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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Extra news items 11 July 2015

Here are some news items which have come across the desk this morning -

Isn't this a neat idea from Canada's heritage!

Cheryl Horgan, a local St. John's artist, is making jewellery from a church's copper roofing. And she is using the copper roofing as it is stripped off the 160-year-old Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, so that the copper roofing can be replaced.

Cheryl is donating two third of the sales to the restoration effort of the roof of the church.

To read the rest of the story, go to http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cheryl-horgan-is-making-jewellery-from-church-s-copper-roofing-1.3147264

And her come another neat idea.

To the Revitalizing Indigenous Agriculture Project, methods of indigenous culture will be used to plant the seeds and help the garden grow at the Wanuskewin Heritage Park in Saskatoon.

And they are using Mohawk traditions using the idea of growing for sustenance.

To see the pictures of the garden, go to http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-community-garden-grows-thanks-to-aboriginal-culture-1.3147407

And finally, there is the project called A Flanders Field in London, Ontario, a remembrance project that about a dozen local volunteers has been busy planing a garden of poppies.

The garden will be on the city-owned park on the southwest corner of Veterans Memorial Parkway and River Road. Over the past two years, they’ve been developing a large poppy garden to honour veterans, remember soldiers who have fallen and provide information about Canada’s military history.

Here is the story in the paper http://www.thelondoner.ca/2015/07/10/remembrance-gardens-nearly-ready-for-dedication

Here is their website at http://remembernovember11.com/

Until next time, this is what crossed my desk this morning.

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Friday, July 10, 2015

151th PEI Highland Games and Scottish Festival 2015

It's time to start posting the highland games events that will take place around the country each summer.

The Caledonian Club of P.E.I.’s annual 151th PEI Highland Games and Scottish Festival 2015 at the Lord Selkirk Provincial Park, Eldon, PE from August 1 – 2, 2015.

Schedule of Events 2015 are posted on the main page page of the society at http://caledonianclubofpei.ca/?page_id=16

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Summer Series of Talks at Keir Museum, Malpeque, PEI

 The Keir Memorial Museum is housed in the former Keir Memorial Presbyterian Church (1925-1983)

This is the roster of speakers for the summer series of “Talks” at Keir Museum, Malpeque Route 20 for the summer of 2015. The Malpeque Historical Society has been presenting these talks relating to the history and people of Malpeque and Area for the past 16 years.

The talks are held each Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. beginning on July 15th and ending on August the 12th. Go and join them and bring a friend!

July 15 - Stories and Songs of the Sea by Leon Gallant.

July 22 - Birds of P.E.I. by Gerald MacDougall

July 29 - Island Heroine: Great War Nurse Lillian Pidgeon of Kensington by Katherine Dewar

August 5 - Maps and the Army:The Military Career of Samuel Holland by Earle Lockerby

August 12 - Over and Under the Darnley Bridge: songs and stories of the Island by Cindy C. Stone

If you happen to be in PEI this summer, why don't you take in one of these talks, especially if you have ancestors that came from the island.

You can go to the website at http://www.malpequebay.ca/keirmuseum.htm

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