There’s a big party downtown Pembroke this weekend. The Autumn Harvest Festival is a fundraiser for Carefor as they kick off the Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home campaign. Bethea Summers, the manager of the Pembroke Business Improvement Area (PBIA), says the festival will include live music, inflatables, kids crafts, a dunk tank, a family photo backdrop and a build your own flower bouquet with Church Street Flowers.
A section of Victoria Street, from Pembroke Street down to Lake Street will be closed starting at 9:00am and the micro-event that runs from 11:00am to 3:00pm.
Summers says a number of local businesses and restaurants will also be setting up along Victoria Street and the farmers market will be open until 3:00pm as well.
The event is free to attend, but it is a fundraiser and money raised will go to support Carefor’s Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home campaign.
Sharon Maye, the Director of Operations for Carefor Pembroke-Renfrew County, says the campaign is making sure seniors have what we all deserve: a community, a healthy meal, safety and recreation.
Maye says to supplement the cost of these aspects of a resident at Carefor Civic and Mackay costs upwards of $180,000 a year.
Pembroke Mayor Michael LeMay will proclaim September 24th to October 1st Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home Week in hour of the new campaign at Carefor.
Carefor will also be at the Container Market in Petawawa on October 1st for National Seniors day with a ribbon cutting ceremony planned at noon.
(written by: Rudy Kadlec)
