Goose Festival Days are a go!
Kindersley Chamber of Commerce looking for volunteers
By Joan Janzen
joanjanzen@yahoo.com
Did you miss not being able to watch the Goose Festival parade in September of 2020 and enjoy all the traditional accompanying activities? Well, there’s good news! According to Kevin Martin, Executive Director of the Kindersley Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber has plans to put on the parade on Saturday, September 25. But they need your help!
“The biggest thing is we need volunteers,” Kevin said. “We need businesses, service groups and non-profits to participate.” Those groups and businesses are crucial to fill roles such as security for the parade, coordinators for entertainment activities like potato peeling and goose plucking. Kevin stressed that though the Chamber is more than willing to coordinate the parade, other businesses and organizations need to step forward to take on the additional jobs necessary for more activities to take place.
“Even though the Chamber isn’t in the event planning business, Goose Festival is one event that does bring a lot of people to town. It’s a big boom to all businesses,” Kevin explained. He also said that when Goose Festival didn’t occur last year, many people missed it and realized how much they appreciate participating in the event. “It’s not just a Chamber event. It’s more of a business and community-led event,” he concluded.
The Chamber will be looking into getting a poster made, and if anyone has ideas of something they want to do, they can contact Kevin at the Chamber office or Anna at the Town Office. The events will be held from Thursday to Sunday, as usual.
The town will be setting up barricades for the parade, someone has volunteered to hold a pie-eating contest, and Kevin is planning to contact the mini donuts vendor. It’s a great start, but there’s much more that needs to be done.
“We’re looking for volunteers to help organize the parade. We need someone to take over the potato peeling and goose plucking and need someone to MC those activities. And we need someone to clean up afterwards. There’s a lot of little things to be looked after,” Kevin said. Anyone wanting to set up a food booth is asked to contact Kevin as soon as possible.
Kevin is putting out an email to all the businesses asking what each business would like to do and how they can help. In order for Goose Festival 2021 to be successful, more businesses, organizations and individuals need to be involved.
“If there’s enough help, it makes it easy for everybody,” Kevin said. After all, we’re better together!
You can email Anna at the town office communications@kindersley.ca or phone Kevin 306-463-2320 or email office@kindersleychamber.com
