Say hello to Corner Brook's 'magnificent' new rec centre, which now has a name and opening date

Maddie Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 3:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Corner Brook's caller and long-awaited rec centre is expected to unfastened adjacent month, and its recently revealed sanction is simply a motion to a respected metropolis clerk.

Starting May 24, the nationalist tin travel to the installation located connected Memorial University's Grenfell Campus to swim, assistance weights and walk clip with the community.

Mayor Jim Parsons says it's an breathtaking clip for the city.

"I deliberation this is the proudest infinitesimal I've had arsenic mayor," Parsons told CBC News.

"Everyone volition get to spot however magnificent the installation is."

Tuesday's announcement astatine the soon-to-open rec centre was not lone astir the facility's opening date, but besides the pistillate it's named after.

Marina Redmond was a beloved, longtime metropolis clerk successful Corner Brook who was progressive successful respective sports.

The Marina Redmond Centre honours her legacy, says her hubby Paul White.

Redmond and White moved to Corner Brook successful 1992, wherever they lived for the adjacent 3 decades. Redmond died of crab successful 2023.

"I don't cognize however she would respond to this," said White.

He says his family is ecstatic with the quality the installation is named aft Redmond.

"Marina's worked truthful hard for the metropolis implicit the past 30 years, and this is simply a fitting tribute."

White said his precocious woman would predominant a rec centre similar the 1 revealed Tuesday.

Parsons says Corner Brook's assembly and unit had profound respect for Redmond's committedness to recreation, volunteering and nationalist work — truthful naming the centre successful her honour was a earthy decision.

"It's a cleanable fit," helium said.

People tin entree the installation with antithetic passes, and Parsons says its manager volition merchandise much accusation astir prices wrong the adjacent fewer weeks.

Grenfell students volition spot little rates, since the centre is located connected campus, says Parsons.

"They get a batch of the gym time," helium said. "So things similar intramural and varsity sports volition person truthful overmuch of the gym clip to usage for their purposes. And successful return, of course, we person a guaranteed anchor tenant."

Parsons says the installation is operating with a $900,000 subsidy.

Some of the centre's features see pools, saunas, a fittingness centre and a multipurpose room. The YMCA volition tally a 30-spot daycare determination successful the adjacent future.

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