Healthy Pickle Lake is also working on a town beautification and clean-up project and have now established a committee run newsletter. The community doesn't have a local newspaper, so people will now be more aware of local events, news and activities. The South Temiskaming Youth Centre re-opened their doors for the summer. Over the past few years the Youth Centre has had to close its doors when cold weather approaches. The existing building, provided by the New Liskeard Recreation Committee, is not winterized and is far too small.
Plans are in the works, therefore, for an expansion and wintertizing of the building.
The Healthy Communities Workgroup, local service clubs, dedicated volunteers and youth are all working together to make this project one that doesn't end with the changing of the leaves. At their recent retreat, Councillors of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury set Healthy Communities as one of their four priorities. The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition Community Animator worked a to bring together two local groups that traditionally have not worked together. The merger brought a social consciousness to economic development. Instead of just looking at the employment, the economic development group also started to look at issues of the influx of people, the impact on the municipality, and the integration of the new people to the lifestyle in Nakina.