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Cornwall Road Warriors Car Club to host

Second Annual Father’s Day Car Show

By Casey Leger this year’s edition of the show.
“Lamoureux Park gives us a great
ROAD WARRIORS
“Cornwall, Ontario, is a perfect opportunity to park and display all
location for the Cornwall Road our participants’ vehicles, and to
Warriors Car Club’s Second have set locations for the Cornwall CAR CLUB
Annual Father’s Day Cars Show,” Emergency Services vehicles that

says Road Warriors President will be on display for families to
and social media personality, view and learn about,” he says.
Christopher Sauve. The big event “Also, we will have a heavy
takes place on June 16th, 2024, wrecker vehicle on display that
along the waterfront at Lamoureux will thrill the kids for sure! We will
Park. “The Montreal-Ottawa have a set area for our food trucks
corridor has a large population,” and our vendors, so that visitors
Sauve continues, “along with can purchase all sorts of great 1 19 96 64 4
Cornwall being a border town to things. Also speaking of families
Massena, New York. This gives visiting, there is a playground and
us even more opportunity for a a splash pad nearby for children.” LAMOUREUX PARK FEATURING PROCEEDS GOING TO
great turnout of vehicles for our 100 WATER ST E, CORNWALL ON
The Warriors’ car show isn’t
Father’s Day car show, and for JUNE 16TH 2024
just good for car enthusiasts and Club of Cornwall
people to visit everything that 9AM TO 3PM
local businesses, the community
Cornwall has to offer, like great
as a whole benefits. “Last year.
restaurants and businesses.”
at our first annual Father’s
Last year’s event was held on Day car show, we earned
Montreal Road, in the city’s east $10,000 that was donated to the
end. “That venue was an amazing Cornwall Community Hospital’s
location,” Sauve explains. “It’s chemotherapy unit. We would
just that we never could have not have been able to reach
imagined this much attendance at that amount if we didn’t have

our car show for our first year. Not very generous businesses and
only all the car show participants, individuals from around our area the day. And, of course, there will he used to own or what vehicles
but also all the families that that sponsored our Father’s Day be a few trophies to be awarded at Grandpa used to own.”
came from far and wide to see car show. For this year we will the end of the day. “We will have
the car show overwhelmed be doing the same thing, having a Children’s Choice trophy that The Cornwall Road Warriors
us, and parking was a little several car show trophies that can will be chosen directly by children Car Club formed three years
challenging. This is what lead us be sponsored, with the proceeds associated with the Optimist ago. “From that time, we have
to choose another location, one going to our charity of choice this Club,” Sauve says. “The biggest exponentially grown to a large
that provides parking for all the year, which is the Optimist Club thing about a car show is walking car club,” says President Sauve.
visitors in an actual parking lot. of Cornwall.” around and looking at so many “Last year we reached over 160
Our new location is in the middle car club members. Our First
The show will have something different styles of vehicles, from
of Cornwall where many events old to new. And since it’s Father’s Father’s Day car show had over
for everyone. Radio Nova will be
have occurred with huge crowds.” 300 participants. We believe we
playing at the bandshell, and a DJ Day, Dad can tell some stories
Sauve is enthusiastic about will be playing music throughout about some of the old vehicles can easily do over 400 this year.”