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Westcoast Blues Festival promises authentic Canadian blues experience
Justine Alkema
Postmedia Network
Each year on Labour Day
weekend, Goderich has
enjoyed the West Coast
Blues Festival in the square.
This year will be no different,
except for the fact that there
are two extra venues this
time around.
In the past, the festival has
featured eight walkabout
venues on the Friday night of
the weekend, but this year
they will offer 10 venues.
"Our crowds are growing,"
said organizer John Harri-
son. Last year upwards of
1500 people attended. "This
will spread the crowd out a
bit more so it won't be quite
as crowded. [...] The two new
venues are the Livery Thea-
tre and the beer tent in the
square. All the venues are
indoors except the one
under the beer tent in Court-
house Park"
The Friday night walkabout
will feature ten acts, and the
cost to get in is $10; upon
entry each person will receive
a wristband. To guarantee a
spot, tickets can be purchased
ahead of time at Wuerth
Shoes, Fincher's gift shop,
Ernie King Music, and the
104.9 The Beach. A limited
number of tickets will also be
available at the door of each
venue on the night of.
On Saturday, there are
main stage events all day.
This will be kicked -off with a
motorcycle show at 1 p.m.
with acts to follow.
The downtown square in
Goderich will be closed on
that Saturday, September 3,
from 1 - 6 p.m. It will be
open for foot traffic only.
The main stage is outdoors
in Courthouse Park, and the
admission fee is $5. There
will be a beer tent at the
park, so this is an age of
majority event.
The performance stage will
feature six Canadian Blue acts
beginning with local favourites,
the Empty Threats, at 1:30 p.m.
This will be followed by the high
energy of the Bill Durst Band,
then the sensational prodigy,
Spencer MacKenzie, the Doug
Varty Blues Band, the Smoke
Wagon Blues Band and closing
with Juno award winner, David
Gogo.
"The festival is all Cana-
dian blues artists," said Har-
rison. He noted that at some
blue's festivals there are
other genres of music, but
Photos taken from westcoastblues.ca
The local favourite Bill Durst Band will perform at the Goderich
festival on September 3.
this festival is strictly Cana-
dian blues music.
For the full line up and more
information about the event,
go to westcoastblues.ca.
"West Coast Blues has the
local support to host additional
'wallcabout nights' throughout
the year that could feature
Country, Rock, Folk and Blue-
grass genres of music. This is
something we are seriously
considering," said Harrison.
Profits raised through this
Bruce Power planning to expand its free bus tours of nuclear site
Building on a successful
summer program at its Visi-
tors' Centre, Bruce Power
will continue to offer free
bus tours to prearranged
community groups
year-round.
"We're interested in
hosting service clubs,
social organizations,
municipal groups, even
senior high school
classes," said James Scon-
gack, Vice President, Cor-
porate Affairs. "We've
found the bus tours to be
very popular and an excel-
lent way to engage our
neighbouring communi-
ties and the public."
By the time the summer
program ends on Sept. 3,
staff will have delivered
more than 100 bus tours to
more than 3,000 participants
this July and August. In addi-
tion, more than 2,000 visitors
will have stopped by the Vis-
itors' Centre in the last two
months to view the exhibit
hall and take in an hourly
presentation.
"The Visitors' Centre pro-
vides a unique opportunity
for the public to learn more
about Bruce Power's
Scone crokinole evenings planned for Aug. 31 and Sept. 7
The warm temperatures
didn't deter the crokinole
players from competing at
the Scone School House on
Wednesday evening August
17.
At the end of 10 games
Clare Kuepfer topped the
men with a score of 65
points, Francis Zettler was
2nd with 58 and Jack
MacLeod came 3rd with
54. Al Carter took top spot
for the twenties with 52,
Larry Hennessey was sec-
ond with 41 followed
closely by Neil Cook with
40 for third.
