McLennan Parks & Recreation Board
T0H2L0 McLennan, AB, Canada

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO LOCATION: We've changed our AGM & General Meeting to a Google Meet, click the link below to join on Monday, March 1st @ 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend, and we are looking for more members https://meet.google.com/kek-ddgy-drx?hs=224... Who we are? A non-profit organisation whose mission is to: Enrich the lives of the residents of McLennan. By providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities and affordable, diverse recreation and human services activities for people of all ages to play, learn and to build community cohesiveness, and be good stewards of our community. What do we do? Meet approx 9 times a year (evenings) Fundraise - Casino’s, Oktoberfest, Chase the Ace, cash calendars Facilitate Indoor sports programs at Ecole Providence School Gymnasium (adult basketball, family badminton etc) Manage/Maintain: The McLennan Fitness Centre The Rec Room Upstairs - Facility rentals, and host events The Outdoor Multi-Sportsplex Facility Hamelin-LeidingPlayground How can you help? Become a member and let us hear your voice, and the voice of others! Advertising Fundraising Pick your passion for sub-committees and where you’d like to help out! Grant Writing Past Initiatives? Opened a fully functionable 24hour Fitness Centre with wifi on site! Purchased new commercial fitness equipment Purchased new tv’s, sound system, Bell satellite and karaoke system for the Rec Room Upstairs! Created and facilitated Rec Room Upstairs rentals! Purchased sports equipment for indoor sports! Opened the Outdoor Multisports Complex! Childrens Pond Hockey Kicks for Kids Soccer Created a Facebook account, and email money transfers! 2021 Goals? Upgrade/replace the Hamelin-Leiding Playground Purchase new commercial equipment for the Fitness Centre Hire a summer student

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Volunteers are a gift to the community Who we are? A non-profit organisation whose mission is to: Enrich the lives of the residents of McLennan. By providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities and affordable, diverse recreation and human services activities for people of all ages to play, learn and to build community cohesiveness, and be good stewards of our community.... What do we do? Meet approx 9 times a year (evenings) Fundraise - Casino’s, Oktoberfest, Chase the Ace, cash calendars Facilitate Indoor sports programs at Ecole Providence School Gymnasium (adult basketball, family badminton etc) Manage/Maintain: The McLennan Fitness Centre The Rec Room Upstairs - Facility rentals, and host events The Outdoor Multi-Sportsplex Facility Hamelin-LeidingPlayground How can you help? Become a member and let us hear your voice, and the voice of others! Advertising Fundraising Pick your passion for sub-committees and where you’d like to help out! Grant Writing Past Initiatives? Opened a fully functionable 24hour Fitness Centre with wifi on site! Purchased new commercial fitness equipment Purchased new tv’s, sound system, Bell satellite and karaoke system for the Rec Room Upstairs! Created and facilitated Rec Room Upstairs rentals! Purchased sports equipment for indoor sports! Opened the Outdoor Multisports Complex! Childrens Pond Hockey Kicks for Kids Soccer Created a Facebook account, and email money transfers! 2021 Goals? Upgrade/replace the Hamelin-Leiding Playground Purchase new commercial equipment for the Fitness Centre Hire a summer student

A Wildly successful Family Day at the Toboggan Hill in McLennan. Lots of Children, Hotdogs, Marshmellow, Hot chocolate and cookies were shared by all. Both fire-pits going to keep us all warm.

