You may have heard that the City of Kenora has sent out a request for proposals for the development of Town Island (home of the campsites known as Big Mosquito, Ants, etc, not to mention the home of our friends at B'nai Brith.), a move that no doubt puts private business interests ahead of the environment and our campers.
Read https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/group-fights-sale-town-island-kenora-lake-of-the-woods-1.5391458 for more about it.
In response, we have teamed up with B’nai Brith Camp, residents, cottagers and others to form the Friends of Town Island committee. Our request to the city is simple – reconsider this process and meet with the committee before Town Island is overtaken by big development.
As a former Camp Stephens camper, you know first-hand the profound impact our camp program has on children and youth. The life lessons are invaluable, the friendships are everlasting an'd the connection to nature are imperative for the sustainability of our planet.
Town Island represents different things to different people, but to our alumni, particularly those with tripping experience, the Island represents tradition. It’s a destination rooted so deeply in our tripping history that to be without it would be a huge loss. Future campers will never get to share stories around the same campsite that previous generations of campers did. They will never get to explore the Island in the ways that so many of us, or our children, have explored it. The tales of lore that surround the Island will slowly be erased from our history because the Island itself will never be the same.
We need your voice!
We are asking all Camp
See https://www.townisland.ca/ for what you can do.
Thank you,
Kent Paterson, President & CEO, YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg
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