On the ladies side Jo -Ann
Carter topped the score
with 58 points followed by
Helen Zettler with 52 and
Janet Diebel had 48 points
for third. Jo -Ann and Helen
tied for top twenties with
31, Ginette Brady was sec-
ond with 21 and a three
-way tie for third between
Families keeping busy with visitors in Purple Grove area
Mary Anne Kukoly
Purple Grove News
Ladies who were able to
attend the bridal shower for
Nicole (Nikki) Reid on Sun-
day enjoyed seeing all the
lovely gifts she received.
Thanks to everyone who
organized and put on the
shower.
Many gals attended the
bridal shower for Kathryn
Bridge. It was held at the
home of her sister-in-law
Courtney on the Southline
Sunday Aug. 7.
Everyone enjoyed the
country style picnic, fol-
lowed by the presentation of
gifts. It was a meeting of old
friends, neighbours and rela-
tives of the bride to be. Kath-
ryn is the daughter of Donna
and Dennis Bridge.
On Saturday Aug. 13 many
relatives and friends
attended the Jack and Jill
shower held for bride to be
Tanya Coulthard and her
intended Chris Mathewson
in London. Tanya is the
daughter of Shirley (Bridge)
Coulthard and the late
LeRoy Coulthard.
Christina, Tyson and
Cooper VandeSype visited
with family and friends in the
area recently. While they were
here they celebrated a birth-
day party for the Farrell grand-
children. Recent visitors with
Fran and Jim were Irene and
Joe West of Stratford.
Congratulations to Max-
ene Clark and Jonathon
Murray who were married
on Saturday.
Congratulations as well to
Julianne (Clifford) and
Andrew House on the birth
of their baby boy.
Stefani and Mike Simpson
of Upper New York state vis-
ited with Shirley and Doug
MacDonald and her Mac-
Donald siblings this week.
Irene Boyle and her daugh-
ters, Bonnie, Heather and
Corinne went for a trip down
memory lane recently when
they visited Five Oaks near
Paris, Ontario. Reminiscing
about times spent at Family
Camp there in the 60's.
Irene Boyle had Kerry and
her children, Mallory and
Skye Harrigan for a rousing
game of Scrabble at Irene's
home at Brucelea Haven in
Walkerton last Saturday.
Deanna and Morley Scott
attended the 25th wedding
anniversary celebration of
Frances (Scott) and Bev
Kingston on Sunday.
There was lots of things to
attend this weekend. Diane
Clifford and Fran Farrell
attended the IPM 2016 Quilt
show in Harriston. They appre-
ciated the talents of many folks
who contributed to that event.
Several folks from the area
attended the Heritage Fair at
Paisley; the Motocross at Wal-
ton; and the Food, Arts and
Crafts show in Ripley.
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Open to the public this
summer every day except
Linda Simkins, Edna Zettler
and
Teresa Schnurr with 19
twenties each.
Door prizes were won by
Shirley Hebert, Sharmane
Carter, Al and Teresa.
Our sympathy is sent to
the family of Catherine
Todd. Her funeral was on
Saturday. Sympathy as well
is sent to Joy Munn and fam-
ily on the death of her hus-
band Don Munn.
Sandra Forster visited with
Marjorie Armstrong and Vio-
let Bridge at RVilla on
Juno award winner David Gogo
will also perform.
festival will go back to the com-
munity to support local arts,
culture, community projects
and high school bursaries for
students pursuing post sec-
ondary education in a music
related field.
Sundays and statutory holi-
days, normal hours of opera-
tion from Monday to Friday,
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., resume
on Sept. 6.
For more information
about the Visitors' Centre
and bus tours visit www.bru-
cepower.com.
For those interested
another evening of crokinole
will be held on Wednesday,
Aug. 31 starting at 7 p.m. fol-
lowed by the regular sched-
uled evening of Sept. 7 at 7
p.m. Everyone welcome.
Saturday after attending the
Craft show in Ripley. She
also visited with Mary Anne
Kukoly. They enjoyed their
tour of the Bruce Botanical
Gardens.
Mary Anne was pleased to
be part of the birthday cele-
bration for Doris Schwartz
who will be 95 in a few days.
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