Assiniboia's Civic Improvement Association (CIA) was given a $75,000 cheque Monday night.
It's the latest fundraising victory for the town in their attempts to build a new multi-purpose facility that will include a new ice rink.
The money came from Federated Coop's "Community Spaces" initiative, which will see $2 million handed out to community projects across western Canada this year alone.
The ceremony was held on the future site of the facility, which will be named "Southland Coop Arena."
Southland Coop, which has has grocery stores and/or gas bars in Assiniboia, Gravelbourg, Mossbank, Coronach and Lafleche, had already committed $300,000 to the project.
In April, CIA President Curtis Nelson told us they had raised about $4.2 million of the projected $8 million cost, and would hopefully break ground on the project sometime this year, with construction expected to last "about a year and a half to two years."
"It'll house about a thousand people," Nelson said of the new arena. "It will have a walking track and will be a state-of-the-art facility for the size of community we're in."