Time: From noon until noon, Saturday/Sunday, August 23/24, 2008
Location: Willowcraft Farm, 8946 Pemberton Portage Road, Poole Creek (about 25 kilometres northeast of Pemberton towards D’Arcy)
Parking and Camping: on site (with overflow parking across the highway on the dead end road)
Dogs: Please leave your dogs at home (there are farm animals and there are several dogs on the farm already)
Proceeds: Any proceeds earned over and above expenses to be earmarked for making improvements to the Birken Community Centre/Old Log Schoolhouse (e.g., plumbing, landscaping)
Admission: By donation (be generous; this is a costly undertaking)
Food:
- potluck supper on Saturday (bring your favorite culinary delight),
- admission includes a pancake breakfast on Sunday morning (note that the Birken Saturday Market mentioned below will have its usual BBQ concession)
- please bring your own dishes and cutlery (there’s enough garbage in the landfill already)
Events:
- Camping on site
- Birken Saturday Market on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. with local craftspeople/vendors and a BBQ food concession
- Children’s and families’ activities on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning including face painting, a “bouncy castle”, dancing the limbo and other spirited dances, playing together and running around this rural farm setting with its animals, children’s climbing apparatus, etc.
- DJ Milton from about 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Saturday
- Firespinners doing several performances over the evening
- D’ale and the Coolers (a five piece band) from about 9:00 p.m. until midnight on Saturday
- Papa Josh from about midnight until the wee hours
- Rob Elliot’s Light Show all night long
- And other things that are not known or thought about as of this writing
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Contact Mike Milner at 452-3241 or mike_milner@hotmail.com
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