Perth Children's Water Festival in St. Marys  

The 2025 Perth Children's Water Festival on Sunday, May 25, 2025 was a great success with over 800 people attending. The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) would like to thank our sponsors, community partners and volunteers who helped make it possible. 

Water Festival Organizing Committee: 

• Avon Maitland District School Board 
• Don Gibson 
• Huron Perth Public Health 
• Ontario Clean Water Agency 
• Ontario Federation of Agriculture 
• Pat Donnelly 
• St. Marys Cement 
• Thames River Clean Up 
• Town of St. Marys 

Sponsors: 

• Stratford Perth Community Foundation 
• The Annie and Isabelle Chesterfield Fund and the Jim and Laurel Laughton Family Fund through the Stratford Perth Community Foundation 
• McLean-Taylor Construction, and  
• St. Marys Cement 
• Don Gibson 
• Hearn's Ice Cream 

Students from St. Marys DCVI volunteered at the activity stations. For more photos, visit our Flickr album.