FREE SKATING AT PAISLEY ARENA
December 26, 2011
Just a reminder that over the Christmas holidays there are many “free skates” held at the Paisley arena. You and your family can go and skate without any cost, thanks to the various businesses and organizations who sponsor these special ice times.
Be sure to go and enjoy!
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
December 24, 2011
We send you a THANK-YOU from the bottom of our heart for supporting Paisley & our local merchants this Christmas season. We all hope Santa was very kind to you.
A special Christmas wish to Lee & Susan Allen from all your fellow business owners and all your customers. We all miss you in town and send lots of love and good health wishes your way, wherever you are today.
We hope everyone takes time this week for rest and relaxation because you know you deserve it!!!
Merry Christmas and please accept a heartfelt thanks for all the volunteer hours you put in this year, subscribing to this website, our Facebook page and reading and writing for the Paisley Advocate.
See you in 2012!
10 Steps to Community Action
December 19, 2011
Thank you for helping us to spread the word about the 10-Steps to Community Action series of workshops…I really appreciate it!!!
Please Note: there are only 7 spots remaining…if you are interested in joining us for this exciting program, please fill in the attached registration form and submit it quickly. Looking forward to seeing you there…!!!
Take care, Dave Barret
What we will learn
l. Understanding the Foundation of Leadership
2. Social Media
3. Public Speaking
4. The Politics of Organizations
5. TRAFFIC-Managing Communication Flow
6. Dealing with Difficult People
7. Media Relations
8. Show Me the Money
9. FISH
10. Don’t Just Survive: Thrive!
Agenda
Tuesday, February 7 Wednesday, February 15
Tuesday, February 21
Tuesday, February 28
Tuesday, March 6
Tuesday, March 20
Tuesday, March 27
Thursday, March 29
Tuesday, April 3
Tuesday, April 10
All sessions will be held in Hanover or Walkerton from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. $125 includes HST! Originally 25 spaces available. Registration Deadline February 3
(PS: There are two pages to the attached document. Transportation is available from Paisley for up to 5 people. Let’s get lots of representation from this village. This is a learning opportunity SMB)
GREAT NEWS!!
December 8, 2011
The Paisley Advocate is ONLINE
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for us to get the Advocate online, I would like to let you know that all the Advocates are ready for viewing now. Please accept my deepest apologies for the inconvenience to you for the past many months (EEK! I can’t admit how many!!) Thank-you for waiting and now enjoy the up-to-the-minute news. << Check it out here!
If there is anything that you see on the website that is not current, please let us know. We are really tryng to stay on top of things but there is SO MUCH GOING ON IN PAISLEY and SO MANY ORGANIZATIONS to keep our eye on: phone numbers and other information can get obsolete pretty quickly. This is a vehicle for everyone who loves Paisley so it is good for us all to use it often. Thank-you for subscribing and reminding others to do so.
Subscribing puts the UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
Sandra Blodgett, PDCC President, 353-6021
PS. Will I see you at the Town Hall tomorrow?? (Back Eddies Concert)
Treats at the Treasure Chest Museum
December 5, 2011
Join us at the Treasure Chest Museum
for Hot Apple Cider and Christmas Treats
and while there do some Christmas Shopping
at Our Gift Shop.
We will be open Friday, December 9th and
Saturday, December 10th from 1 to 4 pm
SONGS FOR THE SNOWY SEASON
December 3, 2011
Hello Everyone. I hope you are enjoying the anticipation of the coming festive season. Time with family and friends. Cheery pink cheeks, fun in the snow, colourful lights, greeting cards in the mail box and some holiday music. Among holiday greeting to you all this is just a wee reminder of our upcoming concert. Please join us on Friday Dec 9th at the Paisley Town Hall Theatre for some warm harmonies of three lovely ladies of song:
SONGS FOR A SNOWY SEASON
Friday Dec 9
Paisley Town Hall Theatre
doors open 7:30 $20 + hst
It is with great pleasure that we announce our next concert that will be with three very awesome women –Tannis Slimmon, Jude Vadala & Katherine Wheatley–that will warmly welcome us into the wintery season with incredible harmonies and delightful musical talent;
For those of you not familiar with them, a wee bit of bio info is below. This concert will be held across the street from Eddie’s. Refreshments including in-house roasted Fair Trade Organic coffee and Eddie’s treats will be available.
