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Kraft Celebration Tour and TSN Coming to Sackville Aug 26
August 24th, 2011
Join us at the Swan Pond/Ladies College Park from 5 to 8 pm on Friday for the Kraft Celebration Tour!
Kraft Celebration Tour and TSN Coming to Sackville SACKVILLE, NB — Sackville voted! Sackville won! Now its Sackville’s turn to celebrate! The town and community rallied with 289,000 victory votes compared to Shippagan’s 213,000 in head-to-head online voting on July 21. With the victory Sackville won a spot on the 2011 Kraft Celebration Tour, which will turn into a gigantic, free community barbeque, hosted by Kraft and TSN on Friday, August 26 (5pm – 8pm). At the free giant barbeque there will be lots of food, activities, and entertainment for all ages to enjoy. The mayor and town councilors will be working the barbeque that will feature free hotdogs, hamburgers, and flavoured water, all sponsored by Kraft.
Local talent will provide entertainment beginning at 5:00 pm with Stacey Read on fiddle. Other performers will include Janet Crawford, and RA Lautenschlager singing on stage. Community members are encouraged to bring along lawn chairs to enjoy the entertainment in comfort. For those who are more sports minded, several local sporting groups are putting on demonstrations and displays. And young athletes will get a chance to putt, throw footballs, kick soccer balls, and play Rocks and Rings — a curling game for children. As well the ‘NHL on TSN’ activity site is bringing along a interactive hockey game to test young players’ shooting accuracy, and there will be an extremely valuable hockey stick on display that was carved in the 1830’s.
Other activities include several fun games for children. Some of these include a Slip and Slide water activity (bring towels), arts and crafts with Kool-Aid Jammers, Whack-a-bell game of strength, Jell-o Bouncy Castle, bean bag toss, potato sack races, face painting, and various other interactive activities. Several of these include food sampling and photo opportunities. As well, community participants are encouraged to bring their cameras.
Kraft is coming with hundreds of free food samples. Patrons can enjoy all of the following: Jalapeno flavoured Cheez Whiz Nachos, Tassimo hot beverages, Cracker Barrel Cheese samples, Kraft Dinner, Halls, Clorets, Maynards Candy, and Golden Oreo Cookies.
About 6:30 pm, there will be a cheque presentation of $25,000 to the Sackville Curling Club for much-needed repairs to their building. TSN SportsCentre will begin on the TSN main stage at 7:00 pm Atlantic time. The entire show will be available to watch on a large public screen at the swan pond. Attendees are encouraged to wear a costume or team jersey as well as bring along