On Saturday, September 11, 2010, an Open House was held at the City of Waterloo's new Fire Station # 4. What a day it was! There were hundreds of people exploring the fire station, looking at the fire fighting equipment and meeting members of the fire fighting crew. We even had a special guest - Sparky the Fire Dog! There were numerous activities from face painting to wooden toy building and demonstrations on kitchen fire safety. We also had the cake cutting ceremony and I had a great time serving cake to over 500 hundred attendees! It was such a wonderful experience - the best fun was seeing the looks on the children's faces as they got to sit in the trucks and see all the equipment - every child I met had decided to become a fire fighter!
This was a very exciting open house for the Eastbridge community, who had been waiting for their fire station. Special thanks go to the Eastbridge Neighbourhood Association for their extremely generous donation of a beautiful evergreen tree, proudly planted in the front of the fire station. And a special thank you to the Chair of the ENA-Ms. Cindy Watkin, who spent many hours working with city staff and within her neighbourhood, sharing information and answering questions for us all.
This 6,000 sq. ft. fire station is the first City of Waterloo building that will be recognized as a silver level, LEEDS ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building. It will be 25% more efficient in energy conservation, than another building of similar size. Completion of this fire station will improve our response times for the families living in this area.
I had the great privilege of cutting the ribbon on the official opening on September 6th - while listening to the speeches, I felt extremely proud of the work done by the city staff, the design team, Council and the community and for the tremendous amount of collaboration that went into creating this fire station for our community.
An exciting, historical moment for the City of Waterloo.
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