For more information or to reserve your tickets please responding back to this email, give us a call, 519-353-4787 or drop into the cafe.
“…one of the most beautiful voices I have had the pleasure to listen to.” – David Francey …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Tannis Slimmon was named Contemporary Vocalist of the Year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards! Her latest album ‘Lucky Blue’ has made waves with a 2008 Independent Music Award for the opening track ‘Ernest, Charlie & Allan’ and a nomination for ‘Best Album’. The album has also been selected as one of the top 10 ‘Critics’ Albums of the Year’ by Canadian Folk Music Magazine ‘Penguin Eggs’ and won a ‘Golden Quill’ award for songwriting. Producer Lewis Melville was nominated for Canadian Folk Music Award’s Producer of the Year.
With musical roots firmly planted in the soil of the Canadian Prairies and the ever-burgeoning music scene in Guelph, Ontario, and with a passion for lyrical vocal harmonies, Tannis Slimmon has been singing, songwriting, recording and touring locally and internationally for over 25 years.
After working with numerous bands including the critically acclaimed female trio The Bird Sisters, her solo career was launched in 2001 with the release of ‘Oak Lake’, followed up in the summer of 2007 by ‘Lucky Blue’, a rich offering of songs and artwork influenced by recent travels to Mali, West Africa and Cuba.
You will find Tannis’ name on over 74 albums, contributing songs or singing harmonies for others including Willie P. Bennett, Valdy and Rheostatics. Tannis plays guitar and mandolin. She has performed at folk clubs, festivals and community centres across Canada and into the US. Her music can be heard on public and college radio across North America.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/tannisslimmon
• The car radio broke. That’s when Jude Vadala started singing.
First she bought an autoharp, then a piano, then a guitar, a mandolin, another guitar and then a fiddle, all of which hang on her kitchen wall. Except the piano. It’s in her living room.
Jude has been a tenacious member of the Guelph, Ontario music scene for the past 30 years. Her musical adventures have taken her across Canada and the U.S. with the critically acclaimed group The Bird Sisters where she honed her skills as a songwriter and recording artist.
She has produced four albums (Flo, Different Stories, She and She and She, Angel Songs) and has worked on over 50 musical projects with artists such as Tannis Slimmon, James Gordon, Harri Palm, Jah Youssouf and Lewis Melville, Katherine Wheately and Scott Merritt. See Blog for More Shameless Name Dropping.
She is currently a member of the Wintersong Trio trio with well-known singer-songwriters Tannis Slimmon and Katherine Wheatley.
Jude is now an in demand music teacher. As well she does workshops in harmony and songwriting.
After taking a very long break from recording, Jude will be releasing her fifth album called Do You Ever in November 2010.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/judeland
Katherine Wheatley has been a regular at folk festivals, concert series and clubs across Canada since the release of her first CD. As well as her own career, she is a member of the Toronto band, Betty and the Bobs; is a guitarist in Wendell Ferguson’s trio “The Smoking Section”; she presents songwriting, vocal and independent music career workshops at schools, folk clubs and music stores across Canada; and she is the currently the ambassador for the campaign to raise six million dollars for the new hospital in her home town of Parry Sound, Ontario.
Katherine’s music has been used for documentaries, tv series and films. Among numerous radio and television appearances, she has been a featured vocalist on Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe, as well as a musical guest on Morningside with Peter Gzowski, This Morning with Bernard St. Laurent, TVO’s Studio Two, and CBC Radio’s Vicki Gabareau Show. She performed her song “On A Beach In France” on CTV’s Canada AM and Good Morning Canada to commemorate the anniversary of Dieppe.
According to the Toronto Star, Katherine Wheatley “turns pebbles of every day life into dreamy mountains of song”. Warren Footz from SEE Magazine in Edmonton wrote “As a listener, it’s hard not to sit back, close your eyes and watch the movie play. And man, can this serene red head ever play guitar”.
www.katherinewheatley.com/
For more information please call Back Eddie’s or drop in – hope you can make it. Happy Holidays from everyone at Back Eddie’s -Cheers!
