LIBERTY OR DEATH! - So says the banner hanging from the balcony of Carmody House (Uxbridge Historical Centre) during a re-enactment of the 1837 Rebellion atHeritage Days last Sunday. The men holding guns are protecting Uxbridge founder Joseph Gould (tan hat, left), played by Re-enactor Ollie Claffey. Gould built Carmodyhouse and lived in it for one year before selling it. Photo by John Cavers

by Lisha Van Nieuwenhove

A possible strike by Canada Post has bumpedthe timeline of the upcoming municipal elec-tion up by a week and a half and forced bothtownship staff and candidates to get things inmotion more quickly than previously antici-pated.

In an email send out last Friday, townshipclerk Debbie Leroux advised all candidatesthat, because of potential strike action byCanada Post, the township had decided thatthe Vote By Mail kits will mailed on September18 and 19, and not September 27 and 28, asoriginally planned. “We decided to be proactive and send the kits

out earlier, so that everyone who is on the vot-ers’ list gets theirs before a possible strike byCanada Post,” explained Leroux.Canada Post has been working with the Cana-

dian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) toreach new collective agreements since late

2017, to no avail. CUPW recently announcedthat collective job action could take place asearly as September 26 if a new agreement is notsoon reached.

Because many municipalities throughout theprovince run their municipal elections throughmail-in ballots, a postal disruption at this timewould cause serious problems across Ontario.The municipal election is scheduled to takeplace Monday, October 22.Candidates don’t appear to be too put out by

the earlier kit release date. Debbie Leroux saidthat most of the candidates she had spoken towere happy that the township had been proac-tive in getting the kits out earlier. Most of thecandidates the Cosmos spoke to expressed thesame sentiments, saying that they would justhave to deal with it, or that they had alreadyvisited most, if not all, of their constituents,and that the early mail-in ballot didn’t affecttheir campaign.

Campaign signs will start popping up next

week, as candidates are now allowed to startplacing their signs on September 4.The earlier deadline also means that the voters’

list needs to be verified no later than September7.

“The voters’ list for our municipal election isdifferent than the list used in the recent provin-cial election,” said Leroux. “Just because youwere on one list, you may not be on the other.Never assume you are on the list.”

Only residents who are on the voters’ list bySeptember 7 will receive a Vote By Mail kit inthe mail. After the 7th, voters can still havetheir name added to the list, but they must pickup their Vote By Mail kit in person. Then, pro-viding there is no postal strike, the kits wouldneed to be returned by mail by October 11 inorder to ensure their arrival at the township of-fices before October 22. All township residents can check to see if they

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September 30 marks Orange ShirtDay across Canada, and it was an-nounced on Tuesday that the Hon-ourable Jane Philpott, Minister forIndigenous Services and MP forMarkham-Stouffville, will be partak-ing in Uxbridge’s commemoration ofthe day.

Orange Shirt Day is, according tothe website orangeshirtday.org, a“day for First Nations, local govern-ments, schools and communities to

come together in the spirit of recon-ciliation and hope for generations ofchildren to come.”

Events are scheduled to take placeat St. Andrews - Chalmers Presbyte-rian Church and in Centennial andElgin Parks. e day will concludewith a dinner at St. Paul's AnglicanChurch, at which Minister Philpottwill speak. Matthew Stevens fromMississaugas of Scugog Island FirstNation will also speak.

Minister Philpott is formerly Chiefof Family Medicine at MarkhamStouffville Hospital and AssociateProfessor in the University ofToronto’s Faculty of Medicine. She isformerly Minister of Health as wellas an advocate for global health. Shewas appointed Minister of Indige-nous Services in August 2017.

Tickets for the 6 p.m. dinner are$25 (limited to 100) and are avail-able at the Uxbridge Library. osewith no dinner ticket are invited tojoin the program after dinner at 7:30p.m.

A 45-year old Uxbridge man wasfatally injured when his vehiclestruck a pole in Uxbridge lastursday morning.

