SUSSEX-A south central New Brunswick town is participating in a promotional opportunity which could earn it some recreation funding and put it on the map.
Centrally located nearly 75 kilometres from Saint John, 120 kilometres from Fredericton, and 83 kilometres from Moncton, the town of Sussex is among roughly 420 nominees in the 2012 Kraft Celebration Tour.
Sussex is also among 20 finalist communities of the tour.
Nominations for the tour can be submitted on the Kraft Celebration Tour's website, and a panel of judges selects 20 finalist communities.
Over a ten-day period, people can vote for their communities online. The ten winning communities receive a grand prize of $25,000 from Kraft to be used on the facility or project endorsed by the winning community.
TSN will then provide a live SportsCentre broadcast from the winning community in celebration of the win. RDS Sports 30 will provide a broadcast in any winning Francophone community.
Stacey Charlton originally nominated the 8th Hussars Sports Centre, Sussex's arena. She described the town as "a small cow town in New Brunswick."
"We are known as the Dairy Centre of the Maritimes," Charlton's description read on the Kraft Celebration Tour's website.
Charlton also included the various benefits the funding would pose to Sussex and the greater area, if they are chosen as one of the winners.
"The $25,000 would help our community and area, as it would help our children in a positive way," the description stated. "We could help our children with programs based on learning valuable life skills."
She went on to describe the importance of recreational programs in keeping Sussex's people active.
"This area [and] our cozy little town has many programs that help keep children, youth and adults active. [The] arena has skating programs, such as hockey and figure skating, but also has a learn to skate program for children."
"There [are] also programs for children in the summer months as summer camps that this $25,000 could really benefit with some equipment."
Charlton says that the funding could help to establish programs for people of all ages.
"I think the town is in real need of programs that could help with adult healthy lifestyle changes that would be passed on to our children and to others in the community," Charlton's description stated.
Charlton cited the town's efforts to improve the greater community as a valid reason for choosing Sussex as a finalist community.
"Our community should be a finalist as we are a small town with big dreams," Charlton stated. "We try every year to make improvements in our town, and they are doing a wonderful job."
"This town should be a finalist because we need to add more programs to this community, and $25,000 would really help jump start these programs."
Becky Titus nominated the Sussex Tennis Association Tennis Courts for the Kraft Celebration Tour. The town's tennis courts were selected for the finalists. Titus described nominating Sussex's tennis courts to help with the growth of tennis in the community.
"I would like to nominate the Sussex Tennis Association for the Kraft Celebration Tour to aid substantially the growth of tennis in the Town of Sussex," Titus mentioned in her description on the website for the tour. "This vision continues in upcoming months with the construction of a Clubhouse to run daily operations and store equipment."
"We need to install washrooms in this building as there are no facilities in that particular section of the park (where the tennis facility is located)."
Titus added that lighting improvements would be a positive thing as well, and the funding from the Kraft Celebration Tour could be used to offset the costs of installing lighting.
"Installation of a lighting system would be beneficial to expand our operating hours, lengthening the evening play," Titus stated in her description. "Assistance is also needed in covering some of the staffing (two summer students), who are responsible for running after school and summer programs for the juniors and promotion of the sport in the area."
The Bathurst Curling Club in Bathurst is also participating in this year's Kraft Celebration Tour, and was chosen as one of the 20 finalists.
With files from www.kraftcelebrationtour.ca and www.sussex.ca
Centrally located nearly 75 kilometres from Saint John, 120 kilometres from Fredericton, and 83 kilometres from Moncton, the town of Sussex is among roughly 420 nominees in the 2012 Kraft Celebration Tour.
Sussex is also among 20 finalist communities of the tour.
Nominations for the tour can be submitted on the Kraft Celebration Tour's website, and a panel of judges selects 20 finalist communities.
Over a ten-day period, people can vote for their communities online. The ten winning communities receive a grand prize of $25,000 from Kraft to be used on the facility or project endorsed by the winning community.
TSN will then provide a live SportsCentre broadcast from the winning community in celebration of the win. RDS Sports 30 will provide a broadcast in any winning Francophone community.
Stacey Charlton originally nominated the 8th Hussars Sports Centre, Sussex's arena. She described the town as "a small cow town in New Brunswick."
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| 8th Hussars Sports Centre (Kraft Celebration Tour Image) |
"We are known as the Dairy Centre of the Maritimes," Charlton's description read on the Kraft Celebration Tour's website.
Charlton also included the various benefits the funding would pose to Sussex and the greater area, if they are chosen as one of the winners.
"The $25,000 would help our community and area, as it would help our children in a positive way," the description stated. "We could help our children with programs based on learning valuable life skills."
She went on to describe the importance of recreational programs in keeping Sussex's people active.
"This area [and] our cozy little town has many programs that help keep children, youth and adults active. [The] arena has skating programs, such as hockey and figure skating, but also has a learn to skate program for children."
"There [are] also programs for children in the summer months as summer camps that this $25,000 could really benefit with some equipment."
Charlton says that the funding could help to establish programs for people of all ages.
"I think the town is in real need of programs that could help with adult healthy lifestyle changes that would be passed on to our children and to others in the community," Charlton's description stated.
Charlton cited the town's efforts to improve the greater community as a valid reason for choosing Sussex as a finalist community.
"Our community should be a finalist as we are a small town with big dreams," Charlton stated. "We try every year to make improvements in our town, and they are doing a wonderful job."
"This town should be a finalist because we need to add more programs to this community, and $25,000 would really help jump start these programs."
Becky Titus nominated the Sussex Tennis Association Tennis Courts for the Kraft Celebration Tour. The town's tennis courts were selected for the finalists. Titus described nominating Sussex's tennis courts to help with the growth of tennis in the community.
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| Sussex Tennis Association Tennis Courts (Kraft Celebration Tour Image) |
"I would like to nominate the Sussex Tennis Association for the Kraft Celebration Tour to aid substantially the growth of tennis in the Town of Sussex," Titus mentioned in her description on the website for the tour. "This vision continues in upcoming months with the construction of a Clubhouse to run daily operations and store equipment."
"We need to install washrooms in this building as there are no facilities in that particular section of the park (where the tennis facility is located)."
Titus added that lighting improvements would be a positive thing as well, and the funding from the Kraft Celebration Tour could be used to offset the costs of installing lighting.
"Installation of a lighting system would be beneficial to expand our operating hours, lengthening the evening play," Titus stated in her description. "Assistance is also needed in covering some of the staffing (two summer students), who are responsible for running after school and summer programs for the juniors and promotion of the sport in the area."
The Bathurst Curling Club in Bathurst is also participating in this year's Kraft Celebration Tour, and was chosen as one of the 20 finalists.
With files from www.kraftcelebrationtour.ca and www.sussex.ca
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