A parade, children’s activities and a weekend-long baseball tournament are among the draws as Goulais River\u2019s annual Community Days festival runs through to Sunday<\/p>\n
Goulais River Community Days are here again this weekend.<\/p>\n
The annual three-day festival kicked off Friday at the Captain Tilley Community Centre and park.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s activities are billed as Country Western Community Days.<\/p>\n
Visitors are encouraged to wear cowboy hats.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, we have a new theme,\u201d said Rhonda Bailey, a member of Goulais Area Recreation Inc. and longtime co-organizer of the annual Goulais River Community Days celebrations.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s events included the annual parade featuring rural fire services trucks and private vehicles.<\/p>\n
There was a climbing wall, a foam bath, a rope climb, face painting and other activities for children to enjoy.<\/p>\n
A dunking booth was set up at the far side of the community centre.<\/p>\n
Other highlights include a 16-team baseball tournament that started Friday and runs through to Sunday, an arm-wrestling competition Saturday and lawn mower races Sunday.<\/p>\n
Approximately 40 vendors selling food, arts and crafts and collectibles were in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s more than we\u2019ve had in the past. We usually have 15 or 20 vendors,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n
Admission to Goulais River Community Days is $5 for one day or $8 for the weekend.<\/p>\n
Children three years of age and younger are admitted for free.<\/p>\n
All proceeds from admission fees go to maintenance and upgrades at the Captain Tilley Community Centre and park.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s celebration takes place in much warmer weather and under a sunnier sky.<\/p>\n
Rain fell on last year\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year was nasty,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been involved with Community Days for over 30 years. We\u2019ve only had two rainy years like that and it\u2019s bad when it happens. This year is better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bailey said she enjoys being a member of the Community Days organizing team and seeing her fellow Goulais River residents enjoy three days of fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work well together. I was on the organizing committee for Community Days for 20 years and they brought me back. It\u2019s even more fun the second time around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parade, children’s activities and a weekend-long baseball tournament are among the draws as Goulais River\u2019s annual Community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,280655],"class_list":["post-796013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainmenteventsgoulais-river-community-daysgoulais-river-community-days-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}