Three community projects are benefitting from more than $725,000 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Community Building Fund.

MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Bill Walker announced the funding today.

The Blue Water Curling Club is getting $164,000 to replace outdated mechanical equipment.

The curling club’s Doug Carr says they are elated and the money couldn’t come at a better time.

“In December we had a meeting one Sunday night and one of the gentleman went in and checked out the compressor room just to make sure everything’s okay,” said Carr. “He found a water leak on the floor or we thought. It happened to be brine out of our chiller.”

The Town of Hanover is getting over $160,000 to buy and install new accessible playground equipment at two parks.

Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture for Hanover, Sherri Walden, thanked Walker for his help in securing the funding.

“Bill I have to tell you when you made that phone call in December that we confidentially had been approved it was like a Christmas gift to our department and our town,” said Walden.

The City of Owen Sound is getting $400 thousand dollars to buy compressors for the Harry Lumbley Bayshore Community Centre and upgrade its cooling system.

Mayor Ian Boddy says the current equipment is 40 years old.

“And we all remember the spring of 2011 when the Attack made it to the Memorial Cup how that ice was pretty soft,” said Boddy. “They had to keep the building empty during the day to try and chill it as much as possible.”