North of the Border: More sunflowers than you can shake a seed at

Every summer, the town of Altona proves that you don't need flashing lights, sky-high ticket prices or celebrity headliners to throw one of Manitoba's best festivals. All you really need is a whole lot of sunflowers, a community that loves to volunteer and enough ping-pong balls to make your local table tennis club question its life choices.

For more than 60 years, the Manitoba Sunflower Festival h…