HEAL prepares for Great Skate

Times Reporter

 

After seeing the success from last year’s Family Day events, the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Our Future Coalition decided to host a Great Skate event this year on Feb. 20. 

“So we as Healthy Eating, Active Living saw that it was a great event that was well attended and it had people doing stuff rather than just sitting, so we liked that part of it,” said Leanne Sauve with HEAL. 

The goal is to get people out and being active, while spending quality time with their families. Sauve said it is basically a skating party and there will be hot chocolate, food and music, and the Remax tent will be set up. There will also be picnic benches and fire pits for families to gather around. 

“It’s just bring your skates, come out and get some exercise or activity,” said Sauve.

“If anybody doesn’t have skates they can go to Home Hardware and we have the skate swap there. So anybody who doesn’t have skates can go there and pick up skates, or if somebody has skates that they are not able to use, their kids have grown out of them or whatever, they can take them to Home Hardware.”

HEAL is hoping to make the Great Skate an annual event, and are also encouraging people to be more active on a regular basis. Sauve offered a few winter fitness suggestions like skating on Kinsmen Lake whenever it is safe, going to the public skate at the Family Centre, or bundling up and going for a walk. 

Great Skate begins at 10 a.m. at Kinsmen on Feb. 20 and will run until 4 p.m.