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Knox Community Christmas Sip, Sup, Sing, Sat Dec 14, 5 pm
All are invited to this Seasonal family event being held at Knox United Church,
1012 Harvey Ave., Dorset.
Dec. 14, 5pm.
Enjoy singing songs of the season and share in a Potluck meal while visiting with others!
Knox Christmas Social & Pie Sale, Sat Dec 13, 1-3pm
Come to our Christmas Social- Pie and Tart Sale.
Knox United Church 1012 Harvey Ave.
Sat. Dec 13, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Assorted pies, $20.
Butter tarts, $12, for six.
Enjoy a slice of pie with a warm drink, $5.
Cash only please
Lake of Bays United Churches’ Christmas Services
Please join us for the Christmas Season. It is a time of hope, peace, joy and love.
Christmas Music Show with Deb Misener Jones & Noah’s Larks, Dec 14, 2pm at Pioneer
Join us for an exciting Christmas Music Show with Deb Misener Jones and our Noah’s Larks on Sunday December 14 at 2:00pm in the Pioneer Memorial Hall.
Deb Misener Jones provides the finest in live music and family entertainment! Deb’s shows are a lively, fun, interactive “Family Friendly” musical experience for all ages, featuring Christmas Carols, Yodeling, Alpine Cowbells, Audience Participation, German Songs and Music!
Our own Noah’s Larks will also lead us in Christmas Carols.
Admission is free with a donation.
Light Refreshments provided.
Seasons of Life/After Care Presentation at Pioneer, Wed Nov 19 at 11:00
Join us for a Lunchtime Presentation on Wednesday November 19 at 11:00 in the Pioneer United Church Hall. 2370 Highway 60, Huntsville ON
Rev. Donna Bowman Woodall and Cheryl Kinghan will be presenting Seasons of Life / After Care. Learn how pre-planning can ease emotion and financial stress for your loved ones.
All are welcome for lunch and the presentation. Register today to save your seat. 705-789-8982
Book Discussion of “Tending Tomorrow” 2nd & 4th Wednesday by Zoom or at Pioneer, 11-12
Join us for Book Group Discussions, the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 11:00 to 12:00, both in person at Pioneer Memorial Church or by Zoom. (On Sept 24, we will meet at Stewart Memorial as there is a theatre production at Pioneer).
“Tending Tomorrow” Courageous Change for People and Planet by Leah Reesor-Keller.
In the face of environmental and social upheaval, TENDING TOMORROW lays out a path for Christians worried about our collective future and seeking courage and inspiration for the journey ahead. Drawing on metaphors from the natural world, author Leah Reesor-Keller offers foundational, transformative practices for leaders and communities to foster healthier cultures during a time of ecological devastation.
Tending Tomorrow book — Leah Reesor-Keller
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Tiller’s Folly Live Concert at Stewart United Church, Dwight - Fri. Nov 7, 7pm
Come to the Tiller’s Folly Live Concert of Celtic, Folk and Bluegrass Music on Friday, November 7, 7:00 at:
Stewart Memorial United Church, 1212 Dwight Beach Road, Dwight, Lake of Bays
Tickets are $40 and available at this link https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/tillers-folly-live-concert
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Only 100 tickets available for this intimate concert.
$10 from each ticket sold will be donated to the Stewart Memorial Exterior Renovations campaign.
Cash concession available (by donation)
For over twenty-five years, Tiller’s Folly have been uniting the past with the present as modern-day storytellers of lore, singing the West’s pioneer history to life. From the outset, Tiller’s Folly aspired to create acoustic music that is thoughtful, progressive, yet timeless in nature. Music that is representative of their Pacific Coastal home. They set out to preserve a measure of the West’s colonial heritage in stories & songs.
Drawing influence from Scottish, Irish and Maritime Music traditions, Tiller’s Folly have continued to expand and refine their potent blend of Pacific Canadiana, and ‘beyond.’
