Hey there, Tracy here, still at GL Heritage Brewing Company and it's the Amherstburg Farmer's
Market.
Today we have Jeremy Warnock from the Friends of Fort Malden.
How you doing Jeremy?
Great, how are you?
I'm doing good.
Now you were, these are the kids that are shooting off the muskets.
Yes they are.
These are the students that we do the fundraising all year round to get support to have soldiers
at the fort every year.
Ok, and it's the kids that do it or is it any age group?
Yeah, so it's anybody between the ages of 15 and 30 but we tend to target high school
students particularly as they do their first job that they have.
That's cool.
Yeah, it's a really cool job.
They really come out to be out there as a soldier firing muskets, firing cannons all
day long.
Yeah, they're doing a great job here today.
You might have heard it on a previous podcast, the musket going off, which is really nice.
What else do you guys do at Fort Moldan?
We're a non-profit organization that works alongside the Fort Moldan parks.
But our role is we try and do those things that Fort Moldan has difficulty doing.
Sometimes it's a little bit of advertising and a lot of times it's fundraising that
we'll do to buy different equipment for them.
So we've done things in the past of fundraising to actually get the forage that they have
on site.
The one gun, the five pound gun that they generally fire all the time was something
that the friends of Fort Moldan purchased and donated to the Fort Moldan.
Oh, that's great.
What type of fundraisers do you guys do?
Generally it's like food is what we generally have done, but we've also done bingos in
the past and things like that.
Do you have anything coming up in the fall?
We have one fundraiser coming out, it's Art by the River, we'll be a food vendor there.
So that's one of our primary fundraisers.
But in October we'll be doing candlelight tours at Fort Moldan through every weekend
in October on Friday and Saturday where they'll go around and you'll get to learn some different
stories of almost like ghost stories, but not quite.
They're all truthful.
So all the different types of history and events that have happened around.
So it's a good story.
So that sounds like fun.
And that's every weekend in October.
Yep.
Okay.
Yeah, and here they come by.
Here the kids come by.
Yeah, you got three of them and then we have Alex Dale, who's their main supervisor at
Fort Moldan right now.
So yeah, I love Fort Malden and we definitely have to get back there because it's just beautiful
and they do a lot of other things.
There's those little houses nearby that they showed the candle making.
Yes, they do.
It's really a great way to understand the history.
It is.
Yeah, the nice thing about having all of these different students during the summer is it
really helps bring the Fort alive and really try and communicate what has happened in the
past through living history.
So that's what we feel strongly with the friends of Fort Moldan to try and promote the historical
value of that site.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
It is a very special place and I'm definitely going to have to go to the candlelight thing
in October.
Oh yeah, it's a good event.
That'll be fun.
And then what type of food do you guys do?
Oh, by the river we're just food vendors.
So every year we're just eating typical hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages.
Hey, that's the good stuff.
It's the good stuff.
Everyone's looking for it when they come nowadays.
Exactly.
Well, thank you so much for being on here and I definitely want to have you guys on
here again.
Maybe we can do something out near the candlelight tours.
Yes, absolutely.
It'd be great.
Oh, thank you so much, Jared.
Yeah, thank you.
And again, my name is Tracy.
Thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG & Bloom.
And if you ever get a chance, get out to Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ontario and learn a lot
about our history.
Have a good one.
Bye.