weyburn Vol.114 No. 27 - Weyburn, Saskatchewan Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10 Pages
First star donated for Walk of Fame Weyburn Youth Council purchased the first star for the new Weyburn cinema. Page 3
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Midway, rodeo, kids events set for 115th Weyburn Fair Days By Greg Nikkel, SaskToday.ca A full slate of activities and attractions will be available for the 115th edition of the Weyburn Fair Days, as well as the 82nd annual 4-H Days, featuring the Regional 4-H Show. The 4-H Show began on Monday, and will wrap up today, July 3, with the 4-H Interclub Fed Calf Sale and 4-H Interclub market lambs and goats sale, starting at 2:30 p.m. in the Souris Valley Industries Show and Sale Arena. The Weyburn Fair will run from Thursday, July 4 to Saturday, July 6, kicking off with the Weyburn Chamber of Commerce’s Parade, starting at 10:30 a.m. Those entering the parade need to enter Fifth Avenue North at 13th Street, and the parade will start off down Fifth Street to First Avenue. The parade will go over to Second Street, go down to Prairie Avenue, then it will travel to the Court House at Third Street and head south through the downtown core area
to Railway Avenue, and will then go back north up Second Street to Bison Avenue and finish at Government Road. “This year at Weyburn Fair Days, we have a lot jam-packed into three days,” said Brandie Fisher, Ag Society director of media relations and advertising. Along with her favourites, like the midway and all the food vendors and our beverage gardens, she there are a couple new attractions and expanded attractions. “For the kids, Tractor Town is located in the Sports Arena, where the kids can drive around in the little tractors and maze. There’ll also be some hands-on exhibits to go along with the ag theme. Household arts will also be in the Sports Arena,” said Fisher, noting the Ag Society has a new director for this feature, and she’s eager to see all the entries that will be coming in. “Our trade show last year had 11 tables, and we are up to approximately 30 tables, so there will be good shopping there. Our Souris River rodeo will
be held on the Thursday and Friday. Last year we were one of the top rodeos with the highest entries, so that’s something to be proud of, and we want to do it again. Before the rodeo on the Thursday, the Truco Trick Riders will be performing, which includes some local girls,” said Fisher. “This year, we also have the mini horse show, which I have never seen so I’m excited.” The gates for the exhibition grounds will open at 3 p.m., including food vendors, displays, and the petting zoo, with the midway, brought by Canuck Amusements, to open at 4 p.m. The Truco Trick Riders group will have a performance at 6:15 p.m., just before the start of the Souris River Rodeo at 6:30 p.m. The trick riders will include Weyburn member Charlize Hallberg, along with team members Jordanna White, Bailey Steeves, Shayda King and Kyla Dyer, fresh off shows at Strasbourg and Estevan. Continued on page 2
Lighting up the skies for Canada Day
This was one of several dozen bursts of fireworks in the skies over the Weyburn exhibition grounds, as the City of Weyburn put on a fireworks show for Canada Day. The show capped off a day of activities for the nation’s birthday, as well as Photo - Greg Nikkel/SaskToday.ca the 4-H show at the fair grounds.
Past winners of Cymri 4-H grand champion trophy meet name-sake By Greg Nikkel, SaskToday.ca A large group of past winners of the Edgar May Trophy for the Cymri 4-H Beef Club gathered together at Parkway Lodge in Weyburn, to meet the name-sake of the trophy for the first time. The trophy is awarded each year to the winner of the Grand Champion title for the 4-H club, and is one of the longest-running awards in the province for a 4-H club. The trophy originated in 1953 when the brand-
new Cymri 4-H club asked Edgar May to come judge their achievement day entries. May lived and farmed in the Talmage area, but was asked by various clubs to come judge their 4-H projects. After the achievement day, the club leaders went to pay May for his judging, and he turned the money down, noting the club – which was just starting up – had no trophy for their Grand Champion, and suggested they use the money to buy
a trophy for the club’s top achiever. This was done, and has been awarded to the club’s Grand Champion for the past 70 years, skipping only 2020 when COVID prevented the achievement day from being held. Brad Eggum, who was one of the winners of the trophy from past years, met up with Edgar’s son Dave, and in discussions found that the story of how the trophy came to be wasn’t widely known, nor did very many people
Dancers hit floor at Brayden King concert
even know who Edgar May was. When the suggestion was made to gather as many past winners as possible to have a group photo with the trophy and with Edgar, Dave pointed out his father is 98 years old this year. He suggested this year might be best timing-wise, and Eggum and Rhonda Martinson worked the phones and sent out emails to see how many past winners they could locate. Looking at the rows of
names on the base of the trophy, Eggum pointed out that the top two rows of winners have largely passed on. Those who were able to gather at Parkway Lodge, where Edgar now lives, included the following: Colin Rosengren, Josh Gustafson, Benji Gustafson, Glenn Wiens, Rodney Gill, Daryl Carlson, Ryan Vandenhurk, Becca Anderson (Gustafson), Pauline Ziehl Grimsrud, Brenda Connelly, Carter Wilgenbusch, Cliff Gallinger, Kendall Eggum
(Emde), Kassidy Fellner (Sjostrand), Dakota Dreher (Emde), Rhonda Martinson (Emde), Brad Eggum and Brylan Rasmuson. After the group photo was taken, Eggum shared the story with the whole group, and pointed out that it was Edgar’s selfless act of turning down the money (which he could have used at the time) to have the club establish this trophy instead, and this was partly what the past winners from the club wanted to honour.
Photo - Greg Nikkel/SaskToday.ca
Weyburn’s Brayden King and band had several people up for a dance for his cover of “Footloose”, at the Credit Union barbecue on Thursday evening. The event was moved to the exhibition hall, due to the weather conditions. In addition to the concert, there were announcements of community grants to 11 community groups, plus a barbecue and games for the children.