Perth Weekend Guide: June 17-19
Perth Weekend Guide: June 17 – 19
Check out the weekend guide below to find out what is going on in your community.
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
Silent Auction for 3 Local Charities
June 16 @ 12:00pm (noon) – June 18 @ 4:00pm
Mariposa Design is hosting a Silent Auction – in our shoppe. ALL Proceeds will be donated to 3 Local Charities that have been selected by Susan personally. In support of our fellow citizens, children and seniors. Please join us on Saturday to celebrate and share some local community fellowship. We are in our new location – on the other side of the alley – beside the Bank of Montreal.
Mariposa Design
32 Gore Street East
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Kick Off to Summer VIP Sidewalk Sale
Registration. Begins at 9:30 in the Atrium of Codes Mill
Downtown Perth Shopping event with over 200 swag bags filled with coupons, promotions and gifts.
2016 RCMP Musical Ride Tour
Gates open – 5:00pm, Pre Show 6:00pm, RCMP Musical Ride 7:00pm
One of Canada most recognized icons, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be performing at the Perth Fairgrounds.
Alzheimer Society Lanark Leeds Grenville & Perth and District Agricultural Society
Perth Fairgrounds -50 Arthur Street
Silent Auction for 3 Local Charities
June 16 @ 12:00pm (noon) – June 18 @ 4:00pm
Mariposa Design is hosting a Silent Auction – in our shoppe. ALL Proceeds will be donated to 3 Local Charities that have been selected by Susan personally. In support of our fellow citizens, children and seniors. Please join us on Saturday to celebrate and share some local community fellowship. We are in our new location – on the other side of the alley – beside the Bank of Montreal.
Mariposa Design
32 Gore Street East
KIDFISH in the BASIN
Registration takes place starting at 8:00am
Fishing ends at 12:00pm (noon)
Perth Legion for the ANNUAL KIDFISH in the BASIN. All kids are welcome to come fish in the Basin, no fees attached! Instill a love of fishing and the outdoors in your kids! Kids who are registered can receive prizes and a hot dog lunch.
For information please call Kathy Lowry
613-267-7655.
PERTH FARMERS’ MARKET 2016
Vendors are set-up between 8:00am – 1:00pm
Takes place every Saturday morning between May 7th and October 8th, 2016, in the Tay Basin Parking Lot and around the Crystal Palace. Offers fresh, local, organic in-season produce, plants, preserves, meat, home baking, and tons of other goodies. The Market also offers artisans and crafts, jewellry, entertainment occasionally and chance to have breakfast at the Piggin’ Out Market Cafe. This is a great way to spend a Saturday morning, getting to know your local producers in the heart of downtown Perth!
WALK TO CELEBRATE SENIORS AND THE HISTORY OF PERTH
9:00am-11:00am
A walk will take place, hosted by Carolina Retirement Suites, to celebrate all the seniors in Perth and surrounding areas. All proceeds are being donated 100% to the GWM Site of the Perth & Smiths Falls Hospital.
Registration is $10 per person.
For information contact Michale Fyke
613-267-7000
mfyke@carolinasuites.ca
20th ANNUAL ART IN THE GARDEN AT KIWI GARDENS
9:00am – 5:00pm
KIWI GARDENS presents their 20th Annual ART IN THE GARDEN on Saturday and Sunday, June 18th and 19th, 2016. Kiwi Gardens offers an amazing stroll through their property of show gardens, featuring great vendor displays, outdoor art, sculpture, garden products, food and music. Not your average art or garden show, terrific idea for Father’s Day Weekend! Perennials available for purchase at the nursery after the tour.
Admission is $5 per person and parking is free.
Located at 687 Harper Road
Check them out on Facebook!
Heritage Herb and Wild Food Walk
10:00am
Conlon Farm Baseball Diamonds and follow the local “Devil’s Rock” path to Grant’s Creek.
The historic uses of plants along the trail will be discussed including: wild Leek, wild Strawberry, Calamus (Sweetflag), Chokecherry, Common Plantain and wild Violets. Wild Blueberry and other plants are also featured. Learn how the original settlers of the area would have prepared and used the plants.
This event is a 200th Anniversary Celebration Event.
For more information about the event, please contact summerstudent@tayvalleytwp.ca
Elmwood Cemetery Open House and Self-Guided Tour
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Elmwood Cemetery Open House and Self Guided Tour-a tour that highlights some of the unique architectural attributes in the cemetery as well as noting unusual symbols to be found on some early burial markers. The seldom seen interior of the burial vault will also be open.
