The Williams Lake Stampede was canceled for the Covid years so everyone was excited to be back and attendance at all the events was out of this world.
On Canada Day Leo and his group played at the public market and the Community Band gave a concert in Boitanio Park later in the day.
In honor of the return of the Stampede, Rocco Catalano, our euphonium player arranged the Williams Lake Stampede song by Alan Moberg for the band.
There's a recording of it on Facebook. It's a little raggedy! We're suffering a bit from our Covid layoff. We'll do it better next year.
On Saturday we played in the Stampede parade. There was a great turnout and it didn't even rain.
You may have heard what happened Sunday at the Stampede Grounds. That put quite a damper on our community's big weekend.
Immediately after the shooting, a big windstorm swept through. Our friends were downtown (not at the rodeo grounds) and came home to find their big cottonwood had fallen on their house.
Fortunately, no one was home but there is quite a lot of damage. They had already made an appointment with a tree faller to assess the tree for the very next day. So he came and removed the debris instead.
And that was our Stampede weekend.
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