Landmark Buildings

In the past few weeks, there have been a few landmark buildings in the local news….

First is about the new ‘jewel’ in Fenelon Falls:

On October 19th, there was an official grand opening for the new Fenelon Falls arena, which is a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art facility.  It is a bright, beautifully designed building that will be great for hosting everything from sports to dances.  There is a single-pad arena and a community centre that can accommodate 350 people.

This year for Fenelon Falls Santa Day, Santa’s workshop will be at this new facility.  Great chance to check this new ‘jewel’ out if you haven’t already!

http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/1522747–fenelon-falls-celebrates-its-new-jewel-as-community-centre-officially-opens

http://www.santaday.ca/

The other landmark building in the news is the Academy Theatre in Lindsay….

The Academy Theatre has just started and aggressive two-month campaign to raise $50,000 called Keep the Magic Alive.  This campaign is asking 1,000 people to donate $50.  That is it.  That $50 will help to keep the lights on in the theatre instead of seeing the doors close forever.

For more on the campaign, please see this article:  http://www.mykawartha.com/community/article/1528354–academy-theatre-turns-to-community-to-save-cultural-landmark

To donate:  http://academytheatre.ca/friends/donate

At this time, they are almost 50% there to reaching their goal!  Please try and help them out!!

 

Sturgeon Point Spooktacular!

Saturday, October 27th

Serpents and spiders, tail of rat, Sturgeon Point Park is where the fun is at! Take out your costumes for Halloween, all you goblins and ghoulies and let out a scream! Halloween costumes are really a must, leave on the cobwebs, the mildew, the dust! Hop on your broomsticks, come if you dare.

Join us for pumpkin carving, face painting, games and scares at 11:00am – 1:00 pm.

Trick or Treating – 5:30pm

Meet back at the park at 5:30pm or join up with your friends for trick or treating on a spooky walk around Sturgeon Point!

Please let us know if we can spook your house with our little goules and boys……. by emailing [email protected]

**Please note that Saturday, October 27th is the only time Trick or Treating is happening in Sturgeon Point.

Sturgeon Point History Project Blog

The Sturgeon Point History Project Blog is celebrating the end of their first year of blogging!  Within that year they have done 105 blog posts and had 8,764 views!!  And I am sure that it is going to continue strong for the coming year.

If you haven’t checked out the blog, take some time to.  The Sturgeon Point History Project keeps uncovering some great new finds about our wonderful community!

http://stpthistoryproject.blogspot.ca/

The City of Kawartha Lakes & our Roads……

Roads were the topic of conversation at this week’s council meeting.

On Tuesday, the council of City of Kawartha Lakes endorsed a controversial proposed five-year roads capital plan.  This plan has Forest Road to be repaved in 2016.

Today’s Lindsay Post wrote an article about what happened at this week’s meeting and how the councilor’s felt about this road plan:  http://www.thepost.ca/2012/10/04/road-plan-tabled

Our Councilor, Brian Junkin, was quoted to say “he was not totally in favour of the five-year-plan, saying he had visited with three associations in his ward recently, having to tell one their road was “not even on the radar. They weren’t happy,” and another one they weren’t slated until 2016.   I was lucky to get out of there in one piece”

Brian Junkin did however vote in support of the plan.  He is quoted to say in the article that the plan is a work in progress and will be looked at yearly.

The SPA board is taking this topic of our roads very serious and meeting to discuss how to get them in better standing.