39 King George Rd. 519-750-0330 WE BUY & SELL TRADE & LOAN Like & Follow Us! jcretail.ca SEPTEMBER 2016 FREE! BRANTFORD | BRANT | SIX NATIONS BScene.ca EVENTS GUIDE PAGES 14 & 15 MATT DUSK HEADLINES THE 9TH ANNUAL BRANTFORD INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Page 5 PARIS SPRING FAIR pg 3 NEIGHBOURHOOD EXPERTS TECH SCENE pg 18 PLAY IT FORWARD CHALLENGE pg 4 pg 16 & 17 COMEDY SCENE pg 19 HOCKEY NIGHT IN BRANTFORD pg 7 BE SEEN WITH BSCENE pg 25 SANDRA ON SCENE pg 20 MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPIONSHIPS pg 11 BUSINESS PSYCHE OF BRANTFORD MUSIC SCENE pg 22 WORK-ABILITIES pg 12 pg 26 ARTS SCENE pg 23 2 BScene.ca YOUR #1 EVENT GUIDE BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO BASICS SEPT 2016 Vol. 2, Edition 12 BScene is a free monthly publication showcasing the great people, events, and ideas of Brantford, Brant and Six Nations. BScene is distributed free to you through JASON FREEZE PUBLISHER key community partners including local advertisers, retail outlets, dining establishments, and selected community @Jason Freeze centres. Views expressed by contributors are jason.freeze not necessarily held by the sta, editor, publisher or ownership of BScene. BScene.ca The BScene Team foundations. We come back to learning Festival, and then we finish o with a OWNER, PUBLISHER s it just me, or has the summer just new things, and we come back to month-watering bite into the St. George Jason Freeze ([email protected]) whizzed on by? It sure seems like it building on our foundations to set Applefest. was a quick summer to me. In the DESIGNER I ourselves up for the future. Josef Stevens ([email protected]) next few days, the kids will be heading So even though we might be dreading back to school already and our normal LEAD REPORTER As we move into September, not going back to work and school, we Yvonne Van De Wiele-Cooper routines will be back in place. everything will bring us back to the dull should be excited at the opportunities ([email protected]) and boring. September is a time to bring a new season brings. We should think CONTRIBUTORS September will bring us back to our back some great local events too. of September as a time of renewal. A Sandra L. Anderson plans and schedules. Back to packed time to bring back what we enjoy about Lauren Arva lunches and homework; back to our The fall season is upon us and with it Dave Carrol our lives and to look forward to the new Evan Robertson meetings and timetables. The summer brings some amazing local favourites, ideas and experiences we’ll get to enjoy. Dana Christine Dotchin has oered us a great time to relax and like the fall fairs! Right o the bat, the Shannon Hugman have fun, but now it’s time to come back Jack Jackowetz Paris Fair opens up the first weekend This September, let’s renew ourselves Lindsay Roche to the basics of our routines. of the month. This annual event has with new ideas, new events, and new Valerie Sawicki always given our community a fantastic opportunities! SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Getting back to the basics in our send o into September. And as the Dean Ellis lives will allow us to refocus back to month rolls on, we’ll get jazzed up the every-day things that build our PHOTOGRAPHERS with the Brantford International Jazz Heather Cardle Belinda J. Clements Denise Kinchsular Hoag EVENT GUIDE COORDINATOR / GRAPHIC DESIGN WHAT’S INSIDE BSCENE Edith Freeze ([email protected]) DELIVERIES Editorial - Jason Freeze 2 Youth Entrepreneurship 13 Bruce Freeze Dale Renout The Paris Fall Fair 3 EVENT GUIDE 14-15 Beth Walsh Poetry: Victoria’s Eternal Spring 3 Neighbourhood Experts 16-17 EVENT GUIDE LISTING Play It Forward Challenge 4 The Colborne Kitchen 17 [email protected] Brantford Jazz Festval 5 Tech Scene 18 A member of the Brantford-Brant Brant Comunity Healthcare 6 Comedy Scene 19 Chamber of Commerce and the Paris and District Chamber of Commerce Hockey Night in Brantford 7 Sandra on Scene 20 Big Brothers Big Sisters 8 A Look Back 21 Brant FACS 8 BScene Music Scene 22 Brantford Food Bank 9 BScene Arts Scene 23 Brant Studio Tour 9 XPress Yourself Showcase 24 Warhorse Challenge 10 Be Seen with BScene 25 Downtown Brantford 10 The Busienss Psyche 26 Martial Arts Championships 11 BScene by Dean 27 Work-Abilities 12 SEPTEMBER 2016 BScenePaper 3 Victoria’s Eternal Spring By Jan Vanderstelt It was always spring in Victoria’s heart. She let me walk with her to the corner, slow and steady steps, measured by the weather and the seasons of her discom- fort. She spoke of days I’ve never