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Volume 136 Issue 52 Friday, March 8, 2019 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

INSIDE
this week
Hooping It Up!
By KAREN MITCHELL

Meet Our L ast Wednesday, Febru-

ary 27th, both the grade
seven and grade eight Tan-
Minor Hockey ner’s Crossing School Ti-
gers boys basketball teams

Stars battled it out against the

Neepawa Tigers boys team
at the TCS gymnasium.
5 pages of Both Minnedosa
teams starting teams came out on top
with the grade seven boys
on Page 8 winning 16 to 15 and the
grade eight boys winning
35 to 23. Currently the
grade seven team has six
players and the grade eight
team has eight players.
The TCS boys were
scheduled to hit the court
again yesterday, Thursday,
in a basketball tournament
in Forrest. We will let you
know how they made out
Students next week!
Photo by Karen Mitchell

Enter The
Workforce Water Park a Possibility for Minnedosa
11 By DARRYL HOLYK

M innedosa and Area

Community
velopment Corporation,
De-
Economic Development
If your
Officer, Chantelle Parrott,
label appeared as a delegation
reads before Town Council last
week to share an exciting
19/03/31 new business proposal for
It’s time to the community.
renew your Splish Splash Water
Parks, an Alberta based
subscription
business, has shown inter-
Call 867-3816 est in establishing one of
its inflatable water parks
in Manitoba. The first lo-
cation being considered is
Minnedosa.
Currently, the com-
pany has eight inflatable
water parks in Canada and
is hoping to expand by in-
vesting in its first Manitoba
location. The application
from Splish Splash Wa-
ter Parks showing interest
in Minnedosa Lake came
to the local CDC office
through Travel Manitoba.
The company’s owner
is looking to invest up to a
quarter of a million dollars
to develop the company’s
first Manitoba water park.
EDO Parrott explained to
Council that all the com-
pany would require from
the Town of Minnedosa
and the Manitoba Govern-
ment (owners of the lake)
is approval for the business
to move forward. Splish
Splash is responsible for all
costs, insurance, liability,
staffing, operation, etc.
“This is an excel-
lent tourism opportu-
nity and there is no risk to
Minnedosa,” stated EDO
Parrott.
The site chosen for the
business would also re-
quire nearby washrooms,
changerooms and storage
space, which Parrott indi-
cated the lower level of the
Minnedosa Pavilion as a
possibility.
The water park, featur-
ing a number of inflatable
family-oriented play struc-
tures in the lake, requires
a minimum of up to eight
feet of water at the deepest
point. The park area would
be sectioned off by buoys
to keep watercraft, swim-
mers and other users of
the lake from entering the
water park boundary.
Possible locations sug-
gested for the water park
have been discussed and
include the area directly
south or directly north of
the Pavilion. This would
leave the main beach,
swimming and watercraft/
paddling areas of the lake
unaffected and still avail-
able for those users.
Continued on Page 2

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