Regina – A volunteer committee hopes to give a historic streetscape a new entryway.
Volunteers collected bricks from the Connaught School demolition, hoping to re-purpose them in the Cathedral neighbourhood.
They want to build an entryway at 13th Avenue and Albert Street using the century-old red and gold bricks and limestone, but they need $1500 and more volunteers to make it happen.
They’re crowdfunding to raise the money.
“We couldn’t save our heritage school, but we can at least recycle some pieces for the neighbourhood,” reads the plea for funds.
The proposed project is called “Rassembler”. It means ‘to gather’.
“It just needs something to reinvigorate this corner to make it a gathering spot for the community to help bring it back together after losing their really cool school,” said Amanda Lang, Rassembler project designer.
She hopes the structure will become a local hang-out.
If the group is able to collect the funds they need by July 18th, the structure should celebrate a grand opening in early September.
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