The petition is asking for changes to be made after a four-year-old girl died.
A community is rallying together calling for change after the fatal drowning of a young girl in Chilliwack.
On Aug. 5, first responders were called to Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre for a four-year-old girl who had been pulled from a pond. A petition has been sparked online calling for the pond beside the centre to be filled in or for a fence to be put around it. Jessica Macgillivray is a mother in the community and started the petition, which has gained more than 885 signatures.
"The pond is surrounded by hedges and invisible, to the naked eye,” says Macgillivray. "I am starting this petition as a mom who has not stopped crying, watching this tragedy unfold.”"May this raise awareness in your name for the safety of other children in the future,” she says. "This was an accident waiting to happen. Never have an open water area near where children play,” says Kim Horsting.
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