FASD Training Event

 

Featuring Dan Dubovsky, M.S.W., Fetal Spectrum Disorder Specialist. The Complexities of FASD—Working Towards Successful Outcomes. Monday, September 18th, 2017 from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Register and more info: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eecnuvum8a352c02&llr=tr4nafqab

 

Date :

Monday, September 18, 2017 at 8:30 am

 

Event location :

Thunder Bay, ON

 

Contact :

Cheryl Dunbabin
E-mail: cdunbabin@norwestchc.org
Phone number: (807) 6268506

5th Annual Rural Health Fair

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5th Annual Rural Health Fair: Cultivating Your Community Roots

Saturday, May 14th 2016

12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Kakabeka Falls School

1 Porter St, Kakabeka Falls (corner of HWY 11/17 and Porter St)

 

5th Annual Rural Health Fair: Cultivating Your Community Roots

• Free
• Workshops
• Over 40 exhibitors
• Draws and Grab bags
• Rural Cupboard Food Drive
• Entertainment
• Complimentary healthy snack, tea and coffee

Event date :
Saturday May 14th, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m – 4 p.m

Location event :
Thunder Bay, ON

Scott Woods – Fiddling in the key of ….eh?

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Fasten your seat belts for some great Canadian step dancing and more!

This fun filled live show explores great Canadian fiddling styles from Cape Breton and Scottish to Acadian and Irish, French Canadian, Metis and Eastern European.  And with great Canadian fiddling comes great Canadian step dancing so fasten your seat belts for a heary dose of this crowd favourite.

If you love old time fiddle music, sensational step dancing, family humor, trick fiddling, inspirational stories and quality entertainment that will get your toes tapping, you won’t want to miss it!

Where: Thunder Bay (at the CLE)

When: Thursday May 7th

Ticket only $25.00 and available at Music world or call 1-855-726-8896

Fiddling in the key of ….eh?

Stormy Weather - Classical PlusThis fun filled live show explores great Canadian fiddling styles from Cape Breton and Scottish to Acadian and Irish, French Canadian, Metis and Eastern European.

And with great Canadian fiddling comes great Canadian step dancing so fasten your seat belts for a heavy dose of this crowd favourite. If you love old time fiddle music, sensational step dancing, family humor, trick fiddling, inspirational stories and quality entertainment that will get your toes a tapping, you won’t want to miss!

Join us in Thunder Bay on Thursday, May 7th, at the CLE. Doors open at 7pm.

Tickets are only $25.00 and available at Music World, or call 1-855-726-8896.

4th Annual Rural Health Fair

Rural Health Fair Poster 2015 with LTB Logo (1)On Thursday, May 7th, come to the Thunder Bay Emergency Preparedness Fair. The fair starts at 1pm at the Norwest Recreation Centre, 40 Highway 588 Kakabeka Falls.

Learn everything you need to know about local emergency services and preparedness. You’ll learn how to build an emergency preparedness kit, participate in hands-on demonstrations, and donate to the local food drive. Speak with over 50 local vendors about services and products that can help you and your family prepare for the worst environmental and weather related disasters.

Come out to the 4th Annual Rural Health Fair, you’ll be glad that you did. You’ll even be registered for door prizes!

See you there May 7th!

McLeod Music

ID-1007393Come out and enjoy an authentic live tribute to Don Messer’s Jubilee  on May 14 at 7pm. Known as one of the most popular TV shows in Canadian history.  The show reunites Grand Master Fiddle Champion Scott Woods (as Don Messer), Cape Breton Tenor Tommy Leadbeater (as Charlie Chamberlain) and East Coast Music Award Winner Bruce Timmins (as Cecil McEachern).

The show also features the Velvet Vocals of Lynda Lewis (as Marg Osborne) and Canadian Open Step Dance Champion Kyle Waymouth in this two-hour masterful performance honouring the days when Don Messer and his Islanders ruled the airwaves.

