There will be a short road closure in downtown Chase as the Wild Salmon Caravan (WSC) migrates through the downtown to the Adams Lake Recreation Conference Centre.
At the Sept. 24 meeting, council approved a request from the Working Group in Indigenous Food Sovereignty to close Pine Street, including the bridge, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 to allow for the caravan parade.
Now in its 10th year, the WSC celebrates the wild salmon through “artistic and cultural expressions of our love and care,” while also engaging the public in conservation.
“It is critically urgent, now more than ever, to uphold dour sacred responsibilities to protect, maintain and nurture our ancestral relationships with wild salmon and their habitat, as they have done for us for thousands of years,” WSC co-founder and curator Dawn Morrison said in a media release.
People are encouraged to engage this year’s theme and ‘Ride the Quantum Wave,’ with the annual event featuring speakers/knowledge holders, artists, musicians and “supporters who are critical, proactive and forward thinking.”
The Caravan starts on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 8:30 a.m., with a full day of activities, followed by a half day on Sunday. Parade set up starts at 8:30 a.m. in the Chase Curling Club parking lot, and departs at 11 a.m. and travels down Wilson Street onto Shuswap Avenue and down Pine Street to the conference centre for the wrap up.
The full schedule can be found on the WSC website at wildsalmoncaravan.ca.