Many get their pictures at the MacDougall House, connected to Sheppard Family Park, and it re-opened its doors recently.

Park president Mary Ann Dearing says they had a great turn out on the August long weekend.

"We had about 150 people that came down to the park to spend the afternoon there from 1 to 3 p.m. We had the opening of the MacDougall House. which we had been working on since the flood."

She says the re-opening was staged with items from back in the 1900s and among the items was a tuxedo Billy MacDougall wore back when he was on town council.

She says they have another big event coming up.

"Our next major activity is the Old Time Threshing event which will be on Sat. Sept. 10. We will have a petting zoo from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and we'll start it all off with a pancake breakfast in the morning."

Dearing says it's all run by volunteers and they're always looking for people to help out, especially during the larger events.

"They can phone Sheppard Family Park and just say that they'd like to volunteer and leave their name and phone number. We definitely need volunteers for special events."

For more information or to volunteer click here: Sheppard Family Park

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