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Vancouver Park Board Keeps Lifeguards at 9 Beaches This Summer
The reversal keeps coverage at nine beaches after a $600,000 reallocation, though officials say future funding still must be secured.
- On Friday, the Vancouver Park Board announced it will maintain lifeguard services at nine beaches this summer, scrapping a plan to reduce coverage to five locations.
- Former Vancouver lifeguard Andrea Nicholson contacted musician Peter Gabriel about the cuts, prompting Gabriel to respond that he was "alarmed" after recalling his own 1983 riptide rescue.
- Funding comes from a $600,000 one-time reallocation from planned upgrades at the Kensington Community Centre. Park Board chair Tom Digby called it a "difficult decision in the current fiscal environment."
- While nine beaches remain staffed, the decision removes lifeguards from Trout Lake, where a water quality study continues through next year. Staffing remains vital as visitors arrive in Vancouver for the FIFA World Cup next month.
- Nicholson emphasized that lifeguard services should never be subject to budget jeopardy, while officials acknowledged stable funding must be established in future budgets moving forward.
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The plan to reduce the number of lifeguards on the beaches of Vancouver was canceled and on the stop to the project of staff reduction affected the intervention of the musician Peter Gabriel, who told of his rescue off a beach ... (ANSA)
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Peter Gabriel recounts 1983 rescue as plan to reduce Vancouver lifeguards is reversed
VANCOUVER - A plan to cut lifeguards at Vancouver beaches has been reversed but not before it drew a response from musician Peter Gabriel, who recounted his own rescue from
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