There is a new home for the LaSalle Strawberry Festival.
Town council has agreed to move the festival from Gil Maure Park on Front Road to Vollmer Centre for the next three years.
Administration wanted five years but councillor Mark Carrick made the suggestion for three, saying it makes sense.
"The fact that the water levels are apparently supposed to be high, higher than even this year possibly so we can't take that chance," says Carrick. "So it was appropriate for us to move the Strawberry Festival and felt that five years might be a little bit long, it was a good recommendation but three years I think is more appropriate.
Carrick says council will re-visit the issue in three years.
"When the three years are up then they'll have to come back before council and council will have to make that decision," he says. "If it's been wildly successful at the Vollmer then the opportunity might be there for it to stay there because the Vollmer was designed to host the Strawberry Festival as a possibility."
Councillor Sue Desjarlais says she was torn and it was not an easy decision for her to move the festival.
"I think five is too long to commit," says Desjarlais. "I think three is a reasonable amount of time for us to take a look at the water, the construction that's down there, how people feel about it."
Town staff made the request to move the festival because of high water levels near the park and it was moved this past June.
It will cost the town $32,600 to move the festival this year and council has also approved spending $170,000 for permanent infrastructure improvements at the Vollmer Centre for the Strawberry Festival and other future events at the centre.
Deputy Mayor Crystal Meloche was the only member of council to vote down the relocation request.