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A Three-Part SeriesThis multi-part series regarding Stouffville’s fine theatre, The Lebovic Centre for Arts & Entertainment – 19 on the Park, will present a story of local significance. It will describe how a meeting hall above a mechanic garage has evolved into a performing arts space within a Civic Square. This property has touched the lives of generations of Stouffvillians in many ways, from war fundraisers and political platforms, to sup-porting small businesses and acting as a cultural hearth and entertainment centre. Encapsulated in the Clock Tower is a time capsule that contains pieces of the past that we describe here. We will weave this story together, relying heavily on archival newspaper articles available from the WSP Library’s online database (one of the privi-leges of a library card). Stylistically, these stories will be written in the first person, simply because it makes for a better story – otherwise the facts should be as good as the newspapers that reported them. – D. Tuley, Editor, ecdev@townofws.ca

Official Monthly for the Town of Whitchurch–Stouffville

Stouffville Hall CompanyBeing born in 1910, my first memory of our theatre was attend-ing the moving pictures at a young age; perhaps it was around 1916. The moving pictures were a slight betterment to that of a slide show. At this point, the theatre went by the title of The Auditorium. The building dates to 1900, built by Nathan Forsyth. Forsyth too, had built the fire hall and wooden hose tower in front of the current theatre more than 10 years earlier.

Originally, the three properties (including the fire hall), measur-ing a little less than an acre together, were assembled first by the Daley’s, then sold at a reduced rate to the Sangster’s, and the same to Elizabeth Truman, all between 1989 and 1898; the real value was around $6,500 in those days. The properties were then acquired, again for a small sum, by a group – David Stouffer (Eliz. Truman’s brother), W. Sanders, S. Warriner, W.J. Stark, J.G. Martin, and R. Duncan. The Daley’s and Stark’s had an insur-ance and real estate business together, while Stouffer, Daley and Warriner shared officer responsibilities for the Provincial Build-ing & Loan Association. Other relationships existed as well, as Stouffville was a small community of 1,200 persons back then.

Ultimately, the ownership of the property – and the new audi-torium building – belonged to the “Stouffville Hall Company”. The actual auditorium was in the upstairs of the brick building. The ground floor housed J.A. Brillinger’s paint shop, specializ-ing in wagons and automobiles. I was told that there used to be a market on the ground level. As World War I had kicked off – I remember seeing a Patriotic Concert to support our troops that had recently fought in Ypres, Belgium. At Christmas, for a 10 cents admission, we went as a family to see the Stouffville Methodist Sunday School’s annual Christmas program. The hall was brilliantly decorated for the affair.

Around the same time that one of our Canadian hospital ships – the Llandovery Castle – was mercilessly torpedoed (and life boats machine gunned), killing 234 of our countrymen, we were seeing comedic stage productions at the Auditorium in favour of our boys. The Janey Canucks never miss a step at distracting a large audience from turbulent times, and they didn’t fail with the production of Miss Fearless & Co. We would buy tickets in advance at Silvester Bros.

By 1919 we were seeing silent moving reels that brought some of the best-known actors in the world to Stouffville, like Charlie Chaplin. The si-lent shows were accom-panied by the Famous Jazz Orchestra.

Green & LaBarrAdvances were changing things in town: just the other day, after 45 years in business, W.H. Todd of Stouffville Carriage Works shuttered his plant and auctioned his equipment. Even though his reputation extended across many counties, people now look to the motor car for getting

around. The Auditorium Garage, as it is commonly known, was operated by Mr. Widdifield – his focus is on Ford and Chevro-let repairs. In 1922, Green & LaBarr took over from Widdifield – they fixed all makes of cars. Now there are five public garages in Stouffville.

While Mr. Green was busy cleaning up and shutting down for the evening downstairs, upstairs we were preparing for classic silent show hits, such as The World and Its Women, starring Geraldine Farrar. Our theatre and Uxbridge’s The Strand Theatre are now under the same management. However, prices had only climbed to 15 cents for children, including War Tax.

Alexander Scott carved out some office space alongside Green & LaBarr as the local agent for Gray-Dort Motors. Gray-Dort mo-tor cars are assembled in Chatham, Ontario by a partnership be-tween Canadian and American interests. These cars start more reliably in winter; the coupe is extra neat.

