August 31 and September 1-2-3-4.  Expo Shawville Fair.Gates open on Thursday, August 31, at 4.00 pm.  Official opening at 8.00 pm. (guest speaker: Mary Cook).  Gates open at 8.00 am. on September 1-2-3-4.
Entertainment
September 1.    
6.30 pm   The King's Kids Puppet Show    7.00 pm. - 1.00 am. Irish Descendants, and Aaron Pritchett.
September 2.     
1.00 pm. - 5.30 Dr.Kaboom's Mini Mobile Circus, and The King's Kids Puppets
3.30-5.30 pm. Destiny - sponsored by the Pontiac Clergy Association, and the Bowes Brothers  The Bowes Brothers, the Road Hammers
7.30 pm. - 1.00 am.   the Mic Armitage Band, September 3.                 
1.00 pm. - 5.30 .Howard Hayes and the Country Drifters, and Desert Heat, The Arnprior McNab Pipes & Drums, the King's Kids Puppets, and Sharey & Carey Rosietoes Clowns, in the afternoon.
7.00 pm - 1.00 am. Howard Hayes and the Country Drifters, the Mick Armitage Band, and Desert Heat
September 4.                 
1.00 pm. - 5.30 The King's Kids Puppets.

The Pontiac Museum will be open until 9.00 pm. on September 1, 2 and 3, and until 4.00 pm. on September 4.
Other features include Agricultural Awareness and Agricultural Displays, Handicraft Displays, 150th Anniversary History Display, Sûreté du Québec Display (Campbell's Bay Detachment), Demonstrations and Midway.
For the full list of events call 819-647-3213, or fax 819-647-2048, or e-mail to shawvillefair@storm.ca Admission: Pay-one-price (includes all rides, exhibits, shows and entertainment).
Daily pass, Ages 3+ : $10.00 for Thursday, Friday and Monday; $15.00 for Saturday and Sunday. (Children under 3 riding Midway Rides must pay admission).

The Wakefield Grannies, in cooperation with four grannies from the Alexandra Go-Gos in South Africa, have been actively engaged both at Toronto and in Wakefield in sharing their experience and enlisting support for the struggle against AIDS. On August 16 they continued the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers' Gathering, which began in Toronto, at Chez Eric in Wakefield.  The night before the South African grannies departed a community gathering was held in Wakefield United Church, with over 200 participants from Wakefield and Ottawa.
Visit the Wakefield Grannies site at www.thegrannies.org

Shows at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 33, 59 Bancroft Street
Saturday, September 23.  75th Anniversary Dinner.Entertainment by Al Visser, originally from Aylmer.
Tickets: $25.00, available at the Legion.
Regular Thursday entertainment.  Full meal at 6.00 pm.  Cost: $6.00.  Show starts at 7.30 pm.
August 31. Al Visser.
September 7. Mirror Image.
September 14. Hugh Scott, country singer from Luskville.
Everyone welcome. No membership required. For information call 819-684-7063.

Until September 10.  Photographer Joan Bakker, originally from Shawville, has an exhibition of some of her work at Café 349, in the town where she was born.  She has just concluded an exhibition on the theme “Picture the Pontiac” at the Shawville Village Inn, and has participated in the 2006 Pontiac Artists’ Studio Tour (mentioned in this on-line Bulletin).  From September 29 to October 1 she will be joining other Pontiac Artist Association members in the presentation of a show at Portage du Fort.