Fate Of Oakwood Community Centre In Question, Public Meeting Planned

By Kevin McQuaid Jr.

Friday September 28th, 2012

Posted at 12:30pm

A public meeting will be held on Wednesday October 3rd to discuss the future of the Oakwood Community Centre located in South Windsor at 2520 Cabana Road West.

Oakwood Community Centre is attached to Oakwood School and administered by the City of Windsor. It opened in 1975 with a joint agreement with the Windsor Board of Education and has provided leisure programs to the community for 35 years.

It is located in Oakwood Park, a 45-acre park that links Oakwood Community Centre and South Windsor Recreation Complex. With the closing of Oakwood School in June, the City of Windsor is reviewing its options for providing recreational services in South Windsor.

The meeting takes place at the community centre from 6pm to 8pm.

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Borderman07

I grew up in this neighbourhood, went to Oakwood. This “green area” is an abandoned housing development. There was a plan a lot of years ago to build a steel plant in Brighton Beach. Never came to be, however streets were planned out, sidewalks were built. That’s why ( until the city took them out ), there were sidewalks running throughout there. Proof of this ? Go to the Windsor Community Museum. They used to display ( and hopefully still do ), a 1937 city map showing all the streets that are not there. When Oakwood was originally built, our lovely daily newspaper at the time had headlines discussing why the school board was building a school on “swampland.” Most of what is called Oakwood Park has been left to its own devices..just sat there. If the city does sell off a good part of this for housing, it could end up saving both Oakwood school and community centre. If they do this, I hope they also upgrade the roads around there..they look almost exactly like they did when I was a kid, in the 1960s.