Frustrated members of the Sault Ste. Marie YMCA looking for marching orders to help save the organization from closure were left with few options after a meeting with leadership on Wednesday.
"Where we're at today is where we're at today," Haddock said. "We have tried to work though some major issues for the last five months and external forces are giving us a tighter timeline to resolve them." The available options are slim, with Haddock telling the gathering that at this point, individual fundraising efforts would likely not be effective given the time frame the Y is dealing with. The only way for the organization to immediately get out of the mess it is in would be through a huge donation made in very short order.
Haddock said he was involved in the construction of a new Y in Waterloo, which took up about 45,000 square feet — half the current size of the Sault YMCA in a much larger city. It also included shared space with the municipality, including a library branch, and was built on property owned by the university.
"I'll write the letters, I will do all of that stuff," she said. "We can't wait for a facility to be built in ten years." "You needed to know we were in dire straits, and I am telling you I was one of the lone wolves," she said. "So here we are now, it's going to be gone and that's not right, as far as I am concerned."
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