With the record-breaking heat on Saturday going up to 40.9 degrees, some were indoors, enjoying air conditioning, wondering to themselves if anyone was attending Weyburn’s annual Wheat Festival?

In case you missed, it, Discover Weyburn News touched base with some of the organizers of this year's Wheat Festival events.

Heritage Village held a two-day, multi-faceted event, which included musical performances and a number of other special activities including black-smithing demonstrations.

“Because of the heat, I wasn’t expecting many people at all, but we still had at least about a thousand people out in total, which is probably a third of what we had last year,” said Heritage Village Tour Co-Ordinator, Drew Paquette.

She noted that a number of featured activities at Heritage Village had to be canceled due to the extreme heat.

“We did have our sheep-herding scheduled for Friday, but because of the heat, it wasn’t able to happen,” she said. “We also had rug-making cancel, as well as the ice cream and butter on Saturday, just because the ice cream and butter wouldn’t set in that kind of heat.”

“Despite the fact that it was so hot and we didn’t have our numbers the same as past years, I would say we still did a really good job, people wise, and raising money to go back to the village, we still did a significant amount there,” she added.

Overall, Paquette was pleased with the turnout at Heritage Village. A link to the Summer Fun Crew's coverage can be found HERE.

Rope-making was one of the events that went on in spite of the sweltering heats at Heritage Village (photo by Taylor Cameron).

The Soo Line Historical Museum saw fairly low numbers this year as well. Only 90 people came through the doors of the museum, according to Summer Tour Co-Ordinator Shayla Froshaug. She said there were only about 10 kids in attendance for each session with the magician, Dr. Finnystein. A link to the Summer Fun Crew's coverage can be found HERE.

Dr. Finnystein performed magic tricks for the kids in attendance at the Soo Line Historical Museum on Saturday (photo by Taylor Cameron).

The Weyburn Arts Council held its third annual “pARTy on the Hill” on Saturday.

“We were selling water to the public for a dollar a bottle, and making sure that our vendors stayed hydrated and stuff,” said Weyburn Arts Council president Ashley Fisher.

“We did shut down early, it was roughly around 3:30 we were telling vendors that we were going to call it a day,” but by then people stopped coming through, too, because of the heat.”

She said they opened to the public at 10:00 a.m., but that vendors had been there since 8:00 a.m. and volunteering WAC members were there at 7:00 a.m.

Fisher noted that, in spite of the heat, the event’s vendors, all artists, and makers of goods, did quite well in terms of sales and connections. The Summer Fun Crew’s coverage can be found HERE.

Author and artist Leena Honig had her artwork and copies of her newly-published book on sale at the pARTy On the Hill at Signal Hill Arts Centre on Saturday (photo by Taylor Cameron).

The Crocus80 Summer Youth Theatre cast of 15 young people performed in the air-conditioned Tommy Douglas Centre on Friday and Saturday.

Organizers Connie Nightingale and Kaitlyn Kruger said they are proud of the kids and that overall, the group's second year performing Robert Munsch stories was a great success.

"Attendance was down slightly this year due to the hot, hot weather," said Nightingale, noting that the organization is very pleased with the decision to have one evening show and two matinees this year instead of two evenings and one matinee.

The Magic 103 coverage of the event can be found HERE.

Crocus80 Youth Theatre development had the added benefit of an air-conditioned facility for rehearsals and performances, which helps when wearing parkas on stage (photo by Jessica Jack).