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Page 2 President’s Message by Malcolm Sills
Page 3 MRAS Golf Tournament Message
Page 4 “Run to the Farmers’ Market” Message
Page 5 Flower Festival Information
Page 6 Director’s Contact Information
Page 7 Millarville Community Library
Page 8 June Facility Calendar
JULY OFFICE HOURS Tuesday-Friday 9am-4pm
Saturday 7am-3pm
MRAS UPCOMING EVENTS Farmers’ Market – Saturdays 9 am- 2pm
19th Annual Millarville Rodeo – July 24th-26th
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL The season has started! Don’t forget to renew your membership to gain free access to all of
our events! Renew in the office or online at www.millarvilleracetrack.com
TRACK WATCH July 2015
Thank you so much
to our Golf and Half
Marathon
committees for
getting us off to a
great start to our
years’ activities. It
was a great day out
on the golf course and even better, I
successfully won one of Patty Webb’s
excellent Saskatoon pies in the live
auction. Did I miss the snow from last
year? Not that much. A big thanks to the
Golf Committee and all the volunteers
who made this day a success.
Being on the gate for the Half Marathon
is a real eye opener - some of the 900
runners jogging into the market were not
even breathing hard. It was very
impressive. This is a great way to open
our market season as it brings in a
different group of people, many whom
have not been exposed to MRAS before.
Great job and thanks to both the
Marathon Committee and the many
volunteers that help to make this event
more successful every year.
On July 1st we will be celebrating Canada
Day with the running of the 110th
Millarville Races. This is always a well-
attended event and I encourage you to
get to the track early. I am looking
forward to another great day at the
Races.
The Board and staff are planning to meet
with each event committee after each
event to determine what went well and
what areas require our collective efforts
to make better. We are acutely aware of
the time and effort that our volunteers
put into these events and this is our way
of ensuring that we are making the best
of everyone’s time.
Unfortunately, for personal reasons, Jill
Oliver and Sean Nesbit have resigned
from the Board. We thank you both for
the contribution you have made to MRAS.
As a result we are looking for individuals
who are interested in being involved in
MRAS and would be interested in serving
on the board of directors If you would
like additional information please feel
free to e-mail or call myself or one of the
other board members.
A final note, due to health issues, our
concession operator had to leave us after
the first market. The staff is working
diligently to insure that we have
sufficient food options at our market and
events. We ask for your patience and
feedback while we work through this
challenging issue. I would also like to
thank the many vendors who have
stepped up or are going to be stepping
up to offer food options during this time.
Thank you all very much.
Malcolm Sills MRAS President
On behalf of the MRAS Golf Committee, we would like to thank all of our volunteers, sponsors and golfers who
participated and supported our second annual MRAS Golf Tournament on Monday June 8, 2015. We enjoyed a
beautiful day at Turner Valley Golf Club, not a cloud in the sky and a high of 28 Celsius. It was a polar opposite
day from our inaugural tournament last September. Thanks to our MRAS supporters the tournament was a
huge success, raising funds close to $12,000. This brings us closer to our goal for the upgrade of our water
treatment facility. This critical piece of racetrack infrastructure ensures we will have plenty of safe drinking
water for the over 100,000 people who visit us each year.
The Millarville Racing and Agricultural Society is a not for profit society that exists only because of the support,
generosity and participation of people like you. We would especially like to thank and recognize our
remarkable group of volunteers for this event: Marlene Bester, Rick Charlton, Norma Dawson, Catherine
Duerholt, Gail Dzuiba, Bob Dyck, Anita Gaylard, Bill Jackson, Judy Kenny, Janine Lewis, Myrna McKay, Edith
Morlidge, Ralph Onciul, Carol Poffenroth, Kim Trudeau and Patty Webb.
Thank you once again and we look forward to seeing you on the golf course next year.
MRAS GOLF COMMITTEE
Sincerely,
Catherine, Bill, Edith, Gail, Jean, Kelly, Kim, Rick and Suzanne
MRAS Golf Committee
2nd Annual MRAS Golf Tournament
4th Annual Millarville “Run To The Farmers’ Market” Half Marathon
Melonie McKee & Shawna Doucette
4th Annual Millarville “Run To the Farmers’ Market” Half Marathon
More than 900 cinnamon bun eating runners/walkers registered for the 4th Annual Millarville “Run To the
Farmers’ Market” Half Marathon—that’s triple the amount of participants from the original race day in 2012.