“As one of the tightest, and unflinchingly focused, folk bands in the nation, Tiller’s Folly continues to produce music that is both distinctly Canadian and firmly rooted in the Celtic tradition. Stirring Up Ghosts confirms that Tiller’s Folly is a national treasure”
— Peter North / Edmonton Journal
Tiller's Folly website: https://tillersfolly.com
FOR YOUR INFORMATION - This trio are performing at Toronto's top music venue THE HUGH'S ROOM on Nov. 2 (this is a quality show!)
DOWN BY THE BAYS is a community cultural hub for performing arts in Lake of Bays. Dot The T Productions, Muskoka Players, Muskoka Stageworks and The Dorset Theatre Company share the stages at the Lake of Bays United Churches in Hillside (Pioneer Memorial Hall), Dwight (Stewart Memorial) and Dorset (Knox United).
We thank the Muskoka Community Foundation Grant from the Township of Lake of Bays for their support of the Down By The Bays community cultural hub.
Remembrance Day Service, Dorset, Nov 11, 10:40
The Dorset Remembrance Day Service is on Tuesday November 11 at 10:40 am at the Dorset Pavilion.
Refreshments will be served at Knox United Church after the service.
Dwight Lions Remembrance Day Service Sat, Nov 8, 2pm
The Dwight Lions Remembrance Day Service is on Saturday November 8 at 2:00 pm at the Dwight Memorial Wall. This is on Dwight Bay Road next to Canada Post. Refreshments will be after the service at the Dwight Seniors Hall.
Knox Pie Sale, Sat Oct 11, 10-12:30
Knox United Church Women, Dorset, is holding the annual Thanksgiving Pie Sale.
Knox United Church 1012 Harvey Ave.
Sat. Oct. 11, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm (or until sold out)
Assorted fruit pies, available baked or frozen, $20.
Butter tarts, $12, for six.
For further information, Contact Doris Macdonald,
macdonal@vianet.ca or 705-380-0612
Fall Harvest Bazaar-Sat Oct 11 1-3 at Stewart Church
Join us at Stewart United Church’s Fall Harvest Bazaar on Saturday, October 11, 1:00-3:00.
1212 Dwight Beach Road in Dwight.
Pre-order your pumpkin pies by Sept 28 at StewartMemorialUC@gmail.com
Pick up the pies at the bazaar. You will find home baking, jams, preserves, crafts, books and puzzles.
Terry Fox Walk and Combined Service and lunch at Seabreeze Church- Sun Sept 14 9:00, 10:30
Join us for a Combined Sunday Service on Terry Fox Weekend for all churches at Seabreeze at 10:30 am. If you would like to do the Terry Fox Walk for Cancer before the service, we will be starting from the church at 9:00.
1060 Seabreeze Road, Dwight ON
A corn roast and potluck lunch and fellowship will follow the service. There will be collection baskets available for donations- for the church and for the Cancer Foundation.
Please be aware that there is now a new outdoor outhouse at this pioneer church.
SHE VISITS- Sept 24, 25, 26, 27- Theatre at Pioneer Memorial Hall
SHE'S BACK! With her new one-woman show called "SHE VISITS."
Down By The Bays is beyond excited to welcome award winning playwright & actor MAJA ARDAL back to our theatre space at Pioneer Memorial Hall.
Audiences will remember Maja from her recent outstanding performance at Pioneer with her award winning play 'YOU FANCY YOURSELF.'
And here she is again with her most recent play, SHE VISITS.
4 PERFORMANCES ONLY: Sept. 24 @ 2pm, Sept. 25 @ 7pm, Sept. 26 @ 7pm & Sept. 27 @ 2pm.
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With Pioneer Memorial's new elevated tiered seating, there are only 40 seats available for each performance. Advanced on-line tickets are strongly encouraged. If any seats remain, $40 cash will be accepted at the door.
$10 from each ticket sale will be donated to Pioneer Memorial United Church.
Maja Ardal’s adaptation of Friedrich Dűrrenmatt’s masterpiece (Der Besuch Der Alten Dame)—“The Visit of the Old Lady”—is as relevant now as it was when he wrote it in 1956.
