HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-10-29, Page 12Kids Care, based out of Brussels
Public School, will be participating
in Halloween for Hunger once again
this year.
Kids Care will be collecting food
item donations from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
on Oct. 31 throughout the village.
If Brussels residents would like to
donate, but they know they will not
be home, they have two options that
will ensure their donation is
collected.
The first option would be to drop
their donations off at the Brussels
Legion between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
that day, or they can leave items
outside of their home labeled “For
Kids Care.”
Need has reached critical levels at
local food banks. With the recession
affecting hundreds of thousands of
jobs in Canada, the need is greater
than ever, with donations dropping
to one of the lowest points in recent
memory.
For more information, call
Shannon McGavin at Brussels
Public School at 519-887-9361.
After over a year of planning, the
new floor for the Belgrave
Community Centre is ready to be
poured, largely thanks to the
Belgrave Kinsmen.
Significant work has taken place
since the beginning of October,
including the removal of the boards
and the existing floor being
removed. The new floor is also
expected to have been poured by
today (Oct. 29).
The Kinsmen held a meeting last
week where two donations, made
towards the arena floor project, were
officially accepted. The first
donation was from the municipality
of Morris-Turnberry in the amount
of $20,000 and the second was from
the Wingham branch of the Libro
Financial Group, as part of its
Community Investment Fund, in the
amount of $10,000.
This, however, all came after the
Kinsmen received word that they
would receive over 65 per cent of the
funding through a Recreation and
Infrastructure grant.
Since then, the Kinsmen have
worked hand-in-hand with the
Belgrave Community Centre Board
in order to get this project
moving.
Kinsmen member and project
chairperson Chris Michie says that
once he received word that the
project would receive funding, he
began dealing closely with both the
Twp. of North Huron and Morris-
Turnberry, eventually receiving
direct funding from Morris-
Turnberry.
The whole project, which began
last spring, however, came about
because the Kinsmen felt the
Belgrave Community Centre was
too important to the community to
fall by the wayside, something they
thought was happening within North
Huron.
“The big reason we took this on
was because [the Belgrave Kinsmen]
had fixed up everything else in
Belgrave and it didn’t look like
North Huron had any interest in
fixing [the floor],” he said.
Soon after that decision was made,
the Kinsmen had officially taken the
project over. Throughout the past
year and a half, however, Michie
says the club had to endure minimal
red tape, finding the path to a new
floor in Belgrave to not be an
insurmountable one.
Because the Belgrave Community
Centre is a municipal building,
Michie says there weren’t any
permit applications, they just had to
check in with the building inspector
and once the project was cleared, the
Kinsmen were ready to work.
And work they have, with the
project getting to its current stage
entirely on volunteer time.
While it was the Kinsmen who did
all of the running around during the
application and consulting stages of
the project, since Oct. 9, it has been
the Kinsmen with the help of
donated labour and equipment that
have got the project to where it is
today.
Michie expects the entire project
to be completed by mid-November,
with a Dec. 1 target to begin building
the arena’s new ice. Despite the
arena’s new foundation, the ice will
remain the same, true to its roots,
and will remain all natural.
With the floor being poured this
week, Michie says the next step will
be the outside curb portion of thefloor, which will be raised slightlyfrom the floor and will serve assomewhat of a foundation for theboards, when they are ready to beinstalled, which should be
approximately Nov. 10-12, Michie
says.Before the renovations began,Michie said the floor was a hazard tothose who used the centre.“Kids weren’t safe playing rollerhockey, rollerblading and even
dances were dangerous, with the
floor making walking around whenit was sort of dark tough,” he said.“We just hope that once this is done,people will get a lot more use out ofit and there will be chances for a lotof different uses too with the new
floor.”
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Kids Care at Halloween
Floored
Morris-Turnberry mayor Dorothy Kelly, right, paid the
Belgrave Kinsmen a visit last week to contribute $20,000 to
the new arena floor project the Kinsmen undertook years
ago and are in the process of implementing. Accepting the
cheque on behalf of the Kinsmen were president Darryl
Marks, left, and project chairperson Chris Michie, centre.
(Vicky Bremner photo)
They’re ready to pour it on in Belgrave
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The Citizen
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