The Walden-CAN Anderson Farm Museum and Cultural Center Task Force Up-date

The Walden-CAN Anderson Farm Museum and Cultural Center Task Force Up-date

The Walden-CAN Anderson Farm Museum and Cultural Center Task Force formally started up on October 25, 2006, consisting of members from the Heritage Committee that met all summer drafting the seventeen recommendations included in the Review of the Anderson Farm and Heritage Activities in Walden dated October 10, 2006. Co-Chairs of the Task Force were Marte Holouka and Les Burford. Sheila Prusila and Amanda Turcotte shared secretarial duties and other members consisted of Gwen Doyle, Mary Barr, Elsie Stephenson, Lynn Quinn, Allison Muckle and Reg White.

Our purpose in forming the Task force was to facilitate the implementation of the Final Report of the Walden-CAN Heritage Committee in cooperation and partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury staff.

We set seven goals that we hope to complete in a six month period:

1. To review the 17 recommendations.

2. To separate the recommendations into Governance and Budget
sub-categories.

3. To prioritize the recommendations in both the Governance and
Budget subcategories.

4. To develop a power point presentation for the City of Greater Sudbury Public Input Budget Meeting being held at City Hall on January 30th.

5. To develop an outline for our governance model.

6. To establish a working partnership with city staff and Ward Two Councillor Jacques Barbeau.

7. To establish a working partnership with Council as a whole.


In order to accomplish all of this, the Task Force met weekly at the Meadowbrook Retirement Village during the months of November and the first half of December. A sub-committee consisting of Les Burford, Mary Barr, Elsie Stephenson, Lynn Quinn and Gwen Doyle also held three meetings with City of Greater Sudbury Staff members Ron Henderson – Director, Citizen Services, Library & Museum Systems; Clair Zuliani - Manager, Library & Heritage Resources and Jim Fortin – Museum Curator, exchanging ideas and clarifying and gathering information in order to meet our stated goals.

Sheila Prusila and Allison Muckle were tasked with creating the Power Point presentation that will be presented to City Council on January 30th. This will be completed by January 10th and will be presented to the Task Force shortly after for their approval.