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weekender august 2 1986 p15 man hunts coins in historic park treasure hunter the playing field at claremont park is a coin collectors paradise accord ing to oshawas randy reddick seen here using his metal detector to locate money dating as far back as the 19th century he has also tried his luck at stouffvilles main park but has found more new money there than old chris shanahan by chris shanahan staff reporter the baseball field at claremonts community park is home to hidden treasures that in some cases have been resting un disturbed for more than a cen tury and it has taken the initiative of 39yearold oshawa resident ran dy reddick to unearth the buried loot namely vintage coins dat ing back as far as 1854 armed with an 1100 metal de tector mr reddick regularily scours the grassy north pickering surface in a meticulous fashion that often raises the curiousity of the native populace the device transmits a ringing sound through a set of earphones when it detects metal alerting the operator to another potential dis covery he then digs an average of four to five inches into the ground before reaching paydirt so far the parttime coin collec tors booty includes an 1854 bank of upper canada halfpenny a queen victoria quarter dated 1882 plus a mint condition 1929 king george iv quarter now valued at 100 mr reddick has gathered 80 or 90 old silver coins from the claremont turf as well as more than 200 pennies from the 1940s alone then theres a selection of large pennies from the late 1800s and early 1900s and even two indi an head coins the majority of which will find their way into mr roddicks personal collection the hobbyist admitted its not easy to dig up one of these rem nants from another era without feeling a bit sentimental every bit of money that was lost there must have had a sad story to it he said a quarter in 1882 must have been a lot of money mr reddick claimed his high- tech equipment has turned out to be a wise investment ive pretty well paid for it and ive only had it for 214 months he said adding that hes located more than 500 worth of coins and still counting since begin ning his claremont search about a month ago other valuable dis coveries include a broach sever al sterling silver rings and a gold wedding band ive found quite a lot of new money in between added the collector who already has a pick le jar full of these modern coins at home you have to clear away the new money to get to the old explained mr reddick who learned of the hamlets illustrious past while doing some research at the library i came here claremont because it was old- theres alot of history here hes also willing to track down more recent history for anyone requiring his services markham stouffville hospital 1st tenders called the first tenders are being called for the markham stouffville hospital contractors have until aug 14 to submit their bids on the servicing phase of the 45 million facility contracts for roadways including curbs and gutters parking lots storm and sanitary sewers natural gas lines water service and underground electrical ser vicing are up for bids as well grading of the site will be done to prepare for construction of the hospital building hospital president michael butcher said the board will receive a recom mendation on aug 21 awarding of the tender which will amount to more than 1 million will have to be approved by the ministry of health mr butcher also said working drawings of the building are about 40 per cent completed he expects site servicing work will be finished in ab out three months beginning in late august or early september it is hoped that tenders for construction of the building will be called before the end of this year the hospital will be built on the 9th line at hwy 7 it will serve the residents of markham stouffville and surrounding areas the ex pected completion date is late 1988 the facility will specialize in community health care rather than any particular medical condition sales service 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