DIDSBURY - The Didsbury Aquatic Centre will again be open on Sunday starting this month, says the town's chief administrative officer.
In his monthly report presented at the recent council meeting, Ethan Gorner said a staffing shortage has been rectified, allowing the reopening.
“As council is aware, we have faced a staffing deficit in aquatics for the past year as a result of a lack of lifeguard training opportunities due to COVID-19,” said Gorner. “We are thrilled to be operating with an almost full roster of lifeguards once again, and with that, be able to reopen for Sunday use.”
Sundays will see the operation of private swim lessons, household rentals and a youth swim time, he said.
“With Sundays now available to handle the high demand of household rentals we are seeing, we are able to free up some time on Saturdays to bring back Saturday swim lessons to our community,” he said.
“These additional lesson sets will help alleviate the wait lists we are seeing for swim lessons, and get more kids in the water to enhance their swimming abilities, which are important skills that were also put on hold as a result of the pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the Town of Didsbury will be starting to offer rental times in the curling rink for outside users beginning in January,” he said.
“We hope to see good interest in this new recreation opportunity for our community members,” he said.
