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July 28, 2010

Provincial Government Supports Northern Peninsula Regional Games

The Town of St. Anthony has received $10,000 from the Provincial Government to assist with the costs associated with hosting the 2010 Northern Peninsula Regional Games, to be held August 24-26.

"The Regional Games Program is designed to promote physical activity and grassroots sport development throughout Newfoundland and Labrador," said the Honourable Terry French, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. "It is part of the Provincial Government's efforts to provide our young people with opportunities to engage in physical activity, and 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 provide youth aged 11-18 with an opportunity to participate in organized, non-competitive, multi-sport events within their regions.

Budget 2010: The Right Investments — For Our Children and Our Future provides more than $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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Media contact:

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

2010 07 28                                                    11:35 a.m.

 


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