A TOWN WORKING TOGETHER Starting in the 60’s and opened up by Gerry Demeule, the Toboggan Hill has been a favorite place to go during the McLennan Winters. Nam...ed by local children Dead Man’s Cliff. Recently Gilbert Demeule thought it would be fun to serve Hot Chocolate to the children to warm them up. This of course would require a garbage can for the cupsand so it began. A simple post on Facebook, looking for a garbage can. Of course, picnic tables and fire-pit would be nice too. In the meantime, Kate Blackmore posted a Picture of a Sled & Toboggan Lending Library with the statement wouldn’t this be great for McLennan. That was all it took to get Dan the Stickman off and running. Within Days we had 2 picnic table donated by DJ & Grant Hicks, a Fire-pit and lots of hot chocolate mix donated by Darlene and Roger Bruneau. A cash donation for supplies of hot chocolate, cups and more was given by Reetika David. Theresa Demeule began making signs for the Lending shed, and both groups began working together. Dan the Stickman donated the wood we would need by the Fire-pit, and cleared the ice and path to get there. As well, an area for the table, fire-pit and wood was cleared with the help of Gilbert Demeule. Once our Polar Vortex Passed, we’d be in business, in time for Family Day. Toboggans and sleds have been donated by Dan the Stickman, and Marilyn Brulotte. The garbage Can came from the guys at the town shop, who also modified a barrel for a second fire-pit. We hope to have the Lending sheds placed and filled very soon. The fire-pits will be removed when the weather warms to prevent the temptation of fires during fire season.

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO LOCATION: We've changed our AGM & General Meeting to a Google Meet, click the link below to join on Monday, March 1st @ 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend, and we are looking for more members https://meet.google.com/kek-ddgy-drx?hs=224... Who we are? A non-profit organisation whose mission is to: Enrich the lives of the residents of McLennan. By providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities and affordable, diverse recreation and human services activities for people of all ages to play, learn and to build community cohesiveness, and be good stewards of our community. What do we do? Meet approx 9 times a year (evenings) Fundraise - Casino’s, Oktoberfest, Chase the Ace, cash calendars Facilitate Indoor sports programs at Ecole Providence School Gymnasium (adult basketball, family badminton etc) Manage/Maintain: The McLennan Fitness Centre The Rec Room Upstairs - Facility rentals, and host events The Outdoor Multi-Sportsplex Facility Hamelin-LeidingPlayground How can you help? Become a member and let us hear your voice, and the voice of others! Advertising Fundraising Pick your passion for sub-committees and where you’d like to help out! Grant Writing Past Initiatives? Opened a fully functionable 24hour Fitness Centre with wifi on site! Purchased new commercial fitness equipment Purchased new tv’s, sound system, Bell satellite and karaoke system for the Rec Room Upstairs! Created and facilitated Rec Room Upstairs rentals! Purchased sports equipment for indoor sports! Opened the Outdoor Multisports Complex! Childrens Pond Hockey Kicks for Kids Soccer Created a Facebook account, and email money transfers! 2021 Goals? Upgrade/replace the Hamelin-Leiding Playground Purchase new commercial equipment for the Fitness Centre Hire a summer student

Cash Calendar draws for Jan 17th-23rd. Congratulations to this weeks winners!

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Volunteers are a gift to the community Who we are? A non-profit organisation whose mission is to: Enrich the lives of the residents of McLennan. By providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities and affordable, diverse recreation and human services activities for people of all ages to play, learn and to build community cohesiveness, and be good stewards of our community.... What do we do? Meet approx 9 times a year (evenings) Fundraise - Casino’s, Oktoberfest, Chase the Ace, cash calendars Facilitate Indoor sports programs at Ecole Providence School Gymnasium (adult basketball, family badminton etc) Manage/Maintain: The McLennan Fitness Centre The Rec Room Upstairs - Facility rentals, and host events The Outdoor Multi-Sportsplex Facility Hamelin-LeidingPlayground How can you help? Become a member and let us hear your voice, and the voice of others! Advertising Fundraising Pick your passion for sub-committees and where you’d like to help out! Grant Writing Past Initiatives? Opened a fully functionable 24hour Fitness Centre with wifi on site! Purchased new commercial fitness equipment Purchased new tv’s, sound system, Bell satellite and karaoke system for the Rec Room Upstairs! Created and facilitated Rec Room Upstairs rentals! Purchased sports equipment for indoor sports! Opened the Outdoor Multisports Complex! Childrens Pond Hockey Kicks for Kids Soccer Created a Facebook account, and email money transfers! 2021 Goals? Upgrade/replace the Hamelin-Leiding Playground Purchase new commercial equipment for the Fitness Centre Hire a summer student

A Wildly successful Family Day at the Toboggan Hill in McLennan. Lots of Children, Hotdogs, Marshmellow, Hot chocolate and cookies were shared by all. Both fire-pits going to keep us all warm.

