TAKING IT TO THE STREETS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 7
Taking It To The Streets on September 7, featuring The Stampeders, is a business led thank you to volunteers and a salute to their customers.
A free outdoor concert featuring The Stampeders is set for Saturday, September 7 as a thank you to the community.
The Taking It To The Streets triple bill concert also features country rock artists Craig Moritz and Trevor Panczak. The event at Memorial Park in downtown Swift Current grew from a small scale idea into a major celebration thanks to support from 40 businesses.
Leanne Tuntland-wiebe, the Office Manager for Great West Auto Electric/bumper to Bumper, said the September 7 celebration allows business to give a tip of the hat to the volunteers which help make the community what it is.
“Its ended up being a really big community event with lots of organizations involved, not just businesses. It has grown into something I think the community wanted or they wouldn’t be supporting us like this,” she explained in an interview about the Bumper to Bumper and Friends event.
“We have 40 businesses and organizations involved in it,” she explained. “So in a year that everybody has given to the Western Canada Summer Games, and the PBR and Windscape, and with the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and CCA Finals this fall, we thought we would never get any money out of the community because everyone has given. But the people that believe in this came up with whatever they could.”
The day actually begins with the 2019 edition of the Market Square Cruisin’ Show and Shine, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the 200 block of 1st Ave. N.E. Bumper to Bumper is sponsoring this eight annual event which has grown year after year. A total of 100 vehicles were involved during 2018.
“We really didn’t want to end at 3:00 that day. We just felt lets do something, lets continue something. The car show people will hang around. It should help the businesses downtown with people hanging around. And that’s why we picked that day.”
The event gets underway with Moritz and Panczak performing as the opening acts for The Stampeders who will be on stage at 9 p.m.
But the musical celebration also boasts a variety of other attractions.
Food trucks run by Louie D’s in Swift Current, Deja Vu Cafe from Moose Jaw, and Shaunavon’s Harvest Eatery will all be on site during the evening.
The Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation will have a tent on site to share information about their Close to the Heart Digital Mammography Campaign which is raising $350,000 to purchase a new digital mammography unit for the Cypress Regional Hospital.
Saskabilities will have a tent, handing out balloons and information about their programming.
Members of the Swift Current cadets will be selling soda and water as a fundraiser for their coming year.
The Swift Current and District Chamber of Commerce is also involved as the evening is also a chamber event.
The Buffalo Brew Pub is holding a beer garden in their parking lot during the day, and Bakersfield will be performing in a Brew Pub customer appreciation event following the main stage concert.
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #56 will also have their lounge open for people to have a drink.
However, Tuntland-wiebe points out there is no drinking on the street during the celebration.
“It’s a family friendly event with no alcohol on the street. It not a street dance,” she reminded.
“So bring your lawn chair, hunker down and enjoy some good food and some really good music.”