After a five-year hiatus, the township is set to host its Harvest Festival Fair on Oct. 13.
The festival, which brings together community businesses and organizations to celebrate with local residents, was initially intended to be an annual event.
However, the last Mapleton Harvest Festival was held in 2013, according to a report by economic development officer Trish Wake.
“The event was well attended and contained more than 30 participants. For some reason or another [it] has been dropped along the way,” the report read.
At the meeting on Aug. 28, Wake was granted permission by council to use $5,000 left over from the township’s Canada Day celebrations budget to help re-establish the Harvest Festival.
With limited time left to organize the event, Wake also wrote that the funds would help cover the costs of prizes, promoting the event, and staffing the set-up and clean up.
It would also allow organizers to pay for more entertainers.
This year’s festival
The free event will be hosted in the PMD Arena in Drayton. Activities start at 7am with the firefighters pancake breakfast and demonstrations, and end at 10pm with campfire songs/stories.
Other events already lined up include: a butter tart bake off, a harvest scavenger hunt, carnival games, a children’s Halloween costume fashion show and a pumpkin carving competition.
Families are welcome to round off the day’s events with the Harvest dinner pig roast provided by the Drayton Chop House.
