Less than half a week remains until the Street Festival kicks off June 11 in Barrhead.
Starting at 9 a.m. with a pancake breakfast at the gazebo, Main Street will be overtaken with a variety of family-friendly activities.
For one thing, if you haven’t been reading the paper lately, you might not know the date and location of the annual Barrhead Rotary BBQ Cook-Off has been changed.
Formerly attached to the Blue Heron Fair Days festival, the Cook-Off will now be part of the Street Festival as well.
Barrhead Custom Meats owner Dennis Ranger, a winner of the cook-off in previous years, said the thought behind the move was to give the festival itself a boost.
Another event, the dairy tour held during the Ag Fair in Westlock last year, has been reconfirmed and Country Roads Holstein Club president Arjan Otten, one of the area’s dairy producers, said the tour fits better in Barrhead.
Brand new to the festival is an Alberta Milk sponsored fake milking cow for festival attendees to experience.
For the more animal-friendly among us there will be a petting zoo, pony rides and sheep shearing.
Your children may be interested in the bouncy castle, pedal carts, balloon artist, caricaturist, face-painters, and stilt-walkers, or they may want to participate at the planting table, baking challenge, jump rope or dunk tank too.
Dan Cimmino and Kendall Taylor will be providing live music and in addition, to top it all off, if you like what you see at the dance demonstrations, perhaps afterwards you will want to take in some line dancing lessons as well.
“It’s going to be great,” Street Festival committee member Meagan Pecjak said, adding there will be hotdogs, ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn and other refreshments available throughout the day.
