Pictured above: Red Lake Mayor Phil Vinet and community members.


RED LAKE, ON — The Municipality of Red Lake will benefit from joint federal and provincial investments for three projects.

The project to create a Skate Park will receive a combined amount of $333,334. As well, funding for the rehabilitation of Red Lake’s Centennial Park will receive a combined total of $200,000. Finally the governments of Canada and Ontario will each invest up to $706,604 in the Fifth Street Water Main and Road Project in Balmertown. The Municipality of Red Lake will contribute the balance of the total eligible project cost of $2.1 million.

 “We are pleased to work with our provincial partners to deliver funding that will create employment and make a difference in the lives of residents throughout northern Ontario,” said Rickford. “These projects will bring communities together to get fit and have fun, as well as create local jobs, something this government is committed to doing.”

“I am extremely pleased that both senior levels are continuing to work together by providing significant resources for upgrades and additions to our Northern recreational facilities," said Michael Gravelle, MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North. "These projects will not only create jobs, but will have positive long-term social and physical implications throughout the region."

These programs were designed to provide a timely, targeted stimulus to the economy through investments that will spur construction activity related to existing recreational infrastructure. Beyond economic stimulus and job creation, renewing, rehabilitating and modernizing our recreational infrastructure has the additional benefit of encouraging higher levels of participation in physical activity and community building.

The governments of Canada and Ontario have taken steps to get shovels in the ground and to flow money faster for targeted infrastructure projects starting in the 2009 construction season.


LEARN MORE

Learn how the Government of Canada is investing in Ontario infrastructure.

A complete list of approved recreation projects is available, at www.rinc-on.ca.

Get more information about recreational infrastructure funding in Ontario.