CALGARY—A campaign to build Calgary’s first multi-sport fieldhouse is using fundraising to show the level of demand for the facility. The Calgary Fieldhouse Society, which has been advocating to city council on the issue for more than a decade, launched a GoFundMe campaign last week encouraging donors to pitch in $5 to show their support. The society’s true desire is to show city council how many Calgarians are behind building this facility. With the Olympics or without the Olympics, we need a fieldhouse.” Building a fieldhouse in Calgary has been a proposal city council has considered for decades, dating back to the concept first being presented in 1967. But Zaran said Calgary has remained Canada’s only major city without a fieldhouse.

Source: thestar October 18, 2018 00:22 UTC