Business View Magazine | January 2020

332 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 but you can sit on rest benches, there’s a dock, some fish in the pond. You have stressful days and you can go out there and walk through the accessible pathways and just listen to the birds. It’s emotionally therapeutic.” BVM: Does the Nature Sanctuary have an educational component? Harder: “There are two initiatives going on in regard to an interpretive center. One is an education center, and the therapeutic piece. Teachers bring students for school trips, and we had a group of immigrants visit us this summer. Through regional connections, they arranged for a tour with an interpreter to explain what was happening in the Nature Sanctuary – new Canadians who had only been in the country a few weeks or months being shown this side of what Canada is about. It’s wonderful. “I believe that you need to engage in the lives of people and work on creating a whole community Meridian Exhibition Centre Soccer Field