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Sault Ste. Marie Transit has started its Pointe des Chenes service for the summer and opened its “Best for Kids” program. Best for Kids offers free bus rides for an adult and child to and from the city’s best family attractions. Those include the pump track, skateboard park, splash pad, and Manzo and Greco pools, says a media release from Sault Transit. Riders must inform the driver upon entry in order to receive the service, the release adds. Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer Sault Transit will provide three buses a day from the downtown terminal to the Northern Avenue transfer point at Sault College and then to Pointe des Chenes Day Park. The bus will operate during statutory holiday weekends in which the system would normally run.
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A volunteer organization trying to save the Pointe Des Chenes campground – including this year’s operations – has penned a proposal to solve the potable water issue.
Save Pointe Des Chenes Campground committee has offered two short-term and two long-term solutions to the potable water problem that has been plaguing the area for more than a decade.
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They also recommend that the city manage and operate the campground this year, until a longer-term solution can be found.
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City council will be asked to confirm its authorization for staff to continue to press Transport Canada to provide an acceptable solution that will see potable water available at the Pointe Des Chenes campground.
Council will receive a report at its Monday virtual council meeting providing background and context to the campground issue.
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It will also be asked to approve the next steps which will help to determine and evaluate the future use of Pointe des Chenes Campground.