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Prince Albert Daily Herald
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A developer who owns property north of the Indoor Recreation Centre site says he’s disappointed with city council’s decision to purchase seven acres of land from Signature Developments to build a parking lot, instead of considering his own.
Reg Fontaine, the president and owner of Fontaine Holdings Company Ltd., spoke to council on May 10 asking them to reconsider an offer to purchase his property for the parking lot instead. Fontaine originally had a non-binding agreement with the City to sell 7.78 acres of land north of the site for $2-million. The deal fell through after the City realized it would need to pay additional costs to remove piles of dirt, demolish buildings, and take out an underground septic tank.
Prince Albert Daily Herald
Peter Lozinski
The Rose Garden Hospice has benefitted from cookies, chocolates and now, hamburgers.
Tuesday afternoon the hospice and the two local A&W locations announced that from May 3-9, June 14-20 and August 12-18, $2 from every Teen Burger sold will be donated to the Rose Garden Hospice under the A Cause for Comfort Campaign.
The final amount raised will be matched by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Malcolm Jenkins.
“We have a vehicle that we could really get the word out and we wanted to utilize that to get behind a great community use,” said Reg Fontaine, whose family owns the two A&W franchises in Prince Albert.