Woodlawn Regional Park Boundary Dam site opened their life jacket loaner station in association with the Lifesaving Society on Aug. 11.
The station is provided free of charge to anyone who visits the park and lifejackets have been supplied in infant, child, youth and adult sizes.
“This project has been about a year in the making,” said Maureen Daoust, park business manager.
“Both the Estevan Lions Club and Top Torque Services donated to the park to help make this possible. The Lifesaving Society has provided us all of the signage and gave a demonstration on how to use the life jackets and stay safe in the water.”
Use of the loaner station is free to anyone in the park and is based on an honour system. Life jackets are available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Patrons are encouraged to take life jackets for the day and bring them back when they are finished using them.
“We want to invite and encourage everyone from the community to come down to the beach,” said Daoust.
“Our biggest priority is making sure everyone that visits is safe and has a good time and we think this is a good way to for us to ensure that.”
The Lifesaving society has assisted with the instillation of several life jacket loaner stations throughout the province and teach the importance of water safety and the dangers involved with water activities.
“We also want to thank the Life Saving Society for helping us on this project and giving their wonderful presentation,” said Daoust.
"We wouldn't have been able to make this possible without our donors and the Lifesaving Society providing us everything we needed."
