HAHN board members Laurel Armstrong and Jerry McDonnell, Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb, HAHN co-ordinator Rick Sickinger, HAHN events co-ordinator Karen Stewart and Huron Country Cultural Services Director Meighan Wark.
Bullet News GODERICH – The federal government gave a $6,500 boost to organizers of Doors Open Huron, with a brief funding announcement at the Goderich Municipal Airport yesterday.
Although the warplanes show was postponed as a result of poor weather conditions, Ben Lobb, MP Huron-Bruce, went ahead with the announcement of funding to the Huron Arts and Heritage Network from the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage Program in front of a small audience gathered in the airport’s lobby.
“Local festivals such as these help draw people together from across Ontario, encourage tourism, and also serve to bring economic benefits to the local communities and businesses,” he said, in a press release.
Doors Open Huron – Defending a Nation featured 24 heritage buildings and cultural sites across the county that were open to the
Fran Profit, Royal Canadian Legion member, Branch 109; Joanne Walters, Mariners’ Memorial Service Committee, Knox Presbyterian Church, Goderich; and Captain Dave MacAdam, Chair of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 centenary Remembrance Committee, take a break from hosting guests at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 109 in Goderich during the weekend Doors Open Huron – Defending Our Nation. In addition to the publicized themes for Branch 109, great interest was shown for the heritage military displays located throughout that building. Most visitors had never seen that important historical material until their weekend visits there.
public at no cost this past weekend. Various sites featured veterans, historians, memorabilia, displays and documentaries that told the stories of local people who served and defended the country over the past 200 years.
More than 200 volunteers and one thousands hours were invested into organizing the weekend.
“It’s an honour to share these stories, memorabilia, collections of those men and women in Huron County who answered the call to defend our nation,” said Karen Stewart, who is events co-ordinator for HAHN.
She said plans are in the works to reschedule the warplanes show for next Saturday.
The Harvard, the highlight of the show, with its signature roar when the tips of the nine-foot propellers go supersonic, was a training aircraft used in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to train air crew in Canada for the Allied war effort. RCAF bases were established in Goderich, Port Albert, Vanastra and Centralia.
