Life & Leisure
Recently, MPP Paul Vickers was at the SweetWater Music Festival to formally congratulate the local group on the work it’s been doing since receiving a $29,000 seed grant from the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in 2024. Since then, the organization has been busy creating SweetStrings, a new community strings ensemble designed for adult amateur musicians who want to explore or re-discover their love of music.
“Arts and culture help bring our communities together. The Sweetwater Music Festival’s Community...
Spring migration grabs everyone’s attention. Migrant birds arrive in flashy breeding colours, singing their hearts out to attract mates and defend territories. Fall is different: birds of many species moult into cryptic non-breeding plumage. Because they are no longer trying to attract mates or defend territories, they are no longer singing, making fall migration easily overlooked — but you don’t want to miss it.
In fall, birds flock together. Some flocks are spectacular, like the huge murmurations of European Starlings...