As for movies, by 1923 things were getting a bit stale – we were typically seeing two-year-old movies, like The Man from Lost

River, starring the handsome hero House Peters. Prices though, dropped to 10 cents, and I guess it is better than the alternative – a trip with my parents to the Stiver Bros. to buy egg mash feed for the chickens or talking to Mr. A.C. Burkholder at Standard Bank about cattle prices. That spring, just before Easter, rumors were flying. A gentleman was in town from Toronto with a view to start a motion picture theatre here, but he found that electric current was not available for the purpose.

Later in the fall the Town completed work on the new hydro-electric system, which provided needed power to the Stouffville Creamery and Burholder’s chopping mill - and provided an op-portunity to Mr. Sidney Schmidt. Schmidt leased the Auditorium Theatre from the Borinsky family to become an official movie house for showing silent films. Stouffville was one of the first small towns around to have a dedicated theatre.

Charlie Chapman in Sunnyside, 1919

Hospital ship Llandovery Castle before and after being torpedoed

HISTORY OF 19 ON THE PARK AND THE CIVIC SQUARE

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Isaac BorinskyThe Stouffville Creamery, nearby The Auditorium, was the Borin-sky family’s main business interest. Stouffville Creamery opened before my time – I’m told it was 1892. A virtual who’s-who of the Stouffville business world had been involved in the venture – Ja-mieson, Baker, Wagg, Stouffer, Brown, Burkholder, etc. However, the dairy business is an up and down affair; the creamery even-tually closed by the time I was 8 years old.

Isaac Borinsky, a native of Russia, bought the land holdings and re-opened the plant on the day that the Armistice was signed in 1918; the great war had ended. Isaac’s son Joseph moved to Stouffville from Toronto to join his father in the creamery busi-ness; he bought a house on Church Street South, later moving to O’Brien. Shortly after reopening, they increased production of butter from 1,000 pounds a day to 3,000 pounds. In 1921, the Bornisky’s acquired the parcels of improved land that contained the theatre and fire hall for a total of $9,000.

Sidney SchmidtSidney Schmidt quickly established a close relationship with the peo-ple of Stouffville. Every fund raiser seemed to gravitate to the Audi-torium, and Schmidt enabled the activity. The original “screen” was a white painted wall 9’x12’ in size. These early silent movie machines utilized a special electric light bulb and were turned by hand, necessi-tating frequent pauses for manual re-winding. Motion pictures were shown Tuesdays and Saturdays. Doors opened at 7:30 for an 8pm commencement. Cost 10 and 20 cents. Shows like the great war movie Wings were accompanied by gentlemen that created arti-ficial sound effects from off stage, such as the sound of airplane engines and machine gun fire.

The day before Halloween in 1923, I recall seeing the latest ver-sion of Mr. Barnes from New York that featured Tom Moore and Anna Lehr. It was a melodramatic love story concerned with a murder, set in the beautiful Corsican landscape. Before the show, we made purchase of a box of chocolates and cremes from Por-ter’s. The first snow of the season occurred a couple weeks later. The farmers brought out their sleighs. It was perfect timing, be-cause the Board of Trade had organized a fundraiser to build a children’s winter slide in the park. A slide in the park is preferable to playing on the sidewalks, and safer. The popular feature The Enemies of Women was shown and was accompanied by the or-chestra. Tickets sold for 35 and 20 cents.

1925 Gray-Dort Cruiser Isaac Broinsky

Sydney Schmidt

Mr. Schmidt announced that he had assumed the district agency for Peter Hamilton Company Limited, the farm implement man-ufacturer based in Peterborough, Ontario. The Gray-Dort Motors agency had shut down by then (the company had manufactured 26,000 motor cars by the time they shuttered). This affair did not last long, neither did the public garage operated by Green, who had parted ways with LaBarr and taken on a new mechanical partner named Kenmare a couple years back.

Joseph Borinsky stated in Spring 1925 that he had leased the ground floor of the Auditorium to Mr. S. Castle Smith of Can-nington for the purpose of introducing a local Ford Agency. A new cement floor was laid, hydro lighting installed, and every-thing placed in up-to-date order. What is Cannington’s loss, is to be Stouffville’s gain. The garage in the Auditorium was equipped with a full line of Ford parts, tires and accessories. Cecil Shackel has moved his public garage to operate as the Ford on-sight ga-rage. By May, Mr. Castle had installed a gas pump for the conve-nience of the public. Oddly and without explanation, Mr. Castle gave up the dealership by October of that year. He had 3 cars and two trucks left that were sold at a deal.

