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Pine Lodge Treatment Centre’s Indian Head facility was badly damaged by fire in December, triggering both a search for a new site and debate over its proposed location.
The issue of allowing an addictions centre as a permitted use on the site of the former Prairie Christian Training Centre is slated to return to Fort San village council on Tuesday.
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As the future of Pine Lodge hangs in the balance, they credit the program with not only changing their lives but saving them.
Posted: Mar 02, 2021 12:00 PM CT | Last Updated: March 2
Pine Lodge is an addictions treatment centre that serves inpatient clients in 28-day periods. It operated in Indian Head for years until damage caused by fire and smoke forced the facility closed in December. (Trent Peppler/CBC)
Foster Monson says it s been frustrating waiting to learn whether Pine Lodge Treatment Centre will be able to welcome clients back in the near future.Â
The addictions recovery centre operated for years in Indian Head, Sask, but a fire in December forced it to close.
Monson said staff have located the only suitable new space in the area for relocation in Fort San, a small resort village near Fort Qu Appelle, Sask. He said the vacant Calling Lakes Centre, used for years as the Prairie Christian Training Centre, would be a good fit.
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Fort San’s village council is defending its cautious approach to an addiction treatment centre’s proposed relocation to the resort community on Echo Lake, even as the union representing Pine Lodge workers warns delays could cost lives.
In a joint letter sent to the Leader-Post, all five members of council said the question of whether Pine Lodge Treatment Centre should move into the former Prairie Christian Training Centre is a zoning matter that requires time for due diligence.
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