The Story. Claire Onassiopolus is fabulously wealthy. After 45 years Claire is returning home to Gardenia, her impoverished small town with a plan. Alfred Gill, one of the town’s most beloved citizens, is chosen to greet Claire and use his charm on her to see if she can help financially as much as possible. Claire and Alfred had a ‘history’ when they were teenagers so Alfred seems the smartest choice to ‘sweet-talk’ Claire. Various people remember her sense of justice, humanity etc. They soon find out about her keen sense of justice.
After Claire is settled in the town’s hotel, with her entourage of two beefy body-guards, two blind eunuch servants, her pet panther and a coffin, and the leaders of the town wine and dine her, Claire tells the folks what she will do for them. She will give the town $80 million and $20 million do be divided evenly among the townsfolk. On one condition, that they kill Alfred Gill. Pandemonium ensues. Disgust from the town’s folk that she should suggest such a despicable thing. Claire explains.
When she was 15-years-old Claire became pregnant by Alfred. He denied it. There was a bastardy case. Two teens were bribed by Alfred to say they slept with Claire. The result is that Claire was run out of town. She became a prostitute and rich, old Onassiopolus was one of her clients and he married her. When he died Claire inherited his wealth and then she plotted to get her revenge on the townsfolk of Gardenia and Alfred in particular. The people refuse her offer. Claire says she can wait. It’s one of the great lines of dramatic literature and how the town’s folk then react is one of the great character developments in a play.
DOORS OPEN 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO SHOW TIME.
THERE IS ONE INTERMISSION with refreshments provided by Pioneer Memorial United Church with a cash donation.
Pioneer Memorial United Church is located at 2370 Hwy #60 (at the foot of Tally-Ho Winter Park Road) Hillside, Lake of Bays
DOWN BY THE BAYS is a community cultural hub for performing arts in Lake of Bays. Dot The T Productions, Muskoka Players, Muskoka Stageworks and The Dorset Theatre Company share the stages at the Lake of Bays United Churches in Hillside (Pioneer Memorial Hall), Dwight (Stewart Memorial) and Dorset (Knox United).
We thank the Muskoka Community Foundation Grant from the Township of Lake of Bays for their support of the Down By The Bays community cultural hub.
Coffee House Live Music at Stewart United Church, Dwight - Fri. Oct 3, 7pm
EXPERIENCE AN EXCITING BEST OF MUSKOKA LIVE MUSIC EVENING
WITH SEAN COTTON, CHRISTINA HUTT AND MIKE PHILLIPS
Down By The Bays presents a Muskoka COFFEE HOUSE on Friday, October 3, 7:00 at:
Stewart Memorial United Church, 1212 Dwight Beach Road, Dwight, Lake of Bays
The link for on-line $30 tickets is: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/coffee-house-concert
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Only 100 tickets available for this intimate concert.
$10 from each ticket sold will be donated to the Stewart Memorial Exterior Renovations campaign.
Cash concession available (by donation)
SEAN COTTON: A Georgetown , Ontario native and Toronto expat, Sean Cotton currently creates and performs in the Central Ontario regions of Muskoka and Almaguin Highlands. After retiring from a 20 year career on the road and in the studio as a guitar player and harmony vocalist with performing-songwriting duo The Undesirables, Sean has settled in the village of Burk's Falls, Ontario where he operates a recording studio producing artist, recording his own albums as well as working as a jingle composer for radio.
https://seancotton.ca
CHRISTINA HUTT: Christina can fill a room with her rich, resonant, out-of-this era voice and move you with her honest, charismatic delivery. Once described as a full-bodied glass of red wine, her sound is reminiscent of the soul-stirring vocals you would have heard flowing from a transistor radio in the late 50’s. You will understand why Hutt has been dubbed “the voice” in her hometown of Muskoka, Ontario. She welcomes you into the secrets of her heart with fierce passion and endearing spirit. Christina’s ease in a diversity of genres brings a captivating quality to her performances.
https://christinahutt.com
MIKE PHILLIPS: Phillips has travelled the country, from Vancouver to Toronto to Halifax and back, in pursuit of a musical dream that awoke in him as kid learning on his dad’s guitar, but only after he stopped taking accordion lessons. It was bass guitar that really turned up the heat up for Phillips and he played in garage punk bands doing original music only through to the mid ‘80s. It was then that he started playing guitar as his main instrument and began to perform in a series of three jug bands, first in Halifax, then Vancouver with the Hard Rock Miners, and finally landed back in Toronto with famed party band Jughead.
