Get ready for fun at Chemainus Summer Fest
Chemainus Summer Fest, sponsored by Chemainus Rotary Club, is coming to the Little Town That Did on Saturday, June 24.
The fun begins at 8 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, and continues at 11 a.m. with a parade. The parade route starts at Victoria and Willow streets and follows Willow to Oak, Oak to Esplanade and Esplanade to Kin Park.
A hamburger and hotdog barbecue will see you through lunch at Waterwheel Square starting at 11 a.m., with children’s activities in the afternoon and musical entertainment all day.
Green Community offers free cooking classes
Cowichan Green Community is inviting residents to gain confidence in the kitchen with free family cooking classes — child minding included.
Have you always heard the term seasonal cooking but have no idea what that means? Are you looking for a way for your family to bond and gain healthy habits and life skills together? CGC’s Monday evening cooking classes, running from 4 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. aim to help you do just that.
Funded by NutritionLink Services Society, these classes are geared to families who face challenges accessing or preparing healthy foods, or who are recent immigrants and would like to connect with their community.
These classes aim to share inexpensive meal plans that yield high nutritional value, all the while offering participants the opportunity to gain confidence in the kitchen and to connect with other families and other resources in the Cowichan region.
Participant Becky Harris believes “being role models to one’s own family and sharing and building healthy relationships through cooking is just one great way to set up a healthy foundation within the family”.
“With the courses being free, this offers an opportunity for people to attend without having to prove their financial hardship or be viewed in a certain light, which often happens with many subsidized programs. We can all be there because we have one thing in common: the desire to learn,” explains participant Sonja Clarke.
Interested in supporting the project? CGC is looking for volunteers with a nutrition background, child minders, food donations, and kitchen equipment.
Pre-registration is required. For more information, please visit https://cgcf.ca/projects/chow-cooking-classes/ or join the Facebook group; ‘Cowichan Family Cooking!’
To register contact Jennifer at 250-748-8506, or by email jennifer@cowichangreencommunity.org
Tour a working herb garden
Botanical Bliss is inviting the community to a free tour of their gardens on Sunday, June 25.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. drop by 6119 Lakeview Dr. in Duncan to meet more than 60 herbs, enjoy refreshments and prizes and see herbal demonstrations.
Visitors should park on Sayward Road and walk up. For more information go to botanicalbliss.ca
Carve the Canada 150 totem pole
The Sesquicentennial Totem Pole will be at Mill Bay Family Day Sunday, June 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
You can join master carver Tom Hunt Jr. in helping to carve a new totem pole for Canada 150, and even take a piece home with you.
And Family Day is so much more than just that.
There’s the Malahat Lions pancake breakfast, giant hamster balls, obstacle course, and entertainment from Shelley Smith and Phil Newns.
It’s all free and it’s all family fun at the Mill Bay Centre.
Choir has their Rivernotes ready for Farm Market performance
The Rivernotes Choir is performing at 11 a.m. at the Central Park bandshell in Lake Cowichan at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 25.
The group will be performing for the Farmer’s Market, and will present 12 songs from their repertoire with descriptions of each piece.