The Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada had barely ended when voters in the town of Salisbury approved a special $140,000 appropriation to rebuild the local ski jump so it can host the 2011 Junior Olympics.

The town doesn’t actually expect to spend that amount, however, First Selectman Curtis Rand said in a Waterbury Republican-American report.

Instead it is the amount of credit residents voted to extend to the Salisbury Winter Sports Association, which already has raised $300,000 in donations and pledges towards roughly $700,000 cost of the project.

The vote at a town meeting indicated residents overwhelming support for the local facility on Satre Hill. It was 141 – 2.

The Winter Sports Association is a volunteer organization with an 80-plus year history. Satre Hill itself is named after a pair of brothers from Norway who introduced ski jumping to Salisbury in 1926 and later competed on the 1936 U.S. Olympic ski team.

The Junior Olympics would last four days and attract upwards of 2,000 spectators in addition to the athletes and their families, boosting the local economy.

The Olympics would be return every four years and residents passed a second resolution, indicating their support for renewing the credit in town budgets through 2014, if needed.