The 16th Annual Heritage Week will be held Feb. 21 to 25 at the Mall at Piccadilly.
This event is held in partnership with the RJ Haney Heritage Village and Museum and features many local exhibitors and displays in a celebration of our pioneer heritage.
This year’s theme is Energy in B.C., A Powerful Past, A Sustainable Future.
People of all ages will enjoy a full week of heritage displays, a silent auction and Heirloom Discovery Days with antique appraisals by Peter Blundell.
Families can join in the old-fashioned fun on Saturday, Feb. 25, starting off with a pancake breakfast from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. hosted at Jane’s Place, as well as gold panning, face- painting and a children’s crafts station from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Organizers are pleased to be hosting the 16th annual Best of the Shuswap Pie Baking Contest again this year.
This popular event has wide public appeal and promises to be lip-smacking good. After the judging, slices are sold for $2.50 each with the proceeds going towards projects at the village and museum.
Contest winners could walk away with an engraved trophy or a dinner- for-two certificate for the 2012 Villains and Vittles Summer Dinner Theatre production, written and directed by local playwright Peter Blacklock.
Judged by look, appearance, authenticity, texture, and taste, the pies must be made the old-fashioned way – from scratch.
Entries must be either apple, other fruit or berry pies. No custard based or meringue pies please.
Pies must be covered in plastic wrap or container and submitted between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at The Mall at Piccadilly, centre court.
For additional information, call the museum at 250-832-5243, email info@salmonarmmuseum.org, or visit them on Facebook.
Meanwhile Haney Heritage Week exhibitors include the City of Salmon Arm Historical Commission, Deep Creek Tool Museum, Enderby Museum, Enderby Seed Savers, Esme Nicholson Art, Heritage Collectables, Okanagan Historical Society, Ron’s Crafts, Salmon Arm Fall Fair, Salmon Arm Model Railroad Association, Shuswap Needle Art Guild, Shuswap Pioneer Collectors Club, Shuswap Quilters Guild Shuswap Spinners & Weavers and Vintage Radios.
For more information on the event contact the mall administration office at 250-832-0441.
