Our community deserves better than a 90-minute drive for a 6:00am practice. We’re calling on the Municipality and the Province to fund a feasibility study for a new additional hockey rink and multi-use recreation centre for the Eastern Shore.
WHY NOW
THE SHORE IS GROWING. ITS RECREATION ISN’T
Families keep moving out along Highway 7, our communities are growing, but there is still only one indoor ice nor a four-season recreation facility serving the corridor. The cost of that gap lands on volunteers, parents, and kids. The Eastern Shore has long been neglected, while other areas of HRM are seeing new rinks and facilities being built, while our community is left behind.
OUR COMMUNITY IS SUFFERING DUE TO A LACK OF ATTENTION BY LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
Our sports associations are unable to grow due to lack of available rink space. Hockey, ringette, lacrosse, and figure skating do not have adequate use of our facilities. More and more families want to play sports in their home community, and we want to be able to offer high levels of competition, and recreational sports. Without adequate ice times, and use of facilities, we can’t grow.
NO INDOOR SPACE FOR EVERYONE ELSE
Seniors’ walking programs, youth drop-ins, pickleball, and community events have nowhere weatherproof to gather.
CURRENT CHALLENGES
WHY THE EASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY CENTRE IS NO LONGER ENOUGH
Located at 67 Park Rd, Musquodoboit Harbour, our current facility has served us well for decades but is has reached its limits.
OUTDATED INFRASTRUCTURE
The current facility at 67 Park Rd, was built for a different era. It lacks the modern amenities, accessibility, required for a growing 21st-century community.
CAPACITY LIMITS
With only one rink surface serving a massive geographic corridor, ice time is nearly impossible to secure for developing programs and recreational skating alike.
SEASONAL CONSTRAINTS
As a traditional arena, it struggles to provide the year-round, mulit-sport indoor space that modern families expect for activities like lacrosse, ball hockey, baseball, and indoor training.
Our community has outgrown a facility built 50 years ago. To keep our families on the Shore, we need infrastructure that matches our growth.
THE VISION
A NEW FACILITY. EVERY SEASON. EVERYONE.
We’re not asking for a monument—we’re asking for a practical, right-sized community hun modelled on facilities that already work in rural Nova Scotia.
ICE SURFACE
Minor hockey, ringette, figure skating, public skates, and shinny—plus summer dry-floor use for ball, hockey, soccer, and trade shows.
MULTI-USE COMMUNITY WING
Walking track, flexible gym and program rooms, meeting space, canteen, and accessible change rooms designed for all ages, genders and abilities.
FOUR-SEASON, ALL-DAY USE
Mornings for seniors and other programs, afternoons for schools, evenings and weekends for leagues, tournaments, and events.
IMPACT
MORE THAN A HOCKEY RINK.
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Local ice means more kids playing, shorter drives, and volunteer coaches who can actually run an appropriate season.
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An indoor track and program rooms give older residents a safe, warm place to stay active through the winter.
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Tournaments and events bring visitors to Shore restaurants, businesses, and accommodations in the off-season
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A modern facility can double as a comfort centre during storms and extended power outages.
FAQ:
QUESTIONS WE HEAR A LOT
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Started by local resident, volunteer, coach and old-timer hockey player Kyle Wagner ,with the support of Hugues Mackay, the movement has grown to include local coaches, parents, athletes, volunteers, local businesses, people young and old and our MLA Kent Smith, City Councillor David Hendsbee.
TAKE ACTION
ADD YOUR NAME TO THE CALL
Every signature is a household we can point to when we sit down with councillors, the mayor, the MLA, MP, and HRM recreation staff. It takes fifteen seconds.