Just after midnight on August23, police were called to the inter-section at Toronto Street Southand Campbell Drive in Uxbridgefor a single car collision. A four-door red Nissan was allegedlyheading southbound on TorontoStreet when it failed to negotiatea turn on Toronto Street. e ve-

hicle mounted the curb, lost con-trol and struck a light standard onthe east side of the intersection.

is collision occurred in frontof Uxbridge Cottage Hospital,and medical personnel came outto assist. e driver was in the ve-hicle with vital signs absent. Hewas then taken into the hospitalwhere he was later pronounceddead. At press time, police had not yet

received permission from thefamily to release the victim’sname.

Members of the Durham Re-gional Police Traffic ServicesBranch, Collision InvestigationUnit attended the scene to con-duct an investigation. e road-way was closed while evidencewas collected at the scene.

Investigators do believe thatspeed and alcohol may have beenfactors in this collision. Weatherconditions were favorable at thetime of the collision.

Anyone withnew informationabout this investi-gation or whomay have wit-nessed the colli-sion is asked tocontact D/Cst.MacDuff of theDRPS TrafficServices Branch at1-888-579-1520ext. 5267.

Anonymous tipscan be made tothe Crime Stop-pers Program at 1-800-222-8477(TIPS) and tip-sters may be eligi-ble for a $2,000cash reward.

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occur, township staff say that theyare working on setting up various lo-cations throughout the township forballot drop-off, but these locationshave not yet been secured. While checking to see if their name

is on the voters’ list, residents are alsobeing encouraged to confirm theward in which they are voting.etownship underwent a ward bound-ary review in 2016, and a currentversion of the new ward boundariesmap can be found below. An inter-active version is available online atmaps.durham.on.ca/wardmaps/uxbridge/ Residents can simply type intheir address and the locator will pin-point the address and announce theappropriate ward.

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p.m. e Arena will also be openSeptember 11 - 14 from 5-7:30 p.m.,and September 24-27 from 5-7:30p.m. e Town Hall will also beopen on Saturday, October 13, from10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and ursday, Oc-tober 18, from 4:30-7 p.m.

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Uxbridge - the Trail Capital of Kind-ness!

Thank you to the kind people inDurham Forest on Friday, August 24.Our beautiful dog, Seven, sustaineda very serious injury to her chest andlungs by a fluke accident involving astick. Many trail users came to ouraid and after an hour of teamwork wemanaged to get her out of the Forestand to the Uxbridge Veterinaryclinic. Here she received great trauma

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As awful as this is, there is a silverlining. There is still extreme kindnessand amazingly caring people in theworld!

So please let us extend a HUGEthank you to all the people who as-sisted in getting Seven the emergencycare she required! If not for you shewould have died! From the strangers

who came to her aid, to our closestfriends who were with us through-out, and to medical professionalswho aided and to those who are stillaiding. We thank you!

Seven is now at home and recover-ing nicely. There are not enoughwords to convey our gratitude!

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Letters to the Editor

Now that summer is practically finished, the kids are back in school and hol-idays are over, we enter one of the busiest periods of the year. Fall fairs arecoming up, the Celebration of the Arts, Thanksgiving and Hallowe’en areon the horizon, then it’s Christmas time! In the middle of this, we have amunicipal election. Yes, a municipal election. Not to be confused with theprovincial election that was held earlier this year (in case you’ve been livingunder a rock, Doug Ford was elected premier). But not to worry, folks: youdon't have to get out and vote!Here in Uxbridge, we don't even have to get out of our chairs to vote in the

municipal election. We just wait for the ballot kit to arrive in the mail, fill itall out, mail it back in and our civic duty and responsibility is done for an-other four years.

We've had the mail-in ballot since 2000 and, apparently, it has increasedthe number of voters casting their ballots, as was intended when the processwas introduced. But beware the law of unintended consequences.

For one thing, the process severely cuts down on the amount of time can-didates have to put their cases before the public. And that, in turn, could leadto an under-informed electorate.The ballots will be sent out to electors on September 18/19, one week earlier

than originally expected, because Canada Post is threatening to go on strike(again). If Canada Post doesn’t strike, then voters will be able to put theirfilled-in ballots in the mail by October 11. Yet the actual voting day is Octo-ber 22, over two weeks after many people will have already sent in their votes.That means candidates will spend the last few weeks going door-to-door look-ing for voters who haven't yet cast their ballots, or leaving their pamphlets atclosed doors without even knowing whether or not the residents have voted.

