1 The Grapevine July 8 - July 22, 2010 OLMES H ONNA D issue N o. 3.29 ED BY July 8 - July 22, 2010 COMMUNITY AWARENESS INVOLVEMENT Our Readership is now approx. 2600! T THIS AWESOME BANNER WAS CREA TWO-WEEK TWEETS 4 BEAT THE HEAT! - p 2 WHO HIDES EAT TO THE BEAT 5 HERE? Find EVENTS CALENDAR 6, 7 DUNGAREE/HUPMAN out on page THE FREE CLASSIFIEDS 8 BROS INTERVIEW - p 11 11 STARDROP 10 LETTER FROM WINGFIELD FARM few years ago, on June 10, 2006, “Walt Wingfield” passed A another milestone in his remarkable career. It was Rod Beattie’s 3,500th performance of a Wingfield play in a little over twenty years. Since their debut at the Orange Hall in Rosemont, Ontario in August 1984, Walt and Rod have delighted capacity audiences across Canada. Valley Summer Theatre is excited to be able to bring Rod Beattie to BUDDAH has been in our the Annapolis Valley this summer shelter for over a year. He has to star in the play that started him beautiful markings and a spunky on this great journey. Letter from personality. Please give him a Wingfield Farm is unprecedented chance to be in a loving home. in Canadian theatrical history, Visit our shelter today. spawning five theatrical sequels, two anthologies and a television Wolfville Animal Hospital series to truly become a Canadian Dr. Peter Bligh institution. P - 902 542 3422 When a captain of industry trades F - 902 542 3352 his pinstripe suit for overalls and st retreats to a hundred acre farm, the embrace a less complicated world. August 1 . Tickets are available at UPDATE: In a series of letters to the editor the Box of Delights Bookstore, or residents of Persephone Township Last issue’s “Jay” is still of the Larkspur weekly newspaper, by phoning 1-877-845-1341 or by raise their eyebrows. Weekend dreaming of a new home. farmers are a common enough Walt Wingfield tells of the people going online to ticketpro.ca. and events of his first year as a man For more information on Contact: sight, but this man seems to think [email protected], of the soil. Letter from Wingfield Farm he can make a living with a broken or by phone: 538-9075 down racehorse and a single furrow Letter from Wingfield Farm will be and the rest of the Valley Summer plough. Letter from Wingfield Farm perfomed at the Al Whittle Theatre Theatre season you can got to is the story of one man’s attempt to in Wolfville from July 15th to valleysummertheatre.com *BUY ONE ENTREE AT REGULAR PRICE AND RECIEVE THE SECOND PERSON’S ENTREE FREE. SECOND ENTREE MUST BE OF EQUAL OR AT THE WOODSHIRE INN LESSER VALUE (MAX $20). DINE-IN ONLY. NOT VALID WITH OTHER SPECIAL OFFERS OR PROMOTIONS. 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Nick was This is a free event with the hat bills that pack all & sundry into a compassionate and socially a senior editor of Canadian news passed for Free Will donations. them, and the various impediments responsible sensibility that was at the CBC National for many Bring your picnic lunch, fresh to democratic process that keep ingrained into the farming years, a founding member of the ideas, chairs, & beverages, musical arising, I expect we’ll see a lot more communities of the country. One Canadian Association of Journalists instruments (if you like), sunscreen, political activity in the near future. of those farming communities was and Canadian Journalists for Free bug repellent, a blanket &/or The times remind me of the 1930s right here in the Valley. Expression, among other things. what-have-you for your afternoon’s to a degree: collapsing financial He also started up the reknown enjoyment. 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Centreville Socialists, back in the later went off to New York City to Thirties. For more information publish The Protestant.) Also in A lot of the social programs on this group, go to the Charles attendance will be Chuck Lapp, that most Canadians hold Macdonald House Society who made a film on Leslie, God’s dear were conceived of in the of Centreville website, www. Red Poet, which will be showing Thirties; programs like Medicare, concretehouse.ca in the museum’s Legge Gallery. Bill BEAT THE HEAT! By Sarah Trask, HD he summer is upon us, and it’s looking to be one of the hottest Bryonia: Headache from the heat of the sun, nausea and headache that is Tsummers on record. Many people are prone to heat stroke, sunstroke, worse with any movement, even slight. Head pain is bursting, and usually sunburn, heat rash and other heat/sun related illnesses. 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