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Meladv-AG April2-21 THE MELVILLE Friday, $1.50 PER COPY GST INCLUDED April 2, 2021 Vol. 95 No. 9 Agreement # 40011922 PROUDLY SERVING MELVILLE AND SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1929 • WWW.GRASSLANDSNEWS.CA • 1-306-728-5448 Opening soon! CHRIS ASHFIELD | GRASSLANDS NEWS The new 20,000 square foot Prairie Co-op Home Centre in Melville is scheduled to open on April 12 after less than a year of construction. The current home centre will be closed on April 5 to allow staff time to move product over to the new location. The new 25,000 square foot Co-op Food Store located next door is slated to open in the summer with a grand opening for both being planned for the fall. Prairie Co-op in Melville New Home Centre to open April 12 By Chris Ashfield ple visiting or driving by and the old location on 1st Ave East been busy all week stocking all done an excellent job bring- Grasslands News it will give shoppers more op- will be closed beginning April shelves in the new location to ing it together,” said Paradis. tions without having to leave 5 through April 10 in order to prepare for the final move next With the expanded food and After eight years of planning the community,” Paradis said facilitate the remainder of the week. home stores, Paradis expects to and almost a year of construc- while giving Grasslands News move, and to finalize the setup “It has been a lot of work but see sales increase substantially tion, Prairie Co-op is set to open a tour of the new store. of the new store. Managers and the management team and em- from it’s current $95 million a its brand new 20,000 square foot To prepare for the opening, temporary staff have alreadyg- ployees we have in place have year. That growth will not only Home Centre in Melville next help Prairie Co-op be able to in- week, less than one year after vest more money back into the breaking ground. communities they serve, but Opening to the public on it will also mean more equity April 12 at 7 a.m., the new store going back to the members who is located at #200 – 1 Veterans support the Co-op. Way along Highway 10. Featur- The new Home Centre will ing 13,000 feet of retail space as provide nearly three times as well as a drive-through lumber much floor space as the cur- yard, the new store will replace rent store, while once open the current facility on 1st Ave the Food Store will add an ad- East, which was opened on ditional 10,000 square feet of July 18, 1963 at a cost of just shopping area. This will allow $50,000. more products to be displayed Work on the Home Centre, and stocked as well as product as well as the new 25,000 square lines to be expanded. foot Food Store next door, In December, Paradis told began in May of last year at a Grasslands News that the new combined cost of $17.5 million. stores will also mean more jobs While the home centre will for the community, with four open next week, the food store to six full-time staff and 10 to 15 will not be completed until part-time staff positions being sometime in August. A grand added between the two stores. opening for both stores is being The hours of operation for planned for in September. the new Home Centre will be General Manager Chris Par- Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 adis is excited about the new p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. store location and he says it and Sunday from noon to 5 will greatly improve the shop- p.m. ping experience for people in Ready to serve CHRIS ASHFIELD | GRASSLANDS NEWS Once both the new Home Melville. The Prairie Co-op management team was busy this week helping get the new home centre up and Centre and Food Store are op- erational, Paradis said Prairie “It’s going to be great for the ready to open on April 12. Pictured are (l-r) Chris Paradis (general manager), Jarett Waldbauer city. 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The pandemic quirement is set by the terrible run of luck. How- was also responsible for National Fire Protection ever, it looks like things the closure of many ed- Association (NFPA) and are back on track after ucational institutions incorporates practice what was a difficult year across the world, the runs and practical activ- for most of the world. country, and the prov- ities. NFPA 1001 training “On Easter weekend ince. While some pro- provides the basic train- 2019, a fire damaged an grams that focus mostly ing required for many in- under-construction class- on bookwork were able dustrial safety positions room building at Park- to be done online, pro- and is considered to be land College’s Emergency grams that required on- the starting program for Services Training Site, site training, vocational a full-time firefighter ca- east of Melville,” said training, lab work and reer. 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