{"id":4724,"date":"2021-11-24T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2021-11-24T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T12:49:34","slug":"community-rallies-to-save-seaside-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2021\/11\/24\/community-rallies-to-save-seaside-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Community rallies to save Seaside Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Outgoing president Sandy Cross is recognized by the Region of Queens for her years of service. From L-R: Sandy Cross, Volunteer Brian Muldoon and Mayor Darlene Norman. Photo Ed Halverson<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Residents braved Monday\u2019s storm to save Seaside Community Centre.<\/p>\n

The meeting was called after president of the Seaside board, Sandy Cross announced she is stepping down.<\/p>\n

A new executive board was needed to keep the Centre from closing.<\/p>\n

Fourteen people stepped forward from the crowded hall and volunteered to serve.<\/p>\n

Having worked with the community centre for 27 years Cross described the results of Monday night\u2019s meeting in one word.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelief. Relief that this place is going to see new blood and it\u2019s going to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seaside Centre serves the communities of Beach Meadows, Eagle Head, West Berlin and East Berlin.<\/p>\n

According to the board\u2019s bylaws, members of the executive must belong to one of those communities.<\/p>\n

Cross says one of the first priorities of the new board should be to change that bylaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about it before, about opening it up because that will allow more people to come in with more ideas. Not only that, new blood is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cross was surprised when towards the end of the meeting, Region of Queens Mayor Darlene Norman came forward to read a proclamation from the municipality recognizing her long years of service to Seaside Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was totally, that just blew me,\u201d said Cross. \u201cIt really did \u2018cause I was not expecting that at all. I\u2019m pleased. They even got me my favourite flowers. Everyone should have this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Norman is glad to see so many people offer their time to keep the centre going.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis strikes a heart in the people of this community and that\u2019s what\u2019s important,\u201d said Norman. \u201cThat people came forward and rallied behind Seaside Recreation Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new board will meet December 1 to select their executive and begin devising future plans for the centre.<\/p>\n

Cross says while she is stepping away, she will continue to support the Seaside Centre and the new executive.<\/p>\n

E-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Residents braved Monday\u2019s storm to save Seaside Community Centre. The meeting was called after president of the Seaside board, Sandy Cross announced she is stepping down. A new executive board was needed to keep the Centre from closing. Fourteen people stepped forward from the crowded hall and volunteered to serve. Having worked with the community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[79,470,232,231],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-darlene-norman","tag-sandy-cross","tag-seaside-centre","tag-seaside-recreation-and-community-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}