Saturday in Canal Flats

Children running and playing – squeals of laughter rolling in the gentle spring breeze; hula hoops and stilts, a busy playground.

Next to the playground, at the back of the Canal Flats Civic Centre, Village of Canal Flats Mayor Ute Juras was being pelted with pies, while detainees in the adjacent beverage garden cajoled and hooted.

Inside the civic centre (missing seeing said Mayor being pelted and not getting a darned photo of it, d’oh!), more children’s games and information, as well as live music.

Back outside, the crack of a bat in the nearby ball diamond, the toot of the CP Train from Cranbrook, on hand for the annual Canal Days celebration parade and to give rides to children, and the ‘thunk’ of an axe slashing into a wooden target – imagery of Saturday afternoon fun in the ‘Flats.

This year’s event, May 29 to June 2, doubled as a centennial celebration for the village – though it’s celebrating the existence of a community and not the actual incorporation of Canal Flats, which occurred in 2004.

Ian Cobb/e-KNOW and

Carrie Schafer/Through My Eyes Photography

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