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Falling into Fun at Vegreville Opening Weekend Corn Maze
Falling into Fun at Vegreville Opening Weekend Corn Maze
Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent
Vegreville Corn Maze (VCM) is a family orientated event that is community focused and driven.
Hence, Vegreville Agricultural Society (VAS) hosted VCM this year on September 23 and 24 on the grounds of Vegreville Regional Museum and inside Vegreville Event Centre.
The attractions were a corn maze, bale maze, rock hunt, pedal cars, henna tattoos, concession, Mazy the Mascot, Sparky the Fire Dog, Story Walk and a farmers’ market.
On Saturday, there were performances by Perogies and Jam which featured Loretta and Friends, Terry Williams and Len Sakaluk, and Justin Hambidge. Sunday’s musicians were Rod Sebastian, Loretta, and a duet with Don Harfield and Gordon Forbes.
Office Manager for VAS Rachel Farr explained why they played host to this event, “The Town of Vegreville informed the community that they were no longer organizing the corn maze in 2024 and asked community groups if they wanted to take it over. Alan Baxandall planted the corn in the spring in case the Ag Society took it on. After the Fair the Ag Society agreed to organize the corn maze with Don Harfield as the Committee Chair.
The Town has been great with supplying VAS with information from past years. Dave Berry has also been a huge help. It takes a lot of man power to run the corn maze and without the community groups helping and the Businesses of Vegreville donating the Ag Society would not be able to pull off this event.”
Harfield mentioned, “It takes a community to put on an event like this. We had a very successful weekend. There were 480 attendees on September 23 and 474 on September 24. People came from across Central Alberta and there were visitors from United States, Ukraine and England.
Vegreville Fire Services members looked after the parking, tickets, and concession, and Zhoda Hall volunteers and Vegreville Visual Artists helped as well. We are grateful to Arthur Beaudette for assisting with the ATM machine. He is a good volunteer.”
