The City of North Battleford’s aquatic centre is one of only three municipalities in Saskatchewan to win a Top Training Partner award from the Canadian Red Cross’s Saskatchewan division.
“It’s great for us to get this award,” says CUplex manager Jodi Hargreaves. “It’s an honour for our staff to be recognized and it shows the effort we’re putting in to being water safe.”
The awards were announced during the Red Cross Water Safety Conference in Regina last week. Two of the awards went to the big urban centres, Saskatoon and Regina.
The Battlefords Co-op Aquatic Centre took the third award, making this the second time the City of North Battleford has been so honoured for its commitment to swimming and water safety education. North Battleford’s first such award was in 2011.
According to a city press release, the Battlefords Co-op Aquatic Centre won the award because of the large number of learn to swim and leadership programs it offers, the many people who participate in these programs and the aquatic centre’s commitment to events such as the anti-bullying Day of Pink, National Lifejacket Day and National Water Safety Week.
