Province Invests to Make Sydney Mines Field More Accessible
April 3, 2021 - 11:12 AM
All Nova Scotians should have the opportunity to lead healthy, active lives through sport and recreation. That’s why the province is investing $200,000 to renovate Ramblers Field of Dreams in Sydney Mines to make it more accessible for mobility challenged participants.
“We need to make the province’s sport and recreation infrastructure more accessible so that youth and young adults with physical and cognitive challenges can get active, have fun and make friends,” said Premier Iain Rankin. “Projects like this remove physical barriers to sport and open personal horizons.”
Leadership view of CNY: Quality of life, natural beauty, cultural amenities, bountiful higher education
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Downtown Syracuse shines on a night in November. The former St. John the Evangelist Church, now the Samaritan Center, is in the foreground. The State Tower Building rises in the center background.File photo/Dennis Nett
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Blue Jays, Jays Care Foundation winners of philanthropy award
by Sportsnet Staff
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 8:23 am EDT
The Toronto Blue Jays and Jays Care Foundation have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic Excellence in recognition of their community contributions.
The Blue Jays are now one of two MLB teams to have received this award twice.
Since the team was unable to utilize Rogers Centre as it normally would have this past summer, the Blue Jays instead used the stadium to help feed Canadians in need, temporarily converting it into a giant food bank facility. Through their Step Up to the Plate initiative (created to support Food Banks Canada), they wound up packing 8.1 million meals.
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TORONTO The Blue Jays have been named the 2020 recipient of the Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic Excellence, recognizing the organization’s “Blue Jays Community Commitment,” which raised $7.5 million to support those disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
The club’s work specifically addressed food insecurity and the social isolation that many young Canadians faced in 2020. This is the second Selig Award that the Blue Jays have received, with the first coming in ‘12 for its “Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Academy” initiative. They join the Boston Red Sox (2010, ‘19) as the only clubs that have won the Selig Award multiple times.
Artist’s rendition of the two-over-two, stacked townhouses.
Drawing of how Chilcott Field’s new bleachers with concession stands, restrooms and elevator (at far right) will look.
For decades, American Legion Post 177 has been an asset to the City of Fairfax. But now, in order to continue all it does for the local residents, it needs to make some major changes to its facility at 3939 Oak St.
Toward that end, it plans a significant redevelopment that’ll help everyone it serves – and then some. And last Thursday, Dec. 3, it hosted an online presentation to explain its vision for the not-too-distant future.