It's one busy bee weekend in High River.
The Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival continues with the Balloon Glow Friday night in Wallaceville. It will go rain, wind or shine. Hopefully, all the balloons will be able to inflate but in case the weather conditions are not favourable they will have the baskets just flare their propane. Everyone will still be able to talk to the pilots and see all the balloons.
The 3rd annual Brian Chipchase Sr. Memorial Show N' Shine is also taking place on Sunday, but all the action starts on Saturday. The parts swap meet goes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Call of the West Museum and Eamon's Garage. The Burn Out also takes place on Saturday at the new time of 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Centre Street between 3rd Ave and 7th Ave. They also have a dinner and dance lined up on Saturday night.
High River's first-ever 'Repair Cafe' is also taking place at the library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Take household items, broken toys or whatnot and hopefully, you can save them from going to a landfill.
A special ceremony is also taking place on Saturday in George Lane Park to commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation which officially takes place on Monday. On Saturday at 3:30 p.m. local Indigenous artist Jared Tailfeathers will reveal one of two tree carvings.
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