Out and About

Beau's All Natural Brewery is renaming the month of February as
"FeBREWary" this year, to celebrate a number of events and beer releases this month.

The Vankleek Hill-based brewery will launch one beer every week, beginning with an early return of Beaver River, the spring seasonal India Pale Ale, on Thursday, February 2. The release coincides with the Champlain Winter Carnival, which begins on Friday, February 3 and hosts several events that weekend.

Those looking for a fun day outside in the fresh air should plan on attending the St-Bernardin Winter Carnival.
The carnival will be held on Saturday, February 4 at the Caledonia Community Centre, with the theme being Fun for Everyone - and activities are sure to please both children and adults alike. 

With the coming of the Christmas season comes the annual Vankleek Hill and District Lions Club food drive or "guignolée" for the local food bank.

This year, the drive will be held on Wednesday, December 7 starting at 6 p.m. Local residents and Lions Club members will be going through town, door to door, asking for donations and non-perishable food items for the food bank.

Charitable donation receipts are available for any donation of $10 or greater.
Please prepare yourself in advance and try to be home for this important community cause.

The Victorian Christmas Home Tour is just around the corner and event organizers have been hard at work for the past several weeks organizing several new features to this year’s popular event.

Five beautiful homes will be open to the public on Saturday, November 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., decorated in holiday finery.

After a trial run in its first year showed them where to fix a few glitches and last year's edition proved the event was an all-around success, the staff at Beau's All-Natural Brewing Company has had one word on their brains for the last few weeks (and some, the last few months): Oktoberfest.

It's a restaurant, a towing operation, a repair centre, a dépanneur, and a fueling station. It never closes, so no one bothers trying to locate the front door key.

You can get your hair cut, take a shower, do your laundry and have breakfast - or any other number of meals - 24 hours a day.

Think of it as the Relay for Life of softball.

A group of local residents has banded together to organize a 12-hour charity softball game in Vankleek Hill, with the goal of raising funds for Champlain Minor Sports.

The Vankleek Hill Softball All-Nighter is being held at the baseball diamond at Mill Street Park from Saturday, August 13 at 7 p.m. until Sunday, August 14 at 7 a.m.

The first edition of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge's family festival is set to take place next Saturday, August 13 and Sunday, August 14 at the Centre Paul Bougie and the municipal park in Calumet.

The public is invited to gather in the park as of noon on Saturday, as the festival's inauguration is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. At the same time, the municipality will officially unveil some playground equipment recently installed in the park.

Two local youth bands made a big splash at last week's Bluesfest in Ottawa, when they took to the stage as part of the festival's Be in the Band initiative.

Performances by The Vivid, featuring teenagers from both Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute and Glengarry District High School, and Under the Ladder, with youth from Pleasant Corners Public School and St-Finnan's in Alexandria, were both well received last Sunday, July 17.