Get ready, folks, because on the 8^th and the 9^th of July, the downtown streets of Orangeville will be filled with the crowd to celebrate Orangeville’s Annual Founders’ Fair once more. Have fun with us and enjoy only the best food, great music, and the most glorious sights and views only at Orangeville. We have a lot of fun activities in line for you so don’t miss this fabulous and exciting two-day event. The event will be a great way to spend quality time with the whole family as you all relax and unwind with each other’s company. Dad, Mom, the kids and even the grandparents are welcome to come and celebrate the annual Founders’ Fair. Be at Downtown Orangeville on the 8^th and 9^th of July 2011 and enjoy Orangeville’s most exciting event.

Not only will you get to join a lot of activities and games, you can also watch a spectacular program filled with great performances. Aside from that, you will also see a lot of stores lined up selling a whole lot of products. Shop until you drop only at this year’s Founders’ Fair and find great buys and awesome bargains. You’ll be shocked and delighted at the same time when you see the variety and quality that downtown shopping has to offer. You’ve got no reason to miss this event since admission is free.

This year, expect a lot of fun and games see a lot of performances and experience only the best of everything that Orangeville has to offer. On Friday, 8^th of July, be there from 6 in the evening until 10 and on Saturday, 9^th of July, from 10 in the morning until 10 in the evening. Be at Downtown Orangeville on those dates. Have fun, enjoy and make great memories only at Orangeville’s Annual Founders’ Fair.

Orangeville warmly welcomes you to the Dufferin Children & Youth Festival. This child and youth festival is a wonderful, family centered event with a lot of fun filled activities for the kids, the youth and the young at heart. Everyone is welcome to come and have fun at the child and youth festival. The whole family has no reason not to go, as admission to this event is absolutely free. However, there are certain activities with costs yet this really isn’t a big hassle to worry about. This will be an event conducted on June 11, 2011 from 10 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. There will also be face painting and more activities oriented to make kids and parents bond.

The event is not only a mere family activity but makes it a venue to spend a great way to help the youth and the parents to bond. It definitely is a great time for the family to come together and to do fun-filled activities that are not only fun but also physically and mentally stimulating. The event will be providing the vendors with several of the amenities like tables, chairs and of course, space. However, the event will not sponsor power to these vendors, so they should have their own generator in case they need it. All exhibitors should present an activity for children, which can also be done with the help of the parents to help promote spending quality time with the family.

The children and youth festival happens annually and is a great way to spend quality time with all the members of the family. Be at the children and youth festival that will be held at the Fairgrounds Shopping Centre (Wal-Mart Parking Lot) on the 11^th of June 2011 from 10 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon.

Have a great bonding time with your kids at the Dufferin Children & Youth Festival.

The 9^th annual Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival is coming and you have to be there.  This breathtaking musical event will be happening on the 2^nd until the 5^th of June 2011. The best thing about considering to come is that you have the chance to win one of the two incredible prize packages which will allow you and one friend to exclusively enjoy and bask in the wonderful and picturesque sights, sounds and tastes of this highly awaited event. Have the chance to win one two-weekend getaways for two. The event will be a thoroughly prepared celebration of jazz and blues music. Jazz and blues enthusiast and everyone else is warmly welcome to attend the annual event.

The first blues and jazz festival began in 2003. There was a small team of 5 volunteers who managed and organized a full-blown celebration over 3 days. An open concert which featured 2003 Juno Award winning headliner Jack DeKeyzer, and seven other talented blues and jazz musicians was done in Alexandra Park. The park had a beer garden, a farmers’ market and food and craft vendors. From the success of the first event, the festival started to grow and develop by the next year. In appreciation for the support and help of the generous town of Orangeville and the BIA as well as the sponsors, the event expanded the free concert in Alexandra Park to include Saturdays and Sundays. The support of the crew was so great that the team of 5 quickly grew to a group of 50 members.

With great food, amazing blues and jazz music, striking sights and friendly and welcoming people, this event will be the best music festival out there. Have fun with us as we celebrate three nights of great music at Downtown Orangeville. Be there and enjoy the 9^th annual Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival.

Clear your schedules, folks! For you would definitely not want to miss this year’s Canada Day. As always, the event will showcase a lot of exciting and entertaining activities for all guests present at the event. Last year’s event was grand and organizers of this year’s event promised an even bigger event for all of you. This is going to be a huge one, so don’t you dare miss it. Be at the Orangeville Fairgrounds on the 1^st of July 2011. Witness plenty of great acts and shows, dance to great and irresistible music, dine with only the best food, and experience only the best that Orangeville has to offer. This will definitely be a great event that everyone will be talking about for many years to come.

The event will be open to the public at around 8 in the morning and will go on through the whole day, which means that you will be having fun from sun up to sun down. Striking and picturesque sights will wonder your eyes since this is what Canada Day wants to offer their guests. The best dishes are also at the event and while you dine, allow us to provide great music to help set the mood. The Rotary Club of Orangeville Highlands will organize this event, so you can expect only the best of the best and experience the finest.

Everyone is welcome to join us and celebrate. Kids, parents and the over 50s are all invited. Bring the whole family and and have a great bonding time. Bring your friends and enjoy the whole day. There will be something for everyone who comes and joins us. So be at the Orangeville Fairgrounds, 5 Sideroad on the 1^st of July 2011. Come, join us, have fun, dine and enjoy at this year’s Canada Day.

Your support will greatly be appreciated at the Make Orangeville Shine event happening soon. Ever since the year 2004, the Rotary Club of Orangeville has been organizing the Make Orangeville Shine event and it has been growing bigger and bigger and becoming more and more successful each year. Your help will play a great role in developing the area and making it a better place to live in. You can do a whole lot of things at the event. You can help pick up the trash and classify recyclables, you can help build a house for a family to live in or you can do anything, which you think may be helpful to the town of Orangeville. So come and join us on the 14^th of May 2011, Saturday, at 9 in the morning throughout the day. Participants will meet each other at the Rotary Park. Everything will follow from there.

