Community Messages

Fire and Ice is set to return!  Join us on January 25th, 2025 in Downtown Bracebridge. from 9:00am - 6:00pm along Manitoba Street.   

The "FIRE" features include  performances by talented fire artists and a spectacular fireworks display. Warm up around the many fire pits throughout the festival and enjoy a classic Muskoka treat,  on a open fire.  The "ICE" features include our , interactive ice displays, ice sculpture carvings, ice skating (BYOS, weather dependent) . Your ticket also gets you admission to the fan-favourite Downtown Tube Run that sends you flying down the main street in the heart of Bracebridge (weather dependent).

Pancake Breakfast includes sausage and drink.

Large Breakfast $10.00, Small Breakfast $7.00.

Begin your day of fun with a delicious pancake breakfast!

127th AGM, 2025

A Year in Review

Join us on Tuesday January 28th at the Parry Sound Friendship Centre for the

2025 Parry Sound Area Chamber of Commerce AGM Annual General Meeting.

The Chamber warmly welcomes all businesses, owners,

and staff to attend and participate.

We welcome our special guest speaker

Hon. Graydon Smith MPP for Parry Sound/Muskoka.

Coffee and light refreshments will be served starting at 9am,

with the meeting beginning at 9:30 am.

Every Tuesday, 7pm ON yourTV

Win up to $5500

Join us at the Bracebridge Centre for Active Living for a morning of cards. Play Euchre and/or Bid Euchre Wednesday's 10 am to 12:30 pm. Program fee: Members $2.00 Non-Members: $3.00 Membership is not required to participate!

 Chats Cafe is open, Coffee/Tea/Water only $1.00 Newcomers welcome to learn to play, bring a friend, have some fun and a laugh or two!

Old Tyme Square Dance to a live band. Newcomers and beginners welcome. No partner required and no special outfits needed. Musicians playing acoustic instruments are welcome to play a tune or two with the band. Callers Welcome

Program Fee: Members $2.00, Non-Members: $3.00

(Do not need to be a member to participate)

Every Wednesday 7pm, yourTV

INDRODUCING The TAP TAKEOVER BEERFEST at Canvas Brewert happening February 1st 2025

We’re letting OTHER BREWERIES take over our Taps! Different beers from Breweries all over Ontario will be served right from our very own taps.

Come enjoy the local musicians playing throughout the day, try your hand at some lawn games while you sip on your beer or check out the specialty cocktail bar. Stop by the Meet the Brewers corner to chat about all things beer or join them on a free tour of the brewery and see where the magic happens. Grab a bite from the food booths and shop the local vendors.

Tickets are $20+tax and include entry and 2 beer tokens! Doors open at Noon, music starts at 12:30PM.

Are you ready for Huntsville’s Got Talent 2025?

The Top 10 Finalists will step into the spotlight on the Algonquin Theatre stage on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 7:00 PM. Who will impress the judges, wow the crowd, and take home the grand prize?

Contestant registration and virtual audition deadline extended to Friday, January 10, 2025.

Audience tickets are on sale through the Algonquin Theatre. Don’t wait – this event sells out!

Come celebrate amazing local talent and community. This is one incredible event you will not want to miss.

Sun Feb 2 at the Active Living Centre. 10am-3pm. Cosplay contests, 501st Legion, 4152 Hoya Robotics (and Lego Robotics) demonstrations by HHS students, special guests, photo ops in Captain Kirk’s chair, toy and game vendors, food by Pulled Smokehouse and Auntie Em’s Donuts — hosted by the The USS Nomad NCC 72382, Muskoka’s Star Trek fan club!

Every Tuesday, 7pm ON yourTV

Win up to $5500

Join us at the Bracebridge Centre for Active Living for a morning of cards. Play Euchre and/or Bid Euchre Wednesday's 10 am to 12:30 pm. Program fee: Members $2.00 Non-Members: $3.00 Membership is not required to participate!

 Chats Cafe is open, Coffee/Tea/Water only $1.00 Newcomers welcome to learn to play, bring a friend, have some fun and a laugh or two!

Old Tyme Square Dance to a live band. Newcomers and beginners welcome. No partner required and no special outfits needed. Musicians playing acoustic instruments are welcome to play a tune or two with the band. Callers Welcome

Program Fee: Members $2.00, Non-Members: $3.00

(Do not need to be a member to participate)

Every Wednesday 7pm, yourTV

Come join us for a fun evening of dance.

