The Aug. 20 Backyard Living Tour, hosted by the Walkerton and District Optimist Club, offered the perfect excuse to do a bit of visiting and get some ideas on how to celebrate summer outdoor living at its best, while supporting a great cause.
Arts & Entertainment
Drayton Entertainment hoping to resume in-person performances by late fall
With the province in stage three of its reopening plan, it remains unclear when in-person performances will resume at the Drayton Festival Theatre.
Paisley Blues Festival to receive provincial funding
The Paisley Blues Festival will receive some financial assistance from the provincial government.
Cargill’s Mill Pond Galley celebrates local artists
The Mill Pond is an elegant art gallery with a distinctly Bruce County atmosphere – the scent of fresh paint is in the air, the floors have character, images of the county in all its rural glory grace the walls, and visitors wander through licking ice cream cones.
Photographer gets Canadian landscape puzzles stocked in Listowel-area stores
Landscape photographer Rick Schmidt is still a bit puzzled by his latest success. An athlete in his youth, he’s never been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles — but that’s the direction his photography and fine art business is taking him. And the pandemic, he thinks, is part of the reason.
Explore ‘When the Earth Shakes’ at Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre
Throughout the summer and fall, get ready to hold on tight while exploring earthquakes and tsunamis when you visit “When the Earth Shakes.”
Listowel BIA sponsoring free concert on Aug. 10
The sounds of live music will soon be emanating from Memorial Park’s amphitheatre. The Listowel BIA is sponsoring a free concert on Tuesday, Aug. 10, featuring Listowel native Sarah Pratt-Parsamian.
Finding the time to doodle
Brian Rogers has always been a “doodler.” As a youngster in his early teens, Rogers would spend hours drawing. Whether it was in class, at home or work, he found time to doodle on anything he could find.
