After years of heavy use by the community, the Langdon Field house has had a face lift this summer to get it ready for more years of use by the community.
“It’s a fresh start, it looks amazing,” said Langdon Community Association (LCA) Events Coordinator Jessica Smythe.
The fieldhouse is run by the LCA and has hosted a variety of community groups and events over the years.
Everything from fitness and yoga classes, Scouts, after school care and preschool to special events and weddings have used the field house.
“It gets used by multiple different groups every week,” said Smythe, “so you can imagine the wear and tear that that put on the building over time.”
“It was just looking old,” she said.
The LCA fundraised and applied for several grants to pay for the renovation.
The field house was originally built around 1997 by volunteers said Smythe.
“Which was amazing at the time,” she said, “but now that we have the money do to everything perfectly we wanted to take that opportunity.”
The LCA decided to contract out the renovations to professionals this time.
“To make it really, really nice for the community and for events coming up in the future,” said Smythe.
One improvement that stands out to Smythe is the kitchen.
“Its borderline almost a commercial kitchen now,” she said.
“Just a lot better, more efficient, easier to use,” said Smythe.
With the renovations done, Smythe said the field house is ready for the fall programs.
“Its just a clean slate to start off all of the new programs for the fall,” she said.
“Its just going to look really great and represent the LCA and the community a lot better now,” said Smythe.
She is hoping that not only will old user groups continue to use the field house but that they will be able to attract new user groups to the facility.
“Hopefully with the renovations a lot of people will be able to use it for different purposes,” said Smythe, “it might become more of an attraction,”
“We like to be able to offers things people don’t have to leave town for,” she said.
The fieldhouse reopened for use on Sept. 6 and the Grand re-opening weekend was Sept. 23-25.
