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THE VOICE of Pelham Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Events (From Page 1) It helped shopping plaza and downtown businesses who had lost customer parking to concert goers. The new Fonthill and District Kinette Club soon found a fundraising project as parking monitors became an unusual challenge. But they rose to it with smiles and courtesy. Restaurant and wine booths with an eating area sprung up placed between the bandshell concert site and the farmers market. As the summer went on, it became a link between the bandshell lawn chair audience and the farmers market. Visitors flowed from one to the other. Soon one attraction fed the other. “It turned out better than expected,” said Patti Fagan, who had her Cafe on Main booth in the suppermarket each Thursday. The market introduced visitors from across the region to Pelham restaurants, she said. Fagan found many coming back to drop into her cafe on other days. “We want to make Pelham a destination,” she said about the project’s goal. Farmers market vendors had worried that the new market. It could draw customers away from their booths especially those who sold prepared food. Farmers market chair Fred Arbour said it didn’t happen that way. His own Klager’s Meats barbecue booth and others selling food did as well as ever. Farmers market vendors saw an increased flow of shoppers from the concerts through the supper market. And they referred some of theirs over to it. New parking arrangements got off to an unsteady start with heavy enforcement, Arbour said. However, shortterm parking alongside the farmers market improved access for market shoppers. The Kinettes did a good job of directing people, Arbour said. Members of the women’s service club greeted drivers pulling into the Fonthill Shopping Plaza. They asked whether they were shopping at the plaza or attending the concert. Shoppers were allowed to park at the plaza
while others were directed to nearby sites at churches, schools, businesses and on streets of Fonthill. The service club benefited from a $5 premium parking fee in a lot beside the plaza and bandshell. Funds from it will go to community projects. Fonthill Bandshell Concert organizers feared paid parking would cut into donations at the concerts. They help to pay for next season. Chair Gayle Baltjes-Chataway said the turnout was tremendous this summer, thanks in part to good weather most Thursdays. People seemed to like the variety of bands that performed, according to the feedback she has received. They also appreciate that it is family entertainment available for free, or at least for a donation dropped in a bucket. The concert committee, she said, is grateful for the community’s support. “They are very loyal.” The concert series ends this Thursday with Miss Robin Banks a Toronto singer of jazz, classic, rhythm and blues, soul, and reggae music. Next year is its 10th year. “It’s unbelievable it has been that long,” said the committee chair. Baltjes-Chataway would like to see the town move ahead with a reconstruction of Pelham Peace Park. It could include terraced seating around the bandshell and permanent washrooms in the park. Work on the park may be influenced by a review of this summer’s three-event season. The Pelham Suppermarket is a pilot project. Town staff will sit down with committees running the suppermarket, farmers market, bandshell concerts as well as downtown and plaza merchants. They will review the events, parking arrangements, traffic flow, park setup and safety concerns, as well as problems and ideas that are raised. Recreation director Vickie van Ravenswaay said such a review meeting will probably be held in three weeks or so.
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Artful labour
Sixteen dedicated artists from southern Ontario attended a five day Colour Organization course taught by painter Jane E. Jones of Dallas, Texas at the Pelham Library from Thursday to Labour Day Monday. The Pelham Art Association invited Jones to teach the principles of using the colour wheel. A technical course for artists of all levels, Jones teaches colour composition using seven colour contrasts. Starting with primary colours with black, white, and grey students create separate compositions based on light, medium, and dark values, then combine them; this is repeated using complimentary colours. It is a step by step process and students understand the colour wheel and how to use it in their composition by the time they leave. The attending artists found the course intense but extremely informative that can be used in many art forms, and the instructor is ‘an excellent, natural teacher who has the ability to breakdown difficult concepts and make it understandable. Jones’ loves students and sharing her knowledge. She has no secrets when it comes to art. Each student used examples of the compositions demonstrating various values. The painting’s composition reflection the colour balance that is in the gridwork. Upon completion of the course the student has created their own notebook for future reference.
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