Event organizer, Carl Michener, left with Sonny Foley who not only provided the property but also helped set up tables and booths and chairs.
People arriving paid $10 for an admission bracelet and could buy lunch and beer tickets at this booth. George Powell, far right, member of the Watershed Trust’s Watershed Action Group, helps fasten a bracelet.
As people walked, they could stop and learn. Children presented their ‘Salmon Passports’ and collected stickers for their books at each station.
Captain Tony R. Degasperis of Georgian Bay Anglers had fish models that children could handle. Each child was given a passport and collected six stickers, each representing a stage in the salmon’s lifecycle.
Even without the salmon, there were many things to learn about aquatic life. Children scooped water from the stream and analyzed it with experts from Ontario Streams.
Children could roll in giant balls called zorbs, play in the giant salmon and bouncy castle, colour at the tables and learn about wetlands through interactive games.
Lunch was Kolapore trout burgers or beef burgers, Caesar salad and cookies. There was no entrance fee for children and lunch was free for children too, subsidized by an entrance fee for adults.
Rebecca Ferguson of the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority points out nymphs and other benthic invertebrates scooped up from the Creek.
It was a perfect day for cooling off in the Silver Creek
