The Bristol Board of Selectmen accepted a bid of $6184.32 from Pemaquid Electric for electrical upgrades at Pemaquid Beach at their Nov. 10 meeting. The upgrades are a necessary step to transfer vendors, games and other activities from Colonial Pemaquid, a state site, to the beach, part of Bristol’s network of parks.
The majority of the funds for the work, about $5700, will come from a surplus in the Olde Bristol Days account.
“Gary [Assistant Regional Manager for the Southern Region for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Gary Best] said we can stay [at Colonial Pemaquid] as long as we want,” Gordon Benner, chairman of the Bristol Parks Commission, said. If the event moves, it will free the Colonial Pemaquid grounds to host other historical activities, such as militia encampments and reenactments.
“You’re broadening the whole Olde Bristol Days,” Benner said.
Best will meet with the Olde Bristol Days committee in early 2011, Benner said. The committee will advertise the meeting in The Lincoln County News and welcomes public input, he said.
The usefulness of the upgrades at Pemaquid Beach will extend far beyond Olde Bristol Days weekend. “It’s not a waste, it’s an investment,” Benner said.
“I’d like to see [the electrical work] done now,” Benner said. “If you wait for spring there are so many things going on at that time.”
