There are several great places to go sledding during the winter in the Soo. However, Finn Hill on Black Road is the most popular hill. Children have enjoyed it for decades.
Charlie Lachapelle-Smith, a committed sledder, sent a letter to Mayor Provenzano asking for several improvements. Children (and adults) get tired climbing up the hill repeatably. Local athletes run up the hill during the summer for conditioning.
Charlie wants either a chair lift or conveyor belt to get up the hill for several reasons. One reason is to assist people with a disability to enjoy the hill. Another reason is to prevent sledders from getting tired out climbing up the hill. A lift or belt allows more people to enjoy Finn Hill.
The Sault winters can be brutally cold. A potential warming hut added for increased enjoyment. Monday night at the City Council Meeting, Councillors Hollingsworth and Shoemaker proposed a resolution studying potential improvements to Finn Hill. It passed unanimously.
Way to get things rolling Charlie!
So. let me see… If they install a towrope system or belt of some kind, then there will have to be a city employee to operate it, and that only on certain hours of the day.. (Never mind the wages and benefits). Oh yes, and the liability insurance… The city couldn’t even afford to pay the cost of letting the kids play on the old train at Bellvue !!! Leave things alone, for petes sake, the kids (and the adults) can all use the exercise.. Not like it’s a four mile climb..And God forbid someone should get COLD in the Soo in the winter….
Turn the hill around make it go the other way .. jk. But it would be nice to have a pump track at the bottom in the summer over to the side connecting to the snow machine trail and hub trail for a continuation of that healthy lifestyle.
How about them awesome roads & streets in the Soo.
I want to meet this brilliant and very creative young man…
I’m neither for or against, but with the widening of Black Road, how is that going to affect Finn Hill??? I went last winter and we were sliding almost to the road, with it being even shorter now at the bottom, maybe something needs to be done for safety in that regard first.
I’ve noticed the same thing. They should limit hill access to about halfway up and if they want to provide a tow system do it at Elliot Park where traffic at the bottom of a sliding hill isn’t an issue.
Besides, every special athletic/activity site in the city doesn’t have to be in the east end.
No..its called exercise!
Shawn Cadamuro exactly.
Yes!
I’m with you Charlie, when my son was young, I brought him there, yes a tow rope and heating hut would be a wonderful idea!!! There is so little for kids in this town especially in the winter, theres heating huts for skaters why not sledders!!! Keep on them Charlie!!!!
Nazis run the city
Finish one thing at a time!
The downtown project sounded awesome- keep it going
Back in my day we had to walk 5 miles up hill both ways to and from the local sledding hill
Craig Hope
That hill is one of the best forms of exercise for both children and adults. I like the hut idea but hope if the chair lift passes that there will still be the option to walk back up
It’s part of our history in the soo. Good reason to enhance those memories and make new ones.
I think a 9. Year old boy asked for this get er done.
Do it for the kids. Theres so little for them.
Dee Moulton do it for me, so I don’t have to walk my tired old ass up that hill, lol
There’s a reason the tow/lift was removed from Finn Hill decades ago – the cost of maintenance was too high being one of them, and that back when the Soo had a decent economy.
Now imagine doing this now, with failing infrastructure which has been largely ignored for decades and at a time when the Soo economy is weak.
Sounds like a great idea to recreate a failed concept, but that’s status quo in good old Sewer Ste. Marie
Leave hill alone
Wow we don’t have other places to spend tax dollars!!!Just saying!😭🙏
Ruby Beharriell Right? Just keep the kids I side locked to their screens we dont want them out there spending our tax dollars!!
Ruby Beharriell it’s not a waste of “tax dollars” just saying.
A new logo that cost 100k that’s a waste of tax dollars
I’m not saying that I just think we have other priorities right now like getting our city going again !How about that people don’t even have jobs !We are in for some sad days ahead !Get your head out of your ass and wake up !😭🙏🙏
Right now it’s a waste when we are driving on roads full of holes !
Ruby Beharriell not all tax payers even own cars. What might be a “waste” to you might not be to others. It’s not just about you.
Well I’m pretty sure the majority drive on the roads or ride a bus !We are recovering from a plandemic you know !Carry on !🙏🙏
Ruby Beharriell it’s for the kids !!
So !All I’m saying is I don’t think now is the time !Other priorities right now get the city back to half assed normal!🙏🙏
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