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Mark McCorriston owns and rents farmland around Moosomin, Moosomin Lake, and Rocanville. “I have both livestock and grainland and both of them were extremely dry. The grass was brown as brown could be and the ground was rock hard. I was really concerned about pastures and about the grass to get growing because we’ve been struggling the past few years with spring moisture, and it was quite welcome for the grass and the pastures and it’s extremely welcome for the grain aspect of it too. It was getting scary dry in the area, I was getting quite nervous about this year up until this snow,” McCorriston said.
It’s a world-class competition that’s on the same level as some of the best international fireworks competitions. Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours are invested into the competition each year with it all coming together as the fireworks mesmerize over Moosomin Lake. From the competitors to the planners to the performers to the vendors to all the spectators it draws, it’s one of the most important weekends of the year for the local economy. In 2020, the event had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic restricting gathering sizes and international travel it would have been the 11th year of the fireworks in Moosomin.