DOWN BY THE BAYS is a community cultural hub for performing arts in Lake of Bays. Dot The T Productions, Muskoka Players, Muskoka Stageworks and The Dorset Theatre Company share the stages at the Lake of Bays United Churches in Hillside (Pioneer Memorial Hall), Dwight (Stewart Memorial) and Dorset (Knox United).
We thank the Muskoka Community Foundation Grant from the Township of Lake of Bays for their support of the Down By The Bays community cultural hub.
Stewart Civic Weekend Bake Sale & Bazaar, Sat August 2, 10-1
Stewart Civic Weekend Bake Sale and Bazaar Aug 2, 10-1
Join us for the Stewart Civic Weekend Bake Sale and Bazaar on Saturday Aug 2 at 10:00 to 1:00
Stewart Memorial United Church
1212 Dwight Beach Road, Dwight ON
Bookkeeper Position Available
Bookkeeper position available at the Lake of Bays United Churches
Lake of Bays United Churches are looking for an independent contractor Bookkeeper. Let others, who are looking for a flexible bookkeeping position, know about this opportunity in the Lake of Bays community.
Stewart Canada Day Bake Sale & Bazaar, Sat June 28, 10-1
Join us for the Stewart Canada Day Weekend Bake Sale and Bazaar on Saturday June 28 at 10:00 to 1:00
Stewart Memorial United Church
1212 Dwight Beach Road, Dwight ON
Knox Canada Day Pie Sale, Sat June 28, 10-12:30
Happy Canada Day Weekend! Treat yourself to some home baking. Fruit pies $20 and Tarts $12 for 6 are available for sale on Saturday June 28, from 10:00 to 12:30, or until sold out.
Cash Only
Knox United Church Community Room
1012 Harvey Ave. Dorset, ON
We hope you will join us!
Speakers Series at Pioneer Memorial Church
Join us for our Speaker Series at Pioneer Memorial Church, 2370 Highway 60 at Hillside. All are welcome!
Tuesday, May 6th at 11:30 to 1:00, Kristie Shaver from Food 4 Kids Muskoka. We will serve a light lunch of soup and sandwiches
Kristie Shaver is the Communications Manager for Food4Kids Muskoka as well as their Volunteer Coordinator and Marketing/Social Media Coordinator. Food4Kids Muskoka provides “Weekends Without Hunger” to 320 children weekly (and growing) among 22 schools from Severn Bridge to Huntsville and out to Muskoka Lakes. This program was designed to bridge the gap between the estimated 1000+ children who go without food on weekends, relying heavily on breakfast, lunch and snack programs at schools. food4kidsmuskoka.ca
Sunday, May 18 at 10:30-11:30 Mitch Case, Métis speaker. Lunch will be provided after the church service and a Beading Workshop will follow if you wish to join us.
A proud Metis citizen from the Historic Sault Ste. Marie Métis Community. Mitch is a community based historian, focusing on the history of Ontario Métis communities; especially those around the Great Lakes. A Councillor on the Provisional Council of the Metis Nation of Ontario, Mitch was elected on a platform of advancing Métis Self-Government, improving communication, advancing Métis culture, and most importantly advancing the historic claims of Métis community. As a Metis representative at local and regional levels, Mitch is passionate defender of the Métis right to self determination, jurisdiction over lands and resources and the cause of Métis Nationalism. Mitch volunteers in schools, colleges and universities across Ontario where he is invited to speak about Métis culture, history, traditions, rights and contemporary issues. mitchcase.ca
Tuesday, June 3, 10:00-11:30 Marielle and Dave of Helping Buddies Muskoka, We will serve coffee, tea and goodies.
Do you have a to-do list that is too much to tackle on your own? Helping Buddy will come to your house no matter how small the job. For more information about the program, contact: Dave & Marielle, Owners and Helping Buddies 705-349-3699, HelpingBuddy.ca