Meaford’s annual Scarecrow Invasion and Family Festival is being called off again this year.
The executive for the award-winning event typically held in October issued a statement on Friday confirming the cancellation due to the pandemic.
“The event is volunteer-run,” says Chair Donna Earl in a release. “Under normal circumstances, we would be gathering now, in early May, to start the long, intensive process of building scarecrows. However, there is no way our volunteers can safely gather at the moment and the future is uncertain.”
Earl expects the Meaford Scarecrow Invasion and Family Festival will return in 2022, when the event will mark its 25th anniversary.
“Surely, by this time next year life will be back to normal,” she says. “And we will be able to use our pent up energy to create the best, most exciting scarecrows ever in the history of the invasion.”