Music by DJ Lois, Spot Dance Prizes and Chats Cafe will be open.

Tickets $10.00

Ontario’s largest dog sled racing event comes to “Ontario’s biggest little town” every year. Kearney is a quaint community of 800 people, located just north of Huntsville, Ontario. We are located within the Robinson-Huron and Williams Treaty lands inhabited by indigenous peoples since the beginning, and acknowledge the legacy of stewardship over these lands that indigenous peoples have had.

Join us for two days of winter fun just 2.5 hours north of Toronto in Kearney Ontario on the western border of Algonquin Park.

For anyone that has never raced at Kearney, the race courses feature challenging hills to climb, hardwood bush, lakes and marshes to enjoy while racing through the natural beauty of the Almaguin Highlands. The trail poses many challenges in it's technical, yet exhilarating sections for our racers and their dogs to enjoy.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Please note that all start times are subject to change by our race marshal and the race committee. The final schedule will be determined and confirmed at the earliest possible opportunity. Sunday start times are determined on race weekend after race results are posted.

SATURDAY February 8th, 2025

7:45 am – Private Mandatory Mushers Meeting
8:30 am - Opening Ceremonies/ Bib Draw
9:30 am - 8 dog sled
10:45 am - 6 dog sled
12:00 pm - I-Kid-Arod – Lunch (Groom)
12:30 pm - 2 dog ski
1:30 pm- 4 dog sled (Groom)
3:30 pm - 1 dog ski
4:15 pm - 2 dog sled
5:30pm - Pints and Prizes! - MR Jutzi Musher's Prize Draw at the Legion

SUNDAY February 9th, 2025

8:00 am - Private Mandatory Mushers Meeting
TBD – 8 dog sled
TBD – 6 dog sled
TBD – I-Kid-arod – Lunch (Groom)
TBD – 2 dog ski
TBD – 4 dog sled (Groom)
TBD – 1 dog ski
TBD – 2 dog sled
4:30pm - Musher's Banquet Meal service begins at the Kearney Community Center
5:30pm – Awards Presentations

Mushers, Volunteers, and Vendors can register to attend our event at www.kearneydogsledraces.ca

Ontario’s largest dog sled racing event comes to “Ontario’s biggest little town” every year. Kearney is a quaint community of 800 people, located just north of Huntsville, Ontario. We are located within the Robinson-Huron and Williams Treaty lands inhabited by indigenous peoples since the beginning, and acknowledge the legacy of stewardship over these lands that indigenous peoples have had.

Join us for two days of winter fun just 2.5 hours north of Toronto in Kearney Ontario on the western border of Algonquin Park.

For anyone that has never raced at Kearney, the race courses feature challenging hills to climb, hardwood bush, lakes and marshes to enjoy while racing through the natural beauty of the Almaguin Highlands. The trail poses many challenges in it's technical, yet exhilarating sections for our racers and their dogs to enjoy.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Please note that all start times are subject to change by our race marshal and the race committee. The final schedule will be determined and confirmed at the earliest possible opportunity. Sunday start times are determined on race weekend after race results are posted.

SATURDAY February 8th, 2025

7:45 am – Private Mandatory Mushers Meeting
8:30 am - Opening Ceremonies/ Bib Draw
9:30 am - 8 dog sled
10:45 am - 6 dog sled
12:00 pm - I-Kid-Arod – Lunch (Groom)
12:30 pm - 2 dog ski
1:30 pm- 4 dog sled (Groom)
3:30 pm - 1 dog ski
4:15 pm - 2 dog sled
5:30pm - Pints and Prizes! - MR Jutzi Musher's Prize Draw at the Legion

SUNDAY February 9th, 2025

8:00 am - Private Mandatory Mushers Meeting
TBD – 8 dog sled
TBD – 6 dog sled
TBD – I-Kid-arod – Lunch (Groom)
TBD – 2 dog ski
TBD – 4 dog sled (Groom)
TBD – 1 dog ski
TBD – 2 dog sled
4:30pm - Musher's Banquet Meal service begins at the Kearney Community Center
5:30pm – Awards Presentations

Mushers, Volunteers, and Vendors can register to attend our event at www.kearneydogsledraces.ca

Every Tuesday, 7pm ON yourTV

Win up to $5500

Join us at the Bracebridge Centre for Active Living for a morning of cards. Play Euchre and/or Bid Euchre Wednesday's 10 am to 12:30 pm. Program fee: Members $2.00 Non-Members: $3.00 Membership is not required to participate!