It was a crowded house in May for the second annual Shadow Lake Minstrel Girls performance. However, it didn’t measure up to last their performance last year – that one would be hard to beat. For Dominion Day [July 1], we were in for a treat. The Auditorium Theatre presented a special show at 8:15pm named Month of 36, which was about the final battle in the Texas Revo-lution when they gained independence from Mexico in 1836. The theatre had popular prices at 15 cents. Afterward, the family en-joyed a pie together from Stover’s Pastry – that Am-brose Stover sure can bake a delectable pie! Murray PipherIn November, solemn and impressive was the war vet-eran ceremony held in the Auditorium on a Sunday afternoon. The war veter-ans met to honor their dead comrades. A goodly num-ber of people turned out to show their respects. After the ceremony, the veterans marched to the cemetery, being accompanied by the band to visit the graves of dead heroes. They also sent a wreath to Baker Hill Cem-etery in memory of Murray Pipher.

Murray had enlisted in his country’s service in Ottawa in 1917. Upon reaching England he had been assigned to the Princess Pa-tricia Canadian Light Infantry. With this battalion, he was among the first to enter the Belgium town of Mons after a great battle. It was a brutal scene where over 40,000 Canadians had been killed or wounded. Mons had been the last battle of World War 1. Murray returned to Canada in March 1919, worked for neigh-bours around home and diligently served his church, the Baker Hill Baptist by regularly teaching class in the Sunday School.

Seen in Stouffville in 1923

But, Murray’s health was severely weakened by his war expe-riences. He had to give up work and service, eventually being moved to the Mountain Sanitorium in Hamilton. The local veter-ans successfully helped Murray to make his case before the Pen-sion Board for compensation. Everything was done to help him along, to no avail. He died at the sanitorium last spring, March 20, 1925. Now, in my 90th year, I understand that Murray prob-ably suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder – god knows how they treated the ailment back then.

The Auditorium was now being frequently used by travelling Evangelists and political parties, for local nomination meetings, and the Town used the space to present financial statements to the public annually.

Ernie StoufferFor the 1st of April 1926, Ernie Stouffer – son of Noah Stouffer – moved his garage from the east end of Stouffville to the Audi-torium. Ernie became a well-known and appreciated local garage man. He had to take a break for a period in 1928, due to an auto-mobile accident. He had been proceeding along 8th Concession [Highway 48], about a mile north of Ringwood near the bridge, when something went wrong with the steering gear. The car shot uncontrollably across the ditch and through two heavy fence posts. Ernie had to get ten stiches for a jagged wound across his right cheek and lost a piece of flesh from his lip, but otherwise is getting about again.

A month after the accident, however, Ernie turned the business over to his right-hand employee, Roy “Red” Strong. Even though he had worked up one of the largest garage businesses locally, he received an offer he couldn’t deny – a Toronto firm asked him to manage their business, diagnose cars as they come in, and see that they are in proper working order on the way out. Red Strong is expected to mange the Auditorium Garage sufficiently.

For New Years 1929, the Auditorium Theatre presented the Merchant of Venice by the Brock-O’Connor Players – 5 Acts, 9 Scenes. The costumes were beautiful and the special lighting ef-fects were amazing. Proceeds went to the Stouffville War Veter-ans Association. Reserved seats were available at special (high) price – $1.

Meanwhile, Red Strong was doing well. He was out of space. He bought the old B.E. Beebe blacksmith shop on Main Street and is now wrecking the building to make way for the construction of a large garage. The building will be 42’x60’, with a canopy top over the oil station and a gas tank in an island position so that cars can

Actress Geraldine Farrar Mr. Barnes of New York

Battle of Mons, 1917

be served at either side of the tank. The late Byron Beebe had owned this property for 45 years.

Joseph BorinskyJoseph Borinsky was elected to Stouffville Council in 1925. He often jocularly referred to himself as Stouffville’s first Jewish Councilman. No contentious issues approached in the early part of his term, though it became clear that Stouffville’s public realm was tired and needed investment. Many streets were made of “mud”, the town water supply needed improvement and com-plaints about general unsightliness were rolling in. The dump at the south end of Market Street, within plain view, was becoming a contested issue.

Councillor Borinsky led the way to hire chartered accountants for the annual auditing of the Town books, he led the push to dig artesian wells for the Town water supply – to replace the cur-rent fertilizer-fed muddy reservoirs and demanded that a public works reserve fund be maintained. Borinsky was comfortably re-elected in 1927 with a first-place finish.

