OCTOBER 2017 BRANTFORD | BRANT SIX NATIONS FREE BSCENE.ca EVENT GUIDE PAGES 11 to 15 Entertainment & Community Guide Book Today: 519-442-4452 www.ParisDentalCentre.com [email protected] BSCENE MUSIC SCENE BLACKOUTFEST 11 Years Strong page 6 BSCENE FOOD SCENE Le Chocolat du Savoie page 5 A RISING STAR Avery Raquel page 7 ARCADY PRESENTS Voices of Autumn page 15 A LOOK BACK Brantford in the 1960’s Part 2 Brantford page 16 BCHS FOUNDATION Run or Walk to Support BCHSF page 23 YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD EXPERTS page 8 SMALL BUSINESS SANDRA ON SCENE page 20 - 21 “THE ENGINE OF THE ECONOMY” Story page 3 2ND ANNUAL Sat. Oct. 14, 2017 Brant Park @ bpamudrun 5 KM Course + 30 Obstacles supporting Register Now at www.bpamudrun.com 2 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide OCT. 2017 Vol. 4, Edition 1 BE SEEN WITH 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 BSCENE key community partners including local advertisers, retail outlets, dining establishments, and selected community centres. Views expressed by contributors are not inside necessarily held by the staff, editor, publisher BSCENE AROUND or ownership of BScene. this issue The BSCENE Team Brantford Business Crawl 3 TOWN IN SEPTEMBER OWNER, PUBLISHER Jason Freeze ([email protected]) Happy Birthday BScene 4 DESIGNER Josef Stevens (acmedesign.ca) BScene Food Scene 5 LEAD REPORTER Yvonne Van De Wiele-Cooper BScene Music Scene 6 - 7 COLUMNISTS 7 Sandra L. Anderson Avery Raquel Nancy Dow Jack Jackowetz Your Neighbourhood Experts 8 SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST Dean Ellis Be Seen with BScene 9 PHOTOJOURNALISTS Heather Cardle Big Brothers Big Sisters 10 Denise Kinchsular Hoag EVENT GUIDE COORDINATOR / BScene Puzzles • Sudoku 11 GRAPHIC DESIGN Edith Freeze ([email protected]) OCTOBER EVENT GUIDE 11 - 15 DELIVERIES Bruce Freeze Voices of Autumn 15 Community Living Brant Members Braden Nicole EVENT GUIDE LISTING A Look Back - The 1960’s pt 2 16 - 17 Photo: [email protected] Jason presents a cheque to Brantford Foodbank’s Heather Vanner after running the Harvest Festival BBQ with JCI Brantford at the Brantford Farmers’ Market on Sept. 9th. COVER Ghost Encounters 18 Supplied artwork BSCENE SUPPORTS LOCAL THROUGH THE ENTIRE CHAIN From beginning to end, the BSCENE paper stays local and supports local Sandra on Scene 20 - 21 endeavours. Our publication starts out by being printed locally at Ricter A member of the Brantford-Brant Web Printing. From there, we distribute locally to many businesses Chamber of Commerce and the Paris Be Seen with BScene 22 and District Chamber of Commerce and organizations within our grand community. Then, at the end of the month, we’ll collect any left over papers for recycling. These papers BCHS Foundation 23 are recycled through a special fundraising program with Sydenham- Heritage United Church and Hartmann’s Canada. Hartmann’s is a local egg carton manufacturer located in Holmedale and turns the papers into egg cartons, which are sold back to you at the store. The money raised through this fundraising program gets sent back to Sydenham-Heritage United Church to be used in their Green programs for sustainable upgrades. BSCENE prides itself on supporting local whenever we can and is honoured to be able to stay local from start to finish. Change is Difficult. Our WHOLE TEAM Works Together with You. If you are unhappy with your present providers, we are ready for you! Respect Starts Here. No referrals necessary. Just walk right in. Methadone Maintenance Treatment Now FOUR Physicians in attendance 423 Colborne St. East, Brantford - across from Maria’s Pizza 519.756.1741 www.grandriverpharmacybantford.ca Mon. - Fri. 7am-6pm Sat. 8am-3pm Sun. 9am-1pm OCTOBER 2017 BSCENEPaper 3 SMALL BUSINESS “THE ENGINE OF THE ECONOMY” Brantford Business Crawl runs October 2nd-28th that entitles them to visit 10 featured businesses from October 2nd to the 28th. No purchase is necessary and the YVONNE VAN DE WIELE-COOPER businesses will punch the passport. If you get all 10 punches and submit your passport at Meridian Credit Union @YWiele on King George road by October 28th, you’re eligible for a $1000.00 draw for a shopping spree made up of $100.00 roundtablepr.com gift cards from each of the 10 featured businesses. oan Hodge is well aware of the stumbling blocks small Jbusiness owners can face. Kloss says this year’s mix is combination of older established business along with That’s why, as small business advisor for Meridian Credit a number that are new to Brantford. Union, she feels the Brantford Business Crawl is an appropriate sponsorship fit. The list includes: Strodes BBQ & Deli, Brantford Cyclepath, Inspirational Hodge says Meridian has “a really large place in our hearts for Hearts, The Olive Oil Co., Wylde