Summer concert series hailed as success
A mostly sunny, if breezy, day greeted people for the final Live at Lunch performance of the 2016 season.
While the folk music sounds of local band Backroads filled Central Park during the noon hour Wednesday, Aug. 31, Downtown North Battleford Executive Director Lisa Kissick talked about the success the organization has had keeping people in the downtown area.
“We are finding more and more people are staying downtown for the lunch hour, which is great, walking from their office staying downtown for lunch as opposed to going home. And we’re finding a lot of people from the community bringing their families out, bringing their kids out,” Kissick said.
She said the average turnout for the seven lunchtime performances was approximately 200, an increase of one-third over last year. Kissick hopes it’s possible to make it a weekly event in 2017.