A Soup-er Day for Vantage Building Supplies

A Soup-er Day for Vantage Building Supplies

Emily Mailhot Reporter – Vegreville News Advertiser

Vegreville’s newly-maintained 45th Ave was lined with vehicles throughout the day on Thursday, September 19th for the fifth annual Vantage Soup-er Sale. The company’s long-running event was rescheduled this year due to road construction, and came back with bells on to community calendars.

The centre of the fun event, usually revolving around a week of the best yearly sales they have to offer, is a soup cook-off.

“We used to do a chili cook-off, but it was a lot of the same flavours,” explained Vantage Building Supplies partner Dayton Gegolick. “With soup, people can make whatever kind they want.”

The event also featured the first-ever perogy eating contest in partnership with the Rotary Club of Vegreville.

“I think that’s going to be the first of many, because it was a big hit,” said founder/co-owner Walter Gegolick. “The idea started by wondering what they could do to help fundraise for Rotary, and we eventually came up with the perogy eating contest. From there, we decided to get other local businesses in on the fun by inviting them to send their staff representatives to compete.”

Funds from the perogy eating contest were donated to the Rotary Club of Vegreville for their skate park project.

Vantage Building Supplies, the other side to Vantage Builders Ltd., was established in 2005, then took approximately 8 years to purchase land for lumber and get all the supplies they needed to open up shop. Hugh Zipperick, Walter Gegolick, and Darren Davis were the original owners since 2005, and since two years ago have added new partners Dayton Gegolick, Paul Zipperick, and Ben Zwatsky to the mix.

“A lot of people still consider us a general contractor, so we’re working to change that public perception,” said Walter Gegolick. “The whole day is really just for the public to come in, see

what Vantage Building Supplies can provide them, and know that they can get a whole bunch of things from lumber right down to fish hooks at a local store instead of travelling to the city.”

Though the new date’s conflict with harvest reduced quite a bit of the usual attendance, a sizeable crowd made their way through the store throughout the late morning and afternoon. The Soup Competition winners were: 1st: 4.56/5 Dayton Gegolick – Creamy Borscht (Soup #6) 2nd: 4.37/5 Charlie Hogg – Chicken Veggie (Soup #12) 3rd: 4.24/5 Krista Gegolick – Pizza Soup (Soup #3)

The winner of the Perogy Eating Contest (by a landslide) was Peter Luszczki of Wilde and Company

Other prizes included: 44 FREE tape measure to anyone who spent over $25 dollars Spend over $100 and get entered in a draw for a DeWalt circular saw. WINNER Jason Martin (out of 8 entries.) Spend over $500 and get entered in a draw for a cordless DeWalt or Milwaukee kit WINNER Rod White (out of 4 entries.)

BONUS draw (for spending over $500) for a Milwaukee impact (donated by Sexton) WINNER Dave Korpan.

There were also 8 packages of door prizes which were items donated by vendors which the radio station drew throughout the day.