The Honourable Terry French, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, today announced that $10,000 has been allocated to help enable Clarenville to host the Vista Regional Games, to be held August 2-4, 2010.

"The Regional Games Program allows our province's youth to participate in organized, yet non-competitive sports programming," said Minister French. "It is part of the Provincial Government's efforts to provide our young people with opportunities to engage in physical activity and to encourage them to continue a healthy, active lifestyle throughout their lives."

The $100,000 Regional Games Program, administered through Recreation Newfoundland and Labrador, provides 10 communities with up to $10,000 to offer youth, aged 11-18, with an opportunity to participate in multi-sport events within their regions.

"I am delighted the Provincial Government is committed to promoting a healthy lifestyle through sport," said the Honourable Ross Wiseman, MHA for Trinity North. "These games will provide youth from the entire region with an opportunity to participate."

Budget 2010: The Right Investments — For Our Children and Our Future provides over $1.2 million in new funding to improve existing programming and introduces new initiatives which support the goals and objectives of the provincial recreation and sport strategy, Active Healthy Newfoundland and Labrador.

Since the launch of the strategy in 2007, more than $70 million in Provincial Government funding has been committed to recreational and sport infrastructure, programming, and athlete development.

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