Create, build and try something new! This free after-school program open to kids ages 7 to 12 (grades 2 to 6) runs most Mondays and lets kids try new art activities, build with lego or crafts. Contact Laura Lee Davies with any questions: lauralee@rideaulakeslibrary.ca All building, arts and craft materials are provided: you bring the fun. Light snacks served so please let Laura Lee know if you have any food concerns.

After School Program: Mondays 3:30 to 4:45 pm

Date :
Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019

Event location :
Rideau Lakes Public Library, 26 Halladay St, Elgin, ON K0G 1E0, Canada

Contact :
e-mail: lauralee@rideaulakeslibrary.ca or call 613-359-5315 – http://www.rideaulakeslibrary.ca/

Stay active during the spring/summer months. Join us for a free outdoor walking program!

• Meet at Lockwood Park – 31 Spring Street
• Please wear appropriate footwear and bring a water bottle
• Rain or Shine – excluding extreme weather conditions

OPEN TO EVERYONE

For questions about participating or volunteering,

 
Date :
Jan 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 2018 from 9am to 5pm

Event location :
Lockwood Park – 31 Spring Street; Westport, ON

Contact :
Emily Beelen (613-272-2799 Ext.256)
Website: https://www.crchc.on.ca

Cook together in the community kitchen on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month! What’s Cooking in Westport is on the 1st Tuesday each month (10am-1pm) at the Free Methodist Church! Learn new skills, take home food. Childcare is available.

Join us to try new foods and recipes, share a meal, bring extras home, have a good time, and meet new people in your community. We pick the recipes together, focusing on local, seasonal, budget-friendly ingredients. Some months we have a specific cultural theme, a guest speaker from the community, or a special event.

The group is facilitated by Registered Dietitian, Kate Earl, from Country Roads Community Health Centre. We discuss different nutrition and food safety topics each month and members share healthy eating tips with each other.

The program is FREE. There is no cost to participate. We also offer free childcare. Please ask us if you need help with travel costs. All we ask from you is that you participate in the cooking (and clean up!), come ready to have fun, and be open to trying new foods.

Date :
Tuesday, January 01, 2019 from 10am to 1pm

Event location :
Free Methodist Church
Westport, ON, Canada

Contact :
Kate
Phone contact: 613-272-2799 X237
E-mail: kearl@crchc.on.ca
Website: https://www.crchc.on.ca/nutrition/

BINGO Doors open at 6:00pm:  Elgin Lions Hall – Thursdays ; Westport Legion-Upper Rideau Branch 542 – Mondays  

BRIDGE every Tuesday at 1:00pm at the Elgin Municipal Complex.  Info 613-359-6192.

EUCHRE

Delta Legion every Friday at 7pm (Pat Philips 613-928-2712).
Elgin Municipal Complex Community Room on Mondays at noon (Doug Summers 613-359-5744)
Westport Upper Rideau Branch 542 – Thursday evenings (Joan Thompson 613-273-5613)

CHAFFEYS LOCK COMMUNITY HALL MARKET SQUARE every Sunday from late May to October.  Local craftspersons and artists.

CLOGGING – at the Newboro Community Hall every Wednesday evening at 7pm and at the South Elmsley Municipal Complex (OPP Offices on Hwy 15) Thursday afternoons from 2-4pm. This is a fun way to exercise and expand your dance talents! Classes are $2 a class. Sponsored by the Newboro Recreation Committee. Cal Dorothy for details 613-272-8053.

COMMUNITY SHOPPING BUS sponsored through the Portland Seniors Club leaves for the local shopping mall in Kingston every 2^nd Tuesday of the month.  Call Vicki at 613-272-2676 to reserve your seat.  Cost $15.00 return trip.  Not just for seniors!  All ages welcome.

COFFEE DROP-IN: Throughout the Township come and enjoy a bit of social fun! Bring your latest craft project, a deck of cards or just yourself.  Children are welcome.  Donations appreciated. 

