By Curtis Galbraith

Community

97 per cent of survey respondents say recreation is important to them, want municipalities to work together

Sep 11, 2020 | 12:56 PM

Ninety-seven per cent of the households surveyed in June of this year by the Grande Prairie Regional Recreation Committee say recreation is important to them.

This group covers the City and County of Grande Prairie, MD of Greenview, Hythe, Beaverlodge, Wembley and Sexsmith.

Regional Recreation Coordinator Krista Schuett says they also found that 97 per cent of those surveyed believe all the municipalities should work together.

“Currently, one of the major things we’ve been working on is being able to help displaced user groups with the region being down two sheets of ice. There was a fire in Wembley at the arena there and the Clairmont arena was shut down earlier this year. We’ve been working by having a regional meeting each year with the ice managers and seeing how, collectively, we can help user groups to obtain more ice and (to) have workarounds.”

The survey also found that 94 per cent of households believe recreation brings communities together, 81 per cent believe residents benefit even if they don’t use recreation services directly, and 78 per cent are very or somewhat satisfied with the opportunities offered in this area.

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A similar survey was done in 2015. Schuett says it doesn’t look like there were any big opinion changes between then and now.

She adds the next step is presenting a final report to the various municipalities.

“At the administrative level, we will be looking at, obviously, trends between the two surveys and looking for actionable items when it comes to the implementation of the master plan.”

A report on the 2020 survey can be found here.