Popularity of Winter Festival grows
Having around a month to plan didn’t pose a problem for Prince Albert’s Winter Festival, bringing in even more people than last year.
“I’d say we were up probably up 50 per cent maybe more over last year,” Winter Festival president Barry Mihilewicz speculated. “I think the response was excellent.”
Mihilewicz said it’s hard to say what aided the most in increasing attendance numbers, but he says the venue played a big role.
“What we found here was that with…the concession inside and just the fact that you could go into the Alfred Jenkins Field House and warm up a bit I think…the cold was less of a deterrent,” he said.