Fear not - the Cosmos is hosting two all-candidates meetings at the arena,one on September 10 (ward councillors and school trustees) and a second onSeptember 17 (regional councillors, regional chairs and mayoral candidates). Although they were booked and planned forever ago, these forums now sitperfectly timed in the new, beat-the-strike timetable. If voters attend bothforums and then receive their voter kits immediately following, they’ll befresh from the messages they needed to hear, and vote accordingly.The new schedule does make it a teeny bit more difficult for the candidates

to get their message out, however. There is, ostensibly, less time for them tocanvas. It also provides less time to get excited about the election. And weshould get excited about it! The successful candidates will be your friendsand neighbours making decisions on your behalf. The people we elect willbe deciding how much you pay in property taxes for the next four years, whatstreets will be paved, how much you will pay for township services andwhether or not such services will be expanded or cut back and so on. Theywill be passing bylaws which could impact the way you live your life.

With that in mind, surely you want to be certain that the people you arevoting for - (ward councillor, regional councillor, mayor, school trustee) - arecompetent, worthy and have agendas you can support.We know that people will vote when they’re gonna vote. But be smart and

informed when voting. We don’t need to look too far afield to know howother elections have gone off the rails... We’re too clever for that. Right?

Our two centsNo need to get out and vote

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There will be a profound sense of melancholyat this year’s Toronto International Film Festivalbecause it is the last festival with the great PiersHandling at the helm. The popular, intelligentzen master will step down after this year’s festi-val, leaving what I believe will be a gapingchasm in leadership for the TIFF Group. Han-dling took over as CEO in 1994 and quicklymade the moves to make Toronto a truly inter-national film festival, a must stop for majorfilms at the beginning of awards season. He didso quietly, but forcefully, never ruffling feathers,never making enemies. The little festival, whichbegan in the late 70s, became through the 90sthe most important film festival on the planet.Handling was the perfect choice to lead the fes-tival in the 90s into the 21st century.A huge thank you to Piers for what he has ac-

complished at TIFF; the Lightbox is forever hislegacy. I will miss knowing he is in charge.So, that said, people have started asking “What

should we see at the festival this year?” Eachyear I select 10 films that I consider must seesat TIFF, films that are earning Oscar talk longbefore their release, films that are directed byfilmmakers I admire, or films that feature actorsI greatly admire. This year, the following 12 arethe ones I am most looking forward to seeing.GREEN BOOK - the film I most want to see!

Features Viggo Mortensen as a tough guydriver/body guard for a gifted concert pianist,portrayed by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali.Mortensen is hired to protect and drive the mu-sician through the South in the 60s where heknows they will encounter trouble. Robert Far-relly directs.

A STAR IS BORN - The inside word on thisremake directed by Bradley Cooper is off thecharts. In fact, it is already an Oscar frontrunnerafter being seen by a few insiders. Lady GaGais said to be astonishing as the discovered tal-ent.FAHRENHEIT 11-9 - In a clever switch ofnumbers, Michael Moore follows his scathingattack on President George W. Bush in Fahren-heit 9/11 (2004) with this film, the numbersbeing the day Donald Trump was elected Pres-ident of the United States. Cannot wait.

FIRST MAN - La La Land director DamienChazelle is back with First Man, the biographyof Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot onthe moon. Armstrong is portrayed by RyanGosling, and the film has Oscars dancingaround it. WIDOWS - Director Steve McQueen is back

with a caper film with an edge and a twist.

When the leader of a group of thieves is killedon a job, his wife brings together the otherwives to pull the job off themselves. Kind of likeOceans 8 (2018), only darker. Viola Davis, LiamNeeson and Robert Duvall are a trio of thoseinvolved, more than enough to get my atten-tion.

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK - LikeMcQueen, Barry Jenkins returns to TIFF afterthe glory of Moonlight (2016). Once again theAfrican American director takes his cameras tothe streets to explore life on the other side ofthe tracks among African Americans. With hisgritty, yet poetic sense of realism, count on an-other showing at the Oscars for Jenkins.

