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DECember 1, 2021
Outdoor Family Fun in Vegreville
Above: People participate in Vegreville Vipers Hockey Skill Challenges. Right: Families enjoy making S’mores by the warming fire. (Rosanne Fortier/Photos)
Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent
Around 350 people braved the brutal wind to
attend A Very Vegreville Christmas Outdoor Family Fun event at Vegreville Social Centre parking lot on November 20.
Anya Langkow, Tourism, Recreation and Culture Coordinator for the Town of Vegreville, said this event is meant to have people have fun outside, to bring people together, promote community spirit and togetherness. “The plan originally came to be to host A Very Vegreville Christmas was to bring all the different Christmas events together in one day to give people a good reason to come in from out of town to come to Vegreville and to kick off the holiday season in town. For the Outdoor Family Fun, our partners were Kalyna Family Resource Network-Vegreville. Vegreville and Area, Family and Community Support Services and Vegreville Centennial Library who brought the different activities in, Vegreville Fire Department hosted the warming fires, North Pointe Community Church from Vegreville came out with the S’mores kits, and Vegreville Vipers came out and hosted the hockey skill challenges and they played a big part in the Vegreville Stationary Parade which was held after the outdoor family fun. The highlights were Perogies and Jam and Debbie Fedoruk’s Singers who were out there entertaining with Christmas carols. It was nice to have music; it really added to the festive feeling of the event. As well as, the people enjoyed the hayrides and hot chocolate.”
Stationary Holiday Parade Kicks Off the Festive Season Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent The Stationary Holiday Parade featured 12 displays at Vegreville Agricultural Grounds on November 20. This event was part of A Very Vegreville Christmas. Tourism, Recreation, and Culture Coordinator for Vegreville, Anya Langkow said the displays were down this year because of the brutal wind. “There were around 450 people in the 150 vehicles we tracked driv-
ing through the parade. We hosted this event to kick off the holiday season in the community. We always coordinated it with the Downtown Light-Up and TELUS Candle Light-Up. Last year, it was held as a Stationary Holiday Parade because of COVID-19 restrictions but the feedback was positive regarding the event; people really liked that they could stay warm in their vehicles and drive through the event. So, we decided to go ahead with this format of a parade this year too.”
People by the Vegreville Float. (Rosanne Fortier/Photo)
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