From the Town of Bracebridge:
A contractor is now on-site at Annie Williams Memorial Park to start preparing for the installation of a labyrinth. Work will take approximately five weeks to complete.
The Town is committed to maintaining a safe and orderly work site. An excavator will be present to help prepare the space, and visitors to the park are asked to avoid the area.
The labyrinth will be accessible to wheelchairs and the visually impaired and helps promote mental health. It will feature a single winding path from the outer edge in a circuitous way to the center and can be used for walking meditation, to quiet the mind, calm anxieties, reduce stress and more.
A grand opening for the labyrinth will take place in the spring of 2025.
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I used to walk a labyrinth in Burlington. I think it’s a great idea and very good for a lot of folks to get walking.
Too bad funding details weren’t included in this story.
As in other stories.
$4K from the town/taxpayers. Most of it from donations.
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“The cost of building a labyrinth at the park, according to the proposal, was estimated between $18,000 to $20,000. The proponents told the councillors $15,000 has already been raised for the project. The town contributed $4,000 to the project.”
The Town says that the labyrinth “can be used for walking meditation, to quiet the mind, calm anxieties, reduce stress and more.”
Isn’t the far better ‘stress reducer ‘ saving us hard working taxpayers the money being spent on this ridiculousness?
Disappointing use of tax money for something unneeded. Maybe time to reconsider our Bracebridge senior bureaucrats. The politicians behind these glamor projects can be retired in 2026.
Never ceases to amaze me at how much money the town wastes on these type of projects. The deck in the woods at that no one uses ($100,000) the Storybrook trail (over $25,000), the needless redoing of the landscaping at the Taylor Road roundabout ($56,000) and now this labyrinth for another tens of thousands of dollars. Seems the Town management and council are stuck in a labyrinth simply wasting taxpayers money. Who dreams this utter waste of money up? Time to make Town management and the mayor and council spend THEIR salaries on these type of ‘let them eat cake’ projects that are an insult to the taxpayers. Don’t they know how people struggle to financially survive in Muskoka?