1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,880 Hey there, Tracy here, still at GL Heritage Brewing Company and it's the Amherstburg Farmer's 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Market. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,960 Today we have Jeremy Warnock from the Friends of Fort Malden. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:17,960 How you doing Jeremy? 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,560 Great, how are you? 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,560 I'm doing good. 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:25,200 Now you were, these are the kids that are shooting off the muskets. 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:26,500 Yes they are. 9 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:34,120 These are the students that we do the fundraising all year round to get support to have soldiers 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,120 at the fort every year. 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,520 Ok, and it's the kids that do it or is it any age group? 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:45,200 Yeah, so it's anybody between the ages of 15 and 30 but we tend to target high school 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,760 students particularly as they do their first job that they have. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:50,760 That's cool. 15 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,000 Yeah, it's a really cool job. 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,560 They really come out to be out there as a soldier firing muskets, firing cannons all 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:58,560 day long. 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,640 Yeah, they're doing a great job here today. 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:08,640 You might have heard it on a previous podcast, the musket going off, which is really nice. 20 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,280 What else do you guys do at Fort Moldan? 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:21,080 We're a non-profit organization that works alongside the Fort Moldan parks. 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:29,080 But our role is we try and do those things that Fort Moldan has difficulty doing. 23 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,520 Sometimes it's a little bit of advertising and a lot of times it's fundraising that 24 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,840 we'll do to buy different equipment for them. 25 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,780 So we've done things in the past of fundraising to actually get the forage that they have 26 00:01:38,780 --> 00:01:39,780 on site. 27 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:44,340 The one gun, the five pound gun that they generally fire all the time was something 28 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:47,960 that the friends of Fort Moldan purchased and donated to the Fort Moldan. 29 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,960 Oh, that's great. 30 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,600 What type of fundraisers do you guys do? 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,040 Generally it's like food is what we generally have done, but we've also done bingos in 32 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,600 the past and things like that. 33 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,920 Do you have anything coming up in the fall? 34 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,360 We have one fundraiser coming out, it's Art by the River, we'll be a food vendor there. 35 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,200 So that's one of our primary fundraisers. 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:15,380 But in October we'll be doing candlelight tours at Fort Moldan through every weekend 37 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:19,800 in October on Friday and Saturday where they'll go around and you'll get to learn some different 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,120 stories of almost like ghost stories, but not quite. 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,920 They're all truthful. 40 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,840 So all the different types of history and events that have happened around. 41 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,440 So it's a good story. 42 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,880 So that sounds like fun. 43 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,400 And that's every weekend in October. 44 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,400 Yep. 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Okay. 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,240 Yeah, and here they come by. 47 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,240 Here the kids come by. 48 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:52,720 Yeah, you got three of them and then we have Alex Dale, who's their main supervisor at 49 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:53,920 Fort Moldan right now. 50 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,960 So yeah, I love Fort Malden and we definitely have to get back there because it's just beautiful 51 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,040 and they do a lot of other things. 52 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,440 There's those little houses nearby that they showed the candle making. 53 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Yes, they do. 54 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:12,360 It's really a great way to understand the history. 55 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:13,360 It is. 56 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,760 Yeah, the nice thing about having all of these different students during the summer is it 57 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,720 really helps bring the Fort alive and really try and communicate what has happened in the 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,640 past through living history. 59 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:30,460 So that's what we feel strongly with the friends of Fort Moldan to try and promote the historical 60 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:31,720 value of that site. 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,720 Oh, for sure. 62 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,720 For sure. 63 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,520 It is a very special place and I'm definitely going to have to go to the candlelight thing 64 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,520 in October. 65 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Oh yeah, it's a good event. 66 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:42,520 That'll be fun. 67 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,720 And then what type of food do you guys do? 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,080 Oh, by the river we're just food vendors. 69 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,040 So every year we're just eating typical hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages. 70 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,040 Hey, that's the good stuff. 71 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,040 It's the good stuff. 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,200 Everyone's looking for it when they come nowadays. 73 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,200 Exactly. 74 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:03,800 Well, thank you so much for being on here and I definitely want to have you guys on 75 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 here again. 76 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,800 Maybe we can do something out near the candlelight tours. 77 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Yes, absolutely. 78 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:10,800 It'd be great. 79 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Oh, thank you so much, Jared. 80 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:14,800 Yeah, thank you. 81 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,400 And again, my name is Tracy. 82 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,000 Thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG & Bloom. 83 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,600 And if you ever get a chance, get out to Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ontario and learn a lot 84 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,600 about our history. 85 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,600 Have a good one. 86 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,600 Bye. 87 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:57,600 Bye.