So guess who’s having their first ever beaver festival this September! An article released April 30th announces that Rotary and Hospice of Canada are teaming up to offer a beaver festival and race in Barrie Ontario.
Race Beavers Now On Sale in Barrie for the Great Canadian Beaver Race
The Kempenfelt Rotary Club is pleased to announce that Race Beavers are now on sale for the 1st Annual Great Canadian Beaver Race and Festival (www.barriebeaverfestival.com) taking place Saturday, September 25th, 2010 at Heritage Park in Barrie.
The Beaver Race, one of the main attractions of the beaver festival, is like a rubber ducky race but with beavers. Ten thousand rubber beavers will be available to be purchased for racing at $10 a beaver. Proceeds from the race and festival will go to Hospice Simcoe (www.hospicesimoce.ca) and the Kempenfelt Rotary Club (www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/Home/homeD.asp?cid=188).
Ahhhh every good idea is imitated! What was it I wrote in April? Oh right, that it would a good idea for Sutter Creek to replace its duck races with beaver races and that they’d get national news out of it. Funny. There will also be a beaver public art contest. You know, where groups buy the beaver statue and then have artists paint it for auction. Main Street Martinez was interested in this idea last year but decided to go with bulldogs instead. Go Figure. And how many times have I said that this company needs to sponsor our festival? A million?
Well the truth is you need one of these in every province of Canada and we need at least one in every state. There should be an important educational component about the good beavers can do for the watershed and how to easily solve beaver problems. I wrote organizer Krista LaRiviere to remind her. Give us a call if you need any pointers, Krista, this will be our third. Wait, are there any ideas that might have been useful but you have forgotten to appropriate? I wouldn’t want Barrie to embark without every possible advantage. Ohhh don’t forget this one.
