Big Brothers Big Sisters Day recognized in North Battleford.

Today marks the second-annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Day in the Battlefords.

The festivities got underway at 9 a.m. Tuesday with a “Paint the town purple,” event, in which staff and volunteers within the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization visited different establishments throughout the community that have contributed to the youth mentoring organization and decorated their front-entryway purple as a way of visibly showing their support for the Big Brothers Big Sisters contributions to the community.

Renee Sperling has been program coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters the Battlefords for the last three years. She said the idea of painting the town purple is to help raise awareness and get people talking about the organization throughout the Battlefords area, while also showing appreciation from the group to businesses that have lent their support over the last number of years.

“We’ve tried to figure out some ways we can sort of recognize all the people that have helped us get to this point and that’s where Paint the Town Purple came up,” Sperling said. “Letting people know the different businesses that have helped bolster us to where we are now, serving more youth than we have in the last probably 10 years.”