The Yambilee Festival is Cancelled

The Yambilee Festival has been a tradition for 66 years, but for the first time ever, there will be no festival this year.
Yambilee board president Yvonne Normand says the decision to cancel the festival was not easy, but she felt she had no choice. Normand says at the last meeting, only three of 12 board members showed up.

"It's all based on the volunteers sitting at the table saying this is what's going to get done and we didn't have that," she said.

Normand says there isn't enough manpower to make the festival happen. She posted ads in the paper and online asking for more volunteers, but only one responded.

"Two months before the festival there is no adequate support to put on the festival," said Normand