Humm Bits - theHumm July 2016

Light Up the CP Community Labyrinth

On Friday, September 9, the warm glow of more than 600 candlelit luminaries will flicker along the path of Carleton Place’s Community Labyrinth for this year’s Light up the Labyrinth event. Local musician Kerron Lamb will once again provide entertainment.

To make this event even more collaborative, organizers are asking participants to gather at 6:30pm to prepare and place luminaries for a 7:30 candlelit walk. These walks have become a popular fall event, as individuals and families from across the region come to enjoy an evening at the labyrinth. Children and the young at heart can be part of this festive walk by carrying a lantern, wearing their glow-in-the dark-apparel, glow necklaces, glow sticks, and more. Be creative! Parents should be cautioned that the luminaries are real flames and to please consider clothing and lantern choices carefully.

For those who wish to relax and watch the candlelight, garden benches and a wheelchair-accessible contemplation ring encircle the labyrinth. Feel free to bring along a lawn chair too.

Thanks to support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Town of Carleton Place and individuals and businesses within our community, this permanent labyrinth exists for people to use at any time. It is located at the corner of George and Baines Streets, beside the Carleton Place & Beckwith Heritage Museum, at 267 Edmund Street in Carleton Place. For more information, or if you would like to help prepare the luminaries, please contact Debby Lytle at 257–1014 or carletonplacecommunitylabyrinth.blogspot.com .

CP Community Band Concert

The Carleton Place and District Community Band has a new Director — Gary Payne — and the band will be presenting its first indoor concert under Gary’s direction on October 1 at the Carleton Place Town Hall. Entitled “Movie and Broadway Hits”, the concert will feature vocal soloists and special guests Event Horizon. Concert time is 7:30pm, and tickets are $10 at the door or with cash at the Green Counter Boutique, 18 Mill Street in Carleton Place.

Memorial Hymn Sing in Clayton

As part of their 115th anniversary celebrations, St. George’s Anglican Church in Clayton is planning a Memorial Hymn Sing for Sunday, October 2. Lloyd Wilson on fiddle, Tom Gardiner on stand-up bass and Bernie Costello on piano (a well-known trio from years gone by — not quite as old as the church!) will provide a musical prelude beginning at 10:30am. A selection of a dozen favorite old hymns has been chosen for the Hymn Sing service, which will begin at 11am. Those who wish to dedicate one of the hymns in memory of someone may do so by contacting Cathy Cochran at 256–1029 or catherineac48@hotmail.com by September 16. Cathy can also provide you with the list of hymns and any other information. The trio will entertain again following the hymn sing, and a light lunch will be available. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the wonderful acoustics and music in this beautiful country church.

Find Your Creative Self at the Library!

“Find Your Creative Self” is a free, six-week-long creativity series at the Carleton Place Public Library, designed to help anyone who is feeling creatively challenged. The course ran in early spring and was very popular, so organizers are hoping to catch the people who were not able to register when the list filled up. This session runs on Tuesdays from 1 to 2pm, beginning on September 20. Registration is required and spaces will fill up fast, so please call 257–2702 to reserve your spot.

Scottish Country Dance Group

The Perth and District Scottish Country Dance Group invites those who have a love of dancing and a sense of rhythm to join in a fun and entertaining form of exercise for both the body and the brain. Their experienced dancers, Simone Crabb of Perth and Tony French of Maberly, lead participants through the various dances — lively jigs and reels, as well as slower strathspeys. The 2016–17 season starts on September 23.

Newcomers, couples or singles, men or women, regardless of the level of dancing ability, are welcome. They meet Friday mornings at 9:30am for two hours at McMartin House, 125 Gore Street East in Perth, in the upstairs boardroom. All that is required are soft, flexible shoes or dance slippers, plus payment of the annual McMartin House/Perth and District Senior Craft Fellowship membership fee.

For more information, contact Simone Crabb at 264–2767.

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Humm Bits - theHumm July 2016