New Housing For Hanley

The official sod turning for the new Hanley Seniors' Housing Project being built under the Centenary Affordable Housing Program took place in town today at 11:30 a.m.




The Government of Canada was represented by our MP for Blackstrap, Lynn Yelich. The Province of Saskatchewan was represented by Kevin Yates and the Town of Hanley was represented by Mayor Don Lynn and Deputy Mayor Daryl Grindheim.

The Seniors Housing Project is comprised of 11 - 2 bedroom units and 1 - 1 bedroom unit. The federal government assisted with a $324,000. grant with the Province also supplying funding. The Town of Hanley and the citizens of the town will be supplying their labour to convert the following unit into these apartments. The total amounts supplied (including the Town's) is approximately $800,000 plus. In this day and age there are bound to be over runs, so I would presume we are looking at probably 1 to 1.5 million before it is all said and done.



There are actually 3 of the units as above and they will be put together in a 'T' formation to enable the 12 units along the long section of the complex and the 3rd unit in the middle of the project. This 3rd unit will hold the laundry room, communal room, heating plant etc. In the future it is also hoped to build in a kitchen facility to enable home delivery of meals to the units.

The complex is already fully booked with residents waiting to move into their unit when the complex is completed. However, there is quite a bit of work to be done before I envision anyone actually moving into their unit. There needs to be a huge amount of work to clean out the inside of the buildings as they now exist and convert to individual living units. There are going to be many, many hours of voluntary labour to enable this complex to get fully developed. The citizens of Hanley (as most small towns) are noted for their volunteerism to their community. This project will certainly task us all to do our part to help.

I of course have signed up to do what I can when I can. We all need to help as best we can.