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June 25, 2010

Steady Brook to Upgrade Walking Trail, Playground

The Town of Steady Brook will receive $15,000 from the Community Capital Grant Program to assist in both the further construction of a walking trail, and the improvement of its community playground.

"This funding will be used to further develop the town's walking trail, which joins into another trail near Marble Mountain, and to provide new equipment and repairs for the community playground," said the Honourable Terry French, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. "We are pleased to support these initiatives, as they offer increased recreational opportunities to everyone in the community, young and older alike."

Steady Brook is among more than 30 communities throughout the province which will receive funding to purchase equipment and upgrade their recreation and sport infrastructure through the most recent allocation of $450,900 through the Community Capital Grant Program.

"I am very pleased the Town of Steady Brook has received this additional funding," said the Honourable Tom Marshall, MHA for Humber East. "The upgrades to the walking trail and playground area will benefit all area residents and will help promote a healthy, active lifestyle."

The Community Capital Grant Program is an application-based program that provides grants of up to $15,000 to help municipalities and recreation commissions improve their recreation and sports infrastructure.

Budget 2010: The Right Investments — For Our Children and Our Future provides an additional $300,000 to the Community Capital Grant Program, bringing the total annual investment in this program to $1.3 million. Since the introduction of the Provincial Government's recreation and sport strategy, Active, Healthy Newfoundland and Labrador (2007), more than $62.4 million in new funding has been committed for recreation and sport infrastructure and equipment throughout the province.

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Media contacts:

Heather May
Director of Communications
Tourism, Culture and Recreation
709-729-0928, 697-5061
heathermay@gov.nl.ca
Lary Wells
Executive Assistant
to the Hon. Tom Marshall, MHA
Humber East
709-729-3811
larrywells@gov.nl.ca

2010 06 25                                                     11:35 a.m.


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