Join the City of Windsor in celebrating: June is Recreation and Parks Month (JRPM), an annual event highlighting the benefits of healthy active living and encouraging everyone to Play ON! 

The City of Windsor will be offering a number of free activities and great giveaways throughout the month to celebrate recreation and parks.

Visit https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Recreation/Pages/June-Recreation-and-Parks-Month.aspx for more information on the free activities offered each day during the month of June.

For more information on recreation and parks in Windsor call 311 or visit www.citywindsor.ca.

#WomenOnFire, is a local initiative dreamed up by Donna Desantis, a City of Windsor Facilities Supervisor, Town of Tecumseh Volunteer Supervisor, and local champion for many initiatives and events aimed at educating, mentoring, advising and even training, young women interested in entering and succeeding at non-traditional employment opportunities in emergency response departments in Windsor and Essex County.

#WomenOnFire aims to promote diversity in the fire department as well as in other emergency responder organizations (such as EMS, OPP and Windsor Police, and CBSA) within Windsor Essex County, and including Chatham-Kent. This initiative will provide a female only recruitment training opportunity for women 18 years and older, to try out various components of each departments physical testing, ask questions, network with women already working with a fire department (from each municipality and Chatham), and to have an opportunity to mentor with these women if they choose.

The goal is to generate an interest in emergency response for women, and through this opportunity, it is hoped more women will be seen at recruitments passing the physical testing, particularly in some municipal departments where they have observed very few women come out for testing. This could help to turn those numbers around by closing the existing gap in mentoring, guiding, and demonstrating techniques to share with interested women.

Scheduled for Saturday June 16 at the Libro Center Rink A in Amherstburg, the day will incorporate three 2-hour sessions, 8:30-10:30am, 11am-1pm, and 1:30-3:30pm with a half hour break in between each session. Participants must bring their own water and appropriate attire and will be required to sign a waiver and provide proof of age (over 18) at time of sign in (max half hour before event starts).

There will be 15 openings per time slot, times 3 service providers (Fire; Police and OPP; EMS); the maximum participants at any session will be 45 total, (15 in each occupation).

Visit the Facebook Event page which also provides some information:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2034695533471215/

The City of Windsor is inviting local artists to participate in enhancing and creating a Public Art Installation, which will be displayed as part of Bright Lights Windsor.

The City is seeking to commission an artist or artist-led team to create three new works of light based, sculptural art that will be integrated into Bright Lights Windsor. The commissioned artist(s) will have to have installed their project by the third week of November, 2018. Artists may apply for one or more of the locations (see locations in the Guidelines linked below) with the deadline remaining firm.

Projects must focus on memory making opportunities for our community to experience a spectacular backdrop of thousands of lights and stunning displays, a wonderland shared with family and friends.  

Eligibility

Applications may be made by individual artists or a group of artist collaborators (all artist collaborators must be residents within the region). Please see Project Guidelines for detailed application and eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

• Deadline for Submissions: June 22, 3 p.m.
• Winning project announcement: July 13
• Project Installation Deadline: Late October, Early November 

For all important documents please visit citywindsor.ca

All welcome to this free event. A three-day educational program consisting of 54 talks, audio dramas, interviews and multimedia presentations and a feature film providing practical Bible-based information to help attendees cope successfully with life's challenges. With over 4,000 attending, this convention will deliver profound benefits to attendees and the local community.

https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/conventions/

Monthly meeting of Leeds Grenville Branch OGS. Meeting will be held at the Brockville Museum. Everyone is welcome to attend! 

Date: Monday June 11

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Brockville Museum

New York Times Bestselling author, Susanna Kearsley, will be at the Belleville Public Library on Sat. June 16 from 11-12:30 to discuss her brand new novel, Bellewether! Ms. Kearsley is the author of the award-winning novels The Firebird, The Rose Garden, The Winter Sea, and many more! She has also written under the pen name Emma Cole.

This visit is free and requires no registration. Books will be available for sale and signing. For more information please call 613-968-6731 x2037.