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Cobb’s Pond Rotary Park (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane) Gander Lake (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)

Aviation Museum (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane) Golf Course (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)

“Today, Gander is a vital transportation, service, and retail hub

for Central-East Newfoundland, and, thanks to a prescient Town

Council, is a town well prepared for this role to continue long into
the future.”

Cobb’s Pond Rotary Park (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)

The reception these travellers received in the central Today, Gander is a vital transportation, service, Gander, Percy Farwell, tells Business Elite Canada. importance of sustainability as a community both

Newfoundland communities near the airport has and retail hub for Central-East Newfoundland and, “And as a major service center service hub for a economically, environmentally, and socially.”

become a story told near and far, and has been thanks to a prescient Town Council, is a town well large population in the central part of the province,
celebrated and retold for audiences for years in the prepared for this role to continue long into the Gander has made some great strides infrastructure With every opportunity it’s important to measure

musical Come from Away. future. Bucking the provincial trend of a declining and services and it's been rewarded by the retail out the associated challenges, and with population

population, Gander’s population has grown by 23 sector gravitating to the town.” growth comes increased demands on housing,
Over the years, the airport became part of a larger per cent over the last four census tallies. something Town Council is focused on.

aviation and aerospace sector. The College of the The Town Council works diligently to maintain

North Atlantic has a campus in Gander, as well as a GROWTH IN GANDER quality infrastructure throughout the community “We're excited about Gander’s growth but if you're
flight training school here that attract students from quality services. “We want to be a safe community, trying to be proactive and stay ahead of things,

all over the world. A vital community has continued “We started out as a bunch of people building an diverse, inclusive, and progressive,” says Farwell, then you have to start planning and moving,” says
to thrive around—and beyond—the aviation industry airport but we evolved into a fairly major service “all those things that we take a lot of that pride Farwell. “I'm thinking about how as a community

in Gander. center for a large portion of the province,” Mayor of in. We also take great care to be conscious of the you can take advantage of those things.”

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