Camp Director Howard Weir

A bible camp in southwestern Manitoba hopes to start work later this year on a major building project.

The Turtle Mountain Bible Camp between Boissevain and Deloraine hosts close to 650 campers every year.
Camp director Howard Weir says the existing kitchen and dining area are aging and needs replacing. He says they've been doing a lot of work leading up to this point and he hopes they turn sod this year.

"We would like to start digging as soon as camp is out this fall so that's somewhere around the end of August. We have a couple of weeks before the long weekend in September. We'd like to have the hole in the ground and a lot of the concrete poured by the end of those two weeks."

Weir said it all depended on weather and having finances in place. "That date isn't all that far away so we have some work to do to get things in place if we want to go ahead in 2015."

Phase one will cost about $1.4 million. So far camp officials have raised $500,000.

Weir hopes the newly released information brochures will help spread the word and raise more funds.