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Manitoulin Community Church hosts Lumberjack Festival

July 5, 2017

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Lumberjack-festival-2 — Lumberjack Festival, Tehkummah 2017

TEHKUMMAH—Leave it to the folks at Tehkummah’s Manitoulin Community Church to come up with a great community event. This time was a Lumberjack Festival hosted in the church’s spacious back yard.

“We thought it would be something fun to do,” said Pastor Wendy Payne. The church volunteers set up a free barbecue from 1:30 pm to 4 pm on Sunday. From 1:30 to 3 pm there were regular picnic games for all ages, such as three-legged races and a photo booth for the taking pictures. At 3 pm the action heated up, however, with games oriented for those aged 12 and up.

There was log rolling (sort of a caber toss featuring a five to six-foot log), nail driving, ax throwing and there were prizes set for all.

The caber toss involved throwing a five to six-foot log.

“It was a fun way to celebrate and a community event,” said Pastor Payne.

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Michael Erskine

Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.