The fast paced, uplifting show delights audiences of all ages with old time fiddle music, sensational step dancing, trick fiddling, family humour and more. May 14th, at 7pm – CLE Heritage Building, Thunder Bay.

Tickets on sale now at Music World or call toll free 1-855-726-8896 to charge.

Adult $25; Child $10, Child 5 & under – free. Too good to miss!

Hedley

their fifth studio album, Wild Life. Kicking off in Prince George. BC on February 14, the tour will be the band’s most extensive Canadian tour to date with more than 30 shows across the country. Joining Hedley on the first half of the tour until March 25 will be Danny Fernandes, JRDN and Alyssa Reid. Special guests for the second leg of the tour starting in Toronto on March 27 are Classified and USS.

ID-1007393Mark your calendars for Monday, March 31. Hedley is coming to perform at Fort William Gardens. Tickets are on sale at the Fort William Gardens and can be purchased in person or by phone. Cost of tickets are $70.00 and $55.00. There is seating on the floor and in the arena seats. Maximum 8 tickets per person. The concert starts at 7pm.

Hedley will also be offering several VIP packages including a meet and greet, exclusive merchandise items, and an exciting “Golden Ticket” opportunity. VIP packages will be on sale Thursday, November 7. Check www.hedleyvip.com for details.

Hedley frontman, Jacob Hoggard invites all fans to join the excitement, “We are going to a record-breaking amount of cities this year and we want to see all of your beautiful, shining faces there!”

With four consecutive multiplatinum albums behind them – Hedley (2005), Famous Last Words (2007), The Show Must Go (2009), Storms (2011) – and almost a million albums sold, Hedley continue along their path to pop music supremacy with the release of Wild Life, scheduled for release on November 11. The new album bridges classic Hedley pop anthems and ballads along with R&B infused tracks and electro-pop tunes, proving that Hedley are back and ready to once again conquer radio airwaves & arenas coast to coast. Wild Life’s first single, “Anything” is Hedley’s fastest selling single to date, already reaching platinum-selling status and currently Top 10 at Pop & Hot AC radio.

Meat BINGO

ID-100202157Come to the North McIntyre Recreation Centre on Sunday, March 30 from 5:30-8:30pm for BINGO and fun! This month is “Double Your Meat” on all even numbered games!

Come out with the whole family (children invited also).
Good neighbours, door prizes, and raffles

Doors open at 5 p.m.
Early Birds 5:30 p.m.
Regular Games 6 p.m.

Cost is only 50 cents per card.

Spaghetti Sunday

ID-100206508Come out to the Slovak Legion on Sunday, March 30 for a spaghetti Sunday. Take Out from 12 noon – 5 pm ($8 per order) and Eat In from 4 pm – 7 pm ($11 per order).

Gluten Free Available please call to pre order at 623-3354.

Gillies Seed Swap and Social

ID-100204276On Saturday, March 29th, at the Gillies Community Hall, South Gillies, corner of Hwy 595 and 608 from  1– 4pm there will be a seed and gardening swap. Bring seeds to share that you have saved from your garden and swap them for some varieties that have been saved locally and adapted to our growing conditions. Heritage seeds from several Northern companies will also be available for purchase.

There will also be displays from Seeds of Diversity Canada, Pollination Canada, Hymer’s Fair, Thunder Bay Bee Association, Ecosuperior, Old Fort William, and more….
Workshops:
• 1:15 – 2:00 Caring for Fruit Trees – Wendy O’Connor
• 2:15 – 3:00 Using Beneficial Insects to Help Save Your Harvest (and Your Seeds) – JoAnne Henderson
• 3:15 – 4:00 – Garden Talk – a group led discussion on trials and tribulations of gardening over the past year.

Garden Tool Swap Table – bring your gently used, unwanted, surplus garden tools, deco, books etc to the swap table!

Admission is a donation of $2.00
For more information or to book a table call Tina at 623-4778 or email to tinamarie.gibson@gmail.com