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"It was a jumping good time for the 80-or-so people who attended the Frog Festival at Wakamow Valley on Thursday evening.
Nine-year-old Erika Wilson from Moose Jaw likes frogs. She said listening to the recorded frog croaking at the festival brought back pleasant memories.
“They’re cute. I hear them sometimes when I go to my grandpa’s and grandma’s lake,” she said, adding she swims with the amphibians as well at Besant.
She also enjoyed children’s entertainer Dennis Leugner and the large inflatable slides and trampolines at the festival.
“It’s fun,” she said.
Margaret Moran, Wakamow Valley executive assistant, said the Frog Festival was an opportunity for Moose Jaw families to come out to the local park, eat some hot dogs, enjoy some music and play in some large inflatable party toys.
Most of all, however, the festival was an opportunity to inform residents the Wakamow Valley Authority will be conducting frog counting at the local park creek over the next few days.
“Yes, there is a serious side,” she said, adding there is a Saskatchewan amphibian-monitoring project that is trying to establish the number of frogs in the province and if those numbers are going down in certain habitats.
She said those interested in volunteering with the count can call 692-2717, adding among those helping out with the project will be Katimavik participants who are currently living in Moose Jaw.
Vancouver’s Robert Wiebe, 21, was making frog bead necklaces on behalf of Katimavik during the festival.
He doesn’t necessarily know what the purpose of counting frogs in the creek is, however, as helping non-profit organizations is part of the Katimavik mission, he’ll certainly lend an ear when asked to do so.
“It might be only one night when we’re available, but we’ll go with that,” he said.
Volunteers will listen for the individual croaking of frogs, specifically leopard frogs, during the count. The same project will have to be conducted next year in order to tell if the population is declining."