Revelstoke Timber Days brings out the logger in all of us
Revelstoke Timber Days featured all the usual competitions, and a change in format for the traditional pioneer logger award. See our photo gallery for more on Saturday’s event in Centennial Park under clear blue skies.
Here, Nadine Overwater and Pat McMechan give log birling go at the 2015 Timber Days. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
After a preview open house Friday at the Revelstoke Forestry Museum, Revelstoke Timber Days hosted the main event at Centennial Park on Saturday, Sept. 12.
Visiting pros and enthusiastic locals competed in all the traditional events, enjoying the first clear blue skies in weeks.
First-timers blended with perennial competitors, and newcomers took home several of the top awards.
Each year, the Pioneer Logger Award is presented to honour a veteran of the forestry industry, but this year the awards committee changed the format.
Presenter Brian Sumner announced the award was changed to the Community Forestry Pioneer Award, designed to “recognize that the well-being of our forests and our communities are closely interwoven.”
The award was presented to former Revelstoke mayor Geoff Battersby for his leadership in the creation of the Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC) and his work with the Revelstoke Community Energy Corporation.
Community forest licences administered by community forest corporations are now common in B.C., but when it was formed, the RCFC was B.C. pioneer of the community forest licence model.
“RCFC keeps the economic benefits from [Tree Forest Licence] 56 in our community and attends carefully to the environmental issues of the forest on our doorstep,” Sumner said.
The Revelstoke Community Energy Corporation operates a district energy system that burns waste wood at the Downie Timber facility and pipes the heat through a network to larger buildings in Revelstoke such as the two new downtown schools, the Revelstoke Aquatic Centre and other buildings downtown.
For more on Revelstoke Timber Days events, click on any image in the gallery for an expanded view.
File photo: Key Revelstoke Timber Days organizer Pat McMechan tosses and axe.
Embrace the suspenders! This team of newcomoers did great in the team event. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Janette Vickers and Sylvia Wood at the Revelstoke Caribou Rearing in the Wild booth. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
The Little Bear tournament competed for cheers on the Revelstoke Centennial Park fields on Saturday. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Forester Nadine Overwater shows what it takes to be competitive in the tea boil challenge. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Isaac settled the log home vs. teepee debate for 2015 by winning the event. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Pole climbing. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Geoff Battersby (left) accepts the Community Forestry Pioneer Award from Brian Sumner. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Pro loggers Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
In the political saw-off, city councillor Scott Duke’s team beat David Wilks and partner by a second or two, but didn’t earn bragging rights because Wilks, as you can see, was jammed up with a leg brace. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
The pie gobble. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Smoke gets in your eyes.Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
Here, Nadine Overwater and Pat McMechan give log birling go at the 2015 Timber Days. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
To please both my parents, I’ve had to give way And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers Their manners are fine, but their feet are of clay And there’s none with the style of my log driver. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
For he goes birling down and down white water/ That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly/ Yes, birling down and down white water/ The log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer
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