Year in Review: Ponoka has everything one needs, mayor says
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Ponoka’s Mayor Kevin Ferguson says, when looking back at the year that was, that the town he leads is a “hidden treasure.”
In a year-end interview, Ferguson pointed to a record 100,000+ who attended this year’s Ponoka Stampede, which returned to its usual scale for the first time since 2019.
“When it goes away and then it comes back, you begin to realize just how fantastic it really is and how important it is to the town,” he says. “When you begin to think about that amount of people that went through our town in the two weeks of the Stampede, it was just incredible. The vibe was incredible; folks were ready to get their lives back.”
Among other things, Ferguson also noted the first summer of use at the indoor hockey rink following upgrades, a hockey camp that came to town, upgrades to the aquaplex which included new flooring and a new HVAC system, as well as resurfaced tennis and pickleball courts.