A TOWN WORKING TOGETHER Starting in the 60’s and opened up by Gerry Demeule, the Toboggan Hill has been a favorite place to go during the McLennan Winters. Nam...ed by local children Dead Man’s Cliff. Recently Gilbert Demeule thought it would be fun to serve Hot Chocolate to the children to warm them up. This of course would require a garbage can for the cupsand so it began. A simple post on Facebook, looking for a garbage can. Of course, picnic tables and fire-pit would be nice too. In the meantime, Kate Blackmore posted a Picture of a Sled & Toboggan Lending Library with the statement wouldn’t this be great for McLennan. That was all it took to get Dan the Stickman off and running. Within Days we had 2 picnic table donated by DJ & Grant Hicks, a Fire-pit and lots of hot chocolate mix donated by Darlene and Roger Bruneau. A cash donation for supplies of hot chocolate, cups and more was given by Reetika David. Theresa Demeule began making signs for the Lending shed, and both groups began working together. Dan the Stickman donated the wood we would need by the Fire-pit, and cleared the ice and path to get there. As well, an area for the table, fire-pit and wood was cleared with the help of Gilbert Demeule. Once our Polar Vortex Passed, we’d be in business, in time for Family Day. Toboggans and sleds have been donated by Dan the Stickman, and Marilyn Brulotte. The garbage Can came from the guys at the town shop, who also modified a barrel for a second fire-pit. We hope to have the Lending sheds placed and filled very soon. The fire-pits will be removed when the weather warms to prevent the temptation of fires during fire season.

Cash Calendar draws for Jan 17th-23rd. Congratulations to this weeks winners!

Ken Breland won the $500 January 1st draw for the cash calendar and this very generous man donated back $250 to our playground project!!!! How amazing is this!!!?? Thank you so much, Ken! We appreciate your generosity so much.

Cash Calendar draws for January 10th-16th!

Winners so far on our cash calendar!

We are hoping to sell out! Only 18 tickets left! You can win money everyday in January!

****SOLD OUT!!!**** Cash calendars: $20 each - all proceeds go to the McLennan Parks & Recreation Board... Calendar is for the month of January Everyday you have a chance to win!!! Etransfer to [email protected] Include your name and address on etransfer Must be 18 to enter Only 300 tickets printed!

Good morning! It’s with a heavy heart that we announce that due to the New COVID restrictions we will be forced to shut down this Saturday the 12th until furth...er notice. They say 4 weeks is the minimum time for shutdown. You will have until this Friday to go and grab anything you need, we’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you! When we are allowed to reopen we will let you all know! Be safe & Have a good Christmas!

Cash Calendars are now available online, and from board members. All you have to do is email money transfer $20 per ticket to the Rec Board. We can fill in the tickets for you and email a picture of the ticket or mail (whatever is preferred). Only 300 tickets printed, plus your ticket is eligible for all weekly draws! ... Great odds! Great Christmas stocking gift! Get your tickets while you can! See all the details below in picture, and email the Rec Board at [email protected] for your tickets. Thanks for your support!

The outdoor multi-sports facility is now open in McLennan. While reopening, the threat of COVID-19 remains. All park users must exercise caution and continue to adhere to the following public health orders and personal safety guidelines. If we see that these guidelines are not being followed, we will close the court. Please read through the COVID-19 Guidelines for Usage, as well as the Sports Court Rules, in the pictures attached.

