Mayor pleads with CBS residents to get active
By Craig Westcott / June 2, 2023
Surprised by having placed lower than expected last year in a national contest to identity the most active community in Canada, members of CBS council are out this time to prove the judges wrong. But they will need the participation of many residents to do it.
Ward 1 councillor Shelley Moores, who chairs council’s recreation committee, says CBS will participate again this summer in the so-called Participaction Community Challenge which runs from June 1 – 30. Participants need to download an app on their phone to log their minutes spent being active each day. The minutes are added to each community’s total for a cumulative number that will determine the most active town in the country population wise.
“We all know that a lot of people in CBS are very competitive, especially around this council (table) says Moores. “So, this year, in celebration of the town’s 50th anniversary, we are vying for the title of Canada’s most active community in the Participaction Community Challenge. Along with winning the title we can win $100,000 for recreation for our town. We don’t really care about that, we just want to win, really, that’s the number one thing. We really thought we were going to get it last year and we didn’t, so this year we’re asking everyone to download the app.”
Moores says there is information about the challenge on the Town’s website and the app itself is self-explanatory.
“So please check it out and let’s push CBS to win this challenge,” Moores says.
Mayor Darrin Bent doubled down on that plea.
“I’m a little bit reluctant to say too much about the Participation Community Challenge, because last year I did some media about it saying we were going to get it, we were going to win it, and a town with 465 people beat us. I don’t know how that happened,” Bent says. “But we want to get as many residents as possible to log their steps in June. Because there’s no possible way, despite the numbers last year, that we were not the most active community in the province. It’s not possible in my mind.”
Bent says CBS finished seventh last year.