Lakes District News
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
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ENTERTAINMENT
Mike Robertson will be at fair
Magic Show 12:30-1:00pm: Magic Show - William the Conjurer at Spirit Square Free admission.
Carli & Julie Kennedy Headlining on Saturday evening at Spirit Square for the Big Pig festival.
BRIAN MILLS
Southsider Mike Robertson enjoys writing songs and is looking forward to performing at the Lakes District Fall Fair and Music Festival again this year. "I first played the fall fair 30 some years ago," said Robertson, "the fall fair is a good venue and the audience is always really good as well." Robertson says he didn't start out writing songs. "I started writing poetry as a young boy and my brother was quite an accomplished guitar player. So I never could play my songs, I always sang them to him and he played them. And then finally I bought a guitar in my early twenties and spent the next 35 years trying to learn how to play it," he chuckled. The key to song writing in Robertson's experience is to go with the creative process whenever and wherever it hits. I'm always writing ideas for a song on the back of envelopes or scraps of paper and the secret is to either record the melody or write the words down because if you don't do it right away it's gone, “he said. Some of the venues have changed a little over the years since he first started playing at the fair but that's a good thing he recalls. "I remember in the old days at Tweedsmuir Downs
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Matthew, Emily & Logan would like to announce the marriage of their parents
Becky Thompson & Gord Flegg on July 21st, 2012
leaning toward country and folk.' He has played small and large venues both indoors and out, mainly here in the North but also in the U.S.A., including a university in Montana last fall. His claim to fame (he jokes) is that he met and sang with Reba McEntire down in Cheyenne, Wyoming before she became a star. "She was a barrel racer and one of the barrel racers got killed down there and she had a little benefit, so five or six of us sat on hay bales around the campfire and played. And a couple of years later Reba McEntire was all over the radio so I've always been able to say I played with her." He's made some demos and has had a song or two picked up by local artists. "I've had seven songs published so far, nothing top 10 or big names or anything. Mostly regional people have picked them up. I've done some demos in Prince George and Prince George artists have picked them up. I mainly do it just for the pleasure of the word and the song. I like creating stories that I can sing to people. I really do enjoy it." Robertson will be performing at the 69 annual Lakes District Fall Fair and Music Festival at the Eagle Creek Fair Grounds on the week end of Sept. 7 to 9, 2012.
CARNOUSTIE GOLF CLUB
ATTENTION Golf Club is open to the public
The 69th Annual Lakes District
Fall Fair & Music Festival September 7th, 8th & 9th, 2012
Sunday, September 9th: Pancake Breakfast, Logger Sports, Barnyard Olympics, Stock Dog Competition, Heavy Horse Pull “It’s A Family A-Fair”
Thank you Pines We still think you are the hardest working people in town with the biggest hearts. The McGibbon Family Rose, Shirly, Bill & Norma
Tweedsmuir Recreation Commission
29th Annual Ootsa Lake
Fishing Derby Come help us celebrate
September 1, 2 & 3, 2012 1ST PRIZE of:
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2nd Prize: $500 3rd Prize: $300 + many other prizes! Registration enters you in draw for numerous prizes
REGISTRATION ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 31: $25 per person at Van Tine’s, Ootsa Lake Friday 4 pm - 8 pm • Saturday & Sunday 8 am - 8 pm Monday 8 am - 10 am
OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN: At Van Tine’s: Sat. & Sun. 8 am - 8 pm • Mon. 8 am - 12 noon. Unofficial weigh in at Birdie Madigan’s, Harrison Road: Sat. & Sun. 8 am - 8 pm • Mon. 8 am - 11 am FOR MORE INFO: 250-694-3377 (Nancy) or 250-694-3658 (Pat) Must register well in advance of weighing in a fish. Advertising donated by LD News
FREE CONCERT! BENEFIT FOR THE FOOD BANK Thursday, August 16 - 7:00 pm at the Beacon Theatre
MY FAVOURITE TRAGEDY
Golf Course Hours 6:30 AM to Dusk Restaurant Hours 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM Our family has many people to thank for making this day so special, but especially Gail & Brian Thompson, Gary & Marleen Flegg, Marg & Max Woskett, Dave & Verna Hopper, Ed Thompson & Katie McKinlay, Sandra & Andy Hoffman, Trav & Tenille Woskett, Pam Gilchrist & Luke Hildebrandt, Dieca & Joel Cooke, Kevin & Bonnie Alcock, Dawn & Travis Giesbrecht, Renee Ritchey, Aja Rodgers, Shannon Clarke, Cody Bardarson, Mary Giesbrecht & Irene Lindstrom. Each one of you gave of yourselves to make this day beautiful for us without asking a thing in return thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Our sincere apologies if we forgot to thank anyone.
Come and give us a try
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FREE ADMISSION but donations accepted for the LAKES DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY
“My Favourite Tragedy” is an Ontario band consisting of North Easton, John-Marc Desmarais and Phil Desmarais. They have a spare week before playing at the Robson Valley Music Festival, and North (nephew of the Littles) wants to perform in the Lakes District. If all 3 come here, it would be a band performance. If just North, a solo act.
Phone: 250-698-7677
Bio: No stranger to the big stage, North Easton has played with artists Great Big Sea, 54-40, I Mother Earth, Wide Mouth Mason, Watchmen, Tal Bachman to name a few and has made a number of TV performances throughout his career including Canada A.M., Breakfast Television, Rogers Daytime and The Mike Bullard Show. With intense vocal stylings comparable to Dave Matthews, Phil Collins and Cat Stevens and his dynamic acoustic flavor, listening and watching him perform is hypnotic and an experience not soon forgotten.
Highway 16 , Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0
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