The Hamelin-Leiding Park will be closed tomorrow, Saturday August 15, 2020 while sand tilling work is being completed (weather permitting). It will be re-open once all equipment is off site. Thank you for your continued support while we work to improve the park.... Please Share!

Notice to Residents that use the Hamelin-Leiding Playground. The park will be closed to the public August 12 & 13 for weed maintenance & control. The park entrance will be ribbon off for the duration of the closure and we ask the public please refrain from using the park for the next 48 hours . Thank you for your patience and understanding while this work is completed. Please Share!

Notice to Residents that use the Hamelin-Leiding Playground. The park will be closed to the public August 12 & 13 for weed maintenance & control. The park entrance will be ribbon off for the duration of the closure and we ask the public please refrain from using the park for the next 48 hours . Thank you for your patience and understanding while this work is completed. Please Share!

McLennan Fitness Center - Re-Opening tomorrow at 9:00 am! Please see the attached pictures of our new guidelines.

McLennan Parks and Recreation Board would like to thank Tom Henihan for the lovely article in the Smoky River River Express!

Fitness Centers have been included in the Phase 2 Covid-19 re-opening plan as announced on June 9th. We will not be able to meet the June 12th inaugural Phase 2... launch date but are striving to open as soon as we can! Please be patient while we work towards re-opening and following public health guidelines:)

HFCRD playgrounds have re-opened today! While this news is exciting for many families, please note that playground users must comply with gathering restrictions... and maintain physical distancing of 2 metres between individuals not from the same household. For more information, Alberta Health Services' Guidance for Playgrounds document can be found here: https://www.alberta.ca//covid-19-relaunch-guidance-playgro Enjoy the sunshine everyone!

Looking for some outdoor fun? These beauties are now hiding throughout Mtown. Find one, SMILE, snap a pic of where you found it, post the pic on the new McLennan ROCKS Facebook page, then keep the rock or move it to another location where it will put a smile on another face. Paint your own to hide around town and enjoy the fun!

Yesterday with the help of the Falher IDA Pharmacy, we dropped off some care packages of toiletries, books and lotion for the residents at the Manoir Du Lac. We hope that this small gesture brings a little ray of sunshine to the residents in this challenging time. And that they understand that they are always in the thoughts of the community as a whole. Stay safe and stay healthy.

Today we delivered pizza to the Manoir Du Lac in McLennan as an appreciation to the staff for everything they do! We truly appreciate each and every one of you, you’re such an incredible bunch! Thank you McLennan Pizza & Donair for the delicious pizza! We hope you enjoyed your tasty lunch!

MD of Smoky River, we have our first COVID-19 cases in the region. It is important to know that even though the Alberta govt site has Falher on it, this map is ...for our region not just our town. It includes all of the MD of Smoky River and the towns and villages. So we don’t know where it is and in some ways that’s good. This lets us worry about our neighbours as much as ourselves. We have been working on the assumption that there was already cases here. Our Smoky River Fire Department members have been receiving regular updates, we have been making changes to help ensure service to the public and preparing for the upcoming spring season Emergencies don’t stop and neither will we. We have great leadership in the MD, towns and villages. Life will go on but life has definitely changed in the last few weeks. We as a community need to stay strong, follow the guidelines set out by AHS and take care of each other. We will flatten the curve. We have businesses that are struggling. If you can, support them do so. Order out once a week from a different restaurant, shop local. Don’t overbuy and save stuff for everyone. Work together as a community and we will get through this. For my Fire department brothers and sisters, now is the time to step up, work as a team and do our best for our community. Set aside our fears and differences and protect our citizens. Thanks for all you do. Marcel Maure Director of Emergency Management Director of Protective Services Regional Fire Chief MD of Smoky River

Well done everyone! Thank-you to all of the non-profit volunteer groups who came together, had a vision and put this community weekly event together. It was so nice to see everyone out visiting and having fun. Also, a great BIG THANK-YOU to all of you who came out and supported our Chase the Ace, we couldn’t have done it without you! We are so happy to help the Smoky River Palliative Care Society, they are truly deserving