 Chats Cafe is open, Coffee/Tea/Water only $1.00 Newcomers welcome to learn to play, bring a friend, have some fun and a laugh or two!

Old Tyme Square Dance to a live band. Newcomers and beginners welcome. No partner required and no special outfits needed. Musicians playing acoustic instruments are welcome to play a tune or two with the band. Callers Welcome

Program Fee: Members $2.00, Non-Members: $3.00

(Do not need to be a member to participate)

Every Wednesday 7pm, yourTV

Women's Wellness Circle facilitated by Deanne Rapacioli A drop in for women aged 45 and up. A great place to learn, laugh, exchange ideas and connect with other women. Exploring healthy aging, holistic wellbeing, sleep and memory, positive living. joint health and much, much more.

Program Fee: $7.00

HOTEL CALIFORNIA, the original Eagles tribute is here at The Stockey Centre, Friday February 14 for a Valentines show you are going to love. 

For almost three decades, HOTEL CALIFORNIA has been re-creating the legendary sound of THE EAGLES, and thrilling audiences all over the world. The band set the bar in 1986 and they’ve remained the industry leading substitute for The Eagles ever since, playing to huge outdoor and arena audiences, sharing bills with some of rock’s legends, and going places no tribute band has gone before.

You can count on incredible lead vocal similarity, intensely accurate instrumental work, soaring harmonies, and a top flight live performance.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA’s show has evolved into a masterful celebration of The Eagles’ music, as one of the most game-changing song catalogs in the history of rock n’ roll is performed to perfection.

If you love The Eagles – you’ve just found the next-best thing.

Group led by Troy Hunter, Paranormal Investigator.

Topics; re-incarnation, leprechauns, ghosts, witches, ESP, bigfoot, telepathy, astrology, angels and UFO's too!

Every third Monday, Members $2.00, non members $3.00.

Paranormal "Not scientifically explainable".

Join us for a discussion of the paranormal! 

Every Tuesday, 7pm ON yourTV

Win up to $5500

Join us at the Bracebridge Centre for Active Living for a morning of cards. Play Euchre and/or Bid Euchre Wednesday's 10 am to 12:30 pm. Program fee: Members $2.00 Non-Members: $3.00 Membership is not required to participate!

 Chats Cafe is open, Coffee/Tea/Water only $1.00 Newcomers welcome to learn to play, bring a friend, have some fun and a laugh or two!

Old Tyme Square Dance to a live band. Newcomers and beginners welcome. No partner required and no special outfits needed. Musicians playing acoustic instruments are welcome to play a tune or two with the band. Callers Welcome

Program Fee: Members $2.00, Non-Members: $3.00

(Do not need to be a member to participate)

Every Wednesday 7pm, yourTV

Gravenhurst Against Poverty (GAP) is encouraging GRAVENHURST residents to once again team up, fundraise, and walk in The Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY). This family-friendly, winterrific fundraising walk takes place on the evening of February 22, 2025 and supports people experiencing hunger, hurt, and homelessness in GRAVENHURST.

Tens of thousands of Canadians will take to the streets for CNOY with events taking place in 200 cities, towns, and communities across the country. By walking together in the chill of the night, participants will better understand the experience of being on the streets during a cold Canadian winter, while raising funds to aid the work of Charity Name in providing much-needed support.

The GRAVENHURST walk begins and ends at the Lions Pavilion at the Gravenhurst Wharf. Participants will walk a 2km or 5km route, can warm up with toasty drinks at rest stops along the way, and will be able to celebrate their efforts together at the finish line. All those who raise over $150 (or $75 for youth) will also don iconic CNOY toques as they face the cold night.

This is GAP's  sixth year taking part in the Coldest Night of the Year, and they’re aiming to raise $185,000 for their work with people experiencing hunger, hurt, and homelessness in GRAVENHURST.

GAP has been serving GRAVENHURST for 7 years, and the funds raised in the Coldest Night of the Year will benefit their clients in a time of the year known historically for low levels of giving.