A fresh rack of spudnuts at the Prince Albert Summer Fair. Big Brothers Big Sisters made and sold nearly 4,000. (Submitted Photo/Natasha Thomson)

By Rob Mahon

Spudnuts At The Fair

Big Brothers Big Sisters sell truckload of spudnuts at Summer Fair

Aug 9, 2022 | 9:00 AM

There was a year where the Prince Albert Summer Fair happened without the presence of one of their most famous attractions: the spudnuts made by Big Brothers Big Sisters.

People reached out to say they’d missed them that year, so the Big Brothers Big Sisters kept them happy this year.

Spudnuts were back at the Prince Albert Fair to the evident delight of the crowd who ate them up like crazy. It kept members of Big Brothers Big Sisters and their volunteers hard at work through the days, but people rewarded that hard work with a ton of support.

“We were so busy,” said Natasha Thomson, development coordinator with Big Brothers Big Sisters Prince Albert. “We sold out of spudnuts every day, and we could barely keep up with making them for fairgoers in Prince Albert.”

Despite at times struggling to keep up with demand, they were still able to make nearly 4,000 spudnuts over the course of the fair, which were eagerly scooped up to rave reviews. This was thanks in no small part to the efforts of about 40 volunteers who came alone in some cases or in groups in others.

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“We were short (of volunteers), but the ones we had had a big heart for our cause and stuck it out,” Thomson said. “One of them stayed there with me for 13 hours on the last day. We had some great volunteers that were helping us there.”

For this event, Big Brothers Big Sisters partnered with the Dief Chiefs Old Timers’ hockey club. The club ran the front booth and kept up with the sales from that side of things. With their help, Big Brothers Big Sisters had what they considered to be a successful fair. They don’t have a dollar figure yet, but they know what the money they raised will be used for once they have the total settled.

“The money is earmarked for volunteer recruitment and volunteer training, and monitoring our matches that we have,” said Thomson.

Thomson added they had several larger groups of volunteers, including a team from RBC, another from Diamond North Credit Union, and Mayor Greg Dionne and members of city council on the morning of Friday, Aug. 5. According to Thomson, council members made over 400 spudnuts. Community Building Youth Futures was also among the groups who came out to volunteer their time.

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