Spring 2025 Kerrobert Courthouse Restoration Society News
By Veronica Smith
Now that spring is here, our committee is beginning to plan new fundraising events for the 2025 year. Our most recent fundraiser was on December 6th, 2024, when the Courthouse Restoration Society hosted our annual Christmas party. This fundraiser is meant to be a night of great food and drinks and live music planned for the community to kick off the Christmas season. It was hosted at the Prairieland Community Centre and the decorating theme was “A Classy Christmas Party”. People were able to come and enjoy a delicious meal catered by Jan Taylor and later there was a dance with live music provided by the “The Bromantics”. As in the past, companies and private groups were able to plan on having this event for their Christmas party with all the organizing done for them so everyone could just sit back and enjoy a relaxing evening! People were also welcome to join the party anytime after 9:00 pm if they only wanted to attend the dance.
We were fortunate to have some prizes donated to our event from the Kerrobert Chamber of Commerce, the Kerrobert Reddi Mart, Mary Kloster with Royal Le page and Stevie Grant with the Vintage Marketplace. We would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce and these businesses for adding to our event. Their support was very much appreciated. We also would like to thank everyone that supported us by coming to our fundraiser! We are going to change things up a bit for the 2025 Christmas party so please stay tuned for future announcements!
The Christmas party is only one of the many fundraisers our committee has hosted since town council approved our formation in 2019. We have hosted the Festival of Trees for several years. (Thank you to the Kerrobert Kinette Club for taking this event over this past year.) Our committee has served lunch for the summer market in the park, hosted a haunted house in the courthouse, we have initiated donation request letters to the community and have developed pamphlets to promote our restoration efforts. Our committee has also helped support other organizations in the community whenever possible such as Communities in Bloom with courtyard cleanups, working the gate for Tralapa and shifts for the Rodeo committee. We have organized courthouse related events such as the courthouse centennial celebration, the exciting cornerstone time capsule opening and old–fashioned games in the courtyard for the Kerrobert Harvest Festival. We put up Christmas lights in the courtyard to raise spirits during Covid and have continued to do this every year since. We have also committed to giving private tours of the building. Call the town office to arrange a tour if you like. We do theses tours so that the public can gain an appreciation of the history of the building and also so people can see what restoration projects need to be done to keep the building viable.
The Kerrobert Courthouse Restoration Society would love to welcome new members, so if you are interested in helping to preserve Kerrobert’s courthouse building for future generations, we invite you to come to a meeting. We meet the last Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers of the courthouse building. Come see what we are all about! We are always happy to see new faces at our meetings. If you don’t have the time to volunteer, you can always help by donating directly to restoration efforts at the Town office or by supporting our fundraisers. Please check out our Facebook page to learn more about us as well!