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(L)Cathy McGirr, Business Manager - Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre (BCM&CC) receives $500 cheque from Victoria Serda, Saugeen Shores Community Fund Chair,2011 sponsor of Family Heritage Day; Connie Vercillo for CIBC, Port Elgin, Ed Buckle, Southampton CIBC Branch Manager, Janette Thorn of Thorncrest Outfitters in Southampton and Nancy White, Program Coordinator for BCM&CC.

Sponsorship of the 2011 Family Heritage Day event is through the Saugeen Shores Community Fund, under the umbrella of the Community Foundation Grey Bruce. 

The event is a free admission event donations of non-perishable food items are being asked for, which will be donated to the local food bank.  To assist with collecting the food-stuff, both the Southampton and Port Elgin branches of CIBC Banking will be set up as depots from Feb. 14 – 18 where people can drop off items the week prior to Family Heritage Day.

Thorncrest Outfitters of Southampton is one of the many vendors that will be on-site at the Museum on Heritage Day to give visitors the chance to try a 'hands-on' winter activity, such as snowshoeing. The day beings at 10:00 a.m. and runs through to 4:00 p.m., with a food booth open from 11am to 3pm. 

The ever-popular family entertainer, Dickie Bird, whose concerts have sold out in the past, will perform at 11:30 a.m. and again at 2:30 p.m.  

Family Heritage Day is the opportunity for families to enjoy old-fashioned winter activities such as:

• spinning and weaving

• snowshoeing demos,

• food booth [11am to 3pm] with chili, sandwiches and hot drinks,

• tin can punching & rope making

• Genealogy and Historical societies

• knitting & corking, wood turning, wood carving

•  Grey Bruce Trappers

• heritage seeds

The day will also present the opportunity to tour the Museum and take in the newest exhibit in the OPG Feature Gallery – Extreme Nature – the extremes of Bruce County nature happenings.

The Museum is also offering 10% off family memberships all day.

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011