Delta United Church:  Monday mornings from 8am to 10:30am  (Pat Philips 613-928-2712)
Elgin Municipal Complex Community Hall:  Friday mornings from 9:30am (Linda Carr 613-272-2227)
Morton – Morton Mug:  Tuesday mornings (Linda Gamble 613-876-3884)
Newboro Community Hall:  Wednesday mornings from 10am to Noon (Joan 613-272-2393)
Portland Community Hall: Thursday mornings (Betty James 613-272-2461)

COMMUNITY FARMERS BREAKFAST every 4^th Tuesday at the Harmony Lodge in Philipsville starting at 8:00am. Sponsored by the Philipsville Masons, everyone is welcome. Contact Ross Hawkins for information 613-359-5833.

DELTA McMUFFIN LIGHT BREAKFAST every Saturday morning from 7:30am to 10am at Delta United Church. $5 will get you coffee with an egg & English muffin and a chance to meet your neighbours. Everyone is welcome. Call Arvin Riskie for info 613-928-2091.

COMMUNITY LUNCHES

Elgin Municipal Complex:  1st Friday of the month – 11:30am to 12:30pm soup and sandwiches. Pay-What-You-Can ( Linda Carr 613-272-2227)
Portland United Church:  4^th Tuesday of every month – noon to 1pm (613-272-2002).

SPAGHETTI DINNERS 

Elgin Lions Hall:   2nd Friday of the month – combines their very popular Quiz Night with the spaghetti dinner (teams of 6 start the game at 7pm)
Portland Legion: 1st Friday of every month
Westport Upper Rideau Branch 542:  3^rd Friday of the month

PARKINSON SUPPORT GROUP meets the last Thursday of every month at 1:30pm at Rideau Community Health Services, 2 Gould Street, Unit 118, Smiths Falls.  Contact margaux.wolfe@parkinson.ca

VIBE: Venturing in Biblical Education, every Wednesday from April 13, 2016 – December 7, 2016.  Elgin United Church 10 am & Portland United Church 7 pm. Contact Rev. Takouhi (613) 272-8977 or RevTakouhi@Terrautopia.ca

Many people in Canada and the United States celebrate Christmas Day on December 25. The day celebrates Jesus Christ’s birth.

People celebrate Christmas Day in many ways. It is often combined with customs from pre-Christian winter celebrations. Many people decorate their homes, visit family or friends and exchange gifts. In the days or even weeks before Christmas Day, many people decorate their homes and gardens with lights, Christmas trees and much more.

It is common to organize a special meal, often consisting of turkey and a lot of other festive foods, for family or friends and exchange gifts with them. Children, in particular, often receive a lot of gifts from their parents and other relatives and the mythical figure Santa Claus.

The original meaning of Christmas is a special church service, or mass, to celebrate the birth of Christ. The story of the Nativity, or the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, are particularly important in religious celebrations of Christmas. However, many traditions that are around today have their roots in pre-Christian winter festivals. These include the importance of candles and decorations made from evergreen bushes and tree, symbolizing everlasting light and life.

 Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, viewing a Nativity play, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, pulling Christmas crackers and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.

Date:

December 25, 2018

Ace Canadian Blues-Rockers MonkeyJunk Celebrate 10 Years With Thrilling #MJ10 Tour

The trio, whose career-best fifth album Time To Roll recently netted their second Juno Award, prepares to travel from east to west this spring and summer, visiting key venues and festivals in between…

Ottawa’s ace swamp roots-rockers MonkeyJunk — fêting 10 triumphant years together in 2018 — are preparing to lift lids from Saskatoon to Sault Ste Marie, Thunder Bay to Nanaimo, as they hit the highway supporting their scorching, career-best Time To Roll album. Audiences will be dazzled.

