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All-Inclusive Multi-Sport Court Opens at Optimist Park Hespeler

Canadian Tire - All Inclusive Multi Sport Court in Cambridge Ontario It has been a long time coming, but as they say, good things happen to those that wait! In 2022, The Canadian Tire Jumpstart program, which helps provide funding to create inclusive play for children of all abilities, offered the City of Cambridge $500,000 to support the project. Newspaper article stated at the time that it would provide space for accessible space for sports such as basketball, pickleball, sitting volleyball, tennis, volleyball, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis. Three possible locations were suggested for the City of Cambridge. I felt, the Hespeler Optimist Park, next to Hespeler Arena was the ideal location. I did my part to promote and lobby for this location. Thankfully, the consultants agreed and picked this as the preferred location. While other cities like Brandon, Manitoba, took only 5 months to complete the project. The City of Cambridge, due to a thorough public consultation proces...

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