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Haliburton Highlands Weekend & Long Term Weather February 4 – Feb. 9 2012
This week’s Haliburton Highland’s weather remains slightly warmer than normal with no snow at all before Thursday, February 9. The week’s temperatures will see-saw somewhat with variable clouds, cloudy periods, and cloudiness with sunny breaks all on the menu through Thursday.
Nighttime temperatures will be cold and well below freezing.
Minden CAR RACES ON ICE!!! this weekend!
Hey, don’t miss the Car Races on Ice at the Minden fairgrounds on February 4th and 5th where you can have a blast and support your community with proceeds going to stock up the local Food Bank. This is exactly where I’d be if I were to be in the Highlands this weekend. One day, once my cottage is outfitted, for it I will hit up this event!
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HAVE A FANTASTIC WEEKEND!
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It’s never too early to begin planning for this coming summer’s good times and with the holiday season upon us it is easy to get a leg up on your summertime plans when you make it a dramatic Christmas! You can enjoy a great summer of drama, comedy and music and between now through January 15, 2012 you can do so for a great price! Pay just $11o for a season pass to all 5 shows at the Highlands Summer Festival and for just $67.50 you can take in the delightful offerings of the Highland Opera Studio with a season pass! Christmas gifting couldn’t be easier and your recipient is sure to be thrilled. Be sure to read about the many choices in entertainment in the Haliburton Highlands by scrolling below and clicking each graphic two times for full enlargement. Happy Holidays!
There’s still plenty going on this weekend if you’d like to make fun holiday plans for Sunday, December 18!
Personally, I’ve always dug brunch with Santa, though I concede that brunch itself is a big draw. Read on to find out the deets on tomorrow’s BRUNCH with SANTA, A Winter’s Night with Wendell and Wheat, and the Highlands Wind Symphony Christmas Concert!
Brunch with Santa: December 18 2011
Santa’s Brunch – 18th of December $2.00 from every Brunch Sold will be donated to Point in Time Feast on a festive inspired Buffet that includes; Home-made Soup, Salads, Scrambled Eggs with Cheddar Cheese, Egg Benedict, Home fries, Sausage, Bacon, Cheddar Perogies with Chive Sour Cream, Pancakes, French Toast, Featured Pasta, Carved Baked Pineapple Ham, Fresh Rotisserie Sage and Rosemary Ontario Turkey. Our Dessert Table features Mincemeat Pie, Apple Crisp, Carrot Cake, Rice Pudding, Jell-O & Pudding Parfait and Fresh Fruit. Santa will be visiting for Photographs with the Children at 10:30 am and again at 1:00 pm Santa’s Mailbox will be Open till December 12th Bring your letter with you! Adults $20.95++, Children 12 and under $9.95 ++
A Winter’s Night with Wendell and Wheat: December 18 2011
This concert features the wonderful duo of Wendell Ferguson and Katherine Wheatley. They are best of musical pals. Her heartfelt lyrics and stunning voice and his honest yet irreverent humor make their show both moving and hilarious. One presenter said “An absolutely transcendent concert”. Another said “She didn’t leave a dry eye in the house. He didn’t leave a dry seat”. The very talented Sheri Hawkins and Shawn Chamberlin will open for Wendell and Wheat.
Come early for dinner at the Wild Moose Tickets: $23/person (HST included) $17 (HST included) – Folk Society members/ Youth
Available at The Photoshop in Haliburton and Organic Times in Minden.
Highlands Wind Symphony Christmas Concert: December 18 2011
The Highlands Wind Symphony Presents Its Annual Christmas Concert “Around The World At Christmas” Also Featuring The Highlands Swing Band With Jerelyn Craden Sunday, December 18th 3pm Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion Haliburton
Tickets: Adults $10, Students $5, Family $25 Available at Master’s Book Store in Haliburton or Minden Pharmasave
For More Information:
Call Andy Salvatori 457-2100 or Kelly Moore 286-3377
Northern Lights Pavilion HHSS Haliburton
What’s Happening in the Haliburton Highlands NOW! November 23-30, 2011:
Festival of Trees:
November 25-27 2011
The Minden Hills Festival of Trees is a magical event for the entire family, filled with wonderful things to see, interesting shops to visit, and fun activities for children–all with a Christmas theme. Enjoy the lights and outdoor arrangements as you stroll throughout the grounds. Be sure to check out the children’s art & craft workshop in the Schoolhouse and don’t forget a visit to the Sugar Plum Candy Shop!
Minden Hills Cultural Centre
176 Bobcaygeon Rd. Minden
Contact: Sian Cox
Tel: (705) 286-2808
Email: culturalcentreinfo@mindenhills.ca
www.mindenculturalcentre.com
Community Care Haliburton County Christmas Bowling Party
November 26 2011:
Annual Community Care Haliburton County Christmas Bowl-a-thon.
