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Taylor McCarthy is gonna need a bigger boat for all the snacks she\u2019s preparing for more than 40 guests invited to her third annual fish party in celebration of Sylvan Lake\u2019s Jaws at the Lake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an excuse to dress up and get together,\u201d says the 23-year-old who grew up in the lakeshore community about 160 kilometres south of Edmonton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jaws at the Lake<\/a> is on today. The free event launched in 2017 in the town of 18,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It offers moviegoers the chance to watch the classic 1975 film Jaws on a giant dual-sided screen perched on the picturesque shore at 9 a.m. as the sun begins to set.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a sea-themed cartoon feature at 6:30 p.m. where people can watch from the land or the water.<\/p>\n

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Special outdoor screening of Jaws taking place in Sylvan Lake<\/p>\n

Sylvan Lake, which is located about 160 kilometres south of Edmonton, is offering moviegoers the chance to watch a classic 1970s thriller on a big screen perched on the town’s picturesque shore while bobbing in the water. Turns out it’s not the only interesting thing about this community.<\/p>\n

According to Sylvan Lake Tourism the town\u2019s tradition draws more than 1,000 visitors and is one of their biggest events of the year filling local hotels and eateries. This year CBC will be at the event and share a collection of stories from the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a kid McCarthy grew up attending every year \u201cbut of course, as you get a little bit older you kind of drift apart from friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

This event is a way of reconnecting with high school buddies now that she\u2019s studying to be an ophthalmologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McCarthy says it\u2019s also become an \u201cobsession\u201d thrifting for water-theme jewelry and clothes and curating the food and drinks for the fish party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s menu includes \u201ccroissant sandwiches with little googly eyes that look like crabs and nautical named drinks like the Drunken Dory\u201d all leading to the main movie watching event.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople floating in Sylvan Lake for the Jaws at the Lake event in 2024 waiting for the movie to start. (Submitted by Visit Sylvan Lake)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of scary, being right on the water, but also kind of fun,\u201d and she says \u201cyou always have to get down here very early to put down a lawn chair.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave Pullar and his family have decided to watch from shore this year but in the past they’ve taken their boat over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put the anchor down and we wait for the movie to come out and it’s fantastic,\u201d says the 62-year-old who\u2019s family has a long connection to the area.<\/p>\n

His great-grandfather, William Jarvis, chose Sylvan Lake as the spot to homestead, building one of the first log cabins in 1904.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now Pullar considers himself a \u201csteward of the land\u201d having seen six generations enjoy the bay bearing his family’s name. <\/p>\n

\"ThreeKaren Brown, far right, chats with her brother Dave Pullar seated next to his golden retriever Dinarii and wife Brenda Pullar at their property on Jarvis Bay on Sylvan Lake. (Adrienne Lamb\/CBC)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis lake means everything to me. My heart and soul are here,\u201d and Pullar says summer events like Jaws at the Lake draw even more people into the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just one of those unique, interesting things the town of Sylvan Lake does that adds vibrancy to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Megan Hanson says the lake is a \u201cpiece of paradise\u201d that is all about quality family time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think many places allow you to carve that out these days,\u201d she says. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Hanson says she stays on land to catch the movies but \u201cI think it is so neat how many people will brave getting in the water, even if it\u2019s cold, even if it\u2019s terrifying, on their boats and on their floaties to really take it all in.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"AMayor Megan Hanson talking up a new patio restaurant that’s opened on the waterfront harbour in Sylvan Lake, Alta. (Adrienne Lamb\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-810119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810119","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=810119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}