Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, today I want to commend the efforts and the hard work of the hamlet council and the recreation committee who immediately went to work and started raising funds over this last year. To date they have raised $64,000 that will be turned over to the pool committee. For the size of Fort Providence, the size of the community, this is a major accomplishment.
I also want to thank the students of the Deh Gah School for getting involved with the campaign to build this pool. This youth group was determined to get a pool. I attended the school Christmas concert last year where they stated publicly that they would raise the money to build a swimming pool. They have since been fundraising, soliciting donations and getting the message out that they want a pool, they need a pool, and they had the donation jars all over the community.
On Tuesday of next week the Deh Gah swimming pool group will be presenting a cheque to the Hamlet of Fort Providence for $5,000. So I wanted to commend them and say, my hat is off to them. This group is comprised of a few students from the school: Hayley Arychuk, Shawna McLeod, Rebecca Landry, Lalitha Nadli and Maureen Sabourin, along with the principal, Jane Arychuk. They have done a good job. They managed to get the message out. We are getting a pool and they have certainly demonstrated what can be accomplished when a whole community works together for a specific project. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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