Celebrating our emergency services

Andrea Roberts
Times Contributor

 

Every day men and women in the emergency services protect and serve the community.
One member of the public, Chris Morgan, wants to give something back to them by celebrating the job they do and the people behind the uniforms.
Morgan wants to break the notion that these people are not part of the community when in fact they are and their job is a vital one.
“Every time you call one of them out it’s because something bad has happened,” said Morgan. “I want the public to know that they are people too. It is for them to say ‘you know we are people too, we have a job to do and we do it.'”
Morgan wants to celebrate the people behind emergency services such as the Strathmore RCMP, the peace officers, the fire services, ambulance and EMTs, Stars and Hawks.
He has spoken with these groups to see how they like the idea of a party and so far he has gotten positive feedback.
M&M Meats have offered to do a BBQ and there have been talks with Stars to do a low-level fly over. Members of the public are invited to take part in a Q&A session with some of the service members.
Morgan meet with town council to discuss a possible date and place for the celebration. He is aiming to have it at Kinsmen Park or the Strathmore Civic Centre at the end of August before the schools start up again or the middle of September.
He also wants members of the public who have been helped by any of these services to write a letter to them to present it to the services on the day.