PFD loaners coming to Lake Eleanor

Personal floatation devices available for youngsters to borrow are intended to increase safety

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Mike Rowden (l), recreation services officer for Thompson-Cariboo Region with BC Parks, and Ralph Segreto, a Shuswap Community Foundation director, check out PFDs (personal floation devices (PFDs) on loan from a kiosk at Shuswap Lake Provincial Park. Willow MacDonald, TNRD director for Area B (Thompson Headwaters) would like to establish a similar kiosk at Lake Eleanor beach in Blue River.

Thompson Headwaters services committee is in the process of setting up a Kids Don’ Float kiosk at Lake Eleanor beach, according to Willow MacDonald, Thompson-Nicola Regional District director for Area B (Thompson Headwaters).

The kiosk would have personal floatation devices (PFD) available at no charge for youngsters to use.

As there is no longer a lifeguard stationed at the beach during the summer, MacDonald brought forward the Kids Don’t Float idea to TNRD staff as a way to increase safety.

Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) has established 37 of the kiosks in B.C. since 2002.

READ MORE: Canada Day at Lake Eleanor (Jun. 26, 2014)

PFD loaners coming to Lake Eleanor

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