Volunteers celebrate Pride with rainbow crosswalk in Battleford
Battleford now sports a new rainbow crosswalk right across from the town hall to get an early start on Pride Week celebrations.
The local LGBTQ pride events this month are once again being organized by the Battlefords and Area Gender and Sexuality Alliance. Kelly Waters, who sits on the 2018 Pride organizing committee, said volunteers came together Thursday evening to create the multi-coloured stripes on the crosswalk. The non-permanent paint for the project was donated, and she said some members of the Town of Battleford’s council, as well as volunteers from across the Battlefords area and Turtleford, took part in the project.
“That was so inspiring,” Waters said of seeing so many people help with the crosswalk. “I love it. That’s awesome.”
About 15 people took part in the volunteer effort to create the crosswalk. The Town of Battleford previously approved the rainbow crosswalk project and a request to raise the Pride flag outside the town hall building to recognize the event. The town raised the Pride flag Thursday.