actually have seven days sober!
I'm blessed that the wife has joined me on this new journey.
Fighting for sobriety, as it turns out, is very much like walking those high catwalks at Hearn with my crippling fear of heights: I take all the encouragement I can get, put one foot in front of the other and just do it!
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Intrinsic
   
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 64 on 12/3/2011 2:17 PM >
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PETER KENTER
The Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is currently undergoing the demolition of the Nicholls buildings, the final stage in the site development under the PRHC Hospital Improvement Plan.
Previous demolition projects saw some hospital functions temporarily moved to the building.
However, the building was removed from the development plan due to high maintenance and energy costs.
While the new hospital operates under an integrated, energy-efficient system, the Nicholls building operates on its own hydro and boiler heating system. The hospital estimated the cost of bringing the facility up to current standards at about $8 million.
The building, named after Charlotte Jane Nicholls, who donated the property to the hospital in 1885, has been used as everything from a nursing residence to office space and the hospital’s archives. It was vacated and closed last November.
This demolition project represents the final phase of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre development.
The demolition project includes environmental abatement and removal of the four-storey structure, including an adjoining maintenance building and a 100-foot smoke stack.
The demolition project, valued at $873,235 plus HST, was awarded to The Cannington Group Inc., one of six pre-qualified contractors invited to submit bids under a public tender, with tender analysis by Salter Pilon Architecture Inc. and Lett Architects Inc. The demolition project was undertaken in partnership with JMX Demolition and Environmental Contractors. Both Cannington Group and JMX have head offices located in Gormley, Ont.
“The main challenges of demolishing the Nicholls building involve its location, right at the front of the new Peterborough hospital,” says JMX co-owner Jeff Norton. “A lot of the traffic entering the facility parking lot, including ambulances and doctors, passes right by the demolition operation. With the new hospital complete and fully functional, we’re also particularly sensitive to producing any dust or making any noise that might disturb the patients.”
A local branch of Habitat for Humanity first combed the site for usable materials. The contract began in mid-September with environmental abatement of the buildings, as crews removed mercury thermostat switches and asbestos products, including pipe insulation. The Nicholls building was then taken down using five excavators.
JMX employed water spray to keep dust to a minimum during the operation.
“In this case, we removed the steel, but we’re leaving the brick, stone and concrete on site,” says Norton. “About 70 per cent of the demolition rubble will be used as clean infill for the original excavation. As the front of the new hospital complex, this area won’t be built over—they’re turning it into park land.”
With the Nicholls Building demolition completed in mid-November, the contractor is turning attentions to the single-storey maintenance building. “This is a boiler plant with the smokestack going right through the centre of the building,” says Norton. “They don’t always give us a history on the buildings, but I came across a manhole cover near the maintenance facility that was dated 1947 so I suspect that reflects the age of the building.”
Salvage still remaining to be removed from the building includes the boiler and a vintage 1940s incinerator once used to dispose of pathological waste. “There’s a lot of steel in those items,” notes Norton.
JMX is bringing in its Caterpillar 385C Ultra High Demolition hydraulic excavator to safely tear down the stack while traffic and pedestrians are re-routed below.
“Once the last section of the maintenance building is down, we’re bringing in the crushers,” says Norton.
The service building access road will be closed off permanently and the asphalt removed.
Demolition work is due to be completed by Christmas. Once topsoil is delivered to the site, hydro-seeding will provide new grass cover and additional street lighting will be added to the old Nicholls building site
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 65 on 12/4/2011 6:56 PM >
| | | | The power plant building, which was previously unnaccessible is now wide open.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 66 on 12/9/2011 6:14 PM >
| | | | With two full weeks of sobriety under my belt, I am ready to get back in the game. I would like to thank those of you that showed me support during this incredibly difficult time, especially yokes, you are a true gentleman and I'm proud to call you a friend. I have hundreds of locations still to edit and post and am putting together my new street art campaign that will explode onto Ontario streets in the spring. Also, my debut hip hop album is completely finished and hits the presses in January, with a springtime release planned.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Boooo
Location: Toronto
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<Reply # 67 on 12/9/2011 7:35 PM >
| | | | my Dad drank heavily his whole life up until the age of 60. There were a few breaks during those years, but he always fell off the wagon.
At 60, he quit cold turkey, and never had another drink. Today he is 74.
A much healthier, happier man.
Congrats ion your sobriety, you are headed in the same direction as my Dad with lots of hope and lots of bright life still to come.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: Mental Health Services Facility
<Reply # 68 on 12/10/2011 10:07 PM >
| | | | Thanks Boooo, glad you got your father back.
Recently explored the abandoned grade school that my parents met at, and took my mom there for a walk. in turn, she gave me their grade 8 class picture. Im working on that post in the coming days.
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swizzler
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 69 on 12/11/2011 12:38 AM >
| | | | Posted by jerm IX
Also, my debut hip hop album is completely finished and hits the presses in January, with a springtime release planned.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
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Rap. It sucks. I hate it...
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 70 on 12/13/2011 5:17 PM >
| | | | Heading into PRHC for septoplasty surgery. The Nicholls Building next door is completely demolished, as is the power plant building. Only the smokestack remains.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 72 on 12/14/2011 2:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by RiddimRyder
4 pages...good god..
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Yet another quality positive contribution to yet another thread.
Don't you have photographs to over process and then not share?
I've updated this thread with almost every visit, from exploration to all stages of demo, from a factual and personal perspective. I'm gonna write a second post on the full demo process as well. Other than the odd bitchy comment, what exactly have you brought to the table?
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ZenCanadian
Location: High Park, Toronto
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 73 on 12/14/2011 3:32 PM >
| | | | I think he is simply referring to the fact that you basically jacked your own thread.
Zen and the art of infiltration...
http://www.flikr.com/photos/zenslens
Zen is an uber explorer, a demi god of craning and purveyor of the finer things in life. |
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
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<Reply # 74 on 12/14/2011 7:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by ZenCanadian
I think he is simply referring to the fact that you basically jacked your own thread.
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Yep, and I'm simply referring to the fact that dude only ever whines and bitches on my threads and never has anything positive or even constructive to say.
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RiddimRyder
Gender: Male
Hot Skull
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<Reply # 75 on 12/15/2011 6:56 PM >
| | | | LOL...bitches & whines? I've commented on one, maybe two of your threads & that threw you into a word throwing frenzy!
Can't wait for the rap album to drop...nowadimsayin'!
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: Mental Health Services Facility
<Reply # 76 on 12/15/2011 7:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by RiddimRyder
LOL...bitches & whines? I've commented on one, maybe two of your threads & that threw you into a word throwing frenzy!
Can't wait for the rap album to drop...nowadimsayin'!
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Can't talk, too busy contributing.
http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=97683
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explorateur us canada
Location: nicolet qc
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Mental Health Services Facility
<Reply # 77 on 12/16/2011 1:32 AM >
| | | | peterborough,it is the only photo I took of the boiler
outside picture
document
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: Mental Health Services Facility
<Reply # 78 on 12/17/2011 2:10 PM >
| | | | Gonna continue to jack my own thread here.
The demo began yesterday on the gorgeous Rural Routes ( former Co-Op ) building in Peterborough. The foreman just denied me access without appropriate footwear and hardhat. So Im just waiting for the store to open to buy appropriate footwear and hardhat.
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ElExplorador
Location: Somewhere along the ride to World's End, Argentina.
>> m o m e n t u m >>
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<Reply # 79 on 1/10/2012 10:04 PM >
| | | | I really really really want to know what the "paint roller" tech is for forcible entry.
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