Ron covets Allan's waterfall (13 photos)

"I know we gave you guys a 100 year lease or something like that," said Sault College President Dr. Ron Common during today's ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Algoma Public Health (APH) building on Willow Avenue. "But we won't be really disappointed if you decide to leave some time before then. This building would make a fine campus building."

Common laughed as he went on to compare waterfall sizes between the new APH building and the colleges newest campus building.

"Yours may be wider," he told Dr. Allan Northan, APH chief medical officer of health. "But ours is going to be taller."

On a more serious note, Common congratulated APH and the huge team of partners who worked together to make the building a reality and finally bring the whole APH team together in one state-of-the-art LEED gold standard building.

Previous to completion of the building on Willow Avenue, the team had been broken up into five different locations.

Now, the people of Algoma (including Sault Ste. Marie) can access all the programs and services offered by Algoma Public Health in one beautiful and comfortable building.

The full text of a news release from the office of Sault MP Bryan Hayes follows.

****************************** Government invests in Algoma Public Health

Project will benefit Sault Ste. Marie’s families

SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO – Bryan Hayes, Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie officially opened the doors to the new Algoma Public Health building yesterday.

Community members joined federal, provincial and municipal representatives to celebrate and tour the new facility.

“I’m proud of our government’s support of this investment made in Sault Ste. Marie,” said MP Hayes. “This project, not only created jobs and boosted the local economy but also will improve access to health services for families.”

The new 74,000 sq ft facility in Sault Ste. Marie will house all existing Algoma Public and Community Health programs at a cost of approximately $22 million, providing one stop health services to local families.

“It’s great to be here today to celebrate the completion of this project. With the generous financial support received from both the municipal and provincial governments, this community's efforts to build a new public health building and enhance health services to families would not have been possible,” said MP Hayes. “My thanks goes out to all the organizations and people who have had a hand in making this building a reality.”

The Harper government is contributing one third of total eligible project costs, up to a maximum of $7.33 million.

Funding for this project comes from Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which is providing approximately $16 billion over two years to create jobs and modernize a broad range of infrastructure.

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