Pembina Wellness Complex to enhance community
Community Futures Heartland
 

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The Pembina Wellness Clinic is a community-based project with the goal of enhancing the physical, social, spiritual and emotional health and well being of the approximately 3,000 people living in the Municipality of Pembina.

The project encompasses a number of goals, all aimed at improving the quality of life in the region. Components of the complex include:

  • Construction of a new recreational pool and therapy pool
  • Construction of a new community hall
  • Provision of space for a day care centre; development of facilities that would enhance local wellness program delivery by providing physiotherapy space; resistance training and cardiovascular exercise space, fitness studio space and educational spaces
  • Development of a fully accessible multi-purpose seniors’ space to provide better service to this growing demographic segment.
Heartland has played a key role in the project since its beginning in 1996. Not only has Community Futures Heartland provided funding for the project, it has assisted local organizers with the complex planning involved in an initiative of this magnitude. Necessary steps have included community consultations, the establishment of a non-profit charitable organization and steering committee, and a mail survey to help determine a course of action. In 2000 a full-time project coordinator was hired to guide the initiative.

The project marks a significant partnership between communities in the region, local organizations like Community Futures Heartland , the Manitou CDC and the Manitou Agricultural Society, not to mention, assistance from the federal government (Western Economic Diversification). Each has made a commitment to seeing the project completed whether it is through financial contributions, human resources or both.

While a capital campaign gets under way to raise additional funds for the project, architects are at work on the final design for the complex. If all proceeds as planned, construction is slated for 2002.