This week concluded the quarter century of work planning and building a new personal care home in Morden.
 
A grand opening was held Thursday celebrating the completion of the facility and the work the community went through to make the project a reality.
 
Wilf Warkentin, who has been the Tabor Home Board Chair for 16 years, says the building's completion is like a dream come true.
 
"We've been waiting for this for years. Even when they announced the home in 2010 it still took seven years for it to become a reality. We're just thrilled to pieces and we think it's the most beautiful building that you could get. I think it's going to be the envy of every other community in Manitoba."
 
 
The almost $40 million project took just over two years to build, with 10 percent of the project's cost raised locally.
 
Tabor Home is divided into five wings, each with 20 rooms installed with a specialized lifting device to bring residents to and from the wash. Each wing includes its own common area and kitchen.
 
Premier Brian Pallister attended the opening and was given a tour of the new facility. Pallister said homes like these are essential in aiding Manitoba's senior population.
 
"It's important that we're able to provide the right kind of accommodation and the right way for our seniors and growing seniors population. Every Province and much of the Western world is contending with this reality now. For this community, this is just a tremendous development and a long time in the making."
 
Pallister notes it was the people from the Morden/Winkler community that took the lead in creating this project and this is why Manitobans are leaders for volunteerism in Canada.
 
People will be moved into the personal care home in the near future, with 60 beds going to residents of the previous home and 40 from the Tabor home waiting list.