Located at 165 Dufferin Road
PERTH 200TH ANNIVERSARY WALKING FOOD TOUR
Tour starts at 1:00pm
Every Saturday until June 25th, join the Perth 200th Anniversary WALKING FOOD TOUR. Some tickets are left for certain dates. An insightful, historical tour of downtown Perth, while enjoying great food from a few our local eateries, including: Bistro 54, Coutts Coffee, Fiddlehead’s Bar + Grill, the Golden Arrow Pub, Maximilian’s, O’Reilly’s Ale House and Sunflower Bake Shop.
Call the Matheson House Museum to arrange tickets
613-267-1947
STEWART PARK FESTIVAL 3RD ANNUAL KICK-OFF TO SUMMER DANCE
7:00pm
Crystal Palace in Downtown Heritage Perth
It’s the 3rd ANNUAL STEWART PARK FESTIVAL KICK-OFF TO SUMMER DANCE, featuring THE WEBER BROTHERS. A great night of live music to celebrate the summer season, as we look forward to the Stewart Park Festival. This day will also feature a shopping special in the downtown.
Tickets at The Book Nook, Gore Street East, Perth $20.00 per person
For information contact Kari
267-3311
visit www.stewartparkfestival.ca
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
Happy Father’s Day
All day.
Don’t forget to celebrate the men in you’re life this fathers day.
20th ANNUAL ART IN THE GARDEN AT KIWI GARDENS
9:00am – 5:00pm
KIWI GARDENS presents their 20th Annual ART IN THE GARDEN on Saturday and Sunday, June 18th and 19th, 2016. Kiwi Gardens offers an amazing stroll through their property of show gardens, featuring great vendor displays, outdoor art, sculpture, garden products, food and music. Not your average art or garden show, terrific idea for Father’s Day Weekend! Perennials available for purchase at the nursery after the tour.
Admission is $5 per person and parking is free.
Located at 687 Harper Road
Check them out on Facebook!
FAERYFEST 2016
11:00am – 4:00pm
A festival for the faeries! This year will feature a best costume contest.
Perth Civitan Hall (#6787 Hwy. #43).
For more details email faeriecc@hotmail.com, proceeds to LAWS
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Perth Weekend Guide: June 17-19
Perth Weekend Guide: June 17 – 19
Check out the weekend guide below to find out what is going on in your community.
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
Silent Auction for 3 Local Charities
June 16 @ 12:00pm (noon) – June 18 @ 4:00pm
Mariposa Design is hosting a Silent Auction – in our shoppe. ALL Proceeds will be donated to 3 Local Charities that have been selected by Susan personally. In support of our fellow citizens, children and seniors. Please join us on Saturday to celebrate and share some local community fellowship. We are in our new location – on the other side of the alley – beside the Bank of Montreal.
Mariposa Design
32 Gore Street East
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Kick Off to Summer VIP Sidewalk Sale
Registration. Begins at 9:30 in the Atrium of Codes Mill
Downtown Perth Shopping event with over 200 swag bags filled with coupons, promotions and gifts.
2016 RCMP Musical Ride Tour
Gates open – 5:00pm, Pre Show 6:00pm, RCMP Musical Ride 7:00pm
One of Canada most recognized icons, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be performing at the Perth Fairgrounds.
Alzheimer Society Lanark Leeds Grenville & Perth and District Agricultural Society
Perth Fairgrounds -50 Arthur Street
Silent Auction for 3 Local Charities
June 16 @ 12:00pm (noon) – June 18 @ 4:00pm
Mariposa Design is hosting a Silent Auction – in our shoppe. ALL Proceeds will be donated to 3 Local Charities that have been selected by Susan personally. In support of our fellow citizens, children and seniors. Please join us on Saturday to celebrate and share some local community fellowship. We are in our new location – on the other side of the alley – beside the Bank of Montreal.
Mariposa Design
32 Gore Street East
KIDFISH in the BASIN
Registration takes place starting at 8:00am
Fishing ends at 12:00pm (noon)
Perth Legion for the ANNUAL KIDFISH in the BASIN. All kids are welcome to come fish in the Basin, no fees attached! Instill a love of fishing and the outdoors in your kids! Kids who are registered can receive prizes and a hot dog lunch.
For information please call Kathy Lowry
613-267-7655.
PERTH FARMERS’ MARKET 2016
Vendors are set-up between 8:00am – 1:00pm
Takes place every Saturday morning between May 7th and October 8th, 2016, in the Tay Basin Parking Lot and around the Crystal Palace. Offers fresh, local, organic in-season produce, plants, preserves, meat, home baking, and tons of other goodies. The Market also offers artisans and crafts, jewellry, entertainment occasionally and chance to have breakfast at the Piggin’ Out Market Cafe. This is a great way to spend a Saturday morning, getting to know your local producers in the heart of downtown Perth!
