CALGARY – Residents in Bowness have been working non-stop to clean up their community after flooding tore through the area in June.
But on Monday, they took a well-deserved break to celebrate their annual Heritage Day Street Festival.
Bowness, which was a town until it was amalgamated by Calgary in 1963, celebrated its 100 year anniversary in 2011 by hosting their first street festival.
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It was such a success that organizers decided to make the celebrations an annual event.
On Monday, hundreds of people headed to Main Street to enjoy some live music, food and festivities.
There is still a lot of work to be done in the community before it will be fully restored – Bowness Park and Bowness School, for example, both remain closed.
“We have done a lot of work, [but] we have made a lot of good friends,” says Bowness resident Kim O’Donnell. “We have had learned a lot of lessons, and it’d been very humbling.”
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