The new Southend Community Centre is open.
The old building on Hillview Street had to be torn down because of damage from the Thanksgiving Flood. Now the new centre in the former Mira Road Elementary School on George Street is open and serving the community.
The Centre’s administrator Angie MacDonald told the CBC her group is leasing the building from the province and now they have access to a gym, large yard and playground for the kids. They’re busy painting and sprucing up but some programs are now running.