June
5. Bill Jupp's 5th annual Big Band Concert
with Don MacMillan of Wakefield
at the Black Sheep Inn.
3 p.m.
Advanced tickets: $5.00. All Black Sheep shows are smoke-free.
Advance tickets for all Black Sheep Inn shows at Compact
Music,
134 Bank Street,
Ottawa – Tel:
(613)
233-7626 or
785 ½ Bank Street,
Ottawa.
Tel:
(613)
233-8922,
or from Ottawa Folklore Centre
1111 Bank Street,
Ottawa. Tel:
(613)
730-2887.
Tickets also available from the Black Sheep Inn,
753 Riverside Drive,
Wakefield.
Tel:819-459-3228. Tickets can be reserved with a MasterCard
payment by telephone.
Your name will be added to our "guest list" Present yourself
before show-time to help prevent delays at the cash.
June
5. Book Launch and Chelsea Cemetery Tour.
The Mayor and Council of Chelsea will hold ann inauguration
ceremony at the Old Chelsea Protestant Burial Ground at 11:30
pm in connection with Chelsea’s 130th Anniversary
Community Days Festival. The ceremony will be followed by
a book signing: Carol Martin will be
launching her book In Memory of
Chelsea’s Historic Cemeteries.
Ms. Martin will conduct two cemetery tours, at 12:15
and 1 pm.
Carol Martin’s book may be ordered from the author
by calling
(819) 827-1633
or via
e-mail
ricmartin@primus.ca
Price: $14.50 (plus postage, if required). The publisher is
Castenchel Editions.
June 11. The Gatineau Valley Historical Society announces
that Bobby Watt, master stonemason residing in La Pêche,
will conduct a tour of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.
Bobby Watt’s team of stonemasons has been involved in the
restoration of the Centre Block and in the current Library
of Parliament project.
Car pools leave Wakefield Library at
8:45
am
and Chelsea Elementary School at
9:30
am. Group meets Bobby Watt at the Centennial Flame on
Parliament Hill for walking tour.
11 am. Departures.
For information, call Michael Cooper at (819) 459-2787.
June
11-12 & June 18-19.
The
Pontiac Artists' Studio Tour is an annual juried art
exhibition.
Twenty
professional artists welcome you into 17 studios on this
16th annual
art tour through the Pontiac region of Quebec (on the north
shore of the Ottawa River, west of Ottawa).
Admission is absolutely free and everyone
is welcome. Artworks are on exhibit and for sale.
Individual studios are also open year round. Call to visit.
Brochures with maps are available the Regional Association
of West Quebecers office, 53 Principale St.
in Aylmer, and at all stores and gas stations along Highway
148 between Aylmer and Fort Coulonge. The Tour route is
clearly marked by road signs featuring our logo of magenta
and blue brush strokes on a white background. Flags of the
same colour mark the entrance to each studio. For a web map
and more information on the artists go to
www.pontiacartists.com
