If you are a beginning birder, or you just want to brush up on your skills, join us for a birding ID workshop.
The Winter Finches Workshop will include insights into the identification of all Ontario finches, how best to attract finches to your backyard (feeders/feed), a look into yearly and lifetime cycles that finches follow, and an interpretive hike to observe finches.

How well do you know your finches? Can you ID these species? You will be able to after this workshop!

Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
When: Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 1-4pm
How much: $35.00 per person.
Price includes admission to our interpretive centre and trails for day following the workshop to go out and utilize your new found skills at birding.
Who: All ages are welcome to attend. Youth under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

Birding can happen in all weather! Please dress appropriately for an outdoor portion of the workshop.

Pre-registration is required using the PayPal link at: https://www.wyemarsh.com/winter-finches Please note that you do not need a PayPal account, you can simply "check out as guest".

If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact 705-526-7809 or events@wyemarsh.com. We ask for your phone number in case we need to contact you with updates to the workshop

This is an introductory class for carving alabaster & soapstone. Participants will breathe life into soapstone or alabaster, and learn how to use tools and techniques to sculpt a small pendant - or sculpture - inspired by the biodiversity of Wye Marsh. Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre When: Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 1:00pm-3:00pm How much: $65.00 Price includes admission to our interpretive centre and trails for day following the workshop. Who: Artists of any ability, aged 14+. Pre-registration is required. Please use the link at https://www.wyemarsh.com/art-in-the-marsh, which will take you to Eventbrite to complete your purchase. If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact 705-526-7809 or events@wyemarsh.com.

This is an introductory class for carving alabaster & soapstone. Participants will breathe life into soapstone or alabaster, and learn how to use tools and techniques to sculpt a small pendant - or sculpture - inspired by the biodiversity of Wye Marsh.

Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
When: Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 1:00pm-3:00pm
How much: $65.00
Price includes admission to our interpretive centre and trails for day following the workshop.
Who: Artists of any ability, aged 14+.

Pre-registration is required at https://www.wyemarsh.com/art-in-the-marsh
The link will take you to Eventbrite to complete your purchase.
If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact 705-526-7809 or events@wyemarsh.com.

Join us for an evening hike as we learn about, and try to spot, some of the animals who call Wye Marsh home!

Join your host Mak Soden, Wye Marsh's Lead Interpreter, on a nocturnal hike of our trails to explore great year round habitat in hopes of catching a glimpse or more likely a call or two of one of our local nocturnal raptors.

~ Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
~ When: Saturday, November 5 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
~ How much: $20.00 per person
~ Who: All ages are welcome to attend. Youth under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.
~ What to bring: Flashlight, sturdy footwear (with ice treads if possible), walking stick, layered clothing, camera (for photos with a special invited mystery guest). This experience will be entirely outdoors, so please dress for the weather!

Pre-registration is required using the link at https://www.wyemarsh.com/owl-prowl

There will be 22 amazing local vendors selling crafts and gifts ranging from stained glass, woodwork, pottery, jewelry and much more! There will also be raffles and refreshments, with all event proceeds helping animals in need in our community.

Tickets: $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Tickets are available at The Pebble Tree, The Catnip Dispensary and The Midland & DIstrict Animal Centre.

From sap to sweetwater to syrup, learn the process of making maple syrup with the Wye Marsh Sap Suckers!

Plan to attend this introductory workshop on making Maple Syrup. Learn the history and how to tap a sugar maple tree and general science of producing syrup from tree sap. The in-house presentation will provide you with techniques, tips and best practices and will finish off with a tour of the Wye Marsh Sugar Shack and maple trees. And perhaps you will get to enjoy a taste of the sweet nectar itself!

~ Whether you desire to tap a few trees in your yard or have a small sugar bush, you will know what is necessary to make quality maple syrup safely.
~ Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
~ When: Saturday, November 12, 2022 from 1:30pm - 4:00pm
~ How much: $12.00.
~ Who: Ages 12+.

Pre-registration before November 9, 2022.

Register and learn more at: https://www.wyemarsh.com/maple-workshop

Making Change is a nonprofit organization that looks to spark broad community interest and foster conversations around inclusion and diversity with a focus on anti-Black racism, we are providing a virtual workshop called “Perspective Is Everything” - How we can use empathy to have positive and inclusive conversations with co-workers, clients and other community members. We can help you create a more inclusive workplace and become allies in your community.  This event is geared for businesses/organizations who are looking to start this journey together.  Details of tickets and cost are available in the link provided and are for a group of up to 10 people. 

For tickets go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/perspective-is-everything-registration-423739465147 

First Presbyterian Church is holding their annual Christmas Bazaar.  Crafts, bake sale, slightly used items and books.  Items for the whole family to enjoy.

Using clues the Beck "family members" provide you, solve your team's lock combination and "escape" the museum.

$25.00 per person  Tickets must be pre-purchased at www.pencenmuseum.com or in person at the museum

Teams up to 6 people or individuals welcomed

Prizes for the first team to open their lock   Light refreshments provided

Hosted by Escape Challenge North

First Presbyterian Church is holding their annual Christmas Bazaar.  Crafts, bake sale, slightly used items and books.  Items for the whole family to enjoy.

Come join EDCNS to talk about a prosperous, sustainable future in North Simcoe with the creation of our next Strategic Plan for Economic Development 2023-25. OR join the conversation virtually at edcns.ca/engage from November 14 - 30 for a chance to receive a Farm2Door Gift Basket as our thank-you to you!

Come join EDCNS to talk about a prosperous, sustainable future in North Simcoe with the creation of our next Strategic Plan for Economic Development 2023-25. OR join the conversation virtually at edcns.ca/engage from November 14 - 30 for a chance to receive a Farm2Door Gift Basket as our thank-you to you!

Every donation appointment this fall needs to be filled. Without the ongoing dedication of blood donors, patients in Canada wouldn’t have access to lifesaving care where and when they need it. Book now at blood.ca.

Come join EDCNS to talk about a prosperous, sustainable future in North Simcoe with the creation of our next Strategic Plan for Economic Development 2023-25. OR join the conversation virtually at edcns.ca/engage from November 14 - 30 for a chance to receive a Farm2Door Gift Basket as our thank-you to you!

Come join EDCNS to talk about a prosperous, sustainable future in North Simcoe with the creation of our next Strategic Plan for Economic Development 2023-25. OR join the conversation virtually at edcns.ca/engage from November 14 - 30 for a chance to receive a Farm2Door Gift Basket as our thank-you to you!

Tickets are $100 each and can be picked up at Revel Realty Georgian Bay, or at The Pebble Tree on King Street. Also, by calling Danielle Dorion at 705-528-3133

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