Let’s show ‘em what we’re made of.
Billy Barker Days is once again upon us with four days jam-packed with a host of activities.
So let’s not blow it.
It really only takes a couple bad apples to make our city and our citizens look like backward country-bumpkins.
This weekend is an opportunity to showcase our city’s beauty, hospitality, talents and charm. It’s a family festival – let’s keep it that way.
This weekend is typically the busiest for our local RCMP members and certainly the event generates decent business for the liquor outlets, but if you’re going to enjoy a few “pops,” do it responsibly.
Don’t be the moron with open booze at the park during a packed, free concert, one where children, grandma, grandpa and Uncle Phil might have to witness your potty mouth.
Don’t embarrass yourself or this fine city with your flagrant disregard for decent behaviour during what is marketed as a “family-oriented event.”
Police will be out in full force. Additional police resources will be targeting liquor related offences, including open liquor in a public place, impaired driving and public intoxication.
Nothing says good-old-fashioned-family-fun like watching sweaty, drunken Billy Bob being taken down by our city’s finest at LeBourdais.
By all means enjoy the pubs, take in the beer gardens, sit around a camp fire, pull off your best Clint Eastwood in his Outlaw Josey Wales days impersonation if you so desire.
Just don’t do it at the expense of others.
This festival takes a lot of work from many amazing citizens and is one of very few remaining.
Let’s do them, our city and our name proud.
Keep it clean, keep it reasonable, keep it respectful.