The organizers will provide you with everything you need to be able to help, such as trash bags, gloves, dust pans, brooms, rakes and many more. T-shirts will also be given to the first 100 participants to register. So sign up now, get a free t-shirt and support a wonderful cause. The Rotary Club of Orangeville will provide the participants with a sumptuous Tim Horton’s Breakfast at 9 in the morning while the club will be serving a delightful barbecue lunch at 12 noon. The event will be equivalent to three full hours of community service for secondary high school students who will participate.

This year, prepare for an even bigger event for the town of Orangeville. Support the cause and help a lot of people. Be at the Rotary Park at 9 in the morning on May 14, 2011, Saturday. We’ll see each other there and together; we’ll Make Orangeville Shine.

As the few final remains of winter disappear, we start to plan and think of ways to make the Downtown area special which will definitely include the Market on Broadway. This event will be a long and great event, which will definitely meet your food cravings. The event will be held at the Farmer’s Market here at the Town of Orangeville where you can see a whole lot of vendors lined up, ready to help you find what you’re looking for. The annual farmer’s market has already opened for the 2011 season, starting May 7, 2011, going on until the Harvest Celebration on the 22^nd of October 2011. Be Outside the historic Town Hall in Downtown Orangeville, Orangeville BIA and experience the best of Orangeville’s Farmer’s Market.

Located just outside the Town Hall of Orangeville, the market will boast of having the best of local fruits, vegetables and other food items. Needless to say, these products will be of the best quality are a highly in demand at international markets. Aside from the quality of the items, you’ll be surprised to see numerous products we have lined up for you. From house decors to supplies, we have it all. Join us for the opening celebrations filled with fun activities including a free pancake breakfast and petting zoos. Kids are also welcome as the event provides them with fun crafts and play areas managed by the Town of Orangeville’s in motion group.

As the event continues to dawn in October, always excite yourself with Downtown Orangeville coming in to life with all the smells and sounds of fall at the farmer’s market open every Saturday from 8 in the mornings straight through 1 in the afternoon. The market will be open rain or shine and we welcome you to the one stop shopping spot only here at the Market on Broadway.

Guests of all ages had so much fun at this year’s biggest kids’ program, the annual Youth Event. Those who have kids or relatives who are 10 years old or older had a lot of fun and excitement as they dropped by at this highly anticipated event. They definitely had fun with us. We prepared plenty of fun activities and games lined up for all the kids at the event. This year, we were not only promoting fun and games, but also great relationships among the youth, which helped develop their social skills and helped them make new friends. We had them socialize and have fun with many other kids who were present at the event.

All the parents were pleased since for only $5, they can have their child admitted at the Youth Event. On the 8^th of April, their child definitely enjoyed his, or her, time with us and had fun with the others. We helped the children develop his or her social skills by helping them interact and relate with other children. There was a lot of activities in line which included games that require teamwork and communication, and even story sharing where the kids may relate to the stories and apply the moral lessons to their daily lives. The admission fee of $5 also included a slice of pizza and one drink for the snacks of the children.

There was a fun round skating from 4 in the afternoon until 5 in the afternoon and swimming activities from 7 until 8 in the evening as well as basketball games, jamming sessions, Wii games and so much more. The kids definitely had so much fun. This year’s event was held last April 8, 2011 from 2 in the afternoon onwards. The kids were at the Alder Street Recreation Centre and we took care of the rest at the Youth Event.

When you’re shopping for groceries with your child, what do you do when he, or she, screams for you to buy something like candy? Do you succumb to her wailing cries or do you stand up and “be the parent?”

According to renowned child and family therapist Kersty Franklin, choosing the former is an indication of reacting to a situation, instead of being proactive about it. Today’s generation of children expect to receive most of what they ask for because parents now give in to their whims, she says.

Back in the day, this problem was usually limited to children ages 8 and below, now it’s up to 18, she adds.

While you might expect Franklin to tell you to discipline your child more effectively, she actually offers smarter and more practical advice.

She points out that parents must teach their kids how to think and solve problems they run into. Parents need to provide expectations for certain behavior, something that’s different from simply imposing one’s will as a parent. Franklin says that parents and children need to understand how to solve problems collaboratively, so that they know how to settle arguments amicably.

Kersty Franklin will be talking more about these points in a fundraising presentation titled, “Creating the Parent I’d Like to Be,” to be held on the 10^th of November, 7 in the evening, at the Dufferin Child and Family Services building along 655 Riddell Rd. here in Orangeville.

Admission is $15.00, with proceeds of the event going to the Dufferin Parent Support Network.

Herbal One Weight Management in Orangeville will be holding an Open House Oct 12 – 16th.

Stop in for a free complimentary consultation of how you can lose weight and best of all keep it off!

Location:
75 Alder St.,
Orangeville, ON
Phone: 519-941-0022

Come. Experience Headwaters in a while new light. In music, dance and words, paintings, photographs, textiles and sculptures, our artists will open your eyes.

Indulge yourself in fine art and fine cuisine, both created in the Headwaters region. THe Opening Night Gala on Friday September 24th is the introduction to the art works of 37 Artists juried by several judges. Come meet the amazing artists and be the first to select from their best show yet.

This premiere event runs over three weekends during the fall colours tourism season: September 24 until October 11, 2010.

The 2010 Headwaters Arts Festival includes a Juried Art Show & Sale featuring 37 local and 5 invited artists, an Author’s Night, an Opening Night Gala, open studios, concerts, dance, Kids’ Fest events and much more.

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