When his advocacy started to cost money, as public works proj-ects were not cheap, his popularity waned; the election of 1929 returned him to council, but this time in third place.

It must be said – the new Main Street is amazing! In the old days an “improved road” meant that they had laid planks (logs) across the road, and then covered the logs with dirt to smooth it out. With Main Street being a bog to begin with, and the dirt needing to be watered often to keep down the dust, there was always mud present. A lot of dirty shoes made their way into the Audi-torium. However, this new $100,000 road is constructed quite differently. First, a mile of storm sewers was laid with 45 catch basins. Then a road base is made of 6.5” of concrete, requiring 20 days of work. The final 12 days involved chipping it with dif-ferent sized sand and gravel, with a cap of sealed asphalt. Being a County Road, the York Road Commission covered 45% of the cost, but there was still a lot for the local ratepayers to absorb. Councillor Borinsky ran for Reeve [Mayor] in 1931, but was nar-rowly beat by W.E. Morden, 266 to 212. Some say that the mat-ter came down to those who voted in favor of the expensive new road built last summer (himself), and those who opposed the cost (Morden).

Despite being distracted all those years by Council, the business of the Creamery was progressing well. Harold Borinsky sold his shop, the Goodwood Economical Store, and moved to Markdale

where the family had acquired the creamery there. Jake Borinsky recently returned from California to open a retail creamery store in the west end of Toronto. He plans to sell both Stouffville and Markdale creamery butter. Sadly, on July 26, 1923, Mrs. Isaac Borinsky died suddenly at the young age of 52. She was an ac-tive community member and will be sorely missed by friends in Lemonville, Stouffville and Goodwood. Isaac married a Toronto woman in the fall of ’24.

With the first floor of the Auditorium being vacated by Strong, Joseph Borinsky went to work on a new business model in the summer of 1929. He renovated the whole main floor for the in-troduction of Stouffville’s Recreation Centre. The Centre opened in August. The main floor had been divided into two rooms, with five billiard and pool tables on one side, and two five-pin bowling alleys opposite. It has the air of a big city recreation centre, with new floors, high ceilings and the latest equipment. In order to educate the public in the art of five-pin, given that “it is a ladies’ game, as well as a man’s sport”, the bowling was open free of charge for the first night. Harmon Hoover has been ap-pointed the manager of the Recreation Centre. He will look after counter trade in cigars, tobacco and candy, while having an eye on both entertainment rooms.

Sydney Schmidt placed a public notice in the newspaper soon after the Centre’s opening: “I have no connection with the bowl-ing alley and pool room on the first floor, which is owned and operated by Mr. Borinsky of the Stouffville Creamery.” It is not clear why Schmidt did that, but perhaps he was getting too many questions, or too many criticisms.

1930It has been a long winter, but we were excited to get out into cold last Friday (February 28, 1930) to see the musical comedy show It Can’t Be Done. The show was a live performance being presented by the Stouffville Continuation School Literary Society. It was a chance to see local school children in action, including Ethel Sanders, Charles Ratcliff, Floyd Martin, and Erie Collard; plus, the school’s orchestra and chorus were present. The play’s plot focused on hilarious misconceptions of rural and city life. All seats were reserved, and I suspect, all 360 seats were taken.

This is where the story will lead off for now, for the 1930s brought many changes – a brick clock tower would be erected, and the theatre would be lowered to the main floor, giving rise to an era of “talkies” and the newly named Stanley Theatre. See column on right for current events at 19 on the Park.

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Joseph Borinsky The Princess Pats Return Home to Ottawa

The Auditorium became the Stanley Theatre in 1933

The second artist in this summer’s Patio Series will feature up-and-coming artist Chad Price. He will smooth things out with his velvet-lined vocals on July 28. This singer-songwrit-er has been officially labelled “one to watch” with his songs blessing the soundtracks of hit TV shows such as MTV’s De-grassi, and being featured on CTVs The Launch.

For those who want to kick-it old-school style, grab a seat on the patio for The Johnny Max Band on August 18th. This band has more Maple Blues Award and Juno nominations than we can keep track of, and they always bring the party to the stage. Don’t expect just blues though, they’ll show you Gumbo R & B, Soul and some Tom Waits styled tonali-ties for a show that is as well-rounded as it is exciting.

