I would like to wish everyone a healthy happy New Year and thank all those who supported this column last year.
The Halfmoon Bay Yearbook Club is having a bottle drive Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Community School parking lot between 8:30 and 11 a.m. Please support them and drop off your bottles to help pay for their yearbooks.
This year, Old Christ-mas (aka Epiphany/Three Kings Day), will be celebrated in Halfmoon Bay on Saturday, Jan. 7, from 11 a.m. to dark. Events include a bird walk with SC Natural History Society, led by Tony Greenfield. Meet at Sargeant Bay at 11 a.m.
At 1 p.m., gather at Coopers Green Hall for a bonfire and hot drinks, and make Old Christmas silly hats, followed by a potluck lunch at 1:30 p.m. (Dave the Butcher’s buffalo sausage will be served.) Bring a potluck dish, plates and cutlery, and your favourite beverage, plus Christmas wrap and ribbons for hat making.
From 2:15 to 4 p.m., there will be entertainment, Scottish ceilidh style. Bring a party piece to share if you wish, be it recitation, joke, song or tune, performed solo, duet or other grouping. Also bring your voices and other instruments of music making.
For musicians, this year, Katie Angermeyer has two requests. Firstly, Whispering Hope, to honour John Farrer, who passed on Dec. 23. Farrer is playing low harmony on the viola in a soundfile with the Cornpones. Email Angermeyer if you want the music ([email protected]). And second, Star in the East, a southern mountain Christmas/Epiphany hymn, in three-part, shape-note harmony from 19th century. John McCutcheon’s version can be heard here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DiG3toxhCQ
A very, very happy Halfmoon Bay Branch of the Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary received an extremely generous donation from a donor in the Halfmoon Bay community. We have the luxury of living in a very charitable and caring community.
They would also like to remind everyone that there is no SCHA meeting in January and the next meeting will take place at Coopers Green Hall on Saturday, Feb. 11. Please note the change due to a conflict on the Monday.
The Halfmoon Bay Community Association reports that the 2017 pickleball season kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. at the elementary school on Northwood. First timers play free and there is a court for introductory lessons. Regular fee is $3 and includes equipment use and all the fun and fitness desired to offset the holiday turkey and libations. Come join in and keep that resolution for a happier, healthier 2017!
To have your say at the bay, contact me before 5 p.m. Monday at [email protected] or 604-885-5034.
