Meadow Lake Chamber of Commerce receives $6,500 in grants from parks and recreation
The Meadow Lake & District Chamber of Commerce has received two grants with a combined value of $6,500 from the Meadow Lake parks and recreation department.
Each year, the parks and recreation department, along with every other community and rural municipality in the province, receives funding from Sask. Lotteries. The funding is intended to help support communities. The money is usually handled by entities that oversee community events and services, and left to them to decide how the money should be allocated.
Trevor Dignean, administrator for the Meadow Lake Chamber of Commerce, said $1,500 will be directed toward this year’s Culture Days event, while the remaining cash is expected to assist with Canada Day programming.
“We’ve only done one event, because COVID shut it down last year. The year before, we had booked North West College Gymnasium, and we had at least 10 cultures in there. We had Flying Dust First Nation, Ukrainian, Filipino, all different cultures. They showcased foods, arts and it was a great event. It seemed well received, it was full and we’d probably want to move to a bigger venue this time,” Dignean said.