Home Show Expected to Draw Over 10,000 People
Home Show executive officer Terri McConnachie – photos 250 News
Prince George, B.C. – A key organizer of the 38th annual Northern BC Home and Garden Show is expecting more than 10,000 people to pass through the three Kin arenas this weekend in Prince George.
“This year we’re really looking forward to it,” says executive officer Terri McConnachie. “We’ve been getting a real increase in calls and activity from our outlying communities. So folks will come in from Quesnel and Vanderhoof and further north.”
From left, Terri McConnachie, executive assistant Donna Maskell, & Home Show assistants Leandra Hooker-Armstrong, Melissa McConnachie & Denise Belanger
Put on by the Canadian Home Builder’s Association of Northern B.C., she says there’s also some “new stuff” to look forward to this year including Rona’s “kutthroat” contractors competition.
“It’s going to be amazing. We have three teams of builders and they are conducting a one day build here on Saturday,” says McConnachie. “Each team will be building a playhouse and will have the opportunity to sabotage each other. But it’s all in good fun and for raising money for charity.”
She says the weekend event will also feature workshops on the main stage, door prizes, a food court, activities for the kids, along with hundreds of vendors.
As always, she says putting on the event requires a group effort.
“There are dozens of people here giving us a hand. We have volunteers on the forklift, volunteers checking in the vendors, we have temporary home show staff including university students,” says McConnachie. “We’re grooming the next generation of home show and other event planners as we speak.”
Comments
I do go every year..and will be going again this year..but I dont understand why we need to pay to get in. Its like paying to go into a mall…
Exactly, why do we have to pay to shop??? I don’t go for that reason.
A few years ago I went with my three children and was willing to pay a family rate but I was told by the young person selling tickets that a family was only 4 people and not 5. We left and have not been back.
The exhibitors pay to display their wares and the general public has to pay to go look at it… Every year its the same old thing.. Nothing changes..nothing new and exciting
duffer, if you went with your 3 children, that would add up to 4. Where do you get 5 from?
There is no way i will pay for someone to advertise what thy are selling.
I totally agree with not having to pay… I spend a lot on my acreage and would enjoy going to this but totally refuse to pay to go look at vendors trying to sell me stuff.. drop the entry fee and you would have way more people show up…and to all that read its not the money its the principal…
They expect 10,000. Wonder what they would get if it was free.. Would sell way more food, the businesses would have 2,3 times as many people checking out their stuff and in turn more people buying their stuff. It would probably draw more vendors as well.. If you can guarentee 25,000 visitors more vendors likely to show up
Put in a Tim Hortons for the weekend, and the locals will gladly pay to get in , and fork over money for garbage coffee.
Grizz, my wife was there also.
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