Musicians making a scene
January 30, 2009 By: Marc Miquel Helsen
It’s been a long time coming, but it looks as though Elmira might finally get some night life.
Looking to provide Elmira’s budding musicians with a regular venue to showcase their talents, and residents a fun night out, a local band is teaming up with the Central Tavern downtown to offer up music nights every two weeks.
Christina Robinson of Soul2Soul hopes the open band night at Elmira’s Central Tavern becomes a regular outlet for local musicians.
“What we want to do is kind of start a musical community in Elmira,” said Soul2Soul’s bassist Christina Robinson.
“Elmira’s just full of talent,” she said.
Having celebrated her birthday at the Tavern with her bandmates at an open jam night Jan. 10, Robinson was pleasantly surprised by the number of musicians who showed up.
Overwhelmed by that positive response, Robinson and her band – a three-piece ensemble playing covers such as …Read more
Truckin’ along in the pink
January 9, 2009 By: Marc Miquel Helsen
Pink is not the most traditional colour for a dump truck hauling gravel but it sure grabs peoples’ attention.
And that is exactly the point for St. Clements’ Rick Esbaugh, who recently had one of his trucks painted pink in order to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Mitchell Esbaugh climbs atop his parents’ pink truck. The Esbaughs recently had the gravel truck painted pink to raise awareness about breast cancer research.
“The driver says they definitely take a second and third look,” said Esbaugh, who along with his brother Ron, owns Tri-City Materials, a gravel supply company in the Petersburg area, and Tri-City ReadyMix.
The eye-catching gravel truck was part of the Santa Claus parade in St. Clements last weekend.
“I was pretty proud, actually. Everybody definitely took a second look and had a smile on their face when they saw it,” said Rick, who drove it in the …Read more
An annual display of goodwill
December 19, 2008 By: Joni Miltenburg
This week, Lions Hall in Elmira looked like a satellite office of Santa’s workshop.
People were busy assembling hundreds of cardboard boxes, sorting thousands of groceries into the boxes and wrapping the presents stacked on a table running the length of the room.
Woolwich Community Services’ Christmas goodwill hamper program is run with military precision, and it takes an army of volunteers to make sure Christmas comes to less fortunate families in Woolwich.
Kim Hendrick sorts food into hampers.
“It’s a well-oiled machine,” said volunteer Joan Moyer. “From year to year it just seems to flow.”
Moyer looks after matching recipient families with sponsoring families. She’s been coordinating the sponsors for the past six years, but before that she was a shopper and packer and gift wrapper. She started volunteering after she retired from teaching at Park Manor Public School.
“When I had the free time, I thought ‘what better way to give back to the community?’” …Read more
