What better way is there to celebrate our country’s awesome day of birth than by coming out to CIF field for UW’s annual Canada Day celebration?! Show up at 2pm and enjoy the [hopefully!] gorgeous weather while listening to great bands like The Rosewoods, Hello Bella, Rufus John, and Breaching Vista! Enjoy other attractions such as the arts and crafts booths, all the local food vendors, and of course the best fireworks in Southern Ontario!!!
Do you want to claim a victory by dunking the President or VPs of the Engineering Society? Go see EngSoc’s part of the field during the day and have bragging rights for the next year!
Other cool stuff that’s happening: EWB and UWSTEP will be in attendance showing cool things like a treadle pump and how to power a bike with an ordinary fan and lights. The Engineering Jazz Band is playing at 2pm at the Children’s Stage and make sure to check out the Water Boys (UW’s premier male a cappella group) at 3pm on the Children’s stage, or support them as they sing happy birthday to Canada on the Main Stage at 5:45pm! After listening to them, make your way to the cupcake tent for some free cupcakes!!
If that’s not enough to entice you to come, think about how cool you’d look if you went to the face painting booth, or how you’d feel once you discovered a local food vendor that you never knew about! Mmmmm… food! Speaking of food, the Wok Wagon will be offering fresh Chinese food right on the field, Angelo’s Grill Chicken will be bringing a little bit of Greece to our celebrations, and S&B Southern BBQ will be barbecuing the day away! These are only a few selections of the delicious vendors that will be on the field, so make sure to come and discover the others!
If you decide to come (which you will, right?!), don’t forget to check out the arts & crafts vendors! Pick up your birthday or holiday presents early, or find something totally awesome for yourself! Discover local vendors selling cool things that you never knew about!
Does all this sound absolutely awesome? If you’re so pumped about Canada Day that you want to get involved, why not become a volunteer instead of just hanging about all day!? You can volunteer to help out with EngSoc, Info Tent (with me!! We find lost kids, so we’re very important!), Security, Main Stage, set up the day before, take down the day after, etc. “What do I get for giving some of my time??” you ask! You will get a free T-Shirt (yay!), a free meal from the concessions tent for every 4 hours you volunteer, and smiles from me and the rest of the Steering Committee!! Yay for smiles!
To volunteer, simply sign up online at: www.canadaday.uwaterloo.ca/volunteers.htm
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to stop me or the Canada Day Directors (Anna Shen, Victoria Osler and Angela Rossi) in the halls and ask!
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