Congrats to the Leduc County who is moving forward with the final stages of their ACE Communities planning.
For the Community of Warburg, the ACE initiative will be a Fitness Facility enhancement project. This will include enhancing the existing fitness centre in the high school so that it can be used by the wider community. The funding will go toward the purchase of exercise bikes, treadmills, and cross trainers.
The goal is to have the facility open to use by high school students, Village of Warburg residents, and surrounding Leduc County residents. At present the facility is only open to use by the high school students during school hours.
This initiative will help to get the Warburg and Leduc County community more active and engaged through fitness and healthy living. It also provides a place for youth to be active outside of school hours. It can accommodate those youth that have finished high school but still live in the area. It will also accommodate other adults in the community. By providing a facility that all community members can use, they can start to build stronger community leaders and increase the quality of life in Warburg and surrounding areas. With the completion of the enhancement project the facility can also look into the future to provide programs, volunteer opportunities, and youth development through fitness and recreation.
For the Community of Thorsby, the ACE initiative will be modernizing the Thorsby Recreation Complex through the purchase of equipment. The Complex is currently undergoing renovations to their old BMX track and it will become and multipurpose gym area, complete with Dance studio and workout room. The Thorsby seed money will be used to purchase new mats for the multipurpose area to be used for several programs such as gymnastics, cheerleading, yoga, and other fitness programs.
As a result of the purchase of the mats the community will be ready to host more programs that need specialized equipments.
The community will be able to attract more participants to programs and host a variety of programs that have never been possible at the Thorsby Recreation Complex because of a lack of equipment. This will also greatly impact the younger female population of the area as well because they will have the opportunity to partake in an activity that they have been asking for for quite some time.
Way to go, Leduc County! We can't wait to see the final results.
