2012/09 Baker/Kookipi trips - Briggie Days & Fall Fair |
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We arrived back in Hope just in time to pick up our chairs and head across town to the Briggie Days show. This year it was a Tina Turner tribute band, and the
singer had plenty of volume and a fair imitation of Tina’s hula movements. A good show on a perfect warm evening, followed by fireworks. 
The weather was good for the next morning’s parade, a bit smaller I thought than the last couple of years’. It was a cooler day on the Sunday for the demolition derby with some big mud holes but that just added to the fun.
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One of the major sponsors of the derby is Jamie Davis, the guy who owns a heavy duty wrecker/breakdown business. His crew is featured on a new cable program “Highway through Hell” on the Discover channel, showing how they pull trucks and trailers out of ravines and ditches along the snowy Coquihalla Highway. His number one driver, Adam, lives next door to Jim, so
we have a film star (and his gigantic breakdown truck) in the neighbourhood.
He following weekend, as usual, was the Agassiz Fall Fair, a different kind of celebration as Agassiz is an agricultural community. This was 
the year of the hazelnut. Doesn’t sound exciting? No, it wasn’t, but the parade was quite good, much larger than Hope’s. This motorcycle is pulling the “world’s smallest camper”.
Inside the fair, Sandie headed for the arts and crafts while I was off watching lawnmower racing and antique tractor pulls. The tractors are pulling a weighted sled; as the tractor moves forward the weight slides up the sled so it gets harder and harder to pull. 
Usually, as the tractor reaches its limit the front wheels come up and it stalls, like the one in the picture. My favourite moment was when an ancient guy on his ancient tractor managed to keep his tractor going even though the wheels were up; he sailed across the finish line with a demonic grin on his face. He was having a really good day!