“We would have had a few hundred more, but we chose to close registrations early due to some capacity issues
on the pathway in Turner Valley,” said Race Director Rick Charlton. “We wanted to ensure everyone who
registered had a good time”.
Participants were running or walking a 21.1 KM half marathon and two person half marathon relay --legs of 9 KM
and 12.1 KM--as well as the rapidly growing COBS Bread Cinnamon Bun Run 8-Miler (12.8 KM). All events started
in Black Diamond and all finished at the 33rd season opening day of the Millarville Farmers’ Market. The half
marathon and relay participants also visited Turner Valley.
The original goal of the event was to bolster attendance on the opening season day of the Farmers’ Market. There
were 4,000 + at the Racetrack for the event/Farmers’ Market.
“In the first year of the event, there were only two participants with Millarville addresses,” said Mr. Charlton.
“This year, there were 32. We want to be seen as promoting health and wellness in our rural community so it’s
gratifying to see those numbers increasing every year”.
Participation in the 8-Miler, with its eclectic cinnamon bun eating category, doubled from 2014. COBS Bread
owners Kelly and Lee Hodgins brought about 1,400 cinnamon buns to the event and went through most of them,
primarily at the finish line, but also on the race course at two cinnamon bun stations.
The Millarville Half Marathon event would like to thank the following sponsors for their great support: Sobey's
Okotoks (David Gilbert & family), Foothills Animal Hospital, Okotoks (Dr. Miranda Logan), Okotoks GMC, Okotoks
Nissan, Country Food Mart AG Foods, Black Diamond (Mark Muller), Optimize Consulting, Okotoks (Mark
Crocker), COBS Bread, Okotoks (Kelly & Lee Hodgins), Millarville Recreation Board, Franklin Templeton, RBC
Global Asset Management, RBC Dominion Securities, Calgary South, JKR Excavating, Essex Lease Financial
Consulting, and Bar T-5 Agra Services, Millarville.
Thanks as well for prizes/awards from Impact Magazine, Running Room, 5 Peaks Trail Running Series, Goodlife
Fitness Okotoks, Diamond Fitness & Wellness in Black Diamond, Okotoks Dawgs, Original Joes, Luc's European
Meats, Janet Horbacio Photography and Classic Source For Sports in Okotoks.
53rd Annual
Flower Festival
Christ Church Millarville
Sat. July 18 & Sun. July 19
Tea served on Saturday only
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $6.00
Children 6 & under: $3.00
Church Service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
All Are Welcome
2015 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Malcolm Sills
President
Brent Foster
Treasurer
Catherine Duerholt
Secretary
Bill Jackson
Barb Castell
Pat O’Brien
Rick Charlton [email protected]
Faye White
Ralph Onciul
Mick Howden
MILLARVILLE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
SUMMER HOURS WEDNESDAYS FROM 10:30 am-7:30 pm
We will again be offering a Summer Reading Program for the children over the summer. It is so
important that kids keep up their reading skills during summer break from school, and we offer crafts
and games to enhance their library experience. It is a drop-in program and runs from July 8th to August
26th. The library begins its summer hours on Wednesday, July 8th and we are open from 10:30 am to
7:30 pm. The week of July 1st we will be closed on Wednesday but will be open Tuesday, June 30th from
10:30 am-7:30 pm. We will resume our regular hours on Tuesday, September 1st.
We have a new art exhibit in the library and it will be here until July 15th. Lynn Malin describes herself
primarily as a landscape artist but she is not bound by any one artistic genre or mode of expression.
This exhibition Out of Bounds: The art of Lynn Malin provides a survey of her artistic career, one of
Edmonton’s most exuberant artists. The viewer will be taken into the mind, heart and soul of a working
artist, encountering the wonder that can be realized when a person takes the risk and has the courage
to go “out of bounds”. This exhibit is sponsored by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling
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