What a day! The 2015 Loggers Show was a lot of fun!
I’d like to thank the following for all the help with setting this up (getting the logs, setting the poles in the ground, getting targets). It’s been a lot of work. A lot of machine time, wood, trucking and labor was donated. Jim Clark and Frank Seaberly really went the extra mile.
The following donated time and/or machinery to make this event possible: Dave Paulus; Gary Davies and Randy Arnott – Twin Island Excavating; Jamie Weismiller – J&E Backhoe; Jonny Bacon; Kevin Huskinson - Metro Vancouver GVRD; Nelson Riley ; Scott Stevenson – SES Contracting; Scott Moore – Coast Mini Excavating; Shane Tweten and Adrien Gratton – Greenscape Enterprises; and the Bowen Island Fire Department
The announcers, Ben James and his wife Michelle, were phenomenal. My daughter Carolin helped me track down the axes, crosscut saws and ordered and sold t-shirts.
Thank you to Alethea Glen, Roger Arndt and his wife Susan for timing and judging the event, Braedan Jolly for donating $500 prize money and Dee and Frazer Elliott for donating the $250 Tuscany gift certificate prize. Ily Allen donated her time to put up posters that were made by Margaret at the Artisan Office. Vicki painted the targets with Sonja. Mike and Andrea hosted the beer tent.
Thank you to Sasha Buchanan and the 2015 board for stepping up to Bowfest.
Thank you to the contestants for all your time and effort and to the spectators for braving the storm of the decade and cheering on the contestants.
Thank you to the clean-up crew that DID show up to clean up the aftermath, cut up and split all the wood and deliver the wood to the winner of the raffle.
And to anyone I missed, thank you!
Gary Anderson
Metro Blasting/show sponsor
