The Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Dundurn is welcoming a move by three developers to make capital improvements to the recreation sites at Blackstrap Provincial Park.
“From our municipality’s perspective, our population is increasing with residential subdivisions and when people move into an area they like to have some leisure time and recreation is fairly important,” said Fred Wilson, Reeve of the RM of Dundurn. “With that facility right next door to our municipality we feel that the improvements there would greatly enhance the residential living in our municipality plus our neighbouring municipalities also.”
Wilson confirmed the three proposals that were submitted to the Saskatchewan Parks Service in December included one to rebuild the ski hill on Mount Blackstrap as well as add a year-round resort. The other two proposals involve leasing land in the park from the province in order to build cabins and concession stands.
“The process is a long way from the construction stage,” he said, noting the province must still look at these proposals first and then will tender out for more proposals later on in the year. “I don’t think there will be anything concrete done in the summer. From what I understand the tendering of proposals will take half the summer to get put in place. The way things are right now is we don’t expect anything will be happening in the near future other than just regular operations and upgrading of the maintenance.”
To read more please see the Jan. 14 print edition of The Davidson Leader.