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By Alison Sandstrom

Facilities closed to public

Renovations at E.A. Rawlinson Centre and P.A. Golf and Curling Club

May 13, 2020 | 1:37 PM

While they remain closed to the public, behind the scenes, some city facilities are taking advantage of government-mandated downtime to complete renovations.

The city has tenders out to repair the roof at the Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club and to purchase a new carpet at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre.

The facelift planned for the E.A. Rawlinson Centre lobby will be the building’s first major renovation since it opened in 2003. Walls are being painted, the bar is being redone and an entirely new carpet is being installed.

“We’re excited for these changes,” Cara Stelmaschuk, marketing and events coordinator for the Rawlinson Centre, told paNOW. “It’s been a great help to us to kind of stay excited about things that are coming up. It gets hard when we’re cancelling events and we don’t know what we are able to do in the future, but this is something that’s definitely happening, it’s tangible, and we just can’t wait for people to come in and see it.”

Stelmaschuck said the carpet the centre has selected will give the lobby an updated look and evokes light reflecting off water.

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“It’s got a pattern to it that just reminds me of sunshine off a lake, or the river which is right next to us,” Stelmaschuk said. “So, I think it will carry over nicely into the scenery that we actually have along our riverbank.”

City council budgeted $70,000 for renovations at the Rawlinson Centre during budget deliberations in November. The money comes from the E.A. Rawlinson Centre Facility Fee Reserve which is funded by surcharge revenues on ticket sales.

Stelmaschuck said they plan to have renovations complete by the end of the summer. Staff members are also working on organizing some virtual programming while they remain closed due to the pandemic.

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