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‘Residential Desk Project’ at North Bay Museum
The North Bay Museum and Nipissing First Nation are launching the “Residential Desk Project” Friday, July 21 at 11 a.m. On display until September, the exhibit features antique school desks and encourages visitors to reflect on the residential school experience. The...
Positive reviews for seniors reading plays
Those who take part in the ‘Play Readings with-and-for Seniors’ program are benefitting from the social and cognitive challenge – and just having fun trying new things. “All we do is get together and we read a play together,” Gateway Theatre Guild’s facilitator...
West Ferris Fun Day
More than 90 businesses in West Ferris have come together to accentuate the positive of the area and create more for residents and customers to appreciate. The slogan is: Ferris – the place to be. The West Ferris Fun Day planned for July 15 is one of several ideas,...
Doctor in the house
When people contemplate small town life in the 1950s, there's a nostalgic tendency to think that folks back then knew all their neighbors and that social life revolved around those people – a mental picture reinforced by movies set in that era. So you might be...
Touching backstory previews JordansBash4Hope colon cancer awareness fest Sept. 15-16
Sam Harvey shares the backstory of getting involved with Jordan Gardiner and his family as they dealt with his Cystic Fibrosis, the hope provided by new drug treatment and then devastating terminal colon cancer. Harvey met Jordan through local competitive volleyball,...
Powwow guide brings back memories
The 29th annual Great Lakes Powwow Guide is circulating and it's impressive. I scored a free copy at the Duchesnay Store. Not sure if they have any more, but it's published by the Anishinabek Nation, which has its head office on Highway 17 West, just a few kilometres...
Tarot cards interpreted different ways
The summer art installation in the NOVAH hallway gallery at 176 Lakeshore will definitely stoke hearts and souls to contemplate both life and death. The Tarot: Interpreted features the works of well-established artists Janet Hendershot and Cesar Forero, who will be at...
Driving his own destiny
Watching my son’s first mixed martial arts fight was everything I suspected it would be – intense, brutal and bloody. Many asked: "What were you thinking or feeling as your boy stepped into a cage to fight?” I tried writing a piece after the Jan. 28 match but it...
Artists standing up against greenbelt destruction
Several northern artists are taking part in an artistic protest over the development of green and forested spaces in southern Ontario. A variety of works are planned to bring specific attention to the threats to the Blue Mountain Niagara Escarpment Greenbelt. Dermot...
QUONTA Theatre Festival in the Bay
The QUONTA Theatre Festival is coming back to life after a pandemic hiatus with three productions hitting the stage in North Bay from three esteemed theatre companies: Gateway Theatre Guild from North Bay, Sault Theatre Workshop from Sault St. Marie, and Gore Bay...