JANUARY 2019 BRANTFORD | BRANT SIX NATIONS FREE BSCENE.ca EVENT GUIDE PAGES 12 to 13 Entertainment & Community Guide Get with the Paris & District Chamberinvolved! of Commerce/County of Brant BSCENE FOOD SCENE Positano Wine Making & Gourmet Foods page 5 BSCENE MUSIC SCENE Twin Spin page 7 YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD EXPERTS page 8 - 9 BRANTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY Winter Author Series Announced page 10 DOWNTOWN BRANTFORD Travel the World in SEE PAGE 3 Downtown’s Restaurants page 14 #BRANTASTIC PEOPLE Cheryl Moore page 17 A LOOK BACK Brantford in the 1980’s page 18 - 19 BCHSF Helping Lynn Wheeler with Personalized Care page 21 BUILDING BUSINESS IN BRANT TOGETHER @parischamberofcommerce @paris_chamber @investinbrant #InvestinBrant 2 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide inside BE SEEN WITH this issue JAN 2019 Vol. 5, Edition 4 BScene is a local Entertainment & Community Guide, Building Business in Brant Together 3 showcasing the #BRANTastic features of Brantford, Brant and Six Nations through engaging content and Remembering the Past... with the Best Event Guide in our community. 4 BSCENE and Looking Forward BScene is distributed free, every month through key community partners throughout Brantford, Brant BSCENE Food Scene and Six Nations. BScene has a local network of over 5 500 distribution points including local advertisers, Positano Wine Making & Gourmet Food retail outlets, dining establishments, and community centres. For a complete list, please visit bscene.ca Healthy Harvest Box 6 BSCENE AROUND As a community paper and forum for sharing thoughts and experiences, the views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the Publisher, Editor, BSCENE Music Scene 7 other contributors, advertisers or distributors unless Twin Spin TOWN IN DECEMBER otherwise stated. BScene is wholly owned and published by Jason Your Neighbourhood Experts 8 - 9 Freeze. All content © 2018 and all rights to distribution are reserved by BScene. Hilary Wrathall - Peak Alliance Realty 9 ADVERTISING BScene distributes 10,000 copies to over 500 drop locations throughout Brantford, Brant and Six Nations Winter Author Series Announced 10 each month. BScene also publishes unique online content throughout each month as well as providing New Beginnings 11 the Best Event Guide in the community. We have an engaged and dedicated readership who are invested in experiencing what our community has to offer. BSCENE Puzzles • Sudoku 12 For advertising inquiries, please contact: Jason Freeze 226-802-2299 DECEMBER EVENT GUIDE 12 - 13 [email protected] County of Brant Public Library 14 The BSCENE Team Downtown Brantford 14 OWNER, PUBLISHER Naturopathic Neighbour 15 Jason Freeze ([email protected]) Be Seen with BSCENE 15 DESIGNER Josef Stevens (acmedesign.ca) Habitat for Humanity 16 LEAD REPORTER Shop at Sweetwater 16 Yvonne Van De Wiele-Cooper BRANTastic PEOPLE COLUMNISTS 17 Heidi Hopf Cheryl Moore Jack Jackowetz Photo: Kings Buffet Staff Kings Buffet Photo: Dave Levac A Look Back - The 1980’s pt 7 18 - 19 The BScene team celebrating Christmas and the New Year with a meal at King’s Buffet. Thanks everyone for all that you do! PHOTOGRAPHERS Brant United Way 20 Bruce Hall What’s New in 2019 BSCENE’s RECYCLING PROGRAM EVENT GUIDE COORDINATOR / The BSCENE paper stays local and supports local endeavours as much as It’s A SKiP Christmas 20 GRAPHIC DESIGN possible. Our publication was printed locally at Ricter Web Printer for years. Edith Freeze ([email protected]) BCHSF • Lynn Wheeler 21 After its closing, we chose McLaren Press Graphics in Gravenhurst, a family DELIVERIES Be Seen with BSCENE 22 - 23 owned business. From there, we distribute locally to many businesses and Bruce Freeze organizations within our grand community. Then at the end of the month, we’ll Bruce Hall collect any left over papers for recycling. These papers are recycled through EVENT GUIDE LISTING a special fundraising program with Sydenham-Heritage United Church and [email protected] A member of the Brantford-Brant Chamber of Commerce and Hartmanns Canada. Hartmann’s is a local egg carton manufacturer located COVER the Paris and District Chamber of Commerce in Holmedale that turns the papers into egg cartons, which are sold back to Photos Submitted 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. Largest Selection of High Quality Eyewear at Reasonable Prices Brantford’s ONLY Same Day Service A Family Run 10 King George Road & Home Hardware Plaza Locally Owned Business Brantford for Over 25 Years 519-752-5456 www.optichouse.ca Mon. - Wed. 9 - 6 | Thurs. 