🌸 Filipino Heritage Month: Flower Festival 2025 🌸
Celebrating Culture, Beauty, and Community in Bloom

June is Filipino Heritage Month in Canada — a time to honor and celebrate the rich culture, traditions, and contributions of the Filipino community. This year, we're proud to launch our Flower Festival, inspired by the beloved Flores de Mayo celebrated back home in the Philippines.

Though traditionally held at the end of May in the Philippines, we bring this tradition to Canada in June — a month where we celebrate who we are, where we come from, and the vibrant spirit we carry with us.

🎉 What to Expect:
We have 23 lovely girls and ladies who will shine as festival princesses, each dressed in elegant gowns and tiaras, parading proudly with flower-adorned arcs assigned to them. These floral arcs will be displayed in front of the bandshell circle in the park — perfect for selfies, family photos, and Instagram-worthy shots!

✨ Highlights of the Day:

• 🌹 Princess Parade & Fashion Show
• 💃 Traditional Filipino Dances
• 🎶 Singing and Cultural Performances
• 🍜 Asian Food Fair
• 🕺 Community Dance Sessions – everyone’s welcome to join!

Filipinos are known for our love of performance, culture, and community — and this event is our joyful way of sharing that spirit with everyone. Whether you’re Filipino or simply curious, come and experience the beauty, rhythm, and flavors of the Philippines right here in Canada!

📍 Location: Bandshell Circle, [Lamoureux Park]
📅 Date: [June 7]
⏰ Time: [Food vendors available by 11am event starts at 1pm]

Let’s bloom together this June! 🇵🇭💐

Cooke's-Portsmouth United Church 200 Norman Rogers Drive

is hosting a Roast Beef and Strawberry Dinner on Wednesday,

June 18th @ 5 p.m.

Cost is $25.00 per person, $7.00 for children 5-12

For tickets email cpucevents@gmail.com

Come and enjoy a bowl of vanilla ice cream, topped with freshly picked strawberries, a cup of tea, coffee or juice and an assortment of sweets. Cost is $10.00 per adult, $5.00 for teens and children under 12 are free. Don't forget to stop by our bake table stocked with your favourite pies, cakes, breads, muffins, cookies etc. 

The Optimist Club of St. Catharines is hosting a Trivia Night to help raise funds to complete repairs to our building to ensure we have a safe meeting place for youth groups of St. Catharines

Screening and discussion of the film by Avi Lewis "This Changes Everything" based on the book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate" by Naomi Klein. 

This is the inaugural event for the Climate Conversation, a bi-monthly series of film screenings and discussion about the climate crisis sponsored by Nipissing Environmental Watch, GreenSpace North Bay and Northwatch. 
 

Join us at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, June 4th in the auditorium of the North Bay Public Library, 271 Worthington Street East.
 

Everyone is welcome.