COLLINGWOOD - The town has hired the architects behind the new library building to look at options for a proposed recreation centre at Central Park.

On Monday night, councillors hired WGD Architects to undertake a feasibility assessment and prepare a preliminary design; one of the principals of WGD, Henry Wong, designed the library.

The cost of the contract is $26,490 - well under the $30,000 budget set aside for the work - and the information gleaned will be used to assist the committee looking at the project to arrive at some recommendations to go to council by next January.

COLLINGWOOD - Area residents let their dots do the talking.

On Wednesday, the municipality and the Central Park Redevelopment Committee held a public information session at the curling club. But unlike most public meetings, where area residents are exhorted to line up at a microphone in order to voice their thoughts, residents were presented with a series of 'comment posters' to which to affix multi-coloured dots.

The committee was struck in May to look at the feasibility, needs, and design for a community recreation centre, as well as the feasibility of using using Central Park as the location.