Canada Day Breakfast
We had wonderful attendance this year for our 41st annual Canada Day Breakfast, with well over 400 joining us. On Friday night our set-up crew went to work getting all the tables and chairs set up along with the Face Painting area and our new addition of a Sports area where we had Canada Cornhole competitions, hoola hoops, Spike Ball, and soccer for the young and younger.
Trudy and her crew went to work cooking up hundreds of sausages and about 30 hams and our pancake crew went to work making the quarts and quarts of our pancake batter which Dave Metcalfe and his pancake crew cooked to perfection on Saturday morning. Shirle and Corrie did a wonderful job handing out the sausages and ham as well as directing traffic as required.
We had Mel and his coffee crew and Pat and her crew on the juice table.
Kevin from The Eagle provided great music and of course a perfect rendition of Oh Canada for us to sing along to.
We had Kay Pike (a local favourite) with Lillian, Ella and Scotia helping her create works of wonder on the over 60 children who wanted a new look for the day.
We had a great crew of teenagers who stepped up to supervise the sports areas to make sure the kids were safe and play was fun.
We had antique cars, thanks to Mia and Steve and our own Foothills Fire Department brought their trucks over for all to see. The crew of firemen were so helpful and friendly and always a crowd pleaser.
We had out welcome crew of Edith and Val. Val just stepped up to help at the front when we were a person short, and then her whole family all stepped up to help with sports, juice distribution and at the front.
We are so blessed to live in a community with people who just step up to make this annual event such a special occasion for all of us in the community. You could see our attendees loved sitting down, catching up with old friends and family, listening to the music while enjoying their breakfast and watching their children or grandchildren play, get their faces painted or just run around and have some fun. We were so lucky to have absolutely perfect weather, beautiful sunshine with a soft breeze to keep things cool.
We couldn’t do this without all the special people who turn up to lend a helping hand. Thank you volunteers for taking time out of your busy days to help us with this event.
Mark your calendars for next year.
