MAY 2018 BRANTFORD | BRANT SIX NATIONS FREE BSCENE.ca EVENT GUIDE PAGES 11 to 14 Entertainment & Community Guide STARTING SOMEWHERE BSCENE FOOD SCENE Kings Buffet page 5 BSCENE MUSIC SCENE innersha page 7 COUNTY OF BRANT LIBRARY Every Child Can Learn to Love Reading page 15 A LOOK BACK Brantford in the 1970’s page 16 - 17 PARTICIPATION SUPPORT SERVICES Your Care, Your Home, Your Way page 21 BRANT UNITED WAY BRC’s Starter Company Plus, Warehouse Sale is Back! helps get the entrepreneurial ball page 22 rolling for J R Gallaraza and ROLE. BCHSF Story page 3 Vintage Carnival Gala page 23 Brantford FlingFarmers’ Market Saturday, May 26, 7:00 am - 2:00 pm Charity BBQ • Free Samples • Shopping • Travis Kruis - Balloonist 79 Icomm Drive 519-752-8824 /Brantford Farmers’ Market Farmers’ –––––––––––––––Market 2 BSCENE.ca Entertainment & Community Guide BE SEEN WITH MAY 2018 Vol. 4, Edition 8 BScene is a local Entertainment & Community Guide, inside showcasing the #BRANTastic features of Brantford, Brant and Six Nations through engaging content and this issue BSCENE with the Best Event Guide in our community. BScene is distributed free, every month through key Starting Somewhere 3 community partners throughout Brantford, Brant and Six Nations. BScene has a local network of over 500 distribution points including local advertisers, May the Events Be with You 4 retail outlets, dining establishments, and community centres. For a complete list, please visit bscene.ca BScene Food Scene 5 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, Megs + Clarke 6 other contributors, advertisers or distributors unless TOWN IN APRIL otherwise stated. wordsmith 6 BScene is wholly owned and published by Jason Freeze. All content © 2018 and all rights to distribution are reserved by BScene. 7 innersha ADVERTISING BScene distributes 10,000 copies to over 500 drop locations throughout Brantford, Brant and Six Nations Your Neighbourhood Experts 8 - 9 each month. BScene also publishes unique online content throughout each month as well as providing the Best Event Guide in the community. We have an #BRANTastic Mother’s Day Guide 10 engaged and dedicated readership who are invested in experiencing what our community has to offer. For advertising inquiries, please contact: BScene Puzzles • Sudoku 11 Jason Freeze 226-802-2299 [email protected] MAY EVENT GUIDE 11 - 14 Be Seen with BScene 14 The BSCENE Team 15 OWNER, PUBLISHER County of Brant Public Library Jason Freeze ([email protected]) Downtown Brantford 15 DESIGNER Josef Stevens (acmedesign.ca) A Look Back - The 1970’s pt 4 16 - 17 LEAD REPORTER Yvonne Van De Wiele-Cooper Be Seen with BScene 18 - 20 Photo COLUMNISTS Participation Support Services 21 Nancy Dow Supplied Heidi Hopf Congratulations to the Brantford Public Library on their Grand Reopening! We had the Jack Jackowetz United Way Warehouse Sale 22 chance to check out the new space and learn about the new opportunities last month. Check it out and pick up your copy of BScene there too! SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST SKIP Warms the Heart 22 Dean Ellis BSCENE’s RECYCLING PROGRAM – BCHSF Vintage Carnival 23 STAYING LOCAL THROUGH THE ENTIRE CHAIN PHOTOJOURNALISTS Heather Cardle From beginning to end, the BSCENE paper stays local and supports local Denise Kinchsular Hoag endeavours. Our publication starts out by being printed locally at Ricter EVENT GUIDE COORDINATOR / Web Printing. From there, we distribute locally to many businesses and GRAPHIC DESIGN organizations within our grand community. Then, at the end of the month, we’ll Edith Freeze ([email protected]) collect any left over papers for recycling. These papers are recycled through DELIVERIES a special fundraising program with Sydenham-Heritage United Church and Bruce Freeze A member of the Brantford-Brant Chamber of Commerce and Community Living Brant Members the Paris and District Chamber of Commerce Hartmann’s Canada. Hartmann’s is a local egg carton manufacturer located in Holmedale that turns the papers into egg cartons, which are sold back to EVENT GUIDE LISTING [email protected] 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 COVER Submitted Photo 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. Methadone Maintenance Treatment Mon. - Fri. 7am-6pm Sat. 8am-3pm Sun. 9am-1pm MAY 2018 BSCENEPaper 3 STARTING SOMEWHERE BRC’s Starter Company Plus, helps get the entrepreneurial ball rolling YVONNE VAN DE WIELE-COOPER he worked a journeyman under three different