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Stampede and Ag Society making some noise this weekend

    There’ll be something for everyone at the Drumheller 2nd Annual Tractor Pull and Trade show this year.
    Organized by the Drumheller Stampede and Ag Society, the event is starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 26 with a trade show, including jewellery, ladies’ clothing, handbags, spa products and Glover trucks will be on display.
    To give everyone a chance to come out to see the main event, the pulling is starting at 6 p.m, warming up with the modified minis category, pulled by eight to 15 year old competitors.
    Tractor enthusiasts and fans will have the chance to show what their machines are made of as they pit their super-charged, highly modified trucks and tractors against each other to compete for the longest pull.
    Modified to get the maximum pull, the vehicles have also become a work of art and fans are encouraged to take a look around and speak to the drivers.
    “These vehicles have unbelievable paint jobs and people are more than welcome to come down to the pitch after the show and look at the machines up close and see the amount of work, time and money that goes into this, because there are some really really nice machines there, it’s like going to a car show,” explained Elwood McCarthy, of the Ag Society.
    As well as the minis, modified tractors, 2 and 4 wheel drive trucks and 4x4 Diesels will be competing in the event.
    This year, there’ll also be a guest appearance by Calgary Stampeder Outriders, who will be signing autographs and posters.

Tim Hortons chooses site on Highway 9 South in Drumheller

    The wait is over.
    After years of speculation, rumours, whining and campaigning, Tim Hortons has selected a potential site to bring its first franchise to Drumheller.
    John Barber, director of real estate development for Western Canada, for TDL Group, confirmed with The Mail the company has selected a site on Highway 9 in Drumheller, and is working towards opening in the near future. Currently there has been no development permit taken out. The company has simply identified a parcel.
    “We have identified a couple of locations, and they are working extremely hard on one of them right now, and if everything goes down the garden path in the right direction, and proper timing, we should have something in Drumheller in 2011,” said Mr. Barber. “We have it in our budget to open a store in Drumheller in 2011.”
    Barber said the company corporately handles the store, but they are franchised out. He was not in the position to reveal the franchisee. He says they have explored markets before without having an owner in place.
    “We went into Stettler without a so-called franchisee in place. We thought the market was strong enough, and that we would be able to find a franchisee in time to open the store,” said Barber.
    Tim Hortons was founded in 1964 by the former Toronto Maple Leaf along with a partner. At the time of Horton's untimely death in a car accident in 1974, there were 40 stores. Today there are 3,596 system wide restaurants with 3,029 in Canada and 567 in the U.S. There is a store in Kandahar, Afghanistan on a military base.
    Barber said Tim Hortons has been exploring positioning an outlet in Drumheller for quite some time, and this is not the first site identified.
    “It is a market that we should have been in a little bit sooner than this,” he said. “We looked at two or three places in Drumheller, but when we wanted to do it, the development costs (were too high)–not because of Drumheller as a town– but the lack of trades because of the economy running so strong for a while.”
    “We’ll be looking forward to having something there and hopefully the people will support it when the store opens,” said Barber.

Kaleidoscope Theatre to produce one more show before moving back home

    The Kaleidoscope Theatre will have one more production before moving back home to their Drumheller Composite High School location.
    Details are yet to be finalized but president Megan McLauchlin told inSide Drumheller they were hoping to produce the musical comedy, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, in the fall as their final show before going back home. The show will be directed by vice president Colin Regamey.
    “It has been very hard putting on a play without our theatre,” said McLaughlin, explaining all the work this entailed, such as needing to rent space, sound and lighting equipment, building a stage and having limited access for rehearsal.
    “Putting on a show is quite a big undertaking, and it is double or triple the work when you are not in your location.”
    Although challenging, working without their theatre has also been interesting, said McLauchlin, adding “I don’t know if Cabanet would have been as good in a big theatre, because it would not have been so intimate. At the Navy League building, you felt like you were in a little cabaret club in Germany. Whereas I think if we had done it at the Kaleidoscope, it could have been a whole different show and might have had a whole different feel.”
    While they are hoping to start auditions for the next show in September, the team has been busy doing casinos to raise money to give the theatre a bit of a makeover when they are able to move back to their premises in January 2011.     “We are actually revitalizing the theatre’s interior,” said McLauchlin. “We will be putting in new seats and repainting. We also have a volunteer designer helping us, it will look like a new space.”
    For the grand re-opening, McLauchlin said they hope to produce a big musical in late spring, early summer 2011.

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