Ponoka Days at 2019 Canada Winter Games
As co-sponsors of the 2019 Canada Winter Games, the Town of Ponoka is partnering with the Ponoka Stampede Association to host ‘Ponoka Days’ at the Winter Games on Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb. 23 in Red Deer.
“Ponoka Days will feature eye-catching displays and fun activities that will showcase our community’s western heritage and promote the many advantages that Ponoka offers to visitors, residents and businesses that locate here,” says Ponoka Mayor Rick Bonnett.
The Ponoka Days display will include a Cowboy Camp that features rodeo queen Miss Ponoka Stampede 2018 Alicia Erickson, a real stagecoach that visitors can climb into, a pony corral, a bonfire where guests can warm their hands, and Ponoka cowboys who will offer some hands-on roping and branding demonstrations.
“It promises to be a great event. It’s one of the many valuable tourism and economic development opportunities we receive as co-sponsors of the Winter Games,” says Bonnett. “Ponoka Days gives us the opportunity to showcase our community to a national audience at the Winter Games, which is expected to attract more than 20,000 visitors from the across the country and the province, as well as hundreds of media representatives covering the games, and thousands of athletes, coaches and managers.”