McLennan Fitness Centre After careful review of recent government recommendations (schools closing etc) the Rec Board has decided to do our part to help keep everyone safe. We've decided to close the Fitness Center as of midnight tonight, Monday March 16th (until further notice). If you require anything out of your lockers, please pick them up before then. In regards to your membership, here are your options: 1) We will simply pause your membership until we can re-open.... 2) Receive a prorated refund, if you wish to cancel your membership. Contact Genelle @ 780-523-7714 if you have any questions or concerns. Sincerely, McLennan Parks and Recreation Board

Our final Chase The Ace evening turned out to be our most successful one yet. The Legion was packed with excitement as patrons waited in anticipation to see wh...o would be the lucky nightly winner. It turned out that Jackie Bouchard would have some good fortune shine down on her as her ticket was pulled guaranteeing her $465 and affording her a chance to find the Ace of Hearts and a shot at $3,528!!! Unfortunately for her it was the 9 of Clubs that would make an appearance last night. So that concludes our fundraiser for this winter. The jackpot of $3,528 will be donated to Smoky River Palliative Care. A truly deserving charity that benefits our entire region. We wish to thank our volunteers and non profit societies for making this all possible. More importantly, thank you to each and every one of you who came out to socialize, laugh and donate each week! We are confident we will see you all back next winter!

Tonight’s the last night of our Chase the Ace fundraiser, Friday, March 13th. Will Friday the 13th bring some good fortune for one lucky player, or will it shine down on Smoky River Palliative Care? Let's see if we can pack the house and get our jackpot up to $3500 to close it out!!

Thank you Tom Henihan for the great article!

Our 2nd last night of Chase The Ace was another fun filled night of laughs and stories. The lucky winner was McLennan's own Randy Jones! Randy took home $321 fr...om the nightly sales pot, but was unsuccessful in his search for the Ace of Hearts. He had a shot at the $2830.50 jackpot but came up short by finding the Six of Hearts! Only one Friday remains for our fundraiser and that is next Friday, March 13th. Will Friday the 13th bring some good fortune for one lucky player, or will it shine down on Smoky River Palliative Care? Let's see if we can pack the house and get our jackpot up to $3500 to close it out!!

There was some excitement in the air at the McLennan Legion last Friday night as our Chase The Ace jackpot started off at $1792! By the time tickets were sold and it was draw time, it had jumped up to $2349!! Ursula Valiquette was our lucky winner for the evening and she was fortunate enough to leave with $371 & was afforded the chance to draw for the Ace of Hearts. She was unsuccessful in her search as she found the Queen of Diamonds instead. Only 2 weeks remain for the chance to take home the big prize. Hope to see you all there this Friday!

Don't forget to come out and try your luck tomorrow night at our community Chase the Ace! Doors open at 6:00pm and the draw is at 9:00pm Tickets $5.00 Legion Hall in McLennan... Our progressive jackpot sits at $1792.50 Awesome food service provided by Darlene, with free delivery! Bar is open! Great drinks, great company!!!

Congrats to Adele Lavesque for winning the draw during the Mclennan Parks & Rec Frosty Family Fun Run this year! Adele ran four 1k laps. This year every lap of ...the x-country track got the runners name into a draw for $100! Way to go Adele and all the runners who came out and had a Frosty Family Fun Run! See more

Happy Monday! We hope you have a great week! If you’re interested in getting a membership or have any questions contact the page! Our fitness centre has avai...lable wifi for our members to use when they come to the gym Another great option we have to offer is with every membership when you get the key ($50 deposit) you have access to the gym 24/7!

The Rec Board would like to thank our Pond Hockey coaches, Luc Dubrule, Claude Labbe and junior coach Taylor Chalifoux, for giving up their evenings, and for teaching us how to skate, how to stickhandle, and how to shoot the puck. But, most of all thank you for the fun and awesome memories! Another great season has come to end, see you all next year!