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INNISFAIL - While Innisfail's Royal Canadian Legion branch will not be holding a pancake breakfast prior to this weekend's annual Rotary Pro Rodeo Parade, a local business has stepped up to provide the time-honoured tradition.
Revive Cannabis will be hosting a pancake breakfast from 7 - 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4 prior to the parade. The free-of-charge event will be in the Revive's parking lot at 4917 50th Street. It is being held in support of the Daines Ranch Pro Rodeo.
Innisfail's Royal Canadian Legion branch was unable to put on the event due to timing.
"It was just too late to pull it all together. We can't get volunteers quick enough," said Pat Karpan, the branch's office manager confirmed today.
The Innisfail Annual Rotary Rodeo Parade is a partnership between the Rotary Club of Innisfail and the Town of Innisfail and will be held on Sept. 4.
Tammy Thompson, the new president of the local Rotary club, said the decision to go ahead with the parade was made in late July once the service club knew Daines Ranch Pro Rodeo officials made the decision to put on their event Sept. 2 - 4 this year. The rodeo is belatedly celebrating its 60th anniversary after being cancelled last year.
The parade -- which starts at 10: 30 a.m. -- will begin at the intersection of 49th Street and 51st Avenue and will move north to 50th Street where it will head east and then south on 50th Avenue. The parade will turn west on 40th Street and then north on 52nd Avenue and will end at the intersection of 52nd Avenue and 42nd Street.
- With files from Johnnie Bachusky
