Posted on Jan 12, 2025
Initiated by the Rotary Club of Williams Lake, the new $90,000 Community Fitness Park in Williams Lake is a user friendly, multi-station, outdoor exercise center with equipment that can be used by all generations. The facility is built alongside an existing playground, frequented by children and their families, and close to the Williams Lake Seniors' Activity Centre, promoting social interaction between all age groups. 
 
The equipment will encourage physical exercise in a natural outdoor setting helping youth, adults and seniors maintain good health. While it is an outdoor exercise facility for seniors it is also specially designed for those with disabilities, and anybody else in the community who wants to use it. The park is located in the heart of the City of Williams Lake. The recreation centre has developed exercise plans at the Park for seniors and organized classes for others and all residents are being encouraged to use the exercise park.
 
 
Rotary Club of Williams Lake contributed $10,000 to the project and another $10,000 came from Rotary through a District Grant from The Rotary Foundation. Northern Development Initiative Trust contributed $30,000, Age Friendly Communities, $30,000 and Cariboo Regional District, $5,000. The City of Williams Lake provided the labour and equipment.
 
Williams Lake Mustang hockey club players and Mark Dyck, of Top Level Earth Works, joined Rotary members and city workers to install the equipment.
 
City of Williams Lake provided the land as well as excavation and landscaping of the facility site, United Concrete donated the concrete and construction forms a local contractor provided the sign for the facility. The City of Williams Lake owns and maintains the exercise equipment and adjacent landscaping. The Rotary Club of Williams Lake contributes minor repairs, painting and lawn maintenance.