Hub Staff

Having set sail in their new vessel, Captain Wayne Sparrow and his crew arrived at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in Southampton June 25. This small group of pirates were not there to pillage and plunder but rather to receive a welcome donation from Bruce Telecom towards the eighth annual Marine Heritage Festival, which will run July 27 to 29.

On behalf of Bruce Telecom who is a major sponsor of the event, Marketing and Event Assistant Amy Cresswell presented Festival representatives with a cheque for $2,000, funds that will go in support of the much loved cardboard boat races, held at Southampton’s Pioneer Park, 70 Front Street, as well as the Children’s Gold Hunt.

There were pirates a plenty at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in Southampton June 25 where the Marine Heritage Festival will kick off July 27. From left, Marine Heritage Committee Member, Connie Barker and granddaughter, 3 year old Sophia, First Mate Deb Kaufman and Captain Wayne Sparrow, a.k.a. Wayne Kaufman.

From left, Marine Heritage Festival's Al Smethurst, Co-Chair of the Festival Committee, Stan Young; Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre Marketing Coordinator, Stephanie Crilly; First Mate Deb Kaufman and Captain Wayne Sparrow, a.k.a. Wayne Kaufman with a cardboard boat that Smethurst's sisters in law, Penny Wellard and Kathy Taylor made in St. Catharines. The boat took approximately 100 hours to make with the boat builders mixing special paints to make it look like wood, as well as coffee to give the rope and sails an old look.