The 200th Anniversary committee is pleased to host a fundraising trivia night with Trivia Master Stephen Passero. The trivia date is Friday, November 15, 2019 @ 6:30pm at St. Paul's Anglican Church, 32 Idylewylde Street in Fort Erie, Ontario. $20.00 per ticket. Teams of eight. Snacks provided. Beverages available. Cash prize to winning team and bragging rights. Tickets available through the church office at 905-871-6704. Come out and have fun challenging your knowledge of the obscure and trivial.

The 200th Anniversary committee at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Fort Erie is fundraising and planning for the events of 2021 as the 200th year of community. If you have a history with the St. Paul’s church community and wish to share it with us and the community at large please feel free to contact us through the church office. 905-871-6704

Halloween fun for kids 13 and under. Haunted Forest, treats, games, marshmallow roast, fortune telling. Cash at door $10 for family of up to 5, $5 individual.

On Sunday, January 19ᵗʰ at 4:30 PM, at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Belleville, oboist Mélissa Tremblay will join organists Matthieu Latreille and Francine Nguyen-Savaria to present a chamber music concert. Hailing from Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Mélissa Tremblay first studied the oboe at the Rimouski Conservatoire of Music under Philippe Magnan. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Quebec Conservatoire of Music in 2016 and completed her graduate studies with Vincent Boilard at the University of Montreal, where she was awarded twice the Pierre Roland grant. Mélissa is principal oboist of “L'Orchestre Symphonique de l'Estuaire” since 2018 and was recently awarded the second prize and the John Newmark prize at the “Prix d'Europe” Competition. 

Since 2015, Mélissa has taken part in several summer music academies at Domaine Forget, Orford Musique and the National Academy Orchestra where she took courses with oboe masters Ramon Ortega, Valery Gergiev, Maurice Bourgue, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Olivier Doise, and Eugene Isotov. She is currently completing an artist diploma degree at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles. 

Matthieu Latreille and Francine Nguyen-Savaria are taking advantage of her presence in Montreal in January to work together and present this concert. “It is a very expressive combination,” says Francine. “The oboe or a similar timber is often present as a reed stop on the organ, so the actual oboe can seamlessly blend into the organ sound as well. However, the nature of the oboe makes it a more expressive instrument than what we could ever achieve with the organ stop.” The programme will feature works by Hændel, the baroque era being particularly suited for St. Thomas' Church's pipe organ and for this particular instrumental combination. 

Admission is by donation.