Morning Coffee – By Aaron Hall
Glass Onion event coming up
The Glass Onion Folk Club is presenting another acoustic blues show on Thursday, June 22.
On that evening, you can enjoy the soulful offerings of Tom Lockwood and Paul Langielle at the Black Goose in Wallaceburg.
John Gardiner, one of the event organozers, says Tom Lockwood is a local treasure in Chatham-Kent, performing throughout the area over the last four decades.
Gardiner says Lockwood is a master of the guitar and can play comfortably in almost any genre, and when you add London area bluesman Paul Langielle into the mix, you create one of the most dynamic and soulful blues duos on the music scene today.
Lockwood and Langielle teamed up last fall to enter the Great Lakes Blues Society’s Road to Memphis contest, won the contest and travelled to Memphis, Tennessee to compete in the International Blues Challenge in early 2017.
They made it to the semi finals of the big contest, an impressive showing considering the IBC’s draw the best blues talent from around the world.
Catch Lockwood and Langielle at the Black Goose in Wallaceburg on Thursday, June 22 at 8 p.m.
Call Gardiner at 519-627-5978 to get on the list for the show.
New Super Kids booster program
Super Kids CK has launched the Veggies and Fruit Booster Program to bring new or enhanced ideas and programs to the community that make it easier for children (12 and under) and their families to boost their vegetables and fruits at meals and snack times.
Funding for this program is made available through the Healthy Kids Community Challenge Grant Program.
Organizations can apply for one of the two levels of funding, to receive:
– Up to $1,000 to support Building Food Skills among students, staff and/or clients (children or families with children).
– Up to $5,000 for a Comprehensive Initiative to increase vegetable and fruit consumption among students, clients and/or in the community.
“We’re excited that we’re asking organizations to put their thinking caps on to find out what would make vegetables and fruit fun and make kids want to eat them. This is the goal, plain and simple,” stayed Chatham-Kent Mayor Randy Hope.
People are invited to apply if you are an elementary school (K-8), child care centre, community group or organization, and/or not-for-profit charitable organization that works with children (12 and under) or families with children.
The application package can be accessed on CK Public Health’s website, or through social media on the Super Kids CK Facebook page or on Twitter @SuperKidsCK. Submit your application to superkidsck@chatham-kent.ca no later than Friday,June 23, 2017.
This program is part of the current phase of the Healthy Kids Community Challenge. The theme, Choose to boost veggies and fruit, promotes healthy eating and healthy lifestyle choices for children.
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Photo of the day
The Ontario and the Wallaceburg-Walpole Island First Nation Health Coalition held an event in Wallaceburg on Saturday.
Here is the background: Giant 7′ tall ‘medicare’ bear stopping in Wallaceburg
Here is what Shirley Roebuck, chair of the local coalition, told the Sydenham Current about how the event went:
“On Saturday morning the OHC’s Big Bear came to town, to publicize that fact that private for-profit clinics are springing up all over Canada; to charge a patient for medical services is illegal, and is a violation of the Canada Health Act,” Roebuck said.
“Volunteers from the Ontario Health Coalition are driving the Bear across Ontario to talk about privatization and for-profit clinics; in Wallaceburg kids loved having their pictures taken with the Bear, and adults learned about privatization and their rights as patients.”
Roebuck said the Saturday Globe and Mail published an extensive investigative privatization for-profit article based in part on work done by the Ontario Health Coalition, and the Federal Minister of Health, Dr.Jane Philpott has issued her response in (yesterday’s) Globe.
“The Canada Health Act guarantees access to health care for everyone, and we must protect this law for all Canadians, Roebuck said.
“Please contact your MP and encourage them to stand against private for-profit health services. If they will not, ask them why, and investigate other political parties’ stand on this important issue.”
Weather forecast for Tuesday, June 13, 2017
A heat warning remains in effect.
Today – A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h near noon. High 31. Humidex 35. UV index 9 or very high.
Tonight – Partly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 19.
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