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Calgary volunteers heading to Regina for some Gray Cup spirit

Greater than 40 Calgary Gray Cup Committee volunteers are getting a little bit of relaxation and leisure the following few days earlier than they load up all the trimmings of a superb time and head east to Regina for this yr’s Gray Cup.

The Calgary Gray Cup Committee (CGCC) will begin the annual voyage on Thursday to affix the 2022 Gray Cup Competition, with pancake breakfasts over the weekend and an look from the beloved Tuffy Nuff, Calgary’s equine consultant.

Whereas COVID-19 put a little bit of a crimp within the standard enjoyable for the previous two years, committee member Sandy Dubyk stated it’s given the committee time to plan an epic celebration.

“We’re so excited to be again,” Dubyk stated. “The Gray Cup is Canada’s sport and it doesn’t matter what group you’re representing, the pageant itself is the household and the spirit of friendship and togetherness in celebration of Canada’s soccer sport.”

Since 1948, CGCC members have been travelling throughout the nation each fall to carry Calgary’s spirit of hospitality and western fanfare to Gray Cup celebrations. However it’s their hoofed neigh-bour that basically attracts the crowds.

Tuffy Nuff, this yr a black and white mare from Lionel’s Farm in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont., will probably be making a shock look someplace in Regina within the days forward of the Gray Cup.

Tuffy’s look every year, usually in an upscale resort within the host metropolis, has grow to be a much-anticipated a part of CGCC’s participation, and Dubyk stated the committee is trying ahead to creating this a particular yr.

Tuffy makes an appearance at the Hyatt Hotel during Grey Cup Week celebrations in Calgary on Nov. 25, 2009.
Tuffy makes an look on the Hyatt Lodge throughout Gray Cup Week celebrations in Calgary on Nov. 25, 2009. Postmedia file photograph

“Whereas the precise time and site of her look is below wraps till Thursday at midday, we’ll be planting some seeds that Tuffy is coming to city and able to horse round . . . It’s a part of the enjoyable, the thriller as to the place Tuffy will probably be, so we’ll be giving clues and a few surprises alongside the way in which,” Dubyk stated.

The committee is internet hosting two pancake breakfasts, one Friday and one Saturday, in Regina’s Confederation Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Along with serving up 8,000 pancakes and 4,000 sausages, the committee will host Indigenous friends and performers, in addition to Calgary band Excessive Steppin’ Daddy and cheer groups from the Stampeders, Tiger-Cats and Roughriders.

“This can be a strategy to take a few of that Calgary hospitality to different areas to share and clarify what Calgary is about,” Dudyk stated. “It’s all this stuff collectively together with that spirit — we’ll all in be in western put on and provides the massive yahoos — that can make for a enjoyable time.”

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