experience climbing trees, digging in the mud and planting gardens, or running in the woods. It's a real lack; we need experiences in nature. Children are healthier, they learn better, and they are better adjusted if they have an opportunity for contact with natural things. There’s a whole world of wonder out there,” says Gardner.
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Medicine Hat residents to enjoy and share.
Gardner is gratified by the public and financial support of local residents, and feels Hatters recognize the importance of being able to build a sustainable economy in the future: One that protects and preserves nature while engaging in other profitable activities. She believes it is a fallacy to
It’s like how separate so many of our children, in particular, are from the natural world. They are plugged in electronically— they're whizzes in anything technological— but they don’t have a wealth of experience climbing trees, digging in the mud and planting gardens, or running in the woods. It's a real lack; we need experiences in nature. Children are healthier, they learn better, and they are better adjusted if they have an opportunity for contact with natural things. There’s a whole world of wonder out there.
The Nature Centre was originally set up with the sponsorship of the City of Medicine Hat and the Province of Alberta. Cutbacks by the provincial government in the 1990s nearly forced the Nature Centre’s closure until the Medicine Hat Naturalist Club stepped forward to ensure the Nature Centre's Interpretive programs continue. The Nature Centre now operates as a City property with contributions from private citizens and clubs who see the value of having a free wildlife space within city limits for all
is to create an openness to nature which leads to a healthier and more balanced society. And an openness in Hatters so that those who come out to Police Point Park will feel transported from the daily grind of city life into a whole new world of sensory and natural experience.
— Corlaine Gardner
suggest that there must be a trade-off between the environment and the economy.
“For our society to continue to be sustainable we need to have a healthy environment, a healthy social structure and a healthy economy; and the three support each other. They’re not opposing forces. Without a healthy environment our economy is going to go down the tubes.”
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Gardner believes that one of the main purposes of the Nature Centre, and its Interpretive program,
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The Kinsmen Club of Medicine Hat is proud to donate more than $125,000 annually to our community.
Legacy Projects Include: Kin Coulee; Kinplex I & II, Kinsmen Aquatic Center – Medicine Hat Leisure Centre; Kinsmen Children’s Library; and Southridge Recreation and Wellness Centre.
Annual Sponsorships Include: Free Family Swimming in Medicine Hat & Redcliff ; Free Public Skating in Medicine Hat & Redcliff ; St. Louis School Milk Program; plus sponsorship of numerous local organizations and children’s causes and sports.
If you are interested in joining the Kinsmen Club of Medicine Hat our Executive Meetings are held the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm in the Kin Room at the Kinplex. General Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7:30pm in the Kin Room. Fellowship begins at 7:00pm.
For more information contact Kinsmen Club of Medicine Hat President Cameron Kemp at 403.529.6546.
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“We are trying to stimulate that openness,” explains Gardner. “We try not to preach. If people come and discover their own interest, and discover what they like about this prairie environment, they will make decisions to let us live here sustainably. If people don’t have that contact with nature on a regular basis it’s tough to make good decisions... So if I could encourage people to get out and have their own experiences, and be open to the possibility — we're right here.”
Along the trails of Police Point Park the tracks of deer and rabbits intersect with the plodding course of people on snowshoes and the lines left by the gliding of cross-country skies. Great ice mounds cast up by the river rest upon the banks of the trails and the old, twisty trees give refuge to a wealth of birds and other creatures. In the distance, the laughter of children echoes across the snows and the dramatic vista of the Medicine Hat cut-hills change between various hues in the evening sunlight. A place of beauty and tranquility, but so fragile.
It is easy to get lost in our urban lives, to forget that a world of nature exists all around. Police Point Park reminds Medicine Hat residents to pay attention, and see the miracle of life just outside of our own front door. ■
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