Lobsterfest Loaded with Lavish Eating

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Lobsters are known to live 100 or more years and this is what the Rotary Club of Vegreville Annual Lobsterfest will go on for as long as Rotarians continue to cook and serve a grand feast of lobster, steak, and corn on the cob, buns, salads, and homemade desserts.

There were 375 people who purchased tickets for the Rotary’s Lobsterfest at Vegreville Social Centre on June 20.

Chair of Rotary Lobsterfest, Renee Senko said this event is their club’s main fundraiser of the year and is their kickoff to their Biking/Skateboard Park’s fundraiser where all proceeds will go towards this project. “The BMX Skate Park is our main purpose right now. This project is scheduled to be constructed in 2020 so; we need to raise $750,000 for that,” Senko said.

At the centre’s foyer was a Vegreville Skate and BMX Park presentation where Vice-President of Newline Skateparks, Trevor Morgan said this company will be designing and building this park with him. President of Rotary Club of Vegreville, Daphne Miller was also around to speak to people about this park.

This is a fun event where after socializing; people were excited to get their claws into the lobsters. On the placemats, there were instructions on how to eat the lobsters and other fun facts where one was during colonial days, lobsters were plentiful and were food for the poor.

The emcee for this event was Jamieson Brown.

Cool tunes were played by Michael Simpson from Bold, DJ Services.

Two live lobsters were some of the raffle prizes.

A live auction was held where the first table to eat and three other auction items were auctioned off by Auctioneer,

Myles Wowk. Also, there was a ‘heads or tails’ draw. The Rotary Club of Vegreville is a non-profit organization which does community projects and international humanitarian projects. They did the Belize playground which they built with their Rotary Interact Club and they sponsored literacy programs and projects for some students in Belize.

Senko also acknowledged their Rotary Interact Club and Vegreville Archery Club were doing the clean-up for this event.