960 Corn on the Wall ..........

 

What do you do when you put 22 people in the civic center on a Friday night early in September?  You give them 960 cobs of corn to shuck, and shuck they did to a new Rotary record of 22 minutes, 34 seconds. Spurred on by Pam Harrison, this elite group of passionate-corn-shuckers, made short work of 80 dozen cobs of corn. Pictured below is this group of thrill seekers representing the Rotary Club of Sackville, Town Councillors and ordinary citizens who would have been devastated if a new record hadn't been set.

 

Why would they do this you might ask?  For a number of years the Rotary Club of Sackville and the Town of Sackville have combined forces to put on the largest corn boil in South Eastern New Brunswick to welcome Mount Allison University frosh to Town.

 

This year almost 500 hundred students were welcomed to this tradition at Bill Johnstone Memorial Park.  Combined with the weekly Farmer's Market, the event was met positively by the students I talked to and the vendors didn't mind the extra traffic to the market.

 

Below students are pictured with their faces buried in the corn.

 

          

  A pleasant surprise was the appearance of District Governor Wayne Warnes.  Wayne and his wife Sophie and 2 RYE students made the trek from Moncton to assist Rotarians and Town Councilors.  Here Wayne is shown handing a cob of corn to a student.