All proceeds to benefit local residents accessing services provided by Community Care. Enabling seniors and adults with disabilities to remain at their place of residence and live independently. Two flight times, 1:30pm or 3:45 pm teams or individual registration welcome (Minimum $20.00 pledge to bowl for free) Great time, all ages welcome….see you there. To register call Hilary at 705-457-2941 or Val 705-286-3900
The Fast Lane Hwy 35 Minden
Contact: Val Lennox
Tel: 705-286-3900
Email: thefastlane@hotmail.ca
(Hope you made it to this! I really would have went!)
Haliburton Village Santa Claus Parade
November 25 2011
Theme: “A Pioneer Christmas” Spectacular Night Parade starts at 6:30pm Bands, Floats, Marchers, Horses. Join in the fun – to enter call Jim at 705-457-4031.
Haliburton Village Highland Street
Contact: Jim Frost
Tel: 705-457-4031
Email: frostdownhome@bellnet.ca
http://haliburtonbia.ca/haliburtonbia
Township of Minden Hills Santa Claus Parade:
November 26 2011
Parade start time 11:30 a.m. Sponsored by the Township of Minden Hills in partnership with its volunteers, local businesses and organizations. We will be commencing from the public parking lot across from the Fire Hall, please bring your float between 10-10:30 so we may organize all floats. Come and meet Santa after the parade, hot chocolate, free photographs with Santa, treats…lots of fun for the kids and kids at heart! Hope to see you there! Parade route from the public parking lot, Newcastle Street to Bobcaygeon Road, north on Bobcaygeon to Parkside and right to the Minden Arena.
Minden Village
Tel: 705-286-1936
Email: rcox@mindenhills.ca
Santa Day at Rails End SATURDAY!:
November 26 2011
Enjoy a visit with Santa from 1 – 3 pm at Rails End Gallery!
Volunteers will present a FREE seasonal craft activity and everyone is welcome. Bring a contribution for our non perishable FOOD SCULPTURE – and join in its creation.
The Photo Shop will be there taking Santa pics too! ($5). This event is presented by Rails End in partnership with the Haliburton Village BIA.
Rails Gallery and Arts Centre
23 York St. Haliburton
Contact: Laurie Jones
Tel: 705-457-2330
Email: info@railsendgallery.com
www.railsendgalley.com
Community Christmas Tree Lighting & Carol Sing!!!
November 27 2011 – Dorset
Community Christmas Tree Lighting, hot chocolate, hot dogs and carol singing at 4:30 p.m.
Summer is almost over and it is time to look forward to the many fun fall events in the Haliburton Highlands. Among the most anticipated is the 2011 Colourfest in Haliburton Village. In a continuing quest to offer something for everyone year-round, Colourfest is but one very fun-for-all-ages activities to look forward to.
Besides the awesome performances, one of the Colourfest offerings that excites me most is the
OPP Golden Helmets. Put a uniform on a guy on a bike and ooh-la-la! –I’m entertained.
Long time between posts, I know. Hopefully, the jam-packed menu of Haliburton Highlands good times coming up in the next couple of weeks will make up for it.
I’m going to highlight a few favourites, then follow with all the information you need on the rest of the activities (and there are many!!)
Minden Hills Bluegrass Festival
Want to hear some of the finest bluegrass music anywhere? This may sound a bit naive but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard Canadian Bluegrass music–so if it were possible for me to warp speed myself out of the American Midwest to Minden Hills, Ontario I’d see you there. This event, which takes place over two days, July 16-17 is a must see.
Living History Days - Day with a Black Smith
Living History Days! Again, this sounds fascinating because I’ve not ever encountered a ‘black smith’ shop. And costumed characters seal the deal for me!
9th Annual Stanhope Heritage Day
In it’s 9th year, Stanhope Heritage Day is teeming with some of my favourite activities like a BBQ lunch and the Stanhope Museum‘s famous ‘Citron Marmalade.’ But there’s much more than food being offered. there is music all day and uniquely skilled local residents demonstrating and in some cases inviting you to try rush weaving, tatting, carving, bookbinding, tinsmithing and much more!
Where Are the Whip-poor-Wills?
On a more informative and serious note is this informative presentation about the decline of the Whip-poor-will population by a staggering 50% in the last several decades. When an iconic species such as this is disappearing at this rate it is time to get informed and hopefully, join together to discuss possible solutions.
Highlands Summer Festival Presents - 'Looking'
I’m just realizing that there are over 20 separate events, some taking place over days or months to browse through. I’m ‘thumbnailing’ them all here–just click to enlarge them and read all about them. I’m ever-impressed by the creativity, strong love and commitment to community and commitment to the arts, be they culinary, artsy-crafty, or fine arts like the play ‘Looking,’ by Norm Foster (see above).
I strongly encourage you to indulge yourself. There is so much to relish in the Haliburton Highlands!
After the jump: The entire list! What’s Happening This Week! July 13 – 20, 2011–AND BEYOND
NOW is the time to give to The Fresh Air Fund—in any way you can:
Summer '94
Literally, all my life I’ve had a beautiful summer place to go.