BEAUTIFUL BOY - Based on the popularbook, Hollywood has been trying to bring thisto the screen for years. Steve Carrell stars as thedistraught father trying to deal with his son'saddiction to meth. THE FRONT RUNNER - Jason Reitman re-

turns to the festival with this true story aboutpresidential nominee Gary Hart, brought downin scandal while on the campaign trail. HughJackman gets his best role since Les Miserables(2012) as Hart. Reitman scored a triumph ear-lier this year with the mesmerizing Tully (2018).BOY ERASED - When a young man confesses

to his parents that he thinks about men, theyship him off to a “fire and brimstone” campwhere they attempt to terrorize his feelings outof him. Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowerportray the parents, Lucas Hedges is the boyand director Joel Edgerton is the de-progam-mer. THE SISTERS BROTHERS - Based on thenovel, the film explores the lives of the SistersBrothers, two hitmen for hire who travel thewest raising hell. Joaquin Phoenix and John C.Reilly are the hell-raising brothers, with JakeGyllenhall as the man the brothers are hunting.Directed by Jacques Audiard. DESTROYER - Nicole Kidman plays a tough,

cynical cop; she knows her way around a mur-der scene, having seen one too many in her life-time. Haunted by her past, she dives in anyway,and in doing so confronts her worst nightmares.

GALVESTON - In this film directed by ac-tress turned filmmaker Melanie Laurent, BenFoster portrays a hitman for the local mob boss,portrayed by Beau Bridges. When a killing goeshorribly wrong and he ends with a target onhim, Foster hits the road with a young prosti-tute and her kid sister. For the acting alone, Iam there.

Stay tuned - TIFF starts next week.

I drove into the museum parking lot last Satur-day morning. It could have been our museum,the Uxbridge Historical Centre Museum andArchives, but it wasn’t. Leaning over the tailgateof the pickup parked next to me, several guysin ball caps and jeans surveyed their preciouscargo. I peered into the back box of the pickup,but I couldn’t recognize the rusty tangle ofmetal and wires as anything I’d ever seen before.“Can you believe it?” one of the guys said. “We

salvaged it from a ditch just this morning.”This wasn’t Uxbridge. It was Nanton, Alberta,

a town of about 2,000 people, south of Calgary.But as small as this place was, it seemed as if theworld had gathered there last weekend. You see,Nanton is home to one of only two museumscommemorating the airmen and women ofBomber Command in Canada. In the SecondWorld War, when Nazi Germany threatened thevery existence of Britain, the Royal Air Forcecalled on its military aviators, and thousandsmore from around the Commonwealth, to takethe war to its enemies. Under Air Chief MarshalSir Arthur Harris, Bomber Command often puta thousand aircraft per night in the air againstNazi targets. More than 55,000 aircrew died inthose actions, 10,000 of them Canadians. This past weekend, I was asked to speak at cer-

emonies recognizing the 75th anniversary of thefamous Dam Buster raid of May 1943, whenLancaster bombers attacked the hydro-electricdams of the Ruhr River to reduce productionof war munitions in Nazi Germany. The com-memoration attracted hundreds of historybuffs, aviation enthusiasts, some dignitaries,and the people I often describe as “rivet coun-ters.” You know them. They are aficionados,truly experts, on their chosen subjects, in thiscase all aspects of military aviation – from aero-mechanical specs of air engines to the aero-dy-namics of air frames, from the destructivecapacity of bomb payloads to the calibres oftheir gun turrets, and from the histories of everybomber squadron to the number of sorties (mis-sions) accumulated by their decorated squadronleaders. If it seems like minutia, it is. But everyrivet counter I know is proud of his/her knowl-edge, and equally important, doesn’t hesitate tocorrect you if you misrepresent their domain.For example, in all of my research on this dams

raid story, I had learned that the attacking airspeed of the Lancaster bombers – like the oneyou occasionally see flying from the CanadianWarplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton – wasabout 235 miles per hour. And especially whenthe bombers on the Ruhr River dams raid

needed to reach that precise speed to deliver thebouncing bomb to the target that night, Iwanted to be sure. One of my aforementionedexperts, suggested I got the speed wrong. “Couldn’t have been that high,” he said.“I think the manufacturer’s manuals listed that

speed,” I said.“Well, OK,” he relented. “But it still seems a

bit fast.”One thing I’ve learned when dealing with rivet

counters is that you never respond to their as-suredness with equal force. Notice that I said,“I think,” suggesting there was room for erroron my part, not his. I do that in part becausewhile aficionados sometimes seem obsessive andintrusive, they can also be valuable. I’ve writtena dozen long-form works on military history. Ihave no academic standing in the field. I justinterview, research and explore as far and wideas I can. In short, I do a lot of listening. Conse-quently, when I’ve finished writing the book, Ioften ask an expert – a rivet counter – to checkthe context of my stories. And they can getpretty snarky when they catch a mistake. Here’san example:

“You’re going to slap your forehead for this,but the 4,000 pound (bomb) was not a high-explosive HE bomb, but a high-capacity HCbomb,” he wrote. “Two different things!”