If you’re not into the live shows, perhaps you are a film lover? 19 on the Park has recently updated its projection & sound system to the same quality as can be found in movie theatres across the country. We feature films from TIFF, other international film festivals, and regular mainstream movies. And you don’t have to wait long for the blockbust-ers – Stouffville gets these movies approximately 3-6 weeks after their opening weekend in Cineplexes, so you can see it locally, with the same quality picture and sound, but a nicer price tag. With so many films playing each month, there is certain to be a flick that peaks your curiosity. New titles are released often, so check out what’s on now.

These shows and films are just a taste of the broad selec-tion of entertainment the revitalized 19 on the Park offers year-round. To check out the most up-to-date events, visit www.19onthepark.ca or call 905-640-2322.

The Lebovic Centre for Arts & Entertainment – 19 on the ParkWHAT'S HAPPENING

THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW

WARRIOR OF WELLNESS

PRIVATE SWIM LESSONS

NEW SHOP AT MUSSELMANS

WHODolly Bhatia-Frolick. You know her - she's been in the Stouffville scene for some time. Many artciles have been written; a simple Google search will get you there. Dolly turns 50 this month. She has a plan.

INTELShe finished up her '50 Days to 50 Challenge' on July 9, 2018 - a personal challenge of sharing on social media to inspire others and improve her health after suffering 8 months of physical, emotional pain and stress but also be her own student and practice what she preaches to clients. She also just finished a '50 Shades of Grey Hair Challenge' - a journey to not colour her hair and empower women to be natural and accepting of themselves. The plan was to try for a month, she lasted 9 months.

Dolly wants to be a 'Warrior of Wellness' - to offer wellness work-shops, speaking engagements to empower women and teen girls to own their power, find balance, develop confidence, self-esteem, be-come stronger, healthier in mind, body & spirit. She plans to create some signature online programs, travel and offer live instructor train-ing to spread my passion for dance, fitness and yoga to the masses. She plans to write blogs, columns and hopefully publish some well-ness books on a variety of topics such as nutrition, balance, fitness, stress and more. Finally, she'd like to become a vegan body builder.

WHEREwww.dollybhatiafrolick.com

WHOCorey Smith, Urban Rustic Décor. Former film production catering guy that took up another trade to have more time with his family. He's naturally welcoming and he has cool stuff.

INTELUrban Rustic has an incredible variety of gifts for all occasions as well as an extensive selection of tasteful refined rustic décor for home and cottage, as well as seasonal décor. Corey essentially manages individ-ual vendors that he personally knows and has hand selected. Many of them are creating and selling stuff to forward a social purpose: The Kind Company sells t-shirts in a dedicated effort to spread the joy of kindness; and, She Sells Sanctuary sells cashmere blankets, shawls and scarves, silk, cotton and wool scarves that she sourced from char-ities, NGO's and community groups in Nepal, Tibet and India. There's also Jewelry by Jocelyn Leigh that is made at Mussleman's Lake, lazer cut Brainy Games made in Aurora, and products from G n'R Alpaca Farm in Lisle. There's hand crafted signs and lots of other stuff.

WHERE14811 9th Line Stouffvillewww.facebook.com/groups/URBANRUSTICDECOR/

WHOCheryl Wolfson, Aqua Kids Swim School. Cheryl has been teaching students of all ages and training Red Cross certified swim and safety instructors since 1980. She has long-standing partnership with Red Cross and Lifesaving Society, and a rich history of teaching swim-ming and water safety. It is a family-run business that serves Toronto, North York, Thornhill, Markham, Richmond Hill, Stouffville, Aurora and Newmarket.

INTELPublic pool swim classes are more than adequate; however, not all kids and adults embrace the public atmosphere or teaching pattern. Aqua Kids offers courses year-round at the above locations, and also at their own private and secluded pool locate near Cedar Valley/Bal-lantrae. Cheryl also has experience providing instruction to special needs individuals. For those that want individual instruction, this is it.

WHEREwww.aquakids.ca; (905) 886-2322.

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Nested in the core of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Twilight Forest is looking at offering the public the opportunity to be outdoors in a convenient and affordable way all year round through the rent-al and sale of fat bikes, electric bikes, fishing kayaks and snow shoes to enjoy nature in every season.

Jorge de la Garza, co-founder of Twilight Forest, moved to York Region back in 2001 and started to discover all of the wonders that the area provides. Jorge is a life and outdoors enthusiast who enjoys camping, hiking, biking, snow shoeing and kayaking and enjoys being in nature all year round. Being a mechanical and industrial engineer, Jorge worked for different companies over the years following the traditional 9 to 5ish schedule, which often ended up being more like a 9 to whenever he would finish his duties. Like most of us, this left him with only weekends or vacation days to do the activities he loved outside of work, as it typically requires a few hours to travel to the traditional camp-ing, hiking, biking, kayaking locations such as provincial parks, to enjoy being in nature.

