(Estherville)– Another major fundraising effort is getting underway in the area.
This one’s for a regional wellness center that would be included with a National Guard Armory and performing arts center in Estherville. It would be built near the current armory in the area of the Emmet county fairgrounds.
Doctor Bill Moreau, an Estherville chiropractor, is heading up a steering committee that will oversee the fundraising. He tells KUOO the total cost of the combined project is roughly 15-million dollars. The wellness center part of the project is estimated at roughly five and-a-half million. Moreau says they already have commitments of a million dollars from the city of Estherville and one and-a-half million from the Estherville-Lincoln-Central school district.
Moreau says they hope to have a groundbreaking next spring.
Moreau says they will not only be seeking contributions from Emmet county, but from the Iowa Great Lakes as well because, he says, it will be a regional facility.
The announcement from Estherville comes as a group of Dickinson residents mount a five and-a-half million dollar campaign to build a YMCA in the Iowa Great Lakes Area.
