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Page - 3 - Mississauga News, Sunday, Sept. 29/96 Cawthra seniors left in dark about community centre A group of Mississauga seniors want council to explain why they weren't consulted about the decision to put a new community centre beside their own centre in the Cawthra park complex. "We were promised faithfully that we'd be informed," Billie Courneya, chair of the Mississauga Seniors' Centre fund told councillors Wednesday. She said it was only after reading about the issue in The Mississauga News that the seniors realized council had approved the Cawthra site. "It's very hard to find a more beautiful site than the Cawthra estate and seniors' centre Courneya said. "Why destroy something so important?" Ward 1 Councillor Carmen Corbasson sat council was well-aware of the opposition a seniors when it made its decision to locate the centre. The seniors were consulted in the lengthy process that reduced the selection process from 14 to two sites,, she stressed. While the Cawthra site, "wasn't anybody first choice", it and the former Inglis manufacturing plant on Lakeshore Rd. in Port Credit emerged as the two leading locations. But buying the Inglis property would have cost $6.3 million, and council couldn't support that. "I see this as an opportunity to correct many of the deficiencies of the Cawthra site," Corbasson said. No decision on where the community centre will go on the site has been made as yet and a series of meetings will review that issue. The seniors are welcome to sit down with her and City staff to provide their suggestions, the local councillor said. "I apologize if there's been any misunderstanding or lack of communication," Community Services Commissioner Paul Mitcham said "Our partnership with the seniors is one we value and want to enhance. If there's been a lack Of communication in the past, we want to correct that now."
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