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Staff and volunteers celebrate Will and Kate's visit in Canada with royal hat day!
Logistics and first aid keep volunteer Aaron van Nostrand busy during the royal visit in Slave Lake, Alberta
All manners of royal hats were on display at the Red Cross office in Kentville, Nova Scotia to celebrate the royal visit to Canada.
Canadians were on royal watch last week and Red Crossers were no exception. You may have read about our volunteer
Jean MacNeil’s encounter with Will and Kate last week in Slave Lake, Alberta.
Aaron van Nostrand was also volunteering in fire-ravaged Slave Lake during the royal visit. However, the logistics manager didn’t get an opportunity to use his much-practiced royal wave. He was too busy performing first aid on some well-wishers. Indeed, Aaron and another Red Cross volunteer and fellow Nova Scotian, Matt Smith, who happens to be a firefighter and medical first responder, helped a young boy who had fainted in the crowd and showed signs of heat exhaustion. The pair went on to deal with two other medical incidents that day. There’s always next time, Aaron.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the safety-minded, PFD-wearing Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (read this blog post by Safe Kids Canada for more on that), staff and volunteers in Kentville, Nova Scotia decided to celebrate the visit with some royal-inspired fashion of their own. Check out these cool hats!