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August 31 - September 5, 2011
Wharf Rat Rally wins Annapolis Valley award
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.
The Legacy Event award won by the Wharf Rat Rally recognizes “an annual community festival or event that provides long lasting benefits to a community in the Annapolis Valley”.
Rally chair Glenn Dunn couldn’t be at the ceremony but told the Courier by phone he was “very pleased and proud”.
“This recognition shows people that the Wharf Rat Rally is a regional event, it has an impact up and down the Valley,” says Dunn.
Wayne MacDonald, a board member with the rally, was on hand Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Old Orchard Inn in New Minas to accept the award on behalf of the rally.
“The town saw more motorcycles than Digby has seen at any previous rally, more people, especially with the addition of the high-powered boats, than Digby has seen for a rally before, more tourists than any other rally in Atlantic Canada and soon it will be challenging for more people than any other rally in Canada. The impact of this was felt from Middleton to Yarmouth and beyond.”
A dozen people from the Digby area went up to New Minas to take in the awards including the district warden Linda Gregory and town councilors Jean Brittain and Danny Harvieux.
Harvieux was there primarily for The Canadian Senior Curling Championships which was a finalist in the Event of the Year category. That award went to the 2011 Canada Winter Games Snowboarding competition.
The Digby Golf Classic was also a finalist in the Sport Legacy category. That award went to the Berwick Slow Pitch Tournament.
Still Harvieux was happy.
“Three different nominations out of four awards; that’s a lot going on here in Digby,” said Harvieux. “That’s because we have good people, good volunteers and a strong community here.”
