Up to their elbows in salmon and mushrooms
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Ingeborg Woodsworth starts laughing when asked about the Salmon Mushroom Festival.
“It was a bit elbow to elbow, but I think it went very well,” said Woodsworth. “Already for next year we have booked the lower Centennial Hall. We are definitely attracting people from the outlying areas, the islands and the Victoria area.
“I feel now that the whole thing is moving more on its own. I’m glad, because I don’t know how long I can keep doing it.”
The cosier feel was because of the new venue, the curling lounge, which allowed for more venues.
There seemed to be more youth at the festival, which thrills Woodsworth.
“I’m really encouraging that,” she said.
Frank Sutherland was at his usual post, the barbecue, as he fed happy festival patrons with some scrumptious chum salmon, donated by the Nitinat Hatchery.
“We couldn’t get any coho this year,” he said.
Woodsworth hopes that with the bigger venue next year that a salmon display of some sort can be included again.
The Cowichan Valley Metis Nation had a table and attracted a lot attention as well.
“We are happy we were invited,” said Stella Johnson from Duncan, who often teaches Metis classes at Palsson Elementary School.
Johnson said they wanted to put up a wigwam, but there wasn’t enough room this year.
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