Rocanville pool nearing completion
August 5, 2025, 10:33 am
Kara Kinna
Rocanville’s aquatic centre is nearing completion, with hopes to be open this fall.
“Right now they are getting close, they are just working on finishings,” says Rocanville Rec Director Andrea Logan. “The plumbers and electricians are in there, we have tilers in and they’re doing tiles in the bathroom. It’s all coming together.
“It’s all that time consuming work at the end of a project, and we have the tank liner that still needs to be done and the deck floor, so we are working on those things.
“As far as opening we are still hoping to have the pool open for staff training in the early fall and open to the public around a month or so after that. We need time to be able to get in there, get everything cleaned up and set up, get the staff in there and fully trained, because it is a new floorprint of the building, the tank itself is the same, but there are some other changes that we have to take into consideration when we are training our staff and getting ready for the public.”
Logan says they are currently hiring staff.
“We are accepting applications for lifeguards right now,” she says. “It’s hard to hire if you don’t really know for sure when your start date is, but we are getting closer to having an actual date.”
Logan says no photos of the interior of the building are being shared right now as they committee overseeing the restoration wants it to be a surprise when people finally see the finished building.
“We’ve decided to leave it a secret and do a reveal,” says Logan.
Logan says all of the contracts for the project have been filled, and now it’s just a matter of waiting on the final finishing work before the pool can open its doors.
Once the pool is open, the plan is for a year-round facility as long as there is demand, as it is the only indoor pool of its size in the area.
“The plan is to be open year round if the public is using it,” says Logan. “There will be times that we have it closed for maintenance, we will have to close it at some point in time to clean all our filters and give the tank a good cleaning and things like that. I think we will probably do that in the warmer months and have the pool open in the winter.
“It seems like everyone goes away in the summer—you want to be outside and at the lakes—so we feel that the pool will be better used in the winter months.
“We want to run lots of cool programs, maybe work with some of the hockey teams, maybe they wouldn’t mind renting the pool for training purposes. We would like to add more programs. There are things we are thinking of doing, but again we can’t set a schedule yet, nothing is concrete but we have lots of ideas.”
Fundraising for the new facility is ongoing.
“Our fundraising committee is still actively fundraising—they just did a progressive 50/50 at the Jessica Campbell Golf tournament and they raised a little over $2,000 with that, and they had the brisket cookoff that was in June.”
Logan says it feels great to see the project nearing completion after so many years of talking about it and planning for it.
“It is very exciting and also overwhelming. I’m really excited about it,” she says. “I’ve been in the pool throughout this entire process watching it go up and watching the progress. It was a really emotional thing when the old building came down, but now it’s getting really exciting with it looking so nice inside, and I really think the community is going to be happy with it once they get to see it and use it and realize what it can offer for our community. It’s just really exciting.
“I think we should be proud of ourselves. It was a big project and it was a lot of asking “can we do this? Is this going actually happen?” And it’s happening.
“It’s going to be open to the public before too long so I think the entire community should be proud.”
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