WALK TO CELEBRATE SENIORS AND THE HISTORY OF PERTH
9:00am-11:00am
A walk will take place, hosted by Carolina Retirement Suites, to celebrate all the seniors in Perth and surrounding areas. All proceeds are being donated 100% to the GWM Site of the Perth & Smiths Falls Hospital.
Registration is $10 per person.
For information contact Michale Fyke
613-267-7000
mfyke@carolinasuites.ca
20th ANNUAL ART IN THE GARDEN AT KIWI GARDENS
9:00am – 5:00pm
KIWI GARDENS presents their 20th Annual ART IN THE GARDEN on Saturday and Sunday, June 18th and 19th, 2016. Kiwi Gardens offers an amazing stroll through their property of show gardens, featuring great vendor displays, outdoor art, sculpture, garden products, food and music. Not your average art or garden show, terrific idea for Father’s Day Weekend! Perennials available for purchase at the nursery after the tour.
Admission is $5 per person and parking is free.
Located at 687 Harper Road
Check them out on Facebook!
Heritage Herb and Wild Food Walk
10:00am
Conlon Farm Baseball Diamonds and follow the local “Devil’s Rock” path to Grant’s Creek.
The historic uses of plants along the trail will be discussed including: wild Leek, wild Strawberry, Calamus (Sweetflag), Chokecherry, Common Plantain and wild Violets. Wild Blueberry and other plants are also featured. Learn how the original settlers of the area would have prepared and used the plants.
This event is a 200th Anniversary Celebration Event.
For more information about the event, please contact summerstudent@tayvalleytwp.ca
Elmwood Cemetery Open House and Self-Guided Tour
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Elmwood Cemetery Open House and Self Guided Tour-a tour that highlights some of the unique architectural attributes in the cemetery as well as noting unusual symbols to be found on some early burial markers. The seldom seen interior of the burial vault will also be open.
Located at 165 Dufferin Road
PERTH 200TH ANNIVERSARY WALKING FOOD TOUR
Tour starts at 1:00pm
Every Saturday until June 25th, join the Perth 200th Anniversary WALKING FOOD TOUR. Some tickets are left for certain dates. An insightful, historical tour of downtown Perth, while enjoying great food from a few our local eateries, including: Bistro 54, Coutts Coffee, Fiddlehead’s Bar + Grill, the Golden Arrow Pub, Maximilian’s, O’Reilly’s Ale House and Sunflower Bake Shop.
Call the Matheson House Museum to arrange tickets
613-267-1947
STEWART PARK FESTIVAL 3RD ANNUAL KICK-OFF TO SUMMER DANCE
7:00pm
Crystal Palace in Downtown Heritage Perth
It’s the 3rd ANNUAL STEWART PARK FESTIVAL KICK-OFF TO SUMMER DANCE, featuring THE WEBER BROTHERS. A great night of live music to celebrate the summer season, as we look forward to the Stewart Park Festival. This day will also feature a shopping special in the downtown.
Tickets at The Book Nook, Gore Street East, Perth $20.00 per person
For information contact Kari
267-3311
visit www.stewartparkfestival.ca
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
Happy Father’s Day
All day.
Don’t forget to celebrate the men in you’re life this fathers day.
20th ANNUAL ART IN THE GARDEN AT KIWI GARDENS
9:00am – 5:00pm
KIWI GARDENS presents their 20th Annual ART IN THE GARDEN on Saturday and Sunday, June 18th and 19th, 2016. Kiwi Gardens offers an amazing stroll through their property of show gardens, featuring great vendor displays, outdoor art, sculpture, garden products, food and music. Not your average art or garden show, terrific idea for Father’s Day Weekend! Perennials available for purchase at the nursery after the tour.
Admission is $5 per person and parking is free.
Located at 687 Harper Road
Check them out on Facebook!
FAERYFEST 2016
11:00am – 4:00pm
A festival for the faeries! This year will feature a best costume contest.
Perth Civitan Hall (#6787 Hwy. #43).
For more details email faeriecc@hotmail.com, proceeds to LAWS
Lynn Crawford 
The Ladies of the Tay Vendors group will be hosting A Crystal Palace Vendor’s and Artisans Market on July 10 2016 10 am to 3 pm . Featuring many Talented Artisans and Businesses from the local area. The Ladies of the Tay also will have a donation bucket available for any one who would like to contribute to Camp Quality and Camp for Kids living with Cancer. Drop over a see the many talented people in Perth…See you on July 10 2016