The winners in the Aviva Community Fund have been announced and although it came close, Nipissing Serenity Hospice is not one of them.
It was one of the 10 finalists in the Community Health category in the Aviva Community Fund competition, with a chance at winning $100,000.
Nipissing Serenity Hospice was a finalist in the Community Health category.
The winner there was Seaside Park Elementary Community Playground. in St. John.
"Plans are underway to build a new children's playground on the site of our new school. It has been widely recognized that this area of the city is long overdue for adequate recreational facilities to promote healthy and active living amongst our young people. Within the area of our school community, there are 1,177 children ages 14 years and younger.
Other winners in the $50,000 to $100,000 category included:
Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes.
As the only provider of Grief Support Programs in our community, we help people find their way through grief while helping them live with renewed hope and happiness. Annually we support over 600 families through palliative care and bereavement, roughly 1 in 30 families living in the City of Kawartha Lakes. It costs $580 to support one person through their grief journey.
A Splash Pad for Placentia.
This past summer, we noticed that the playground was nearly empty on the hotter days, which is to be expected, but we came to notice that a lot of our community kids were travelling to communities 30-90 minutes away to play in their splash pads.
The location of our Recreation Complex lends itself to warmer temperatures than the rest of the town. As kids from surrounding communities have been enjoying the new playground in our complex, I have no doubt they would do the same for a splash pad! Many members of our community have voiced a need for such a facility in our area. They are looking to the town to provide the splash pad, but as we found out during the playground fundraising, these facilities are quite expensive and though beneficial to the town, cannot take precedence over other municipal obligations.
Winners of the Community Legacy Award of $150,000 is Polycycle in Ottawa.
"Our proposal to solve the plastic waste problem not only addresses the plastic waste itself but generates revenues, creates job opportunities, promotes awareness of environmental issues and integrates technology that will no doubt be the way of the future. Polycycle takes plastic waste and, using specialized plastic recycling machines, creates products through injection molding."