Journal Staff
The old barn at Camp Saredaca, a place in which generations of day-campers have cobbled together crafts and eaten baloney sandwiches, is about to disappear from the landscape.
Also coming down is the Cricket Club building in Mike Weir Park and a long-unused washroom in Canatara Park.
Though full of memories the buildings are falling apart, not being used or pose a safety risk, conditions that prompting city council to order their demolition recently.
The Camp Saredaca barn on Blackwell Road was built in 1965 and, until last year, was used by campers in summer and picnic table storage in winter.
The concrete foundation is badly cracked and its wall planks rotten or missing, according to an independent building assessment.
Once the barn is pulled down it will be replaced by a community picnic shelter, which can be used by Saredaca day-campers and rented out to groups for community events, according to a staff report.
The assessor also rated the Cricket Club building in Bright’s Grove a “tear-down.” The plan is to replace it with another community picnic shelter, this one equipped with an adjoining storage room and scorer’s table for the club.
The Canatara Park washroom was built in 1975 west of Lake Chipican. Not functional for a decade, it earned a condition rating of “critical.”
The building does have an unusual feature —small mosaics of a girl and a boy at the washroom entrances.
Once the structure is removed the ground will be reseeded with grass, city staff say.