arborists. Then he decided to come home and start his own business @YWiele and although he knew his trade well, he didn’t know how to run a business and that’s where BRC and Starter Company helped make it a reality. roundtablepr.com J R Gallaraza was born in the Philippines, but raised in local wine, beer and cider tour business, a full-service Brantford. He went back to the land of his birth to attend the A arborist and a basketball and holistic skills trainer, all University of the Philippines on a full basketball scholarship. have two things in common. Their businesses all got a He eventually played semi-pro and was about to turn pro, kick-start from the Brantford-Brant Business Resource but life had other ideas. As a single dad, he needed to put Enterprise Centre (BRC) and all three are enjoying basketball aside for a while and returned to Brantford to care success, after a relatively short amount of time. for his young son. Ride the Bine is the brain child of Susan Judd and That’s when ROLE, a basketball skills training and holistic Amanda Dooney. Both from Norfolk County, the pair met Photo: ridethebine.com development training program was born. at a young entrepreneur’s event and decided it would be Amanda & Susan from Ride the Bine Tours a great idea to start wine tours of Norfolk’s up and coming He called the business ROLE, because he thought of wine scene and more recently, its emerging beer scene. The pair operates with a couple of roomy Mercedes Sprinter himself as a “role player” while growing up, not always the vans and they plan to add a third van this summer for the best student or athlete, but working hard to play his part. They heard about the BRC’s Starter Company through a more brewery focused tours in the London area. couple of friends and thought it would be a good way to Today, after getting support, training and a Starter Company kick-start the idea. Judd says local support has been “phenomenal.” grant from BRC he operates in the Access Storage Sports Centre on Gretzky Parkway and also at the Wayne Gretzky The program, helps guide start up clients through a “Brantford, Norfolk, Haldimand and the area toward London Sports Centre. business plan, the financial aspects, including bookkeeping have an interest in experiencing and doing local, so I think and accounting, while offering lots of other advice. They we’ve hit the wave at the right time,” she said. He offers day basketball clinics on P.A. days and holiday were also eligible for a Starter Company grant. camps and is now gearing up for the summer program. When BScene contacted Kyle McLoughlin, he was literally The company’s name Ride the Bine, is derived from what the up a tree. Mae Legg, BRC’s senior small business consultant says hops used in beer making grow on. “Hops grow on a bine, the Starter Company Plus program, helps anyone over 18 grapes grow on a vine,” explained Judd. His business, Ironwood Arborcultural Solutions, specializes who is starting or expanding a small business, or buying a in urban forestry business with less than 10 employees. consultation. They also offer free one-on-one consultations to Mcloughlin established business owners. had done an undergraduate The program includes orientation and clients attend five degree in history business workshops, before presenting in front of a grant but he loved committee of local business people. camping, had been a climbing “I know a lot of people think they can start a business and instructor and it’s all in their head, but if you put it all on paper, put in the a wilderness work before hand and streamline it down, you’ll see it head guide and a job in the right direction and grow,” said Legg. opportunity For more information on BRC’s Starter Company contact came up, so the BRC at 519-756-4269 or [email protected] he worked for a company for five years as an ridethebine.com arborist. arboristabroad.com The job took him to the U.S. and the rain forests of roleplayers.ca Australia where Kyle McLoughlin of Ironwood Arborcultural Solutions with a hazardous tree marked for removal for a government client. Inset: Kyle up-a-tree in Hamilton, ON SUBMITTED PHOTOS 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 M AY THE EVENTS BE WITH YOU to grow our Event Guide to over 200 events each month. But the real power of the Event Guide lies with the community members. It’s not powered by crystals or lasers, but by the people of our community. It’s you who submits the events and you that goes to support them.