Aggie Days
Kinsmen have the oppurtunity to volunteer & support Aggie Days for the 31st consecutive year!! Promoting Ag education to thousands of school children with various hands on learning
stations, interactive demonstrations (milking, shearing, rope making etc..). Aggie Days runs April 6th - 10. The first three days are bus loads of school kids only, where they are run through all the exibits & then must complete a test. Sat/ Sun are the big crowds as this is FREE admission, so we need many hands to volunteer.
All volunteers get a nice lunch & the volunteer office has coffee/ tea/ water and various treats (cookies, muffins, donuts etc..).
New venue, Stampede Agrium was stretched to the limits trying to accomodate all the Ag Exibitors, livestock & huge crowds ! Started slow as people took alittle while to adjust to Aggie Days being on 2 levels. Saturday was busy as 17,122 children& parents came thru the doors. Thanks to Don Hewitt, Andrew Sick, The Arkes Family for making Saturday a big success. Sunday was much the same crowds arrived earlier though smaller numbers & fewer strollers,( 11,488) unofficial attendance. There was NO support from the KCC on Sunday, i was left to recruit older teens from various other Ag Exibitors to pull it off. I left Sunday after tear down with my ears ringing with the question from senior Ag Committee staff- Why is your Club not here?? We had great exposure on 4 venues - Red Barn Stage, Tails & Swine Stage, the large triple bleacher Presentation Stage & Rope Making Venue- a total of 9 signs & banners identifying Kinsmen & presented by Kinsmen, and Thank-you Kinsmen banners!!!
