Have fun and help fight homelessness in Pembroke and Renfrew County!  Coldest Night of the Year Fundraising walk, Saturday February 23rd through the streets of Pembroke.  Proceeds to The Grind Homeless Shelter and the Renfrew County Safe Shelter for Youth.  Register your team or join a team at cnoy.ca/pembroke  2, 5 and 10 kilometre routes available.  Join us for fun, food, fellowship and great entertainment!  Event start/finish line, Pembroke Armoury.  For more information call 613-732-9423.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Bad Art Night! Bad Art is here for you however you want to celebrate. The Valentine’s Day themed Bad Art Night will be on Thursday, February 14 at 6:30 pm at Chatham Branch. Participate in our Couple’s Portrait Contest or try the Love Stinks Challenge. CKPL will provide the supplies, you provide the badness. Leave your inner critic at home and have fun creating something terrible.  This is the perfect opportunity for you to win an art competition even if you lack artistic talent.

This is an adults only event (16+) and registration is required. To register for the program, visit search.ckpl.ca and search “Bad Art” or call your local branch.

CK Reads is a community-wide book club where everyone in Chatham-Kent is invited to read the same book. Through discussions and programs, CK Reads hopes to bring the community closer together through a shared love of reading. CKPL invites everyone to read “City of the Lost” by Kelley Armstrong.

One of the major themes that runs through this action-packed crime novel is mental health. Chatham-Kent Public Library is excited to host local author and mental health advocate Brian Knowler:

Thursday, February 14       11:00 am                   Thamesville Branch, CKPL

Thursday, February 19       6:30 pm                      Ridgetown Branch, CKPL  

Knowler will share his journey through trauma, starting with a fateful collision in 2004, peaking with an emotional and physical crash in 2012, and leading to post-traumatic growth that includes professional speaking and authoring two books on trauma, mental health, and first responders. Brian also briefly discusses the aspects of leadership that helped him recover and that keep motivating him now. Brian’s written work includes “On the Other Side of Broken: One Cops Battle with the Demons of PTSD.” (2016) and “Career Suicide is Overrated and other Lessons for Leaders about Honouring Mental Health Where You Work, Live and Play.” (2018).

To find out more about CK Reads programs and events at Chatham-Kent Public Library, visit www.ckreads.ca.

Catch the action on Friday at 6:30pm on YourTV channels 12 & 700. 

The tournament is named after the late Peter Minogue, a distinguished community leader dedicated to North Bay, its businesses and economic well-being, and most importantly, its people. Minogue was a multi-talented athlete and inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. In curling, he skipped a number of winning teams, nearly making it to the Brier on more than one occasion.

The sporting event will equally benefit three local non-profits focused on the health and wellness of the community, the Canadore College Foundation, Military Family Resource Centre and North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation. It will to respectively support of student scholarships, military family support and expanded hospital services, new programs, and bring leading-edge medical technology and treatment.

The fundraising tournament, led by the Canadore Foundation, will take place at the North Bay Granite Club on January 18 – 20. The event is primarily invitational, but additional team registrations are available. For more information, contact one of the charities: Brad Gavan at the Canadore Foundation: 705.840.3473 or Bradley.gavan@canadorecollege.ca; Tessa Clermont, executive director at Military Family Resource Centre: 705.494.2011, ext. 2057 or Tessa.Clermont@forces.gc.ca; Tammy Morison, president and CEO at North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation: 705.495.8129 or Tammy.Morison@nbrhc.on.ca.

Founding event sponsorships include Clark Communications as the entertainment sponsor, Canadore Alumni as the first team, YourTV as media and gift sponsor, and Voyageur Aviation as dinner sponsor.

http://www.rocksandhearts.ca/

Every second Tuesday Royal Canadian Branch 594 has an "AllYou Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner" at 5030 Howard Avenue from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.

Soirée dansante avec Monsieur Léon Aubry, le samedi 26 janvier à 19 h 30 au 480 boulevard Saint-Joseph

à Saint-Tite.  info.: 418 365-7368 

Branch 594 of the Royal Canadian Legion is having an All You Can Eat Breakfast on Sunday January 20 at 5030 Howard Ave. Only $8 for adults, $3 for children 5 and younger.

Breakfast served from 9am to 12Noon. No takeout for this event.