Cornerstone of Granny Ghetto

FTLComm - Tisdale - April 10, 2001

Last evening a canvasser for the Gold Age Senior Citizens Centre dropped by for a donation to the project. A full $220,000 has been raised for this project but there still needs to be $80,000 to get the job done. The group are selling memberships and taking donations in this canvas to help finish off the funding of the project. The original floor plan for the centre when it was originally proposed for the North part of town was slightly less elaborate than this version seen above. The games room has been added to the plans and this plan includes a basement under the kitchen section of the building This project has been planned as part of a Granny Ghetto to occupy the entire two blocks that once was the site of the TUCs high school. With single house unit lots on the North and South sides of the project the Centre and its lawn bowling courts and horse shoe pitches with parking area occupies the whole East side of the area. While a proposed apartment building is to go on the West side of the field. Clearly this is an ambitious project for the Town of Tisdale as it continues to see itself as a senior citizens residential community. The community already has a sizable proportion of residents who are seniors with five or more apartment buildings specifically for seniors, four nursing/care homes and still many more people living in private single dwelling homes scattered in all of the residential areas. The concentration of senior citizens into this two block area in the very middle of town has been heralded by many is a big step forward. When its initial planning was underway one lady told me how excited she was about the development and the possibility of making the single family residential area within the development a "gated" (high walled fenced in) community. The prospects of this across from me was received with less than overwhelming enthusiasm. From the plans below it looks like this has not been included in the plans. (heavy sigh)