Weekend Report

Local:

-BIG 105 presents the Collicut Centre’s 10^th Birthday Celebration running through Saturday. Surf & Turf Extreme runs Friday starting at 7:00pm. Saturday features Let’s Try It starting at 10am.

-Lindsay Thurber is hosting Improv Extravaganza Friday at the school. Tickets are $5 and show time is 7:00pm.

- Christian Youth Theatre presents Anne of Green Gables for a week of performances starting Friday at First Church of the Nazarene. Tickets are $12, seniors and students for $9.

-The Alzheimer Society is holding the Investors Group Memory Walk Saturday at Sunnybrook Farms. Registration is $15 and includes the family BBQ and all proceeds go to local support.

-The legendary Pete Knight Days in Crossfield run Friday through Sunday including the FCA Rodeo Performance Friday, the pancake breakfast and parade Saturday and the Show and Shine Sunday.

-Innisfail is having celebrations Saturday with the Rodeo Parade Saturday at 10:30am followed by the Historic Markerville Icelandic Picnic at noon and the 51^st Annual Rodeo at the Daines Ranch. Daines Ranch? Is that new?

-Bowden has a Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast at the Bowden Igloo Arena starting at 9:00am. The Bowden Rodeo Grounds are hosting a Cocke Family Benefit as well. There will be silent and live auctions with games for the kids and beef on a bun.

-The Village of Alix is hosting at 10k run and walk as a fundraiser for the Alberta Children’s Hospital on Saturday. Registration is $15.00 by calling Megan at (403) 788-3878.

-Sylvan Lake sports a Family Fun Run of 2.5 or 10 km beginning at Best Body Fitness at 10:00am. The walk or run is designed for the entire family.

Sports

-Parkland Baseball League action has Beiseker in Red Deer to take on the Razorbacks with the first pitch set for 7:00pm, weather permitting. Innisfail is in Rocky Mountain House. Saturday features two double headers with Eckville playing two in Olds while Rocky has a pair in Beiseker.

Film

-Mr. Popper’s Penguins, a family comedy starring Jim Carrey about a man who is sent a penguin from an arctic expedition.

-Green Lantern, the big screen adaptation of the DC Comic hero. It stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively and a lot of CGI.

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Happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there; the definition of what a super hero actually is.