Canada Day to become a four-day festival

Craig Bakay | Mar 11, 2020

It wasn’t on the agenda at Central Frontenac Council’s budget meeting last Friday in Sharbot Lake, but Coun. Victor Heese announced the rec committees are getting together to revamp the annual Canada Day celebrations.

Essentially, Canada Day itself remains unchanged, with plenty of activities scheduled for Oso Beach in Sharbot Lake with music and the fireworks finale.

But, what’s new this year is the annual K & P Trail Day, which had been celebrated in September the past three years, will be moved up to July 4.

The two days in between, July 2 and 3, will be designated as “community days” with events and activities culminating in a four-day festival.

“We found that the Trail Day wasn’t all that well-attended,” Heese said. “There were plenty of trail riders but they essentially just want to to ride the trails. Once the lunch was over, that was it.

“Plus, July 4 is the American National Holiday and given all our American visitors, we wanted to do something to tie in with and honour them.”

While just what will be going on during the two community days is still under development, the regular Wednesday night acoustic jam at the beach is still a go, moving to Thursday night for just this one week.

The jam goes from 6:30 p.m. (or so) and is open to anybody that wants to join in, regardless of musical genre.