Zurich Citizens News, 1976-11-24, Page 16question of a community centre
for Grand Bend and has set up
a community centre committ-
ee.
According to Don Southcott,
a member of the Chamber of
Commerce Community Centre
committee, says the committee
has urged the recreation com-
mittee in the village to under-
take an inventory of existing
public and private facilities
that can accommodate recrea-
tion activities and include the
potential development of those
facilities.
Mr. Southcott added the com-
mittee felt any studies of the
village should include the
Master plan for the Pinery
Provincial Park in order to co-
ordinate any building programs
planned. The Pinery master
plan is expected to be made
public soon and the community
centre committee has been
waiting for it before making
any official presentation to the
Chamber itself.
However, the community
centre committee has outlined
some guidelines which they
feel should be considered to
determine the priorities of
establishing any facilities . in
the community.
The committee feels no now
facility should be erected if
there already exists a similar
facility that is not being used to
its potential, says Mr. South-
cott. He added the committee
felt any steering committee
formed should consider any
recreational facility in the con-
text of service to the perman-
ent population, but also in the
light of its potential to enhance
existing tourism facilities and
attractions.
"Obviously, the more dollars
received from tourists the more
facilities the village will be able
to build and maintain and the
less burden they will be on the
local people." says Mr. South-
cott. •
Both Mr. Nelder and Mr.
Southcott indicated the operat-
ing cost of any new facility
should be considered equally
as important as the capital
cost of building any facility.
By considering all the possi-
bilities in this way, both the.
Lions and the Chamber of Com-
merce hope to avoid as many
mistakes as possible. They said
they do not want Grand Bend to
end up with the financial
burdens which are plaguing
other local communities.
Page 16 -Citizens News, November 24, 1976
Severn Park
turned over
to Grand Bend
There has been a good deal of
speculation concerning Grand.
Bend's receiving a parcel of
land from the Ministry of
Natural Resources for recrea-
tional purposes.
Dave Nelder, secretary of
the Lions Club and part of the
delegation which succeeded in
convincing the Minister of
Natural Resources, Mr. Bernier
that the Severn Park site should
be turned over to the village,
says the next step is organiz-
• ing a steering committee.
At their meeting last week,
the Grand Bend Lions unan-
imously passed a . resolution
saying they are grateful to the
Ontario government for the gift
of land and will " provide the
initiative and leadership need-
ed to form a committee repre-
sentative of the Lions Club,
municipal bodies, Chamber of
Commerce, recreation commit-
tee, other interested groups and
citizens.
The job of this committee,
says Mr. Nelder, will be to set
out the priorities and feasi-
bilities of what should be done
in the area of. recreation and
what the village can afford to
do.
Mr. Nelder emphasized the
fact the obtaining of the land
in no way involves any com-
mitment to any particular facil-
ity, building or structures at
this time. He said the steering
committee will make inquiries
to interested groups such as ,
hockey schools, to see if they
would be interested in using
such facilities as might be
undertaken.
"We do not want to place any
tax burden on the people of
Grand Bend. The village is
small and we have sewers to
pay for, " explained Mr. Nelder.
He added, "Before turning
over soil, we want to make sure
any facility will be used enough
to be a profitable undertaking."
There have been investiga-
tions into the kind of facility
the people in the area would
like to see. Mr. Nelder said a
door to door survey was done in
the spring of 1975, asking what
residents of the area felt Grand
Bend needed and could afford.
Heading the list at that time
was a desire for an arena facility
and community centre. Swim-
ming facilities were also fre-
quently mentioned.
The Chamber of Commerce
has also been investigating the
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