Drumheller is gearing up for a huge bash to ring in our centennial year. This year, the Badlands Community Facility will be the site for a once-in-100-years New Year’s Eve celebration.
This will also be the first year such an event will be held at the new Badlands Communtiy Facility.
“It’s quite a momentous occasion and something to be proud of for sure. We’ll be ringing in the new year in style, having a blast and getting started on a whole year’s worth of celebrations for our centennial. It’s something special and something we’ll never see again in our lifetimes,” said Councillor Lisa Hansen-Zacharuk, who helped plan the event with the Drumheller Centennial Committee.
“There’s going to be huge fireworks right at midnight happening right across the river from the BCF.”
To help everyone get home safe, the Valley Bus Society will be offering a shuttle service to drive people home within Drumheller.
The New Year’s celebration gets the ball rolling on a whole year’s worth of centennial celebrations.
One of the major events being scheduled is on May 15, 2013, the official day Drumheller was incorporated as a municipality 100 years ago when the coal mining boom was just getting underway.
Plans include another dinner gala for that day.
The biggest centennial event will coincide with Drumheller’s Canada Day celebration. Other, smaller events will be held throughout the year. Anyone holding an event throughout the year is encouraged to take up the centennial theme.
Plans are also in the works to create a the Centennial Park, which includes a skate park next to the Rotary Spray Park and a outdoor amphitheater near the Aquaplex.
For now, the Drumheller Centennial Committee is focusing on ringing in Drumheller’s 100th Anniversary.
“It’s a kick-off to the centennial celebrations and I think it’s going to be a good one,” said Hansen-Zacharuk.