Winner of 2018’s Blues Album of the Year Juno Award (their second overall), the latest and fifth release from singer/guitarist and harp player Steve Marriner, drummer Matt Sobb, and guitarist Tony D is precisely the kind of corker you’d expect from a trio of musical veterans who, between them, have boosted luminaries from Fabulous Thunderbird Kim Wilson to Buddy Guy, the late Jeff Healey to the lamented Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Launched in Ottawa in 2008, MonkeyJunk —handle inspired by delta blues great Son House, who once intoned, “I’m talking about the blues, I ain’t talking ’bout no monkeyjunk!” — have consistently updated contemporary blues with a blistering mix of chops, soul, grit, humour and harmony.

MonkeyJunk has won a collective 21 Maple Blues Awards, two Canadian Independent Music Awards, a Blues Music Award (USA) in 2010 for best new artist debut (Tiger In Your Tank), and have been nominated three times for a JUNO Award, winning the award twice for Blues Album of the Year in 2012 for To Behold and in 2018 for Time To Roll.

“The name MonkeyJunk comes from Son House, who once said ‘I’m talking about the blues, I ain’t talking ’bout no monkeyjunk.’ But I am going to talk about MonkeyJunk – they are brilliant and have produced one of the best albums I have heard in a long time…; Ten tracks that prove that this Canadian band is here to stay. And as Son House would have said if he had seen these boys: ‘I’m talking ’bout the blues, I’m talking about MonkeyJunk!’” – Bob Boncey, Blues Matters (UK)

Cost: $60.

Date :
December 7 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Event location :
The Cove
2 Bedford St.
Westport, Ontario K0G 1X0 Canada

Contact :
http://www.coveinn.com/

http://www.monkeyjunkband.com/

The Rideau Lake Public Library is pleased to a movie afternoon for kids at the Elgin Municipal Complex right beside the library. South Crosby PS students grades 1 to 6 can get permission forms at the school. Admission is free and popcorn will be provided with other snacks available for a small cost. Bring your own chair to be comfy.

Date :
Friday, December 7, 3:30pm – 5:30pm

Event location :
Elgin Community Hall, 47 Main St, Elgin, ON K0G 1E0, Canada

Contact :
For more information contact Laura Lee at the library lauralee@rideaulakeslibrary.ca

Come to Delta and take in the 100,000 festive lights. We’ll have a variety of activities in the Old Town Hall during Delta’s Celebrating the Season, Fridays and Saturdays, starting Friday November 30 and ending on Saturday December 22. We’ll be open from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

the Mill will be lit up with festive candles as part of Delta’s Celebrating the Season. Enjoy hot dogs and refreshments from our Old Stone Mill Café. We’ll also have our FESTIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET in the Old Town Hall – 4 pm to 8 pm on Friday and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday. Lower Beverley Lake Park will be lit with over 100,000 lights. Wagon rides from Delta Fair Grounds will take you to the park and back.

See the 2018 Celebrating the Season Brochure for full details.

Date :
December 7&8, 2018

December 21&22, 2018

Event location :
The Delta Mill Society
Box 172, Delta, Ontario K0E 1G0

Contact :
Tel: 613-928-2584 (office)
Email: info@deltamill.org

Still lots going on in Westport! The weather keeps you coming and with the new brewery in town, people are excited! Lots of entertainment with a big Wine Dinner coming Nov.22 with Chef Joanne Edwards! Thanks for continuing to support The Cove! 

Seamus and all of us here

WINTER EVENTS @ THE COVE!

