Free skating, swimming and a reptile show in Tillsonburg
By Mark Schadenberg
Family Day is a great concept to add to our existing mix of holidays.
A weekday opportunity to find an event or an activity to enjoy with
your children.
Family Day is Monday, Feb. 17 and there are at least two destinations
for you to consider.
TILLSONBURG
Local, fun and affordable are the three words organizers of the
Tillsonburg Family Day (Monday, Feb 17 only) are using.
Certainly read the entire Tillsonburg News story linked below as
constructed by veteran writer Jeff Tribe. (I know he’s been around for a long
time because he was a reporter locally when I was sports editor of The
Sentinel-Review from 1992-98).
Brent Shepherd -- pastor at Bethel Pentecostal in Tillsonburg (picture from Tillsonburg News website) – started
this event modestly three years ago with an afternoon of free skating. Evolution
(or creation) would add public swimming and a breakfast last year.
This year, Tillsonburg Family Day (www.tillsonburgfamilyday.ca) is a
full community event with more than 40 volunteers, including the assistance of
the local Kinsmen Club.
The pancake breakfast is 8 – 10 a.m. (by donation)
Now, with a full day of events at the Tillsonburg community centre (Hardy
Avenue) it’s a carnival atmosphere all about free skating (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.) in
the Memorial Arena and swimming (Families are requested to pre-register on the
website for the free swimming due to pool regulations on capacity), and lunch
promotions, but also featured is large-screen video games, face painting,
popcorn, a craft corner, inflatable bouncy castles for the smaller kids, and a
visit by Little Ray’s Reptile Show at 2:30 in the Lion’s Den at the centre.
For more details, dial (519) 681-9011.
Link: http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/2014/02/06/local-affordable-and-fun-family-day
BRANTFORD
Down the 403 from Woodstock is Brantford – known as Wayne Gretzky’s
hometown and the Bell Homestead. Golf fans know that David Hearn hails from
Brantford.
Those that love outdoor winter carnivals are quickly recognizing
Brantford as the home of the fifth annual Frosty Fest and it’s not just on
Family Day, but a weekend of activities – Saturday, Sunday and Monday, from 11
a.m. – 5 p.m., in Harmony Square.
See the poster below with the website links, but you can take a
positive plug for Frosty Fest (www.freedomhouse.ca)
from yours truly as I attended two years ago.
About a 3-block section of Downtown Brantford (Dalhousie Street) is
closed to traffic and is replaced with people traffic for outdoor skating, midway
rides (Campbell Amusements) and games, mini snow slide, pony rides, ice
carving, funnel cakes, and so much more. It truly is Brantford’s Winter
Carnival.
Freedom House is a religious-based church (‘contemporary worship’ is
what they call it), but since I’m not religious my plug is for the fabulously
fun Frosty Fest weekend, which I believe began as part of something they call
The Kindness Project.
Attendance topped 15,000 last year and since it’s such a community
effort now, many corporate sponsors have jumped on board to make it possible to
expand the activities.
When you’re in Brantford be sure to see the Frosty Fest superhero Captain
Kindness, and check out the Saturday concert at Sanderson Centre of legendary
CanCon folk star Bruce Cockburn.
On Family Day itself, the fest includes food with a 9 a.m. pancake breakfast
in the Freedom House in the Market Square Mall.
Lots of reasons to live in and around Woodstock
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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