Neepawa opens its new water slide

By Eoin Devereux Neepawa Banner & Press

Phase one of the Neepawa Swimming Pool’s highly anticipated upgrade has been completed, as the new water slide is up and operational. To mark the occasion, representatives with Neepawa’s Recreational Services Nicole Cooper and Heidi Nugent held the official ribbon cutting, or in this case, a pool noodle cutting, on Tuesday, June 28.

The water slide is just part of the planned improvements for the pool, which includes an extended pool deck, new entry and park plazas and an expanded parking lot. Director for Recreational Services Nugent said that seeing a part of these very ambitious plans come to fruition has been fantastic.

“It’s awesome. It’s a great addition to our pool and it’s going to be hugely popular,” stressed Nugent. “There are many people who are excited about the slide. They’ve been coming up and asking ‘When is it going to open?’, and we’re pleased to see it’ll be open to the public for the Canada Day weekend. It was important for us to have it get it done here and it’s very exciting.” Cooper, who has been away this year on maternity leave, but has been a significant part of the planning from the very beginning, noted that seeing the final

Above left picture: Kamryn Michaluk was the first person to give the new water slide at the Neepawa Swimming Pool a test run. The slide (above right) is a major part of the planned Pool upgrade . Bottom right picture : Nicole Cooper and Heidi Nugent, along with Kohen and Quade Cooper performed the official ribbon cutting, or in this case, pool noodle cutting, on Tuesday, June 28.

Animals killed at Neepawa Bird Sanctuary

product in place has special significance. She said that seeing the faces of the families when they experience it for the first time, will just add to that significance.

“Honestly, like seeing it on a piece of paper is like ‘Oh, cool.’ It’s exciting, but and then actually having it here and for opening weekend on Canada Day, and the excitement on the kid’s faces and just like everybody was so excited to have something new and something you know, they don’t have to drive somewhere else to use.”

By Eoin Devereux Neepawa Banner & Press

An unfortunate discovery on Wednesday, July 5 for volunteers at the Neepawa Bird Sanctuary, as several of their animals were found dead. It appears that a pair of dogs were able to gain access into the Sanctuary overnight and are thought to have killed every free roaming animal. Bird Sanctuary volunteers confirmed, via their social media, that the deceased animals discovered include an entire Silkie chicken family and their babies. As well, six young adult chickens, a bantam hen with a baby chick, another hen that just hatched out a peahen and a fluffy lop rabbit passed away. There are also two young cats that frequent the area that remain missing, as of July 5.

Total cost of all the improvements when it was first announced was estimated at just under $590,000. Half of that amount was covered through funding from the Province’s Building Sustainable Communities grant. The remaining amount will looked after by the Town. www.myWestman.ca