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La Ronde gets federal money towards new building

Centre Culturel La Ronde has picked up $450,000 from the federal government.  It was announced in Timmins Thursday afternoon by cabinet minister Melanie Joly.

$196,000 of that will be used for architectural plans for a new building, replacing the one on Mountjoy St. at Algonquin Blvd. that was torn down after a fire in November, 2015.

Executive director Lisa Bertand says the new building will be on that site.

“There was a lot of asbestos and it was definitely a lot of fire, a lot of smoke damage,” she tells My Timmins Now Dot Com.  “It was actually the members that had decided to destroy the building and then to rebuild.

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“It’s definitely going to be smaller, of course than the other centre.  We’re looking at a $5.5-millon project.”

The former centre was originally Holy Family School, built in the early 20th century.

The rest of the money goes to a La Ronde programming.

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