A crokicurl rink is being installed outside the Shellbrook High School. (Submitted/ Jessica Kernohan)

By Nigel Maxwell

Family activities

Shellbrook prepares for family focused winter festival

Feb 4, 2021 | 2:00 PM

In an effort to help encourage local families to get active, and get a much needed reprieve from the stresses surrounding COVID-19, the Town of Shellbrook is planning a pandemic-friendly winter festival.

Beginning Friday, Feb. 12, families can take part in a wide variety of programming over the long weekend, both scheduled and at their own leisure. Recreation Director Jessica Kernohan assured paNOW all the activities will adhere to COVID protocols.

“We thought it was very important to have something this year because of COVID and the lack of things that families can do,” she said.

Examples of the scheduled activities include snow shoeing and cross country skiing sessions, as well as a children’s archery event and something called a heart hunt.

“Cupid has lost his hearts throughout the community and families go and find them,” Kernohan explained, adding when the hearts are recovered, families can enter for a chance to win a prize.

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In addition to the scheduled events, families can also on Thursday, Feb. 11, pick up their own home fun kits at the town office.

“Lots of it involves outdoor fun things or craft things indoors,” Kernohan said, adding there are snow man and snow volcano making kits, as well as a dream catcher kit.

Rich Hildebrand is busy working on a snow sculpture outside the Shellbrook town office. (Submitted photo/ Jessica Kernohan)

In preparation for the fun week, three large snow sculptures are also being erected around the community; one is at the town office and another is being worked on by students at the high school.

“And the hospital has requested one for their residents to be able to see out there, so I am currently on the hunt for another sculptor,” Kernohan said.

More information about the events can be found on the town’s winter festival Facebook page. At their meeting Monday, town council approved the committee’s budget of $3,665. Administrator Kelly Hoare noted for paNOW most of the expenses such as prizes and supplies, are donated.

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