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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-02-03, Page 66 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Yuk Yuk's to bring humour to International Women's Day Women's House Serving Bruce and Grey will be host- ing their annual International Woman's Day celebration on March 8, 2016 at the Lake- shore Recreation Centre in Port Elgin. Doors will open at 5:15 p.m. "This year is the 30th Anni- versary for Women's House and we want to celebrate all year long," said Tiffany Love of Women's House in a media release. "Having these two wonderful comedians from Yuk Yuk's will make for a super fun night- and Judy Croon and Martha Chaves both bring a lot of laughs to the table!" Judy Croon is a comedian, MC, motivational humourist, radio broadcaster, author and proud to never having been in jail. She has been the opening act for Joan Rivers, Wynonna Judd, Robert Klein, Weird Al, Dionne Warwick and Anne Murray. Her specials have appeared on NBC, CBS, CTV and The Comedy Network. Judy is the creator and host of "Laughlines" and "Stand Up for The Girls" which have raised over $650,000 for breast cancer research. Martha Chaves has been a professional comedian, touring as a headliner for more than seventeen years. Her infectious, candid style, and her natural ability to relate to any audience have made her very popular at clubs, colleges, festivals, fund- raisers, and corporate func- tions. Martha is a veteran of a dozen of Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festivals. She has also performed at the Hali- fax Comedy Festival, the Winni- peg Comedy Festival, the Edmonton Comedy Festival, The Toronto People's Festival, and El Festival del Humor in Colombia, to mention a few. Last year, the trivia game was so much fun that it will be returning! Brush up on your Women's House knowledge for a chance to win an Apple IPad Mini donated by Bruce Power. You can also bid on the amazing items in the live and silent auctions! The Woman of Distinction Ceremony is always a staple of this event. We are currently still looking for nominations at this time- please nominate that out- standing woman in your community! This event is a celebration, and is also one of the majorfun- draisers for Women's House. The purchase of a ticket is not only going to provide you with an afternoon filled with great food and entertainment, but also the chance to support a worthy cause in our commu- nity. Women's House has had some difficulty meeting fund- raising targets this fiscal year and would appreciate your support with this major fundraiser. Tickets are $50 each and available at United Way in Owen Sound, Lakeshore Rec- reation in Port Elgin, Gordon's Pharmasave in Kincardine or by calling Tiffany at Women's House at 519-396-9814 ext.225. KTG's `Willow Quartet' nears opening night Darryl Coote/Reporter ort Papallia and Liz Small rehearse scenes from the Kincardine Theatre Guild's upcoming performance of "Willow Quartet," directed by Jaki Mayer -Duggan and produced by Sandy Nelson. The curtain goes up on the production Feb. 11 at the Kincardine Centre for the Arts and will have a staggered run with shows on the 12,13,18-20, and 25-27. "In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home that she converts into a B & B. Her first boarder is a visiting musician, Jim, and it's not long before Kim becomes infatuated with him. With Jim at her side, Kim struggles to navigate her unresolved grief as her mother looks on with concern and comments," according to the synopsis. Tickets can be picked up at the J'Adorn in downtown Kincardine Ontario taking a back seat as the green energy industry shifts west John Miner London Free Press Its oil industry may be in the tank, but Western Can- ada is taking some of the wind out of Southwestern Ontario's green energy sails. After a boom that made Ontario the front-runner for wind energy in Canada, with both the largest number of wind farms and the biggest ones located in the wider Lon- don region, opportunities for the green energy industry are shifting outside the province, the head of the industry umbrella group says. The outlook for wind energy in Canada is contin- ued strong growth, but that's thanks mainly to Alberta and Saskatchewan, says Robert Hornung of the Canadian Wind Energy Assocation. "We are going to see the focus of the industry shift westward to some extent," he said. Ontario added 871 mega- watts of wind energy in 2015, bringing its total installed capacity to 4,361 megawatts. Quebec has been the other major driver for the industry, adding 397 mega- watts in 2015 for a total of 3,262 megawatts. "Those jurisdictions now look ahead and are facing low electricity demand growth and currently have some surpluses of electricity. The opportunities for new development will be slowing down," Hornung said. While highly controversial ARE YOU RENOVATING OR BUILDING a House, Cottage, Greenhouse or Industrial? WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY: ON MATERIAL & More! Thermal Tempered Glass $3.00/sq ft, Windows, Doors, Patio Doors from $375.00, Appliances, Flat Screen TVs Georgian Bay Trading Company/Lumber Liquidators 409 Saddler St West, Durham, ON CALL 519-369-7663 georgianbaytrading@outlook.com in Ontario, wind energy makes up only a fraction of the province's power. Latest figures from Ontar- io's Independent Electricity System Operator show wind energy makes up eight per cent of the province's power - producing capacity, which is dwarfed by nuclear and gas- fired power. The giant Bruce Power complex near Kincardine is the world's largest operating nuclear plant. In Southwestern Ontario, where most of Ontario's wind farms have been built, wind energy has been espe- cially divisive, in part because the province took control away from munici- palities over where the giant, highrise-sized wind turbines could be built. Deep subsidies paid to energy producers under long- term contracts after Ontario plunged headlong into green power with its 2009 Green Energy Act didn't help, caus- ing a political backlash to the projects in many areas of the province. Those projects came on stream as the Liberal govern- ment finally shut down the province's dirty coal-fired power plants years later than planned, including one near Sarnia, that fuelled summer smog. Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysk last month reported Ontario power cus- tomers paid $37 billion for the government's decisions to ignore its own planning pro- cess for new power projects. She also noted consumers will pay $9.2 billion more for wind and solar projects under the province's, 20 -year guaranteed -prices program for renewable energy than under an old program. In the latest round of wind energy contracts, with sup- pliers required to bid on price rather than be paid the fixed rates of the past, Ontario plans to accept bids for only an extra 300 mega- watts of power. The contracts GODERICH 519 524 7811 were expected to be awarded last year, but were delayed until March after a flood of bids to build wind farms were received. Officials said they needed more time to evaluate the submissions. Western Canada is expected to pick up the slack. In response to commit- ments to reduce greenhouse gases, Saskatchewan has announced plans to increase its wind energy capacity from its current 221 mega- watts to more than 2,000 MW by 2030. Initial procure- ment is expected to start in 2016. Alberta, already Canada's third-largest wind energy province, is expected to add thousands of megawatts of wind energy capacity as it moves to replace two-thirds of coal-fired power genera- tion with renewable energy. Hornung said there could also be opportunities for Can- ada's wind energy industry to export power to the U.S., as more places there replace coal-fired power in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases. "They have made it clear that imports from Canada are one way they could potentially do that," he said. Wind energy also is becoming more competitive as costs continue to drop, Hornung said. CanWEA esti- mates the cost of utility -scale wind projects has plunged 60 per cent in the last six years. john. miner@sunmedia. ca Ontario's energy mix breakdown, by total capacity, of sources that power the province: Nuclear37% Natural gas29% Hydro24% Wind8% Solari % Source: Independent Electricity System Operator