Thursday, September 10, 2020 • Volume 113 • Number 34
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Young Kamsack students enjoy finding school supplies In anticipation of returning to school, Marley Burrows, who is to enter Kindergarten, and her brother Jackson, who is going into Grade 3, were at the Kamsack Fields store last week looking at and picking up supplies like notebooks, crayons and pencils. They are the grandchildren of Krystine Day, the manager of the Fields outlet.
Enhancements to Kamsack Swimming Pool progressing With the enhancements to the Kamsack Swimming Pool nearly complete, the focus is now turning to raising nearly $67,000 to finish paying for it. That fundraising continues on September 15 at the Co-op Fuel Good Day when 10 cents a litre of gasoline sold at all Legacy Co-op service station outlets that day will be shared among three projects: the Salvation Army, the Churchbridge curling rink and the Kamsack Swimming Pool. Employees of Western Recreation and Development, a company that specializes in swimming pools, have only final touches to do before the work at the Kamsack pool is complete, Dayna Guertin, Kamsack’s recreation director, said last week when she and Mayor Nancy Brunt toured the new facility. T h e p o o l ’s l i n e r h a d been repaired and patched a number of times so when a cost estimate for another repair was sought last year, Western Recreation and Development agreed to do that as well as construct
Last week Kamsack Mayor Nancy Brunt, right, and Dayna Guertin, Kamsack’s recreation director were at the Kamsack Swimming Pool looking at the enhancements of the facility which are nearly completed. the zero entry, which is an expansion of 1,700 square feet, and add a separate toddlers’ pool and spray features, Guertin explained. “They gave us a large discount because another customer had decided not to proceed with a pool and the company had the time,”
Brunt explained. The company began work in October with the expectation that the pool would be ready for opening in June, she said. Of course, when the pandemic arrived and pools were closed province-wide, there was no need for the company
to complete the work prior to June. Plans are to celebrate the opening of Kamsack’s enhanced public swimming pool next June, she said. The work at the pool cost a total of $388,000, including about $5,000 for the concrete work and new
fencing, Brunt said. Of that cost, $124,690 was raised through the recreation board and from various grants, while the provincial MEEP (Municipal Economic Enhancement Program) contributed $196,750, leaving a balance of $66,560, which is to be raised by the
recreation board. Among the successful fundraising events held by the recreation board to help pay for the project was the February 14 Date Night when more than $15,000 was raised. The Date Night was a Continued on Page 6