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Dressed in their red aprons, ladies ready for serving spaghetti to the diners at this year’s MS Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction with entertainment from Tom Wilson and The Western All Stars. No one went away hungry on Thursday, Jan. 24, as the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada,
Leeds and Grenville Chapter with the help of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 96 and Ladies Auxiliary served a room full of people. In addition to the delightful dinner and entertaining music, a silent auction was also available for people to place their bid.
Tall Ships festival receives federal funding boost By MARLA DOWDALL mdowdall@perfprint.ca
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EMC News - Brockville’s Tall Ships 1812 Tour, First Port of Call received $30,000 in funding from the federal government, Jan. 25. Gord Brown, MP for Leeds Grenville announced the funding on behalf of James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages in Brockville council chambers that morning. The funding will aid in the city’s new two day festival to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, June 14 to 16. Ten ships will be featured, heritage programming will come alive and antique boats will be on display. Activities during the weekend long celebration will include two reenactments - a First Nations encampment and a Brockville Infantry encampment, there will be tours and dinner cruises on the tall ships, Parks Canada War of 1812 exhibits, a huge fireworks display and much more. It is expected upwards of 20,000 people will attend. Brian Burns, co-chair of site operations for the festival, explained at this point 10 ships are confirmed, with a waiting list of two more. The funding received that morning will go
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Brian Burns, co-chair of site operations for Brockville’s new Tall Ships festival this summer in Brockville, eyes event plans with Gord Brown, MP for Leeds-Grenville, Jan. 25 in the Brockville council chambers. That morning, federal funding in the amount of $30,000 was announced to general operations of the festival. “We will be the first port of call and the second most number of boats (along the Tall
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Ships tour),” he commented. The Tall Ships 1812 Tour is a Pan Provincial event which will travel throughout the province this summer. Sixteen
ports are participating in the event which is being produced in partnership with the Tall Ships Challenge Great Lakes 2013 series. Ships are coming from Canada, the United States and Norway and include the Sorlandet, La Revenante, Mist of Avalon, Pride of Baltimore II, St. Lawrence II, Faire Jeanne, The Empire Sandy, The Unicorn, The Peacemaker and the Canguarda. For $12 per person, a passport will be issued and stamped, on each ship visited. All other events are free, Burns said of the festival. Shuttles are being planned for, and a Giant Tiger train will be utilized that weekend as well. “The goal of this team and this festival is to make it an annual event with a heritage theme for Brockville,” he said. In fact, six members of the committee whom are working hard to put the festival together, had been involved with Riverfest. The planning committee for the event consists of representation from various areas of the community, working with Dave Paul, director of economic development for the city. Burns explained other grants have been applied for and it is hoped more good news will
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come in the weeks ahead. “We are proud to invest in these activities, which will highlight the role that Brockville played in this defining moment of our history,” said Brown in a press release. “This will provide an opportunity to learn more about the heroes who defended our land in the fight for Canada.” “The 1812 Brockville signature commemoration of this war enables our river city to create a sustaining annual tourism festival aligned to the community’s strongest promotional assets, being our heritage and the mighty St. Lawrence River,” said David Henderson, Brockville Mayor. The federal funding announced that day was provided through Canadian Heritage’s 1812 Commemoration Fund. The fund supports community based projects which provide a greater awareness and understanding of the importance of the conflict in our history. Also on that same weekend in Brockville will be the 1000 Islands Wine and Food Festival and the 1000 Islands Jazz and Blues Festival. For more information about War of 1812 anniversary celebrations please visit www.celebrate1812.ca/ tallships.
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