Monday, January 21, 2013

Needed: Winter Carnival Refs and Chefs

The Lynwood Winter Carnival on Feb 18th (11am to is coming together but we need some help!

This year's Ontario Family Day will also be the day over out first Winter Carnival.  Here are some events planned:

  1. Free horse drawn wagon from the Ridgefield entrance to Lynwood Park.
  2. Family skating all-day on the little rink
  3. Hot Chocolate and Pancakes for sale all day ($1)
  4. Family skating every hour on the hour on the big rink
  5. Puck-A-Buck shoot-out contest
  6. Shinny hockey and broomball games every hour on the half-hour on the big rink
    1. Winning side of each 30min game will get a free hot chocolate
  7. Snow shoe racing
  8. Cross-country skiing demontrations
  9. Mountain biking demonstrations
  10. Tug-of-war contest
  11. Flip-The-Pancake relay race
  12. The Great Lynwood Chilli Cook-Off ($1 per bowl)
    1. Buy $1 ticket from pancake table
      1. Marked half of the ticket goes into ballot box
      2. Un-marked half goes to chilli chef
    2. Winning chef gets 1/2 of proceeds


All proceeds at the end of the day will help pay for an air-conditioner for community building.

We need help - please contact Ron Tate <rwtate@gmail.com> if you can do any of the following:

  1. Keep score for hockey and broomball games
  2. Cook a mean chilli
  3. Help kids up on the horse wagon or run an event for 1 hour.