Photo by Jade Nykand, from the La Glace & District Agricultural Society Facebook page.

By Curtis Galbraith

Community

La Glace fundraising harvest finishes “in the nick of time”

May 24, 2020 | 7:00 AM

Organizers say a fund-raising harvest in the La Glace area finished “in the nick of time” Wednesday before the rainy weather came.

The money raised from the canola crop grown as part of the first Growing Our Community fund-raiser will go towards the construction and operation of La Glace’s new Regional Recreation Centre.

Spokesperson Jade Nyland says construction is about half-finished.

“The shell of the building is up. It’s insulated. We do have most of the utilities in. We are pouring the concrete slabs over the next couple weeks.”

She adds for a place like La Glace, a facility like this is the backbone of the community.

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“It’s the hub where everyone goes to visit. They go for lunch. They go to engage in sports. It’s our concert hall. We’ve had markets in there, so it’s kind of everything to our community and that is why we are so passionate about it and we’re working so hard to fund-raise to build it.”

Nyland says the new centre will include a skating rink, meeting rooms, and they hope to have a walking track around the ice surface.

She adds the idea to grow a crop as a fund-raiser came from a La Glace & District Agricultural Society board member who is originally from Saskatchewan and it is something that was done there. The board decided to try it because La Glace is a farming community and the board felt this was “an amazing farming initiative.” This was also a way for people who can’t help out financially to contribute in other ways.

The use of the land, labour, and all the inputs was donated, so there was no cost to the Ag. Society. Nyland calls this support “humbling” given the tough times in farming in recent times.

Nyland adds the fund-raiser will be back this year. A crop of what they hope will be malt barley will be grown this time. It hasn’t been seeded yet. The same producer is donating the use of the land.