Cottam Rotary hosts Family Day weekend craft workshop

Busy hands made for a great day at Ridgeview Park in Cottam as local families took part in a guided workshop put on by the Rotary Club of Cottam on Sunday, February 18.

The idea for the workshop originated with Brent Bonnevie, a student teacher in the accelerated program at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Education. Bonnevie is seeking a teaching position at the secondary level and his collaboration with the Rotary Club served as a service learning project for his teacher education degree.

Rotary Club of Cottam President Crystal Heinrichs indicated that her club attempts to provide a wide variety of family-oriented events and that this workshop was perfect in that ideas for winter events are few and far between.

“Brent approached our club with his proposal and we jumped on board as the workshop was a great activity for the community,” Heinrichs said enthusiastically.

Six families participated in each of the two building sessions that were offered and each family assembled a cornhole board and later primed and painted the boards with a design focusing on family pride.

The Rotary Club of Cottam was grateful to Kingsville’s Truax Timber Mart and Kingsville Home Hardware Building Centre for their contributions of materials for the boards that brought families together in a most unique way.