April 21, 2017

It’s an insomniac’s favourite time of year - smelt season! It makes staying up into the wee hours of the morning as productive as possible. Plus, you get a great snack out of the deal. Maybe it should be called insom-nom-nom-ia.

We hope you managed to survive the first two planned power-outages of April. But wait - there’s more!  Reminder that there is still one more to go on April 30th from 7:30am to 11:30am. Fill your kettles and buckets, and settle in for a nice, quiet Sunday morning.

The annual Easter Egg hunt last weekend was a smashing success with about 50 younguns showing up to seek and destroy as many chocolate treats as possible. The rec committee did a bang-up job hiding the eggs and rangling the 3 different age groups, making sure no one went home empty handed. Despite the slightly dampish weather, the Easter bunny made an appearance, chattiing and taking pictures with children. Only some of the children looked horrified, so most of those pictures will be keepers for the family photo albums.

Happy early birthday to Team Fergmeijer’s favourite cook (after our respective mothers, of course) - Jean W! Jean makes 29 look almost as good as her chocolate croissants. Long time summer resident Marilyn P will be turning 29 along with Jean next week. We’re not sure we want to do the math that makes her a grandmother at 29, though.

It’s finally here - the green social event of the year! Celebrate Earth Day with the Billings Go Green Advisory Committee and the Recreation Committee tomorrow (Saturday) with a little spring cleaning, and dessert social! Meet at 10am at the Park Centre to join in a community clean up (if you know of an area that could use a little TLC, contact a Go Green committee member), and then come back again for 1pm for a series of featured talks by local experts Arik Theijsmeijer, Maureen Strickland, and Emily Cormier. Did we mention there will be desserts? See you there!

Keep swinging into spring with the first event of the Fibre Arts Festival on the 23rd: a mixed media paint social. Check out Daffodil Fibre Arts Festival Facebook page for more info.

Coming up at the end of April, join the Manitoulin Community Choir as they celebrate Canada 150 with a concert of Canadian music Saturday, April 29 at 7:30pm at the Park Centre. $10 per person or $20 for a family. Alternatively, for the price of a small donation, get a behind-the-scenes look at the choir’s final rehearsal Tuesday, April 25th at 7pm, also at the Park Centre.

Also on next Saturday night (April 29) is Movie Night at the Billings Library! The showing of Table 19 starts at 7pm with free admission as always. Check out the Facebook page for more information and trailers.

And if that’s not enough to kick spring into high gear, dust off your dancing shoes and come on out to the Spring Wing Ding on May 6! It’s a thing! Come be the king of the fling, and bring your swing. 8pm until midnight at the Park Centre. Tickets: $15 per person; all funds raised go to support the Angel Bus.

Speaking of dancing, did you know that swing is a golf club’s favourite type of music? Have a great week!