Every Wednesday WINGS ‘n TUNES + THE OPEN MIC with SHAWN McCULLOUGH (Country/Rock, Westport) Sing a tune and you could win a guitar! 6:30-9:30pm www.reverbnation.com/shawnmccullough

NOVEMBER

Fri.Nov.9 BREA LAWRENSON with SHAWN McCULLOUGH “Roulette + Change Single Release Party” www.brealawrenson.com www.reverbnation.com/shawnmccullough

Fri.Nov.16 BLUES on the RIDEAU with HOGTOWN ALLSTARS (Toronto)  7-11pm Buffet & Show $65 + HST www.bluesontherideau.ca www.facebook.com/events/the-hogtown-all-stars/1565541653492234/

Sat.Nov.17 LOGAN BROWN & TAYLOR ANGUS (Acoustic Soul, Perth) 6-9pm www.taylorangusmusic.com  

Thu.Nov.22 “MEMORIES OF BOURDAIN” WINE DINNER By Chef Joanne Edwards. Wine Talk by Andrew Rasta of Lifford Wines. 6-Course Meal with Wine Pairings $80 + HST Overnight Packages Available

Fri.Nov.23 JOEY WRIGHT with BROWNSTONE feat. JENNY WHITELEY (Country/Bluegrass, Lanark) 7-10pm $10 www.blackhenmusic.com/joey-index-1/

Sat.Nov.24 SANTA CLAUS PARADE COUNTRY MATINEE with HENRY NORWOOD & SHAWN McCULLOUGH (Country, Perth/Westport) 3-7pm Parade Starts 2pm www.facebook.com/henrynorwoodartist www.reverbnation.com/shawnmccullough

Fri.Nov.30 WORLDS COLLIDE AFRICA FUNDRAISER with Music by BEN VANDERGAAST 6-9pm Donations @ Door Accepted! 50/50 Draw + Silent Auction! Reservations for Seating and/or Dinner Suggested.

www.pamojatunawezaboysandgirls.com www.worldscollideafrica.com www.benvandergaast.com

DECEMBER

Sat.Dec.1 Christmas Classic Rock Party with TONY SILVESTRI BAND (Classic Rock/Blues, Kingston) 7-11pm Buffet + Show $45 www.facebook.com/TonySilvestriMusic

Fri.Dec.7 MONKEYJUNK (JUNO Award Winning Blues, Ottawa) 7-11pm Buffet + Show $60 www.monkeyjunkband.com

Sat.Dec.8 A JEFF CALLERY + WADE FOSTER CHRISTMAS (Country/Folk/Rock, Brockville/Perth) Buffet 6-8pm Show 7-10pm www.reverbnation.com/jeffcallery www.wadefostermusic.com

Fri.Dec.14 JOHN WILBERFORCE (Folk/Rock, Kemptville) 6-9pm www.johnwmusician.com

Sat.Dec.15 YOUNG PETTY STONES (A Musical Nod to Neil Young, Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones!) 7-11pm Buffet + Show $50 www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Young-Petty-Stones-280608412531628

Fri.Dec.21 HEALY + ORR ROCK ‘n ROLL CHRISTMAS (Classic Rock/Country, Brockville) 7-11pm Buffet + Show $50 www.healyandorr.ca

Sat.Dec.22 JAZZ NIGHT with SPENCER EVANS TRIO (All Styles of Music, Make a Request!) 9-11pm $5

Thu.Dec.27 THURSDAY after Boxing Day! WINGS ‘n TUNES + OPEN MIC with SHAWN McCULLOUGH (Country) 6:30-9:30pm

Fri.Dec.28 HENRY NORWOOD (Country, Perth) 7-10pm www.facebook.com/henrynorwoodartist

Sat.Dec.29 HEAD OVER HEELS (Folk, Jazz, Blues Acoustic Duo, Gananoque) 6-9pm www.kevinheadmusic.com

Mon.Dec.31 NEW YEAR’S EVE with TURPIN’S TRAIL (Celtic/East Coast/Folk, Kingston) 7pm-1am $50 + HST www.turpinstrail.com

HOURS — Sun, Mon, Tue + Thu 11:30am-8pm — Wed, Fri + Sat 11:30am-9pm

LUNCH + DINNER DAILY + TAKE OUT MENU TOO!

All Events Subject To Change. Please Call For Reservations

For Event Info, go to Entertainment at www.coveinn.com

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