Future of Regina’s Eagles Club a mystery as emergency shelter set to move in

The Fraternal Order of Eagles successful Regina volition soon beryllium moved retired of their home, arsenic a recently-approved emergency shelter by metropolis assembly is acceptable to determination into the location.

Where they spell from present remains a mystery, but they’re staying hopeful arsenic they look the unknown.

The Eagles Club has called 1600 Halifax St. location since 1985, erstwhile their members built it from the crushed up.

“When you instrumentality a look astir and you spot the improvements that were done to a lumber yard, (the results) are beauteous good,” Bill Gray, the Eagles Club caput said. “Unfortunately, that bequest is done. There’s astir apt nary recovering from that and truthful we get to I conjecture find someplace other and effort and trudge connected to the future.”

On Nov. 30, the nine volition beryllium moved retired of the gathering for the caller shelter. But the exit strategy is inactive up successful the aerial arsenic they person yet to place a caller home.

“We each cognize (the change) is for a bully cause, but I deliberation the assemblage is being breached up a small bit,” Eagles Club subordinate Michele Foraie said. “We’re each hopeful that we tin proceed connected successful different location.”

Foraie is 1 of 644 members who telephone the nine home.

“We’re trying to travel present arsenic overmuch arsenic we perchance tin to enactment the nine and assistance retired successful immoderate mode that we can,” Foraie went connected to say.

Trending Now

For Gray, portion of the frustrations with leaving the determination travel down to members and staff.

“It’s conscionable the quality facet of it,” Gray said. “Like our members — they person nary spot to spell conscionable yet. There’s tons of places to spell but not the Eagles Club. Our servers, our cooks and our staff…they’ll person to find employment determination other which is sad.”

Tara Regan is 1 of those servers.

“It’s precise upsetting,” Regan said. “This spot became home, truthful it is benignant of upsetting to person to leave. But it is what it is.”

Time is ticking for the non-profit. If they anticipation to stay a club, they volition request to clasp meetings, a determination and more. And with hundreds of radical waiting for a spot to go, it could beryllium a challenge. But they stay optimistic.

“We’re ever hopeful. We gotta enactment positive,” Grey said.