Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: news@yourkanata.com peter.clark@metroland.com The Renfrew Mercury community calendar is a free public service for not-for-profit groups. Notices appear as space permits. Please submit your information at least two weeks before the event and include a daytime contact name and phone number for us to reach you for clarification. Keep submissions under 30 words. Notices can be emailed to peter.clark@ metroland.com or dropped off at The Mercury, 35 Opeongo Road, Renfrew. Friday, May 4 • Renfrew and District Christian School all-day open house. Students will demonstrate what they are doing in the classroom. Teachers and representatives from the school will be available to answer your questions. • Renfrew Freemasons lunch, noon at the Rocky Mountain House Restaurant. Gentlemen interested in learning about freemasonry are invited to join. Wives and girlfriends are welcome. Barry Sansom 613-433-9038. • Renfrew Legion ladies auxiliary soup and sandwich luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $4, dessert $1. Proceeds to local charities, 5050 draw. • Beachburg Community Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Register for hosting at home $1 at 613582-3319 or St Andrew’s United Church. Outdoor space $5 at 613-582-3424. BBQ lunch served in church yard from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Renfrew Camera Club • Photography exhibition May 1 to May 31 at Sweet’s Decor on Raglan Street. Prior Players • Prior Players performs Powers and Gloria by Keith Roulston on May 4, 5, 11 and 12 in the Christian Education Centre on John Street at 8 p.m. Theatre tickets $15 in advance or at the door. Advance tickets Arnprior Bulk & Natural Foods or 613-623-8772. May 4 and 5 • Rummage sale at St. Francis Xavier Parish Hall Friday, May 4 from 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 5 from 8 a.m. to noon. Proceeds to charity. Saturday, May 5 • Indoor yard sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the AFAC Wing. Cost $12 per table. Multiple vendors. Call Joan at 613-432-4485. • RCI Relay for Life downtown bake sale, car wash and tag day. Come down to Low Square and support the events leading up to RCI’s Relay for Life. Enjoy a homemade treat while students shine your car. RCI students will also be situated at local retailers around town. Donate your spare change to help make this year a success to make cancer history. • Indoor yard sale at AFAC Wing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vendors welcome. For more information, call 613-432-4485. • Ride the Valley for Soldier On at Calabogie Peaks. Registration 8 to 10 a.m., $30. Ride leaves parking lot at 10:30 a.m. Pig roast and music from 1 to 5 p.m. Event also includes a poker run, vendors, chairlift rides and door prizes.
• Mammoth Sale, 9 to 11:30 a.m., Melville United Church, Eganville. Plants, pies, garage-sale items. Refreshments and BBQ burgers available. • Bake and yard sale indoors at Renfrew Baptist Church from 8 a.m. to noon. • Beachburg community yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. More than 30 yard sales and sidewalk sales around the community. Sign up to host a yard sale at your home. Call Loreyna at 613-582-3319; $1 per household. Also, St. Andrew’s United Church, Beachburg serving coffee, tea, muffins all morning plus a BBQ lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Outdoor yard sale spaces available in church yard for $5 per table. Call 613-582-3424 to reserve. • Annual McNab mega sale 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Rain or shine. Giant yard, bake and plant sale at McNab Public School. Gently used toys, clothing, household items, furniture and sports equipment available. All proceeds to school’s play structure fund.
will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday May 8 at the Lions Hall in Griffith, Wednesday May 9 at the DACA Centre, and Thursday May 10 at the Calabogie Community Centre.
Sunday, May 6 • Hike for Hospice. Starts at 1 p.m. at Renfrew Presbyterian Church. Pledge forms available at RBC or Hospice Renfrew. Online donations and forms at www.hikeforhospicerenfrew.ca. • The May Valley Singles Lunch will be held at Finnigan’s Roadhouse in Renfrew at 12:30 p.m. For information call Fay at 613256-8117 or Johanna at 613-4327622. • The Renfrew Children Youth/ Chorus presents This Is Our World at Our Lady of Fatima School at 2:30 p.m. Adults $5, children under 10 years, free. • Harmony in Music concert at St. Andrew’s United Church, Beachburg at 7 p.m. featuring Valley Harmonizers Barbershop Chorus, special guests Emma March, Marie Brydges, Dr. Ron Lavigne, Barbershop Quartet Silver Tones, and joint St. Andrew’s and Trinity Choir. Freewill offering to Renovation Fund. Refreshments. • Hot roast beef supper in Foresters Falls Orange Hall, 4 to 6:30 p.m. Adults $10; Children 6 to 12 years, $5; under six years, free. Take out available. Sponsored by LOL 5552 and LOBA 1302.
Friday, May 11 • RCI students host annual Bonnie Kerr Carnival inside the MaTe-Way Activity Centre. Wonderful day of blow-up activities, fun games and tasty treats and snacks. Open to children of all ages from 4 to 8 p.m. • Ninth annual Barbershop Kirk Hall Cabaret at 7 p.m. Entertainment by the Valley Harmonizers and guest performer South Evolution, a quartet from Ottawa. Desserts by the Ladies Aid of the Renfrew Presbyterian Church. Money raised will be used to support charities and music in the Valley.
