Photo from the Dawson Creek Exhibition & Stampede Facebook page.

By Curtis Galbraith

Dawson Creek Exhibition

Organizers say Spirit Week a hit in Dawson Creek

Aug 13, 2020 | 9:26 AM

Organizers say there was a big community response to the Dawson Creek Exhibition & Stampede Spirit Week.

It ran from August 5 to 11 as a substitute for the postponed weekend of rodeo, wagon racing, and farm shows.

President Connie Patterson says they wanted to do something to keep the event in people’s minds.

“2022 is our 100th anniversary, so we thought ‘You know, we just need to do something so people don’t forget us,’ was what the idea was. So, in spirit, we just wanted everybody to be in spirit with us.”

Patterson says a request to share pictures on the Exhibition & Stampede’s Facebook page drew hundreds of responses. Businesses and homes put up decorations.

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“Any of us that have been around the Exhibition for any length of time, you know for the last 25 years or so, I mean it was weird for us not having it. It just didn’t seem right.”

There were also radio and online prize giveaways.

Patterson adds there are some big plans in place for upgrading some buildings by the time the 100th anniversary arrives.

“We already did the one food booth. Our 4-H building is 60 years old; we’re re-doing it. Our heavy horse barn, which is a big barn and it has two lean-tos on the side, the sheep and goat barn on one side, we’re re-doing that one as well.”

Patterson says they went from six food booths to one. Food trucks had come in to fill in the gaps.

She adds the front of the cattle barn, which had been removed a few years ago, is being rebuilt and the offices will move to that building. That work should start within two or three weeks.