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Three popular aspects of this summer's Trout Festival have been crossed off the endangered species list. Volunteers have agreed to oversee Main Street Days, the Canada Day Parade, and the Queen Mermaid Pageant, time-honoured events that had been in danger of cancellation. "I'm relieved and I'm thankful that people have stepped forward to fill those volunteer positions for us," said Greg East, Trout Festival president. "It's always great when people step forward and adopt an event." The loss of any of those events would have been an unpopular change for the Trout Festival, a Flin Flon and area institution for more than five decades. The Business Builders Association has stepped forward to oversee Main Street Days, with plenty of uptown activities being planned. Jason Mandes and Rick Gordon will oversee the Canada Day Parade, which will follow the usual route stretching from Green Street to Main Street. A committee is also in place for the Queen Mermaid Pageant, open to young women hoping to serve as positive role models in the community. East commented that the public can look forward to those and other familiar Trout Festival events, such as Bakers Narrows Day, the Month-Long Fishing Derby, and the toy duck races. Also set to return are the canoe events on Ross Lake, which East hopes will feature well-known canoeing duo Norm Crerar and Gib McEachern, both former Flin Flonners. One notable change on the way relates to the Fish Fry, which this year will be held at the R.H. Channing Auditorium rather than the much larger Whitney Forum. The reason is simple: crowds have been smaller in recent years and the Fish Fry has been losing money. The Fish Fry will feature a Saskatoon band called Kashmir, a Led Zeppelin cover band that East said is "marvelous by all reports."
