Weekend includes fastball tournament, children's midway rides and candy floss
By
Mark Schadenberg
So
if candy floss and cotton candy are the same thing, what about
fastball, fast-pitch and softball?
This
weekend is the annual men's fastball tournament in Southside Park
with 16 clubs competing, which means this is also Victoria Day
Weekend locally.
Southside
Park will feature a midway for children (Scrambler and Tilt-A-Whirl
for older children), games of chance like Skee-Ball and Ring Toss,
lots of ice cream and candy floss, plus onion rings.
The
midway runs Thursday through to Sunday with special pricing noted in
the poster / advertisement, including a ride-all-day one-price
wristband available on Friday.
Check
out the full-page ad as included here, but the men's fastball
tournament is quite a tradition locally with many regional teams
vying for the hardware, including Woodstock Kelsey's, Innerkip
Eagles, Burgessville Bulls, and the Tavistock Juniors. The
championship games (with weather as a hopeful friend) are at 2:15 and
4 p.m. on Monday.
Burlington Teen Tour Band
has just returned from participating
in 70th anniversary in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
marking the end of the Second World War
The
highlight of the weekend is always the Victoria Day parade at 10
a.m., which begins in the Woodstock Fairgrounds on Nellis Street,
rolls out MacKenzie Drive, and then west down Dundas to Wellington
before weaving into Southside Park. This year, the parade will again
be a hands-on experience for me as I've volunteered along with many
others from the Lions Club of Woodstock to assist in lining up the
floats and bands. The transport trucks line up in side the (old)
harness racing oval in correct (assigned) numerical order.
The
bands orchestrate themselves in front of the Oxford Auditorium and
gradually insert their marching between the floats. Entertainers this
year are much the same as previous parades – Ingersoll Pipe Band,
Ayr-Paris Band, York Lions Steel Band, and naturally the Burlington
Teen Tour Band.
The
iconic Burlington gang of teenagers has been in existence since 1947,
and by 1952 the group already had over 150 members. From
coast-to-coast in Canada, including the Calgary Stampede and
Kitchener's Oktoberfest, today they have now also performed in
England,
Ireland, France, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the
United States, including both the Rose Bowl (1970,
1980, 1987, 2008)
and Orange Bowl parades. Their majorette squad won first place at the
West Virginia Strawberry Festival.
Their
most important recent assignment – in my estimation – just took
place as they performed in The Netherlands in Apeldoorn (See video)
during the recognition of 70 years of liberation – marking the end
of the Second World War.
()()()()()()()()()()()()
BURLINGTON
TEEN TOUR BAND website:
“The
philosophy supporting the entire music program is a simple one: each
member of the Burlington Teen Tour band is strongly encouraged to
give his or her best effort along with appreciating and supporting
the efforts of all others engaged in activities with the band.
This
philosophy emphasizes the importance to the individual of
cooperation, discipline, sportsmanship, friendship and an eagerness
to learn. Each person has a double benefit when participating in any
competition or contest: the joy of playing and the satisfaction of
supporting others as they put forth their best effort. Each
contest is a learning experience for every single member -- far more
valuable to the individual, and the entire band, than the results of
any competition.
When
the Band competes, it is not to win more trophies or awards, it is to
support and encourage the efforts of the young men and women who will
pass on information and lessons learned in the band as they march
onward through their adult lives.”
()()()()()()()()()()()()
This year marks the
68th year Woodstock has celebrated the heritage that is
Queen Victoria.
With the midway for
children, it's the only time of year alligators (on a small roller
coaster) and old train steam engines can be seen around Cedar Creek
in Southside Park.
My Daughter and I in 2011
LINKS:
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Facebook:
Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
Discussion
. . . Direction . . . Determination . . . Destination
No comments:
Post a Comment