felt and told me stories like The Paris ‘30 days at sea’, and forever loving a man who was “older and smarter’. “They didn’t stop me, the love was stronger” she said, Fall Fair as we sat and rested at the corner of pray and work. Where Friends Meet I remember the day she danced a polka at the hall and returned home to paint the basement. At 81. he Paris Fair is where friends meet, kids together on and o for the past 50 years. They’re play and adults stay to savour the sights, known for performing songs from the 1950s as I remember the scrape of a winter morning and the Tsounds and musical talents of artists from a nod to their youth and the music that filled smell near and far. their childhoods, explained Wilkinson. Toss in a little old-style country and lots of audience of spring cut grass. She put us all to shame. As the Ferris Wheel spins and the Tilt-a-whirl participation and these two will have you up and twirls, kids alike gather on the Friday of every dancing before the afternoon is over. Labour Day weekend for the traditional Paris The melody of her voice still sings the refrain, Fair bracelet day at the midway. Parents and James McDermaid takes his single act show to “The dandelions will be my flowers,” and I miss her so grandparents typically opt out of the rides - and bars and roadhouses across the province. While much. now they have another opportunity to enjoy a he enjoys belting out the lyrics to classic country nice afternoon, thanks to the eorts of a local fair tunes from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, he also has volunteer. a special place in his sets for tunes written A mentor, a mom, and our heroine. Her garden is fallow and performed by the legendary Alan Jackson. and Cheryl Turnbull, Past President of the Paris Jackson’s songs, covered by McDermaid, “have the pears have fallen like tears. Agricultural Society Homecraft Division, in chronicled the hopes, dreams and values of sponsorship with Goliger’s Travel in Paris and everyday people.” the Ladies’ Homecraft volunteeres, present a day But it was always spring in Victoria’s heart. of musical delight in the G.H. Buck Exhibition The first show begins at 11 a.m. on Friday hall, complete with refreshments and a lunch September 2, followed by another stellar booth, operated by the Homecraft hosts performance from the musicians at 1:30 p.m. themselves. Catch these artists for free with your paid admission to The Paris Fair. There will be plenty The parental escape (hey, kids can join too, there of seats for guests to enjoy this new event, so are no age restrictions) is a pleasant chance don’t forget to stop by! to dodge the heat and enjoy some toe-tapping, head bopping sounds of country music and the Later in the day, the aroma of homemade best tunes of the 1950s era. The musical show is meatloaf will tease your taste buds when the headlined by artists Wayne Wilkinson and Norm Homecraft Division cooks up its traditional Shaver, of Two of a Kind and James McDermaid, Friday evening dinner. an Alan Jackson tribute artist from Fort Erie, Ontario. The Paris Fall Fair runs from August 31- September 5, 2016. For a complete list of Wayne Wilkinson, of Paris, and Norm Shaver, activities and events, please visit of Guelph have entertained and co-wrote music www.parisfair.com. 4 BScene.ca YOUR #1 EVENT GUIDE THE PLAY IT FORWARD CHALLENGE Grab some friends and let’s play for a day... like we used to. DAVE CARROL A portion of the proceeds from the Team Up Challenge go towards Freedom House’s Kindness Project @DaveCarrol which facilitates free school assemblies and in-class sessions Dave Carrol with Captain Kindness; aordable housing, food and clothing for bigearcreations.blogspot.ca those in need; and a variety of community goodwill outreach as anyone ever invited you to initiatives like Frosty Fest and run through money to raise The Neighbourhood Kindness Hmoney for charity… or even Campaign. But it gets even better just for the fun of it? Well the “Play (and more personal) than that. it Forward Challenge” isn’t one of those things. For years, I’d heard This event is unique in the of other cities that had corporate fact that it features the “Play it challenges and essentially “grown- Forward” initiative. Individuals or up play days” where adults could teams can use their participation get together and compete… but in this event as a way to raise funds have good, easy fun while doing for their registered charity of it. But we didn’t have one. So we choice. It’s a way to help those who made one! YOU care about helping the most.