December 2021
Breton Ability Centre’s Let it Glow Holiday fundraiser
It’s Christmas once again! At Breton Ability Centre, we have all our favourite traditions back this holiday season, as well as some new fun. Thank you to the generosity of our donors, your donations help support our residents being able to attend many community holiday events. Your donations make a purposeful impact and the season is magical. Our recreation team are the busiest Elves in town planning and coordinating the festivities of the season. This season, in addition to 15…
Find out more »The Annual Winter Light Up Trail- Two Rivers Wildlife Park
Join them from December 17-23 or December 27-30 to view one of the brightest holiday light displays on the Island. Tickets are $12/person and include a hot dog, cookie kit, hot chocolate and tractor/wagon ride! Even the big red guy will be joining us leading up to Christmas Winter Light Up is fun for all ages! Call 902-727-2483 to purchase your tickets with a credit card Proof of vaccination & masks required! Also, why not make it a weekend and…
Find out more »January 2022
Join a walk group in Florence!
Hike Nova Scotia introduces gentle, easy walking groups through their NS Walks initiative. There are walking groups starting in Florence. Sign-up at www.nswalks.ca or cjcurrie@cbrm.ns.ca
Find out more »Nordic Walking
The location changes every week so if interested please email john_hudec@cbu.ca.
Find out more »Album – ANIMALS (PINK FLOYD)
Animals is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977 through Harvest and Columbia Records. The album continues the longform compositions that made up their previous works, including Wish You Were Here (1975). The album received positive reviews from critics and was commercially successful, reaching number 2 in the UK and number 3 in the USA. Animals is both a progressive rock album and a concept album, focusing on the social-political conditions…
Find out more »Birthday – STEVE PERRY (73)
Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. Perry also had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018. Perry has been dubbed "The Voice", a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon…
Find out more »Birthday SARAH MCLACHLAN (54)
Was born on January 28, 1968, in Halifax. She was placed with the McLachlan family, who later legally adopted her. She played music from a very young age, beginning with the ukulele when she was four. She studied classical guitar, classical piano, and voice at the Maritime Conservatory of Music. At 17, while she was still a student at Queen Elizabeth High School, she fronted a short-lived rock band called The October Game. One of the band's songs, "Grind," credited…
Find out more »Birthday – PHIL COLLINS (71)
Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis and for his solo career. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, he had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during…
Find out more »February 2022
CHINESE NEW YEAR
The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between January 21 and February 20 2022 is the Year of the Tiger. The tiger is known to be king of all beasts in China and comes third in the Chinese zodiac. The qualities associated with the tiger are competitive, self-confident, brave, willpower and strength Celebrations last up to 16 days, but only the first 7 days are considered a public holiday in China.
Find out more »GROUNDHOG DAY
Many Canadians celebrate Groundhog Day. Some Christian churches also celebrate Candlemas on this day, while others use Groundhog Day to take down their Christmas decorations. Groundhog Day is growing more and more popular in Canada. There is a festival in Wiarton, Ontario, where the town groundhog, Wiarton Willie, delivers his “prediction” early in the morning on February 2 every year... but the first (arguably the best) prognosticator is Nova Scotia's own Shubenacadie Sam! This year Sam will make his prediction…
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