The JC Recreational Centre, operated by Louis Price at South Hill, has acknowledged with gratitude the provision of a water fountain, at the facility, from the Governor’s Office in Anguilla.
The ribbon to the water fountain, set up at the south-eastern corner of the sprawling open building, was cut by the Governor on Friday, August 17.
“The way we decided to divide the limited funds available to the Governor’s Office in these austere times, to help projects onAnguillathis year, was to put an advertisement in the paper,” Governor Harrison explained to a number of basketball camp members and coaches just before cutting the ribbon. “We asked people to bid on any particular project and we decided to support the good ones. You [basketball campers] owe a lot to the leadership of the basketball camp – for putting forward what we thought was an extremely good project because we really had two criteria in mind.
“The first thing we wanted to do was something for young people as most of our projects this year are aimed at the youth. We see, in some of the problems we have on this island, that it is vitally important that there are worthwhile things for young people to do, and nothing is more worthwhile than sport – and basketball is an excellent sport. It teaches you both individual skills and also teamwork so we thought that was very important across the range of all the projects.
“The other thing that the people who are making the bids must have, is a very clear plan for what they were doing, why it was being done and how it would make a difference. It was very clear that just a simple thing as the installation of a water fountain would make a huge difference to the basketball camp. That’s why we decided to support it. It was an extremely good bid and therefore I think ninety-five percent of the credit goes to your leadership and just five percent to the Governor’s Office which signed off the cheque.”
It was a busy day for the Governor who had visits from three separate delegations: the Governor and party from St. Maarten; the Chief Scout of the Commonwealth; and the Rotary District Governor, Vance Lewis. Governor Harrison however took off time to open the water fountain and to score a basketball goal, the first time he attempted that feat since 1971.
