The annual Wheat Festival will be taking place throughout Weyburn from Friday, August 5 until Sunday, August 7. The Heritage Village, the Weyburn Horticultural Society, the Soo Line Historical Museum, the Agricultural Society, the Signal Hill Arts Centre, and the Tommy Douglas Centre will be coming together to put on a weekend of events, where there is sure to be something for everybody.
The 86th Annual Weyburn Horticultural Show will be taking place in Knox Hall on Aug. 5 from noon until 5 p.m., and Aug. 6 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Anyone who is interested can enter any plants, planters, cut flowers, fruits, or vegetables they are proud of into the show. There will also be a junior division where kids can enter flowers, vegetables, or floral and vegetable arrangements that reflect the Weyburn Red Wings in honour of their 50th anniversary. Entries are to be accepted on Thursday, Aug. 4 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., and on Aug. 5 from 7 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. The Horticultural Society will also be hosting a tea as part of the show that will feature their famous strawberry shortcake.
Heritage Village Days will be held from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 5 and 6. Visitors can take a step back in time as they experience demonstrations in blacksmithing, rope making, ice cream making, butter churning, and the use of an outdoor oven. The opening ceremonies of Heritage Days will be taking place on Aug. 5 at 2 p.m. and will feature the colour guard and a bagpiper. Actors will also be in costume in every house in Heritage Village, telling the histories of the homes.
The people mover will be transporting people around the festival again. Stops include Knox Hall, the City Centre Mall, the Soo Line Historical Museum, and Heritage Village.
The Weyburn Agricultural Society will be hosting its annual rodeo as part of the Wheat Festival. The rodeo will run on Aug. 6 and 7, with start times of 5 p.m. and 1 p.m. respectively.
The Fantasticks will be performed at the Tommy Douglas Performing Arts Centre from Aug. 3 to 7 at 8 p.m. daily. The Fantasticks is a play about two fathers who concoct a plan to have their children fall in love, and is the longest-running Broadway play of all time. This production is the culmination of the fifth annual Youth Development Summer Theatre Training program, where youth receive a wide variety of training in theatre techniques.
The annual bread-baking contest will once again be hosted by the Soo Line Historical Museum. This year there will be seven categories for the contest, including white bread, whole wheat bread, multi-grain, specialty breads such as pumpernickel, machine-made bread, white buns, and brown buns.
All bread must be hand-made, except for bread in the machine-made category, and all buns must be less than three inches in diameter. The judging will be taking place on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. The museum will also be open to the public for the festival from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., when they will be selling homemade bread and pie.
There will be a farmers market held on Aug. 6 and 7, as well as an interdenominational church service held at the Comp on Sunday, Aug. 7, at 10:30 a.m. In addition to being open during normal hours on Aug. 5, the Signal Hill Arts Centre will also be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6.
