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Each year our group host an Annual Sociable Affair where we invite the town out to play  with our canoes and kayaks. This yeear we are hoisting the event on the week end of July 3rd and will finish on the evening of the 5th. We use the day use campground at the Yellowknife River Bridge as it suits our purposes very well. The site is a 15 minute drive from town and is accessable by road and water. The bridge is located at the mouth of the yellowknife river and has a boat launch and pinicic faculities. The site is on the way to Cottage country in Yellwknife which would be Prelude Lake and the othe r campgrounds located on the Inghram trail. Folks drop by for a paddle and snack on their way to other places . We find it handy as anything we may need or have forgotten is close enough to drive back and get. Some folks paddle out, some power boat, others drive and one or two bicyc;le. We even had a family walk the six miles once to take part. Each year we provide as many canoes and kayaks as we can come up with and then we give away rides for 3 days. We also do roll demos, throwbag games, football and volleyball. This year there will be a slack line and Greenlandic rope games and horseshoes (very popular here) as well as anything we can think of that is fun. we provide hotdogs, hamburgers, juice and fruit during the day and one hot evening meal for who ever happens to be hungry at the time and there. The members from the Paddlers have permission to camp overnight so that we do not have to move the boats back and forth each day.

we would like to thank Luke Coady from the Parks dept. for allowing us to stay over the week-end as it greatly increases the value of the event. Our members enjoy putting this on and we like to camp out so it works for all of us. This will be the sixth Annual “Sociable Affair” and we hope the best yet.