THE BRANDON SUN • WINTER FAIR • MARCH 2023
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Karissa Enders and Fort Knox WF compete in the RBC Challenge at the Westoba Place Main Arena in 2022. (File/The Brandon Sun)
‘Show us your smiles’ at this year’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
BY JILLIAN AUSTIN Local Journalism Initiative
demic. “We’re looking forward to seeing people back. We’ve gone two years and sev- eral months after that in masks,” said Mark Hum- phries, general manager of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba. “We’re really looking forward to seeing those smiles because it’s payback for everything that you do, to see our young-
sters come through the door.” The winter fair is one of Western Canada’s largest agricultural events, and one of only two fairs in Canada to receive Royal designation from Queen Elizabeth II. The in-person event was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pan- demic. In 2022, they were able to host the fair again
although it was a bit of a scramble to get it ready in time, Humphries said. “They actually had five weeks to put on this event, which was just a sheer mir- acle for the staff and the volunteers,” he said. “They managed to pull the fair off, which was great. People were so happy to be back.”
The Royal Manitoba Win- ter Fair is back in full force, and organizers are encour- aging visitors to “Show us your smiles.” The tagline for the event comes after years of can- celled events, masks and the uncertainty of navigat- ing through a global pan-
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