Onanole REC Centre Facilities

 


Banquet Hall


The hall is very architecturally pleasing with its unique cathedral style, fir laminated beams and cedar planking structure. The hardwood floor, built-in stage, balcony, coat-check room, serve-through bar and bathrooms compliment this beautiful building. Air conditioning is available for summer events. These characteristics make this hall very user friendly for a variety of events.


This hall has been used for such events as fall suppers, conventions, concerts, exercise classes, square dancing, flea markets, socials, weddings, festivals, and meetings. Because of Onanole's close proximity to Clear Lake and Riding Mountain National Park, this hall has become a magnet for weddings. Couples from all over Manitoba and Western Canada come to hold their wedding celebrations here. Building acoustics have made this venue very popular for concerts. Capacity for events serving alcohol is 250 people and without alcohol 300 people.

 


Fitness Centre


This fitness centre is the envy of many small and midsize communities. It is housed in a bright, spacious room of over 3,000 sq. ft. with 10 ft ceilings and painted with bright uplifting colours. Add to this the infloor heat, energy efficient lighting, full line of fitness equipment, 24 hour per day entry and your workout will become an enjoyable experience.

The fitness equipment includes tread mills, elliptical trainers, stationary bikes, leg press machine, smith machine, chin-up and dip bar station, curl & straight bars with lots of free weights, a variety of fixed weight dumbbells, ½ ball, exercise balls, punching bag and much more. If you are not interested in using the weights there is a track for walking and many mirrors for aerobic workouts. After a hard work out, you can cool off in the shower.


Memberships are sold for 1 month or 6 month terms, or you can pay a daily drop-in fee.


 

Arena

It will be a pleasant experience for hockey players using the four large bright dressing rooms. Each dressing room has 10 ft ceilings, in-floor heat, shower, bathroom, high efficiency lighting, and a state of the art fresh air/ exhaust air handling system.
The arena ice surface which is 70 ft by 174 ft is serviced by an Olympia ice surfacing machine. It is kept busy with public skating, learn to skate program, youth hockey, women's hockey and the OHL senior hockey.


Spectators and parents can relax in the renovated viewing lounge. Executive soft seating is available in the bleachers looking onto the ice surface. Spectators and players are able to satisfy their cravings for a variety of food from the new canteen. It is equipped with a pizza oven, french fry/onion ring fryer, hamburger grills and other equipment. A friendly group of area volunteers are instrumental in its operation.


 

Kitchen

The new kitchen is a dream come true for banquet hall users and caters. It is located in a large room with 10 ft. ceilings, high efficiency lighting and a fresh air/exhaust air handling system. The room is supplied with electric stoves, a pizza oven, fridges, coolers, number of sinks, commercial dishwasher, microwave ovens, and stainless steel work tables.Dishes and cutlery are available for up to 300 people. The canteen and kitchen are joined for dual use.
Cooking classes held in the kitchen for adults and children classes have drawn great reviews from organizers.


 

Ball Diamonds and Soccer Fields

There are two ball diamonds and soccer fields located on the grounds for summer use. There is a food booth at one of the diamonds for running a canteen. Youth baseball hold their regular games and a tournament each year. Old timers slow pitch hold a two day tournament in September. The rest of the year it is open for the general public's use.

 

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