Niverville Heritage Holdings has received funding to build 90 licensed child-care spaces in St. Adolphe. Gordon Daman, vice-president of Niverville Heritage Holdings, says this is part of their commitment to St. Adolphe after purchasing the personal care home there some years ago and then transferring the beds to Niverville. He adds they were happy to get word last week that provincial funding of about $700,000 for the daycare spaces would, in fact, be coming.

The former personal care home in St. Adolphe will be demolished this spring to make way for a complex that includes a daycare and senior's housing."We're very excited about the announcement by the province to follow through on an earlier commitment of the previous government to fund 90 spots in St. Adolphe for the proposed campus development that Niverville Heritage Holdings is undertaking for the community of St. Adolphe at the old PCH site. The campus development will include senior's housing, a meeting place for the community as well as 90 daycare spots, which are very much needed for the growing community of St. Adolphe."

Daman says the plan is contingent on getting enough potential tenants for the senior's housing portion of the project.

"We're in the process now of actually moving forward with the demolition of the existing personal care home, which has taken some time because the building was impacted with asbestos in the building. We are in the process of starting demolition this spring. And, during this year, what will happen is that we will continue to look at the feasibility of adding the senior's housing and, if we're successful in attracting enough individuals who are interested in those senior's housing units, we will look at construction beginning next year, 2018 sometime."

He adds they will know by the fall whether everything has come to the point of proceeding with construction next year. Daman says they will build the facility and then work with local partners to operate it.

"We are looking at partnering with the local community daycare if at all possible. If the local community daycare is not comfortable with size of daycare operation, because 90 sports is a fairly large operation, we will look for other partners in the region to participate."

Daman says they are currently working on plans for the campus and will host some open community feedback sessions in St. Adolphe to make sure the project meets community wants and needs. He adds they are also in talks with Manitoba Housing about the senior's housing portion. Daman says they are proposing about 36 units, some being life-lease units as well as assisted living suites.