Heather Macmurphy News Today

There will be fireworks in Kenora this summer after all. The Canada Day fireworks display was cancelled becaus...

It's been three years, 2019, since Kenora last saw (heard?) Harbourfest rock the waterfront. 2020's Harbourfes...

One of the biggest festivals of the summer is coming back. Organizers of Harbourfest are planning the three-da...

The news that a-lot of us party animals didn’t want to hear. Harbourfest will be on hold for another year due to the pandemic and even though it stings, COVID is still not fully controlled at this moment and won’t be by the time the August long arrives. You have to put that into perspective and until it is, until everyone gets vaccinated or close to it we won’t be going back to taking part in some of our favourite things until it’s safe to do so. I know for myself it’s one of the bigg...

May 21, 2021 | 7:33 AM Harborfest was supposed to celebrate its 30 anniversary this year, but organizers say the August long weekend festival will be postponed again. Heather MacMurphy from the Harborfest board says they made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the event. She says it’s been quite a year and although we all hoped that this Covid pandemic would be over by the August Long weekend it became more than evident that there was no way we could have a large gathering this ye...