For the third year in a row, the West Quesnel Night Market has hit the max capacity that Baker Creek Park can hold.
The Night Market has been ongoing for around a decade, according to Laurey–Anne Roodenburg, who was wearing her Executive Director badge for the West Quesnel Business Association for the evening.
“The previous person in the position of Executive Director, one of the business owners here was from Vancouver, and the city has a huge night market, and so they thought ‘why can’t we do something like that here?”, says Roodenburg. “That’s how the idea started, and it started small with only a few vendors, and different types of entertainment, and then it’s grown into what we have now.”
Just about 40 vendors filled Baker Creek Park, with West Quesnel and Quesnel’s favourite vendors such as Cookie Blitz, Bliss, homemade jewellers, a dog and animal grooming vendor, and many more came out.
Returning this year was the band Kordaroy to provide the entertainment, who was “highly demanded” from the vendors and visitors at last year’s Night Market, according to Roodenburg.
New this year, manned by Roodenburg herself, was free cotton candy.
“The Night Market has grown into something I think the community actually looks forward to each year. It’s something different to do in August, and it’s on the West Side. It gets people over here for a change.”
While it says it celebrated its “ninth” year of operating, though some say it’s actually hit more than a decade. It is something that many of the vendors at the market are already planning what they will bring next year.
Something going on in the Cariboo you think people should know about?
Send us a news tip by emailing [email protected].
