The City of Thompson Recreation Department is reaching out to the community in an effort to fill two shadow boxes in the C.A. Nesbitt Arena with sports or community-related displays.
A four-year lease to operate the rec centre concession was approved by city council at their Jan. 23 meeting, with 50% of profits going towards a new pool.
The owner of Thompson's A&W says being across the street from a beer vendor means he picks up dozens of empty liquor containers on his property every day.
A month later, she said the design will be delayed until October or November, though a floor plan has been completed. Coun. Les Ellsworth asked if this would have any effect on the city’s grant applications for funding towards new pool construction cots. “It would have really no effect on that,” said city manager Anthony McInnis. “As far as we know, there’s still no timeline for those announcements.” In October 2019, council passed a resolution seeking an Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) grant, which would cover 76 per cent of an estimated total cost of $20 million for a new pool, with the city chipping in just over $5 million.
There have been more assaults, domestic assaults, sexual assaults, other Criminal Code/mischief complaints and robberies in 2021 than over the same time period in 2020 but the largest increase is in other Criminal Code/mischief reports, up by 46. “I attribute [the decrease in provincial traffic offences] more to the colder temperatures over the last month of February as well as the significant impacts throughout the last couple of years by our traffic services members as well as the pandemic,” said Thompson RCMP officer-in-charge Insp. Chris Hastie. “People aren’t travelling as much.” There were three impaired drivers stopped this past weekend and Hastie anticipates traffic violations and public disorder complaints to rise in accordance with temperatures.