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The first step was saving the building. What鈥檚 next? The Brick Mill Heritage Society is now looking for the answer to that question, and wants community input to see what the brick mill will actually become. A series of meetings will help explore the directions that the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society can take in the site, and help get the community involved in the project.

Larry Pearen with the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society said that the meetings will cover three different angles; historic preservation, commercial applications and tourism. The first of these meetings will cover history, with a presentation by Frank Korvemaker. He is a retired Archivist and Construction Historian and Honorary Corporate Archivist for the Saskatchewan Association of Architects.

鈥淭he idea is to have a series of meetings to develop the mill property and what it could be in the future.鈥�

The meetings will start with the historic perspective of the building, because in spite of being one of hundreds of flour mills made out of brick when it was built, it鈥檚 now the only one left.

鈥淚t was one of Yorkton鈥檚 first industrial buildings, that鈥檚 the other part of it too. If you look at Grain Millers and T.A. Foods, the canola plants, this was the early days, when the grain and flour was the main product. Now it has expanded... It all started with the mill in 1900!鈥�

Talking about the mill鈥檚 history is also a chance to clear up misconceptions that people have. Pearen said he鈥檚 been asked when bricks were made in the mill. It was a flour mill, where people took their grain.

With the meetings, Pearen hopes that it can get community members discussing what the potential for the building is, and how people to draw people to that spot in the city. There could be potential for retail space, for example, or a museum focused on Yorkton history. The most important thing is to hear how the community wants to use it, because they want an attractive space that people want to visit.

鈥淚t鈥檚 to get them thinking outside the box.鈥�

Pearen said they鈥檙e open to hear any ideas people have for the site, and no matter what, people should not hesitate to suggest any idea they might have, especially the ambitious and daring ideas.

鈥淪ometimes the far out ideas raise other points, and what grows out of it will be exciting. We鈥檙e looking forward to the next generation, now that it鈥檚 going to be stabilized this summer.鈥�

The first meeting will be on May 9 at 7:30 p.m. the Yorkton Public Library.