Friday, April 5, 2019 • Vol.123 No. 36 • Neepawa, Manitoba
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This is an example of the type of water park that will soon be located at Minnedosa Lake. It’s expected to be open to the public by the end of June.
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Minnedosa is making a major splash with its latest tourist attraction. On Tuesday, Mar. 26, it was announced that the Minnedosa and Area Community Development Corp. is working with Calgary-based Splish Splash Water Park to construct a new inflatable water park on Minnedosa Lake. The target date for the 100 person floating park to be operational has been set
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for the end of June. In the media release announcing the partnership, Gerry Champagne, the owner of Splish Splash, said this park will be something very unique for the prairies. “It’s an inflatable water park, like a floating obstacle course out on the water,” he said. “These parks are found in Canada and across the world, but there is none in the prairies at this time; to be the first and only water park in the province is an incredible opportunity for
both Splish Splash and for the community of Minnedosa.” A great opportunity This process first began when Champagne approached Travel Manitoba for guidance in finding a suitable community for one of his parks. In an interview with the Banner & Press, Minnedosa’s Economic Development Officer, Chantelle Parrott, noted that when the idea was first presented to her in
late January through Travel Manitoba, she jumped at the opportunity, hoping to get it moving ahead as quickly as possible. “Within a few days of this initial discussion, I was put in touch with [Gerry Champagne]. Then through February, we applied for all of the levels of approval that were required for this to move forward. We then presented it to the Town of Minnedosa. Then, just recently, we received final approval, so from start to
finish, the process has been very fast,” said Parrott. Tremendous effort to reach this point There has been a lot of other work done as well behind the scenes to reach this point of approval. Splish Splash had been working to obtain approval to locate the structure in Minnedosa Lake through various municipal, provincial and federal agencies. Continued on page 12
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