ARTICLE FROM 97.7 THE BEACH, by Catherine Thompson
Friends of the Central Park Project are staging a protest march on Monday afternoon.
A group of people in Collingwood aren't letting councillors off the hook.
Friends of the Collingwood Central Park Project are staging a protest march on Monday afternoon.
The group will meet at Central Park on Hume Street at 4 PM and march to town hall to greet councillors as they arrive for their 5 PM Council meeting.
Friends of the Central Park Project are staging a protest march on Monday afternoon.
A group of people in Collingwood aren't letting councillors off the hook.
Friends of the Collingwood Central Park Project are staging a protest march on Monday afternoon.
The group will meet at Central Park on Hume Street at 4 PM and march to town hall to greet councillors as they arrive for their 5 PM Council meeting.
At a rally outside town hall last Monday afternoon, as many as 150 people waved signs and shouted their slogan: "Do It Once, Do It Right".
The group claims there were 255 people.
The protestors are upset with council's quick decision without consulting the public to cover the Centennial pool at Heritage Park and build a single ice pad at Central Park.
The two projects will cost $11.6 million plus operating costs.
The decision to go with these recreation projects instead of the $35 million Central Park plan for a multi-use facility means the YMCA will no longer be in partnership with the town to build a new pool at its facility.
In a letter to members, obtained by someone in the protest group and posted on Facebook, the Y says it has been asked by the town to manage the Centennial pool and is considering the request and will make the right decision for its members.
Meanwhile, a petition being circulated on Facebook has 566 names on it as of Sunday morning.
The goal is a thousand signatures.
The group claims there were 255 people.
The protestors are upset with council's quick decision without consulting the public to cover the Centennial pool at Heritage Park and build a single ice pad at Central Park.
The two projects will cost $11.6 million plus operating costs.
The decision to go with these recreation projects instead of the $35 million Central Park plan for a multi-use facility means the YMCA will no longer be in partnership with the town to build a new pool at its facility.
In a letter to members, obtained by someone in the protest group and posted on Facebook, the Y says it has been asked by the town to manage the Centennial pool and is considering the request and will make the right decision for its members.
Meanwhile, a petition being circulated on Facebook has 566 names on it as of Sunday morning.
The goal is a thousand signatures.
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