It’s so close to the finish line for fundraising for the Unity Skate Park, after an influx of donations has come in over the last while. There’s $40,000 more to be raised in order to start construction.
“The total park cost originally was around $500,000,” said Jerome Conaty. “We faced two major hurdles. One was an overabundance of peat moss when doing our foundation; there were deeper and higher volumes than what our test holes showed. That, in combination with construction costs due to inflation, ballooned our costs to $751,000.
“However, we’re down to only looking for the final $40,000. To our knowledge, this will end up being the largest barrier-free youth project in northern Manitoba.