🎶🍂 Heartland Forest presents Brad Boland, bringing live music to warm up your Sunday afternoons this November and December! 🎸✨ Join us for these sessions in the Forestview Wing and be sure to visit The Blue Salamander Café in the nature centre for coffee, tea, and treats to complete the experience. It’s an afternoon of music and community you won’t want to miss! ☕🎶 #HeartlandHarmony

📅All Ages – By Donation

Dates - Sunday Afternoons
- November 17th: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
- December 1st: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

A candlelight vigil, part of the UN Campaign: End Violence Against Women and Girls

27th Rotary Community Auction

at line at: www.ckrotaryauction.org

BID TO GIVE 

until November 24th.

Christmas @ The Homestead: Homestead Holiday Tours 

Celebrate Christmas across two centuries of family farm life on a special candle-lit tour of the John Brown House.

• Thursday, December 12, 12 - 8 p.m.
• Friday, December 13, 12 -8 p.m.
• Saturday, December 14, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Enjoy hot chocolate as you are lead through the oldest home in St. Catharines, built beginning in 1796. Discover stories of the farming families who once lived here and learn how Christmas traditions changed over time into the twentieth century. Each room will be candle-lit and decorated to reflect a different historical era.

Tours begin every hour, on the hour. Tours are 50 minutes in length. Registration is encouraged, but drop-in visitors are welcome. 

Open by donation. Recommended $5 per person donation plus a non-perishable food item for Community Care of St. Catharines & Thorold.

Christmas @ The Homestead: Merry Makers 

Date: Saturday, December 7

Times Slots: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 2 - 4 p.m.

Cost: By donation (non-perishable food items encouraged)

Space is limited, pre-registration required

Bring along the kids and join us on Saturday, December 7 for a festive morning or afternoon of traditional holiday crafts and hot chocolate. 

With the house decorated for the holidays, visitors will discover a different craft to make their own in each room, and learn how Christmas was celebrated by the families who lived here over 220+ years. 

A celebration of the season with live music performed  by the Bluewater Wind Ensemble.

Hello

Do you like to sing?  Have you ever wanted to experience the thrill of singing 4-part acappella harmony?  Well here's your opportunity to live out that thrill in the company of good friends.  The Essex Vocal Express holds rehearsal every Monday night between 7:30 pm and 10 pm, at the Essex Christian Reform Church (276 Talbot St. South, Essex).  A little over 30 of us come out weekly for the sheer love of singing this amazing art form.  We all hail from Windsor, Essex County, Chatham, and Michigan.  We have an amazing Director, Steve Pauling who comes over from Michigan weekly for rehearsal and our performances. Singing barbershop allows you to sing on both sides of the border, compete twice a year, experience what it is like to perform for the community, and develop long-lasting friendships from all over. 

You will learn to be a better songster, and have the opportunity to sing in a barbershop chorus or even a quartet if you so desire.  We provide the music and learning tracks, the great atmosphere to sing in, and the camaraderie and friendships we all develop are a bonus.

Come out and give it a try, you may never know you like it unless you try!  Contact us today to let us know if you are interested, or want more information.  

Call 519-563-9915 or 519-839-4027, or email essexvocalexpress@gmail.com today.  For more information go to www.essexvocalexpress.com