Outdoor festivities will be taking place this weekend at Quaker Foods City Square but there has been a slight change in plans.
Outdoor skating will start Saturday at 11 a.m. and there will be a live DJ and makeup artists doing face painting in the former Louis Street Parking Lot.
The public square is a year-round space for community events and activities with family-friendly features, including a refrigerated outdoor skating rink for the winter and a water play feature for the summer.
There will be no speeches from dignitaries or ribbon cuttings.
The $6.4-million project was supported by a non-repayable contribution of $750,000 from the Government of Canada, through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) as part of the Canada Community Revitalization Fund. The City also used $677,909 from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation from its share of gaming revenues provided as a host community for a casino, and $50,000 from the DBIA to support the project.
PepsiCo Foods Canada, through its Quaker brand, is providing approximately $240,000 over 15 years for the naming rights to the public square.
