High River residents are anxiously waiting for news on the River City Classics Car Club's proposed "Drive in Theatre."

Club President Jeff Langford says originally they wanted to be up and running in early July but had issues with their projection system.

"So far we've done testing on the projection system, the first time we tried it there were a couple of issues but we were able to work them out."

Langford says now that the projector is working the fine, getting a screen to show movies on is the problem.

"Initially we were supposed to be getting some screens donated to us, but that kind of evaporated, the guy disappeared with the original Corral (Corral 4 Drive In) screens." Langford says "So we've kind of had to go back to the drawing board and get screens designed and built."

The problem with building screens, Langford says has to do with the wind.

"Of course with our big winds down here we have to make sure the screens that we're designing to put up are engineer approved. So there's a little bit of a delay."

The Town of High River has been helping where they can, allowing the group to make use of the land before their lease is official on August 15, 2019.

Langford says they've been very supportive.

"As for the Town, they've been great! We've got all of our approvals done, and now we're just finishing the signed lease, but they've already given us approval to start using the site so they've been super."

The goal is to have the screen approved and everything up and running within the next four weeks says Langford.

"We can run it into the Fall and then make sure we have a good fresh start for next year. We'll run it as long as we can this year so hopefully we get a nice Fall to make up for a wet spring and some lost time."

Langford says more updates will provided once the screen situation has been sorted out.

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