Manitoba's amateur sporting community will converge on Dauphin this summer for the 2024 Manitoba Summer Games.
The multi-sport event, which goes from August 11th to 17th, was originally supposed to be held in 2020 but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Games co-chair Clayton Swanton says they are excited for the event to finally get here.
"It has been a long time coming. As everyone knows, we were set to host four years ago in the games cycle but we had to postpone, so we are really enthused about getting going here."
Swanton adds there have been minimal changes due to the event being pushed back four years.
"We did have to shuffle a few volunteers on our executive, due to people's lives changing. It is something that we have worked through, and now we are just getting ready to get all of our venues in prime shape and move forward."
Dauphin last hosted the Manitoba Games in 2004, an event that was co-chaired by Jim Steiner and Roy Dawson.
This time around - Jim's daughter Carla Wolfenden is one of the co-chairs for the games, and she says they have benefited from that experience 20 years ago.
"We do have some carryovers from 2004, and in our planning the first time around for the 2020 games, we had David Bosiak helping us as our Games Co-ordinator. He was a huge resource for us. But that continuity has been very valuable, and lessons have been learned - both the good and the bad."
