Local talent to shine during 50th Telemiracle telethon

EAGLE STAFF

Local singer Lynden Paquette is one of the people scheduled to perform during the Telemiracle broadcast at the end of February.

Paquette is among 70 acts whom organizers recently identified who are slated to take part alongside professionals entertainers during the telethon that benefits the Kinsmen Foundation. The 50th annual event goes Feb. 28-March 1, again televised by CTV stations around the province.

Other west-central Saskatchewan entertainers chosen for the program through auditions include Cole Patton and the Blackjacks from Kindersley, Caledonia Donahue of Biggar, Demaine’s Evan Baxter and the Bum Band from Vanscoy, a document showed.

“I am blown away by the talent in Saskatchewan,” said Tammy Blackwell, a longtime member of the Dinsmore Kinette Club who chairs this year’s event. “You are going to need to tune in all 22 hours to see for yourself,” Blackwell said in the statement.

Forty-five of the “Saskatchewan talent” will perform live but others “have requested and will be given access to capturing their performance in an environment that supports them and their needs,” the statement said.

The entertainment ranges from dancing, singing and acting to “some surprising new additions that have never been on TeleMiracle before,” the statement said.