When Jorge moved to Stouffville to his property next to the York Regional Forest, he realized how wonderful the Oak Ridges Mo-raine is and how convenient it is to have one of the most lush forests in our province in literally our back yard, without having to spend hours to get there to enjoy a good hike or bike ride. He had heard about fat bikes and how well they handle sandy terrain and snow, as well as electric bikes being very popular in Europe as they help people to tackle hills with very little effort enabling them to go further or to areas they never thought they could reach. Jorge thought it would be a great opportunity to offer fat bikes and electric bikes for visitors, and why not equip-ment for the snow too. For those of us who enjoy hiking alike, having access to snow shoes will allows us to enjoy the snowy hills of the forest during the winter months and explore the ter-rain on foot.

As Jorge continued to explore the area looking for places where

to kayak, he discovered the beauty of the shores of Lake Sim-coe that is less than 45 minutes away for most of York Region residents. He recalls being surprised about how warm the water gets in the summer months at the shore and how nice it is to launch a kayak from a sandy beach or go for a swim. During his kayaking journeys he talked to many boaters and fellow kayakers and learned about how good fishing can be on Lake Simcoe and also about how beautiful the marsh ecosystem is along the Hol-land River, which feeds lake Simcoe with water from streams and rivers all over York Region.

After 20+ years of working for multiple corporations and dealing with high stress levels and very little time to be in nature, Jorge decided to follow his passions and start Twilight Forest with the mission of offering people a way to “reinvent being in nature”. Reinvent how convenient it can be to spend time outdoors through renting a bike or a kayak that is delivered to the forest or the lake and simply ride or paddle. Not worrying about where to store the equipment at home or getting the appropriate racks to carry it around.

He also thought about a way of getting more people off their electronic devices and get them out to enjoy fresh air, exercise and reconnect with their surroundings by watching forest ani-mals, birds and plants alike. He would like to see more people enjoying the pleasure of riding a bike and provide the opportu-nity for less fit people or seniors who thought biking was out of their scope, to ride again using an electric bike. Finally, for some of us who are afraid of getting into a kayak as we may tip it, we learned that the fishing kayaks that Twilight Forest is offering are so stable that you can stand on them and use them as a paddle board, so that gives us great piece of mind. We may still enjoy the fun of jumping into the water and go for a swim while on the lake to refresh and cool off on this scorching hot summer!

TWILIGHT FOREST

www.twilightforest.ca, 905-888-6659

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Are you a charitable, community-oriented, not-for-profit organization in Whitchurch-Stouffville? If so, the Town invites you to participate in the 12th annual Moonlight on Main Festival.

Thursday, August 23, 2018, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Main Street, Stouffville

The Moonlight on Main Festival provides a free venue to showcase dedicated community organizations, such as yours, that make our Town a great place!

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Upcoming Council Meetings:• Tues., July 17, 2018 - 3:00 p.m.• Tues., Aug. 28, 2018 - 3:00 p.m.• Tues., Sept. 11, 2018 - 7:00 p.m.• Tues., Sept. 25, 2018 - 3:00 p.m.

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Museum News

Summer Camps!Each week of summerMonday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Museum offers summer camps each week of summer. Each week of camp has its own theme. Before and after care are available.

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Teddy Bear TeaThursday July 19th - 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Bring your children and their favourite teddy bear for a fun morning! Enjoy bear-themed activities including a story, craft, and snack.

Recommended ages: 3-8.Pre-registration is required. Barcode: 4748

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45th Antique & Classic Car Show

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Summer Reading Clubs at the LibraryThe annual TD summer reading program runs from June 25th to August 25th. Reporting hours will be held in the library between Tuesdays and Saturday . Find more details in the library or on the library’s website wsplibrary.ca.

Teen Summer Reading Club runs until August 31st. Check it out, read it, and win! Teens ages 12-18 can fill out ballets for the chance to win prizes!

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Temporary Election Officials for Election Day - Monday, October 22

& some Advance Vote dates

The Town is currently seeking a variety of customer-focused, capable temporary election officials to assist with the Municipal Election.

Job descriptions and rate of pay are listed on our website. Learn more and apply online by Friday, August 31 on elections.townofws.ca

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