The Newsy Neighbour Magazine
June Issue #116
Article Provided By: Kyle Penn
Come out to the Get to Know Your
Neighbour Festival and Sessions in the Park!
After a long, miserably cold winter that seemed to
hang around forever (including a brief, stormy encore that brought with it a
windy snowfall at the end of May!), warm weather and sunny days have finally
returned to southern Alberta. We love summer on the Prairies, and are excited
to kick off the season by bringing our 3rd Annual Get to Know Your
Neighbour Festival to Strathmore once again!
The Get to Know Your Neighbour Festival is a highlight
of the year for us, matched only by our annual Reader’s Choice Best in Business
Awards in scope and scale. We love hosting this summertime event, because it
really gives us the opportunity to let our hair down and have some fun. There
will be entertainment for folks of all ages, with face painting, BBQs,
giveaways, lots of delicious food and refreshments, and so much more!
As much fun as the bouncy castles and beer gardens
are, though, the Get to Know Your Neighbour Festival really starts to shine at
that point where everybody gets involved. Everything we do is at its best when
the community gets behind it – and lucky for us, we live in a place full of
some of the most passionate community members and business owners around! Last
year, attendance was up double over what we saw during the Festival’s first
run, which absolutely blew us away. What we loved even more than those numbers,
though, was seeing the enthusiasm that business owners brought to the streets
of Strathmore, and the consequent embracing of these local shops and services
by everyone attending the Festival. The main goal of the Festival has always
been about promoting small business within Strathmore, and the past two events
have been entirely successful in that drive. We’re really looking forward to
seeing the best and brightest of our community’s local businesses showcased in
sunny Strathmore once again – we’re sure everyone will bring their A game, as
they always do!
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Newsy Neighbour event if
it wasn’t bigger and better than the year before. To that end, we’re expanding
the musical element of the Get to Know Your Neighbour Festival in a big way.
First, we’ll be kicking off the live entertainment with a special Backyard Jam,
showcasing some of the best and brightest up-and-coming musical talent, all
local and from right here, in our own “backyard”! We’ll be following the Jam up
with the inaugural edition of Sessions in the Park – an outdoor concert with a
musical lineup you won’t want to miss! If you’ve been following along with our
monthly Live Music columns, you’ll surely see some familiar names and faces:
New Soul Duo, Envy, and Sarah Beth Keeley will be performing live, starting at
4PM, with fan favourites Junk heading up the after party. Of course, none of
this would be possible without the gracious support of our backers at Legends
Kitchen and Bar, who are sponsoring Sessions in the Park so that it remains
free for everyone to come out and enjoy the show!
We’ve pulled out all the stops to make this event a
memorable one, and can’t wait to bring the very best in local business and
music to Strathmore on June 17th. Whether you’re a participating
business owner, a talented performer, or an excited community member, we look
forward to seeing everybody there. The last two Get to Know Your Neighbour
Festivals have been complete successes in every measure of the word, and we
look forward to continuing this tradition by spotlighting our community’s best,
brightest, and most talented members once again.
If you have yet to attend a Get to Know Your Neighbour
Festival, make 2017 the year you dive headfirst into things! There really is an
indescribable energy in the air around the event, and there can be no group of
individuals and businesses more welcoming and friendly than those from
Strathmore, Langdon, Chestermere, and the surrounding communities. We bet
you’ll be surprised by all the fun there will be to have, and by all the
stand-out businesses and services that will be there for you to explore and
experience. Spend June 17th with friends and family in Strathmore –
come out, and get to know your neighbour!
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