Rose our small business members,” pointing out Meridian was small Handmade Soaps, Corr Blimey’s once too. British Shoppe, Maria’s West: Pizza Pasta Pastry, Nu-U Float Studio, Urban Describing small business as “the engine of the economy,” she Sunset Wine Company, and MYRDH feels the crawl is a great way to spotlight those “off the beaten Dental Hygiene Spa. track” while encouraging more foot traffic through their doors. It’s the second year for the event and And Hodge feels the trend is in fact swinging back to supporting this year in addition to the 10 featured photos Submitted local. businesses, a number of others STELLA JOHNSON (Intrigue Media), AVERY KLOSS (shopbrantford.com), have come on board as supporting “It’s kind of going back to grass roots and I think that’s why credit BRIAN WITTEVEEN (Strode BBQ & Deli), & JOAN HODGE (Meridian Credit Union) businesses, providing prize ballots for unions are becoming more popular, because they’re embedded chances to win goods and services from Meantime, Kloss says the purpose of the crawl from her local merchants. standpoint is essentially to solve a “pet peeve.” Video advertising business Intrigue Media is co-sponsoring the The ShopBrantford.com website has Kloss constantly crawl and owner Stella Johnson was instrumental in helping circulating throughout the community, where she runs into Kloss get the inaugural event off the ground last year. people who haven’t heard about many of the areas long running businesses. “We’ve got a lot of hidden gems in Brantford, a lot of really cool shops and not everyone seems to know about them,” said She’ll ask them “How have you never been there before, how Johnson. have you not tried meat from Strodes,” or urges “you’ve got to check out this new Olive Oil Co.” Intrigue Media has created a couple of videos that promote the business crawl, which can be viewed at various Brantford The crawl also fosters camaraderie and support among the businesses. participating businesses. Johnson says supporting local business helps support local “Pushing consumers to go out of their normal stores and find families and she’s involved because she wants to see those something new in Brantford was really lovely and having those Submitted photo Submitted businesses thrive. stores supporting each other, that’s a good piece of it too,” said CORR BLIMEY’S INSPIRATIONAL Kloss. BRITISH SHOPPE HEARTS Then there’s the personal service shoppers receive. in the community, with stronger ties to the community,” she said. Kloss points to the extra care and support Inspirational Hearts owner and cancer survivor Judy Porter provides customers. Hodge says the younger demographic often prefers local products including, organically grown and local foods. The Charing Cross Street business specializes in prosthetic garments for women who have had mastectomies as well as “It’s going back to basics and they feel more connected other products for cancer patients. and I think all communities are trying to have that feeling of connectivity,” she said. Kloss wants the “shop local” mantra to be top of mind for people, whether it’s for Christmas shopping or every day needs. Avery Kloss, shop local advocate and owner of the ShopBrantford.com website directory, is again spearheading “If we lose these lovely stores that make Brantford what it is and the month long event taking place appropriately during Small the business owners behind them, then what are we left with,” Business Month. she said. Here’s how it works. BRANTFORD For info on the Brantford Business Crawl check out: THE OLIVE OIL CO. CYCLEPATH Consumers pick up a passport at a number of area locations brantford.businesscrawl.com 403 Fairview Dr. 519-752-3151 www.strodes.ca Your LOCAL Butcher Shop Specializing in All your BBQ needs! 4 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY BSCENE have played a part in shaping and sharing what our community is all about. BScene is thankful for all of our team members who create content, capture our community in motion, and bring it all together each month. We are thankful for our advertisers and sponsors who keep our community running through their businesses, organizations and events. And we are thankful for our community members who keep reading and JASON FREEZE exploring our community through the many events and articles we share. @Jason Freeze As we look ahead to the next three years (and beyond), we look forward to bringing you more events and jason.freeze #BRANTastic community articles. We are especially excited as we are nearly ready to launch our new BScene.ca website! That means our community’s Best Event Guide will be getting even better so we can ctober is a special month for many people. We showcase our community’s events even Oget to dress up and have fun for Halloween, there more.