It’s becoming an annual affair at St. Barnabas church which already has a busy event calendar especially this time of year – their “Living Nativity”. Drop by on Sunday, December 13th, between 6-8pm to see. Today’s photo shows parishoners setting up for this event in 2007.
Cyclist out in front in the Master I race of the 51st annual Tour di Via Italia on Erie street, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. A labour day tradition in Windsor since 1958.
Most of you probably remember the amazing airshows sponsored by Big V and Chrysler. It’s been years since Windsor has had any kind of airshow, least of all one of this magnitude.
The Windsor International Airshow continues today at the Windsor Flying Club. If you plan on visiting, don’t forget to take Airport road off Walker to the flying club entrance, not the main YQG entrance on Division.
Pictured above – Airshow volunteer, Barry, selling souvenir t-shirts and coins, as well as helping provide information and direction to visitors.
A crowd pleaser with a storied past, Canadian Mitchell B-25 Bomber with invasion stripes. This plane resides at the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum in Hamilton.
Admission is $20 and well worth the price to see the static displays and enjoy the demonstrations from the flight line.
This afternoon’s Scaledown Radio was as usual hosted by blogster Chris Holt with guests Bernie Drouillard, Ron Drouillard, and yours truly discussing an upcoming exhibit to take place at the Art Gallery of Windsor from Oct. 3 to Dec. 3. The exhibit will feature historic photos, route maps, artifacts, and much more of our area’s historic and forgotten past as innovators and leaders in light rail urban and interurban transit. All of this with an eye on bringing streetcars back to Windsor and Essex county. Other communities have already rediscovered light rail and have benefited greatly from it. Why not us?
Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies were held at WFCU Centre Thursday night. The floor was reserved for athletes coming from all over Ontario, while the stands were filled with many hundreds of fans and well-wishers.
Reciting together Dr. Hayden’s oath that has been part of the Special Olympics since its second year, in 1970.
The train was an hour late. Windsor weather was muggy, cloudy, and rained on and off. But that didn’t get their spirits down. Athletes, coaches, and other volunteers such as the group shown below disembarked looking pumped and excited about the coming three days.
For further info, visit Special Olympics Windsor website.
See you tonight at WFCU Centre!
Music… food… art… oh… and balloons. Lots of balloons. The Art Walkerville festival enters its 7th year, now as a two-day event. It runs Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.
Visitors to the Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market this morning were fortunate to be able to purchase the first corn of the season, courtesy of Adamson Farms from Leamington.
Stan Meloche’s “Tailgate Diner” was another new addition to the market for Week 2
Dawn was pleased to discover Faerhaven Soap from Harrow and picked up a couple bars of their all-natural soap. Here another customer browses their products and free samples.
Just a few snapshots of what you missed… if you didn’t go.
As promoted by Bike Windsor, the 2nd University of Windsor Bicycle Research Co-Op Ride #2 took place tonight, starting on University Ave. West near Cameron, then headed through downtown, the Erie St. BIA, Walkerville, and back west again. As Dawn and myself had already put 9km on before the ride started, we ducked out after the Walkerville portion and returned to our home, making for a nice round trip tonight of 17.5 km.
Darren assisting another rider…
The Erie St. BIA stretch. Bicycle-friendly territory here.
Nice group of young riders. Respectful of traffic signals and courteous toward other traffic. A nice even pace was kept with no need to worry about “keeping up”. It’s a ride anyone can join. You don’t have to be associated with the U of W. Both Dawn and myself enjoyed this very much.
Facebook and Twitter were buzzing with news of citizen led picketing to take place in front of the CUPE office on Parent. The protest was due to start at 2PM so yours truly arrived early hoping to get some photos. The picketing comprised one solitary but pumped protester holding signs alleging CUPE inaction during the fall of the Big Three and another taking them to task for their role in the cancelation of the Dragon Boat races in Windsor.
By three o’clock, the lone protester crossed to the east side of the road and was soon greeting by CUPE officials, including Jim Wood and Jean Fox. They found his breast cancer sign imflammatory and asked for him to give it to them, which he complied with. After a short but civilised and respectful discussion of the issues, CUPE went back inside leaving the lone protester to his devices.
Just as I was about to leave, this young man was joined by two young women clad in garbage bags, bringing this microblogger led protest to a grand total of three. My hat is off to those who put down their iPhones and showed up, as well to CUPE for their excellent communication skills in dealing with this situation. How the rest of the day will pan out is anyone’s guess…
