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Brenda D’Angela is shocked and upset after learning St. Clair Township may close the Mooretown Campgrounds at the end of the 2025 season.

Council is meeting at 3 pm Monday and one of the items on the agenda is a notice of motion from an in camera meeting which said the facility should close. The campground needs some improvements, the motion reads. “The necessary improvements are estimated to cost between $1 million and $2 million.”

The motion adds the revenue observed from the Mooretown Campground over the past three years has been $97,962, but used $37,457 of General Revenue funds for capital/operating over those same years.”

The motion calls for the campground to close at the end of the season and the township help relocate campers to other St. Clair Township parks.

D’Angela says she and her husband specifically chose Mooretown because it is close to Sarnia. They care for an aging parent and need to be close by. And she says, they found the atmosphere they wanted at the campground.

“We’d stop and talk to people, how do you like it here? And we did explore other campgrounds as well. But the feel was family. It was family. Everybody was close knit. Everybody got along. It was fun. It was just a it was what we were looking for close to home,” she tells The Independent.

The campers were given no notice about the vote at Monday’s meeting. They found out when someone read the council agenda.

The vote comes the same day the campers were to pay a $500 increase on their $3,000 a year rent.

D’Angela will ask council to hold a Town Hall meeting and work with the campers organization to find ways to keep the park open.