Archived Springbrook and Area News
January 2009

Jan. 21, 2009
City Plans More Parking at Fort Normandeau
Red Deer County council is supporting the city of Red Deer's plan to add a 135-stall parking area at Fort Normandeau immediately west of the city boundaries and Highway 2. Parking is needed not only for the historic site but for the increased use of the Red Deer River as a recreational resource. In recent years, vehicles have been parked in areas that are unsafe during hot summer days when inner-tubers take to the river. First reading of a bylaw to lease seven acres of municipal reserve to the city was passed by council.

Jan. 19, 2009
Groundwork for Plasco Plant Expected This Summer
Plasco Energy Group expects that ground work at the Horn Hill Waste Transfer Site east of Penhold for the 200-tonne-a-day $70 million waste-to-energy gasification plant will begin this summer and be operational in the summer of 2010. It will be one of the first, if not the first, commercial operation. Another is planned for Ottawa through a partnership with that city. Plasco will build and operate the Central Alberta plant with garbage being supplied by several municipalities including the city of Red Deer and Red Deer County. The plant will likely attract municipal officials from all over North America to see how the system works.

Jan. 6, 2009
County Moves to Lease Reserve Land for Aviation Museum
Red Deer County council unanimously gave first reading to a bylaw today for the lease of about 10 acres of municipal reserve land for the proposed Harvard Historical Aviation museum in Springbrook. The location is east of the fire hall and northwest of the sports fields at the site of the running track and the gravel parking lot south of the Trinidad Training Centre. The balance of the municipal reserve site with the baseball diamonds and soccer fields may become the site of a future school, a recreation building and a new road, according to the Springbrook Heritage Urban Design Plan. In May of 2008, council authorized administration to enter into a lease agreement with the Harvard Historical Aviation Society. A public hearing on the bylaw will be held soon.
The society plans to build a 15,000 to 18,000 sq. ft. building that will house artifacts of the former Penhold military base, interactive displays, flight simulators, models and aircraft. The primary focus of the museum will be on the NATO training years from 1951 to 1965. Construction could start in 2010 if funding can be arranged. A 1941 Airspeed Oxford twin engine trainer plane, found in southern Saskatchewan, has been acquired that was originally used for training at the Penhold base as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War. It will be restored for display. The centre will also offer educational programs with a strong youth component.

Jan. 1, 2009
Two Springbrook Events Bring in New Year
About 50 people attended the Springbrook Community Association New Year's Eve dance at the community centre while about 35 people were on hand for a similar event at the Harvard Business Centre on Wednesday.


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