A Bracebridge OPP officer is among 45 people who received Bravery Awards from Canada’s Governor General on Tuesday. Constable Skeeter Kruger travelled to Ottawa, where he was honoured for risking his own life to help save another. In February of 2011, Kruger stepped in to help rescue a man from the icy cold Muskoka River, by tying a rope around his own waist and then making his way across the ice. In an interview with CTV News shortly after the incident, he described the man as “partially submerged” and “hanging on for life”. Constable Kruger worked with his partner Constable Pete Juneau on the rescue. This wasn’t the first time Kruger has been recognized for a brave act. In 2007, he jumped into Loon Lake south of Gravenhurst to save a drowning man.