9 - 8 | Fri. 9 - 6 | Sat. 9:30 - 2 BUILDING JANUARY 2019 BSCENEPaper 3 BUSINESS IN BRANT We TOGETHER want you! 2019 represents a milestone in many ways for finding support and expertise within Brant and of Brant, as well as to learn of networking and business IN the County of Brant and for the the opportunity for greater leveraging of the collaborative events for businesses within business OF the County of Brant. The Paris & business community is growing. There has Brant. Through greater collaboration and District Chamber of Commerce enters its 21st never been a better time to do business in deeper engagement we can show the markets year in 2019. During this same time, the Brant, to grow your business in Brant and to we serve now is the time to #InvestinBrant County of Brant recognizes the 20th year engage other businesses in Brant. together! since incorporation. Working to build consis- Turn to our BScene page every other month tent and valuable business opportunities takes through 2019 for interesting factiods on busi- time, demands commitment and requires ness in Brant, opportunities to engage other reaching out to build bridges of collaboration business leaders and business organizations and networks of engagement. With this in Networking event. mind, the Paris & District Chamber of Com- merce and the County of Brant Economic Development & Tourism Division look forward to bringing the value of Brant business to the Get fore by highlighting current business achieve- Paris & District Chamberinvolved! of Commerce/County of Brant ments, providing consistent networking oppor- Complete the Puzzler below and you could Win! tunities and a greater sharing of business best practices. GONXFUZERAJIIAT B WLANNUDROFRUBGA YYQCIQDNALTOCST H BEHYZGOAKLANDXP RLZGLENMORRISZB G M FTDCFERVVNQMJUE OGAFDJYQHLXAGEG M.P ZPTROPELDDIMSFR ABVADDIAGADNONO O YJMTPLEASANTLPE TCJHDKWHARLEYMG M P All candidates meeting. Hosted by the Paris & District Chamber of Commerce TFPPARISHVKVITT Collaboration is paramount to creating an EFKCSIPPWRISOIS P environment of value for doing business in MKYTRCKMYPERKNB EMVSBQMKIFALMBJ S..G Brant. With 74 new members since 2015, the Paris & District Chamber of Commerce has C seen consistent growth. Over 70% of busi- County of Brant’s Tourism tag line nesses within the County of Brant have less 0 than 10 employees. G M These two pieces of data demonstrate B networking and collaboration are essential to STEP #1: Complete Puzzle. Find all 10 communities in the County of Brant. Jumble the highlighted letters into County of Brant’s tourism tag line. STEP #2: LIKE & SHARE Paris & District Chamber of Commerce Facebook page. STEP #3: Post answer on the Paris & District Chamber of Commerce Facebook page. STEP #4: Visit www.pariscoc.ca and check out the calendar for the next After-Hours Event. Please have a company representitive COME VISIT US! *The like & share and answer post of your answer is an automatic enrollment into our special attendance prize. Must be present to win! We are social. Follow us. @parischamberofcommerce @paris_chamber @investinbrant #InvestinBrant 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 REMEMBERING THE PAST YEAR AND LOOKING FORWARD TO 2019! able to bring local content and events to our community each month. We’re also grateful for all the community support that we receive. Whether it’s comments about our articles, people submitting events, or the local advertisers who work with us, we’re so excited that we can help and provide a venue to tell your stories. We also had a number of political changes in 2018. With two levels of government running elections this year, we now have some new faces JASON FREEZE representing our community. Elections are always an important part of how our community and society runs, so we would like to thank everyone who ran in the @Jason Freeze various races this year. And thank you to those who have served and are serving our communities. jason.freeze 2018 also marked a very important anniversary for our country and the world. BScene.ca Communities all across the globe honoured those that have fallen and fought for our freedom for the 100th time. This anniversary touches so many of our s 2018 comes to a close and the New Year gets going, I always like to look lives in various ways, as it has shaped our history and our families. And it is also Aback and reflect on the past year, and see what new opportunities the next particularly meaningful as it helps us remember the suffering that happened so year can bring. that we keep striving toward peace and understanding. As always, there’s so much to reflect on. Each year brings so much with it, it’s As we transition from one year to another, we find ourselves amidst change. This often hard to remember all the happenings that’s come and gone. But there are past month (December) has been a hectic one for us here at the paper. On Friday, always a few highlights that stick with us in our minds. December 7th, we heard some sad news that our local printer, Ricter Web Printing would be closing.