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South Shore Fieldhouse Society Click here to view your quick list
 

450 LaHave Street, Unit 17

Suite 115

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia B4V 4A3

The South Shore Fieldhouse Society is a registered non-profit organization formed by a diverse group of community professionals throughout Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

t: view phone (902) 688 1921

f: view fax (902) 543 5520

e: dquinn01@bwr.eastlink.ca



What Are We All About?

The South Shore Fieldhouse Society was formed with the sole purpose of building, and subsequently operating an indoor, a multi-sport fieldhouse to serve the entire South Shore region of Nova Scotia. The building will feature a 100x200 foot artificial turf field at grade, surrounded on a mezzanine level by a four lane 200-metre running track, all indoors. Four dressing rooms, an official’s room, a canteen, and a meeting room the size of a regular school classroom for meetings, training seminars will serve a wide range of community groups who currently lack space to meet, train and play. Trade shows will bring new attractions to the community.

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What Sports And What Else?

Many sports including soccer, lacrosse, baseball, golf, football and ultimate frisbee will use the artificial turf field area for games and training. Track and field athletes will use the track for training and competition (the length of the track and the radii of the parabolic curves of the track will make it the first official indoor running track in Nova Scotia). The general public will have access to the track for walking or running for health and fitness. All principals of high schools in the area have indicated that schools will use the facility to expand physical education programming and that the fieldhouse will provide a valuable training venue for school teams and to host competitions.

The track...indeed the whole facility...will afford the opportunity for persons recovering from a wide variety of medical procedures to utilize the special surfaces in the facility to work on rehabilitative exercise programs indoors on a year-round basis. The close proximity of the fieldhouse to the regional hospital will allow medical personnel to go to the fieldhouse for clinics etc. in only a few minutes. The inclusion of an elevator to allow those with restricted mobility to access the track on the mezzanine level makes this a totally barrier-free facility.

What's Happening?

The Society has signed a 20-year lease (with further extensions) with the Town of Bridgewater for 3.5 acres of Town land on the west side of Glenn Allen Drive at Centennial trail on which to site the fieldhouse. The site has been cleared and grubbed. A contract has been signed to build the facility, with a September, 2008 target opening date. Footing and foundation construction began in mid February. The steel for the facility was delivered in early March.

It is noted that the field house has innovative and environmentally responsible components, including the utilization of geothermal systems for heating and cooling… and the building structure itself meets LEED standards. The inclusion of an elevator will assist physically challenged persons and those unable to climb stairs to the mezzanine level to use the track for exercise and wellness or for restorative programs.

The fieldhouse facility will fill a major shortfall in community infrastructure in the South Shore region of Nova Scotia. It will do so in a cost-effective manner relative to the numbers of residents and visitors to the South Shore community that will use the facility, and the diverse range of uses and needs that will be served.

How You Can Help.

Approximately 85% of the necessary funding ($2.4 million of $2.8 million) has been raised and committed. Funders include every municipal government unit in Lunenburg County...the Province of Nova Scotia...ACOA...Soccer Nova Scotia etc. HB Studios is confirmed as the naming donor. The community fund-raising campaign is now just underway, with a goal of raising at least $400,000.

The Society believes that this fieldhouse brings a unique and cost-effective design to a community facility that will meet the needs of many sports and community activities across South Shore Nova Scotia...where indoor space is seriously lacking at the present moment. If your firm would prefer a targeted donation, the Society could discuss the possibility of acknowledging such support through sponsorship of a dressing room or the main meeting/teaching room in the fieldhouse, or through sponsorship of the elevator that will make the entire facility barrier free.

Your support will help us meet this community goal.

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