Who was I to argue? I changed it to HC, as Ichanged anything else he questioned, unless Ihad pretty powerful evidence otherwise.

Meanwhile, those guys with the pickup truckin Alberta. They call themselves the BritishCommonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP)group on Facebook, a.k.a. rivet counters. Theyhad just returned from a morning trip fromNanton to a nearby airfield that had trained pi-lots in WWII, with their truck full of this stuff.“What you see here,” explained Peter Whitfield,one of the BCATP group, “are the remains ofthe engine and landing gear mount for a Mark1 or 2 Avro Anson.” And he pointed to shredsof rusted steel and frame from a plane that hadflown in the skies over Alberta over 70 yearsago. “After the war, it was bulldozed into aditch. We recovered it this morning for the mu-seum.”“Why?” I asked innocently.“Have to preserve it,” Whitfield said.“It shouldn’t be rotting in a ditch,” said his pal

Ken Meintzer. “It should be on display for peo-ple to understand their history.”Got to love those rivet counters. For more Barris Beat columns,

go to www.tedbarris.com

The Barris Beatcolumn by Ted Barris

All hail, rivet counters

In with the new, out with the old.Finally someoneworking for you!

JOHN HADDOCK

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My top 12 TIFF picks

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THIS WEEKFri. Aug. 31: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike, 9:30 a.m. Durham

Forest Hike. 10+ km; Fast; 2+ hr. hillyloop hike including Skyloft. Meet in theDurham Forest parking area on the eastside of the 7th Conc., 1 km south ofDurham Rd. 21. Contact: Joan Taylor905-477-2161Fri., Aug. 31: Fridays at the Fos-ter Concert featuring CaseySpencer & Alyssa & Bri. Guitar/vo-cals. 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Thomas Foster Me-morial, 9449 Reg. Rd. #1, Uxbridge.Sat., Sept. 1: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike, 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1 hr.,4+ km moderate pace hike; Join us forbreakfast after the hike. Meet at the road-side parking on the west side of Conc. 6,1.5 km south of Durham Rd. 21. Contact:Joan Taylor 905 477 2161.Sun., Sept. 2: Rev-It-Up Hot RodShow. Uxbridge Historical Centre, 10a.m. - 4 p.m. $2 donation. See classicand vintage cars while overlooking thebeautiful skyline of Uxbridge. Mon, Sept. 3: Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike, 9:30 a.m. GlenMajor West. This is a slow to moderate2.5 hr. hike. Well mannered dogs wel-come. Join us for lunch afterwards. Meetat the parking lot on the east side ofConc. 6, 0.6 km north of Uxbridge TownLine or 5.5 km south of Durham Rd. 21.Contact: Brian & Wilma Millage 905-

853-2407.Sat., Sept. 8: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike, 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1 hr.,4 km moderate pace hike. No dogsplease. Join us for breakfast afterwards.Meet at road side parking on the westside of Conc. 6, 1.5 km south of DurhamRd. 21. Contact: Russ Burton 905 8302862

