The Centre for Sustainable Watersheds’ First Annual WATERSHED GALA – Celebrating the Future of our Freshwater – will be held on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 6:30pm, Code’s Mill on the Park, 17 Wilson St. East, Perth, ON.

Featuring Keynote Address by Freshwater Advocate MAUDE BARLOW, Author, Co-Founder of the Blue Planet Project, and National Chairperson of the Council for Canadians. With Master of Ceremonies, MICHAEL RUNTZ, leading Canadian Biology Instructor at Carleton University, Naturalist, Nature Photographer and Natural History Author.

Join us for an evening with water leaders, guests, drinks and hors d’oeuvres, celebrating the Future of our Freshwaster in Canada! Tickets available for $50 per person (tax receipts are available for 50%). www.watersheds.ca or call 613-264-1244.

Thank you to our generous sponsors for their support of the first annual Watersheds Gala: Leo Adams Investments, McIntosh Perry, Freshwater Future and MBC.

If you want to experience live hockey action this January, then come watch the Perth Blue Wings play every Friday night this January. Games start at 7:30pm on home ice.

Watch our local team play against Eastern Ontario teams in the EOJHL. While you’re at the game, support the Buckets of Love charity benefiting the Smith Falls Bear, Neil Doef #17.

For all the Blue Wing action, check out their website, http://www.perthbluewings.pointstreaksites.com/view/perthbluewings#.VK2KCFWJOuY

GO BLUES WINGS!!

On Saturday, December 6th, 2014 it’s the first annual PERTH SANTA FUN RUN! Every registered runner receives a Santa Hat! Prizes awarded for the best dressed runners, all ages welcome. $20 per registrants includes the hat and a warm cup of hot chocolate at the end of the race. Registrations begin at 9am at the Bandshell on Market Square. This is a fundraiser for the Perth 200th Anniversary. More details coming soon!

If you like country music, the CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION is hosting a benefit concert on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at Perth & District Collegiate Institute. The GOING COUNTRY FOR CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS concert will feature the likes of RYAN COOK, KELLY SLOAN and the RICHMOND RAMBLERS. The evening starts at 7pm. Tickets cost $12.50 in advance and can be purchased online at www.ticketsplease.ca or are available at the door for $15. For more information please check the school board’s website at www.ucdsb.on.ca/ucdsbnews/20142015schoolyear/october2014/pages/goingcoun…

On the last Saturday in September of every year, the Sister City Committee hosts the annual Black-tie Heritage Ball in Carleton Place! This year the event lands on September 27. The Sister City Heritage ball is considered the “Social Event of the Year”. The evening includes jaw dropping decorations keeping with the theme of the year, dinner, dancing and entertainment.

Tickets are $150 each and include a gourmet meal, dancing and entertainment, and proceeds go towards the Sister City High School Student Exchange Program.

For more information call 613-257-3822 or visit http://www.carletonplace.ca/

The Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital (CPDMH) Foundation and Almonte General Hospital/Fairview Manor (AGH/FM) Foundation and are pleased to co-host their first joint fundraiser together with the Fairways, Fashion & Fun! Golf Classic on Wednesday, August 27, 2014, at the Canadian Golf & Country Club.

This WOMEN’S ONLY event will be a day filled with golf, great shopping and fun – and all in support of women’s health care initiatives at both local hospitals. “Our two community hospitals already work in partnership in many ways to provide the best health care possible to the communities we serve,” said Robyn Arseneau, Manager of Fundraising at the CPDMH Foundation. “This is just another example of how working together benefits a greater number across our communities – and better still – shows how with our combined efforts we can host an event unlike any other we’ve ever done before!”

“We are excited to do a joint effort with the CPDMH Foundation for women because we think there is demand for such a tournament and an incredibly fun day,” added Gerry Huddleston, Executive Director at the AGH/FVM Foundation. “We are building on the success of our two premier mixed events which are held each year in June.”

For the $125 per person entry fee, 144 women golfers will receive 18 holes of golf with a cart, an exclusive Women’s Only golf club, lunch, dinner, live and silent auctions and swag bag. Unique to this event will be a marketplace where local business owners can showcase their goods for sale at their booth. There will also be a ‘Shopper’s Dream’ raffle, Hole-in-One prizes and great team prizes, including those for ‘Best Team Name’ and ‘Best Team Outfit &/or Decorated Cart!’ Act now if you want to be a part of this great day by calling the numbers to the right… this event has already proven to be popular
as golfer registration is almost full!

There are a number of sponsorship opportunities available to help promote local businesses and raise needed funds for the hospitals. Organizers are hoping to attract business owners who cater to women as shoppers and clients. There will also be a “Driving it
Home” donor wall featured at the event highlighting those who have made a $200 or more donation to the cause. All sponsorship and support received will be divided equally between the two hospital foundations; making your gift work harder and reaching further
than ever before!

Should you find yourself able to help the hundreds of women who visit our facilities annually; your gift will be acknowledged by both hospital foundations to over 20,000 homes through event specific articles in local newspapers, our hospital publications as well
as on the day of the event. You will also be featured on the CPDMH Foundation’s new MOBLIE APP: send a text “CPDMHF” to 84748 to get your FREE
APP and event details today!

For more information on how YOU can be involved in making a difference at your local hospitals, please call Gerry Huddleston at 613-256-2514 x2297 ghuddleston @agh-fvm.com, Carolyn Piché at 613-256-2514 x2296 cpiche@agh-fvm.com or Robyn Arseneau 613-257-2200 x856
rarseneau@carletonplacehosp.com.

We would love to count on you for support!

If you have never been to the Perth Festival Challenge, then this is the year you should come! The Festival challenge is a winner takes all, combination of scavenger hunt/treasure hunt and word jumble that bring history to life. You get to tour the historical treasures of Perth and solve clues at the same time. 

The challenge runs Saturday, July 19 10:30am-12:30pm. Hosted by the Tay River Reflections Medical Spa and Fitness Centre. All proceeds go to the Lanark County Palliative Care Services.

For registration and more information visit the Perth Festival Challenge on the web.

Starting Wednesday, July 9, from 5:45 pm to 6:45 pm (Repeating Weekly on Wed, until September 17, 2014) the Carleton Place community will be cruising for charity.

Join us for Cruise Night at Market Square every Wednesday night between May 14th and September 17th, 2014. All proceeds donated to the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Foundation.

FOODSMITHS ANNUAL CHARITY DOG WASH takes place at the store (106 Wilson St. West, Perth) on Saturday, June 21st, in support of Mel’s Farm All Animal Rescue. In addition to dog washing, you can see an exotic bird demonstration, take part in the BBQ, there will be cute animals up for adoption, a fan page plus draw and more! For information call 613-267-5409.

On Saturday, June 14th, 2014 at the Crystal Palace – it’s MONKEYJUNK – a Stewart Park Festival Fundraiser.To make this year’s festival the best it can be we need your support, so please come out and generously support this event and enjoy a concert by the blues band, Monkey Junk! Proceeds from this event help support the Stewart Park Festival this summer.

Tickets are $20 at Town Hall (ask for Stewart Park Festival Coordinator), Computer Plus, Stone Cellar or Perth Brewing Company. This is a licensed event; food will be available from the BBQ.

Doors open at 8pm. Call 613-267-3311 Ext. 2237 for information or visit www.stewartparkfestival.com for information.

We hope to see you there!