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General
Events
 June
30.
Ron Moores's Back 40 Band hosts the Back 40 Stage at
Rasputin's. Guest “WRD” (Wilf Arseneault, Doug Sinclair
and Dan Ducharme). At Rasputin's, 696 Bronson Avenue,
Ottawa. 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.00 The cover charge
proceeds are split between the featured band/artist and the
CKCU-FM 93.1 Funding Drive).
 This
is the last Back 40 Stage event until September 29 next.
The musicians of Back 40 come from both Quebec and Ontario.
Ron Moores resides in Cantley. He regularly introduces at
the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield. The Band broadcasts on
CKCU-FM Community Radio (93.1) at noon on Saturdays. For
information call Rasputins at (613) 230-5102 or email
dean.verger@rasputins.ca, or call Ron Moores at (819)
827-0068, or email ron.moores@back40.ca
 July
14.
15th annual celebration of Buckingham en fęte
at Maclaren Park, under the Brady Bridge.
8 pm.
Carl Bastien and the Stone Country Players
9:30
pm. Plume Latraverse
11 pm.
The Gaskets will be in the City of Gatineau big tent.
For ticket outlets and route directions, visit
www.buckinghamenfete.qc.ca
July 29, 30 and 31. Riverside Jam in Carleton Place,
Ontario.
Among those performing will be Gail Gavan, the Mick Armitage
Band and Joanne Dubeau, as well as Paul Brandt, Michelle
Wright, Adam Gregory, Big Al Downing, Wayne Rostad, Ambush,
Carroll Baker and many others.
For tickets and information call (613) 226-9178 or visit the
website:
www.riversidejam.com
The National Capital Commission is seeking a tenant for the O’Brien
house at
Meech
Lake, which it is in the process of renovating. The
property was specially designed, in the thirties, for the
railway and lumber magnate Ambrose O’Brien, a co-founder of
the National Hockey Association (later the NHL). The terms
of the call for tenders exclude overnight accommodation,
such as a hotel might offer, and require the premises to be
open to the public for “event days”, to be held up to twenty
times a year.
 Recently
published: "Pierre: Colleagues and Friends Talk about the
Trudeau They Knew".
This collection of pieces about the former Prime Minister,
edited by Nancy Southam, includes five contributions by
Chelsea residents, all centring on canoeing, an activity
Trudeau greatly loved.
The writers are: Joyce Mason and her grown-up children Becky
and Paul, Wally Schaber and Jean-Paul Murray.
The book is published by McLelland & Stewart Ltd., and is
available in all bookstores.
 On
June 9 the photography of Adrienne Herron, of
Chelsea, was showcased at the Ottawa Art Gallery Gala
Auction. Adrienne Herron’s photography focuses
particularly on woodlands. She has taught photography and
created the “Image Bank” of the Gatineau Valley Historical
Society, whose events are covered by this Bulletin.
Protection of heritage:
the Wright-Scott house.
On March 29 the Gatineau City Council decided to "reserve"
housing development proposed for this property for at least
two years, during which time various options will be
explored. The chair of the City's Arts, Culture, Heritage
and Literature Commission, Councillor Louise Poirier,
commented: "This will allow us to have a clear debate on the
fate of the property, the last trace of what was the home of
Philemon Wright, the founder of Hull". She indicated that
the City could go as far as purchasing the property,
evaluated by the City at just over $700,000, if there was
enough citizen support.
 Katharine
Fletcher wins another award.
In February of this year Katharine Fletcher won the Award of
Excellence in Travel Journalism from Choice Hotels Canada
in the best international travel writing category for her
story "The Spirit of Morocco" (published in Ottawa Life
Magazine in May 2004). Katharine Fletcher, who lives near
Quyon, had previously received the Ottawa Tourism Media
Award, for the second successive year, for her three-volume
series of guidebooks to the National Capital Region (See the
Summer issue of this Bulletin, under Books).
 July
23 to 31.
Pontiac
School of the Arts first session.
Arrangements for courses are
being finalized and
copies
of the brochure will
soon
be available. Some courses will be taught in one language and
some in both.
The following people will be among
those teaching courses at the School: Val Bridgeman
(papermaking and working in clay), Robin Stone
(nature writing), Eric and Katherine Fletcher
(self-publishing), Dale Shutt (silk painting),
Betty Russell (decorative painting), Heidi Arden
(photography), Nancy Gaudreault (portraiture),
Raymond Sander-Regier (printmaking and fly tying),
Ruby Ewen (introduction to painting), Gretchen
Schwarz (musical keyboard technique), and Robert
Wills (the computer as a musical tool).
For information, call: 1-819-647-2247 and leave a message,
which will be answered as quickly as possible.
Visit the website at
www.pontiacschoolofthearts.com
or email:
info@pontiacschoolofthearts.com
Some
people attending the courses will need accommodation. If
you have rooms, apartments or cottages which would be
available for renting, please let the School's committee
know by calling the abovementioned number.
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