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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-10-14, Page 1010 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Donna Hazelden Authour and playwrite Dan Needles (left) delivered his "Land, Culture and Farmer Thinking" monologue at the Lucknow Library on September 25, sponsored by HAWK Theatre. From left: Dan Needles, author; Nancy Kuhle, Branch Services and Programs Coordinator Bruce County Library; Grant Roberson, Supervisor Lucknow Branch of Bruce County Library. Federal election day is Monday Are you ready to vote? If you're a Canadian citizen, 18 or older, you can vote in the federal election. Your voter information card tells you when and where to vote. If you didn't receive your card, you can still register and vote at your polling place. To find out where to vote, and what ID to bring, visit elections.ca or call 1-800-463-6868 (El TTY 1-800-361-8935). Elections Canada has all the information you need to be ready to vote. El 0 • Ready. to vote October 19, 2015 A2(1 Elections Canada 0 a a C/1 O a C) Land, Culture and Farmer Thinking - an evening with Dan Needles Donna Hazelden The Lucknow Branch of the Bruce County Library and the Hawk Theatre played hosts to a free comedic evening with the renowned author and playwright, Dan Needles Friday September 25. A self-proclaimed "humble sheep farmer from Simcoe County'; Dan Needles, delighted a near capacity crowd in the Hawk Theatre, with his charming, laugh -out -loud tales of his life in rural Ontario to the outback of Australia to the wilds of provincial politics. His inspirational message was based on "Land, Culture and Farmer Thiuldng': Needles explained that "Farmer Thinking is resourceful, practical, very patient, skeptical, driven by a cosmic sense of what is enough" and that we need more of this kind of thinldng in today's world. Needles is probably best known for his verypopular Wingfield Farm stage plays and books that bring to life the stories and characters of his "mythical Persephone Township, a fictional rural Canadian community two hours north of the big city." Needles has been enter- taining corporate, government, and public service groups across Canada for 25 years. He is a winner of the Ste- phen Leacock Medal for Humour. Dan Needles left the Lucknow audience with these words of advice: "go to bed early and rise with the rooster. It always gives you a wonder- ful reputation in the community when you can say you rise with the rooster, and I have found if you get the right kind of rooster...you can train it to rise at half past nine." The evening with Dan Needles was part of the ongoing evolution of services and programming at the Bruce County Library. Grant Rob- ertson, supervisor at the Lucknow Branch stated that, "this night would not be possible without the dedication of the Bruce County Public Library and our modern library service, Nancy Kuhle Branch Services and Programs Coordinator, and the help of HAWK Theatre." October is Library Month - if you haven't recently been to your local library, take the time to visit. Pick up a copy of their calendar of events. Grant Robertson stated that libraries are so much more today and that he "hadn't shushed any- one in the last few months' Local food and drink strategy project to launch this fall Submitted The area known as 'Ontario's West Coast' is also one of the largest agricultural producers in the Coun- try. There have been a variety of local food projects and events over the past few years and local associa- tions have joined forces to help local food businesses in the area. A launch of this program is set for October 27 and will take place at 7p.m. at The White Carnation in Holemesville. Local food busi- nesses, farmers, producers, restau- rants and interested parties are invited to attend the launch, please RSVP to tourism@huroncounty.ca The Huron Tourism Association (HTA), along with the County of Huron, The Huron Manufacturing Association (HMA) and the Huron Food Action Network (HFAN) have combined resources and funding to pull together what they call "Huron's Local Food and Drink Strategy': The overall goal of the project is to achieve sector alignment between agriculture / tourism / processing and connecting the various local food organizations. "The local food strategy will be done in three phases" says HTA president Kim Burgsma "Phase one will be assessing the market, phase two is product development and phase three is branding and mar- keting." Huron County has more than 200 local food related busi- nesses and each of them will be talked to throughout the project. The other major part of this funding is to help the local wineries and vine- yards along with breweries, cideries and coffee roasters to create a county- wide drink group and to work with the local food chefs. "There are many interested businesses and associa- tions that have been working on a variety of local food related initiati- tives." Says Burgsma "We hope to align all and create a more direct line of communication." The chefs of Huron County are known in the local area and this project will work with them to come together. "The local food chefs in Huron have had an initial meeting" says Chef Spencer Vail who has recently joined up with his wife at Cait's Kitchen "We're excited to see an initiative that will support us into the future, Taste of Huron was very successful, but we need to make sure that we are market ready before continuing on with the program." For more information or to con- nect with the committee please e-mail tourism@huroncounty.ca.