Rural Municipality of Springfield, Manitoba

use facility for all ages and demographics that can host sporting events during the day and weekends, while large enough to also accommodate funerals and graduations. We don’t have that sort of facility now, so it will be a very positive initiative for the RM. We put out an RFP and we’re looking at budget. So, I’m hoping to break ground in 2019, with about 18 to 24 months for construction. During that time, we’ll have lots of fundraising efforts going on. It will be about an $8 million cost for phase one of the facility.” On a “green” side note, Springfield has a fair amount of groundwater, and they’ve learned that you can harvest cattails to create stove pellets. So, they entered a joint partnership with a company out of southern Manitoba and instead of just cutting down all the cattails growing in the ditches, they’re harvesting them to be made into another product, which they can sell, hopefully, for a profit. Looking to the future, Fell says, “A big goal of the current administration is to see value for tax dollars and for projects and initiatives to move forward and accomplish these things, and to RURAL MUNI C I PAL I TY OF SPR INGF I ELD , MANI TOBA