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Mersey Art Society Show “Body Beautiful”

Body Beautiful is an art show focused on work based on the human figure featured by seven artists living in this area :

  • Bruce Herrington
  • Kristen Lewis
  • Roger Savage
  • Janet Stewart
  • Dennis Teakle
  • Fran Whitelaw
  • David Wright

In this studio show much of the work is still unframed; the idea being it’s representative of the studio sessions the artists have on a regular basis.

The show is held at the Lighthouse Park Warehouse Building in Port Medway and opens with a reception on Friday, 7-Aug-2015 from 5 to 8pm and continues Saturday & Sunday, 8/9-Aug-2015 from 11am to 5pm. Click here for details.

25% of funds raised go to improvements of the Warehouse building.

We invite you all to come have a look at the works of our local artists and possibly help with the Warehouse building improvements – a building at the Port Medway Lighthouse Park where a lot is happening this summer. Check out the event calendar.

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DYK: Blue Moon on 31-Jul-2015

You might have used the term ‘once in a blue Moon‘ before – a colloquial phrase to suggest that something is very rare. But just how rare, depends on your definition.

In astronomy there are two definitions of a Blue Moon; both are a type of Full Moon. Here Blue Moon is defined as either (1) the third full Moon of an astronomical season with four full Moons or (2) the second full Moon in a calendar month.

Such a Blue Moon as defined in (2) will next occur on Friday, 31-Jul-2015 at 10:43am UTC (7:43am ADT) – July/2015 therefore has two full moons; on the 1st (11:20pm ADT) and 31st of July (7:43am ADT). Continue reading DYK: Blue Moon on 31-Jul-2015 →

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Port Medway Art Show 2015

It’s getting to be that time of year for the 8th annual Port Medway Art Show.
20150731 Port Medway Art ShowThis year the event will begin with an opening reception on 31-Jul-2015 from 5 to 8pm at the Warehouse building in the Port Medway Lighthouse Park. Then the show continues on Saturday, 1-Aug-2015 from 11 am to 5pm; Sunday, 2-Aug-2015 from 11 am to 5pm and Monday, 3-Aug-2015 from 11am to 4pm.

Come and see some of the amazing work done by local artists in various media. There is no admission … all we need is good weather and you … and since we’re all inside the Warehouse, we are out of the weather!

See event details here.

Source: ©2015 MedwayArea.org | Medway Area Communities Association (MACA)

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Jupiter and Venus Conjunction

Where you outside last night, Tuesday, 30-Jun-2015? Did you happen to look up in the sky? And perhaps wondering what these two bright lights high up there where: satellites, ISS, stars, airplanes?

None of the above. After a slow summer dance as Venus and Jupiter have sidled up to one another over the month of June, last night on 30-Jun-2015, they rendezvoused close enough to kiss – only a fraction of a degree apart. And one could see this rare spectacle in the sky even without telescopes.

20150630 Jupiter-Venus-Conjunction
©2015 NASA

Although the planets will appear to draw near one another in August and again in October, the next such event to rival last night’s won’t happen until 2023. And as the two planets will appear to be close together, in reality, millions of miles of empty space separate them.

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The Medway Area Through Time

MedwayArea.org happily announces that the bi-annual Port Medway History Show is back!

The show is a celebration of the history of the Medway River area from Port Medway up river to Mill Village, Charleston and Greenfield, spanning the approximate 10,000 years from the retreat of the glaciers to the dawn of the space age. Now in its fifth year, this major exhibit features music, artifacts, photos, maps, videos, films, tours and more!

For 2015, the show is titled
The Medway Area Through Time – 10’000 Years of Connections

20150717 Medway Area Through Time

In addition to an amazing collection of historical photographs and documents, there will be videos profiling the Old Cemetery as well as current photos of Port and the Cemetery taken from high above by a drone camera … state of the art – you might call this “From Stone Age to Space Age”.

Of special interest, we will premiere the trailer to our Earth Station Satellite video…currently in production, featuring interviews with employees who worked at the former Teleglobe station in Charleston.

The Port Medway History Show opens with live music and a reception on 17-July-2015 from 5pm-8pm and then continue on 18-Jul  & 19-Jul from 10am until 6pm.

It’s a fascinating look at life along the Medway in the previous century until today. You won’t be disappointed, so please come down to the Warehouse building in Port Medway Lighthouse Park.

Source: ©2015 Medway Area Communities Association

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Lighthouse Awareness Art & Craft Show 2015

Lighthouse Awareness Art & Craft Show logoThe Lighthouse Awareness Art & Craft Show is back – featuring lighthouse related artwork from paintings and craft to sculpture and folk art by local artists.

The art show is to raise funds for support and maintenance of the Medway Head lighthouse owned and operated by the Medway Head Lighthouse Society.

The Opening Reception – with music and refreshments –  is held on Friday, 14-Aug-2014 at 6pm in the Lighthouse Park Warehouse in Port Medway.

The show then is open daily from 15-Aug-2015 to 18-Aug-2015 between 10am and 5pm at same location.

Come see and enjoy these arts and crafts while mingling with the locals from this picturesque South Shore community.
And while here, drop in at  The Port Grocer Café nearby for their yummy ice creams and deserts.

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This Place Matters: Medway Head Lighthouse

Medway Hewad Lighthouse (2)In June of last year the Government of Canada turned over the Medway Head Lighthouse to the Medway Head Lighthouse Society – a non-profit community organization founded in 2013 to keep this lighthouse ‘shining’.

While the society has a small government grant to do much needed repairs and improvements, most of its moneys come from fund raising events – one of them being the Lighthouse Awareness Art Show coming again this summer.

The National Trust for Canada put aside funds to help communities to restore their Lighthouses in the This Lighthouse Matters project.

The Medway Head Lighthouse Society submitted its profile to the competition in hopes to raise CAD *5000.– for the cause.

The race is on until 15-Jul-2015 and the Medway Head Lighthouse does well so far. With your help we can bring the project over the finishing line and be first while doing so – all it takes for you to do is place a vote.

Please take moment and vote for the Medway Head Lighthouse by clicking here. You can vote once a day (per IP address). So keep voting daily.

Edit 17-Jul-2015: The race is over. The Medway Head Lighthouse got quite a few votes thanks to our readers – however did not make it over the finishing line to benefit from the project funds.

Of course you can still donate a dollar or two to the Medway Head Lighthouse.


The Lightkeeper’s Widow
©2013 Medway Area Communities Association

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Outdoor Movies in Bridgewater this Summer

20150626 Fresh Air Films 2015[©2015 South Shore Breaker] Fresh Air Films has been bringing free outdoor family films to downtown Bridgewater since 2013 and once again this year, organizers have put together an exciting line-up of movies that promise to offer something for everyone.
See the full story here.

 

The movies will be shown at Shipyard’s Landing on King Street in Bridgewater. Shows start between 9pm ad 9:30p,.
Check Fresh Air Films’ FB page for details.

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FoxCreek Community Access Roads Grated

Today, 17-Jun-2015, both access roads to the FoxCreek community – Old Kettle Rd from Mill Village to the Fox Creek turnaround
– Medway Harbour Rd, from Hwy 331 to the turnaround
have been scraped.

While the roads look nice and smooth, they are not – smooth.
Be extra careful for the time being and avoid too sharp and pointy gravel where possible.

Maximum 50

Remember, the speed limit on Old Kettle Rd and Medway Harbour Dr. is 50km/h.

However in the interest of road maintenance please keep to 30km/h on all gravel roads within the FoxCreek community.

This has the additional benefit of less wear & tear on your car’s tires and under body. Not to mention – on dry days – less kicked up dust.

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