This week for Frosty Friday we are exploring the contributions of community groups to the Frosty Festival over the years.
Since the beginning of the Frosty Festival, Mount Pearl's many community groups have been involved in planning, supporting and facilitating the Festival. Groups and organizations like the Kin Club, Knights of Columbus, the Mount Pearl Soccer Association, Skate Mount Pearl, Mount Pearl Minor Hockey, the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl, Admiralty House Communications Museum, Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 36), the Mount Pearl Senior's Independence Group, and the Special Olympics, as well as countless others, have supported the Festival over the years and have helped create traditions.
"When the festival started in 1983, there was a meeting with Neil Windsor, who was the MHA at the time, and Judge Seabright, and Harvey Hodder was the mayor of the city, and it was a brainchild of Neil Windsor actually, and they decided to form a Mount Pearl Frosty Festival. So, at the time I was involved with the Mount Pearl Figure Skating club and all the clubs and organizations at the time, we all formed the first Mount Pearl Frosty Festival. It was City Hall at the time, was on Park Avenue, where Les Thistle is today, with his law office, and that is where we had our first meeting in nineteen and eight-three." - Agnes Murphy, 2020
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| Indoor soccer, 2007. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
I was involved with Mount Pearl Minor Hockey, and Mount Pearl Minor Hockey was invited to be one of the participants in the first month. Well, in the in the setting up of the Mount Pearl Winter Carnival, and the meetings were held at Mount Pearl Arena. And I was nominated from Mount Pearl Minor Hockey to be their representative. - Reginald White, 2021
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| Frosty Cup, 2005. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"I don’t know about now maybe but in those days every organization in the city was represented by someone, so you meet people from curling or soccer or the gymnastics and the figure skating, they’d be all there representing their own groups, so you’d become friends with them, and you’d be sharing ideas about whatever, so it was good that way" - Patrick Walsh, 2020
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| Gymnastics, 2009. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Wintry ReMix, 2020. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
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| Special Olympics, 2001. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"We had an executive committee, of 5 people and then we arranged everything into groups - we had a community groups committee, program and events committee, birthday party sub-committee, marketing and communications committee, ways and means committee, volunteer service committee, and that was a ten-day Frosty Festival, about 500 volunteers, 60 events in the 10 days. Most times it went off perfect." - Agnes Murphy, 2020
"So, that's my first involvement with the festival, it was through the Mount Pearl Figure Skating Club." - Barbara Predham, 2021
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| Figure Skating, 1983. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"The Kinsmen Association were very active with Frosty." - Patrick Walsh, 2020
"You’d go just to participate, you’d go to dances that were held, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus" - Patrick Walsh, 2020
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| Community dance, 1988. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"I remember one time, we had the Jigg’s dinner, and that started with the Ladies Auxiliary, Knights of Columbus, and we used to just have a Jigg’s dinner over in the Knights of Columbus building and that was on Greenwood Crescent, and that was just a small place. Today we have Jigg’s Dinner, and we have two sittings of probably 400 each time." - Agnes Murphy, 2020"
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| Jigg's Dinner, 2019. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival. |
"I'm with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus...we have in the past number of years, done, it's a card game for seniors, a card game and tea, an afternoon tea. So we’ve done that for the past number of years...We hosted the Jiggs dinner, and we did very well with that. And then after that, we got a little bit more involved. It was the fun and fashion show. We did a fashion show, and then we had a fun show, like fun skits. And so we still have been involved ever since back in the seventies or the eighties." - Barbara Predham, 2021
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| Knights of Columbus Event, 1998. Image courtesy of the City of Mount Pearl. |
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| Fashion Show, 1987. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival |
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| Fashion Show, 1987. Image courtesy of the Frosty Festival |
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