Eamon’s Fundraiser Images
Thanks to Lillian Shavalier for her pictures of the successful Eamon’s Fundraiser on June 17, 2017
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On-line Ticket Sales have now closed for the June 17, 2017 Eamon’s Fundraiser
Many thanks to all participants who chose to purchase their tickets through the RCC website. We were pleased to be able to offer this option for the first time this year.
If you purchased your tickets on-line, please remember to bring along the e-mail confirmation which you received plus some form of personal ID which matches the name on the confirmation e-mail.
We hope you enjoy the BBQ from JRRR-BBQ and the Rock tunes from the Roamin Cadillacs.
It’s Party Time, Saturday evening June 17 on Festival Street (4th Ave SW) in Downtown High River.
Please note that there are still a few tickets available at the door.
Businesses in Southern Alberta have an opportunity to support the Eamon’s Garage restoration
As our part of our fundraising for the Eamon’s garage restoration project, we are in need of the following…
Construction Supplies and Labour:
1. Stucco – Time and Material (Supplier and/or Laborer)
2. Window Builder – Custom Built Windows
3. Garage Doors
4. Wood-worker
5. Painter to volunteer and donate products
6. Drywaller and Materials
7. GRAVEL (Big Priority)
8. Cement – We have people who can do the finishing
9. Electrical Supplies and an Electrician to donate their time
10. Plumbing Supplies, Fixtures and a Plumber
11. Boiler for heat and someone to run and supply the heating line
12. General Labourers – to volunteer during the Eamon’s Garage Worker Bee Days.
13. Insulation – Specifically Spray Foam
2. Window Builder – Custom Built Windows
3. Garage Doors
4. Wood-worker
5. Painter to volunteer and donate products
6. Drywaller and Materials
7. GRAVEL (Big Priority)
8. Cement – We have people who can do the finishing
9. Electrical Supplies and an Electrician to donate their time
10. Plumbing Supplies, Fixtures and a Plumber
11. Boiler for heat and someone to run and supply the heating line
12. General Labourers – to volunteer during the Eamon’s Garage Worker Bee Days.
13. Insulation – Specifically Spray Foam
If you or your company can help our project, please contact Jeff Langford at vice-president@rivercityclassics.ca
All of our Sponsors will be recognized on a billboard to be placed outside of the garage.
A Share and Win prize consisting of a beautiful collection of summer wines has been added to the Eamon’s Fundraiser
It’s easy to get in on the draw for this wine collection!!
Simply visit Friends of Eamon’s Garage on Facebook, SHARE and LIKE our Eamon’s Garage fundraiser event and you’re entered for the prize.
The Eamon’s Fundraiser will take place on Festival Street (4th Ave SW in High River) on June.17th 2017.
Help us raise awareness for the historic Eamon’s Garage. It’s sure to become an important tourist attraction for High River!
Tickets for the event are available on this website at www.rivercityclassics.ca/event-registration
Join us June 17 for what is turning into a huge & funky High River Block Party!
Draw for the wine collection will occur at the Fundraiser.
Congratulations to Sheila Gordon for her Canada 150 Banner Project design
Canada 150 & Eamon’s by Sheila Gordon
This is the second year of the Banner Project sponsored by the Rotary Club of High River, by the Town of High River, and by the High River Library.
Sheila’s submission shows the historic Eamon’s Garage, with its iconic Eamon’s Camp sign, against a backdrop of the Canadian Flag.
Information available from the Library website indicates that entries to the 2017 Banner Project closed on May1. Banners will be displayed throughout the month of September in the Library Art gallery.
A panel of Community jurors will consider each design and select those which will be printed in a size of 30″ by 73″ and mounted on light standards throughout the Town.
Congratulations to Sheila for a well conceived Canada 150 Banner design.
Ticket Sales are now open for the Eamon’s Garage Fundraiser scheduled for Saturday June 17, 2017
Inspired Events Catering is assisting RCC to present a Dinner / Dance event on “Festival Street” (4th Ave SW) in High River.
 2016 Long Table Dinner |
 Long Table Dinner tents ready |
4th Avenue SW was rebuilt in 2015 to accommodate street festivals and hence the “Festival Street” moniker.
News Update. BBQ Beef for the event will be provided by JRRR*BBQ
In the fall of 2016, Downtown High River was the site of a successful Twilight Long Table Dinner / Dance using tents and tables set up right there on 4th Avenue.
On June 17, we will be using the street for another tented event, this time in support of the Eamon’s Garage restoration project.
The historic Eamon’s Garage arrived in High River, January 2016
In the year since then, screw piles and steel beams have been installed and the building was recently moved on to its permanent foundation.
This multi-year project needs your support to succeed. The building has been neglected over the years and will need significant reconstruction.
Arrival of the dumpster
Come out on June 17. Enjoy a festival meal. Dance to a classic Rock Band.
April 22 2017 Eamon’s Work Day
A dedicated crew of workers weathered 3 degree C temperatures in the early morning on a Work Day dedicated to preparing the Eamon’s Garage building for new plumbing and electrical.
Good thing it warmed up later in the day. You can clearly see that the building is well “air conditioned” at this point. In fact you might even call it “open air”
You can see the screw piles and steel I-beam foundation now supporting the structure.
Wes Shaw and the crew from Shawnee Excavating can also be seen dumping one of the many loads of fill required to prepare the floor for its future new pad.
Photos in the Gallery are courtesy of Lillian Shavalier.
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- Arrival of the dumpster
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- Collecting the waste wood
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- Testing the door
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- Filling the base
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- Stripping the walls
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- Preserving the balcony
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- Raking the debris
New photos arrived today, courtesy of Gary Sundholm. Thanks Gary!
He mentioned in his note that the pictures were taken in August of 1997.
Hope you enjoy the additions to our archive.
If you have any photos in your collection which you are willing to share with River City Classics, please attach them to an e-mail and send it to rivercityclassics@gmail.com
This article is excerpted with permission from the original
by Andrew Guilbert, Avenue Magazine, July 27, 2015
You may reach the complete, original article here.
The Story of the Eamon Station
An authentic piece of Calgary art deco architecture.
Photo Courtesy Bob Everett (former Eamon’s owner)
Gas stations dot the landscape in Calgary, but the Eamon station’s Art Deco meets Streamline Moderne building is certainly one of the most noteworthy, or at least it was before it was placed in city storage in 2012 in order to make way for the Tuscany LRT station.
It’s no wonder then that people like former owner Bob Everett have stepped up to try and restore the storied building to its original location. “I know that building inside and out and I know what a historic jewel it is, and that’s why I’m fighting so hard,” says Everett. “If I did make a few bucks [off it] a long time ago, I’ve more than spent it fighting to try and see the right thing’s done.”
Photo Courtesy Bob Everett (former Eamon’s owner)
The station was once part of Eamon’s camp, a site that started with a drive-in diner in 1949 and grew with the years to incorporate the Texaco dealership known as the Eamon station as well as a 12-room bungalow camp, eventually becoming what Eamon called a one-stop tourist centre.
The restaurant was destroyed after it caught fire in 1961 and the opening of a nearby section of the Trans-Canada highway in 1966 prompted the closing of the station when Texaco was unable to acquire the proper licenses to work off the highway.
Eamon’s Project Update for Sept 7, 2016
Check out the pictures. The Banner, Screw Piles and Steel are all on site and we’re ready to go the next step.
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Thanks to our sponsors, Base Pile & Anchor and Groenwold Construction for getting us to this point.
That’s Herman you see standing in the back of the pick-up supervising scraping of the work site prior to installation of the Screw Piles.
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