Vanessa Roberts of the town of Windsor presents Wayne MacDonald, a Wharf Rat Rally board member, with the AVESTA Legacy Event award on Oct. 27, 2011. Cindy O’Neil photoDigby is a happening spot.

Digby area events were nominated in three of the four categories at the Annapolis Valley Events and Sport Tourism Association awards banquet.

The Wharf Rat Rally won its category and the Digby Golf Classic and the Canadian Seniors Curling Championships were nominated to the top three in theirs.

At the 3rd Annual AVESTA awards luncheon today the Wharf Rat Rally won the Event Legacy Award. These awards celebrate the achievements of valley events and festivals recognizing the important positive economic and social impact these organizations bring to the region. Other finalists in this category included: Deep Roots Music Festival and the Festival of Lights.

1st Prize

1st Prize: 2011 Harley Davidson Street Glide - Frank Brown, Sandy Cove, NS

2nd Prize: 2011 Honda CBR250R - Mike Hutt, Aylesford, NS

3rd Prize: $3000.00 trip - Doug McCray, Upper Mills, NB

50/50: $3962.50 - Judy Crowell, Digby, NS

Registration: Motorola XOOM - Julien Deveau, Digby Co., NS

Congratulations to all of the winners!!!

Everyone is asking about the NUMBERS!!! It will take some time to enter all registrations but... we have a traffic count from Dept. of Transportation. From Thursday afternoon until late Monday night there were over 48,000 vehicles (both motorcycles and cars) going into Digby and over 50,000 coming out of Digby on the 303 highway (the main road into Digby). This does not include Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (morning) traffic, or motorcycles diverted to the Digby Neck highway (#217) nor does it include the significant number of bikes that arrived by the Ferry from New Brunswick. We will have a better breakdown as soon as possible. A preliminary breakdown of these numbers would put us at 25,000 to 27,000 motorcycles travelling to the Wharf Rat Rally 2011!!!