Wednesday, May 9 • Jim Ferguson will be doing a presentation for the Renfrew Camera Club on birds and nature photography. Jim’s photographs are exceptional and his talks very entertaining. Renfrew Town Hall boardroom at 7 p.m. • Nature in Your Neighbourhood Free Presentation, 7 p.m. at the Renfrew Public Library. Wild Women Wilderness Art with artists Joyce Burkholder, Kathy Haycock and Linda Sorensen. A presentation by a trio of passionate painters who share a unique vision of Renfrew County’s wilderness landscape. May 8, 9 and 10 • May 6 to 12 is Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada. To find out more about this important topic, the Greater Madawaska Emergency Preparedness group invites you to attend one of its information night. Sessions
Thursday, May 10 • Bus trip to the War Museum in Ottawa. Cost of $25 includes coach bus, admission and bag lunch. Bus leaves Eganville Seniors Centre at 10 a.m. sharp. Register before April 27 a must. Call 613-628-2354 to register. • Renfrew Silver Seniors noon hour luncheon at the Renfrew Legion. Membership only $5 per year. • The Calabogie-Renfrew ProLife Association invites everyone to join, along with thousands of deeply concerned pro-lifers for the March for Life from downtown Ottawa to Parliament Hill. A bus will pick up riders in Renfrew at the Best Western parking lot at 8 a.m. For more information and/ or to reserve a seat on the bus, call Gertie at 613-432-4719.
Saturday, May 12 • M&M Charity Day for Crohn’s and Colitis from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A minimum $3 donation gets you a hot dog or hamburger, a drink and a bag of chips. Strawberry shortcake ice cream bars are only $2 with proceeds to CCFC. • Last TLC euchre day of the season at AFAC Wing at 1 p.m. Cost $8. Snack at halftime. 613-4324485. • Eganville Horticultural Society’s annual Spring Bazaar and Plant Sale at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 9 to 11 a.m. Great bargains on plants and shrubs from the society’s gardeners. Also baked goods, crafts, white elephant table, door prizes, coffee and tea. Directions 613-628-9898. • Cougars Conquering Cancer hosts fifth annual Mother’s Day BBQ at Renfrew Wal-Mart from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. All profits support Renfrew Victoria Hospital’s Digital Mammography Program. Sunday, May 13 • Mother’s Day Raffle: 1st prize memory quilt, 2nd prize acrylic painting, 3rd prize studio portrait package. Tickets at Stone Meadows, RVH Foundation, Renfrew County Window & Door, Renfrew and Area Chamber of Commerce, RBC Renfrew, Energy Options, Fraser Massage & Esthetics, Sunlife Financial, Venture Interiors and Coldwell Banker (Cobden). Draw Sunday May 13. Tuesday, May 15 • Renfrew Art Guild and Right
Darlene Meleskie models a blue and green dress with matching purse. Relationships with Aboriginal People Study Group at Trinity-St. Andrew’s United Church, Renfrew, partner in hosting the film, Winds of Heaven, on artist-writer, Emily Carr and her connection to the west coast First Nations, 7 p.m., in the Chapel. Freewill offering, refreshments. Information Beulah Wright 613-432-3295. St. Joseph’s Secret Garden • St. Joseph’s Catholic High School presents the musical theatre production The Secret Garden May 15, 17, 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. This musical tells the story of a young orphan girl who unlocks the secrets of a family in mourning, bringing magic and adventure to change their lives forever. Composed by Lucy Simon and playwright Marsha Norman. Tickets are $10, and available at Aikenhead’s Drug Store, Barry Breen Insurance, SJHS front office and at the door. Proceeds to St. Joseph’s High School performing arts program.
Mercury photos by John Carter
SCANNING FASHIONS A BOOST FOR CAT SCAN FUND
About 120 people packed into the Quail Creek Retirement Centre dining area April 14 for a fashion show and lunch that raised funds for the Renfrew Victoria Hospital Cat Scan unit. A number of volunteers modeled fashions from Fraser’s, Colleen’s Closet and Northern Reflections. One of the stars of the show was young Marley Tabar.
Friday, May 18 • Renfrew Legion ladies auxiliary soup and sandwich luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $4, dessert $1. Proceeds to local charities, 5050 draw. Saturday, May 19 • Yard and bake sale at St. Paul’s Anglican Church hall, Crawford Street, Cobden from 8 a.m. to noon. Rain or shine. May 25-26 • The annual RCI Relay for Life at Ma-Te-Way Park. Starts at 7 p.m. Friday with the Survivors Lap, and runs to 7 a.m. Saturday. Plan a team of 10 or more members in the walk to support those who are currently, or have fought cancer. Visit www.rcirelay4life.ca for more information.
Ilean Rousselle proved to be a natural as a model, showing off this purple and orange dress. The Renfrew Mercury EMC - Thursday, May 3, 2012 47