Arnal Bros 3-on-3 Hockey and Memorial Hall Dinner/Dance this weekend
This weekend is the annual Arnal Brothers Memorial Bursary fund raiser hockey tournament, coinciding with the Eastend Memorial Hall's fund raising concert on Saturday. Last year, the Ranchmen donated a night of live musical performances as part of a fund raiser for the Memorial Hall and the Arnal family had the genius idea of combining the annual Arnal Fund Raiser to save people from having two separate weekends of fund raising. Let's be honest, those nights are wonderful and exhausting in equal measures. This year, we'll be doing much of the same. The public is invited to the cheer on the hockey teams at the rink this weekend, and welcome to attend the dinner/dance at the Hall on Saturday night. Hall doors open at 6pm on Saturday, Dinner served around 6:30.
Tickets for dinner/dance are $40 , dinner-only $25, dance-only $15. Donations welcome, all money taken goes to the Memorial Hall. There will be a silent auction of donated items as well. The music will be first-rate!
Stegner Dinner & Big Flat Folk Fest Announcements
Last Saturday was the 35th Annual Stegner Dinner held at the Hall. The reading from the works of Wallace Stegner was done by Hannah Davis, an ebullient and effervescent speaker. The musical act, The Charms (Denis & Meg Dufresne), lived up to their name. Boy, did they harmonize beautifully! At the end of the concert, we were treated to some beautiful Bollywood wedding music by Meg with Denis on accompaniment. Just a super show. The Kinettes served up delicious Asian-inspired dinner. I had to buy a big tub of the fried rice at the end of the night, it was too good to pass up. Now that the lineup has been announced for this years Big Flat Folk Fest, tickets are likely to sell out before the July 11th/12th event. Anyone in Eastend can purchase the first available tickets tonight from 5pm-7pm at the Eastend Activity Centre. If you're planning on attending, it's a smart move to get your tickets and not worry about catching the online sale starting Friday.
Will Workshop February 20th
The Eastend Library is hosting an important free workshop that focuses on Wills and the many aspects about them. I urge anyone who doesn't have "final affairs" in order to attend this meeting.
John Schmitt's Centennial Train Tours
We are starting a new regular feature this week. Local history buff John Schmitt was giving tours on the train that was running tours between Shaunavon and Eastend during Eastend's Centennial celebration (which was 11 years ago). He's shared some of his scripts for those tours, and we thought it would be a hoot to share them with you good folks. Please enjoy the first installment, and stay tuned for forthcoming issues of the Echo as the tour gets closer and closer to it's destination.