NEXT WEEKWed., Sept. 12: Uxbridge Horti-cultural Society September meet-ing. Uxbridge Seniors’ Centre, 7 p.m.Guest speaker: Lizzie Matheson, topic:Fall theme design. Flower show, refresh-ments.Wed., Sept. 12: Community ofZephyr Open Meeting for all posi-tions in Ward 2. Zephyr CommunityCentre. 7 p.m. Questions from public tobe submitted prior to the meeting at bob-junearchibald@gmail.comWed., Sept. 12: GriefShare, fallsession, begins. The journey of grief afterthe loss of a loved can be too painful totravel alone; consider joining the Grief-Share group. St. Paul’s Leaskdale, 1 - 3p.m. You are welcome to attend asmany sessions as you are able. To regis-ter or find out more about GriefShare,call Judy Atkins at 905-852-5921 oremail j.atkins@saintpauls.ca. You canalso look under the CARE tab atwww.saintpauls.ca.Sat., Sept. 15: Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike, 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1hr., 4+ km moderate pace hike; Join usfor breakfast after the hike. Meet at theroadside parking on the west side ofConc. 6, 1.5 km south of Durham Rd.21. Contact: Joan Taylor 905 477 2161Sat., Sept. 15: Yoga in the Parkfor Charity. Elgin Park, 10:30 – 11:30a.m. Cost: $10 (or $5 for kids). Join usas we try to host Durham’s largest Yogaclass. NRG4Life Fitness instructors will

lead a flow yoga class open to allages/skill levels. Proceeds go to localcharity Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Char-ity. Bring your own mat.Sat., Sept. 15 & Sun., Sept. 16:Uxbridge Studio Tour, 10 a.m. - 6p.m. both days. Sat., Sept. 15 & Sun., Sept. 16:Uxbridge Art on the Fringe.Uxbridge Historical Centre, 10 a.m. - 5p.m. Over 20 exhibitors featuring Paint-ings, Ceramics, Textiles and more ... plusRefreshments and Music. Admission Free.AccessibleSat., Sept. 15: The Good Broth-ers in concert. Greenbank UnitedChurch, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. In support ofthe Greenbank United Church Accessibil-ity Project. Tickets $35. Call Susan 905-985-4505 or emailgucaccessibility@gmail.comSun., Sept. 16: Bulldog Hockeyfor Alzheimer’s Best Ball GolfTournament. Cherry Downs GolfClub. $150/person, includes golf, cartand bbq buffet dinner. Door prizes, silentauction & games. Register at goleaf-sgo57@hotmail.com or call 905-999-

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UPCOMINGMon., Sept. 17: Claremont Gar-dent Club meeting - For the Loveof Garlic. Claremont United Church, 7p.m. Learn how to grow and braid garlic.Guest speaker Bryan Mailey. Refresh-ments (bring your mug). Free for mem-bers, $5 for guests. No need to be aClaremont resident. Follow the Club onFacebook or visit www.claremontgarden-club.ca for further details. Tues., Sept. 18: Curse of the Axe 7pm at Uxbridge Public Library. This 2012documentary traces a ground breakinginvestigation of a mysterious iron objectwhich was buried in a Huron-Wendat vil-lage (in what became Stouffville), 100years before European contact. Runs 1h24min. Presented by the Maamawi Col-

lective.Wed., Sept. 19, Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike, 9:30 a.m. GlenMajor West. This is a moderate to fast16+ km, 4 hr., loop hike with hills. Meetat the parking lot on the east side ofConc. 6, 0.6 km north of Uxbridge TownLine or 5.5 km south of Durham Rd. 21.Contact: Bob Comfort 905 473 2669Thurs., Sept. 20: Lunch & Learn -Preventing Falls for Seniors. St.Paul's Anglican Church, 12 - 2 p.m.Falls, whether in the house or outside,present serious risks for seniors. Plan toattend this discussion with a pharmacist,Tai Chi instructor and a physiotherapist.Programme begins with a pay-what-you-can lunch catered by St. Paul’s TAB &ACW groups. Please tell your friends andcall 905-852-7016 to reserve a seat.Thurs., Sept. 27: Organ Recitalfor Orange Shirt Day. St. Paul’s An-glican Church, 12:15 - 1 p.m. As part ofUxbridge’s Celebration of the Arts and inhonour of 2018 Uxbridge Orange ShirtDay (OSD), St Paul's Ministry of the Artspresents Stu Beaudoin at St. Paul's mag-nificent organ for a lunchtime concert.Bring your lunch if you like. Coffee, teaand juice will be provided. Free will do-nations will be accepted on behalf ofOSD. Info: stpauls-uxbridge.ca or phone905-852-7016. St Paul's, 59 Toronto StS, Uxbridge.

ONGOINGUxbridge Legion Open Mic, 109Franklin St. Every Sunday Afternoon from2 - 5 p.m. Everyone welcome. All stylesof music are encouraged. For more infocall 647-428-7760

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