Lots of fun in Cobalt on Canada Day
The Cobalt Canada Day events on July 1 will have a line-up of enjoyable activities.
The day will get off on a good start with the Mayors' Pancake Breakfast starting at 9 a.m. Monday at the Golden Age Club. There will be free pancakes and sausages as long as there is food.
A parade will be lining up at the southwest side of town at 11:30 and then will march or drive through town to the Golden Age Club.
The Cobalt Royal Canadian Legion Branch 44 and the Cobalt Fire Department will be working side by side for a range of activities after the parade.
This year, Angie Larabie has stepped forward to the front of the organizing team.
As an executive member of the Cobalt Legion, she wanted to ensure that there were activities this year after the parade, she explained in a telephone interview.
There will be many hands busy during the day to make this event a success. Everyone is encouraged to come out to support them.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
About half-a-dozen members of the Golden Age Club will be behind the scenes flipping pancakes and getting hot food ready for the mayors to dish out at the Mayors' Pancake Breakfast. Mayors Angela Adshead of Cobalt, Dan Cleroux of Coleman, and Sharon Gadoury-East of Latchford will all be present to serve the food.
The breakfast "is very traditional," said Cobalt Councillor Pat Anderson in a telephone interview, and it has been a long-standing part of the Canada Day activities in town.
At 11:30 a.m. the Canada Day Parade walkers will be gathering at the former Damiani Furniture site, and vehicles and floats will be gathering at the snow dump, both located at the southwest end of town, before heading to the Golden Age Club.
At 1 p.m., the Cobalt Jammers will be providing Music in the Park at the Major Edward J. Holland VC Memorial Park.
The barbecues will be fired up beside the Cobalt fire hall for hamburgers and hotdogs, available for a small cash-only fee.
There will also be cotton candy, and the Golden Age Club is bringing a bucket of ice cream for ice cream cones.
Drop by the library to admire the colouring sheets that area children have been creating for display in the library's windows.
Larabie said that this year, she wanted to be sure that there were activities after the parade.
"I'm very glad I'm able to help bring all this back."
She added, "It couldn't have happened without all the great businesses."
Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Temiskaming Speaker
