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Vol. 6 No 26
June 27, 2018
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As the last pieces of furniture were lined up, shoes unpacked from boxes, and pieces of silver were polished, the Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) Auxiliary took a few moments on the afternoon of June 8, 2018 to recognize the contributions of the long-serving volunteers at its major yearly fundraiser, Hey Day. Set-up was now complete for the 58th annual giant garage and yard sale, and all was in readiness for the eager bargain-hunters who would be lined up outside the doors of the Kemptville Curling Club a few hours later. Jolene Stover, the energetic Convener of Hey Day for four years running, stepped up to the microphone. She began to call out the names of the volunteers who had helped out at Hey Day for 10 years or more. This took several minutes, as 77 names were called out, and those in attendance lined up for a group photo. Jolene was visibly emo-
tional as she expressed the Auxiliary’s gratitude for this inspirational commitment to their annual fundraiser for Kemptville District Hospital. She noted that there were an additional nine volunteers who had helped out at Hey Day for 25, 30, and 40 years or more: Crawford Barkhouse, the Churchill Family, Norma Fisher, Liz Forbes, Bev Fry, Marian McGahey, Avalon Pinhey, Cecile Prodonick, and Eleanor Scott. Three of these – Marian, Avalon, and Cecile, had been volunteering at Hey Day since the beginning. Marian remembered the first organizing meeting at the home of Mary Prosser, the founder of Hey Day, in 1959. Mary had decided they needed to hold a fundraiser for the hospital; at that point they were raising money to build the hospital – its doors wouldn’t open until June of 1960. Marian and Avalon reminisced about the days when the arena had a dirt floor that
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got muddy when it rained. In the early days, there were ducks and chickens for sale at Hey Day, as well as goats and other farm animals. Not to mention bales of hay. Although some volunteers speculated that the fundraiser’s name was a result of the sale of hay, Marian and Avalon set the record straight: the name was meant to signify “when you do something big!”, as per the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of ‘heyday’ as “the period of a person's or thing's greatest success, popularity, activity, or vigour.” Marian and Avalon also recollected that the annual date of the second weekend of June was selected as local Moms would have received their family allowance cheques and have some money to spend, at a time when the monthly government family allowance was $3 per child. Avalon and her husband, Harold, looked after collecting and counting the money at Hey Day for many years.
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Marian, whose four children were all born at KDH, has been in charge of the ‘What Have You’ table for longer than she can remember. She explained that whatever doesn’t seem to fit at another booth goes at the ‘What Have You’ table. Both women have been President of the Auxiliary at various times over the years. Well-known Kemptville resident, Norma Fisher, has been volunteering at Hey Day for 46 years. She works in the silver, crystal and china department, personally polishing every piece of silver donated by the community to be sold at Hey Day. Norma has no plans to retire from the annual event! Liz Forbes started volunteering at Hey Day in 1971. As a 17-year-old, she was helping out Gert Barkley, who ran the jams and jellies department. Gert’s husband Ernest ran the bingo, and that year had a “young lad” continued on page 2
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