A community that eats together stays together.
Volunteers at the South River Fall Fair are inviting you and your family to put pork on your fork and help out families hit by the shutdown of Kent Trusses.
On Sept. 9 the South River/Machar Agricultural Society is hosting its first Friday night community meal to open the 134th Fall Fair with a pig roast. The event starts at 6 p.m. and organizers are still adding events to the evening of family fun.
To recognize the devastation caused by the Kent Trusses shut down, the organizers are hosting a 50/50 draw with money to be held for the employees of the company no longer drawing a pay cheque.
Their families can also attend the pig roast for half price.
“We are so excited to be inviting everyone to come and have a meal with us while also recognizing the difficulty some of our neighbours have been going through since Aug. 18." says SRMAS President Suzanne Learn regarding the event.
The Pig Roast is $10 for adults and $5 for a kiddy plate.
Saturday's events include family fun with all day light horse show, a heavy horse pull, poultry exhibition, antique tractors, and live entertainment, local baking with a Pie and Tea shop, penny sale, candy in hay scramble along with other traditional family fun.
New this year is a 50 Foot zip cord for all the dare devils and a brand new structure in the Fair Book's prize seeing a four fold increase in the prizes, $40 for the best knitted throw, $15 for the biggest zucchini or sunflower and $20 for a collection of your three favourite crafts.
