Recreation board encourages residents to ‘Experience Meadow Lake’

In an effort to promote the use of Meadow Lake’s recreational facilities, a new initiative called Experience Meadow Lake – Let’s Play has begun.

The project was the brainchild of the recreation board, and advocates for a wide variety of activities in the city. So far, it includes softball, golf, running, and tennis and a musical jam night. There are maintained spaces for each of these activities, and volunteers to help out at each venue.

Pick-up softball games will take place at Lion’s Park each Tuesday at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. Tennis will take place every Wednesday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the courts near Jonas Samson Junior High. Students can hit the links at the Meadow Lake Golf Course for free on Saturday nights while adults can play half price with the rental of a cart. Musicians and music lovers alike can enjoy jam nights at the Lion’s Park amphitheatre on July 19 and August 23, and it’s free to play and watch. In September, a running club will commence with music at the rubber track at Lion’s Park.  

Glen Winkler, city councillor and a member of the recreation board said the idea behind this venture was to improve awareness of the wide variety of activities people can engage in around Meadow Lake.

“The whole concept was the fact that we have a lot of facilities and they’re not used to the maximum, especially the amphitheatre the ball diamonds in July and August,” he said. “The intention is to make better use of our facilities and make them available free of charge. We approached the golf course and the tennis club, and they were really positive about it and supported the idea.”

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With the PineRidge Ford amphitheatre, Winkler said the Meadow Lake Lions Club has sponsored the aforementioned evenings. He added it will be also made available for local schools to use.

“It was short notice for this year, but we’re hoping the bands will practice there in the fall and in the spring,” he said.

The initiative is family friendly pilot the rec board hopes to continue through all seasons. The cost to the city to make these facilities available is nominal, Winkler said.

“Different people will be coming and going,” he said. “We really hope to get a lot of people coming out to Experience Meadow Lake – Let’s Play. We’re not spending a lot of money on this, and working with are all volunteers. [We] hope to do it in the winter as well, this is the fall session, and we’ll take a look at our skating rink and pool and ask the curling rink if they want to participate as well.”

Winkler said the idea was reviewed with the council and they were all in favour.

“If people start growing to appreciate that [they’re] here, we hope that [they] will be used more,” he said.

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