North Bay's getting active

Nipissing MPP Monique Smith
News Release

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Ontario is helping people of all ages and abilities get more active and remain healthy through physical activity programs offered across the province.

Three local organizations have received a total of $29,119 through the Ontario government’s Communities in Action Fund (CIAF). CIAF provides funding to not-for-profit organizations at the local and provincial levels to improve opportunities for community sport and physical activity, Hon. Monique Smith, MPP for Nipissing announced.

“This funding will provide many people in this community with a chance to be more active,” Smith said. “The additional programs that will be created and the existing projects that will be enhanced through these grants will help to ensure that residents in Nipissing are getting stronger and healthier.”

The funding will allow three local organizations to enhance or develop the following programs:

Discovery Routes Trails Organization will receive $6,949 for the development of an Action Plan for the Voyer Trail that covers the distance between Corbeil (East Ferris) and North Bay. As well, Discovery Routes Trails Organization will develop trails-related activities for youth who attend a school in Corbeil.

Nipissing First Nation will receive $10,950 to help organize structured sport and recreation activities, develop child and parent programming and increase options by accessing recreation facilities in the nearby communities for swimming, aqua fit and winter alpine sports.

Patrick 4 Life AIDS Awareness and Education will receive $11,220 to help Partici-Patrick in implementing a 10-week education and training program to elementary school students and their teachers. The objective of the project is to help students gain a stronger understanding of the benefits of physical activity which will help encourage them to make healthier life-long choices.

“The McGuinty government is committed to working at the community level to improve rates of physical activity,” said Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best. “Programs funded through the Communities in Action Fund are important in our efforts to provide all Ontario families with a chance to participate in sport and recreation.”

QUICK FACTS

- CIAF has already benefited more than one million Ontarians of all ages and backgrounds.

- Over the past five years, more than 800 local and provincial organizations have received more than $32 million through CIAF.

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