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Rhubarb Festival teams up with Whoop-Up festivities |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
Hoping to rejuvenate the Whoop-Up Trail Days Celebration, the Conrad Lions Club has moved the two-day rodeo and other events from the third weekend in May to June 9.
Members felt that a later date would help bring in bigger crowds and better Cowboys to the stock arena.
Now another gala affair will be added to the roster of events taking place before the rodeo on Saturday.
After many years, a highly successful Rhubarb Festival in Ulm had outgrown the workers who put it on and the annual event was going to be cancelled.
Bonnie Poser, of Conrad heard about the Festival coming to a close and called one of the top organizers to see about moving “Rhubarbs” and making it a part of the Whoop-Up.
She was the first of a number of Northcentral area towns who called to see about having the Rhubarb Festival come to their town. However, since Poser was the first caller, the festival will be making a move about 70 miles up I-15 to Conrad.
Inadvertently, by choosing June 9 for their new rodeo date, it seems this date is just about at the height of the rhubarb season, ”Which,” says Poser, “Makes the move to Conrad a perfect fit.”
She went on to add, “We should be able to get a lot of folks involved here. There are some really great cooks in Conrad, the county and in Choteau and we can get them involved in this event.”
Poser says that vendor tables will be set up on Main Street with rhubarb pies, tarts, syrups, and jellies and anything else made with thick roots or leaves.
To help kick the event off in Conrad, one of the original organizers of the festival in Ulm, Donna Dugas, said she and other “Rhu-Barbs” as they are called down there, will come up and help get the “happening” off to a grand start.
Poser says they will round up 1,000 pounds of the rhubarb crop, share recipes and turn over a list of vendors who want to be a part of the festival.
Poser is open to rhubarb ideas noting, “anything goes.”
Proceeds from the festival will stay in Conrad to help with community projects.
To help or volunteer with the festival or be a vendor, contact Poser at 278-5408.
June 9 is coming, time for a little R&R, Rodeo and Rhubarb.
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