The Centre on Main continues to be a hub for the community to connect in Plum Coulee.
A look back at the past year and a look ahead was all positive as the community centre held its annual meeting Sept. 16 following a fundraising soup and pie fundraising supper.
“It’s been a very good facility for the community,” said board chair June Letkeman. “It’s been coming along very, very well. It’s a well-used place.”
She estimated the centre hosted perhaps 85 rentals of the facility last year.
The Centre on Main can hold up to 75 people and is available for community use or rent; some events happening now include games nights, beginner line dancing, floor shuffle and floor curling, and more.
Having opened in 2018, the centre is in good shape financially, Letkeman noted.
“We have had no problems paying our bills, and that was always one of my worries,” she said. “I didn’t want it to be on the taxpayers’ shoulders. I wanted to have raised the money and paid for it, and we are doing very well as far as that goes.”
It is a priority for them to make it sustainable, she emphasized.
“That was always my worry, and it has been no worry,” she said. “We have rentals, and we are open for faspa every day … so it’s been a really good facility for the community.
“It’s a hub. Things are happening at the Centre on Main, and it’s great. That’s what we all wanted,” said Letkeman. “It’s all worked out really well for us, and we have a great committee, although our committee is getting a little older, so we would like to get some new members on our committee.
“Everything is really positive, and it’s been really good,” she said, noting they had a surplus in the past year of just over $6,000.
They get not only support from the Municipality of Rhineland, which owns the building, but also from the community through donations from both businesses and individuals as well as through the well-known soup and pie fundraisers and grants from the Plum Coulee Foundation.
“Everybody in the community supports the Centre on Main, so it’s really, really good,” Letkeman concluded. “It’s a great community. Plum Coulee has great people, and we have great support from everyone.”