Thanks to my grandparents, I grew up sometimes spending months on a crystal-clear lake in the breathtakingly beautiful Haliburton Highlands in Ontario, Canada. At the time however, my nuclear family had emigrated to Connecticut–just a stone’s throw from the great state of New York and where I spent the rest of my year. My dad kept the radio on especially in the morning and I’d hear PSA’s for The Fresh Air Fund. It was hard as a child to imagine what it would be like stuck in the suburbs all summer long–never mind the inner city! Later, TV adverts made an even more indelible impression on me that I was exceptionally fortunate as there were many kids who were not.
After over 130 years of giving inner-city children the joy of a summer vacation with volunteer host families and at Fund camps, ‘creating unforgettable memories and fresh possibilities,’ no one needs to remind the not-for-profit The Fresh Air Fund of what a fantastic difference spending some of the summer away from the city can make for children.
Read an excerpt from a recent news story on how summer resources for city youth are going to be even more scarce in summer 2011:
NEW YORK — A rising number of children can look forward to excruciatingly boring school breaks this year as budget crises in places such as New York, Washington, D.C., Houston and Detroit rob them of the activities and programs that have long defined summer in the city for urban youngsters.
Swimming pools are being closed. Recreation centers are locking their doors. Library summer reading programs are suffering. Openings for short-term jobs have evaporated.
Yet, with a shift in perspective, do the kids have to be on the losing end?
‘We can’t afford to have children who don’t have positive places to be during the summer’
In New Orleans, Mayor Mitchell Landrieu this year fulfilled a campaign promise to boost city funding for children’s recreation facilities and summer programs, despite the city’s economic difficulties. While last summer, about 700 children participated in sports and literacy activities through the city’s summer camps for children ages 5 to 18, this year the city is expecting to serve 5,000 campers with the help of local organizations, private partnerships and doubled city funds, said Gina Warner, the executive director of the city’s Partnership for Youth Development.
The city – where nine out of 10 recreation sites were damaged by Hurricane Katrina – will be opening 12 pools this year, up from seven the year before and three the year before that. And libraries will be coordinating with the city summer camps to keep children reading, Warner said.
Warner said that while her city faces the same economic struggles as its counterparts around the country, elected officials see the New Orleans summer programs as not only an investment in children, but also a crime-prevention tool.
“We’re a very tourism-dependent city, and so we can’t afford to have children who don’t have positive places to be during the summer,” she said.
In my continuing showcase of fun local events that peak my interest—and hopefully yours too, presenting:
Watermark …
is a community fund-raising art exhibit between The Art Hive and Haliburton Muskoka Children’s Water Festival. Watermark show will take place May 14-June 4 at The Art Hive.
For more information call The Art Hive at (705) 754-0021 or email thearthive@live.ca.
The Art Hive’s building is rich with memories having been a 5 and dime store (or more correctly, a candy store to us kids) in my recollection and grocery market in my Dad’s day. I think it sat pretty empty when my kids were younger.
There are some folks people there now–artists and artisans, with such a wealth of talent and community involvement.
I’m really glad the place has such an awesome tenant, though I sort of miss the candy.
Source: Thanks to County of Haliburton | 12340 Hwy 35 | PO Box 959 | Minden | ON | K0M 2K0 | Canada
Though the Haliburton Highlands weather during the transition between early and late spring can be less than delightful for outside activities, there is a virtual cornucopia of events being offered which should appeal to just about everyone!
Read on:
Haliburton Highlands - Easter Brunch Buffet
Just FYI, Easter is on Sunday April 24, this year. Yes, that is in just one week!
Get your ticket to Mother's Day Fun at Highlands Little Theatre!
Haliburton County Volunteer Fair
Everyone is welcome at the 2nd annual Volunteer Fair at the Minden Community Centre on Saturday May 14. And, lunch is provided! RSVP’s appreciated.
Every year the Haliburton Highlands Celebrates Earth Day in awesome, fun, & educational ways and this year is no different:
Here’s more details about one way you can spend your Earth Day 2011:
'Save Our Planet Earth'
This year is the 41st anniversary of Earth Day, a day to celebrate and honour our home–while educating ourselves and others how we can better care for Earth.
In day-to-day living, though we sometimes may feel bombarded with ‘save the Earth’ messages these messages can be especially powerful when applied to our immediate surroundings. Positivity is a large part of the Earth Day Family Festival with topics and activities that sound very worthy of yours and my time: hearing The Good News Earth Report (yes folks, there is good news!) and Our County’s Species at Risk as well as the Eco-kids Quiz and Gaia’s Story “What Is Magnificent’ are some of the ways you can participate and enjoy Earth Day 2011!
Read on to find out the deets on tomorrow’s BRUNCH with SANTA, A Winter’s Night with Wendell and Wheat, and the Highlands Wind Symphony Christmas Concert!
