Helping people stay active

Times Reporter

 

This year at REVS, September 2, the Healthy Living Active Living, HEAL, members decided to try something new. In the past there has been a skate exchange, in which any skates were taken to Home Hardware, where they would be sharpened for free and then anybody who needed skates could go over there and pick them up for free. This year HEAL decided to do a sports swap. 

“We’re trying to encourage people to do physical activities and skating and sports provide that opportunity. The idea is to get people motivated to do sports and physical activities for (their) health,” said Robert Breitwieser a member of HEAL. 

During REVS, any and all sports equipment could be swapped in to the HEAL booth.  

“It was slow (and) we didn’t have many people exchange things,” said Breitwieser. Having a slow start to the sport swap isn’t going to deter the group from doing it again next year. The group has already begun planning ways to revise things about the swap, to make it better and have more people aware of it.  

The skate exchange will still be taking place throughout the winter and people can donate their old skates at Home Hardware.  

“It financially helps people and it makes activities like skating and other sports affordable for people. The idea is people who no longer need skates or if they have grown out of them, rather than throwing them away, take them down there and then somebody else can use them,” said Breitwieser. It is free for anyone to head down and exchange or gain a pair of skates. Breitwieser is hoping to have another great skate, where the arena is rented out and people can go skating in the afternoon for free one day this winter.