Through an investment of over 2.7 million dollars from the Community Adjustment Fund, the Municipality of Ritchot, Manitoba, was able to construct a new community centre. The new community centre includes a banquet hall and is able to lease office space for small businesses, including enhanced health services. Thanks to the Community Adjustment Fund, Ritchot can now offer medical services that were previously unavailable in the community.
The project involves the community centre. It’s 18,000 square-feet per floor, two floors, and the main floor will have a hall for about 500 people. It will also entail having a daycare for 94 kids. We’ll also have retail space, which is going to be earmarked for medical services that we don’t currently have in town.
The building itself will be heated and cooled by geothermal from the geothermal system that we put in. It will be heating the arena, the community centre and our fire halls.
The federal funding is what resulted in us moving forward with this project. As a town, as residents, we could not afford to build such a structure, but this federal funding just made our dreams and our planning for the future – made it go ahead faster than what it would have ever done.