By Angie Rolheiser

Winter festival

Winter activities set for Manitou Beach annual festival

Feb 13, 2019 | 12:30 PM

A day of winter activities will be held at Manitou Beach next weekend.

The resort village is holding their annual winter festival, which kicks off on the morning of Feb. 23 with a pancake breakfast at Danceland.

Rec Board member Sherwin Petersen said there is a fee for the breakfast but the rest of the day is free for all to enjoy.

“The rec board likes to have the folks around here have something to do during the winter that doesn’t cost a fortune,” Petersen said.

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A silver collection will be taken up throughout the day which will then go back into rec board activities and facilities.

“In any small community the rec board has got a lot of things they are involved in and we always need volunteers and we always need money to make things happen and the silver collection will go a long ways towards that,” Petersen said.

A main attraction for the day will be the food fair happening from 2 to 5 p.m.

“We’ve got seven or eight establishments out of Watrous and Manitou Beach that are going to be exhibiting their restaurants,” Petersen said.

Musical entertainment will also be featured and a cribbage tournament also takes place over the afternoon. The cribbage tournament has about 42 people signed up so far and they can still take more registrations.

Manitou Beach also has their crokicurl rink installed and open for the second year in a row.

“We managed to get into the CAA magazine as one of five places in Saskatchewan that actually had one last year, competing with Saskatoon and Regina type thing,” Petersen said.

Crokicurl is a combination of the board game crokinole played on a sheet of curling.

Petersen said that the Manitou crokicurl is unique in having their own discs rather than using actual curling rocks. There are a few different ways to play the game but the rec board committee is aiming at using tractional rules during the winter festival.

A skating pond is also ready for use a little ways from the Danceland building and there will be a bonfire that day as well.

“A lot of these outdoor events will depend on the weather and we are just hoping that mother nature will give us a day that’s a little nicer than it has been,” Petersen said.