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Bonnyville Recreation Guide coming soon

Finding out about recreation in the area is about to get a whole lot easier. The Bonnyville Recreation Guide will feature information on programming and activities in and around town.
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An open house for the Bonnyville Regional Aquatics Centre visioning and feasbility study at the Centennial Centre on Thursday, Sept. 5.

Finding out about recreation in the area is about to get a whole lot easier.


The Bonnyville Recreation Guide will feature information on programming and activities in and around town.


The project is a partnership between the Bonnyville and District Centennial Centre, and the Town and MD of Bonnyville.


“It’s more of a unified place where people can go for one-stop shopping for their programs,” explained Todd Muir general manager of the C2.


It’s main focus will be highlighting recreation in Bonnyville, but will include some surrounding communities.


The guide will run three-times a year. There will be a winter version from January until March, a spring and summer edition covering from April to August, and a fall guide from September until December.


Offering all of the information in one place will allow residents to plan ahead when it comes to scheduling recreational activities.


“The (guide) allows people to pick it up to say it will be in our spring and summer guide, and know right there that they can start planning. To look at the summer programs, and... lay stuff out for themselves. That’s part of making it user-friendly, and to make it fit with the way people do things these days,” Muir detailed.


After being approached by the C2, both municipalities voted in favour of partnering on the project.


“We wanted to make sure we had a concise program and programming guide versus some of the other tours and things. We just wanted to raise more awareness about our own facilities, and some of the recreational opportunities in the town and MD,” explained Mayor Gene Sobolewski.


It will also give everyone an outline of recreational locations in the area, which Reeve Greg Sawchuk noted was some feedback the MD has received in the past.


“We heard from people from out-of-town, who were tourists and visitors, that was a little bit of the feedback we were getting that locating our campgrounds... that people visiting had a hard time finding out where the trails and some of these things were in the MD,” he said, adding it would be convenient for everyone to have all the information they’d need in one place.


By partnering with the municipalities, it will allow the guide to list activities and places throughout the area.


“We’ve been working with representatives from each organization, and getting their feedback on what they want to see included and how they want to be represented... We’ve been supported by both councils. They think it was a great idea to move forward with,” business and recreation manager for the C2 Victoria Bird expressed, adding it will be one way they can promote everything the area has to offer.


“We have so much recreation in Bonnyville... Not just at the C2, but outside of it. The pool, the library, and all of those different sectors. There’s so much recreation here, and once (we) put it all together, it’s really cool to see how many opportunities there are in this small community. We’re pretty lucky,” Bird detailed.


Muir and Bird hope to have the first guide available by mid-December, and are currently in the design phase of the project.


For more information on the guide, call 780-812-3400.

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