A historic former WW II prisoner of war (PoW) camp cafeteria at risk of being demolished has another chance at life.

On Monday, Clarington, Ont., municipal council was to determine whether keeping the 100-year-old dilapidated building was worth the significant cost to do so.

Instead, councillors walked away from the nearly six-hour discussion by granting the site a second opinion.

“It was a relief,” said Marilyn Morawetz, the chair of the Jury Lands Foundation (JLF), a non-profit that works to preserve the Bowmanville-based site, about an hour east of Toronto.

“If it's stabilized, then it can exist in that secure and stabilized form for a long time, which will allow us to think about its end uses and the ultimate cost of refurbishing it someday.”

Prior to the meeting, Morawetz’s grou

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