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Tell Your Friends: Westport celebrates heritage on Saturday, July 16th.<\/p>\n
at the North Crosby Community Centre 10am to 4pm<\/span><\/strong>, music, BBQ, heritage displays, demonstrations, children\u2019s \u201cold fashioned\u201d games, storytelling and more. Join us as we explore the history of North Crosby, Westport and Newboro.\u00a0 Share your personal artifacts for others to enjoy.\u00a0 Check the Heritage Day Facebook page for a \u201ctrivia contest\u201d and details of this event.<\/p>\n The Westport Heritage Festival features a select group of quality vendors selling art, crafts, gifts and food.<\/p>\n “The event celebrates our success as a village and as a community. Westport is a vibrant, vigorous town,” said Thacker. The festival provides a chance to showcase the area to new people coming from Ottawa and Kingston.<\/p>\n “Each year we marvel at the number of people that return. It’s been said before; nobody’s a stranger very long in Westport.”<\/p>\n Event organizers say that the festival may join other groups and become part of a larger committee for the celebrations of Canada\u2019s 150th birthday in 2017.<\/p>\n Tell Your Friends: Westport celebrates heritage on Saturday, July 16th. at the North Crosby Community Centre 10am to 4pm, music, BBQ, heritage displays, demonstrations, children\u2019s \u201cold fashioned\u201d games, storytelling and more. Join us as we explore the history of North Crosby, Westport and Newboro.\u00a0 Share your personal artifacts for others to enjoy.\u00a0 Check the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,69,70],"tags":[213,513,782,1019,1071,1082,1228,1238,1251,1714],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","category-westport-ontario-entertainment","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-bbq","tag-demonstrations","tag-history-of-north-crosby","tag-music","tag-north-crosby-heritage-festival","tag-old-fashioned-games","tag-rideau-lakes","tag-rideau-lakes-events","tag-rideau-lakes-ontario","tag-westport-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate :
\nSaturday, July 16<\/strong><\/span>, 2016
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\nEvent location :
\nWestport, ON
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\nContact :
\nWestport Heritage Day Festival Committee
\nPO Box 284
\nWestport, ON
\nContact Barb Lavoie for more information or to bring your items to this event by phone: 613-273-8177 or e-mail: belavoie@kingston.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"