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Vol. 12 Issue 8

Celebrating 12 years!!!

January 2022

The Santa Stop Bringing Communities Together The Southeast’s own Santa, Thom Doerksen (operator of the Facebook page The Santa Stop), started parading around towns in the region escorted by local fire departments in 2020 to spread some Christmas cheer after Covid lockdowns were putting a damper on spirit this year. The Santa Stop travelled about 850 kms. Ste. Anne and Richer both had a great turn out for their community Christmas celebrations. The Town of Ste. Anne held their First Annual Ste. Anne Main Street Christmas. Many groups from the area pulled together to make this event big this year and included involvement from Citizens on Patrol, Ste. Anne Police Department and Auxiliary volunteers, Fire Chief, Ste. Anne Variety, Pam’s hair Boutique, and Phoenix Cheer. Further, Dawson Trail MLA Bob Lagasse donated goodies for the kids, Gin Gagnon transformed herself into Mrs. Claus, Paw Patrol’s Chase was played by Deanna DuPont, Paw Patrol’s Marshall - Carmen Verrier. Many of the other mascots were youth volunteers [Pikachu-Luca Normandeau (11), Elsa-Danika Vermette (13), Poppy from Trolls-McKenna Chuhai (11), Olaf-Gabrielle Normandeau (13), The Grinch-Quinn Lamoureux (13)]. It was a great turn out and the Ste.

Anne Main Street Christmas festival 2022 day is already planned for November 26, 2022. The Richer Community Club held their annual Community Celibration to coincide with Santa’s arrival in the community. The Richer Community Club, the Richer Rough Stock Rodeo Committee, the Richer Métis Local were proud to come together and host this event. Of course, the Richer Fire Department answered the call to escort Santa. They had their annual family event of skating on two huge rinks and a skating path thanks to a the dedicated ice team. The Lanouette’s and Sabot’s brought out their horse teams for non-stop sleigh rides. Kids were tobogganing on the improved hill,

and huge bonfire warmed people up during the event. Free hot dogs and hot chocolate were also part of the event. When Santa arrived in the park he handed out over 100 gifts children courtesy of the Richer Community Club. A special thank you to Burnell’s Food Plus, the Dawson Trail Dawson Trail Dispatch and Simply Connected for their sponsorship. Christmas spirit was very high this year thanks to everyone’s hard work.


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