By Curtis Galbraith

Community

Organizers hoping to hit the Highway to Mexico in May

Dec 21, 2020 | 6:00 AM

Organizers with the Swan City Rotary Club’s Highway to Mexico project hope to be able to travel again in May of 2021.

The club has donated used emergency vehicles and other equipment to a fire department in Mexico for close to 18 years. The pandemic meant this year’s planned journey was cancelled.

Felix Seiler, one of the coordinators, says the need for fire trucks, buses, and ambulances in Mexico is still huge.

“Our project has sort of extended. We’re bringing these vehicles to Mazatlán, but they go in all kinds of communities all over the State of Sinaloa.

“Just in the last few years, we’ve started (with) some new fire departments, more in the rural area.”

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He adds the plan is to leave in May, rather than the usual time in March.

“We are in the planning stages to go in mid-May. With things looking the way they are, we can actually go. So, fingers crossed.”

Seiler says they will have a bigger convoy in 2021.

“We’re going to take basically all of last year’s donations, and we’ll take, I think, three or four for this year. We sort of combined two years into one. We just have to start working on the paperwork for that.”

Seiler says in the close to 18 years this project has been going, between 115 and 120 vehicles have been donated. All but four are still in use.

The club was given an old fire truck by the County of Grande Prairie last week (pictured). The County gave another truck it no longer used to the Sunrise Rotary Club to be donated to a fire department in Honduras.