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New Oxbow swimming pool will be open soon By David Willberg dwillberg@estevanmercury.ca
Oxbow area residents have been looking forward to the completion of their new swimming pool for years. That day appears to be just weeks away. Tami Scott, the community development officer with the Town of Oxbow, said they are down to the final weeks of construction. If the weather co-operates and they don’t get much rain in the next week or so, they will be able to apply the lining to the pool. “We’re doing some of the finishing work inside the change house and getting things painted, the benches in and that kind of stuff,” said Scott. “The mechanical room, some of that stuff is still waiting for SaskEnergy to come and get their lines hooked up, but once that’s done, it will just take another day or two to get everything fixed up there.” Rain would cause a setback for the pool construction, but
The new swimming pool in Oxbow is nearly finished. Swimming lessons are scheduled to begin in July. Photo submitted
they would be able to resume with the work once the rain is finished. Landscaping work around the pool, including sod with underground sprinklers, will need good weather before it can be completed. She expects the pool will
be open in mid-July. They had hoped for July 1, but they understood that goal was weather and contractor-dependent. “We feel that the project is pretty successful by figuring out that we’re going to just be a week or two past that, so we’re happy with it,” said Scott.
The new pool will be located close to where the former Oxbow high school used to be; the old school building has been transformed into the town’s memorial hall, and the hall and the pool will share a parking lot. Larger than its predeces-
sor, the pool will be a junior Olympic-sized pool with six swimming lanes. A zero entry means that people can walk in at the shallow end and not have to jump in or climb in. It should be ideal for toddlers and people with disabilities. “It has splash trees for the
toddler part of the pool, which is going to be fun. The size of the pool is large enough that we’re going to be able to host swim meets, which in our old pool, we didn’t have the ability to do that anymore.” Oxbow is among the smallest communities in the province to have a summer speed swimming club, the Oxbow Seawolves. Scott said they’ve been very successful in the past. “This year we’re very grateful to the town of Carnduff. They have been allowing the speed swimming club to practise there, and I know that they’re going to be glad to get into their beautiful new home pool,” said Scott. The previous outdoor pool is more than 45 years old, and continues to experience issues. It won’t open at all this year. When it was open last year, it was difficult to heat. “I think everybody’s really glad to get into new facilities,” Scott said. A2 » POOL
Harrison to represent Sask. Party in Cannington The Saskatchewan Party has its candidate in the Cannington constituency for the next provincial election. Alida area farmer Daryl Harrison won the party’s nomination meeting June 13 at the Prairie Place Hall in Arcola, defeating two other candidates: Marilyn Simons of Alameda and Winston Winston van Staveren from Creelman. “They ran a great campaign. They covered a lot of ground and a lot of doorknocking,” Harrison told Life-
styles. “It does take up a lot of time, it was a big commitment on their part, and it was very admirable for anybody to step forward and seek a nomination or seek public office, whether it’s federal or provincial, or locally at the municipal or on school division levels.” Harrison said there were 621 ballots cast at the nomination meeting, but he wasn’t told what percentage of the vote he received, or how many rounds of voting were needed. The nomination used a pref-
erential ballot, so if one of the candidates did not receive 50 per cent of the vote in the first round of voting, then the third place candidate dropped out, and another round of vote counting was needed. Harrison announced his intention to be the Sask. Party candidate in February. “The more time you have to get out and meet people is always an advantage,” said Harrison. “I was the first vetted candidate who was approved, but Marilyn Simons was ac-
tively campaigning prior to me as well. She had a good head start, too. Winston came into the game late, but he certainly covered a lot of ground in a short time.” Harrison spent a lot of time meeting with people in recent months to further get his name out. He’s been involved in activities in the past, including school boards. The election is still 16 months away, and so Harrison looks forward to continuing to meet with people.
“I’ll just make a point of getting to other communities to any events I’m able to make, and I’m still working and I’ve still got cattle,” said Harrison. Going through a contested nomination helped him prepare for the rigours of an election campaign in what is a fairly large riding that extends from Fillmore in the northwest, to the Manitoba border in the east and the U.S. border in the south. “The difference will be that A? » CAMPAIGN
Daryl Harrison has been elected as the Saskatchewan Party’s candidate in Cannington. Photo submitted
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