The launch of the 2023-2024 Concert Series for the Pender Harbour Music Society is tomorrow, Aug. 12, with the Mid-Summer Chamber Weekend. Saturday, gracing the stage, Joan Blackman, with her musical colleagues Jane Hayes and Julia Nolan. Hannah Addario-Berry and Henry Shapard join them performing Benjamin Britten’s Suite for solo cello, and two major piano trios by Shostakovich and Ravel.
Sunday, Aug. 13, welcome the Stellar Jays Plus (Joan, Jane, Julia, and Hannah) who promise a relaxed afternoon Couleurs d’un Rêve (Colours of a Dream) with a French flavour including compositions by Jean-Luc Defontaine and Claude Debussy. Tickets are $30 are available on their website and at Harbour Insurance and Strait Music. Concerts begin at 2 pm at the School of Music.
You do not want to miss the Bargain Barn’s huge inventory clearance sale of China, bone, ironstone, and pottery of all styles Aug. 12, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Aug. 13, 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Amongst the treasures, find place settings, missing pieces or that perfect teacup and saucer for a gift. Cash, debit, and credit cards accepted.
The 18th Annual Pender Harbour Rotary People’s Choice Show and Shine is this Sunday, Aug. 13, at the Legion with multiple awards to be won. All makes and models of cars, trucks, and motorcycles are welcome. Register 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Show time 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry fee $25. All proceeds go to Rotary community projects in the Harbour. Multiple awards are to be presented.
If you had proper parenting as a child, you would have been taught one of life’s lessons, a very simple but important one: to say please and thank you. These simple words should have stuck with us as they are truly life changing when used. As high season has hit the harbour hotter and harder than ever, simple life lessons, the “please and thank you” have almost vanished and been replaced with a rude, entitled way of behaviour so impactful on our hardworking, worn-out front-line workers, business owners and volunteers. As others play and party, our good folks get up and man the front lines every day, often a struggle. Some have lost loved ones. They don’t go on summer holidays, have long weekends off, spend time with friends and family. What they do is bring in the funds supporting our community from our last remaining industry: seasonal tourism. Please and thank you go a very long way with them, make their day easier, or make their day and keep them coming to work for the next one and the next one.
People like free stuff; being polite and saying “please” and “thank you” are free, but oh so valuable.
Thank you to all out there on our front lines. You are heroes, pillars of our community. Please know we appreciate you!
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