Guests pile into the Candle Lake Hall during a summer event. (Power99/Facebook)

By Derek Craddock

CANDLE LAKE COMMUNITY HALL

Candle Lake grateful for funding to help renovate community hall

Nov 18, 2022 | 9:00 AM

The future of Candle Lake looks bright, thanks to funding that will help renovate a popular space in the community.

Earlier this week, the Resort Village of Candle Lake received funding from the provincial and federal governments to help with the rehabilitation of its community hall.

“All of council is quite excited and enthused,” said Mayor Terry Kostyna. “This is part of an ongoing project and finally allows us to complete the rehabilitation project at our community hall.”

The village will receive over $900,000 in joint funding for the project.

Other communities that received money for different infrastructure initiatives included Muskoday First Nation and the RM of Meota.

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Kostyna hopes the project will start by the spring but those details are still being ironed out.

He added this isn’t the only project Candle Lake has received funding for this year as around $600,000 was given to help decommission the old historic landfill.

With the community growing at a fast rate, Kostyna said the rehabilitation project for the hall is very much needed.

“We are one of the most progressive and fastest growing communities in the province,” he said, adding numbers grew from 850 to nearly 1,200 from 2016 to 2021.

“With the additional people that we have, projects like this and specifically around the community hall, this provides a community gathering place for the many activities provided by the village and this community and the people that reside in it.”

The province and the federal government committed over $40 million in funding to nine different infrastructure projects throughout Saskatchewan.

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derek.craddock@pattisonmedia.com

Twitter: @PA_Craddock