The Saugeen Shores Just Add Water Campaign is starting off strong with a $1 million donation.
The town says this fundraising campaign for the new Aquatic and Wellness Centre received a significant donation from long-time community partners Brad and Kathy Pryde.
Mayor Luke Charbonneau says, “Kathy and Brad Pryde, who are long time residents of our community and very generous ones at that, we are happy to announce they have pledged $1 million to the Aquatic and Wellness Centre.”
The new Aquatic and Wellness Centre will be a state-of-the-art facility housing an eight-lane pool, as well as a fitness and wellness centre.
“It’s one of the biggest capital projects that the town has ever undertaken, it’s an almost $50 million project and so we launched the Just Add Water Campaign to reach out to the community to ask for support and to help us get that project constructed,” says Charbonneau.
Earlier this month, town councillors and staff were joined by residents at the site of the planned facility in Port Elgin to officially break ground on the project.
The donation received is the first to the campaign’s quiet ask phase, where community partners are solicited for significant donations. In the coming months, the campaign will be extended to ask for smaller donations from residents.
“We are really just getting the campaign going and this is really a great way to start the campaign with a $1 million donation,” says Charbonneau.
More details on the campaign can be found on the municipal website here.