Paving our future

Towards paving a future in the community, CASASC staff attended the Legacy Walkway Reveal Party on Aug. 24.

The legacy walkway, filled of paving stones of alumni and community members, leads up to the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre on the Red Deer College (RDC) campus.

The reveal party was held to recognize the contributions of the community to the new athletic facility.

The Paving Our Future campaign, the campaign spearheading the initiative, provided an opportunity for people to show their college and community pride by making a charitable donation in support of the new facility. Those who made a donation had their family, business or personal name engraved onto a paving stone, which was then used to create the legacy walkway to the new centre.

Bre Fitzpatrick, RDC’s Alumni Development Coordinator, shared how this support was an essential element for the campaign, which is the single largest fundraising initiative that the RDC Alumni Association has embarked upon.

“Red Deer College is very fortunate to have supportive groups of people who maintain a strong connect to our institution, whether these may be RDC alumni, community members or partners,” she said in a press release. “These people really are the mortar between the bricks of what we are today and what we will be in the future. Their support of Paving Our Future will have a tremendous impact on the college, and their names will be engraved in the legacy walkway of the new Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.”

The Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre will open its doors in the fall of 2018. The venue will also host five events during the 2019 Canada Winter Games. The centre has an estimated cost of $88 million, funded through a combination of donations, partnerships and government funding.