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July 19, 2010

Conception Bay South Receives $15,000 to Upgrade School Recreation Areas

The Town of Conception Bay South has been granted $15,000 from the Community Capital Grants Program to improve its recreation infrastructure at two schools within the municipality.

"Frank Roberts Junior High School will be provided $10,000 to assist with the installation of fencing around a new basketball court — the first outdoor basketball court in the Town of Conception Bay South, while Upper Gullies Elementary School will be provided $5,000 to help landscape a recreation area behind the school," said the Honourable Terry French, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, and MHA for Conception Bay South. "These investments will help ensure children and youth will have safe and inviting areas to engage in outdoor sports and activity after school."

Conception Bay South is among more than 30 communities throughout the province which have received 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.

The Community Capital Grant Program is an application-based program that provides grants of up to $15,000 to assist community-based recreation organizations to 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 contact:

Heather May
Director of Communications
Tourism, Culture and Recreation
709-729-0928, 697-5061
heathermay@gov.nl.ca

2010 07 19                                                    12:30 p.m.
 


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