The 41st annual Denare Beach Winter Festival takes place this weekend. Recreation Director Mel Durette says it starts tonight with the Mushers supper at the Denareplex at 5:30 followed a penny parade, kid’s events, turkey curling and fireworks at 8. She adds on Saturday they’ll start the day off with the pancake breakfast followed by the family fishing derby, unfortunately they don’t have the horse drawn wagon rides as the guy backed out and they haven’t been able to find anybody, there’s a concession with hot dogs and stuff, at 12:30 the Bingo starts, there’s boot hockey at 1 o’clock, a penny parade all day, there’ll be a Freezie mountain at 12:30, a crib tournament at 3:30 and there’s a King and Queen Trapper at 1:30.
The Festival wraps up Sunday with the Sno Drags at the Beaver Lake Day grounds with registration from 11 to 12 and races start at 1 with a concession available.
