By paNOW Staff

Alcohol Strategy Committee provides Winter Festival sleds

Feb 19, 2017 | 3:00 PM

If you want to have fun without alcohol this winter, you can just jump on a sled thanks to a group of local advocates.

Prince Albert’s Community Alcohol Strategy Steering Committee has partnered with Canadian Tire to provide 250 free “crazy carpet” sleds for the public to use during the Prince Albert Winter Festival’s family sledding party Feb. 20. Canadian Tire provided the sleds at cost.

“We’ve got a whole bunch of sleds that families can use if they don’t have one,” committee member Robert Bratvold told paNOW.

Prince Albert, Bratvold said, consumes more alcohol per capita than anywhere else in the province. P.A. residents over aged 15 spent $1,249 each on alcohol in 2011, significantly higher than the provincial average of $703 per person.

The alcohol strategy committee, Bratvold explained, is not opposed to the consumption of alcohol, but tries to promote responsible alcohol use in the community.

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“We’ve worked with lots of different community organizations to support both family-friendly alcohol-free events and also safe and responsible consumption,” Bratvold said. “I would encourage anybody to come out on Monday to Little Red Park and have some fun tobogganing.”

Even if the weather does not cooperate, Bratvold said, residents are still invited out to enjoy the park and some hot chocolate.

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